Air Cascadia

'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest'?   Indeed.   Janet Phelan is The Woman who Acciddentally Stepped in It.'  Running back through the time lines, my guest is still looking for the crossroads where she met the devil.  So many roads, so many demons.  'Agent Smith' is the... Read more

Normal 0 “Put that in your pipe and smoke it”  rings true in these fossil fuel End Times.  We are still building pipelines full of natural gas which winds up polluting the air.  The pipes flow through pristine wilderness that would save us from ourselves were they not p... Read more

The Great Mystery at the heart of human folly is simply this:  How deep does it run?  Permaculturists, game theory geeks and professional poker players all know One Big Thing.  It's all about pattern recognition and sorting the complex from the complicated.  When a massive ... Read more

Normal 0 In October 2000, independent journalist, Janet Phelan found herself divorced and living on disability when she met Jack Smith.  In 2008, fearing for her life, Janet fled the country.  The intervening years morphed into a deadly game of Snakes and Ladders.  The ... Read more

Normal 0 So now General David Petraeus is at the at the business end of American firepower in Afghanistan.  Viceroy, Proconsul, Broker-King of Central Asia’s mineral wonderland.   Where Dick Cheney is, is  anybody’s guess.  And former Congressman, the craftily disgraced... Read more

Normal 0       It’s nearly two months since the Israeli attack on the freedom flotilla as it made its way towards Gaza laden with aid supplies.   And there are no signs of the proposed "prompt, impartial, credible and transparent investigation."   When the Security Cou... Read more

Normal 0 When the economy goes South people suffer.  But the environment is where the longterm, lasting damage is done. Leading the charge – as always – is  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce.  The Chamber  is exploiting financial fear to pressure the government into tapping ... Read more

Normal 0 Adage’s proposed Biomass incinerator will rain toxic pollutants on the people of Shelton and Mason County. ADAGE’s permit application for a biomass incinerator proposed for Hamilton County, Florida—a plant identical to the one proposed for Shelton—lists 52 Haz... Read more

Normal 0   Normal 0 Normal 0   Biomass, the foundering energy industry’s latest Greenwash  is starting to choke on its own lies.  Originally it had been sold to Oregon (and other states with lots of trees) as a promising future source of green jobs a... Read more

Normal 0   Our guest this morning was Ray Laforest, Haitin freedom fighter, expat activist par excellence and currently union organizer with  the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) in lower Manhattan.   But – as the saying goes – it w... Read more