Patrick Meier: Towards a Match.com for Economic Resilience in a Crisis-Stricken World

Towards a Match.com for Economic Resilience in a Crisis-Stricken World So that’s what he’s been up to! My good friend and mentor Ken Banks of Kiwanja fame has just launched a very interesting initiative entitled “Means of Exchange“. Ken wants to democratize opportunities for radical economic self-sufficiency and thus render local communities more resilient to exogenous shocks. …

Mini-Me: Debunking Civil War Myths – About Control and Money, Not Freedom – Time for Secession Again, But From All Four Corners?

Huh? Debunking Civil War Myths – Long Proven Wrong The Victors Write the War History, but Should Their Lies be Immortal? [Veterans Today Editors Note: I was 46 before I learned that Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave  anywhere ….Jim W. Dean] … by  Steve Scroggins The most persistent and pernicious Big …

Robert Steele: Occupy World Street – Summary Article and Book

Dr. Thomas Naylor, co-founder of the Vermont Second Republic and the secession movement of Vermont, has written an extremely coherent/cogent account of a new book, Occupy World Street: A Global Roadmap for Radical Economic and Political Reform by Ross Jackson. The article alone is priceless, the book is recommended.  I have reviewed books by Thomas …

Venessa Miemis: Covenant-Formed Base Community – Personal Liberty, Corporate Power, and Co-Creativity

The Covenant-Formed Base Community: Personal Liberty, Corporate Power, and Co-creativity I had the pleasure of spending time yesterday with Eric Harris-Braun & Arthur Brock of the Metacurrency Project, sharing thoughts about the federation of tribes we are forming, and the principles upon which this type of living systems organization should be founded. Eric shared this …

Ralph Peters: Testimony to Congress on Pakistan As a Failing Empire, Focus on Baluchistan

Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations House Committee on Foreign Affairs Baluchistan Hearing, February 8, 2012 Testimony of Ralph Peters, military analyst and author “PAKISTAN AS A FAILING EMPIRE” 2012-02-09 Ralph Peters House Testimony, Baluchistan and Pakistan (8 pages, doc) Introductory remarks: This testimony arises from three premises. First, we cannot analyze global events through reassuring …