Germany’s leadership and population were shocked awake by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022. Germany is not hard-wired for Russophobia the way America seems to be; it has long sought balance and engagement in its relationship with Russia. Moreover, Germany’s shame and regret over the German armed forces’…

As a loyal consumer of propaganda, I’m consumed with the overwhelming importance of the question of whether a vassal state government in Ukraine will in future be a vassal state of psychopathic politicians and obscure geostrategic planning cadres in Moscow or their counterparts in Washington. …

Here is a rather unsettling analysis of how the reprehensible invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Army may have been not only anticipated by the US State Department, but perhaps even deliberately provoked, in order to sucker the Kremlin into an unwinnable war. Secretary of State Blinken of USA and…

An interesting question as we consider how best to stop burning fossil fuels is: Why don’t we simply power the entire world with geothermal energy? We know it’s technically possible — even straightforward. In fact, the only reason *not* to do it is that wind and solar power (including accompanying energy storage systems) may be even cheaper solutions as we move toward carbon-free energy abundance. Each option — solar PV, wind power, and deep-well geothermal energy — has the technical potential to easily provide 100% of humanity’s energy needs all by itself. Taken together, they’re a feast.

A big issue for humanity and the biosphere is where we’re going to get materials for the cleantech future — in particular, where we’re going to get the metals to make batteries and connectors for more than a billion electric vehicles, as we set about replacing the existing fossil-fueled car…

Money is created every time someone incurs a bank debt. When you borrow money from a bank to buy a house, e.g. $350,000, you sign a ‘mortgage contract’ with the bank, promising to repay that money over a defined time horizon, e.g. 30 years, and to pay interest on the…

There are two reasons why our response to Greta is showing signs of being more powerful than was our response to Severn. One is that the world is more obviously on fire now. The other, perhaps more salient reason is… well, to find out, read on. Severn Cullis-Suzuki is the…

It’s pretty clear that the European Union needs to evolve further in order to remain stable and retain the loyalty of its nations and citizens. That’s been obvious since long before Brexit. In the European political discourse, there’s been a long-standing debate between people who want a Europe of Nations…

Fractal democracy would be a radical improvement on existing systems. Existing representative electoral democracies have nearly all been captured by monied interests. We need a new model of truly accountable elected representation. Fractal democracy is the way forward: A layered system in which base-level groups of seven people each choose one representative, and those seven representatives then meet to choose a representative, and so on, up several levels of representation, would allow more than 282 million people to be democratically, accountably, flexibly represented through a ten-level system — and it would require just ten two-hour accountability meetings every other month for the person at the top of the fractal hierarchy to be held fully accountable at every level.