The following 1991 article is another from the reading list selected by Don Steehler to aid his fellow humans in understanding our present human crisis. Howard Zinn While teaching courses in […]
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The Iraqi Redemption
Reposted from The Yellow Times. John Brand Saddam is history. Now what? Only a handful of conquerors and political leaders have stood in the place where President Bush finds himself. […]
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The Integral Institute is dedicated to the proposition that partial and piecemeal approaches to complex problems are ineffective. Whether addressing individual and personal issues of meaning and transformation, or increasingly […]
Continue readingThe Fairy Godmother is Dead!
Reposted from a March 31, 2003 “White Paper” at Simmons & Company International. Matthew R. Simmons The U.S. air waves are now filled with economic stories like: “The Dangers of High […]
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Reposted from Strike The Root. Craig Russell Chances are you have one of the most insidiously dangerous objects ever created—and one of the State’s most powerful tools of domination—in your […]
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This talk was presented at at World Social Forum in January 2003. The writer is the author of a new book PARECON: Life After Capitalism. Michael Albert First off, like all […]
Continue readingExamples of Powerful NonViolence
Duane Elgin, the author of yesterday’s article on Choosing Simplicity, was strongly influenced by the writings of Richard Gregg. In 1936, Gregg wrote a book titled The Power of Nonviolence. I found a […]
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The following excerpt from Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity’s Future is reposted from Awakening Earth. Duane Elgin The price of anything is the amount of […]
Continue readingThe Societal Implications of Nanotechnology
This testimony was presented April 9, 2003 at the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives Hearing to examine the societal implications of nanotechnology and consider H.R. 766, The Nanotechnology […]
Continue readingSmart Heuristics
Heuristics is “a method of problem solving using exploration and trial and error methods”. A heuristic (pronounced hyu-RIS-tik and from the Greek “heuriskein” meaning “to discover”) is a “rule-of-thumb.” The […]
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