The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Alert Reader sends: “Truth is a lonely warrior.” (Perloff) A long, solitary battle against the IRS for almost 20 years. Jeffrey Maehr from Colorado has been fighting the IRS on the legitimacy of income tax. Pro se. His battle has been based on the Constitution and tax codes, inconsistencies, and lack of “meeting of the …
The Great Hard Fork: An Unraveling of State Legitimacy The rise of cryptocurrency doesn’t merely threaten the monopoly of central banking, however; in fact the entire nation state apparatus rests precariously on the structure of banking carefully crafted over 400 years. What cryptocurrency threatens is the very existence of the nation state which will have …
Political Myth-Making and State Legitimacy by Gerald Sussman First off, it is quite evident that the United States, which for years has been losing internal state legitimacy, is in crisis. (It’s already lost external state legitimacy, the Trump brand reportedly now distrusted by three-fourths of the world.) This means that a majority of American citizens …
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The ongoing disinformation campaign financed by carbon interests such as the Koch brothers, combined with the corruption of every branch of our government, has left us in this condition. No One Trusts Washington on Climate Change CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL, Senior Editor – Financial Times (U.K.) In the age of the Iraq war and Obamacare, the government …
Hilton Root 5.0 out of 5.0 Stars Complexity thinking that shifts the paradigms of international relations By J. P. Massing on December 5, 2013 In ‘Dynamics Among Nations’, Professor Hilton Root convincingly challenges the propositions of the liberal international consensus and re-frames the prevailing conceptualisation of development by introducing complexity thinking to the fields of …
Contributing Editor Berto Jongman Grounded legitimacy exists when the system of governance and authority flow from and is connected to local realities. One helpful progression is when armed militias are able to migrate toward becoming non-violent domestic political actors. PDF (134 Pages): 2014 Legitimacy and peace processes “One function of a peace process can be …
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Protests Everywhere (here’s why) We’re seeing protests everywhere. From Brazil to Turkey to Egypt. What’s going on? Here are some. Once ignited, open source protest is hard to stamp out. Open source protest is usually focused on a single overarching goal. In most recent cases, it’s a call for a government that isn’t corrupt. …
