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Greek on-line exchange networks "are as much social structures as economic ones. They foster intimacy and mutual support."

The Greeks newly wrestled inventiveness while facing the headwinds of bankster-forced “austerity” reminds me of the ways we in Bloomington, Indiana are beginning to shift our view of what’s necessary and what’s important. The Transition Bloomington group that focuses on alternative economics first picked up on the world-wide, on-line Community Exchange Network. A year later, […]

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The "War on Drugs," besides being pointless and disastrous, has failed; furthermore, in Portugal, decriminalization cut drug use in half

Here’s a one-two-three knock-out(?) punch for the so-called “war on drugs” that fuels the CIA, military black-ops, privatized prisons, and other nefarious institutions/activities, as well as the general hypocrisy and mayhem attendant to a society kept addicted to one thing or another so as not to create, think, or, especially, recognize and embrace either the […]

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Vaclav Havel, prophet: Now, as our world (finally) blossoms into multipolarity, it hesitates between confrontations and partnerships

Back in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell, humanity was stunned into the realization of its own oneness. The tense bi-polar standoff between the U.S. and its mirror image, the S.U. (Soviet Union) that had defined the geo-political “balance of power” had suddenly blinked out. No longer divided by that rigid, symbolic, and very real, […]

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So . . . are we afraid enough yet? Two new(?) developments, and my response

Over the weekend I heard about two new(?) “police state” developments that made my dry, flaking, wrinkled skin crawl. First, that new hear-all-see-all-know-all-about-everybody-all-about-YOU! spy center, being built by the NSA in the Utah desert, featured in Wired. The data center will store trillions of “words and thoughts and whispers” swirling on the Web. But is […]

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Come to Chicago. Say no to war. No more war. It's over. Done. Kaput!

NATO, a “gently named but dangerous behemoth dominated by the United States,” is a military alliance of 28 countries, and “the only major intergovernmental body without a basic information disclosure policy. It’s a closed cabal with an active PR front and zero engagement with the public it claims to protect.” Thanks to truthout.org. Resistance Builds […]

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