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2014/02/122014/02/12

Tikkun Rabbi Michael Lerner: Call for a New Language of Environmental and Social Responsibility, a New Spiritual Covenant

[ Editor’s Note: Henry Giroux, a frequent author for Tikkun magazine, calls for a movement that challenges what Giroux calls “the neoliberal nightmare” and presents a new language of civic values and social responsibility.The ESRA–the Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and the Spiritual Covenant with America at www.spiritualprogressives.org are examples of …

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2014/01/20

Tom Atlee: Guaranteed Income…

Why we should give free money to everyone “I am now convinced that the simplest approach… to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. Research shows that just giving people a few hundreds or thousands of dollars can lift them out of …

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2014/01/102014/03/25

Review (Guest): Goliath – Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

Max Blumenthal When tribalism trumps democracy, January 10, 2014 Herbert L. Calhoun In the Middle East, another war of biblical proportions is taking place. It is the war between Judaism and democracy. This book tells us that the most famous outcome in the bible, the tale of David slaying Goliath, is now being reversed. This …

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2013/12/28

Chuck Spinney: Two Evaluations of Middle East After Arab Spring

Attached below are two very important reports by two of the most astute observers of conflicts in the Middle East. The first is a precisely-focused report by Rami Khouri, editor at large of Lebanon’s Daily Star. Khouri analyzes how the recent assassination of Mohamad Chatah needs to be interpreted in the context of complexities of …

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2013/12/162013/12/16

Mini-Me: All-Source Fusion “State of …”

Huh? 2013 Majority Staff Report on the National Network of Fusion Centers (HCHS) 2012 Data Fusion: Uncovering Data Patterns and Leveraging Multiple Data Sources (Tuttle & Rose, PPC) 2012 Sensor and Data Fusion: A Tool for Information Assessment and Decision-Making (SPIE, 2012)

2013/11/272013/11/27

Steve Aftergood: HPSCI Seeks Continuous Monitoring of Security-Cleared Employees [We Do NOT Make This Stuff Up!]

HPSCI Seeks “Continuous Evaluation” of Security-Cleared Employees Recent unauthorized disclosures of classified information might have been prevented if U.S. intelligence agencies “continuously evaluated the backgrounds of employees and contractors,” according to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). In its new report on the FY 2014 intelligence authorization bill, the Committee would require intelligence …

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2013/09/162013/09/16

Chuck Spinney: Andrew Bacevich on David Brooks of the NYT “Always Wrong”

This superb piece by Andrew Bacevich (Colonel US Army Ret.) is one the best portraits of what is wrong with self-important warmongering commentariat in the mainstream media: Track records count for nothing in the cozy salons of Versailles on the Potomac. SUNDAY, SEP 15, 2013 3:30 PM UTC David Brooks is constantly wrong Takes a …

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