NIGHTWATCH: Pakistani Education as Weapon Against USA–The Failure of US Militarization

Pakistan: Special note. The second part of yesterday’s PBS show Frontline concerned the condition of the public school system in Pakistan. It has collapsed in nearly every respect. The video report noted that nearly half of the 65 million school age kids in Pakistan do not attend public schools. It did not follow-up that datum …

Journal: Multi-Lingual Social Networking, Arabic First

 Site Hopes Automatic Arabic-English Translation Translates into Peace A new site hopes the seemingly simple idea of eliminating the language barrier, letting you write in English and be read in Arabic — and vice versa — will cultivate citizen diplomacy between the Middle East and the West. It aims to reduce tensions at the …

Review: Wiki Government–How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful

Almost a Five–Making Wrong Things Righter February 21, 2010 Beth Simone Noveck I sat down intending to make this a five, but the two fluff reviews have to be off-set. Robert Ackoff would say this is a spectacular book about making the wrong things righter instead of the right things righter–too many lawyers and focused …

Review: The Bhagavad Gita–A Walkthrough for Westerners

Speak the Truth, Lose the Anger, Be Part of the Whole February 10, 2010 Jack Hawley It took me fifty years to recognize the deficiencies of the command and control or top down elite-dominated model of governance, and to discover the spiritual and practical integrity of collective intelligence, openness, appreciative inquirty, deliberative public dilaog, and …