Mike Lofgren: The Austerity Trap – Is Past Prologue? – Should Germany Grant Debt Relief as It Was Granted Debt Relief?

The Austerity Trap: Is Past Prologue? Mike Lofgren, Huffington Post, 10/11/2012 9:42 pm A German chancellor touts austerity as the sovereign remedy for the worst global economic crisis in most people’s memory. Why? The great inflation of 1923 is still so seared into the consciousness of the German political class that keeping the stability of …

Review: Empowering Public Wisdom – A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics

Tom Atlee 5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Tom Paine of Our Generation,October 10, 2012 I first met Tom when I sought him out after discovering his first book The Tao of Democracy: Using co-intelligence to create a world that works for all and invited him to speak to an international gathering of information …

Review: The Bhagavad Gita – The Original Sanskrit and An English Translation

Lars Martin Fosse 4.0 out of 5 stars Straight Forward But Disappointing for a Lay Reader,October 8, 2012 This book’s special niche is for those who want to read the book in Sanscrit and English at the same time. Perhaps I have been spoiled by the excellence of The The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for …

Review (Guest): SQ 21 – The Twenty-One Skills of Spiritual Intelligence

Cindy Wigglesworth 5.0 out of 5 stars Want less drama in your life, then develop your SQ. October 2, 2012 By Andrew D. Atwood “Becoming fully human is a great adventure – one that requires us to grow and stretch ourselves.” So writes Cindy Wigglesworth at the opening of her book, SQ21: The Twenty-One Skills …

Tom Atlee: Collective Thinking About Public Affairs

Collective thinking about public affairs (NOTE: In this essay I intentionally subsume the thinking processes of official decision-makers into the thinking processes of the citizenry as a whole. I realize that official decision-makers can and do make decisions independently of the will of the people, unless that public will is united and organized. But elite …

Winslow Wheeler: Defense Budget Rhetoric Lacking Integrity

Those arguing for more defense spending lean heavily on misinformation to make their case; many of the critics–previously including myself–have relied on myth.  The first of a two part series starts today in Time’s Battleland blog at http://nation.time.com/2012/10/01/adventures-in-babbleland-desperate-rhetoric-for-mundane-times/.  Tomorrow’s piece probes further into the myth of American military superiority by looking into one of its prime …