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WikiLeaks cables: Bangladeshi ‘death squad’ trained by UK government
Rapid Action Battalion, accused of hundreds of extra-judicial killings, received training from UK officers, cables reveal
The British government has been training a Bangladeshi paramilitary force condemned by human rights organisations as a “government death squad”, leaked US embassy cables...
December 22nd, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More
Genetically-Engineered Aliens?
Mirror-Image Cells Could Transform Science — or Kill Us All
Dmitar Sasselov was at the end of a long day of having his mind blown when the really big idea hit him. Sasselov, an astrophysicist and head of the Origins of Life Initiative at Harvard, was sitting in the front row of a packed lecture...
December 22nd, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More
Why the world needs WikiLeaks
he controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who’s reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED’s Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished — and what drives...
December 17th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More
A Police Chief with a Difference
Kiran Bedi has a surprising resume. Before becoming Director General of the Indian Police Service, she managed one of the country’s toughest prisons — and used a new focus on prevention and education to turn it into a center of learning and meditation.
Before she retired in 2007, Kiran...
December 16th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More
Wikileaks’ aim to defeat “Authoritarian Conspiracy”
The following is an interesting analysis (by ‘zunguzungu’) of a text by Wikileaks leader Julian Assange, probably written around 2006.
See the paper: State and Terrorist Conspiracies
For additional analysis, see here.
By Michel Bauwens for the P2P Foundation
Analysis:
(nearly quoted in full)
“Most...
December 14th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More
The Daily Mail Strikes Back
This article was the front page news in the Daily Mail on Easter Sunday. The staunchest anti-drug newspaper in the UK has set its sights on the Beckley Foundation. The article does its best to sensationalize and twist the Beckley’s views – e.g. claiming that we are calling for all out, immediate...
April 6th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More
Requiem for a Crowded Planet – What does the Failure of Climate Talks mean?
Is this what the failure of the climate talks means.
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 21st December 2009
The last time global negotiations collapsed like this was in Doha in 2001. After the trade talks fell apart, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) assured the delegates that there was...
December 22nd, 2009 | Environment | Read More
David Nutt: Governments should get real on drugs
IF THERE is one thing that politicians can and should do to limit the damage caused by illegal drugs, it is to take careful note of the evidence and develop a rational drug policy. Some politicians find it easier to ignore the evidence, and pander to public prejudice instead.
(This interview is...
November 4th, 2009 | Drug Policy | Read More
SIXTH SENSE OR NONSENSE?
From Shift Magazine, by Marilyn Schlitz
Psychic phenomena (“psi” for short) are controversial from a scientific perspective because they imply a perceptual capacity that transcends the five known senses. This “sixth sense” seems to manifest differently according to need and context,...
August 18th, 2009 | Extended Mind | Read More
HEALING AS ART AND TECHNOLOGY
By Richard Grossinger
Since earliest times, our species has evolved two distinct traditions for the practice of medicine. One, the art of healing, is exactly that: an art, practiced through sympathy and intuition, cultivating its own training and techniques and requirements of skill and education. The...
August 18th, 2009 | Consciousness | Read More
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