The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Noticed in Quebec!
Feds raid Texas secessionist meeting
Dylan Baddour, Houston Chronicle : February 23, 2015
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Jonathan Steele reviews Richard Sakwa’s important new book, “Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands.”
Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sakwa review – an unrivalled account
At last, a balanced assessment of the Ukrainian conflict – the problems go far beyond Vladimir Putin
Jonathan Steele, Guardian, 19 February 2015 05.29 EST
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This is my first Kindle book, published in conjunction with my briefing it to the Economics of Happiness Conference in Portland, Oregon on 28 February 2015. Below is the full description of the book. Amazon provides Look Inside including the Table of Contents.
Micah Sifry says it best in his new book, The Big Disconnect, when he outlines how all activists are as fragmented and ineffective today as they were in the 1960's. — the two-party duopology and the 42 billionaires behind that two-party duopology have successfully “channeled” all activist groups — including MoveOn and IndependentVoting.org and the Libertarians and the Greens. Everyone is obsessed with “their” hashtag, “their” micro-issues. However well-intentioned they might be, the fact is that we are hanging separately for failure to come together on the ONE THING that we can both all support, and also win: #ElectoralReform.
Continue reading “OPEN POWER: Electoral Reform Act of 2015 – Open Source Activist Tool Kit”
This article aims to be a summary of the very basic orientation that I propose for social change.
I start from the classic division of human society in three basic aspects: civil society, the private sector, and the state.
1. The transformation of civil society
The Dangers of Slow Boil in Ukraine: A Cuban Missile Crisis In Reverse
Defense News, a defense industry trade publication, just released a report entitled, Ukraine Signs Defense Deal with UAE. It led with — “ABU DHABI — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced a deal for unspecified military and technical cooperation with the UAE on Tuesday, and said negotiations are ongoing with the United States and unspecified European nations. Poroshenko told reporters at the IDEX show here that he hoped talks with the US would yield an agreement to help Ukraine defend itself from Russia. Poroshenko reportedly planned to meet with chief Pentagon weapons buyer, Frank Kendall, at the show.” An arms deal between Ukraine and the UAE — what gives?
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EXTRACT
The fact that this ancient map could have been made with some sort of arial technology is quite a thought, isn’t it? Even if this isn’t an option, who had the technology to undertake such an accurate geographical survey in Antarctica a couple million years ago? How would they have known to detail the map as if it were taken from above, with knowledge about the earth’s shape?
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: 500 Year Old Map Shatters “Official” History”
The Greek Tragedy: Some things not to forget, which the new Greek leaders have not.
American historian D.F. Fleming, writing of the post-World War II period in his eminent history of the Cold War, stated that “Greece was the first of the liberated states to be openly and forcibly compelled to accept the political system of the occupying Great Power. It was Churchill who acted first and Stalin who followed his example, in Bulgaria and then in Rumania, though with less bloodshed.”
Continue reading “William Blum: Greek Tragedy, US Hypocrisy”
