Progress and Poverty

By Henry George (1879), edited and abridged by Bob Drake, Robert Shalkenbach Foundation (2006)

Book Review

Progress and Poverty is an economic classic which has been suppressed in the US owing to its subject matter: the elimination of poverty and economic inequ… Read full post »

The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability – Designing for Abundance

 By William McDonough and Michael Braungart

2013 Northpoint Press

Book Review

 In The Upcycle, American architect William McDonough and German chemist Dr Michael Braungart offer a new improved version… Read full post »

A recent study in the May 2 Environmental Health Perspectives reveals that commercial lipstick and lip gloss products contain potentially hazardous levels of heavy metals, such as aluminum, cadmium, chromium and manganese. The study also notes that young people (i.e. teenage girls) tend t… Read full post »

The space between the TV screen and the child is nothing less than sacred ground - Mr Rogers

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New World View

Joseph Obeyon 2012

http://crossroadsfilm.com/ 

Film Review

Crossroads is an exciting and surprisingly uplifting new documentary about the role… Read full post »

Small Food Forest

(This is the second of two posts about dramatic changes that are occurring in food production and marketing, as well as consumer food choices.  Part II addresses the application of design technology to water and soil management, which… Read full post »

Chicago Lights Urban Farm

(This is the first of two posts about dramatic changes that are occurring in food production and marketing, as well a consumer food choices.  Part I addresses the conscious shift many consumers have made over the past decade to locally grown… Read full post »

(This is the second of two posts about the meaning of a recent Farleigh Dickinson University study on violent revolution.)

The Likelihood of Revolution

From this vantage point, it’s impossible to predict whether austerity and repression will lead to armed revolution. With much of sout… Read full post »

Guest post by Geoff Eaton

(New Zealand presently has legislation in Parliament to create the country's first charter schools, despite the failed experiment in the US and the UK. The majority of the New Zealand public oppose the law. Despite substantial taxpayer funding, charter schools woul… Read full post »

(With apologies to Marie Antoinette – a very special post for readers who have lost their pensions or unemployment benefits or who are looking at having their hours, wages or Social Security benefits reduced. Some simple cricket recipes below. Please note in preparing cricket flour,… Read full post »

Monetary Reform 101

"Somewhere in our history we took a wrong turn and today we are reaping the consequences. If we don't step back to evaluate the root causes of the rolling economic crises, our civilization is in danger of collapse." -… Read full post »

A highly illuminating interview (for Argentinian TV) in which Assad argues that the Syrian people should decide who rules Syria in internationally monitored elections scheduled for 2014. They would be conducted according to constitutional reforms enacted in 2011-2012 that limit the power… Read full post »

The Bather by Pissarro

Guest post by Jerry Fresia

(A response to my post “The Company That Owns Angelina Jolie’s Breast Cancer Gene”)

There’s an old joke from grade school that I still remember. It’s rather dumb, but the punch line turns on a thought that has r… Read full post »

It appears the Obama administration and their Turkish, Saudi and Qatari allies are losing the covert war in Syria. If so, this explains why the President and US and British media are once again trying to ramp up momentum for military intervention against the Assad regime.… Read full post »

From Australian Business Insider:

A Utah biotech company Myriad Genetics owns the patent to BRCA1, the so-called “breast cancer gene” responsible for Angelina’s Jolie’s decision to have a preventative double mastectomy. They also on the patent on a similar breast ca… Read full post »

The New York Academy of Medicine celebrated the second anniversary of Fukushima’s nuclear disaster with a two day Fukushima Symposium on March 11^th and 12^th. Sponsored by the Helen Caldicott Foundation and Physicians for Social Responsibility, the event consisted of presentations f… Read full post »

Ambassador Stevens

What Really Happened in Benghazi?

Americans (at least the ones who know where Libya is) are understandably confused and angry about the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack that killed US ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi. If they are looking to the current congressio… Read full post »

John Stewart's hilarious take on the Monsanto Protection Act, introduced as an amendment to the most recent continuing budget resolution (which keeps the federal government going until September). The amendment allows Monsanto to bypass judicial scrutiny, granting them virtu… Read full post »

Below is an excellent 60 minute interview with FBI translator and whistle blower Sibel Edmonds.

In it she provides extensive background on the cold war CIA/NATO Gladio Operation, which apparently never ended in Turkey and the Caucasus. This background is essential in understanding how the… Read full post »

The following video by Storm Clouds Gathering provides an excellent summary of continuing Chinese efforts to chip away at the US dollar. These include a recent trade agreement between China and Australia to use the yuan and Australian dollar – rather than the US dollar –/… Read full post »

A recent study from Farleigh Dickinson University reveals that 29% of Americans believe an armed revolution may be necessary in the next few years to “protect liberties.”

18% of Democratic respondents shared this view, 27% of Independents and 44% of Republicans.

The study, which… Read full post »

(Above) The first public website – reconstructed at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

April 30^th marked the 20^th anniversary of the technology behind the World Wide Web becoming available royalty-free to the public. On April 30, 1993 the Swiss group CERN made the soft/… Read full post »

Guest post by Steven Miller

(This is the last of three guest blogs by Steven Miller about Obama’s BRAIN Initiative and Wall Street’s broader agenda of privatizing all aspects of medical treatment and research. In this last post, he makes the alarming revelation that corporation… Read full post »

Guest post by Steven Miller

This is the 2nd of three guest blogs by Steven Miller about Obama’s BRAIN Initiative and Wall Street’s broader agenda of privatizing all aspects of medical treatment and research. In this post Miller traces how decisions in the Supreme Court and… Read full post »