As we head into the brave new world of the 21st century, genetic modification of food kicks into high gear. Modern survivalists should care that some estimates put the amount of food on our grocery shelves with genetically engineered ingredients at 70-75%. In this case, ignorance is not bliss. Studies over the past decade have [...]

Jason Hartman talks with John Perkins, a man who has lived four lives: as an economic hit man (EHM); as the CEO of a successful alternative energy company, who was rewarded for not disclosing his EHM past; as an expert on indigenous cultures and shamanism, a teacher and writer who used this expertise to promote [...]

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As the world around us seems to exist on a steady diet of crazy pills, it makes sense for every American to have an up-to-date passport. It’s the ultimate bugout tool because some day you may need to take your family out of the country entirely. That means everyone needs a passport, kids included.
If the [...]

Dengue fever is still a major risk in tropical areas, especially Africa, Asia, and the western Pacific. Spread through the bite of infected female mosquitoes, dengue fever causes severe flu-like symptoms and can kill. The punch line is this – there is no vaccine or treatment for the disease.
But out-of-the-box thinking researchers in the United [...]

The Cold War has been over for a while now but the amount of money spent on military might still boggles the mind. How many guns, bombs, troops, and bases around the world are enough? This isn’t just a debate for isolationists versus interventionists. This is a matter of how much of the budgetary strain [...]

Spend a little time researching how long you need to boil water to make it safe and you’re liable to find conflicting answers, even from “trusted” government and health organization sources.
“Boil water for ten minutes.”
“Five minutes of boiling.”
“Boil the water for 20 minutes.”
“A rolling boil for one minute.”
“You should boil water twice as long at [...]

Modern society is constructed on a quicksand alliance between cars, credit cards, and television. Here’s what happens. You sit at home watching television, soaking up all those enticing commercials exhorting you to get out and spend, spend, spend on stuff you barely need – don’t need at all, to be honest.
The mind races at the [...]

South Carolinian state representative Mike Pitts has introduced legislation that requires gold and silver coins to replace shaky federal currency as legal tender in his state. His reasoning is simple, “If the federal government continues to spend money at the rate it’s spending money, and if it continues to print money at the rate it’s [...]

Good old barter. This method of commerce made the world go ‘round back in the day. Considering the state of the United States economy, the fine art of barter might be back again sooner than you think. Barter is a pre-currency technique that simply involves an exchange of goods or services. Let’s say the world [...]

China, which in September 2008 became the largest holder of U.S. government backed treasury bonds, decided to start unloading them in December 2009. A recent report by the Treasury Department showed the communist empire dumped almost $35 billion (that’s with a ‘b’) worth of notes in the last month of last year, leaving Japan as [...]

Whether the coming economic collapse is simply a re-creation of the Great Depression or turns into an all out “blood in the streets” sort of affair, there are mitigating steps to take. First, let’s hope the streets don’t run red. If they do, your best bet is a few guns and lots of ammunition. For [...]

Wheat should be an integral part of your food storage plan. With a ready source of wheat you can grind flour to make bread, biscuits, cookies, cakes, breakfast cereals, pasta noodles, beer, and even biofuels. In a survival situation where you’re tapping into your long term food supplies, the diversity of wheat can make menus [...]

Word from Reuters today states that increasing cigarette taxes by $1 a pack would raise more than $9 billion a year for states. Furthermore, a poll suggests that 60% of Americans would support such a tax. Yep, we hate to be the bearer of such grim tidings but, if the poll is right, America is [...]

A transition town is a simple concept. It involves motivated people pooling their creative and intellectual resources to redefine what a “city” or “town” means in the United States. People create a Transition Initiative because they’re concerned about a modern problem or even a handful of modern problems.
For some, the reason is peak oil, climate [...]

A vegan is a person who declines to make animal products a part of their diet. Vegans go even a step further than making food choices similar to vegetarians in that they use no animal products whatsoever. No leather coats or shoes. So what is a “freegan?”
For the answer to that question, let’s turn to [...]

Holding grudges and seeking revenge are the norm in many cultures. There is a certain mindset that you may run into from time to time where a person perceives themselves as having been wronged.
Whether it’s a problem neighbor or common street thug, they are not happy unless they are feuding. Feuding gives him something to [...]

Jason interviews Director, James Jaeger, on his new film, Original Intent, which covers another area of Holistic Survival (protecting the people and the country).  Listen at: http://www.holisticsurvival.com/category/audio-podcast/. This episode will explore the consequences of failing to heed the Founders’ intent. The documentary discusses the many social, political and monetary issues ranging from Federal Reserve System [...]

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Some people learn basic survival skills in the form of knowledge passed down from parents or grandparents, but not everyone is lucky enough to have a resource like that, especially when it comes to urban dwellers. So what’s a budding modern survivalist to do? How can he or she latch onto that critical knowledge that [...]

The prevailing theory regarding world oil reserves goes something like this: millions of years ago all the dinosaurs in the world fell over dead. As years rolled past, their remains were concentrated, compressed, and magically transformed into gas and oil. Since there were, obviously, a limited number of dinosaurs, one could deduce the same limitations [...]

In 1938, two German scientists were attempting to create stronger pesticides when they inadvertently discovered the formula for a toxic agent 500 times more lethal than cyanide. The substance came to be known as sarin, taking a few letters from each of the discoverers’ names. It was no big surprise that sarin shortly ended up [...]

Fox News recently interviewed Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, a leading European health authority as saying the swine flu was a result of Big Pharma’s “campaign of panic” that put pressure on the little old World Health Organization to declare a pandemic (outbreak of a disease over a large geographical area). Wodarg went on to call swine [...]

Are conspiracy theorists onto something sinister or have they simply smoked too much funny weed? It seems there is a concentrated effort to brand those who subscribe to alternate beliefs regarding the world’s power structure as a kooky bunch, but are they? Maybe where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Let’s take a quick look at what [...]

Mom always said to use layers when dressing for cold weather and she was more right than you gave her credit for. When dressing for wilderness winter survival, each layer of clothing serves a specific function to keep you alive during adverse conditions.
The theory behind the three later clothing system is to regulate your body [...]