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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Sitting in friends’ closet up in the high desert, I have a great picture of Gorbachev and myself from 1998. It's from a Global Green event, the American contingent of Green Cross International, a global environmental organization Gorbachev founded. With this group, I worked with a lot of
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Subscribe now History is written by the victors goes the old trope. Removed from most history are the elements of chance and randomness. We like to believe things are the way they are because they were inevitable. You have to go all the way back to the Romans to find
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Subscribe now Even more radical to our present thinking is the organizational structure and internal processes of the fungi themselves. The great fungal networks―mycelia, are examples of distributed, decentralized order, demanding a needed reassessment of our hierarchical, centralized thinking, including a healthy expansion of our ideas on intelligence. As
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Subscribe now In many ways, biology is the newest science. Not that in the Western tradition, some aspects of biological thought haven't been around since the Greeks. After all, Aristotle had a great deal to say on the designs of life. But the history of life, the knowledge
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Subscribe now I ended yesterday's piece with this statement, Brazil and much of the rest of the world need to give up the idea they can use oil like contemporary Americans, indeed, if they dug a little closer, since the first Oil Shock, they will find the American
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Subscribe now Only a few times in my life has oil led the news. Otherwise, outside of oil company profit statements, rarely is oil news, puzzling for a fuel that defined modern life for a century. The first time oil spilled across the front pages, there used to be these
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The Mexican state of Veracruz, Xalapa-Enriquez its capital, is best known for the commencement of two great campaigns which irreparably altered the course of Mexican and world history. Over three centuries apart, the two military marches launched from the same place on Veracruz's coast. In 1519, the Spaniards
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Subscribe now The fog of war they call it, where truth, a precious commodity at all times, well actually, truth is always so rare it can never be called a commodity, but when the bombs are exploding, truth's a very, very difficult to thing find, certainly in the
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Subscribe now Above is a nice interview from 1975 with the Good Doctor Thompson and the journalist Harrison Salisbury. Salisbury is lost to history, so too journalism I suppose. He was best known for his work in the late 40s and early 50s as a correspondent in Moscow, sparing with
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Subscribe now Part of the challenge facing humanity in the 21st century is the loss of old ideas that united us. Many of these concepts, whether myths, historical traditions, religions, or political values defined distinct cultures limited by geography. However, despite numerous superficial differences, many of these ideas held deeper
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Subscribe now Yesterday, it was good to see the Wall Street Journal push down their warmongering, if only briefly, and put the money beat on top. After all, the Fed raising rates and promising to keep pushing up the rest of the year is big news. Except for a couple
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Subscribe now With the caveat of if allowed, when the future looks back on our era, political failure will be its defining characteristic. Historians will cite numerous reasons for this deficiency, none unprecedented in scope or degree. As always, there will be intriguing specific differences, along with the not so