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If you haven’t yet watched Loose Change 2nd Edition - a documentary on 9/11 - it is worth a close viewing.  You can also see it online.  Share it with your friends and colleagues.
Also read this article by Bill Christison, a former CIA senior official: Stop Belittling the Theories about September 11th.

Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, is named using the Thai words ‘thamma’ and ’sat’. Like many words in the Thai language, they derive from their Pali and Sanskrit ancestors. ‘Thamma’, like the Pali ‘dhamma’ and Sanskrit ‘dharma’, roughly translates as ‘truth’, ‘doctrine of truth’, or ‘way of truth’. In Sanskrit, ‘Sat’ [...]

My EFL students are repeat victims of institutional violence. When given the opportunity to take control of their learning, they get nervous, confused, and irritable; and like sailors on a sinking ship, they look desperately for rescue. From the very beginning of their formal education, they have rarely been encouraged to [...]

Concerning Tennessee’s use of new technology to improve test scores in education, Paul Chenoweth has this to say:
If this is an effort to advance technology use by teachers and administrators, let’s call it what it is: a new system to track progress in making our students better test takers.
He’s smack on. What does [...]

The intense discussions we’ve been having behind the scenes over at Dekita.org in the last few months have got me thinking more about P2P as a way of being. As Michel Bauwens argues in P2P and Human Evolution, P2P has always existed as a relational dynamic in human societies, especially in the more egalitarian [...]

Here is Robert Patterson on Going Home:
I believe that Social Software is a vector to a return to an old culture.
When I say old culture, I mean the culture that fits the essential nature of humans and that fits nature itself. I imagine a return to the custom of being personally authentic, to a definition [...]

Earlier this week I sat down on my tatami floor here in Kyoto and voted for president. On the ballot were listed three offices: President, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Representative; each with candidates representing four parties: Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Constitutional. For any of you who follow American politics, you may recognize [...]

Rebecca Blood (via dangerousmeta) directs us to an excerpt from Cornel West’s upcoming book, Democracy Matters. In it, he writes:
Democracy matters are frightening in our time precisely because the three dominant dogmas of free-market fundamentalism, aggressive militarism, and escalating authoritarianism are snuffing out the democratic impulses that are so vital for the deepening and [...]

The less you are and the less you express your life, the more you have and the greater is your alienated life. - Karl Marx
In To Have or To Be?, Fromm defines two different human modes of existence: having and being. In the having mode, life is seen as a substance and the [...]

In Erich Fromm’s classic 1941 work, Escape from Freedom, he argues that the future of democracy depends on the realization of true individualism. He writes:
The victory of freedom is possible only if democracy develops into a society in which the individual, his growth and happiness, is the aim and purpose of a culture, in [...]