The “fading away of the state” is a long-held dream of many radical political ideologies. I never believed it was possible, and then I realized something. The Church and State were once peers. Over the past few centuries, the Church has basically vanished as a political force. Over the past 20 years the Vatican has [...]
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Read more →Synopsis: The Irish may just have slid sideways into sovereign default territory, but it’s not quite that simple. Read on. A turning point in the evolution of the European union may have been reached tonight. The Irish government has either deliberately or accidentally triggered an esoteric legal crisis about the value of Irish bonds which [...]
Read more →The Future We Deserve has been on hold. I’ve been in four countries this spring, and doing fascinating things in each. Belgium, doing a hexayurt village in Brussels and learning how to think like a European Berlin, learning about mesh networking, transferring the hexayurt to c-base and researching squat culture. The UK, building hexayurts with [...]
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