The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
“Non-Hierarchal, Network-Controled Governance” Is a Better Term Than Anarchy For me, the anarchy argument is a philosophical can of worms. It’s like pulling a loose thread on a suit that never ends. Bryan Kaplan Ph.D. (of George Mason University), in his Anarchist Theory FAQ makes a pretty good case that the only thing anarchists have in …
The Real History of ‘Corporate Personhood’: Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You The real history of today’s excessive corporate power starts with a tobacco lawyer appointed to the Supreme Court. By Jeffrey Clements, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, AlterNet The following is an excerpt of Jeffrey Clement’s Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have …
Michael Lerner 5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond Five Stars-A Liberating / Empowering Book,December 6, 2011 1. On first impressions the book is a major slam. The author and publisher have collected some of the most serious testimonials possible–better than any I have seen on a book of this type. 2. Ten chapters, each chapter …
Lest We Forget: Why We Had A Financial Crisis Steve Denning Forbes, 22 November 2011 When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this infallible sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift It is clear to anyone who has studied the financial crisis of 2008 …
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What Can Plato Teach Me That I Can’t Find on Wikipedia? What’s the Big Idea? David Honan BigThink, 20 November 2011 Do we really need to read the classics in the age of Wikipedia? Aren’t these books just historical artifacts or a bunch of pretentious fodder for cocktail party conversation? According to Jeffrey Brenzel, Philosopher …
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Walter Pater, Matthew Beaumont 4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Literary Minutia–Not At All What I Expected,November 20, 2011 I bought this book on the basis of a rave mention of it in one of the other books I reviewed, it might have been a year ago. It’s been sitting in my airplane pile for …
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Paul Krassner 5.0 out of 5 stars Less Funny, More Provocative–Price is a WOW,November 20, 2011 First, a confession. I am 59 years old and had no idea who Paul Krassner was/is. The more I read through the book the more I marveled at his pioneering endeavors and their continuing relevance as Occupy struggles to …
