The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” ― UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights Open Data, Global Game, Electronic Magna Carta, .nyc, Privacy, Open Hardware, Inclusive Access, …
Here is a wonderful story of how a single couple has been able to take on a destructive industry and win. The Real Secret to Beating the Koch Brothers: How Our Broken Political System Can Still be Won LINDSAY ABRAMS, Assistant Editor – Salon You probably haven’t heard of Helen Slottje, or, for that matter, …
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Peter Linebaugh 5.0 out of 5 stars David Bollier’s Review is Better, This Is My Attempt, April 21, 2014 I was very impressed by David Bollier’s review of this book at his web site (look for < “Stop, Thief!” – Peter Linebaugh’s New Collection of Essays > and am encouraging him to port that excellent …
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Nonviolent Geopolitics: Law, Politics, and 21st Century Security* In this short essay, my attempt will be to articulate a conception of a world order premised on nonviolent geopolitics, as well as to consider some obstacles to its realization. By focusing on the interplay of “law” and “geopolitics” the intention is to consider the role played …
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This email continues the theme I introduced with How Obama’s Rhetoric Reinforces America’s Grand Strategic Pathway to Catastrophe. Attached beneath my introduction is an brilliant essay, The Dangerous Neocon-R2P Alliance, written by Robert Parry of Consortium News. Parry describes how propaganda produced by this domestic alliance of convenience among a non-representative minority of unelected influence peddlers …
Tenth Anniversary of War by Deceit Emmanuel Charles McCarthy Center for Christian Nonviolence Each one deceives the other, no one speaks the truth. They have accustomed their tongues to lying… A murderous arrow is their tongue. It speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he lays an …
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Can the Internet Democratize Capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis International Policy Digest, February 22, 2014 Technological fixes to time-honoured problems are all the rage these days. Bitcoin is meant to fix money, social media are seen as an antidote to Rupert Murdoch and assorted tyrants, networked robots are to help countries like Japan deal with demographic declines …
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