Flying the Flag; Faking the News | by: John Pilger, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed | Friday 03 September 2010 Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the First World War, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted [...]
Post by JimQ | TheBurningPlatform.com in Economy | Posted on 10th May 2010 Day after day, bankers have been paraded before Congressional committees regarding their role in the financial crisis which brought the financial system to the edge of the abyss on September 18,2008. Every one has claimed that they were not responsible in any [...]
TED2006 | Filmed February 2006 | Posted June 2006 Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
The huge mining corporation’s legal actions against two small book presses — what do they say about our democracy? By Philip Resnick | TheTyee.ca | April 21, 2010 Barrick Gold is a giant in the world of Canadian mining corporations, and its founder and chair, Peter Munk, has revelled in media attention for his philanthropy. [...]
POSTED BY ROGER VALDEZ | Sightline Daily – SPECIAL SERIES: GAME CHANGERS #07 | April 05, 2010 Solving big problems might mean giving up some cherished myths. Now that the health care proposal has been approved by Congress and signed into law, some people are feeling pretty happy I suppose. Much of the angst and [...]
By PAUL KRUGMAN | The New York Times Magazine | April 05, 2010 If you listen to climate scientists — and despite the relentless campaign to discredit their work, you should — it is long past time to do something about emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. If we continue with business as [...]
By DANIEL GOLEMAN and GREGORY NORRIS | Opinion – The New York Times | April 04, 2010 With e-readers like Apple’s new iPad and Amazon’s Kindle touting their vast libraries of digital titles, some bookworms are bound to wonder if tomes-on-paper will one day become quaint relics. But the question also arises, which is more [...]
‘Ecological Intelligence’: Do humans have what it takes to survive? By Daniel Goleman | TheTyee.ca | March 11, 2010 [Editor's note: The following is excerpted from the new book Ecological Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, published by Broadway Business, an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. Reprinted with permission. Copyright [...]
Struggling print and online media often skip the substance. That leaves information consumers struggling to assemble our own sources of reliable reporting and analysis. By Ted Van Dyk | Crosscut.com | March 03, 2010 President Obama is disclosing his end-game strategy for his health-care legislative proposals. Like so many political events, his announcement is provoking [...]
By Bill McKibben – Guest Columnist | OregonLive.com | March 02, 2010, 5:00AM In recent years, every major scientific body in the world has produced reports confirming the peril of climate change. All 15 of the warmest years on record have come in the last two decades. And Earth’s major natural systems are all showing [...]