The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
It’s Time to Pop Your Conspiracy Theory Cherry By Tim Bryant, Wake-Up World, 3 May 2016 Anyone who has spent the time going deep down the “rabbit hole” and researching in the realms of alternative information/conspiracy theory knows that a large majority of the world’s population hasn’t a clue as to what’s really going on …
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What should every American know? In this time of social division and demographic change, we in the United States need a base of common knowledge more than ever. That’s why we created an initiative called What Every American Should Know. Inspired by our colleague E.D. Hirsch, author of Cultural Literacy, we are asking: What do …
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Overview of an emerging possibility. Issue No. 26: “The Antidote to a Broken Political System” In a piece for the Daily Beast Monday, James K. Glassman, former Under Secretary of State in the George W. Bush administration, made an impassioned – and, in our view, logical – case for a separate online national primary contest to choose …
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Americans Continue to Say a Third Political Party Is Needed A majority of U.S. adults, 58%, say a third U.S. political party is needed because the Republican and Democratic parties “do such a poor job” representing the American people. These views are little changed from last year’s high. Since 2007, a majority has typically called …
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Localism is an area in which eco-liberals and grassroots conservatives tend to see eye to eye. This solar initiative looks like a good opportunity for another transpartisan win. Florida Conservative Group Launches Ballot Initiative To Increase Access To Solar Power
Letters Fixing What’s Wrong With America To the Editor: Re “Is It Bad Enough Yet?,” by Mark Bittman (column, Dec. 14): EXTRACTS: 01 The question is whether any change can occur with such a bought-and-paid-for, dysfunctional Congress and president. 02 But where are our leaders? Truthfully, too busy chasing their next campaign contribution or positioning …
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Is It Bad Enough Yet? THE police killing unarmed civilians. Horrifying income inequality. Rotting infrastructure and an unsafe “safety net.” An inability to respond to climate, public health and environmental threats. A food system that causes disease. An occasionally dysfunctional and even cruel government. A sizable segment of the population excluded from work and subject …
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