Act now re TPP and Fast Track (toxic to democracy)
This month the US Congress could pass legislation that would make sure that complex trade agreements favored by multinational corporations – like …
End-of-year lists and wiser democracy
Several end-of-year lists for 2013 demonstrate that things are, indeed, getting better and better and worse and worse faster and faster. Personally, …
Climate Change and Collective Intelligence
Climate change is so big and pervasive we can hardly see it. There’s almost nothing in our collective lives that is bigger …
What’s going on with this Syria situation?
In the midst of a lot of confusing and wild reports from all sides about the Syrian situation, I found three articles …
Escaping the Left-Right Box-In Match
The “transpartisan” movement is only the tip of a very large and long-term “upwising” of people Left and Right (and otherwise) who …
Exploring the NSA controversy
What this post is about: The NSA surveillance controversy raises many questions – from our concept of “security” and the role of …
How to address corruption in the U.S. government and elections NOW
There’s a flash of hope here: A remarkable U.S. transpartisan group called Represent.Us is promoting a brilliantly designed Anti-Corruption Act. Check it out! The proposed law pulls together a number of anti-corruption and money-out-of-politics ap…
Are political dichotomies really so illusory?
Dear friends, In anticipation of challenges to my assertion that our political dichotomies – especially the liberal/conservative, blue-red divide – are illusions, I offer the following references: 1. The “Purple USA” map – http://en.wikipedia.org/…
Post-election: A collective shift from divided to wise
President Obama said in his 2012 victory speech that “we are not as divided as our politics suggests”. He also argued that we are more united than our politics makes us think we are. Finally, he hinted that we are more diverse than our politics su…
We need to reformulate political power now!
We need to reformulate political power. We need to do it now and we need to focus on it as central to our work on every issue, every vision, every outrage and hope. Our goal in reformulating political power must be to move from governance that pri…