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By Chris Hedges, reprinted from truthdig.com
Our most potent political weapon is food. If we take back our agriculture, if we buy and raise produce locally, we can begin to break the grip of corporations that control a food system as fragile, unsafe and destined for collapse as our financial system. If we continue to allow [...] Read more »

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Definancialisation, Deglobalisation, Relocalisation
Another long but brilliant article, this time by Dmitry Orlov, reprinted from Club Orlov.
This talk was presented at The New Emergency Conference in Dublin, on June 11, 2009.

1. Good morning.
The title of this talk is a bit of a mouthful, but what I want to say can be summed up in simpler [...] Read more »

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This is a very long, but brilliantly well researched essay by Peter Salonius, taken from The Oil Drum. The basic premise is that we stopped being sustainable thousands of years ago (this is the general feeling of most anti-civ writers working today) and that without phenomenal population reductions in tandem with a complete cultural change [...] Read more »

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http://culturechange.org/how_to_Goldsmith.html
http://www.alternet.org/story/13900/
http://www.alternet.org/story/13906/
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Thanks to www.peakmoment.tv for this. 2 weeks of working like a dog, for a whole year? Perfect! Read more »

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Asks Lester R. Brown at Scientific American magazine.
Key Concepts

Food scarcity and the resulting higher food prices are pushing poor countries into chaos.
Such “failed states” can export disease, terrorism, illicit drugs, weapons and refugees.
Water shortages, soil losses and rising temperatures from global warming are placing severe limits on food production.
Without massive and rapid intervention to address [...] Read more »

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Gene Logsdon at OrganicToBe. The long-awaited, and much-anticipated 2nd Edition of Small-Scale Grain Raising: An Organic Guide to Growing, Processing, and Using Nutritious Whole Grains, for Home Gardeners and Local Farmers
is now available.
No sooner had the news come out that rice stocks worldwide were at an all time modern low, and that the price of [...] Read more »

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