- Break away from conventional trickle-down economics.
A future-friendly economics is necessary, and possible.Poverty is man-made, and not inevitable.
Produced by a myopic worldview, there is an alternative.
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eBooks on Barnes & Noble
Here are the links to the eBooks on Barnes & Noble. 10% off your order – use code Fall10 Enjoy the feast! Celebrate your independence! “Alternative Economics: Reversing Stagnation” translated by Marc Batko, $3.99 https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/alternative+economics%3A+reversing+stagnation?_requestid=5573331 “Poverty Returns with Misguided Policy” … Continue reading
New eBooks “Alternative Economics: Reversing Stagnation” edited by Marc Batko, Poverty Returns with Misguided Policy” by Franz Segbers and “Philosophical Reflections on the Economic Crisis: From Obscuristan to Absurdistan” by Marc Batko
NEW EBOOK “ALTERNATIVE ECONOMICS: REVERSING STAGNATION” EDITED BY MARC BATKO, ONLY $3.99, 216 PP Available from Barnes & Noble https://books2read.com/u/mBM6MA?store=bn Available from Scribd https://books2read.com/u/mBM6MA?store=scribd Available from Apple https://books2read.com/u/mBM6MA?store=apple Mainstream market-radical economic theory has led to exploding inequality, cynicism and resignation … Continue reading
Video: “Super Amigos,” (2007), 1 hr 15 min
https://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/super_amigos In Mexico City, five real-life “social wrestlers” have capitalized on the popularity of Mexico’s larger than life Lucha Libre wrestlers to fight for social justice rather than trophies. Wearing custom masks, costumes and capes like the wrestlers who inspired … Continue reading
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Capitalism in the Faith Crisis
Capitalism in the Faith Crisis by Franz Segbers, 2010 http://la.indymedia.org/news/2017/05/295339.php Trust in the “invisible hand” is a religious exercise ensuring a rule over people that is destructive and deadly. Capital and its multiplication claim an all-determining authority in the religion … Continue reading
30 minutes with Matthew Fox
http://www.kboo.fm/media/50610-way-god Paul O’Brien interviews Matthew Fox on his Pathways program broadcast on KBOO.fm. Matthew Fox is the author of the new book, A Way to God: Thomas Merton’s Creation Spirituality Journey. Thomas Merton was an American Catholic writer and mystic, … Continue reading
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Partially Examined Life – Kierkegaard on the Self, 32 min
A philosophy podcast & blog. Enjoy! http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2010/11/21/episode-29-kierkegaard-on-the-self/ Discussing Soren Kierkegaard’s “The Sickness Unto Death” (1849). This is a 32-minute preview of our vintage 1 hr, 56-minute episode which you can buy at partiallyexaminedlife.com/store or get for free with PEL Citizenship … Continue reading
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Breaking the Frozen Soul
Here are several thoughts from philosophy and theology when the strong winds shake everything but the Wall Street banks. You can watch “Capitalism: A Love Song,” “We’re Not Broke,” “War Made Easy,” “Iraq for Sale,” “War on Whistleblowers,” “Fish Out … Continue reading
Thy Kingdom Come by Friedrich Schorlemmer
Thy Kingdom Come by Friedrich Schorlemmer http://www.oocities.org/marc_batko/thykingdom.html Friedrich Schorlemmer was born in 1944 in Wittenburg. Since the beginning of the seventies, he was engaged in the peace- and environmental movements of the DDR (east Germany). From 1970 to 1978, Schorlemmer … Continue reading
“Believing without Seeing” by Margot Kassmann, December 2003
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/12/277205.shtml “Faith is a gift. But faith is also sought and gained by struggling with doubt. For the disciples or the people who want to follow Jesus today, faith is based on the venture of entrusting oneself.” Margot Kasemann is … Continue reading
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Bread of Life
. A Meditation by Christoph Fleischer, 2013, translated from the German BREAD OF LIFE Sermon on John 6, 47-51 by Christoph Fleischer [This sermon published on February 26, 2013 is translated from the German on the Internet, http://www.der-schwache-glaube.de/?p=1583.] “Truly, truly, … Continue reading
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