The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Elinor Ostrom, Army R. Poteete, and Maroc A. Janssen 5.0 of 5.0 Stars An inspiration for Transdisciplinary Researchers By Herbert Gintis on June 7, 2010 This book, which is based on the several decades of research by Nobel award winning political scientist Elinor Ostrom and her talented colleages, vigorously asserts two messages with equal fervor. …
Jessica Auchter 5.0 out of 5 stars Quite Extraordinary — a Pioneering Book — Builds on Others But Original and Compelling It Its Own Right, April 27, 2014 I took an interest in books on trauma and dealing with refugees a month or so ago, and this is one of the books that I included …
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Chinese Drought, Wheat, and the Egyptian Uprising: How a Localized Hazard became Globalized Did climate change play an indirect role in the political upheavals that rocked Egypt in 2011? Absolutely, says Troy Sternberg. As he sees it, a once-in-a-century drought in China dramatically reduced global wheat supplies and sent prices skyrocketing in the world’s largest …
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Big Data, ICTs and New Media in Times of Crisis On March 28, the ISN hosted a Roundtable Discussion on “Big Data, ICTs and Social Media in Times of Crisis,” which featured Mr Sanjana Hattotuwa, who is both a TED Fellow and a Special Advisor to the ICT4Peace Foundation. Our purpose today is to share …
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This email continues the theme I introduced with How Obama’s Rhetoric Reinforces America’s Grand Strategic Pathway to Catastrophe. Attached beneath my introduction is an brilliant essay, The Dangerous Neocon-R2P Alliance, written by Robert Parry of Consortium News. Parry describes how propaganda produced by this domestic alliance of convenience among a non-representative minority of unelected influence peddlers …
37% of Voters Fear the Federal Government Rasmussen Reports Rasmussen is a right leaning survey operation. I mention this because context matters and a Right leaning poll with these results is worthy of close attention. I think this is telling us that the basis of trust upon which our democracy was based is eroding as …
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After Liberalism – Complexity in the Governance of a Networked Global Society Hilton Root World Financial Review Below, in an excerpt from Dynamics Among Nations: The Evolution of Legitimacy and Development in Modern States, Hilton L. Root argues that the linkages between liberal internationalism and modernization theory fail to provide convincing explanations for variations in …
