Andrew Glikson - 04 September 2023

With the advent of global warming and the nuclear arms race, humans are rapidly approaching a moment of truth. Technologically supreme, they manifest their dreams and nightmares in the real world...

Edward Curtin - 03 September 2023

This book is a brilliant and comprehensive analysis of the Covid-19 crisis and the worldwide states of siege instituted under its cover. Reading it, one cannot help but shake one’s head in outrage...

Roger Stoll - 06 August 2023

Western media never stop warning us of China: it menaces Taiwan, threatens its neighbors and shipping lanes in the South China Sea, and sticks military bases on Cuba. China, we are told, spies on us...

Richard Reese - 21 July 2023

Dan Flores is a historian who has been studying the stormy relationship between humans and the family of life for many years. He calls this subject Big History. Wild New World is a fascinating and...

Caren Black - 18 July 2023

A Guide for Teachers Redefining Themselves and Their Profession by Caren Black This book identifies the classroom methodologies, curriculum and personal professional growth that are essential for...

Paul Cudenec - 06 June 2023

I have sometimes been criticised for describing the society being ushered in since March 2020 as “fascist”. That word has become so misunderstood and misapplied, associated with superficial...

Derrick Jensen - 05 May 2023

Preface to the 2007 Edition of Ward Churchill’s Pacifism as Pathology This extraordinarily important book cuts to the heart of one of the central reasons movements to bring about social and...

Michael Hudson - 21 April 2023

The Collapse of Antiquity , the sequel to Michael’s “ …and forgive them their debts, ” is the second and latest book in his trilogy on the history of debt. It describes how the dynamics of...

Anatoly Karlin - 02 April 2023

Ruins and relics of long dead civilizations, now overtaken by vines of verdant chaos, or buried under the shifting sands of time, hold a certain morbid fascination for us – these once great,...

Michael Rectenwald - 28 March 2023

A new edition of Political Ponerology , by Andrew M. Łobaczewski, edited by Harrison Koehli, is now available on Amazon. 1 This strange and provocative book argues that totalitarianism is the result...

Richard Reese - 12 January 2023

Early white settlers on the high plains of the western U.S. were always bummed out when colossal swarms of locusts dropped by for lunch. The sky would darken, and the land would be filled with the...

Richard Reese - 09 November 2022

Suzanne Simard wrote an unforgettable book, Finding the Mother Tree . She was born and raised in the rainforests of British Columbia, and is now a professor of forest ecology. Her grandfather was a...

Richard Reese - 21 April 2022

Once upon a time, North America was home to an estimated five to eight billion passenger pigeons. They may have been the most numerous bird species in the world. My father was in diapers when the...

James Corbett - 30 November 2021

Joining us today to talk about his new bestselling book, The Real Anthony Fauci , is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. of ChildrensHealthDefense.org .

Association for the Tree of Life - 22 March 2021

Industrial civilization is strip-mining Life. Human economies are suffocating our remaining natural living systems. As a result, wildlife and insect populations are plummeting, while humans, pets,...

Caren Black - 09 January 2021

Update: The greatest dangers we now face put our preparedness, self-reliance and self-sufficiency to the test. They require our grasp of the whole rather than parts if we are to comprehend not what...

Adam Kranz - 11 July 2020

I've been reading books on “the Problem of Civilization” for several years now. I'm constantly seeking to refine my conceptualization of the way humans interact with each other and their...

Richard Reese - 10 July 2020

William Catton’s book, Overshoot, describes the process by which most modern societies have achieved overshoot — a population in excess of the permanent carrying capacity of the habitat. It examines...

Richard Reese - 27 June 2020

Daniel Quinn’s book Ishmael is certainly the best selling environmental novel of all time. Over the last 20 years, it has blown hundreds of thousands of minds by presenting an exceedingly important...

