“The future holds ominous portent, and signs of great hope. Which result ensues depends largely upon what we make of the opportunities.” – Noam Chomsky
A number of long-term trends are coming to a head in 2008, particularly within the United States, but also more broadly, affecting North America, the Western nations and the world as a whole. Among them are, to name a few of the most pivotal, in brief: a global crisis of legitimacy, stemming primarily from broad and deep popular opposition to the emerging framework of world order, which is most accurately described as global corporatism, or more starkly but appropriately, global feudal fascism; the unfolding and escalating war on democracy and attempted consolidation of domestic and global dominance by Western elites; rapidly deepening economic crisis; peak oil repercussions; escalating ecological fallout; escalating geopolitical maneuvers for maintaining imperial hegemony; the stealth coup of continental corporatism under the Security and Prosperity Partnership; and pretexts for fortification of existing powers in the heartland of the Western empire, with rapid and highly conscious movement from corporate dominated liberal democracy to full corporatist fascism, under an orchestrated state of emergency. These trends continue to unfold with increasing speed, while at the same time, there are also signs of great hope, as “the other superpower” – the people of the world – begin to awake.
While China, India, Russia and other powers rise rapidly as economic giants, and these BRIC alliance economies in particular, the global hegemony of the Western business elite is threatened, both from these rising external powers, along with rising popular opposition to neocolonial dominance abroad, and from within, by a growing and deep crisis of legitimacy, very much as former right hand man to French President Jacques Chirac, Jacques Attalie had predicted in his candid analysis, Millennium. Western elites believe the barbarians are at the gates, and worse, are in their midst – the masses becoming restless. In response, they grow increasingly desperate. A wounded predator is in its death throws, but as Chomsky has noted, a wounded predator is a dangerous animal. The following is an extremely concise overview of where we stand in light of global geopolitics, as of early 2008.
The Western political and business elite – particularly and most imminently with regard to the United States – face a severe and highly volatile crisis of legitimacy which is set to explode; in response, the elites want to lock-down their power while they have it. (See World Economic Forum global poll, 2002.) As international financier George Soros said recently, “We have to make major compromises now, or we will lose everything.” Clearly, the business elite do not wish to compromise, nor do they want to “lose everything”. The only alternative to these two options, therefore, is a power-grab: lock-down and consolidate while it is still possible. This is end-game. As Maude Barlow put it, it has come to a “global showdown” between the corporate elite and their empire of greed, and the people of the earth and democracy. The business elite may see a temporary victory, even though power lies ultimately with the vast majority, who in reality can only be ruled so long as we concede power and submit. In the not too distant future, the cooperation of the many with this unfolding corporate-fascist order will fall to critical levels, and the order will collapse. In the short term, a heightened and very ugly struggle between the forces of empire and those of democracy is likely – and is in fact, unfolding now at escalating speed.
Internal documents as well as public statements by the Western business and political elite show (corroborated by historical evidence of their actions, patterns, motives and methods) that a) they want global dominance secured in their hands; b) that this will require control over world oil supplies – primarily in the Middle-East and Canada; c) that imperial war, particularly for control over oil, will be necessary; d) that “catalyzing events” – aka false flag operations, such as the Gulf of Tonkin incident and others, as the Pentagon’s Operation Northwoods set out – will be necessary in order to provide a pretext for the imperial wars; e) that maintaining control over the homeland and heart of the empire during the present time of propaganda failure will require resort to force – ie: fascism; and f) that these considerations have been well thought out, and have been found acceptable to these same elites.
Western business elites seek control of world oil reserves as means of securing global dominance; are escalating and broadening the military and paramilitary operations across the oil rich Middle East for this purpose, along with others; are preparing for an attack on Iran sometime in the very near future; need, as Brzezinski also pointed out, another “Pearl Harbor type event” to provide cover for such operations; and will likely launch a “catalyzing event” to provide the justification and cover for their planned action – another 9/11.
The next 9/11 will provide a pretext for a) the attack on Iran to secure mid-east oil reserves, and b) the lock-down on power in the homeland, the heart of the empire – North America and Europe – via martial law and the full emergence of a police state.
