The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
As any day’s news demonstrates, American cities are having a hard time. Here is some good news about a major American city. We can only hope that other cities are paying attention, and its citizens have not given their city governance over to the Theocratic Right. Two Decades of Change Have Boston Sparkling KATHARINE Q. …
Ian Bremmer 3.0 out of 5 stars Rooted in State Paradigm, Ignores Non-State World, January 5, 2014 I made a mistake buying this book. I let the marketing hype get to me. As soon as I got the book in my hands and saw that it had jacket blubs from Fareed Zakaria and Larry Summers, …
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More on climate change. The Alps, as this report spells out, are undergoing fundamental never before seen changes, just as the same thing is happening at Glacier National Park in Kalispell, Montana, and Glacier Bay, Alaska. Alps Warming At Double The Average Global Rate, New Study Confirms ARI PHILLIPS – Think Progress I know a …
Climate Summit Trap: Capitalism’s March toward Global Collapse An Essay by Harald Welzer The Warsaw conference demonstrated that the “climate summit” model is broken and, more importantly, that capitalism itself is driving us to the brink. Protests are not the solution — it’s time to fight the system using its own weapons. The municipal utility …
The New Politics of the 21st Century: Global Resistance and Rising Anarchism A number of occurrences have taken place of the past 13 years since the rise of the new millennium; we have seen and are seeing the rise of popular movements all over the world and a resistance to the forces of imperialism, capitalism, …
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The staggering costs to clean up Fukushima More than two years since the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, the Fukushima power plant meltdown is still a major, global environmental problem. And the staggering price tag for cleaning it up continues to rise. The Japanese government just announced that it’s borrowing about $30 billion more to …
Posted by Contributing Editor Berto Jongman Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt Is our relentless quest for economic growth killing the planet? Climate scientists have seen the data – and they are coming to some incendiary conclusions. By Naomi Klein NewStatesman, 29 October 2013 In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems …
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