The New Leviathan Blog

Lyrical flights and historical malaise     Barack Obama promised Monday that his inauguration as the first black president of the United States would “renew the promise” of the American dream. “Tomorrow, we will come together as one, on the plaza where (Martin Luther) King’s dream continues to resonate. In doing so, we recognize that here in America, our destinies are inextricably intertwined,” writes he said in...Read More >>

Economy and political agenda Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz judges that "the subprime crisis is not over" in the United States and Europe, and that this crisis is linked to the surge in oil and food prices, in an interview with the French newspaper Release Saturday. “The subprime crisis”, American subprime mortgage loans, “is not over”, affirms Mr. Stiglitz, explaining that with the fall of the real estate market in the United States, more and more Americans find themselves unable to repay ...Read More >>

Climate change and economic hedonism  Beyond 2 to 3 additional degrees compared to 1990, global warming will have negative impacts on all regions, the IPCC warned on Friday. By 2080, experts estimate in their 1,400-page report, up to 3.2 billion humans will be exposed to severe water shortages and 600 million to hunger due to droughts, degradation and soil salinization. Each year, two to seven million additional people could suffer fr...Read More >>

Automobile civilization: social and environmental destruction 1, Thus, while the Cold War was based on the atom, the hot war which began at the end of the 20th century is largely based on the automobile and its massive use on a planetary scale. The individual automobile characterizes the Western way of life, rapidly progressing throughout the rest of the planet, based on the accelerated plunder of natural resources and in particular hydrocarbons. However, what was already difficult t...Read More >>