The U.S.-led NATO forces that have been deployed to the Persian Gulf and eastern Mediterranean since late August 2006 indicate a military build-up of a scale that can only mean two things: war is planned for the near future; the scale of the planned war is much greater than Iran alone. It could be said that the size of the build up is a precaution, due to the foreknowledge that this is an extremely dangerous gambit: China and Russia are almost certain adversaries if the U.S. and NATO attack Iran. In either case, the time-frame is clear: such a massive deployment of military force – on the part of the U.S., with the involvement of French, German and British forces – is for a clear and imminent purpose. Military build-up as well as the usual preliminary saber rattling, statements by political officials, spin and PR deluge indicates a Western attack on Iran is not far off.
With Western elites set to attack Iran, the question is whether another false flag operation will be conducted to provide cover for the operation: ie: the “war on terrorism” propaganda stepped up by the artificial creation of another terrorist attack on “the Homeland” in order to squeak through one more imperial war before the lock-down on power is complete. And the indications are, yes. It is highly unlikely that the U.S. and Western powers would dare launch an extremely unpopular attack on Iran when the population of the world, including in Europe and the U.S., are deeply opposed to such an act, unless they first create a very strong pretext and justification for invasion. This is the need for another 9/11.
The next “terrorist attack” will destroy the constitutions of the Western world, and democracy, once and for all – or so it is hoped by the business and political elite who wish to rule unencumbered by “the masses.” As General Tommy Franks declared, the next attack will be the end of democracy. (It is hoped.) As 2008 unfolds, the war on democracy and the move toward fascism is becoming increasingly undeniable, particularly within the United States. What was unthinkable only a short time ago is now rapidly becoming a reality. It is furthermore becoming obvious that the attack on democracy is highly conscious. This is a power grab, a stealth coup. Another major terrorist attack would provide the rationalization for the full implementation of emergency powers and the suspension of all remaining civil liberties and democracy.
With the Western elites preparing for imminent attack on Iran, a pretext needed, and the “war on terror” fears needing to be stirred up to fever-pitch to allow for such an arrogant and extraordinarily dangerous, reckless and brazen move, the next “Pearl Harbor-type event” will likely be soon; and that event will usher in the fascist state: for all of the “North American Homeland” – as the Pentagon has declared the continent, echoing Nazi terminology – commencing with the United States, and soon after, for as much of the world as the Western elite can control, including, of course, Europe.
Also planned for 2007-2008 is the completion and implementation by stealth of the “regulatory framework” for the SPP/NAU: that is, the new government of North America is to be in place and fully functioning as a shadow government by 2007-2008. This is the unfolding of the “Security and Prosperity Partnership”, whereby Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are merged into one continental body, with one continent-wide corporatist regime, in what is being called the North American Union. That government is called the NACC: the North American Council on Competitiveness; and it is composed of 10 representatives from each of the three nations. This council of 30 which is the NACC, the new North American government, is already appointed – appointed by the business elite of North America; and it is composed of representatives from the biggest corporations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. (We already know their names, and which corporations they come from.) 30 CEO’s will govern the entire continent. “The Homeland” becomes a full-fledged corporate-fascist state.
At the same time, also to be expected from an attack on Iran – in fact, a guaranteed result, which is why the attack was likely delayed for some time until the financial elite had prepared their positions securely – is a huge spike in global oil prices. The effects on the destabilization of the U.S. and also the global economy will be very great.
Also at the same time, the U.S. dollar is already falling. Central banks the world over are pulling out. A run is about to commence. Capital flight will bring down the dollar, and the U.S. economy with it. Already the head of China’s central bank has said “We have enough [U.S. currency and Treasury Bonds].” The U.S. relies on $2.8 billion a day in foreign money coming into the U.S. system via the purchase of U.S. currency and Treasury Bonds, in order to off-set its $70 billion per month trade deficit. The main prop holding up the U.S. economy and U.S. dollar is the enormous inflow of money from China. Now China has said “We have enough.” The U.S. dollar is about to sink, and with it, the U.S. economy. In January of 2008 the S&P index of stocks of the 500 biggest corporations traded on Wall Street showed a 14.5% drop in value over the previous three months, showing a deepening of these trends.
When the U.S. dollar crashes, not only the U.S. economy follows with a crash, but the global economy as well. 66% of world currency reserves held by the central banks of the world’s nations are in U.S. dollars. With the crash of the U.S. dollar comes a global economic depression, if not system collapse. This is expected anytime over the near future by anyone who is paying attention.
