The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Man Who Stopped the Desert The Man Who Stopped the Desert is a full HD, one hour feature documentary telling the story of Yacouba Sawadogo, an illiterate African peasant farmer who has transformed the lives of thousands of people across the Sahel. Soil is essential to life on earth. But much of the world’s …
The attached BBC report/video by John Simpson describing Afghan attitudes toward the US/UK exit struck me as bizarre. The weight of Simpson’s gist is that most Afghans do not want us to leave. But the report based most of its information on interviews in Kabul and only a short part (the wobbly part) on the …
Michel Bauwens on the democratization of the means of monetization In this new work, Michel continues to propose powerful ideas that not only demonstrate his capacity for synthesis, but more importantly, his capacity to articulate ideas that facilitate points of convergence between broad sectors that are sympathetic to the ideas of production based on the …
The author is one of the sharpest observers of developments in the Middle East. CS WEEKEND EDITION JANUARY 24-26, 2014 Is There Finally Daylight Between Israel and the US? Cracks in the Alliance? by JONATHAN COOK, Counterpunch Things have come to a strange state of affairs when Washington regards Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s far-right foreign minister, …
Interview: The overlooked risks that threaten our world Lord Martin Rees, Fellow of Trinity College and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, is interviewed about catastrophic risks. You recently set up the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, along with philosopher Huw Price and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn. What do …
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Earth-Honoring Faith by Larry Rasmussen Tikkun, January 10, 2014 The crisis we face is not environmental, it’s civilizational. There are far too many people consuming far too many resources for the planet to bear. As the climate changes, how do we undertake the hard transition from an industrial-technological civilization to an ecological-technological civilization? However we …
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AERIAL SURVEILLANCE: JLENS Over Maryland CHINA: response to ICIJ report on China’s elite offshore accounts CYBER: concept of the deep state CYBER: P.W Singer on protection EDUCATION: MOOCs ENVIRONMENT: dangerous pipelines (time line of oil spills) EPIDEMICS: bird flu cases on the rise
