Marcus Aurelius: George Will on Bay of Pigs — the Unfinished Battle

   The Bay of Pigs’ unfinished battle By George F. Will, Published: September 13 At 4 a.m. on Jan. 1, 1959, an hour when there were never commercial flights from Havana, David Atlee Phillips was lounging in a lawn chair there, sipping champagne after a New Year’s Eve party, when a commercial aircraft flew low over …

Berto Jongman: Twitter and the Transformation of Democracy

Twitter and the transformation of democracy The social networking service has the power to control the expression of public opinion in political debate John Naughton The Observer, Saturday 14 September 2013  The news that Twitter has taken the first steps towards a stock marketflotation has triggered a predictable storm of speculation about the valuation of the company. How much is a …

Jean Lievens: Creating Global Unions Crossing All Boundaries

Discussing Global Unionism II: The Social Network Model Below we are re-posting the second paper of the very timely discussion on how to form truly global unions -instead of international federation of national unions. The discussion has been recently launched by the New Unionism Network and you can read other papers here. The union movement and FaceBook are about the …

Berto Jongman Et Al: Syria Round-Up 7.4

NEW IN BOLD 4th Media:  AP Sources: CIA Delivering Light Weapons to Syria 4th Media: Preempting The Next Round of Lies Against Syria Berto Jongman: 10,000 Foreign Fighters in Syria Berto Jongman: Agreement on Destruction of Syrian CW Berto Jongman: Brown Moses on Chemical Munitions Berto Jongman: Developments on the Ground in Syria Berto Jongman: FBI files …

Jon Ramer: Compassion Games to 21 September 2013

Games run September 11-21 worldwide—anyone can play “We behave ourselves into new ways of thinking,as distinct from thinking ourselves into new ways of behaving.” —from the Hoʻoponopono practice of forgiveness SEATTLE, September 9, 2013—Announcing the Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest, a worldwide “co-opetition” running September 11 through 21, 2013. To date, 18 communities in four countries have signed …

Berto Jongman: NSA’s War on Encryption

The NSA’s War Against Encryption New revelations about National Security Agency abuses, which now include everything from industrial espionage to reports that the agency can access most data on our smartphones, seem to put everything we know about how business is done on the Internet in danger. Complete story below the line.

Berto Jongman Et Al: Syria Round-Up 5.1

Berto Jongman: CIA Fabrication of Evidence Berto Jongman: Critical Analysis of Obama Speech on Syria Berto Jongman: Expert Views on Russian Proposal Berto Jongman: Hearing on US Domestic Implications of Syria Confrontation Berto Jongman: Israeli Bio-Chemical Program and Capabilities Berto Jongman: Porter on Cherrypicking Intelligence Berto Jongman: Rebels and Chemical Weapons in Syria Berto Jongman: Syria …