The Truth Shall Set You Free

to make informed choices.

Table of contents:

Innovation and Education

Economy, Environment and Earth

New Earth vs. New (Old) World Order

Geopolitics and Energy

Inter- and Intra-national Relations and Social Justice

on second page (linked at bottom)

Health

on second page (linked at bottom)

Food and Other Nourishment

on second page (linked at bottom) 

Sexuality and Gender

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Innovation and Education: Political, Social, Economic, Environmental and Technological

With High Unemployment, Time Banks Offer an Alternative Way to Earn

The Couchsurfing Culture is Spreading Across the Planet

Turning Capitalism on its Head by Cooperating for Sustainable Food

Why Workplace Autonomy is the Way of the Future

Imagine a World Where People Love Their Jobs

J.K. Rowling Harvard Commencement Speech

Inspiring

The Economic Revolution Is Already Happening - It's Just Not on Wall Street

31 Ways to Jumpstart Your Local Economy

Seattle Doctors Try Flat-Rate, No-Limit Primary Care

Mondragon Worker-Operatives Decide How to Ride Out a Downturn

A Solar Revolution May be Coming to Your Town

New Thinking on the Economy

The Financial Crisis Is Too Dire to Be Left to Politicians

Deafeating the Multinationals is Just the Start of the Problem for the Anti-Globalization Movement

Bolivia's movement to democratize access to water and other basic needs

PARECON and Polity

The values of PARECON as they relate to political structure.

Michael Albert: PARECON

This is a full-length book, offered in its totality online.  It describes a complete social and economic vision, and is a very important work.

 

The Human Rights Problem of Articulating Collective Voice for the Most Marginalized

Looking at this issue through the lens of public health

Rethinking the Promise of Critical Education

The Venus Project

Learn about the vision of a resource-based economy.  Free ebook available for download.

Zeitgeist: Addendum

Introduces The Venus Project

Also see the original film, "Zeitgeist, the Movie", below in the New Earth vs. the New (and Old) World Order section.

Obama's YouTube Plan - Is It Really That Important?

Interview between Barbara Marx Hubbard and Jean Francois Noubel

A conversation about social solutions, spiritual evolution and bliss.  Inspiring.

 

Our Economy, Our Environment and Our Earth

Air Conditioning is Terrible for the Earth - Here's How to Live Without It

How a Tiny Town Sent an International Water Giant Packing

Life After Oil: Cuba Can Teach Us How to Live Without Our Dirty Fossil Fuel Addiction

video from Fault Lines - In Deep Water: A Way of Life in Peril

The Dollar Might Be Having Problems...

Gulf Residents Gassed; Florida Prepares Evacuation

Part 1 of 4

Why We need Bees and More People to Become Organic Beekeepers

New Proposed Climate Change Bill in Washington Is Simpler and More Equitable

What America's 'Crisis' Means to the Rest of the World

An excellent historical expose, by Noam Chomsky, of state capitalism in the U.S. and its effects around the world.  Note: There is an error in the copy.  The first 2-1/2 pages are repeated.

Indigenous Tribes: "We Are Fighting for Our Lives and Our Dignity"

The Market? A Paper Tiger

How to measure the value of cooperation

Grant Theft Auto: How Stevie the Rat Bankrupted GM

The Dark Side of Plan Colombia

Good News There's a Climate Bill -- Bad News It Stinks

How the "NAFTA Flu" Exploded

Hemp Isn't Pot; It's the Economic Stimulus and Green Jobs Solution We Need

The Scavenger's Manifesto

In India, Women Farmers Ready to Beat Climate Change

How to Pay for a Global Climate Deal

Your Favorite Organic Brands are Mostly Owned by Mega Corporations

The Department of Homegrown Security

The Military's Expanding Waistline: What Will Obama Do with KBR?

Many Employers Are Just Using the Recession to Stick it to Workers

Global Environmental Collapse Must Be Addressed as Part of Discussion on the Economy

"Recovery" has now been precluded.

Is It Possible to Be a Conscientious Meat Eater?

The Campaign to Loot Social Security

Everything Still Looks the Same, But We've Become a New Country

Is America on the Brink of a Food Crisis?

Stop Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic and Nationalize the Damn Banks

Now how about the Federal Reserve, too?

A 'Green Tsunami' in Brazil: The High Price of Clean, Cheap Ethanol

The Next Real Estate Crisis: Shuttered Stores and Empty Malls

Offers a different solution to the economic crisis that what has generally been proposed.

End the Era of Marijuana Prohibition

Obama's Team Signals It's Taking the Taxpayer Ripoff Route to Saving Our Financial System

Organic and Sustainable Farmers Can Feed the World

Did Speculation Fuel Oil Price Swings?

