Berto Jongman: 20 Crucial Terms Every 21st Century Futurist Should Know

20 Crucial Terms Every 21st Century Futurist Should Know George Dvorsky We live in an era of accelerating change, when scientific and technological advancements are arriving rapidly. As a result, we are developing a new language to describe our civilization as it evolves. Here are 20 terms and concepts that you’ll need to navigate our …

John Maguire: Joe Bageant, Duck Dynasty, and the American Hologram

Joe Bageant, Duck Dynasty, and the American Hologram It’s been almost three years since Joe Bageant, one of America’s most unique, populist political voices, passed away rather suddenly from cancer. During his life he kept company with American folk heroes such as Hunter S. Thompson, Timothy Leary, and Alan Ginsberg, bartended on the same Indian reservation …

Review: How America Was Lost – From 9/11 to the Police/Warfare State

Paul Craig Roberts 5.0 out of 5 stars Most Credible Consistent Truth-Teller I Read…., February 21, 2014 I have been following Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of Treasury in the Reagan Administration, for years. Originally he specialized in economic commentary, and I was much taken with his hard-hitting critical commentary and particularly his …

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 …