Bruce Lee and the Golden Protest

Few people can argue that Bruce Lee had an easy life. Growing up in the streets of Hong Kong and Macao, Lee had to fight for his life all the time, often against very unequal odds.Many parallels exist between the modern activist and the life of Bruce Lee. Embattled...
The great lie of living on a dead planet

The great lie of living on a dead planet

The biggest lies hide right out in the open. They are so pervasive that we simply do not have eyes to see them. Our brains are hardwired for novelty and difference — so we filter out common things like the nose that is always in our line of sight. No one has to...
What If It’s All Connected? Humanity and the Global Crisis

What If It’s All Connected? Humanity and the Global Crisis

The 21st Century is a time of great converging challenges—we need to think, feel and act systemically like never before in our history. In reality the threats are all connected, yet we continue to deal with them separately in a piecemeal fashion. This simply will not...
J’accuse: Laying Poverty Blame Where It Belongs

J’accuse: Laying Poverty Blame Where It Belongs

“How could one hope that a council of war would demolish what a council of war had done?” – Émile Zola, from J’accuse! – his open letter to Felix Faure, the President of France, 1898. A lot of people might agree that the United Nations as a concept is a...