May 9, 2008
12 Stepping Our Way to Armageddon
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power The end of everything we call life is close at hand and cannot be evaded. H.G. Wells, 1946 I recently received an email from a reader, frustrated with my insistence on holding...
May 4, 2008
We Can Survive, but Can We Communicate?
By Carolyn Baker and Sally Erickson of Speaking Truth To Power [As promised in my last article "Peak Civilization And The Winter Of Our Disconnect", my colleague and friend, Sally Erickson and I are offering what we believe are vitally...
April 25, 2008
Peak Civilization and the Winter of Our Disconnect
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana~ The appearance of springtime in North America may be...
April 10, 2008
Recession, Depression, Collapse: What's Fear Got to Do with It?
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Interesting, isn't it, that mainstream economists need a so-called economic guru like Alan Greenspan to confirm that the U.S. economy is in recession? If the maestro says it is so, then it...
March 27, 2008
World Made By Hand: Not Just Another Book Review
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power A review of the 2008 novel by James Howard Kunstler (Atlantic Monthly Press) "The world has become such a wicked place," she said quietly, just a statement of fact "There's goodness here...
March 21, 2008
A 98 Year-Old Teaches Me About "The Great Work"
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power I am part of the rainforest protecting myself. I am that part of the rainforest recently emerged into thinking. ~ John Seed Recently while visiting Vermont, one of my friends there suggested...
March 6, 2008
Personal Survival in a World Gone Mad
Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Reviews "Path Through Infinity's Rainbow: Your Guide To Personal Survival and Spiritual Transformation In A World Gone Mad" by Mike Byron. We must leave the old left/right, liberal/conservative paradigm behind us. Smaller government...
March 1, 2008
Eugene Oregon: Community and Personal Collapse Preparation. Part 2
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power CB: Thank you Dan for that fascinating and comprehensive analysis. Now bringing all of this closer to home, what kinds of preparations have you personally been making in recent years for Peak...
February 27, 2008
Dmitry Orlov's "Re-inventing Collapse"
A review by Carolyn Baker. The old normal is that life will go on just like before. The new normal is that nothing will ever be the same Rather than attempting to undertake the Herculean task of mitigating the unmitigatable-attempting...
February 21, 2008
Eugene Oregon: Community and Personal Collapse Preparation. Part 1
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power This is the first part of Carolyn Baker's exclusive interview with Dan Armstrong, writer, activist, and owner of MUD CITY PRESS. CB: I'm going to ask you about your book "Prairie Fire",...
February 8, 2008
Review: The Final Empire - Part 2
Part 2 of the review of the new book by William Kotke by Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power We are proposing to create no less than a completely new human culture that relates to the earth in a...
February 1, 2008
Review: The Final Empire - Part 1
A review of the new book by William Kotke by Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power My intention in reviewing this stunning book is to share how it has illumined my understanding that collapse and vision are not separate,...
January 22, 2008
The Shell Game: The End of Oil, The Next 9/11, and The End Of Civilization
A review of the new book by Steve Alten by Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power With a doctorate in Sports Administration from Temple University, unhappy in his job, and struggling to support a family, Steve Alten wanted to...
January 18, 2008
Transforming Communities Through Locally-Grown Food
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Carolyn interviews Greg Cox, owner of Boardman Hill Farms, West Rutland, Vermont and is President of the Board of Rutland Area Farm and Food Links (RAFFL). After many months of trying to...
January 12, 2008
The Year of the Bear: Reflections on the Daunting Challenges of 2008
By Carla Royal republished from Speaking Truth to Power On New Year's Eve I went to a friend's house. A few of us gathered in the middle of the afternoon to bring in the New Year with quiet contemplation, ritual,...
December 31, 2007
New Year's Dissolution: Surrender vs. Giving Up
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power It's almost 2008, and in the final hours of 2007, I'm reflecting on the past twelve months and what may lie ahead of us in the coming year. It's been a dreary...
December 6, 2007
Redefining 'Positive':Collapse from Beyond the Human-Centric Perspective
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power This article is an excerpt from Carolyn's forthcoming book The Spirituality Of Collapse: Restoring Life On A Dying Planet. If we do not soon remember ourselves to our sensuous surroundings, if we...
November 30, 2007
A Diary of the Onset of the Greater Depression
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Carolyn Baker Reviews Danny Schechter's e-book SQUEEZED (Click on link to Download) For more years than I can count I've heard Danny Schechter's name bandied about in progressive circles, but for all...
November 26, 2007
$275 Million to Play Baseball? When is enough, enough?