Another example of how markets do not serve the common good.  For an alternative, read PARECON (link on this page).

What Am I Bid for the American Wild?

Free Market Myth

The Shadow Money Lenders: The Real Significance of the Fed's Zero- Interest-Rate Policy (ZIRP)

Boatloads of Trouble: How We Are Importing our Way to Destruction

Was the 'Credit Crunch' a Myth Used to Sell a Trillion-Dollar Scam?

Michael Albert: PARECON

This is a full-length book, offered in its totality online.  It describes a complete social and economic vision, and is a very important work.  PARECON stands for participatory economics. 

How We Can Live with Less and Still Feel Rich

5 Ways to Usher in the Green New Age

It's Official: We're Just a Few Years from Peak Oil

Blacks and Immigrants Bring in the Union

What it (still) takes to get justice at work

A World Enslaved

Autoworkers Forced to Take Concessions in Industry Bailout

Another example of the inhumanity of capitalism

9 Christmas Gifts You Can Give to Your Mother... Earth

The Good Life Doesn't Have to Cost Us the Planet

A vision of the future

Bolivian President Evo Morales: 20 Ways to Save Mother Earth and Prevent Environmental Disaster

Van Jones: How We Can Lead Our Country Out of Crisis

Interview with the founder of Green for All

Is the Latest Eco-Term Just Corporate Hype?

Big questions arise about the concept of "water neutrality".

Soil Not Oil: Why We Need to Kick Petroleum out of Our Farms

How Buying Fewer Clothes Can Help Us Make a Difference

Having a 'Better' Economist in Obama's Cabinet Won't Cut It

What it will really take to turn things around.  It's actually pretty simple.

Financial Expert Max Keiser on the Bailout

A video in which someone refreshingly speaks the truth.

How to Stop the Looming Depression Without Lining Fat-Cat CEOs' Pockets

The G-20 Statement in plain English

A translation of what the world's rulers have planned, by Catherine Austin Fitts

The Nasty Truth: Free Trade Agreements May Scuttle Green Jobs Plans

These agreements have been created by both parties.  Their existence means that any change will have to be world-wide.

If the GOP Had Listened to ACORN's Advice, the Mortgage Industry Wouldn't Be in Meltdown

And this is the organization that the GOP is now scapegoating.

Can Obama See the Grand Canyon?  On Presidential Blindness and Economic Catastrophe

More evidence that the only solution is to take power into our own hands rather than giving it away to anyone.

Zeitgeist: Addendum

Globalization, the U.S. empire and the solution: an alternative to profit-based economies. Very worth viewing and thinking about.

Also see the original film, "Zeitgeist, the Movie", below in the New Earth vs. the New (and Old) World Order section.

The Age of Unbridled Consumption Just Ended

Short and to the point.  The only idea I'd take issue with is that only those who DON'T suffer catastrophic losses get to learn lessons.  I'd say we're all learning, just in different ways.

Toyota Driving Global Automakers' Race to the Bottom

I was going to buy a Corolla.  Now I don't think so.  This is why we need to think globally about change.

Ten Ways to Bail Out Wall Street (and Main Street) Without Soaking Taxpayers in Debt

An interesting piece to get you thinking about real options for our economy.

Michael Moore: Here's How to Fix the Mess on Wall Street

Another collection of ideas, some great.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich Rejects $700 Billion Bailout

One Congressman who stood firm; his perspective is worth remembering, even though the vote is over.

Meltdown and Bailout: Why our Economic System is on the Verge of Collapse

Worth reading if you'd like to understand all the root causes.

Talk at a Venezuela Conference on the Crisis of Capitalism

by Michael Albert

This describes an economic and social model that I wholeheartedly support.  It's called PARECON.

Free Water: Harvesting Rainwater is Catching on in the US

See?  There's lots of reason for hope.

Beyond Carbon: Scientists Worry About Nitrogen's Effects

Another reason to go organic.

Turning Your Lawn into a Victory Garden Won't Save You - Fighting the Corporations Will

Although I don't resonate with the "fighting" idea anymore, this illustrates that the issues are bigger than some of the proposed solutions, so we need to think... and BE bigger.

Mother Earth's Triple Whammy

How North Korea served as the world's canary and what's in store for us all.

The Folly of Turning Water into Fuel

Agribusiness and politicians are sucking our country dry with mandates for biofuels.

The Story of Stuff

A video that's both highly educational and wonderfully entertaining (great for kids and adults).

The Wages of Peace

Busting some myths about the economics of war and peace.