Richard Reese - 21 June 2020

The Club of Rome was formed in 1968. It included big shots and experts from 25 nations. Social and environmental challenges had grown beyond the ability of individual countries to manage. It was...

Richard Reese - 15 June 2020

Are we living in an insanity epidemic? Yes indeed, we certainly are, according to The Invisible Plague by Dr. Edwin Fuller Torrey and Judy Miller. This book provides an illuminating history of...

Richard Reese - 24 May 2020

Craig Childs is a nature writer and globetrotting adventure hog. He’s been thinking a lot about apocalypse lately. It’s hard not to. The jungle drums are pounding out a growing stream of warnings —...

Pepe Escobar - 24 December 2019

Once in a blue moon an indispensable book comes out making a clear case for sanity in what is now a post-MAD world. That’s the responsibility carried by “ The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs...

Matt Taibbi - 30 November 2018

Image: Hate Inc. by Matt Taibbi Pick up any major newspaper, or turn on any network television news broadcast. The political orientation won’t matter. It could be Fox or MSNBC, the Washington Post...

Richard Reese - 27 November 2018

Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable Stephen Pyne is among the world’s foremost experts on fire, and the author of many books. California: A Fire Surveypresents a blazing discussion on...

Richard Reese - 13 June 2018

Image: Wikimedia Commons Ojibway elder Basil Johnston said that a good life is impossible for people disconnected from their history. We must know who we are. The venerable historian William Cronon...

Richard Reese - 26 August 2017

Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable I was recently interviewed via email by a group of ecologists in France. I’m sharing it with English-speaking folks because it provides an easy map...

Richard Reese - 21 July 2017

Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable Farley Mowat (1921–2014) was a famous Canadian nature writer, a fire-breathing critic of modernity’s war on wildness. He spent much of his life...

Stephen Berk - 16 May 2017

Several years ago I wrote a Hip Fish column applying the biblical proverb, “There is a way that seems right, but the end thereof is death” to industrial civilization. Now, as commitment to the...

Peter Koenig - 12 May 2017

A Book Review by Peter Koenig | May 12, 2017 | The Saker The author, Michael Hudson, is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial...

Richard Reese - 04 May 2017

Image: Pixabay CCO Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable As I learned more about long distance running, I kept discovering fascinating tidbits about persistence hunting. Aborigines...

Pete Dolack - 23 December 2016

As capitalism lurches from crisis to crisis, and a world beyond capitalism becomes a possibility contemplated by increasing numbers of people, finding a path forward becomes an ever more urgent...

Richard Reese - 25 October 2016

Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable Paul Shepard (1925-1996) was a human ecologist and a turbocharged original thinker who spent his life trying to understand (a) how ordinary animals...

Richard Reese - 25 October 2016

Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable Every year, Canadians eagerly huddle around their radios to listen to the Massey Lectures, broadcast by the CBC. For the 2004 season, Ronald Wright...

Richard Reese - 25 October 2016

Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable Aldo Leopold’s book, A Sand County Almanac, is near the top of many lists of environmental classics. It was published in 1949, and has sold over...

Andrew Lobaczewski - 23 October 2016

“In the author’s opinion, Ponerology reveals itself to be a new branch of science born out of historical need and the most recent accomplishments of medicine and psychology. In light of objective...

Herve Kempf - 23 October 2016

With a title like that, you’d expect ‘How the rich are destroying the earth’ to be a marxist polemic. It’s not. At least, not entirely. Simply put, the rich are destroying the earth because in the...

Richard Reese - 19 October 2016

Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable Derrick Jensen’s book, A Language Older Than Words, is a landmark in environmental writing. A standard formula for eco-books is to describe the...

Richard Reese - 01 June 2016

Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable When an unlucky person has been swept away by the brainwashing of a wacko cult, concerned friends or family members sometimes seek the assistance...

Richard Reese - 27 May 2016

Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable Christopher Boehm is a professor of anthropology and director of the Jane Goodall Research Center at the University of California. He has read...