By Kellia Ramares reposted from Speaking Truth to Power Being rich is not wrong if you come by your wealth ethically, though it is not the sign of God's favor that Calvinists and their progeny take it to be. I...
November 21, 2007
Black Friday:Why this one is especially dark
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power A few moments ago I posted on my site the MSNBC version of "The Coming Consumer Crunch" which forecasts severe and painful belt-tightening for American families in 2008. Then when I checked...
November 20, 2007
Middle Class Angst: The Politics of Lemmings
By Stan Goff writing for Speaking Truth to Power Suburbia is also a spiritual wasteland, a place where the wonder of nature is desecrated ubiquitously with corporate logos and all the artifacts of late technological society. There is a common...
November 9, 2007
Shock Doctrine's Shocking Short Shrift
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power I recently had the opportunity to view a lecture by Michael Parenti whom I consider a foremost expert on imperialism. Parenti began his lecture with the use of the word "stochasticism" which...
November 5, 2007
The Switch Has Been Flipped: It's Too Late for Solutions
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power This past week I attended another screening of "What A Way To Go: Life At The End Of Empire". My intention was not to see the documentary yet again-perhaps for the fifteenth...
October 29, 2007
Enhancing Emotional Wellness in a Collapsing World
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Interview with Carla Royal, M. Ed. I recently had the extraordinary privilege of sitting down with therapist and mentor, Carla Royal, to talk about collapse and how we can enhance our emotional...
October 21, 2007
Stop Calling Me A "Doomer"
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power People must first be made to give up on the existing system before they will become receptive to fundamental change. ~ Michael Byron, Ph.D. Author of Infinity's Rainbow: The Politics of Energy,...
October 9, 2007
American Lockdown: Law Enforcement Out of Control and Beyond the Pale
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power In my recent article "The End Of America: The Police State Is Right Here, Right Now" I included experiences of escalating intimidation on the part of law enforcement in the United States...
October 2, 2007
Who Runs the World and Why You Need to Know Immediately
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power A review of The True Story Of The Bilderberg Group, By Daniel Estulin It is difficult to re-educate people who have been brought up on nationalism to the idea of relinquishing part...
September 29, 2007
Secede from the United States? Interview - Rob Williams of Vermont Commons
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power I recently caught up with Rob Williams, volunteer editor of VERMONT COMMONS which is the online voice of Vermont Independence. The organization has been working for some time to establish The Second...
September 19, 2007
The End of America: The Police State is Right Here, Right Now
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power s nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we...
September 14, 2007
Collapse Happens: Exploring Options
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power People come to us to learn about designing and building their own homes, understanding off-grid power systems, composting toilets and grey-water systems, on-farm slaughtering, bio-dynamic practices, spiritual gardening, dowsing, forest management, grazing...
September 7, 2007
Ethical Markets: The Exuberance of What is Possible, the Reality of What is Likely
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Just recently I learned of Hazel Henderson and her latest book, Ethical Markets: Growing The Green Economy as well as Henderson's Quality of Life Indicators which assess America's Gross Domestic Product (GDP),...
September 3, 2007
Bush's Bogus Bailout: Introduction to Tony Soprano Economics 101
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth To Power We have only begun to see the reverberations of the mortgage meltdown. They will be as sweeping and mindboggling as global warming or an earthquake measuring 10 on the Richter scale. I'm...
August 24, 2007
Daddy, Where Does Money Come From?
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth To Power The U.S. government is on a 'burning platform' of unsustainable policies and practices. ~ David Walker, U.S. Comptroller General Anyone who hasn't watched "Money As Debt," an animated DVD by Paul Grignon,...
August 22, 2007
Americans Are In Pain
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth To Power Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear; the moving out against the resistance engendered by fear into the unknown and into the...
August 17, 2007
The End of the World as We Know It: Hope vs MindSet
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power A friend for whom I have a great deal of respect and admiration recently challenged me on my incessant hope-bashing stance and gave me some food for thought which has caused me...
August 14, 2007
In Praise of "SICKO" but What Happens When the U.S. Healthcare System Dies?
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power It had to happen, but it took so long-indeed, too long, for a courageous filmmaker to rise up and put the abysmal U.S. healthcare system under a microscope in order to reveal...
August 10, 2007
The Joyride That Was The American Empire
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth To Power A review of Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future From Four Impending Catastrophes, By Michael J. Panzner Sooner or later, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. --Robert Louis Stevenson-- A few...
August 7, 2007
When Collapse is No Longer Science Fiction: Choosing Hospice Work Instead of Hope
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power By owning the truth and all of its distressing emotions, we empower ourselves beyond our wildest dreams. Within the past month, America has witnessed two dramatic events which have illumined the devastating...
