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3P-068 12 Local Ordinances for Food Security

Published on 2011-03-13 12:20:32

In this episode we describe 12 local ordinances that towns could use to protect food production and community sovereignty. These include distinguishing between agribusiness and smallholder farms, enabling sustainable student swaps, authorizing Backya > read more

3P-067 Rhetorical Devisives or Two Half-Truths Don’t Make a Whole

Published on 2011-02-06 18:44:05

In Rhetorical Devisives we demonstrate the importance of the Trivium education from ancient Greece: grammar, logic, and rhetoric, to learn how to think rather than what to think. Julian Assange is given as an example of someone who uses classical tec > read more

3P-066 Peru and the Free2Raid Agreement plus Bonus Interview

Published on 2011-01-11 19:29:13

In Peru and the Free2Raid Agreement, we ask whether free trade between countries is really a free-to-raid deal between dictators and corporate investors. We give the history of the 2007 Peru FTA and show how Democrats, labor unions, churches, human r > read more

3P-065 Who Rules the World?

Published on 2010-12-22 01:04:27

In this 65th episode of Third Paradigm, we examine global wealth starting with the 50 richest people, who are one in 100 million, and the Bilderbergers, quoting from the radio show Unwelcome Guests. Then we go to the richest one in 100,000 people wit > read more

3P-064 Money as Theft, or Why We Need a Glocal Economy

Published on 2010-11-28 23:14:44

In this episode, we look at money as created through debt, but actually backed by theft, by examining the exchange of labor that money purportedly represents. We question the high cost of housing and services vs. the low cost of food and goods. Look > read more

3P-063 Connecting the DOTS: Deepening Our Thinking on Sovereignty

Published on 2010-11-08 00:06:30

This episode recaps a week of Connecting the DOTS - our new UniverseCity blog that responds to Democracy Now. It features Percy Schmeiser's "Principles of Food and Agriculture," and a rebuttal to Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel that quotes Jam > read more

3P-062 Education and Its Discontents

Published on 2010-10-12 18:12:59

In this special 2-hour feature, Third Paradigm hosts the 10th anniversary episode of Unwelcome Guests. This show looks forward and backwards at whether schools at the university, secondary, and elementary levels are serving the greater good of societ > read more

3P-061 Wossamotta U

Published on 2010-08-15 00:23:10

Examines the university as the self-perpetuating goal of education. Reviews the NY Times article “Placing the Blame as Students Are Mired in Debt,” the Washington Examiner article, “Higher Education’s Bubble is About to Burst,” and the book > read more

3P-060 The Bipolar Bipartisan

Published on 2010-06-12 13:48:12

The Bipolar Bipartisan looks at bipartisanship as a compromise between two confusions. We examine critical thinking and how it’s been bred out, generation by generation. This leaves us vulnerable to defeat through our own unexamined contradictions. > read more

3P-059 Two Things Are Certain: Debt and Taxes

Published on 2010-03-28 01:07:58

This episode looks at national debts as sneaky taxes, and why protectionism should be one of the most holy words in our vocabulary. Asks, if we owe on loans without our consent, are we really free? Referencing the radio series Wizards of Money by “ > read more

3P-058 Honduras: The People Speak

Published on 2010-03-07 23:41:24

This episode chronicles the violent aftermath of the Honduran coup, which Hilary Clinton has lauded as a return to normalcy. However, the Honduran people are not defeated. A Constituent People’s Assembly is being convened to strategize a map to the > read more

3P-057 The Many Faces of Palestine

Published on 2010-02-13 22:21:02

Faces of Palestine: Reviews the film “Occupied Minds” about Palestinian and Israeli journalist-friends who interview Zionist settlers, militant Palestinians, Israeli soldiers, Palestinian farmers, and an Israeli surgeon blinded by a suicide bombe > read more