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Travel Chaos, Jobs Lost as U.K. Firm Thomas Cook Collapses
Sep 23, 2019 The immediate shuttering of 178-year-old tour company strands hundreds of thousands; a changing industry and Brexit blamed for its demise.4 Killed After Construction Crane Collapses Onto Seattle Street
Apr 27, 2019 The crane, which had been atop a downtown office building, crushed several cars in a densely populated area.
NASA-Funded Study Sounds Alarm for Civilization
Mar 17, 2014 A new study sponsored by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center confirmed the prospect that worldwide industrial civilization could collapse in the coming decades under "unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution," Dr. Nafeez Ahmed reports at The Guardian.
Chris Hedges on ‘The Pathology of the Rich’
Dec 6, 2013 Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges discussed "the psychology of the super rich: their sense of entitlement, the dehumanization of workers, and mistaken belief that their wealth will insulate them from the coming storms" with The Real News Network's senior editor, Paul Jay.
Chris Hedges on the Role of Art in Rebellion
Nov 28, 2013 After a talk on the collapse of complex societies, Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges answers an audience question: "Will it take [literature, music and art] to waken us to the empathy of other suffering or hardship?"
Chris Hedges: We Have to Atone for Turning Our Backs on People of Color
Nov 16, 2013 After a talk on the collapse of complex societies, Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges answers an audience question: "How should people of color respond to the dying of a civilization that has not been civil to them?"Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges answers an audience question: "How should people of color respond to the dying of a civilization that has not been civil to them?"
Is Homeland Security Preparing for the Next Wall Street Collapse?
Oct 7, 2013 An Associated Press article in February confirmed a purchase order by the Department of Homeland Security for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. That’s enough to sustain an Iraq-sized war for over twenty years. Someone in government seems to expect some serious civil unrest. Why?
Detroit’s Fiscal Emergency
Mar 2, 2013 The governor of Michigan said Friday that the city of Detroit was in a state of "financial emergency" and announced that an independent overseer would be appointed to save it from collapse. However, the proposed solutions, which appear to consist mainly of spending cuts, inevitably mean more pain and suffering for Detroiters.
Growth Is the Problem
Sep 10, 2012 The ceaseless expansion of economic exploitation, the engine of global capitalism, has come to an end. Let's not revive it.
Life Is Sacred
Sep 3, 2012 The giddy, money-drenched, choreographed carnival in Tampa and the one coming up in Charlotte divert us from the real world -- the one steadily collapsing around us.We, as a species, may be doomed. And this is a bitter, bitter fact for a father to digest.
