Our new book: "Global Insanity" is out. I hope you like it!
Here is the web page: GLOBAL INSANITY: HOW HOMO SAPIENS LOST TOUCH WITH REALITY WHILE TRANSFORMING THE WORLD. Here is the jacket summary:The Global Economy that sustains the civilized world is...
View ArticleAmerica in Decline: Even Chomsky noticed!
Robert Kall on OpEd News has an interview with Noam Chomsky: America in Decline, US Operating Procedures for Blocking Democracy. I, for one find this a strange title. I thought that way back in the...
View ArticleCan there ever be another revolution?
This is not a frivolous question even if it seems so. I just read this quote from Lenin on facebook: "A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every...
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ACM: Fiscal Cliff as grim Speed Bump trigger
Van Jones said not so long ago: “If we want to fix the economy, the first thing we got to do is repeal the Bush tax cuts and pull back our military expenditures to Clinton level expenditures.”The...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Brave New World - High Stakes Testing or When a Test...
(This article was co-authored by Diana Zavala, a parent with a 9 year old child in New York City Public Schools who works with Change the Stakes and Geminijen, a member of the Anti-Capitalist Meet-up...
View ArticleSocial system's "inertia" and the speed of change induced by technology...
Having just coauthored a book about the historical roots of our current state of affairs, it seems we can gain some insight into that state of affairs by comparing rates of change in different areas of...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Jack London (yesterday). A great Socialist.
Yesterday, January 12th wasJack London's birthday.John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney,[1] January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social...
View ArticleDoes technology have a "life of it's own" or are we in control?
First of all what does it mean for technology to have a life of it's own? This can be a difficult concept if you are in tune with prevailing social myths. We tend to believe most of what we are...
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ACM: 31 March 2013 an ACM Introduction
I have been thinking about how to introduce some of the methodologies we use in DK to augment the basic liberalism and progressivism necessary to produce more and better Democrats. This piece is...
View ArticleHow and why organizations fail
This would seem to be a simple subject. Yet it is not. I have written and published on this topic from my perspective as a complexity theorist. A New Approach to a Theory of Management: Manage the...
View ArticleNot If But When: A democratic Uprising in the United States
UPDATE 2:Comrades,I'm sorry to sully this post by doing actual, you know, writing, but I want to say that the reaction this post indicates that the hunger for radical overhaul transcends the usual...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Don’t Buy the Hype: The Gender Wage Gap and Women's...
Accordingly to an article entitled, “More Women Are bringing Home the Bacon…, ” heralding women’s gains in pay equity, a recent Pew study revealed that an impressive number of married breadwinner moms...
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ACM: 30 June 2013 A Ghost in a Machine walks the Globe
If one can claim that a virtual economy offers increased possibility for revolutionary political change, that change should be measured against more material forms of analysis rather than treating...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: New Era Windows- Symbol of a New Workers Movement
This diary is primarily a recompilation of research and articles written by Laura Flanders for Grit TV this summer. LAURA FLANDERS is the host of The Laura Flanders Show coming to public television...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: What Is Capitalism? Part I
There have appeared in this space several thought-provoking attempts to define capitalism, including here and here. Although this might seem to some a mere academic exercise, nothing could be further...
View ArticleNeoliberals: Where Did They Come From?
Political labels can be very difficult to define in a manner that is clear and consistent. For most of the 20th C US politics was cast in the frame of conservatives vs liberals. However, it seems to me...
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ACM: The Media Landscape After the Culture War
Every war seems permanent as does every revolution until it ends which requires much in the way of interpreting rather than explaining the victory to the vanquished, even in mediated spaces that can...
View ArticleGive us revolution or keep giving us death: the economic foundation of the...
Our 1%-centric economy kills poor and working class people, among other things by driving them to self-medicate in dangerous ways. The economic phenomena related to addiction not only include denial of...
View ArticleNeoliberalism: the bad gas we breathe without cultural mercaptan, and Clinton...
Neoliberalism is deadly, but you wouldn't know it because of the cultural hegemony it wields.Thiols are often referred to as mercaptans. The term mercaptan is derived from the Latin mercurium captans...
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Daily Substance: U shd be DeMoralized! Shd Not! Shd Too!
Establishment did not spend much dirty money pissing upstreamWhy can’t they see that dirty money costs them in turnout among voters disgusted by the obvious influence of donor money and lobbying (not...
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