The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I think this is an excellent essay on the state of voting and voters in the election coming up. I find political ads offensive, ads in general come to that and mute the sound, maybe you do the same. But I have come to realize the truth in John Cassidy’s essay. Some very significant fraction …
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John C. Boik 5.0 out of 5 stars Balanced Comprehensive Proposals Any Group Can Implement, August 3, 2014 I have been thinking recently about various emergent alternative forms of capitalism, including Ethical, Collaborative, Conscious, Inclusive, and Redemptive Capitalism, and found this book as I was working on an article about Open Source Everything and Democratic …
This is a very good interview with Matt Taibbi discussing what has happened to the American justice system. One of our myths is that we have the fairest justice system in the world but, like our fantasy that we have the world’s freest press, it is a delusion. As with the press we aren’t e! …
This snapshot of the world at night, stitched together with photos from NASA, contrasts with the little access to electricity in Africa compared to the global north. Energy poverty translates to poor health care, stifled economic growth, toxic fumes, limited or no education, and lack of safety. Phi Beta Iota: As with water, the absence …
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You can tell the health of a country and the potential of its future by the way it cares for its children. On that basis we are a very unhealthful country, and we don’t have much of a future. This reports describes a truly shameful situation. That it receives hardly any attention in the media …
Huh? Development data: how accurate are the figures? The numbers we use in development, and most of what we think of as facts, are actually estimates. It’s time for a data revolution Claire Melarned The Guardian, 31 January 2014 You know a lot less than you think you do. Around 1.22 billion people live on …
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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 …
