Eagle: New March on Washington for Civil Rights + Black Liberation RECAP

New March on Washington focuses on modern civil rights WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands gathered today on the nation’s “front yard,” the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, yearning for a bit of the transcendent sense of racial unity heralded on this spot by Martin Luther King 50 years ago in his “I Have a …

Review: Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America

John Nichols and Rbbert W. McChesney 4.0 out of 5 stars Sickening at Two Levels — Superb Indictment of Periphery, Completely Avoids Two Party Tyranny Issue, July 19, 2013 This book makes me sick at two levels. Level 1: It is the best treatment available of what I and many others have been saying for …

Q&A: Juan Enriquez, futurist, on bio-economics — bio-strategy still silent…

Q&A: Juan Enriquez, futurist, on the intersection of science, business and society Christina Hernandez Sherwood | July 1, 2013 Growing up in Mexico, Juan Enriquez didn’t consider new discoveries and scientific innovations particularly important. But now, after a circuitous route from a student at Harvard University to a Mexican peace negotiator and back to Harvard as …

Josh Kilbourn: VIDEO from Hong Kong — Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance — REACTIONS + New Details

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA’s history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras in Hong Kong guardian.co.uk, Sunday 9 June 2013 • Q&A with …

Review (Guest): The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be

Moises Naim 4.0 out of 5 stars What kind of power, for whom, and for what?, May 31, 2013 By Tom Atlee (Eugene, OR USA) – See all my reviews Moises Naim’s new book THE END OF POWER should properly be called “The Decay of Power”. His thesis is that while it is becoming easier …