Wall Street and Washington Are Failing Spectacularly — Where Do We Go?
By Joe Costello, AlterNet.
Posted April 15, 2008.
The U.S. political and economic systems are not equipped to deal with the looming problems of the 21st century.
I was 19 in October 1979, when I first stepped into a campaign office. It was the Draft Kennedy […]

In this weeks Green Grapevine, published weekly in the Times Argus, Rutland Herald, and Brattleboro Reformer, Daniel Hecht writes a review of James Howard Kunstler’s 2004 - 2005 book The Long Emergency.
The Long Emergency Predicts a Dire Future
James Kunstler’s The Long Emergency is something like required reading among peak oil activists, and it’s a […]

As we know, the voting and polling so far show that we want a new narrative and we want change. But where is the new narrative? And change to what, at how much pain?
How about a new narrative that incorporates thermodynamics into accepted economic theory; that addresses the demand side as rigorously as the […]

On November 24th, the Wall Street Journal ran a page one story called:
A Little Laptop With Big Ambitions
How a Computer for the Poor Got Stomped by Tech Giants
Cambridge, Mass.
In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte unveiled an idea for bridging the technology divide between rich nations and the developing world. It was captivating in its utter simplicity: design […]

Gangs of America by Ted Nace - the rise of Corporate Power and the disabling of democracy:
Corporations are the dominant force in modern life, surpassing even church and state. The largest are richer than entire nations, and courts have given these entities more rights than people. To many Americans, corporate power seems out […]

Thanks to Peter Coyote:
A must read on our current economics
“It is through the newspapers and TV channels that the
socially destructive notions of a small group of
extremists have come to look like common sense.”
The Guardian UK
By George Monbiot
Tuesday 28 August 2007
A cabal of intellectuals and elitists hijacked the
economic debate, and […]

Introduction
Economic development in LDCs [Least Developed Countries] is very hard and, historically, prone to failure.  It rarely fits neatly into corporate time frames, earnings requirements or agendas.  Nor does it fit neatly into either political time tables or within shifting political agendas in “donor nations”. To date, nobody has figured out how to do it […]

It looks like we are in for a nasty economic storm as the greed driven subprime loan bubble bursts. We are about to experience the unintended consequences of unregulated, transnational capitalism, without the tools to regulate it knowledgeably or to understand its emergent vulnerabilities.
Bush and the Republicans have thrived upon a culture of greed. […]

If today’s candidates for President have a broadband strategy for rural America, it amounts to little more than bringing the inadequate and over priced broadband offered up to urban residents to their country cousins. This is hardly a path towards recapturing global communications leadership for America. More of the same old same […]

The recent FCC decision concerning the upcoming spectrum auction clearly shows that the FCC creates policy that best suits the business plans of the companies that spend the most on lobbying. Clearly, this FCC policy is NOT based on what is best for the future of nation. This FCC shows no leadership.
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