John P. Milton is a meditation and Qigong instructor, author, and a pioneering environmentalist. He is the founder of Sacred Passage and the Way of Nature. About the book:
He pioneered vision questing in contemporary Western culture in the 1940s. In 1945, at the time he began his sacred solo retre[...]
Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. “Your rights [...]
How do we make sense of today’s political divisions? In a wide-ranging conversation full of insight, historian Yuval Harari places our current turmoil in a broader context, against the ongoing disruption of our technology, climate, media — even our notion of what humanity is for. This i[...]
Does it seem like Washington has no new ideas? Instead of looking to build the future, it sometimes feels like the US political establishment happily retreats into fear and willful ignorance. Journalist David Rothkopf lays out a few of the major issues that US leadership is failing to address — fro[...]
Golda Meir (Hebrew: גּוֹלְדָּה מֵאִיר; Arabic: جولدا مائير; earlier Golda Meyerson, born Golda Mabovich (Голда Мабович); May 3, 1898 — December 8, 1978) was a teacher, kibbutznik and politician who became the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. More:
Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel[...]
The surveillance state is a government’s surveillance of large numbers of citizens and visitors. Such widespread surveillance is most usually justified as being necessary to prevent crime or terrorism. The growth of state surveillance has led to concerns about the erosion of privacy and civil[...]
Environmental Disaster: Natural Disasters That Affect Ecosystems
How we take back the internet | Edward Snowden
Nationalism vs. globalism: the new political divide | Yuval Noah Harari
How fear drives American politics | David Rothkopf | TED Talks
Golda Meir Interview: Fourth Prime Minister of Israel
Government Surveillance of Dissidents and Civil Liberties in America
