Robert L. Terrell

Harbinger of the Future: Devastated Detroit

The full significance of the financial crisis bedeviling the United States, and much of the rest of the developed world, is clearly apparent to those who dare seek to acquire an up close and personal view of the massive, full spectrum collapse underway in Detroit. The once prosperous city used to be one of the [...]

New Thinking, Major Reforms and Urgent Action Needed ASAP

The current crises threatening stability in virtually every sector of U.S. society should be all the proof sane and balanced people need in order to understand that we are hovering on a precipice between extraordinary achievement, and dramatic, unalterable decline.  Given that, we all need to remain alert and aware regarding all the best things [...]

More Fear, Less Butter, No Peace: Time to Begin Dismantling the U.S. Empire

These are portentous times for the United States. There are many things to be grateful for, including the current ascendancy of mainstream liberal politics in the nation’s capitol.  The stock market is slowly edging upwards, and panic about the possibility of total financial collapse appears to be subsiding.      

Democrats, Republicans, and Philosophical Obsolescence

         The current economic crisis is inexorably tightening the vise of poverty that has been strangling this nation’s poorest citizens for several decades. 

Dismayed Experts and the Current Financial Tsunami

The desperation exuding from experts regarding the current “global financial crisis” does not bode well for the immediate future.  All the most important signals from Washington, D.C., London, Paris, Moscow, New Delhi, Tokyo and Beijing confirm my firm impression that the “wise men” in charge of the world’s financial affairs are fast running out of [...]