August 3, 2007
Review: Escape from Suburbia
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power The 2004 documentary, "End Of Suburbia", produced and edited by Barry Silverthorn and written and directed by Greg Greene, was a stunning and chilling cinematic landmark which placed the issue of Peak...
July 30, 2007
Building Circles of Community: "Lone Rangers" Cannot Survive Collapse
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth To Power The inexorable reality is that any community that does not process feelings and build trust by doing so...is NOT, I repeat, NOT sustainable....
July 10, 2007
What to Do? Taking Action In The Face Of Collapse
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Every time I write an article on collapse such as my most recent one "Happy Independence Day; You Have No Government", I am bombarded with emails asking me "what should I do?"...
July 3, 2007
Happy Independence Day; You have no government
Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere; The ceremony of innocence is drowned;...
June 29, 2007
Sexual Orientation and Fundamentalism
Carolyn Baker has released a new book "Coming Out Of Fundamentalist Christianity: An Autobiography Affirming Sensuality, Social Justice, and The Sacred" which is now available from Amazon.com. Below is a below is an excerpt from her article introducing the book...
June 1, 2007
A Commentary on Robert S. McElvaine's 'The Great Depression'
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power ...that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and...
May 31, 2007
What I Admire Most About Cindy Sheehan
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Corporate media--and even some alternative websites, are blaring with headlines about Cindy Sheehan "quitting" the anti-war movement. It is true that Sheehan has stepped down as the consummate symbol of the ordinary,...
May 5, 2007
The Spirituality of Collapse
Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Civilization is a mental/material world of culturally transmitted illusion. -- William Kötke -- The first edition of this article was written in February, 2006, but I have recently revised and updated it. Since...
April 29, 2007
Super-Imperialism: The Shameful Legacy of Liberal Democrats
Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power It is a war against the globalization of the market, against the destruction of nature adn the confiscation of resources, against the termination of indigenous peoples and their lands, against the growing maldistribution...
April 20, 2007
101 Ways to Massacre Students
Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Once again, a horrific eruption of violence in the United States has been turned into a National Enquirer "blood and circuses" spectacle on every television network in the nation. Curiously, grotesque and ghastly...
April 13, 2007
Conspiracy: If you are not in one, you need to start one
Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power This past weekend I received a call from two friends who with their three children are facing foreclosure on their home. For the past three years I have been warning them about an...
April 5, 2007
Preparing for Collapse: Three Things You Can Do
Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Mick Winter, host of DryDipstick.com and BeyondPeak.com, has written an extremely practical guide entitled Peak Oil Prep: Three Things You Can Do To Prepare For Peak Oil, Climate Change, and Economic Collapse. Before...
March 30, 2007
"The Secret": Creating a culture of cheerfulness as Rome burns
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power A friend recently asked me what I knew about The Secret, and I had to confess, absolutely nothing. A couple of days later, another friend asked the same question, so I decided...
March 9, 2007
In Debt We Trust as the Economy Goes Bust
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power This week the Senate Banking Committee has begun an investigation of credit card companies and that industry's lending practices of which Chairman, Carl Levin of Michigan said, "Millions of families...are kept in...
March 6, 2007
Presidential Presence: Holding the Hands of People vs A Distant Wave of the Hand
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power [Picture: Chilean President, Michelle Bachelet visits with families affected by tragic explosion in Valparaiso, February 3] Below the equator, it is now autumn, the end of summer and the beginning of winter....
February 16, 2007
Dysfunctional Goverrnment, Dysfunctional Family
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power It seems to me that Americans for at least the past seven years have been stricken with a collective trance such as I have never witnessed in this country in my lifetime....
February 12, 2007
Fabricating the case against Iran
I'd like to direct you to an interesting article by Larry Chin published at Speaking Truth to Power titled Fabricating the Case Against Iran. Chin argues that the US is on a war footing on Iran and will launch an...
February 9, 2007
The Science of Evil and its Use for Politial Purposes
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power EVIL: 1 a: morally reprehensible : sinful, wicked b: arising from actual or imputed bad character or conduct [a person of evil reputation] 2 aarchaic : inferior b: causing discomfort or repulsion...
February 5, 2007
Rejecting Tapeworm Economics and Its War on Families
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power Carolyn Baker contrasts what is happening in the U.S. to what is happening in Chile....
February 1, 2007
Christian Fascism: The Jesus Gestapo of St. Orwell
By: Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power New York Times reporter, Chris Hedges, has written an extraordinary book, American Fascism: The Christian Right And The War On America. Having survived a Christian fundamentalist background myself, I marvel at the...
