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Michel Bauwens: Brazilian Alternative Economic Models Going Global

Community-Based Co-op Economy vs. the “A-Moral Capital Economy” Dave Pollard explains the difference between the two models: Most people have been brought up to believe that the competitive, grow-or-die, absentee-shareholder-owned, “free”-trade “market” economy is the only one that works, the only alternative to a socialist, government-run economy. This myth is perpetrated in business and other …

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Review: Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger

Harvey Molotch 4.0 out of 5 stars Theatrically Naive in Its Own Way But Recommended, December 15, 2012 I’m the former spy and honorary hacker who sounded the alarm on cyber-security in 1994 and who questioned every aspect of the Department of Homeland Security, pointing out that the joint fusion centers would be a waste …

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NIGHTWATCH: Israel & It’s US Enabler Uniting Muslims

Special Comment: Feedback from brilliant Readers conveys concern that Israel is presented as justified in its retaliation and not as the instigator of the latest round of attack exchanges. In the NightWatch experience, causality takes about 20 years to determine with any confidence. Survival in the neighborhood requires that the intelligence and special operations forces …

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Michael Moore: Open Letter to President Obama That Misses the Point

An Open Letter to President Obama …from Michael Moore Monday, November 19th, 2012 Dear President Obama: Good luck on your journeys overseas this week, and congratulations on decisively winning your second term as our president! The first time you won four years ago, most of us couldn’t contain our joy and found ourselves literally in …

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David Isenberg: The True Cost (Locally) of Military Strikes Against Iranian Nuclear Targets + Iran Nuclear Meta-RECAP

The Myth of “Surgical Strikes” on Iran By David Isenberg TIME Battleland | October 18, 2012 For all the years that the world has focused on the confrontation between Western nations and Iran, oceans of ink have been spilled over many aspects of its nuclear program — the quantity and quality of its enriched uranium, …

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Michel Bauwens: The Third Wave: Peer-to-Peer Immaterial Expansion

Peer to peer and the feudal transition Executive Summary: First Wave: Extensive Development (Expansion across Space using Slaves) Second Wave: Intensive Development (Material Development Upgrading Slaves to Serfs) Third Wave:  P2P Development (Immaterial Developments Upgrading Serfs to Seers) 10 September 2012 In this thought capsule, inspired by the reading of the very stimulating book Deep …

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Paul Craig Roberts: Cynthia McKinney On Leadership

Cynthia McKinney On Leadership October 2, 2012 Those who have followed the Republican campaign for the presidential nomination and current contest between Romney and Obama know that the United States has no political leadership in Washington. Billions of dollars have been spent on political propaganda, but not a single important issue has been addressed. The …

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