Review (Guest): Earth into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism: The Bowl with One Spoon

Anthony J. Hall 5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the Time and Effort- A Transformative Journey, October 17, 2010 Carol Liane Brouillet “9-11 activist” (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Earth into Property is the second book in a series, the first being The American Empire and the Fourth World: The Bowl With One Spoon, which together …

Robert Steele: Itemization of Information Pathologies

In support of the Berkman Center’s conference on truthness, below is an extract from THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Trust (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Book / Evolver Edition, 5 June 2012). EXTRACT: I now realize that neither governments nor corporations are “fixed” obstacles. In a world of constantly changing information, it is …

Reference: Free Speech for People – Update on Work to Overturn Supreme Court Ruling on Citizens United

December 2011 Free Speech For People is a national, non-partisan campaign seeking to restore democracy to the people and to ensure that people, not corporations, govern in America. FSFP is dedicated to overturning, through a 28th Amendment to the US Constitution, the US Supreme Court’s January 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. FEC and a …

Chuck Spinney: Break-Up of Iraq, History of Oil Invasions

The below report by Patrick Cockburn, one of the best reporters now covering the Middle East, describes the growing tensions in Iraq over the question of sharing its oil wealth among its constituent regions.  Although his report is important in its own right, its contents become even more ominous when they viewed in a larger historical context: …