A Blog for eGaiaRandom thoughts, mostly about the possibilities and prospects for a collaborative, sustainable EarthPerverse alliances: The Bush-Bin Laden Symbiosis- February 27, 2007 We can make sense of some of the madnesses in our world by seeing how they are self-regenerating. And the perverse alliance is a good example of this. I have recently come across a post by Robert Parry that illustrates this well As Americans suffer through another terrorism scare and George W. Bush talks tough about a ...http://sustainability.open.ac.uk/gary/blog/http:/sustainability.open.ac.uk/gary/pages/perv... Slavery anniversary illustrates problems with a money-driven culture- February 23, 2007 It is now 200 years since the Abolition of the Slave Trade bill was passed by the British Parliament, after a long campaign led by William Wilberforce, and this event has been marked with some interesting programmes. Two interesting issues are raised by this. The most important is the arguments of the pro-slavery lobby. The slave ...http://sustainability.open.ac.uk/gary/blog/http:/sustainability.open.ac.uk/gary/pages/slav... |