IST Blogs
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Smile You’re on Candid Camera, Web, Phone, Social…
In a TED Talk: “Why privacy matters”, Glenn Greenwald compares Jeremy Bentham’s 18th-century architectural design originally intended to be implemented in prisons that he called...
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Lobbying: Corruption in the USA Under Another Name.
“Lobbying is not only much more prevalent in developing countries than previously thought but also much more effective than corruption as a means of influencing...
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Hagar in the Wilderness; an Iconography with a Renewed Meaning.
One of my favorite paintings is by the neo-classical painter Camille Corot and is named ‘Hagar in the Wilderness’. Painted in 1835 the painting illustrates...
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Zen and Now
It is difficult to not sit in constant judgement of yourself for failing to have maintained control over your life and surroundings in the past,...
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Let’s Remember to not have to Remember ever again!
On every November 11th at 11:00 o’clock we’re asked to take a moment and remember the Great War. Since most historians believe World War II...
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The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State.
Capitalism and Equality As an economic system based on private enterprise and markets, capitalism has been widely interpreted both as creative and productive for the...
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Why Do We Have Wars?
An imaginary letter from a ‘child martyr’ of the Syrian civil war. “Look around me, everything is destroyed. My world is gone forever. My girlfriend...
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We’re All Falling; Let’s Count the Ways
We are falling, humanity is falling, in so many ways, let’s count the ways. We live in a world that values maximizing personal gains at...
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The Perfect Metaphor for the Two-Party Oligarchy of the 1%
Titanic Lessons and Life-Saving Solutions for a Sinking World Many causes aggravated the situation resulting in the dooming of the “Unsinkable” Titanic. Contrary to popular...
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You’re Far More Powerful than You are Told!®
A crisis of spiritual intelligence Early in its history, religion exercised a stabilizing influence on society by helping people spiritually. It challenged us to be...
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Braving the Stormy Seas of 2020 and Beyond…
A Society based on rickety principles is headed for the bottom Our personal and collective troubles were already weighing too heavily on us when the...
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Too much junk food in your political diet? Welcome to the Egalitarian buffet!
The information you are about to consume is not meant to add caloric woes to your daily diet of political dia-tripes from rotten candied-dates and...
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Bearing the Blame for Illeagle Wars!
In Yemen, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, every day brings more news of bombing, death and destruction; every week will expose more broken truces and backroom deals...
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50 Outstanding Online Media Outlets!
Something to be thankful for! As the end of the winter is nearing, take a quick look at my “springtime” list of 50 outstanding Internet...
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Modern Dissent: A New Era of Effective & Peaceful Action for Real Change!
Triggered by polarizing crises, protesters are back in the streets all over the world. This will become the new normal given the dismal shape the...
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The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic
I really like to read books that reinforce the fact that of all the new ways to examine the lost meaning behind the gospels, the...
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The New Gilded Age: Tax and Economic Reform is the Only Way forward!
Higher wages, crackdown on tax dodging and higher investment in public services can stop the widening divide. Oxfam is calling for urgent action and is...
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The Buonarroti Code: A real life mystery far more thrilling that fiction!
More than five centuries ago, one of the Renaissance’s greatest artists Michelangelo Buonarroti “el divino” was the darling of the Catholic Church. The Papacy commissioned...
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The Bible and Literature: The Shape of the Bible
Renowned literary theorist, Northrop Frye, examines the pattern of U-shaped narratives in the bible that deal with loss, return, and deliverance. Between 1980 and 1982...
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That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.
The Pale Blue Dot video superimposes Mr. Sagan voice and narration over time lapse footage of Voyager 1 as it traveled out of our solar...
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Promoting Fair Discussions on Our Most Pressing Issues!
I would like to personally welcome you to It Starts Today! Should we just sit back while our society is brought to its knees by...