Jean Lievens: The Social Labs Revolution

The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach to Solving our Most Complex Challenges The following is an excerpt from the introduction of the book, “What Are Social Laboratories?” Zaid Hassan Stanford Social Innovation Review, 19 May 2014 The Social Labs Revolution reports and builds on a decade of practical experiments in addressing social challenges that …

Owl: American Mass Media – 24 Hours of Non-Stop Lies, Obfuscations, and Omissions

American Mass Media: 24 Hours of Non-Stop Lies, Obfuscations, and Omissions Is there anything in all of human history that is quite like American mass media in its power and capacity to pump out – through gigantic electronic fire hoses for 24 hours a day, every day of the week – lies upon lies (to …

Penguin: It’s Official – NSA Puts Zionist Israel Ahead of USA, Compromises Official US Government Communications in Favor of Zion

New Snowden Document Implies NSA May Be Putting Israel’s Security Ahead of America’s Why Is the NSA Putting Israel First? The following leaked slide from Edward Snowden was released today by Glenn Greenwald in his new book, No Place to Hide: If you can’t read the slide, it says: Balancing the SIGINT exchange equally between …

SchwartzReport: US Nuclear Infrastructure a Radioactive Time Bomb — We Are Not Ready and USG Lies to the Public About This…

Here we have a pretty realistic take on the state of the U.S. nuclear industry. We have been so lucky not to have had a crisis like Chernobyl. Click through to see the supporting graphics. Our Nuclear Infrastructure Is a Radioactive Time Bomb BRENDAN SCOTT – Vice News The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has had a …

Owl: “Suicided” Bankers Worth Over Half a Trillion in Life Insurance, Payable to Banks, Not Families — JP Morgan in Spotlight

Maybe They are Killing Bankers for Their Life Insurance? Criminality can take many forms, based on the breadth and depth of human depravity and pathological ingenuity. Applying life insurance to pay off corporations when a current or former employee dies, in this case for bankers, a life insurance program called BOLI (bank-owned life insurance), has …

Jon Ramer: Cowboy Indian Alliance (CIA) Rejects Keystone Pipeline and Unites to Protect the Sacred –Video and Protest in DC 22 April 2014

Greetings! I hope this finds you well. There is a story of “unprecedented unified action” unfolding as unlikely parties have come together to protect and restore our sacred Mother Earth. First Nations, Native Americans, and their allies, in the form of ranchers, farmers, landowners, lawyers, educators, activists, environmentalists, faith and spiritual leaders and others are teaming up …

Review (Guest): Digitally Enabled Social Change – Activism in the Internet Age

Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport 5.0 out of 5.0 Stars Paradigm-challenging By Bruce B on September 19, 2011 Earl & Kimport take on what I like to think of as the silent debate between scholars of digital media and collective action on the one hand, and many traditional experts on social movements, protest, interest groups, …