Hope comes from truth-telling, from authors like Eduardo Galeano who can break our frozen soul and revive our passion and curiosity.
"The owners of power have built a factory of fear. We become afraid of words, memory and the neighbor. The neighbor is a promise, not a menace."

"..The Obama administration erred in asking for too small a stimulus, especially after making political compromises that caused it to be less effective than it could have been. It made another mistake in designing a bank bailout that gave too much money with too few restrictions on too favorable terms to those who caused the economic mess in the first place – a policy that has dampened taxpayers’ appetite for more spending.
But that is politics. The economics is clear: the world needs all the advanced industrial countries to commit to another big round of real stimulus spending. This should be one of the central themes of the next G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh."

$5 billion in lobbying to Congress got the financial industry lucrative legislative favors that paved the way for Wall Street's devastating collapse.

In a SPIEGEL interview, outsted President Manuel Zelaya, 56, discusses the coup in his native Honduras, the lack of intervention from Washington, his political ties to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his hopes to unseat the regime by peaceful means.

"Medicare never gets between me and my patient. What does get in the way is the private insurance companies."
David L. Scheiner has been Obama's personal physician for 22 years.

A look at work as it has been perceived down the ages-and a look at its mirror image. Idleness, once considered one of the deadly sins, now implies the right to slow down, go at your own pace, have time to stop and stare.

Craig Anderson is an editor at Wired News and makes available his audio book as a new business model. The time of the melting of the dollar and the collapse of the private economy or profit worship is also the time of free. The great unraveling provokes the great refusal (cf. Paul Krugman). Tech is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance, not Scarcity FREE: THE FUTURE OF A RADICAL PRICE
Download the audio book (285 MB zip) http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/mf_freer Prologue
Chapter 1: The Gift of Free
Chapter 2: Free 101
Chapter 3: The History of Free
Chapter 4: The Psychology of Free
Chapter 5: Too Cheap to Matter
Chapter 6: Information Waits to be Free
Chapter 7: Competing with Free RELATED LINK:
www.onthecommons.org

The final document released June 22, 2009 emphasizes the lines of action: make the stimulus work for all, contain the effects of the crisis and improve future global resilence, improved regulation and monitoring and reform of the international financial and economic system and architecture.