Dear friends – Hello everybody! We – Study Group staff, i.e. Trish and Greg – are currently on a speaking and alliance-building tour in Germany… Read More »Vienna Conference vigorously advances efforts to ban nuclear weapons
That admonition was the urgent call at the end of the Russell-Einstein nuclear disarmament manifesto, 59 years ago this month. It was fine advice then;… Read More »“Remember Your Humanity, and Forget the Rest”
Season of the Witch Owing to past neglect, in the face of the plainest warnings, we have entered upon a period of danger. The era… Read More »Season of the Witch
Complex societies collapse when individuals withdraw energy from public tasks, for reasons that seem good at the time. The fatal step is to privilege private… Read More »Aux Armes!
I haven’t had time to post very much here, but today I will make an exception. Because today we learned that down in the corporate-Strangelovian… Read More »LANL’s “Bolas Grande” project gets briefing from “Six-Sigma Blackbelt”
Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be only? Charles Dickens, “A… Read More »The ignored gravity of our civilizational crisis – and the majesty of a wholehearted response
Why did the sheep go (and oh-so-placidly) to the slaughter? One can quickly think of a few possible reasons: She thought we should all get… Read More »Lighter fare: some reasons the sheep went to the slaughter
Today I want to take up the theme of why assumptions of economic normalcy for the rest of the present decade are misplaced. It’s a… Read More »Perfect storm
Last Thursday evening (March 28), the Study Group held a public discussion to share and elicit others’ perspectives on the “Long Emergency” we are entering… Read More »Dark inflation
“One thought alone occupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era.” J.M. Coetze,… Read More »The submerged mind of Empire