Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Worth a Look: Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence

Worth A Look
Amazon Page
Amazon Page

Critical Thinking for Strategic Analysis is organized around twenty key questions that all analysts should ask as they prepare to conduct research, draft papers, and present their analysis. We divided the twenty questions into four groups, focusing on the four stages of generating an analytic product:

1. How do I get started?

2. Where is the information I need?

3. What is my argument?

4. How do I convey my message most effectively?

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Fiona Bywaters: Notes on the Open Source Everything Manifesto (World Futures Council Perspective)

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics
Fiona Bywaters
Fiona Bywaters

The Open Source Everything Manifesto – Transparency, Truth & Trust
By Robert David Steele (2012)

Notes by Fiona Bywaters of the World Futures Council

DOC (4 Pages): Notes on the OSE Manifesto (Fiona Bywaters)

Full Text Online Below the Fold

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Jean Lievens: Nationalize Amazon & Google? Absolutely NOT — Let Them Both Die.

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Let’s nationalize Amazon and Google: Publicly funded technology built Big Tech

They're huge and ruthless and define our lives. They're close to monopolies. Let's make them public utilities

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Broadband as a public utility? If not for corporate corruption of our political process, that would seem like an obvious solution. Instead, our nation’s wireless access is the slowest and costliest in the world.

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SchwartzReport: Beyond Carbon Energy — Developing Nations Breaking Free with Renewables

05 Energy
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

In the last three days I have found four stories making the specious argument that we must continue to support carbon energy because it, and only it, will end poverty. I published one of the most glaring examples the other day. The truth however is rather different. Developing nations that are not already in the grip of the carbon energy corporatists are finding they can skip the whole carbon energy business in the same way they skipped the whole copper wire communications era, and went straight to wireless and mobile phones. And, when they make this decision, they discover how quickly they can develop power even in remote areas, as this essay describes.

The energy myth that refuses to die: Why renewables are taking over in the developing world

Poor nations are embracing clean energy at twice the pace of rich ones, a new report finds

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Worth a Look: Ashok Gangadean of Haverford College — The Awakening Mind

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Ashok Gangadean
Ashok Gangadean

Awakening Mind

Books, Videos, Events

Ashok Gangadean, PhD is Margaret Gest Professor of Global Philosophy at Haverford over the past forty-five years.  He completed his PhD in Philosophy at Brandeis University and his early work focused on Logic (Science of Thought) and Ontology (Science of Being). Throughout his career he has been in quest of the primal integral logic at the heart of human reason, and in bringing to the fore the deep dynamics of communication and dialogue between diverse worldviews. He is Founder-Director of the Global Dialogue Institute which seeks to embody the powers of Deep Dialogue in all aspects of cultural life. He was a convener of the World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality which brings eminent world leaders together in sustained deep dialogue to cultivate global vision and wisdom for the new millennium.  He is also Co-Chair of the World Wisdom Council which is focused on bringing the transformative power of wisdom to addressing the crises facing humanity today.

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