The Next President's First Task [A Manifesto]

Carbon dependence has eroded our economic power, destroyed our moral authority, diminished our international influence and prestige, endangered our national security, and damaged our health and landscapes. It is subverting everything we value.  By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Making a Killing from Hunger

Where current international food policies have gotten us.

The problem and the solution from Catherine Austin Fitts:

The Tapeworm Economy

Coming Clean

 

The New Earth vs. the New (really the Old) World Order: political, economic, social and spiritual problems and solutions

including exposes of the truth about 911

Is it Time to Replace the American Dream?

UN Address: Dialogue on the Responsibility to Protect

Torture and Truth

Blueprint for Total Control

Torture Continues at Guantanamo Bay

And it's worse than we thought.

Conspiracy of Silence

56-minute video

Obama as Manchurian Candidate

Video with interview of Webster Tarpley.  The interview begins around 9 minutes into it.  A brief version of the points made may be found in the video below, also by Webster Tarpley. 

The Men Behind Barack Obama Part 1

Part 2 is linked to this page.

1934 General Strike Laid Basis for Counterculture

In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood and Bioterrorism

2.5 hour video

I Was Illegally Detained by the U.S. Government and Held in CIA-Run "Black Sites"

Labor Needs a Radical Vision

The Library

Insider information from a selfless group

9/11: Press for Truth

Loose Change

A 2-hour video about 911 and its cover-up

Companies Are Marketing Police State Normalcy to Children

Secrets of the CIA

A 45-minute video documentary

The Bush Family Tentacles

Is Obama really in charge?

The Secret Government

A PBS video from 1987, still valid today.

Can Labor Revive the American Dream?

How the U.S. Army Field Manual Codified Torture - and Still Does

Obama's Black Widow

The extent to which we're being spied on.

Mass Rape in the Congo: A Crime Against Society

The Top 40 Reasons to Doubt the Official Story of September 11, 2001

911 Fraud: David Ray Griffin

This is a video of Part 1 of a TV program.  There is a link to Part 2 on the page.

Michael Albert: PARECON

This is a full-length book, offered in its totality online.  It describes a complete social and economic vision, and is a very important work.

The Left Gatekeepers Phenomenon

How to explain much of the Left's unwillingness to expose the truth of 911?

5 Ways to Usher in the Green New Age

Rove's IT Guru Warned of Sabotage Before Fatal Plane Crash; Was Set to Testify

The state of our self-government and what the rulers are capable of

Be the Change

Chomsky: Is There Truth in Obama's Advertising

Theater of War: Portrait of  Homeland Security State [with photo slideshow included]

Learning to Lead

Disposable Youth in a Suspect Society

Perhaps the most important part of our agenda for the future.

Greg Palast on How Rove May Have Already Stolen the 2008 Elections

Includes a great discussion on where race and racism currently stand in America, which is why it's worth reading even if we're past the election.

The Ultimate 911 Truth Showdown

David Griffin, author of many books on 911, shines in this debate.

Interview with Ralph Nader

Nader is best at revealing the potential of an engaged citizenry.

The Bailout: How Capitalism Killed Democracy

Naomi Wolf asks: Can't we be revolutionaries?

An interview on her latest book and how to re-empower ourselves.

Are You Ready for the New Earth?

Channeled information on what's happening now and what lies ahead.

How to Enjoy the Shift

by master spiritual teacher Jim Self

Watch the videos below while they're still available online.  Most are full-length movies.  Some also discuss the spiritual solution.

Zeitgeist, The Movie

Exposes and explores religious myths, 911, the Federal Reserve Bank and more.  Ends with challenge to reclaim our power with Love.

America: Freedom to Fascism

Full-length film by acclaimed producer, Aaron Russo.  Includes illegality of the income tax and the Federal Reserve Board.

The Truth and Lies of 9/11

Michael Ruppert's work, chock-full of evidence, and about much more than just what happened on 9/11.

Wake Up Call - New World Order Documentary - 2008

Kymatica 

This is an excellent full-length film, produced by Ben Stewart.

JFK Telling Us the 911 Truth

Our Energy and Geopolitics

Pipeline-Istan: Everything you Need to Know about Oil, Gas, Russia, China, Iran, Afghanistan and Obama

Three Mile Island: Exposing the Government's Coverup of Our Most Infamous Nuclear Accident

The Race to Zero Point Energy

109 minute video

Why Obama's Plan to Help Renewable Energy May Backfire and Aid Big Coal

The Energy non-Crisis

Lindsey Williams' video on energy manipulation and a lot more.

Free Energy - A Reality, Not a Conspiracy

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