A Century Ago, Petroleum - What We

My Belief, For What It Is Worth, Is That City Dwellers Cannot Understand The World. Insulated From Reality By Complex And Expert Systems Of Provision And Police, Baffled By Fashion And Spectacle, City Dwellers Can Distinguish Neither The Sources Of Their Existence Nor The Consequences.

Financial Crises Are Like Fireworks: They Illuminate The Sky Even As They Go Pop.

It Is Time To End The Western Policy Of Malign Neglect. It Is In The Interest Of The Whole World To Help Tackle The Actual Grievances In Palestine, Kashmir, And In Central And Southern Iraq, And To Help The Region Out Of Its Economic Backwardness.

For 50 Years, Nuclear Power Stations Have Produced Three Products Which Only A Lunatic Could Want: Bomb-explosive Plutonium, Lethal Radioactive Waste And Electricity So Dear It Has To Be Heavily Subsidised. They Leave To Future Generations The Task, And Most Of The Cost, Of Making Safe Sites That Have Been Polluted Half-way To Eternity.

By Pouring Money And Goods Into Devastated Regions, Foreign Aid Workers Sometimes Compound The Disruption And Debauch The Survivors.