Back in 1973, I was a newly minted Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston University, and hired by New College of California, then in Sausalito (and since 2010 defunct), to teach philosophy. One year later I was fired, as “too experimental” for that experimental college. That began my trajectory as an outsider, or is it outlier? […]
Read MoreFrom Countdown, January 4, 2012. Thanks to truthdig.com, for the pointer. Truthdig mentions that both conservatives and progressives could rally around reversing Citizens United. Taibbi says OWS and the Tea Party, and Ron Paul, could rally around this, too. That nobody wants to live in a country when every election is won by the candidate […]
Read MoreAnd see this. For more on alternative economics, see this and this; and search on this site for all articles by Ellen Brown. Thanks to treehugger.com. Patagonia Becomes A California Benefit Corporation January 3, 2012 by Matthew McDermott Andrew Hyde/CC BY 2.0 On the first day that California-based companies could change their corporate status to […]
Read MoreThis (decidedly not University of Chicago) view of economics aligns with the permaculture motto: “Earth care, people care, fair share.” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjeuRSPfRlg] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8D4Ap4_3-M]
Read MoreAlperovitz identifies and helps put into practice diverse new kinds of local and regional economic structures that operate horizontally, for the good of all. Thanks to dollarsandcsense.org America Beyond Capitalism November, 2011 by Gar Alperovitz How thousands of co-ops, worker-owned businesses, land trusts, and municipal enterprises are quietly beginning to democratize the deep substructure of […]
Read MoreThis video is wonderful. Simple. Heartfelt. And ultimately, arousing. Echoing the hand-held educational signs and mic-check methods of OWS, Mathew Hart strings together tiny bits of information slowly enough to help us slow down our thoughts and move into our hearts. Below the video, there’s info from Hart from the youtube page on how his […]
Read MoreThis prophecy from 2008 is interesting in that it seems to foretell what the PTB seem to be doing now — broadcasting propaganda of many kinds, including calling Iran responsible for 9/11!, installing U.S. soldiers in Israel, sending ships to the mideast and dictating an economic lockdown — all to fraudulently “justify” war against Iran […]
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