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Journal: What is the Nature of the Shia-Sunni/Persian-Arab Confrontation?

Much ado is being made of the “revelation” in the Wikileaks data dump that some Sunni Arab leaders were quietly in favor of an American and/or Israeli strike on Iran to terminate Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program with extreme prejudice.  Implicit in this war-mongering hysteria is an acceptance of an implacable Shia-Sunni conflict threatening the …

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Search: cocreation

In the narrow business sense, co-creation is something done with other businesses or with customers or other stakeholders.  This happens in the context of what is now called a business eco-system or business ecology. This is a very important concept, more usually referred to as co-evolution, and more recently, as co-intelligence.  A good example of …

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Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Jane McGonigal

Jane McGonigal, Ph.D. (born 1977) is a game designer and games researcher, specializing in pervasive gaming and alternate reality games. She worked with alternate reality game design company 42 Entertainment from 2004 to 2006, on projects including I Love Bees (2004) as Community Lead / Puzzle Designer, and Last Call Poker (2005) as Live Events …

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Graphic: “The True Cost of Coal”

After two years of collaborative research, storysharing, metaphor crafting, and meticulous illustrating, the bees have completed an epic illustration about mountaintop removal coal mining. Related: + True Cost Meme + True Cost T-Shirt

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Review: Searching for Everardo–A Story of Love, War, and the CIA in Guatemala

6 Star Epic–Genocide, CIA Complicity, & Indigenous Honor July 27, 2010 Jennifer K. Harbury This is one of multiple books by this author, and a huge bargain as a used book–I got the used hardcopy. This book is a book-end to Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954. The author …

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