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What lessons from the multiple experiences of Peak Wood can today’s society learn for addressing global peak oil?

For six days in late May 2010, Emergency, an Italian NGO providing surgery and basic health care in Afghanistan since 1999, welcomed us to visit facilities they operate in …

Washington - The fate of the biggest overhaul of the nation's financial regulatory system in generations now rests with a small group of Capitol Hill lawmakers who are known …

Debate rages around the world about the Israeli attack on the humanitarian flotilla headed to Gaza. And it should rage. As Martin Luther King Jr., said, an injustice to …

It’s time for the federal government to put BP under temporary receivership, which gives the government authority to take over BP’s operations in the Gulf of Mexico until the …

More than 24 hours after Israeli commandos raided an aid flotilla carrying supplies to the blockaded Gaza Strip, Israel continues to hold more than 600 activists who were aboard …

[Note for TomDispatch Readers: In recent years, this website has had a fine record when it comes to college commencement addresses, in part because I have a fondness for …

There is an ages-old expression among the people of southern Louisiana's Indian bayous. “Pas tout là,” they say with smiles. “Not all there,” it means. As in, "not right …

The Obama administration is beginning to do some damage control relative to what we have been saying and asking lately. Why was a criminal investigation not launched early in …

The witch hunts against communists in the United States were used to silence socialists, anarchists, pacifists and all those who defied the abuses of capitalism. Those “anti-Red” actions were …