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 You can make anything a currency. I've long advocated avocados, at least if there's a money collapse you'd still be left with something good to eat. A couple days ago, the NYT ran a piece titled, “How Trustless is Bitcoin, Really?” It
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Subscribe now Would that those now in friendship bound, We whom Love's thread circles round, Death's cruel edge might see! Since good on earth is insecure, And all things must a change endure In dark futurity! Nezahualcoyotl of Texcoco, 15th century I first discovered Prescott'
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Subscribe now To think in 1966, five Mexicans from Bay City, Michigan created one of the defining pop tones of the second half of the 20th century. So, it’s funny, staring into and listening to the rhythms of one of the waterfalls of El Chiflon, that electric organ pops
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Oh, God save history God save your mad parade Oh, Lord, God have mercy All crimes are paid When there's no future, how can there be sin? We're the flowers in the dustbin We're the poison in your human machine We're the
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Subscribe now In one decade, William Greider wrote three excellent books on three defining issues of our time—money, failing politics, and corporate globalization. I should add a fourth. Until recently, I’d forgotten in that time he also wrote a book on the military industrial complex, and maybe there’
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Subscribe now Looking across history, two periods shine as examples of democratic political evolution fostering tremendous societal advantage. One would be the founding of the American Republic, which proved highly advantageous for the yeoman farm majority until industrialism literally steamrolled the entire political and economic landscape. The second is Ancient
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Subscribe now …are soon parted. So goes the old saying, but experience of the last few decades would more accurately say the more money makes the bigger fool. Just start at the top and go down the list. You can even cut off at a billion, the fool things said
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Subscribe now History has no claim on the present or the future. Yet, lack of historical knowledge and understanding makes us prisoners of history. There is no part of society more imprisoned in the past than politics and government. Some of our most elemental political and government concepts remain based
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Subscribe now The 80s was the last formative decade for US politics. You'd be hard pressed to say for any good, but it certainly defined the future. The New Deal coalition, having shaped politics for the previous half-century was in dissolution, heading to oblivion. Its politics had been
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Subscribe now The Fed's only raised rates .75%, they're still under 1%, yet the whole of global finance shakes. Whoda thunk? Best of course is the crypto circus. I understand there's all sorts now, after all, how were you going to run a global
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Subscribe now If history is allowed to look back at present America, it will be studied as an era of political decline. The democratic processes of the republic will be chronicled completely dysfunctional. The personalities populating the public square weighed entirely unexceptional. And, if politics at its historical best is
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WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee passed a bill on Thursday that could expose the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and partners to lawsuits for collusion on boosting crude oil prices. Yes, America can suit our way to more oil. The No Oil Producing or