by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 2, 2014 | Business & Economics, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
This TED Talk is one of urgent distinctions, namely that the attitude of Free Markets has a place in economics but not civic life. From corporatism to law to education, inequality is more and more based on net financial worth than standing as a human being and...
by Barry Fagin | Sep 1, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Originally published in the Colorado Springs Gazette as “Not one taxpayer dime for downtown stadium” on June 6, 2013} Not one taxpayer dime for a stadium downtown. Not one dime! I love baseball, always have. Heck, I pulled off an unassisted triple play in...
by Fulano de Tal | Aug 30, 2014 | Politics & Law
Colonialism and the Nation-State In essence, colonialism is the correct term to describe all politico-cartographic formations and the logic which, at a ‘high’ level, governs all hierarchical relations between communities. We would split the term in two. On...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 28, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
A video that I’ve seen passed around the last few years purports to be a historical expose Islam as inherently evil in deeds and a global agenda that will destroy the world if gone unchecked. The speaker is Bill French (alias “Bill Warner”)*, posing...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 26, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
This TED Talk speaks of a cause of terrorism that is rarely brought to the table (compared to our assumptions). This courting of the young isn’t into a “culture of death” but one of promise in a world of few opportunities and no social system of...
by Barry Fagin | Aug 25, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, May 23, 2013} Oh no! A highly successful American corporation has successfully avoided billions in taxes! I’m shocked, shocked to find that tax avoidance is going on in America. Congress should call a hearing...