As if all of that were not already enough crisis and turmoil for one very short period of time, to this we can add the reality of peak oil. In the fall of 2006 I predicted that, according to the best evidence available, and some of the best analysts on the subject, peak oil would hit between 2006 and 2008. When it does, oil prices will spike dramatically, and will continue to climb, likely quadrupling or more. As of February 2008, at the time of this writing, it is now being admited, not only that peak oil is a geolocial and economic reality, but that it occurred in 2007: peak oil is here. Oil prices did rise dramatically, going from US$50/barrel to US$100 a barrel in just over a year, following a slightly longer trend from $20 a barrel in 2004 to $100 a barrel at present, and rising – a five-fold increase in three years. As oil prices skyrocket, the cost of all shipping and transport becomes far more expensive. Virtually all consumer goods rise dramatically in price, including basics such as food. Costs for all businesses relying on transport or inputs or goods over long distances – most businesses now – go through the roof, and widespread bankruptcies, layoffs and unemployment ensues. In short, peak oil means global economic depression, and mass unemployment, poverty, homelessness and hunger. And this is hitting at approximately the same time as we are dealing with the new unfolding of a North American corporate-fascist state under the SPP and NAU/NACC, led by the business elite and their lobby groups, such as the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, the Business Round Table and the Council on Foreign Relations.
To add further complexity, the U.S. government under Bush has snuck through a law that makes mandatory the holding of a “REAL ID” national identity card for all Americans by May 2008. Since by May 2008 Canada, the U.S. and Mexico will have ceased to exist as nations in any meaningful sense – having been stripped of both sovereignty and democracy, the NAU/SPP being in place in operation if not public announcement, and “regulatory harmonization” under the NACC also having been quietly implemented by accommodating executive branches and high level bureaucrats – the “smart card” micro-chip-based REAL ID will become continent-wide. “Papers please.” The stage is then set for the introduction of electronic currency, via the universal smart card, which will be offered as a solution to both security issues and currency crashes. No card, no food. And since all personal data is stored on central databanks, accessed by a swipe of the card, being dubbed an “enemy combatant” without notice or trial can mean having all means of sustenance cut, with a few strokes on a remote keyboard, or one mouse-click, somewhere in the netherworld of the surveillance state. Any who hold the wrong opinions – that is, opinions that do not correspond to those the corporate rulers want us to have – can be silenced without even having to dispose of them to the detention centres (which are also under construction).
All of this is within the context of the greatest challenge humanity has faced in recorded history: the ecological crisis which we have set in motion, and which is now bearing fruit in the form of increasing and compounding disasters, leading towards systems breakdown and collapse, as Jared Diamond, David Suzuki, Ronald Wright and many others have warned.
It would seem that it is critical for anyone who does not wish to become a slave, or simply to be submerged in the deepening and interwoven crises of the time, to start to come together, and quickly, to build alternative means of sustaining ourselves and one another during the present time of rapidly unfolding troubles. Most will be swept into poverty by the global depression, compounded by the effects of energy shortage and growing ecological disaster. The middle class will be essentially vaporized across the Western world. Government services will be gutted – far beyond the mere cut-backs of the past twenty years – as corporate rule takes hold in full. Hunger and homelessness will be widespread and epidemic as poverty becomes the norm, as Jacques Attalie and others predicted some time ago. Meanwhile, those who can buy or sell in the new economy will be able to do so only insofar as they are willing to be silent and obedient slaves: dissidents will be shut down electronically, via the symbiosis of the electronic currency system, the universal smart card/ID, and the global surveillance state which serves corporate rule.
To be free in the new economy will mean being economically independent – and that does not mean being an employee, or relying on the monetary system. It means we need to establish parallel economies, whereby human needs and human freedom come first, not service to giant corporate feudal lords. We will need to establish sustainable cooperative local economies based in creative problem solving and mutual aid and common sense, and which operate parallel to and largely outside of the new economy: an economy which will leave only poverty under fascism for the majority, and slavery with perks for the “lucky” few.
There is not much time to prepare for such an unthinkable, but unfortunately real unfolding of events. The time to act is now, both to resist, to prepare to survive this ordeal, and to build alternatives for this ugly feudal fascist system’s inevitable demise.
