Reflections on the Ecuador Initiative — Open Source Everything Combined with Ethical Evidence-Based Decision-Support 1.1

Michel Bauwens, founder of the Peer to Peer (P2P) Foundation and one of my personal pioneer heroes, is deeply engaged in Ecuador with a Presidential initiative. This endeavor could be world-changing, first in Ecuador, then across South America, and ultimately around the globe starting with the BRICS and the rest of the Southern Hemisphere. I …

Gordon Cook: Telecommunications Infrastructure as Commons Local Self-Determination

PDF (154 Pages): PART I: Do-It-Ourselves Telecommunications: Guifi.net Commons Coming to US from Catalonia – In Spain & US We Are Now Building Network Infrastructure Held as Commons Background on why the public must take back control of the communications infrastructure while providing universal free access to all. Background on guifi.net in Spain and Kansas …

Berto Jongman: Radioactive Mass Murder — Fukushima Impact Classified by Japanese Government, Nuclear Industry in Cover-Up Mode

Radioactive ‘mass murder’: nuclear industry keeps Fukushima impact in secret, worst to come Radiation is a rather tricky enemy. You cannot see it, you cannot smell it yet it’s harmful for our ecosystem, our markets and our bodies. The Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster is still making headlines but no one knows the full truth about …

Berto Jongman: How Edward Snowden Went From Loyal Right Wing NSA Contractor to Whistleblower Extraordinare — Advance Extract from “The” Book

The best account available to date. UPDATE 16 FEB 14: Glenn Greenwald considers the book complete bullshit. How Edward Snowden went from loyal NSA contractor to whistleblower He was politically conservative, a gun owner, a geek – and the man behind the biggest intelligence leak in history. In this exclusive extract from his new book, …

Berto Jongman: Capital Theft, Not Government Corruption, is Root of Poverty in Third World

Flipping the corruption myth Corruption is by far not the main factor behind persisting poverty in the Global South John Hickel Al Jazeera, 1 February 2014 Transparency International recently published their latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), laid out in an eye-catching map of the world with the least corrupt nations coded in happy yellow …

Jon Rappoport: Murder at the FDA – And Mass Murder by FDA of Over 100,000 US Citizens a Year from Approved Homicidal Pharmaceuticals…

Murder at the FDA File this one under: “studiously ignored by major media.” I posted this story in August of 2012. It was based on a Truthout interview of a man who did drug reviews for the FDA. He examined applications to approve new medical drugs for public consumption. Pharmaceutical companies must have their new …