
Southern History Month 2019: Central Appalachia’s Extractive Economy
How Central Appalachia was ravaged, exploited and underdeveloped by free-market capitalism
How Central Appalachia was ravaged, exploited and underdeveloped by free-market capitalism
Revolutions are sparked by state modernization programs
Turnover continues in the Trump cabinet
The French are rising up against globalism
Macron has surrendered to the Yellow Vest movement
Emmanuel Macron is desperate to deflate the Yellow Jackets uprising
“Macron pute à juif!”
Macron is deaf to middle class and working class economic anxiety
ACKSHUALLY, Drill, Baby Drill Worked!
Equatorial Guinea is Africa’s most ridiculous nation
A big victory for energy corporations
Remember the massive crowds that greeted Candidate Trump throughout the Appalachians and Rust Belt? Remember how many had tears in their eyes when they were […]
Last minute Obama regulation blocked
Trump revives America First economics
Jesus wants you to oppose ethanol subsidies
Editor’s Note: The coal industry is shifting its operations from Appalachia to the Interior West, but this is driven in part by EPA regulations. H/T SNN […]
It’s not enough to open the borders and give millions of illegal aliens work permits to compete for Southern jobs in a depressed economy … […]
While thousands of Americans in hundreds of cities protested the border surge which is a direct result of President Barack Obama’s executive order that bypassed […]
Texas This is worth sharing here: “Author Bob Smiley says even if the demands of nearly 100,000 rebels from Texas aren’t being taken seriously in […]
Dixie The South dwarfs the rest of the United States in natural gas production: Note: The value of Wyoming in terms of coal and natural […]
Dixie The South generates nearly half of America’s nuclear power: South Carolina – 49,869 Texas – 38,162 North Carolina – 37,775 Georgia – 33,681 Florida […]
Dixie Here’s the numbers for U.S. coal production by state: Dixie would walk away with 31% of U.S. coal production, and if the Far West tagged […]
Dixie H/T Chuck Thompson If the Blue States get Oprah and Harvard’s Department of African-American Studies, the Red States walk away with +82.7% of U.S. […]
California H/T Walter Russell Mead While there are geological limits to growth (such as Peak Water in Saudi Arabia), OD has always been fascinated by […]
Malthusian World As I mentioned in the comments, Richard Heinberg speculates that slavery might be restored in his book Peak Everything: “In the U.S., as […]
Canada How do you know American policymakers are asleep at the helm on the energy question? “While the chattering classes yammered on about American decline […]
New York In The Wall Street Journal, there is a new techno-utopian article about mining asteroids as a solution to resource scarcity: “Is the earth […]
New York I’ve finished reading James Howard Kunstler’s new book Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation. This book is pretty […]
New York In spite of all our differences, I am confident that everyone who reads and comments on this website can agree on how satisfying […]
BRA IMO, this will be much more effective than state based immigration laws anyway. We have already seen that the biggest deterrent to illegal immigration […]
BRA Here’s an excerpt from Kunstler’s new book: “It was not a coincidence that the global financial system wobbled and crashed in mid-2008, the same […]
History Channel Kunstler mentioned that he appeared on this program in the book. I haven’t seen this before. Watching now. Note: The water crisis is […]
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