The End of Modernity? Or the 'Back Loop' of Civilisation

Historian Christopher Clark in Foreign Policy sees the collapse of modernity. What’s really ending is industrial civilisation’s life-cycle. What comes next depends on whether we embrace collapse or renewal.

The Coming End of Petropower - Planetary Signal Brief #1 – 25 June 2025

This Week’s Snapshot of Planetary Phase Shift Signals

Introducing the Planetary Intelligence Bulletin

We are no longer living through disconnected crises. We are participants—willing or not—in a planetary phase shift.

Trump moves to protect ISIS, al-Qaeda enclave in Syria

Pentagon study declares American empire is ‘collapsing’

Report demands massive expansion of military-industrial complex to maintain global ‘access to resources’

Inside the secret Trump lobby that wants to profit from the break-up of Iraq

A network tied to Cambridge Analytica, Islamist insurgents, ExxonMobil and Koch convinced Trump to let go of Iraqi unity

Intelligence agencies are running al-Qaeda camps in North Africa — UN consultant (EXCLUSIVE)

New evidence points to a Western cover-up of Algerian state sponsorship of Islamist jihadists, to protect oil and gas interests

The bin Laden death mythology

Official history of raid camouflages US protection of governments behind 9/11

The road to a stable Afghanistan is through…the Pakistani countryside?

Since NATO’s Lisbon summit in November 2010, debate has raged over the decision to draw-down troops from Afghanistan by 2014. And in less than a month, NATO is to hold its 25th heads of state summit in Chicago on 20th May.