The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Laurence Brahm 5.0 out of 5 stars Common Sense Community-Based Economics, October 25, 2014 Laurence Brahm is one of those unsung heroes who was changing the world for the better, and influencing various governments in most positive ways, long before ecological economics and social enterprise became fashionable turns of phrase. I regard him as the …
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Leapfrog From Disaster 1-7 November 2014, The Philippines Organized and led by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)-USA and Leapfrog Project including the American Institute of Architects’ AIA NY Design for Risk and Reconstruction (DfRR) and AIA International, Leapfrog From Disaster will be held in the Philippines on November 1 – 7, 2014 to bring …
The Sharing Economy Will Thrive Only If Government Doesn’t Strangle It R. J. Lehmann Reason.com, 2 August 2014 We’re unlocking unthinkable amounts of capital and lawmakers stand in the way. The so-called sharing economy is many things to many people. To Wall Street and Silicon Valley, firms like Uber and Airbnb offer tantalizing market capitalizations, …
Ismael Hossein-azdeh Review of Hossein-zadeh, Ismael. 2014. Beyond Mainstream Explanations of the Financial Crisis: Parasitic Finance Capital., May 16, 2014 By Isaac Christiansen Ismael Hossein-zadeh has done a masterful job in explaining the causes of the 2007-08 financial collapse and in identifying what must be done in response. He sets out in Beyond Mainstream Explanations …
A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse David Graeber [from The Baffler No. 22, 2013] What is a revolution? We used to think we knew. Revolutions were seizures of power by popular forces aiming to transform the very nature of the political, social, and economic system in the country in which the revolution took …
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Tightening the U.S. Grip on Western Europe Washington’s Iron Curtain in Ukraine by DIANA JOHNSTONE, COUNTERPUNCH, WEEKEND EDITION JUNE 6-8, 2014 NATO leaders are currently acting out a deliberate charade in Europe, designed to reconstruct an Iron Curtain between Russia and the West.
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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