Worth a Look: Project Veritas

Civil Society, Ethics
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Founded by James O’Keefe, the mission of Project Veritas is:

Investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions in order to achieve a more ethical and transparent society.

Project Veritas is the most effective non-profit on the national scene, period.

SchwartzReport: America’s Electoral Nightmare — Global Laughingstock for Lack of Integrity

07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Government
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

If we cannot tell ourselves the truth, corrective choices are not possible. Here is the truth about the integrity of America's electoral process. We come in 26th in the world, one step above Mexico. Nothing to be proud of.

America’s election nightmare: How voter ID, gerrymandering & fundraising made us a laughingstock

Here's what happens when you suppress votes, draw districts to favor incumbents and allow the rich to buy elections

EXTRACT

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OPEN POWER: Electoral Reform Act of 2015 – Open Source Activist Tool Kit

#Events, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government
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UPDATE: Book is #8 in Civics category at Kindle, today, 26 Feb 2015.

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.

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Michel Bauwens: P2P Theory Toward Society Reform – Transforming Civil Society, the Private Sector, and the State

Civil Society, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, Government
Michel Bauwens
Michel Bauwens

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

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William Blum: Greek Tragedy, US Hypocrisy

03 Economy, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government, Peace Intelligence
William Blum
William Blum

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.”

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