Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed: NASA Models Collapse of Western Civilization — Concentration of Wealth and Cascade of Critical Break-Downs

NASA-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for ‘irreversible collapse’? Natural and social scientists develop new model of how ‘perfect storm’ of crises could unravel global system A new study sponsored by Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly …

Review: On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned about Serving the Common Good

Jim Wallis 5.0 out of 5 stars TImely — Relevant to 2014 and 2016, March 29, 2013 God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It is in my view the better book, here is the first sentence from my review of that book in 2005: “Jim Wallis has my …

Michel Bauwens: The Structural Communality of the Commons

The Structural Communality of the Commons Thus, commons structurally generate responsibility on the part of their participants for preserving the resource and the collective relationships, while markets generally do not. Commoners are in charge of shaping the social relationships involved; therefore, they can take responsibility for their actions. However, this also entails their responsibility to …

Theophillis Goodyear: Abstract Wealth Destroying Real Wealth

The Solution is the Systems Perspective—-the Key Component Is Human Compassion—-and Common Sense Tells Us That It’s Best to Keep Networks Intact and Change How They Function, Rather Than Destroy Them and Star from Scratch. Lately I’ve been thinking about two realities: 1. When the economy crashes, there’s no traditional solution to the problem because …

Mini-Me: Asian Deep Wealth versus US/EU Illuminati/Nazis

Huh? Benjamin Fulford Update 8-21-12…”Cabal Control Is Disintegrating At An Accelerating Pace On Multiple Fronts” Highlights …the IMF is now officially calling for an Iceland style solution (bust the banks and arrest corrupt bankers and politicians who accepted their bribes). Now the most brainwashed people in the West are failing to explain the contradictions of their …

John Steiner: Christopher Schaefer on Wealth

Christopher Schaefer (PhD), gives us both a short essay below recommending two books, and at the link, a five-page essay, “Mind the Gap: Wealth Disparities, the Deficit, and our Economic Future.” CREATING COMMON WEALTH Christopher Schaefer It is now clear that the present global economic crisis is also a political and moral crisis raising fundamental …