Discussion may have once been a means to an end. What is it today? I can offer, to anyone who has a working definition, that discussion is a relationship between people as people exchange accurate data. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=GIR20080511&articleId=8942 Suppose people exchange inaccurate data and suppose someone claims that such an example of exchanging […]
‘A G8 agreement of an American policy to bring democracy to the middle east’
‘The UK and US are trying to bring democracy to the Middle East’; this style of media portrayal of UK and US foreign policy is an example of their level of learnt naivety. It may justify a major socio-political issue that is modern political apathy, the enthusiasm drainer being the notion that politics has become […]
Fixing the Assessment Roll – Revised – May 1, 2008
Fixing the Assessment Roll: Revised The recent Ground Report article on fixing the assessment roll in Dobbs Ferry got a lot of attention and comment. Paul Feiner took up the offer to form a task force to look into the issue and report its finding and recommendations to the Town of Greenburgh. Some of […]
Rereading Ron Paul’s Freedom Under Siege
Representative Ron Paul, M.D. (R-TX) www.RonPaul2008.com became a phenomenon in the 2008 USA presidential election campaign thanks to his provocative appearances in the TV debates and the echo effect of the Internet support they engendered. https://www.groundreport.com/Politics/The-Bomb-That-Heals On April 30th, Ron Paul’s book The Revolution: A Manifesto will be released generally to the public. Not having read […]
American Misanthropes
We can now give “campus rampage” killers and their lot a name: American Misanthropes. What’s unexpectedly unsettling about them is coming to realize (a) we created them, out of a toxic pot of existentialism … and (b) these killers look an awful lot like us. by Donald Croft Brickner So-called “campus rampage” murder […]
Some major Benefits of Globalization and Technology
Moreover, business organizations have also made possible the exchange of cultures and ideas across the continents. At no other time in human history has the exchange of goods and ideas been more prevalent as it is today. The world had become "flat" in terms of how information is shared and received; how business and trade […]