The popular opposition to global corporatism has already reached great breadth and depth – as the World Economic Forum’s 2002 global poll showed, as well as the collapse of the WTO talks, as further noted by Canadian philosopher and former Governor General John Ralston Saul – and continues to grow, despite the unsuprising lack of coverage of this phenomenon in the corporate dominated network media. It is precisely because of this crisis of legitimacy and failure of the propaganda system that the Western elite are now seeking to consolidate power while they still can: through the resort to increasing use of fear as a means of public control, and more directly, through the use of force and state terror. But the crisis of legitimacy indicates the end of their reign approaches, just as it did for the regime of the former Soviet Union, less than twenty years ago.
Along with opposition to the present corporatist form of globalization, popular movements have for decades been busy experimenting with and developing working models of alternatives, in everything from green energy and transportation, organic farming and fair trade, to tools and models for authentic democracy and sustainable, just and peaceful communities. Everything we need to build a better world is here. We need only to act. And the time is ripe. Furthermore, there is no time to lose.
“In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very last.”
– U.S. long-term strategic planner and Trilateral Commission founder Zbigniew Brzezinksi,
The Grand Chessboard
Not only will the U.S. be the last nation state superpower, the last of the nation state empires: the end of empires more broadly – including the present trans-national corporatist empire – is about to be witnessed by a thankful and newly empowered humanity. Sadly, it seems we must first live through a period of darkness before the age of empires can be closed.
Do not forget that the sun also rises. Let us work together now for a better world for all. A new dawn is already on the horizon. I can see it clearly. It’s birth may be painful, but its splendour will be magnificent.
J. Todd Ring,
February, 22, 2008
Links and references:
The death of democracy in America: Time for a re-awakening
Smedley Butler and the Business Plot
Powder Keg USA: US heading toward fascism and civil war
HR 1955: The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
Fast-Track to Fascism: The SPP in a Nutshell
HEY YOU! Lefties, liberals and progressives – Listen up
On Libertarianism: Right & Left
Preparations for an Attack on Iran:
The Next War: Public in the Dark about Government’s Plans for War in Iran – Daniel Ellsberg
* “Cold War Shivers”: War Preparations in the Middle East and Central Asia
Debating World Domination: Bilderberg Meets in Canada’s Capital
ZNet |Foreign Policy | We Had a Democracy Once, But You Crushed It
9/11:
False Flag: A “Pearl Harbor Type Event”
Brzezinski warns of Pearl Harbor type event, a pretext for war on Iran
9/11: The “Perfect Opportunity” for North American Integration
Ex-Italian Prime Minister – ‘9/11 Carried Out By CIA and Mossad’ // Current
Former German Minister Says Building 7 Used To Run 9/11 Attack
9-11 Research: Insider Trading
More evidence of Pre-9/11 Inside Trading: Follow the Money? God forbid
911 Aftermath: Unanswered Question from 9/11 (pt.1) – video
911 Aftermath: Unanswered Questions from 9/11 (pt.2) – video
911 Aftermath: Unanswered Questions from 9/11 (pt.3) – video
THE TRUTH & LIES OF 9/11 – Michael Ruppert – video
War and Globalization – The Truth Behind September 11 – Google Video
** Senior Military, Intelligence, and Government Officials Question 9/11 Commission Report
9/11 Statement Signed by Prominent Americans
* Scientific Poll: 84% Reject Official 9/11 Story
* Radio Poll: 85% Of Canadians Believe 9/11 Inside Job
* Over 80% supported the stance of Charlie Sheen
9/11: Why the Official Theory Has Collapsed (opinion)
* Alex Jones warns about attacks before 911
ABC News: U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba
National Security Archive – Pentagon Proposed Pretexts for Cuba Invasion in 1962
Venezuela’s Chavez says Bush planned 9/11 attacks – video
Reichstag Fire, Hitlers 9/11 Fake terror to grab control! : SF Indymedia – video
TerrorStorm Delxue High Quality (Alex Jones) – Google Video
Dynasty of Death: Historical perspective on the Bush family
book – Day Of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor: Books: Robert Stinnett
9/11: Press for Truth – DVD Documentary
Celcius 9/11 – World Takeover and the War of Terror – CRG
9/11 Key Articles – Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG)
The emergence of fascism in the West:
*** Habeas Corpus Your words are lies Sir – YouTube – olbermann 10-18-06
***Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
Habeas Corpus, R.I.P. (12/15 – 2006)
Demolishing Democracy At Home and Abroad – Noam Chomsky video
The Return of Total Information Awareness – Bush Asserts Dictatorial “Inherent” Powers
Examples of the president’s signing statements – The Boston Globe
***The Secret Government – PBS – Google Video
Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex. – Video: 1961 Farewell Address
Power of Nightmares – BBC Documentary
Mind Control: America’s Secret War – History Channel Documentary
9/11 – the American Reichstag Fire and the Fourth Reich
The Pentagon Declares War on America
The limits of liberty: We’re all suspects now
Maher Arar: The Horrors of ‘Extraordinary Rendition’
*** Torture Inc. – America’s Brutal Prisons – BBC Documentary
* National Yawn as Our Rights Evaporate | bushcommission.org
* A Constitutional Shredding — Rounding Up U.S. Citizens | bushcommission.org
The End of Habeas Corpus and the Belligerent Despot-in-Chief – Ralph Nader
Ambassador to Death Squads – Who is John Negroponte?
