2014 Robert Steele Open Letter to Vice President of the United States of America Joe Biden, The White House
Chuck Spinney: Michael Hudson on The New Cold War’s Ukraine Gambit
Long but well worth reading and thinking about. CS The New Cold War’s Ukraine Gambit Michael Hudson [1] Posted on michaelhudson.com, 12 May 2014 http://michael-hudson.com/2014/05/the-new-cold-wars-ukraine-gambit/ Michael Hudson is Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City, and former Professor of Economics and Director of Economic Research at the Latvia Graduate School of Law. …
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Richard Falk: Nonviolent Geopolitics – Law, Politics, and 21st Century Security
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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Berto Jongman: Nature is Priceless — Economy is a Sub-Set of Nature, NOT the Other Way Round
Can you put a price on the beauty of the natural world? Those who reduce nature to a column of figures play to an agenda that ignores its inherent value – and seeks to destroy it George Monbiot The Guardian, Monday 21 April 2014 George Orwell warned that “the logical end of mechanical progress is …
Stephen E. Arnold: Google Glass as Goose Poop
Glass: Looking through the Obvious I read “How Google Screwed Up Google Glass.” The capitalist tool does not have its heart in the analysis. Here’s the tip off: “It really is a great idea.” What exactly is great about a virtual reality headset? As I wrote in Information Today, I have two or three devices …
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Worth a Look: STOP THIEF: The Commons, Enclosures and Resistance
“Stop, Thief!” – Peter Linebaugh’s New Collection of Essays Reviewed by David Bollier It is always refreshing to read Peter Linebaugh’s writings on the commons because he brings such rich historical perspectives to bear, revealing the commons as both strangely alien and utterly familiar. With the added kick that the commoning he describes actually happened, …
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G. William Domhoff: Who Rules America (1967)
WHO RULES AMERICA? The Class-Domination Theory of Power G. William Dornhoff NOTE: WhoRulesAmerica.net is largely based on my book, Who Rules America?, first published in 1967 and now in its 7th edition. This on-line document is presented as a summary of some of the main ideas in that book. Who has predominant power in the …
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