The following are excerpts from initial responses of colleagues who reviewed this paper on “Renewing the American Experiment” or earlier drafts. Some responses to earlier drafts have been incorporated into this draft. These ideas served as the foundation for The […]
RENEWING THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT
Keynote to Seattle Thunder “The State of the Union”
Saturday, January 24, 2004, Trinity United Methodist Church
By David C. Korten
Welcome to Seattle Thunder. American democracy is in crisis and we join together here in common cause to restore and renew it. Feel the power of our collective energy as it […]
by David C. Korten
In the history of capitalism’s long expansionary cycles, it is finance
capital that usually rules in the final stage, displacing the inventors and
industrialists who launched the era, eclipsing the power of governments to
manage the course of economic events. …Since returns on capital are rising
faster than the […]
Talk presented to the conference on "Engaging the World With
Compassion," presented by the Learning Alliance, Voices 21, SEVA
Foundation, & The Rene Dubos Consortium for Sacred Ecology at the Cathedral
of St. John the Divine, New York City, Friday, January 17, 1997.
by David C. Korten
We are here to celebrate and affirm the unfolding of a profound
political […]
Interview with Smitu Kothari, by David C. Korten
Smitu Kothari is an editor of the Lokayan Bulletin published by the Lokayan (“Dialogue of the People”) group in Delhi, India. He also co-edits Ecologist Asia with Vandana Shiva, Claude Alvares, and Bittu Sahgal, is currently writing two books, […]
PCDForum Article #20, Release Date May 20, 1997
by David C. Korten
Proponents of market liberalism claim the free market is the essential foundation of political
democracy–a guarantor of the rights of people against the abuse of state power. They neglect,
however, the important ways in which the unfettered market tends to function as a profoundly
undemocratic institution.
Political democracy […]
by David C. Korten
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It was a true power lunch of lobster and an exotic mushroom salad held in a private dining room at the United Nations on June 24, 1997. Thirty seven invited participants were co-hosted by Ambassador Razali Ismail, President of the UN General Assembly, and […]
H.E. Mr. Robert Mugabe President of ZIMBABWE
H.E. Mr. Samuel Hinds President of GUYANA
H.E. Mr. Thorbjoern Jagland Prime Minister of NORWAY
H.E. Dr. Fernando Narajo V. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Head of Delegation COSTA RICA
H.E. Mrs. Margaret De Boer Minister of Environment KINGDOM OF […]
Interviewed by David C. Korten
Nicky Perlas heads the Center for Alternative Development Initiatives (CADI) based in Quezon City, Philippines and manages Ikapati Farms, a bio-dynamic agriculture demonstration farm run as a for-profit commercial enterprise. In an earlier incarnation, Nicky farmed a 200 hectare chemical intensive farm producing […]
