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As I blogged previously, I am intrigued by analyst Sam Vaknin’s concept of a “zombie state” – one which has ceased to…
Stuart Bramhall
I am a 63 year old American child and adolescent psychiatrist, activist and political refugee in New Zealand. I also have a newly published memoir The Most Revolutionary Act: Diary of of an American Refugee (see www.stuartbramhall.com) that describes the 15 years of intense government harassment I experienced before deciding to emigrate in October 2002. I also blog about this at www.stuartbramhall.com
Obviously the 2008 economic collapse – and the virtual paralysis of either the Bush or Obama administration in effectively addressing it –…
Noam Chomsky was one of the first to raise the possibility the US was becoming a failed state. He published Failed States:…
From 1968: the Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky Kurlansky discusses a total of sixteen popular uprisings – in addition…
South Africa has now been formally accepted into the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) economic alliance. The term BRIC was coined by…
For me the section on Prague spring and the student/intellectual uprising in Czechoslovakia is one of the most valuable sections of Mark…
Won’t You Please Come to Chicago (Cosby, Stills and Nash) Click to Play: iframe> Lyrics: Won’t you Please Come to Chicago by…
I have just read a fascinating book by British author Mark Kurlansky regarding the global liberation struggles that occurred in 1968. For…
There was a massive blizzard in Britain yesterday, closing both London airports. I find it very intriguing that the UK is experiencing…
Street reclaiming is a global, bottom-up movement to reclaim our neighborhoods from the automobile. David Engwicht, inventor of the Walking School Bus…