The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This article aims to be a summary of the very basic orientation that I propose for social change. I start from the classic division of human society in three basic aspects: civil society, the private sector, and the state. 1. The transformation of civil society
Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy This entry is about “Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy” co-authored by Vasilis Kostakis and Michel Bauwens. The scholarly book is published by Palgrave Macmillan and here you may find a draft of it. Sharing the conviction that the globalized economy is at …
Interviewed: Professor Christian Iaione on the City as Commons A commons-based economy cannot thrive without appropriate institutions, especially those that represent a “partner state” approach. Professor Christian Iaione of LUISS University in Rome is a pioneer of such institutional innovation in Italian cities. I believe his work with the city of Bologna on Bologna’s Regulation for the Care and Regeneration …
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ROBERT STEELE: There are two people I know personally that I think merit our total regard and financial support within our means. I myself am without means — no salary, no pensions, no savings — but I have just given $100 to the Peer to Peer Foundation as I have previously given money to Tom …
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How the Great Food War Will Be Won Jonathan Latham EXTRACT
P2P evangelist Michel Bauwens gets interviewed by Robin Good on how society is gradually becoming more and more open, with people sharing knowledge and goods. – http://www.MasterNewMedia.org Core point: transformative change stems from underlying and persistent change in the value system. ROBERT STEELE: Single most useful video I have watched in the past decade. 2010 …
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2012, trending again. The role of power relations in a p2p economy The #occupy movement, which is a surface manifestation of a deeper Multitude movement, is in fact a refutation of power. Not only of the “power in place”, i.e. big banks, governments, etc. but of what we call “instituted power”, the kind of power your boss has …
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