On the Rise of Fascism – “The Great Transformation” Revisited
Harsh law set to live on, unexplained
*CRG – Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Laws – Rocco Galati
FSTV video – Noble lies and perpetual war: Leo Strauss, the neocons, and Iraq
Amazon.com: The CIA’s Greatest Hits (The Real Story Series): Books: Mark Zepezauer
Amazon.com: Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press: Books: Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair
Amazon.com: Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion: Books: Gary Webb
Necessary Illusions; Thought Control in Democratic Societies – Chomsky, online text
Year 501: The Conquest Continues – Chomsky, online text
Amazon.com: Open Society and Its Enemies (Volume 1): Books: Karl Raimund Popper
Noam Chomsky on the Trilateral Commission – from The Carter Administration: Myth and Reality
Amazon.com: Trilaterals Over America: Books: Antony C. Sutton
Amazon.com: Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time: Explore similar items
Skull and Bones K.O.’d – video
Zbigniew Brzezinski – The Grand Chessboard
***American Prison Camps Are on the Way
Rex 84: FEMA’s Blueprint for Martial Law in America
Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps
10-Year U.S. Strategic Plan For Detention Camps Revives Proposals From Oliver North
Fatal Vision: The Deeper Evil Behind the Detainee Bill
Top 10 Signs of the Impending U.S. Police State
Notes on the Progress of the Counterrevolution
How the Nazis Won the War – Chomsky Nazis Odonian
The Nazi Parallel – NSS & Fascism – NSS Churches US Fascism Herman
Trading with the Enemy The Nazi – American Money Plot 1933-1949
General Tommy Franks calls for Repeal of US Constitution
Air Force chief : Test weapons on testy US mobs – Sep 12 …
Noam Chomsky on Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest For Global Dominance – audio
War on Terrorism Watch: CAUT Resource Website – Home Page
The State of Democracy – counterSpin final edition
* Demolishing Democracy At Home and Abroad – Noam Chomsky, Freespeech TV
A Marxist Threat to Cola Sales?
Who are the Global Terrorists, by Noam Chomsky
On the Long and Bloody History of U.S.-Sponsored Terrorism – Chomsky – audio
America’s “War on Terrorism” – Chossudovsky
Amazon.com: The COINTELPRO Papers : Documents from the FBI’s Secret …
Ten Minutes to Midnight: The Emerging Police State – Z Store
SPP/NAU/NACC: The new corporate fascist government of North America, 2007
CBC – Top secret: Banff security meeting attracted U.S., Mexico officials
* CNN Video: Lou Dobbs Slams CFR & North American Union
*** De Facto North American Government in the Making: “Canadians must take back Canada”
Deep Integration – The Council of Canadians
**CFR Task Force Report – Building a North American Community
* CRG – Continental Integration of Military Command Structures: A Threat to Canada’s Sovereignty
* Documenting the rush to globalism – The August Review
* North American Union/Testimony, Publications and Reports – SourceWatch
*** Paul Martin’s Big Texas Adventure
Politics of Oil:
Video – Robert Newman History of oil – Google Video
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror – Google Video
“It’s the Crude, Dude” Linda McQuaig book launch
Peak Oil:
AlterNet: Will the End of Oil Be the End Of Food?
