Buying Democracy = Bribe $1 Gets $760 Back

For Every Dollar Spent Influencing US Politics, Corporations Get $760 Back The first time we read the recent analysis by the Sunlight Foundation in which it combed through 14 million corporate records, including data on campaign contributions, lobbying expenditures, federal budget allocations and spending, in order to determine the “rate of return” on lobbying and …

Robert Steele: Rebuilding National Intelligence – A 12-Step Plan

Rebuilding National Intelligence – A 12-Step Plan Why Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Kerry, and Chuck Hagel Need to THINK….now. Robert David STEELE Vivas OpEdNews, 27 July 2014 DOC (21 Pages): Steele Rebuilding National Intelligence 1.9 SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-12-Steps As we begin the final two and a half years (less seven days) of the Obama-Biden …

Tom Atlee: How to Integrate Information for a Wiser Democracy

How to integrate information for a wiser democracy Many fields and professions – from journalism and academia to video games and movies – can and do stimulate informed – or misinformed – democratic engagement. Usually these sectors operate in semi-independent silos. Bringing them together to craft synergistic innovations on behalf of actionable shared understanding could …