Archive for March, 2010

It’s up to citizen journalists

March 31st, 2010

America’s media and education systems report only “official” versions of events.  Objective reports are suppressed and whistle blowers are often threatened or persecuted.  But the internet is a game changer, allowing people to discover and report current facts, and to re-discover lost history that was hidden and distorted to serve government interests of power and control.

In the People’s Media, free and open to all with access to the internet — on websites, YouTube, blogs, internet radio and tv — reports are scrutinized by thousands of truth seeking researchers who correct errors in open discussions and add their own analyses.  And truth is being told in ways far more creative than traditional classroom texts and lectures.

One example is author-artist team Susan Wells and Scott Beiser, whose enjoyable graphic book dramatizes the history of America’s prohibition laws, in a tale that echos Dicken’s A Christmas Carol.  Click to view and  read A Drug War Carol on line and join the grassroots movement to bring truth to the light.

SciFi Gandhi

March 23rd, 2010

The old Empire of Earth foolishly attacks settlers of the planet Gand, who are phipf3panel(panel1)losophic descendants of Gandhi.  The Gands rely on their motto “F.I.W.” — “the mightiest weapon ever thought up by the human mind.”

To find out why force and threats of violence are utterly futile on Gand, pf3panel(panel2) click here to read And Then There Were None, Eric Frank Russell’s delightfully droll and profound story. It was later incorporated into a novel titled “The Great Explosion” which received a Prometheus Hall of Fame Award.pf3panel(panel3)

Russell completed nine science fiction novels, and in 20000 was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal

March 2nd, 2010

fda bureaucratOrganic farmer Joe Salatin speaks for many small farmers when he laments the impossible bureaucratic controls that stop so many life and health giving approaches to food production, in this article.  In farming as in most areas of American life, people are utterly stymied by over-regulation, and the only way out is for people to take back local control and civil rights to choose one’s lifestyle and all peaceful activities without the hurdles and dead ends, fines, fees, and over-taxation faced by us all today.