AlterNet: WireTap: Has the Long Peak – Oil Emergency Begun?
BBC NEWS | Business | ‘Peak oil’ enters mainstream debate
CNN – We Were Warned: Tomorrow’s Oil Crisis
Peak Oil alert – Houston Business Journal:
Peak Oil: The Energy Crisis of Oil Supply Depletion – full video
Re-Energizing America: Rescuing America from its Costly Fossil Fuel Addiction – Google Video
Mike Ruppert on Peak Oil – video
U.S. Faces “Economic Armageddon”:
* The Dollar’s Full-System Meltdown
Economic ” Armageddon ” Predicted
Dollar Catching Asian Flu – Asia Times
Arab central banks sell dollar
As Dollar Plunges, Watch for US Government Bonds Sell -off – DEBKAfile –
The War To Save The U.S. Dollar – Trinicenter.com –
Fears for dollar as central banks sell US assets
BBC NEWS | Business | Is the global economy set for trouble?
Collapse of the Petrodollar Looming
An empire at twilight:
Superpower’s global dominance in question
50 Years After Suez, US Hegemony Ebbing Fast
The Crumbling Empire: Latin America and Asia Breaking Free of Washington’s Grip – Noam Chomsky
The crisis of legitimacy:
Global corporate rule is now fragile
Confronting the Empire – Chomsky at the World Social Forum
REAL ID: Universal ID Cards
US National ID Cards by May 2008
National nightmare – ACLU of Southern California Campaign: Stop The Abuse of Power
Globalization and the rise of corporate power:
On Globalization – Noam Chomsky
On the New World Order – Chomsky
Rollback – Chomsky
* Thirdworldization of America
Chomsky: Global Economy – excerpts from The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Profit Over People – excerpts – Noam Chomsky
Emerging Framework of World Power – Chomsky – audio/video
Institutions vs. People: Will the Species Self-Destruct? – Chomsky – MIT video
150 CEOs rule Canada: Time to tame corporate power – Murray Dobbin
No Nonsense Guide to Globalization – book
The Globalization of Poverty – Chossudovsky
Alternatives:
Global Showdown: How the new activists are fighting global corporate rule – video
Confronting the Empire – Chomsky
Confronting the Empire – Chomsky – audio
Chomsky – Dismantling Empire, Building Democracy – audio – Chomsky
Another World: Alternative Ways to Globalization – audio/video
Rise Up Against the Empire – Chavez speach to UN
International Project for a Participatory Society – Z net
Peak Oil Primer/What Can Be Done? | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
The Community Solution to Peak Oil
The Community Solution: The Solution to Peak Oil
Cohousing Association of the United States
Intentional Communities Web Site: Home Page
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil – order video
Making Sweden an OIL-FREE Society
Nordic Countries Design Sustainable Communities: The Natural Step for Eco-Villages
How to pass a peak oil resolution | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
LETSystems home page – http–www.gmlets.u-net.com-
LETS Groups around the world – LETS-Linkup International LETS Directory
Hometown Money Starter Kit & Video
Transaction Net – How Currency Systems Work (a Money Map)
ZNet Parecon – Life After Capitalism – And Now Too
Amazon.com: Roads to Freedom: Books: B. Russell
Powers and Prospects – Chomsky
Mutual Aid A Factor of Evolution – Kropotkin – libcom.org library
Civil Disobedience – Henry David Thoreau – full text
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy: Books: Murray Bookchin
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future: Books: Riane Eisler
Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh: Books: Helena Norberg-Hodge
Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power
Amazon.ca: Another World Is Possible: Globalization and Anti-Capitalism: Books: David McNally
South End Press | Earth Democracy – Vandana Shiva
Looking Forward – Albert and Hahnel
No Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade – book
Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World: Books: Richard Heinberg
Amazon.ca: One Big Party: Books: Paul Hellyer
* Amazon.co.uk: Shambhala : The Sacred Path of the Warrior ( Shambhala …
Scientific American Mind: The Samaritan Paradox
Amazon.com: World as Lover , World as Self : Books: Joanna Macy
