Tom Atlee: Global Interdependence Movements Et Al

GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS, DECLARATIONS AND DAYS by Tom Atlee It is so good to celebrate INdependence Days in the United States and the many other countries that have successfully gained and defended their independence from colonial rule. For countries as well as individuals, independence is a dramatic move from dependence into a more self-defined, self-created …

Bob Gates: Flat Out Liar or Just Feeble? + RECAP

For months I have been reading in the press about Robert Gates “cancelling more than 30 [defense hardware] programs.”  A May 24 Bloomberg article by Viole Gienger (“Gates Says Military Cuts May Protect F-35, Submarines”) came up quick on a Google search.  Other articles credit Gates with “saving more than $300 billion” with these – …

Reflections on Tyranny versus Crowd Power

Sacrificial Crowds and Radical Power: A Meditation by Justin Rogers-Cooper, 19 May 2011 Advocate (CUNY Graduate Center) In early Jan­u­ary the BBC reported that Moham­mad Bouazazi, a Tunisian col­lege grad­u­ate who ille­gally sold fruits and veg­eta­bles in Sidi Bouzid, had died from his self-inflicted burns. He had set him­self on fire by dous­ing his body with petrol …