Articles by rkm

Do you sometimes suspect that you're being sold a pack of lies? Do you ever wonder what's really going on behind the scenes on the global stage? Would you like to take a peek behind the matrix curtain they've built to hide us from the truth?

unpublished

Why was nationalism such a strong force for the past two centuries? Why, under globalization, has it suddenly weakened? Where did globalization come from? Why is it so overwhelmingly powerful? What is the New World Order and what does that have to do with globalization? How can the globalization process be stopped? This article seeks to answer these questions by taking an objective look at pivotal historical events.

New Dawn
March-June 2000

This article complements the one above. This one emphasizes less the problem and more the solution -- How can we build a democratic movement and a democratic society? In addition, this article includes a discussion of the author's investigation methodology.



unpublished

This is an unfinished book-in-progress. It may never be finished, because it has been supplanted by the Guidebook project. Nonetheless, this earlier version presents a more thorough analysis of many of the topics.

presentation:
Special NGO Committee on Development
UN building, Geneva
May 1998
50th anniversary of GATT, first of the modern free-trade treaties

“The year 1945 is noted for the splitting of the atom -- the release of tremendous energy by breaking the previously sacrosanct bond of the atomic nucleus. But 1945 also saw the fission of another sacrosanct bond -- that binding capitalism to the core of the nation state -- and the splitting of this bond has been of far greater historical significance than the splitting of the atom. From 1945 onwards a de-facto pax Americana military hegemony stabilized the free-world system and enabled the fission of the nation-capital bond to proceed.” —from the presentation



New Dawn
July 1997

In this era of globalization, China is the only remaining 'untamed nation' of any significant size. And like Germany and Japan in the 1930s, China is emerging as a potential world power. Its prospects for economic growth are formidable and it is engaged in an energetic campaign to beef up the effectiveness of its military forces. Meanwhile, the USA is rapidly developing hi-tech weapons systems which could neutralize China's strategic capabilities and enable a Desert-Storm style campaign against China. This article reviews elite think-tank documents and assesses the likelihood of war with China.

presentation at conference:
Discourse and Decision Making in the Information Age
Universtity of Teeside
September 1997

What will happen to the Internet as it evolves into Cyberspace? Can open dialog co-exist with dot-com commercialization? Will cyberspace lead to perfect democracy or to all-pervasive tyranny? This article seeks answers to these questions by looking at the economic and political forces driving today's communications and media industries.



Enneagram Monthly
February 1997

Based on decades of experience with innovative projects, the author undertook to outline the phases that every such project seems to go through. He identified nine primary phases, and this led him to investigate an analytical tool known as the enneagram -- which is characterized by a nine-pointed diagram. The investigation turned out to be an amazing voyage of discovery...this article is the result. The principles apply to any creative endeavor, whether it be a new consumer product, an add-on to your house, or a global revolution.


Articles published in New Dawn magazine

September-October 1995

January-Febrary 1996

March-April 1996

September-October 1996

two-part series
March-June 1997

two-part series
July-October 1997

four-part series
January-June 1998
November-December 1998

two-part series
March-June 2000

March-April 2001


Articles published in The Information Society journal

July-September 1996


Articles published in Enneagram Monthly journal

December 1996

February 1997

August 1997


Articles published in Toward Freedom magazine

December 1997

May 1998