former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
Published on Aspects of India’s Economy/Vol 57, by Sandhya Srinivasan, May 2014.
… What are BMGF’s objectives?
Key elements of the BMGF strategy(5) – as described on the Foundation website – are as follows: Continuer la lecture de « The Gates Foundation in India: A Primer »
Published on Russia Today RT, May 27, 2014.
Circumstances surrounding the European and Ukrainian elections were far from being a mere coincidence.
The regime changers in Kiev decided to hold a presidential election on May 25, the same day as European Parliament elections, in order to demonstrate their desire to follow a European-centric foreign policy. Continuer la lecture de « Europe and Ukraine: A tale of two elections »
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Spiegel staff, May 26, 2014.
In a SPIEGEL interview, American data scientist Alex Pentland discusses how data streams can be used to determine the laws of human interaction. He argues the information can be used to help forge better societies.
Alex Pentland, 62, heads the Human Dynamics Lab at the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is considered one of the world’s leading data scientists. In his new book, Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread — The Lessons from a New Science, he argues that human communication behaviors follow the rules of mathematics. Continuer la lecture de « Interview with Alex Pentland: Can We Use Big Data to Make Society Better? – part 1 »
Published on Global Research.ca (first on Market Oracle), by Jo-Shing Yang, May 22, 2014.
A disturbing trend in the water sector is accelerating worldwide. The new “water barons” — the Wall Street banks and elitist multibillionaires — are buying up water all over the world at unprecedented pace. Continuer la lecture de « The New “Water Barons”: Wall Street Mega-Banks are Buying up the World’s Water »
Published on Contrary Perspective, by Anonymous, May 2014 (the author teaches at the collegiate level and prefers to remain anonymous).
Everyone knows that one has to go to school to receive a formal education and formal credentials. But schools are also social institutions. As institutions, schools often stand in the way of education. A competitive education driven by credentials is often responsible for lowering the self-esteem of both students and teachers as a consequence of grading and various other evaluation processes. Continuer la lecture de « Institutionalized Education: A Quasi-Anarchist’s Perspective »