Joe Costello has decades experience in politics, energy, environment, and communications. Traveled and worked across the planet. Long a student of democracy, its demise, possible revitalization.
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Subscribe now “Nearly every age and stage of culture has at some time or other sought with profound irritation to free itself from the Greeks, because in their presence everything one has achieved oneself, though apparently quite original and sincerely admired, suddenly seemed to lose life and color and shriveled
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Subscribe now The FT's Rana Foroohar has a nice video about the American food system, and that's what it is, a system. It’s worth watching if only because it’s on the FT saying corporate globalization is done and everything needs to be rethought, literally
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Subscribe now Webster defines leverage as, 1: the action of a lever or the mechanical advantage gained by it 2: POWER, EFFECTIVENESS 3: the use of credit to enhance one's speculative capacity Financial leverage is a combination of all three, let's start with the last first.
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It is uncontroversial to say Gorbachev was tragically fated to have drunken Boris Yeltsin as the main Russian political figure emerging from his domestic reforms and the United States' National Security State as his greatest clueless foreign adversary. Gorbachev's revolutionary reforms were unmet constructively by the domestic
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Thank you for reading Life in the 21st Century. This post is public so feel free to share it so readership will grow. “Only a great genius can save a prince who undertakes to alleviate the lot of his subjects after a lengthy period of oppression. Evils which are patiently
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Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. From before the first European’s arrival, Chicago was a transportation hub for the North American continent. It provided a water link from the Mississippi delta to the
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Thank you for reading Life in the 21st Century, it needs a bigger audience, please share. Massive seas of oil in places like California and Texas created the oil industry. From these fields, oil gushed with little effort. Shale deposits, long known by the industry, were smashed between layers of
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Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. How're you gonna make your way in the world, when you weren't cut out for working? When your fingers are slender and frail, how
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Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber. It's difficult for people to understand what's deemed modernity was brought about by Homo sapiens harnessing of energy on a mass scale. It doesn&
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Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication, consider becoming a paid subscriber. “But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.” Mathew 6:3 In regards to scripture's counsel and inflation, today’s corporate media is full of stories
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I had a wonderful conversation with filmmaker Evgenia Kovda and author Yasha Levine of the excellent, amongst many other writings, Surveillance Valley: The Politics of Technology w/Joe CostelloListen now (101 min) | Evgenia and I talk to Joe Costello about the politics of technology — nuclear energy, the internet, Wall Street,
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You can share Life in the 21st Century via: Reddit, Twitter, Facebook “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” —Matthew 5:9 Back in the days of the Soviet Union, when one of the old big men died, television broadcast would show a still picture