Tom Atlee: From Stuck in the Game, to Liberating Public Wisdom

From Stuck in the Game, to Liberating Public Wisdom Dear friends, What’s going on with our politics? On the one hand, we in the US are watching grotesque income inequality and extreme wealth being used to buy power and more wealth to further control our political and economic systems.  On the other hand, we have …

2012 Reality Sandwich: The Battle for the Soul of the Republic

The Battle for the Soul of the Republic Reality Sandwich, 10 April 2012 Robert David Steele Vivas The National Security Agency (NSA) mega-data center, combined with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) special relationship with Google, and the federalization of local police using Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funds to pay for monitoring both the locations …

Eagle: How the Public Schools Keep Your Child a Prisoner of the State

How the Public Schools Keep Your Child a Prisoner of the State Karen De Coster LewRockwell.com, 31 January 2012 Public education, in its current state, is based on the idea that government is the “parent” best equipped to provide children with the values and wisdom required to grow into intelligent, functional adults. To echo what …

Thomas Briggs: Georgetown Students Scoop Secret World on China’s Tunnel System for Nuclear Weapons – or a PSYOP Against US Public?

A wonderful example of what can be done with open source material! Georgetown students shed light on China’s tunnel system for nuclear weapons By William Wan Washington Post, November 29, 2011 The Chinese have called it their “Underground Great Wall” — a vast network of tunnels designed to hide their country’s increasingly sophisticated missile and nuclear …

Amitai Etzioni: Reflections for Public Intellectuals & Other Contributions

Amitai Etizioni Et  Al (33 pages) Amitai Etzioni: Reflections of a Sometime-Public Intellectual Jacob S. Hacker, You Might Be A Public Intellectual If…A Checklist for Political Scientists, a Challenge for Political Science Gary Orfield, A Life in Civil Rights Lorenzo Morris, Rules for Public Intellectuals Theodore J. Lowi, Public Intellectuals and the Public Interest–Toward a …

Chuck Spinney: Perspective on Turkey-Israel Relations

Below is an excellent perspective on Turkish – Israeli relations and the irresponsible Israeli-neocon effort to smear Turkey with the phony charge of islamo-fascisim (itself a logically absurd term). While Hadar thinks, in my view correctly, Ataturk would back Erdogan’s policies, one thing he does address is how Ataturk might have reacted to Israel’s provocations, …