The Eurozone is suffering a crisis of confidence, with many questioning the future of the Euro and the EU alliance itself. Stephanie Flanders engages economi... 
Most informed people are familiar with the concept of Peak Oil, but fewer are aware that we’re also entering the era of Peak Government. The central misconception of Peak Oil -- that it’s not about “running out of oil,” it’s about... It is clear that these offshore havens create a crisis for democracy by squeezing the money out of government. What may be less clear is that these legislated special privileges also create a crisis for capitalism. In the very short term capitalism may not look like it is in trouble: Major corporations are reporting record profits. Bonuses on Wall Street in 2010 exceeded $90 billion. The Dow Jones in 2012 has been mostly above 13,000. Wall Street appears to be healthy. A Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives thinks it will get even healthier if we just eliminate all government regulations. GREAT TURNING author David Korten ( www.thegreatturning.net ) explains how - if we can awaken from our collective entrancement with a false story of our past... 
America's political-economy is caught in a vicious cycle, with concentrated wealth at the top leading to outsized political power. 
Germany has had its own outposts of the Occupy movement, but the country’s political preoccupation has been the organized challenge within the system that is the Pirate Party. 
Club of Amsterdam - Shaping Your Future in the Knowledge Society... 
What is the best democratic system for the 21st century? For a world where communication is instantaneous, travel is fast, and search is efficient? 
Vladimir Putin has said that any Russian will be able to submit his or her own bills for parliamentary consideration after collecting 100,000 signatures in its support. Dr. David Graeber, professor of anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London on his book - Debt: The First 5000 years. The First 5000 years. How ... 
2011 protest, Syntagma Square, Athens (Wikimedia Commons) |
Activists, theorists, organizations and ordinary citizens are rebuilding the American political-economic system from the ground up. 
The Occupy Wall Street movement staged a day of protests in the US on May Day. Meanwhile RT spoke to an Occupy London activist who said the group is only gaining momentum as more people understand they are being robbed by their governments.
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A new generation of civically engaged technologists are using their skills to tackle longstanding problems in government, says Andrew Rasiej, founder of... Via Think Progress: "According to the latest edition of the AFL-CIO's Executive Pay Watch report, the gap between CEO pay and worker pay expanded last year. ... Together with neutrality and federalism, direct democracy is a part of the Swiss national identity and helps unite the various languages, religions and cultu... 
Let's go back to those late 1890s Republicans -- who they were, what they believed, how they operated. This was the heart of the era dominated by Social Darwinists and Robber Baron industrialists, and the McKinley presidency was the peak of those forces' power. The Robber Barons were hiring the Pinkertons to (literally) murder union leaders, and were (literally) buying off elected officials to get whatever they wanted out of the government: money for bribery was openly allocated in yearly corporate budgets. These huge corporate trusts were working hand in hand with their worshipful friends in the Social Darwinist world, the 1800s version of Ayn Rand, who taught that if you were rich, it was because that was the way nature meant things to be -- and if you were poor, you deserved to be. Any exploitation, any greed, any concentration of wealth was justified by a survival of the strongest ethic. It was an era where Lincoln's and the Radical Republicans of the 1860s' progressive idea of giving land away free to poor people who wanted to work hard to be independent farmers through the Homestead Act was being overturned by big bank and railroad trusts ruthlessly driving millions of family farmers out of business. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was being completely ignored by McKinley. And of course, none of the advances of the 20th century were yet in place: child labor laws, consumer safety, the national parks or later environmental laws, consumer safety, popular election of Senators, women's suffrage, a progressive tax system, decent labor laws, a minimum wage, Social Security, Glass-Steagall, the GI Bill, civil rights laws, Medicare, Medicaid, Legal Services, Head Start. None of it existed. |
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