Tom Atlee: Four Types of Power

Dear friends, Stimulated by Occupy and an expanding inquiry into new forms of economics, combined with my ongoing interest in bringing wisdom to politics and governance, I’ve stumbled on a productive approach to pulling it all together:  Start from an exploration of Power – particularly, but not only, social power.  This brings both politics and …

Mini-Me: European-US Banking–Tangled Web — Tell Me Again, Why Shouldn’t We Default and Let the Banks Fry? + Financial Terrorism RECAP

The question has to be asked: “Why shouldn’t we default and let the banks fry?” What possible benefit it there to the people of a nation whose previous leaders “sold out” the entire country on the basis of lies from the banks, notably Goldman Sachs? Why not default and focus on full employment and resilience …

Theophilis Goodyear: Disposable Hero Body Parts — When Blind Collectives Run Amok

Remains of 274 US troops dumped in landfill: report Agence France Press, 8 December 2011 The US Air Force dumped the cremated, partial remains of at least 274 troops in a landfill before halting the secretive practice in 2008, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Read full article. Theophillis Goodyear Comments: No matter who is specifically …

David Swanson: History of Corporate Personhood — How Lewis Powell & US Chamber of Commerce Bought the US Supreme Court

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 …

DefDog: SASC Questions Sanity of Pentagon InfoOps

The Pentagon may have hit a speed bump in the expansion of its growing worldwide information operations………… A speed bump for Pentagon’s information ops By Walter Pincus The Pentagon may have hit a speed bump in the expansion of its growing worldwide information operations. The Senate Armed Services Committee has asked Defense Secretary Leon Panetta …