The State Against Blacks

‘The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery couldn’t do. . . . And that is to destroy the black family.’ Even in the antebellum era, when slaves often weren’t permitted to wed, most black children lived with a biological mother and father. During Reconstruction and up until the 1940s, 75% to 85% …

Weak Signals: Reality Sandwich Business Shamanism

Business Shamanism Daniel Pinchbeck Using the tools of corporations to reprogram global society and distribute a new cultural operating system Image by fdcomite, courtesy of Creative Commons license. Now that the Evolver network and brand have established themselves to a certain extent, I want to look ahead to developments I hope to see in the …

Reference: Truth & Nuance as an Information Operations (IO) Mission

Aldous Huxley Would Be Proud by Kelley B. Vlahos, December 14, 2010 EXTRACT:  British novelist Aldous Huxley was a social critic and futurist, who is best known for penning Brave New World, which, aside from being a nearly 80-year-old science fiction masterpiece, is both an allegory and prophecy for 21st Century western society. Huxley’s finger …

Obama’s March to Folly: The Myth of Liberal Intervention & the Arrogance of Ignorance

Weekend Edition December 17 – 19, 2010 The Myth of Liberal Intervention and the Arrogance of Ignorance Obama’s March to Folly By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch http://www.counterpunch.org/spinney12172010.html In a recent opinion piece, “Kosovo and the Myth of Liberal Intervention,” Neil Clark in the Guardian on 15 December gave the reader a good summary of the …