Monthly Archives: October, 2009
Love As A Political Concept
We have been misdirected and kept ignorant of the understanding of love as a political concept. A concept of love is just what we need to grasp the constituent power of true democracy. The officially endorsed concept of love seems almost exclusively limited to the claustrophobic confines of the nuclear family. Love appears to have [...]
First License Issued To Montana Hemp Farmer
Montana has issued its first license for an industrial hemp-growing operation, setting up a possible test case of whether the Drug Enforcement Administration is willing to override a state law allowing propagation of the plant. Hemp is similar to illegal marijuana but without the mind-altering ingredient of the drug. Montana’s Legislature in 2001 approved the [...]
Global Democracy Equals World Peace
The real conditions that confront the project of world peace at first may seem daunting. Now with the Cold War well behind us and the first experiments with global order completed, we can look at a larger picture. We cannot help but recognize our planet as a sick body with the global crisis of peaceful [...]
James Madison Constitutional Republic
James Madison lead the way in creating new democratic institutional structures while writing The Constitution of the United States of America and the Bill of Rights. His writings in the Federalist Papers provided a method for creating a system of checks and balances, rights and guarantees. The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles [...]
Political Realism Transformative Reality
In my last post, Real Political Act Of Love, I reflect upon an alternative to the inadequate tradition of force to effect meaningful change. This stands upon political realism grounded in our current situation and the nature of transformative reality. Reality functions as an engine of change, transforming everything, and attempts to stop change proves [...]
Real Political Act Of Love
There seems to exist an unbridgeable gap separating the desire for true democracy from the global political economy. The human beings that produce value through cooperative and communicative networks rebel when monetized, privatized and exploited. With Violence and Contradictions Behind Us Global civil war, corruption of power over essential human needs, and the infinite toil [...]
A Peaceful Solution Bram Shiloh
Bram Shiloh answers many requests by performing an instrumental version of “A Peaceful Solution” for those who wish to provide their own vocals. Maybe we will eventually see a karaoke version and the message of peace will spread further than many now think possible. Now, when it seems that critical voices assail the status quo [...]
