Chuck Spinney: Newt Gingrich Exposed

POLITICS The `K Street Clausewitz’ Remembered By CHUCK SPINNEY | December 30, 2011 Mark Thompson’s 27 December posting, “General Newt,” alerted readers of Battleland to Karen Tumulty’s pastiche of mini portraits of Newt Gingrich’s martial prowess.  Mark highlighted one the few passages that zeroed in on the insubstantial essence of the K Street Clausewitz. Unable to contain my …

Review: Ecological Intelligence – The Hidden Impacts of What We Buy

Daniel Goleman Relevance, Content, Price–Solid Five,December 29, 2011 I chose this book over Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature and seeing the author’s note about this other book “by a physician, Jungian analyst, and poet” am certain I made the right choice. The author’s “big idea” is called “Radical Transparency,” what the rest of us …

Chuck Spinney: Democracy & Truth or Tyranny & Lies?

My close friend Mike Lofgren writes an important essay describing the nature of ‘truth’ in the Orwellian echo chamber that is closing the American mind in the 21st Century. Chuck Spinney The Blaster DECEMBER 20, 2011 Are Our Rulers Stupid, or Do They Think We’re Stupid? Propagandizing for Perpetual War by MIKE LOFGREN, Counterpunch According …

Michel Bauwens: Human Evolution – Who Are We Becoming?

Human evolution: Who are we becoming? By Steve McDonald On December 8, 2011 A map for the Archaic Revival This article appeared in Entheogenesis Australis (EGA) Journal 3 – 2011/2012 (December 2011) Introduction In 1974, American professor of psychology Dr Clare W Graves wrote an article for The Futurist magazine titled Human Nature Prepares for …