World Peace Hanging By A Thread
Yesterday I had the satisfaction of having a pleasant conversation with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I had not seen him since 2006, more than five years ago, when he visited our country [...]
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Morality & the Real World
Discussions of morality over the centuries have tended to focus on the sources of ideas regarding what is “right” and “wrong.” Thus, for centuries the Church argued that those ideas [...]
Philosophical Fragments — World History As A Natural Dialectic
If this sounds strange or metaphysical it is because it is philosophical imagery that expresses historical movement. This is how I express new philosophy, though this kind of writing is [...]
Occupy The World… & The Values Revolution!
Last week, Barbara “wah-wah” Walters—thank you, Gilda Radner!—was trotted in front of ABC’s Evening News cameras to assure those familes still chowing down that the brutal, disgusting, illegal, savage beating, [...]
The Irony of World History
The following brief history of humankind notes that environmental change enabled the emergence of humans (see Steven M. Stanley’s Children of the Ice Age, 1996), and environmental change resulting from [...]
Song of the Chainsaw
At the risk of further self-indulgence, I should point out that the tiny piece of writing called “A Timeline For Systemic Collapse,” wasn’t meant to be a display of logic, [...]
Farewell Content: Class Wars & Ass Wars — Bringing It All Back Home!
“Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops and the big wars That make ambition virtue!” –William Shakespeare (Othello) “It would be supererogatory for me to list those [...]
The Rise of China & The Decline of America — The Paradigm of Credit & Debt
Standard and Poor’s (S&P) have reduced America’s sovereign credit rating from AAA to AA+. The rating puts the U.S. on par with Kuwait and Taiwan. America’s $US14.3 trillion debt makes [...]
Deluded, Greedy & Obese — ‘The Brightest & Best’ in One Generation Ravage Their Children’s Birthright
By: Steve Salmony Perhaps it is not only our fate as elders to confront certain obviously emerging and rapidly converging global challenges, it may also be that we elders are the [...]
Sierra Leone — 50 Long Years
By: Meha Dixit As I sit in front of the television, eagerly waiting to watch the news on Sierra Leone ‘s 50 th anniversary of independence ( 27 th April [...]
