The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I find the lie that America tells itself and the world, that we care about our children, particularly heinous and pernicious. By any measure the U.S., as a society — of course you love your children — doesn't give a damn about the next generation. We should be ashamed of ourselves. That we do not care for and nurture our young is a serious national character flaw. One that will shape our future in ways great and small.
The Numbers Are Staggering: U.S. Is ‘World Leader' in Child Poverty
Minimum wage is on the margins — electoral reform is root.
Fast-food strikes widen into social-justice movement
Central to Wednesday's strike is the evolution of its scope. What began two years ago as a fast-food workers movement has propelled into something wider, with Wednesday's protests including a range of workers workers from adjunct professors to home care and child care providers to Walmart employees.
See Also: Open Power / Electoral Reform
The meta-learning here — in addition to the course material — is about cultivating a co-learning community online. I’m planning the sixth iteration of Introduction to Cooperation Theory May 20-July 10. You can find out about it at http://bit.ly/cooperationclass. If you are interested in how I’ve approached co-learning in my years at UC Berkeley and Stanford, I’m doing a Hangout on Air with eight of my best former students to talk about co-learning then, now, and in the future, April 30, 9 AM http://connectedlearning.tv/
Of note.
Counterpunch: Footing Israel’s Bill – Israel Won't Change Its Ways Until Washington Puts Military Aid on the Chopping Block
ConsortiumNews: Did Money Seal Israeli-Saudi Alliance?
Here is the latest update on the Majority-Minority Trend. Whites are becoming minorities in important counties, and this will have economic and political ramifications that are only beginning to be openly discussed.
78 US Counties Flipped From Majority White Between 2000 And 2013
Map Below the Fold
From Nixon Girl to Watergate: The Making of Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton has always been an old-style Midwestern Republican in the Illinois style; one severely infected with Methodism, unlike the more populist variants from Indiana, Wisconsin and Iowa.
Continue reading “CounterPunch: Hillary Clinton & the Politics of Incremental Convenience”
America Goes Large: Obama Wants Huge Budget for His Anti-Russian Troll Army
While issuing scary revelations about the alleged ‘Kremlin Troll Army’ operating online, ‘perpetuating a pro-Kremlin dialogue’, the US government's international broadcaster RFE/RL somehow forgot to disclose it is prepared to spend as much as $15.4 million of taxpayers’ money on its own digital media forces to battle phantom Russia in the media
