SURVIVAL STRATEGIES FOR TROUBLED TIMES For years I’ve been saying that we are being led, actually “driven,” toward a new global paradigm that is at once financial, economic, political and social, and I’ve been urging people to prepare for it. They naturally ask me what sorts of changes to expect…

It may not be a basic necessity for life, but mobility surely is a basic necessity for living in a modern economy and for having a decent quality of life. …

It is clear that governments and banking corporations have long colluded in creating the present system of money, banking and finance that dominates economies around the world, and that they have no interest in making the kinds of changes that would reduce their power or share the wealth more fairly…

Do educational institutions make people stupid? Do medical institutions make people sick? Such questions may at first glance seem preposterous, but they were raised in all seriousness a few decades ago by Ivan Illich, and strongly argued in his books, Deschooling Society (1971) and Medical Nemesis (1975). In both cases…

By Thomas H. Greco, Jr. Revised: 1997, 2004, 2021 Based on a monograph originally written and distributed in 1997. It was then ahead of the wave but now is the time. The present state of civilization, even in so-called “democratic” or “free” countries, is one of dominance by massive hierarchical…

Wikipedia can no longer be trusted to be an unbiased source of information. My own personal experience is a case in point, but there are plenty of others. Anyone who has the slightest familiarity with my work will know that I have been working on complementary currencies and alternative exchange…

During my academic career my primary teaching duty was to provide my students with an understanding of the use of statistics to draw conclusions about the real world, and how to avoid the common pitfalls that lead to error. In connection with that I would remind them of an old…

As I indicated in my previous post, No democracy when government has the money power, E. C. Riegel, more than 75 years ago, explained, better than anyone else I’ve encountered, the nature of money, its fundamental function, and the history and consequences of its politicization, and outlined a way of…

This is the third in a series of articles that began in July 2020. Parts I and II can be found on Medium and my website beyondmoney dot net. In 1979 I took a leap of faith and walked away. What did I walk away from? I had for a…