If you appreciate our work, and want to contribute to genuine, independent media, consider visiting our Support Page. Must Reads Michael Hudson: Why Failing to Solve Personal Debt and Polarization Will Usher in a New Dark Age (Lengthy, but fascinating article, Naked Capitalism) The Increasingly Unhinged Russia Rhetoric Comes From a Long-Standing U.S. Playbook (The Intercept) What JPMorgan and Citigroup Have in … Read more
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Today’s post will be the fifth and final article this week exploring how a human consciousness development model known as Spiral Dynamics can help us understand the increasingly insane world around us, as well as chart a path forward. To fully grasp the concepts in today’s piece, you should read the prior four articles. I know it’s a … Read more
I have, in numerous previous publications (especially Integral Psychology) given the details of many of those researchers. Here I will simply use one of them as an example. The model is called Spiral Dynamics, based on the pioneering work of Clare Graves. Graves proposed a profound and elegant system of human development, which subsequent research has … Read more
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After coming under attack, the alternative media successfully appropriated and reassigned the now ubiquitous term “fake news” to a variety of disingenuous mainstream media outlets. The corporate media is not too happy about this, and is doing what it does best (aside from cheerleading for war). It’s whining about it to its readers. Nothing more perfectly highlights the mainstream media’s … Read more
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If you appreciate our work, and want to contribute to genuine, independent media, consider visiting our Support Page. Must Reads Goldman Sachs Continues to Run America Under Trump (Depressing, but accurate, The Intercept) How Clinton Lost Michigan — and Blew the Election (Politico) Sean Hannity Interviews Julian Assange (YouTube) Hillary and Hypocritical Democrats Aren’t Defending American Democracy from Foreign Meddling, They Are a Clear … Read more