A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (”Blackwater’s Black Ops,” 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. Blackwater was renamed in 2009 after becoming famous in the world with numerous reports of abuses in Iraq, including massacres [...]

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” — Epictetus.
A few years ago, I became interested in that American hero, Thomas Alva Edison. We all grow up within myth-making cultures, and we all absorb the myths, even participating in their perpetuation. Something that I had read, seen, or heard [...]