Event: 8-10 June NYC Strategies for a New Economy

Upcoming Event: June 8-10, 2012 Conference:  Strategies for a New Economy Bard College, on the Hudson River, New York Registration open in January of 2012 Themes for Conference Tracks Each Track will have seven associated workshops 1.  Modeling the New Economy: Shared Prosperity within Planetary Limits 2.  Measuring Well Being: Alternative Indicators of Wealth and …

Chuck Spinney: Manufacturing Dissent – The Rise of the Tea Party as an Elite Front – Opposite of OWS

Below is an excellent interview with Anthony DiMaggio in Counterpunch.  DiMaggio author of The Rise of the Tea Party, due out in November 2011. He uses the “propaganda model” developed by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in their book Manufacturing Consent to document and explain the Tea Party’s organizational dynamics for manufacturing dissent, and he …

Vatican, Ethics, & Truth II (Full Text Online for Google Translate)

Full Text: Note on financial reform from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace 2011-10-24 Vatican Radio Please find, below, an unofficial translation of the Note on the reform of the international financial and monetary systems in the context of global public authority, released Monday by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. ****************** Pontifical …