In an op-ed column in this morning’s Financial Times, former US Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, predicted “unanticipated adverse outcomes” resulting from the implementation of the Dodd-Frank bill recently passed by the Congress in response to the recent disastrous consequences resulting from years of deregulation, aided and abetted by Greenspan himself. The basis for his […]
Month: March 2011
UNTIL EVERYBODY KNOWS
Great news! Frances Fox Piven and Cornel West have organized a National Teach-In for Tuesday afternoon, April 5. The theme is “On Austerity, Debt, Corporate Greed and How to Fight Back.” Progressive luminaries such as Jeffrey Sachs, Heather McGhee, and Richard Trumka will be on hand. The event will be live-streamed over the Internet from […]
MEET GE, CORPORATE CITIZEN
Allow me to introduce you to General Electric, labeled by the NY Times this morning as “the nation’s largest corporation.” On second thought, let’s let GE introduce itself. Here, on its website, is how it describes its role as a corporate citizen: “GE’s approach to corporate citizenship and to business are[sic] driven by a common […]
SIX EASY STEPS TO AVOID THE COLLAPSE OF CIVILIZATION
A friend called my attention to a recent lecture by a brilliant young neuroscientist named David Eagleman. It’s called “Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization” and it is absolutely breathtaking in its explanation of the value and the importance of the Internet, and I urge you to click on the link and […]
IS FREEDOM ON THE MARCH?
From the Berlin Wall to Tiananmin Square, from Tunisia to Egypt, Bahrain to Yemen, Somalia to Saudi Arabia, freedom is on the march! Or is it? From Libya to Zimbabwe, Iraq to Afghanistan, Tibet to North Korea, freedom is being crushed. What lessons should we take from this mixed-bag of results in the growing worldwide […]
THE POWER OF MUSIC
Music touches the soul in ways that mere words cannot. That’s why I thought it important that the ideas regarding the advancement of the human race as articulated in this blog and on this web site be supported by music. On Day One, I felt “Power to the People” by John Lennon and his marching […]
WHO PAYS WHEN LEADERS FAIL?
What does it take to convince young men to take up arms and go into battle against other young men who they do not know, with whom they have no quarrel, and at the risk of their most precious possession: their lives. History may judge that on occasion the cause was just and the price […]