Reproduced from: http://www.binzagr-institute.org/working-paper-no-114/ Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity Working Paper No. 114 October 2016 The Monsters Within: Capital, Cancer, and Crisis Benjamin C. Wilson Abstract This paper critiques Marx’s use of the vampire as a metaphor for capital, by suggesting that cancer offers political economists a more appropriate lexicon to describe capitalism’s exploitative and destructive nature.… Read More
Published on Nov 28, 2016 Detailed Index – Professor Richard Werner’s Talk: 1 – Why is banking so important for the economy, society and the sustainable development of regions and communities? 2 – What causes the recurring boom-bust cycles and crises? 3 – What policies or banking systems have historically been most successful in avoiding… Read More
Published on Jul 22, 2016 Join us in #SeeingWetiko Adapted from http://www.kosmosjournal.org/news/video-seeing-wetiko/ By author and spoken word artist Alixa Garcia Produced by Raynald Leconte and Even Blouin Editor VFX John Bosch Music by David Schommer Wetiko is an Algonquin word for a cannibalistic spirit that is driven by greed, excess and selfish consumption (in Ojibwa it is windingo, wintiko in Powhatan).… Read More
Reproduced from http://rianeeisler.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/KosmosJournal-SS2014-Eisler.pdf Cultural Transformation: Building a Partnership World by Riane Eisler Can we build a world where our great potentials for consciousness, caring and creativity are realized? What would this more equitable, less violent world look like? How can we build it? These questions animated my research over the past four decades. They arose… Read More
Reproduced from http://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/imago-integralis-the-aesthetics-of-integral-life/ Imago Integralis: The Aesthetics of Integral Life By Alexander Schieffer I. Longing for the Integral Life This article introduces a new integral perspective on life and provides clues of what it might mean to live life as a contribution to the cultural renewal, aesthetic unfolding, and holistic development of self and society, community… Read More
After December Comes January: A Cautionary Reflection Patrick Martin, MD December 14, 2016 Legend has it that Kittitians and Nevisians must have a good Christmas. Never mind the trials and tribulations of the rest of the year; we scratch and save for the ham, turkey, curtains and bubbly. The background to the legend is Massa… Read More
Over the past few days, Pandora’s Box was opened after the much-anticipated release of John Pliger’s latest documentary entitled The Coming War on China. John Pilger 2016 1:52:35 The Coming War on China is a warning that nuclear war is not only imaginable, but a ‘contingency,’ says the Pentagon. The greatest build-up of Nato military… Read More
Reproduced from: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/09/trumps-second-gilded-age-overcoming-the-rule-of-billionaires-and-militarists/ Trump’s Second Gilded Age: Overcoming the Rule of Billionaires and Militarists by Henry Giroux http://www.counterpunch.org | 2016-12-09 During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump made it clear that he liked the uneducated and that once he assumed the presidency, he would appoint a range of incompetent people to high ranking positions that would insure… Read More
There is an unholy alliance between our money system, business management practices and our politics. I have come to this conclusion recently based on the happenings here at home and in the wider global arena.
All three, based on credit creation, vocational management, and public policy creation and implementation, respectively, revolve around a monoculture of ideas that reinforce each other in self-serving ways. They manufacture dysfunctional disorderly behaviours at all levels from the individual up to our institutions, be they local, regional or international. These initial public goods and services have been captured by private-money vested interests, and are manipulated for self-serving wants out of greed and fear of scarcity, not out of love for human and community development and self-sufficiency.
Over the past week, several memes grabbed my attention as they have made me rethink and helped me to put into context our local dysfunctional disorderly politics. Although they refer to the global context of nation states, physical warfare, the presidency representing “the inner soul of the people”, and civilisation’s race to the bottom, the… Read More
Source: Holt-LunstadJ, Smith TB, Layton JB (2010) Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review. PLOS Medicine 7(7): e1000316.
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316
