Who knows – hydrogen as a fuel might catch on… “Honda is now developing a personal-use Smart Hydrogen Station, which is designed to be installed at home so you don’t have to go looking for a re-up.”
In contrast to the increasingly autocratic Turkey to the north and the fragmented and warring countries to the south, the Kurds in the Rojava canton have consolidated a history of self-determination and resistance to external control by developing the kind of decentralized society based on communal decision making envisaged by US social scientist Murray Bookchin.
Part I in the Reinventing the US Army monograph series.
Updated November 15, 2016 Robert Steele
This is the author's preliminary draft of the first of three monographs focused on the future of the US Army as an expeditionary force in a complex world that is rapidly decentralizing while also facing major development challenges. A revised draft is provide at DOC below but the online full-text version has not been updated.
A local currency for Barcelona, or rather the region of Catalunia in Spain … it is one of many experiments to try and learn how a currency should be properly configured, and what it can do to isolate the real local economy from the instability of the financial markets that have co-opted the official currencies for their gambling…
ALMERIA, Spain — As humanity increasingly loses faith in debt-backed fiat currencies run by opaque central banks and corrupt governments, the city of Barcelona, Spain, is the latest to announce plans to try something new — a local currency.
Ben Carson’s rise to the top of the Republican presidential field shows that many Republicans, especially Christian fundamentalists, have decoupled from the real world — and are proud of it. The more that GOP candidates embrace “anti-knowledge” the more popular they become, as Mike Lofgren explains.
Editor's note: As this article was being considered for publication, Daniel Ellsberg … wrote a lengthy email message to the Bulletin, …assert [ing], in part: “I feel it's urgent to find out whether Bordne's story and Tovish's tentative conclusions from it are true, given the implications of its truth for present dangers, not only past history.