The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Forthcoming 14 May 2014. Resilience has become a central concept in government policy understandings over the last decade. In our complex, global and interconnected world, resilience appears to be the policy ‘buzzword’ of choice, alleged to be the solution to a wide and ever-growing range of policy issues. This book analyses the key aspects of …
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G. William Domhoff 5.0 out of 5 stars 6 Stars for Early Warning on 1%, Holistic Analytics, and Clear Attention to Weakness of the 99%, April 19, 2014 This book was central to my education in Political Science (more political than science, more passive aggressive than normative). In light of all that we know now, …
Jeremy Rifkin 3.0 out of 5 stars BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Zero Marginal Cost Society’: Welcome to the Brave New Workerless World, April 1, 2014 ByDavid Kinchen – See all my reviews (REAL NAME) “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” –Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) First Leader of the Soviet …
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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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Toward a Salutary Political-Economy – Freedom from Jobs By Elliot Sperber While gains have certainly been made toward a more inclusive, egalitarian society over the half-century since Martin Luther King delivered his iconic I Have a Dream Speech (as part of the March for Jobs and Justice in Washington, D.C.), in many respects – particularly …
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Posted by Contributing Editor Berto Jongman Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt Is our relentless quest for economic growth killing the planet? Climate scientists have seen the data – and they are coming to some incendiary conclusions. By Naomi Klein NewStatesman, 29 October 2013 In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems …
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