John Steiner: Monsanto Nation – Worst Farm Bill Ever?

Worst Farm Bill Ever! Tell Congress to Fix It — And No Secret Farm Bills! What’s wrong with the U.S. House of Representative’s version of the Farm Bill? $16.1 billion in cuts to food assistance eliminates the Organic Certification Cost Share Program tens of billions in corporate welfare for the largest commodity crop growers, insurance …

Winslow Wheeler: Hill Hearing on Defense Backs Into the Truth

Foreign Policy is running my description of the hearing that Buck McKeon put on yesterday with Lockheed-Martin and a cast of lesser, not entirely cooperative, other characters.  Find my analysis at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/07/19/hard_of_hearing?print=yes&hidecomments=yes&page=full, and below: Hard of Hearing Why the House’s attempt to save defense spending might flop. BY WINSLOW T. WHEELER | JULY 19, 2012 It …

NO LABELS Tries Again — Still Corrupt, Still Clueless

Phi Beta Iota:  they have been scorned out of existing twice now, but evidently Mike Bloomberg and his friends have not given up kludging together three failures to try to make lemonade, all three corrupt to the bone: Independent Voters / Jackie Salit, well-funded stalking horse for Bloomberg, does not play well with others and …

Mati Nissani: Strategic Lessons from the Rand Paul Fiasco

Strategic Lessons from the Rand Paul Fiasco “Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.”—Lenin  …by  Moti Nissani, Ph.D. Prof. Emeritus, Wayne State University Rand Paul Summary: For many years, the liberty movement’s aspirations and actions have been focused on the presidential candidacy of Congressman Ron Paul. In Early June, this strategy backfired, following …

20120706 Open Source Everything Highlights

Open Source Everything From Tech to Toilet Paper, Berliner Tries to Live Completely Open Source for One Year Radical Openness: 5 Things I Learned at TEDGlobal Open Source UK teachers are free to choose open source curriculum The Open Source Balance at Banks Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FOSS, FLOSS, F/OSS) FLOSS Manuals’ Fee-based Online Books Complement …

John Steiner: From Israel, Call for Politics of Heroism versus Hope

Phi Beta Iota:  The full combination of pieces is strongly recommended as  a total read.  The contributing author whose work has been forwarded by Brother John makes a fundamental ethical and intellectual mistake, assuming that there is a significant difference between the Democratic and Republican parties.  Not so.  This is not an either/or choice between …