Month August 2007

Gates Foundation conflicted?

The Gates Foundation profits mightily from stock holdings in companies that sometimes help create the very same health problems it tries to address. The foundation has specifically said they will not alter the firewall between investments and charitable donations. The…

Who would declare war on the world?

The nature of super empowered individuals “In fact, we may have seen the the first of 5GW in the anthrax and ricin attacks on Capitol Hill. To date, neither has been solved. Apparently a small group, perhaps an individual, decided…

America: Neck-deep in netwar, and losing

Noopolitik: An alternative way of politics raising beside hard power driven realpolitik. Noopolitiks rely on knowledge, networking and soft power instead of hard power. From Bruce Sterling Ten years ago, at the diplomatic height of the “Washington Consensus,” famed military…