Review (Guest): Deep Green Resistance – Strategy to Save the Planet

Derrick Jensen (Author), Aric McBay (Author), Lierre Keith (Author) About the Authors Activist, philosopher, teacher, and leading voice of uncompromising dissent, DERRICK JENSEN holds degrees in creative writing and mineral engineering physics. In 2008, he was named one of the Utne Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World,” and in 2006 he was named …

Richard Wright: DoD Drowning, Leaders Can’t Swim

The Perils of Cutting Defense Spending The Public Intelligence Blog has speculated that the financial elites who indirectly are the principal influencers the U.S. Congress and the Presidency have decided that their best interests will be served if U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) spending is substantially reduced. It has long been obvious that DOD budgets …

Chuck Spinney: Demonizing Iran, Bankrupting America

Making an Enemy of Iran By Patrick Seale Agence Global, 2 August 2011 It is now widely accepted – and lamented — that US President Barack Obama failed dismally in attempting to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Defeated by Israel’s hard-line Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, and by Israel’s friends in the U.S. — …

Chuck Spinney: Europe’s Far Right Connects to Israel

07/29/2011 04:20 PM The Likud Connection Europe’s Right-Wing Populists Find Allies in Israel By Charles Hawley, spiegel online Islamophobic parties in Europe have established a tight network, stretching from Italy to Finland. But recently, they have extended their feelers to Israeli conservatives, enjoying a warm reception from members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition. Some …

Who’s Who in Public Intelligence: Baruch Fischhoff

BARUCH FISCHHOFF, Ph.D., is the Howard Heinz University Professor in the departments of Social and Decision Sciences and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, where he heads the Decision Sciences major. A graduate of the Detroit Public Schools, he holds a BS in mathematics and psychology from Wayne State University and an …

Reference: 2011 State of the Future

Source Executive Summary Free Online This is a long-standing, deeply developed, and priceless contribution to the global dialog.  The fifteen global challenges, listed below, are those of the United Nations Millenium Project.