Berto Jongman: Is Climate Change Australia’s Greatest National Security Issue?

Why climate change is Australia’s greatest national security issue They were given 13 threats or potential threats to consider: adverse global trends and challenges to the international system; terrorism and piracy; instability and failed or failing states; poverty, inequality, and poor governance; serious and organised crime; WMD proliferation; climate change; civil emergencies, including natural disasters …

JZ Liszkiewics: Food Chains — Slavery & Abuse in America’s Food Production & Processing

In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the United States. Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of …

Pope Francis: A Conservative Interpretation

Pope and change: How Francis visit is disrupting U.S. politics Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner, 13 September 2015 Phi Beta Iota: Read it! The Pope has the power to mobilize a margin of victory for a Democratic or Independent candidate committed to addressing the top three threats to humanity (poverty, disease, and environmental degradation). The …

Sepp Hasslberger: Nokola Tesla, Free Energy, and the Vedic Philosophy — Matter is Energy, Energy is Life

Only a deeply spiritual man like Nikola Tesla could have gone as far ahead in technological achievement as he did. The Influence Of Vedic Philosophy On Nikola Tesla’s Idea Of Free Energy Science works best when in harmony with nature. If we put these two together, we can discover great technologies that can only come …

Nafeez Ahmed: UN Sustainability Plan Doomed

The UN’s Sustainability Plan Is ‘Doomed,’ According to Linguistic Analysis The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which seek to end poverty and hunger while creating sustainable societies, look like great news at first glance. But a report circulated to UN officials argues that the entire SDG process has been “fundamentally compromised” by powerful corporations with …