RTF Docu-Series Is it truly the case that in order to live in harmony with nature, industrial activity must be eliminated? Can green energy systems support our current world population and is it possible to have an advanced growing thriving world civilization while also enjoying growing, thriving ecosystems? In this first of a six part…
What Determines A Limit to Growth?
By Cynthia Chung This is an article version of a class Cynthia Chung gave for the symposium “The Earth Next 100 Years” which can be viewed here. What Determines a “Limit to Growth”? This might seem like a rather ignorant or simplistic question to some. Many will think the answer rather obvious, that the Limit…
The BRI in Africa: Gateway to Peace or Debt Trap Diplomacy?
In this episode of Spotlight on Africa on Los Angeles’ KPFK Radio, Matt Ehret was invited to speak on the most pressing developments across the African continent and the ironies of Africa’s aspirations for independence and development which are entirely in sync with the best of the lost anti-imperial traditions represented by the USA. A…
On Optimism: A Chant of Darkness
By Cynthia Chung “So my optimism is no mild and unreasoning satisfaction. A poet once said I must be happy because I did not see the bare, cold present, but lived in a beautiful dream. I do live in a beautiful dream; but that dream is the actual, the present – not cold, but warm;…
Paul Robeson: His Life as an Unfinished Symphony
Many know of the name Paul Robeson as a great baritone singer and actor of the early 20th century… but few know of Paul Robeson as the cultural warrior, renaissance man and world citizen who created the foundations for the civil rights movement, played a leading role in the international anti-colonial freedom struggle, or anti-fascist…
Symposium: Cultural Optimism, Art and the New Silk Road
On Sunday April 28, 2019, a symposium hosted by the Rising Tide Foundation was held in Montreal, Canada dealing with the unified growth of cultural optimism, beautiful art and economic development as it is being manifested today with the New Silk Road in Asia, Africa and beyond. Presentations were given by a pianist, a dancer,…
Study of the Heavens: a History of Chinese Astronomy
Transcript of a lecture given by Cynthia Chung at ‘The Universe, Creativity and You‘ Symposium. We live in a strange time. Many have forgotten the power of imagination and are instead bogged down with the reality of ‘practicality’. The reality of ‘the budget’, and the reality of ‘what is deemed useful and what is deemed…
Clarity vs. Obscurity IV: Yeats and the Occult
By Adam Sedia Click here for Part I, Part II and Part III to this series. Modernism produces obscure poetry because it denies the existence of absolute truth. Without a fundamental truth to reveal, poetry is relegated to presenting a series of images for the reader to supply the meaning of the text. Hart Crane…
The Coming Self-Destruction of Atonalism
By Felix Dupin Music is a language we hear and decipher unknowingly since the earliest period of youth. Although expressing both passion and creativity, music is also made of rules and whether studied intellectually or not, it is perfectly comprehensible to the untrained ear and evolved organically transmitting both creative energy and lawful harmonies, consonances,…
Why Must Aesthetics Govern A Society Worthy Of Political Freedom? Ask the CIA
By Matthew Ehret In the mid-1990s, a series of exposés featured on the London Independent and elsewhere brought a dark secret to light. Many were startled by the revelation that the entire evolution of 20th century modern art was directed in large measure by the CIA! This not only included the direct financing of abstract painters like Jackson Pollock…
Beyond the Lines: Keats’ “Ode on Indolence”
By David Gosselin The question has been raised by many critics, academics, scientists, and artists, “What is Creativity?” In the spring of 1819, the poet John Keats experienced one of the greatest bursts of creativity in the history of art and science. When fully considered, the astounding poetic achievements of the spring of 1819 parallel…
Aeschylus to Shelley: The Unchaining of Prometheus
The great english poet and dramatist Percy Shelley once famously wrote that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world” in reference to the role of the Promethean quality of creative reason that has opened up new vistas of potential when all roads appeared dead ends to the masses and uncreative elites. Was Shelley bombastic…
Clarity vs. Obscurity V: Eliot’s Masks
By Adam Sedia Click here for Part I, Part II, Part III , and Part IV to this series. T.S. Eliot means many things to many different people. Like Yeats he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the academy he numbers among the titans of twentieth-century poetry, with The Waste Land hailed as the epic of our…
Reviving the Memory of Time through Ruins
By Ryan Hamadeh An article I wrote that ponders the significance of Culture. What secrets inhabit this revered term. We use it abundantly in an ill defined way, but up close it reveals secrets which bestow meaning to our most profound perplexion. Countries to have lost their way in bitter war or societies that yearn…
Humane Development: Towards a Science of Progress
Too few among today’s citizens understand the elementary connection between energy and population potential, and fewer still realize that there is such a thing as a scientific approach to economics which both respects the creative freedom of the individual while also obeying fundamental laws of nature. In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Sam Labrier introduces…
Multipolar vs Unipolar RTF Symposium
To participate in all upcoming Rising Tide Foundation Zoom Lectures, simply write to info@risingtidefoundation.net. Visit our Symposia page for more information. America’s Forgotten Fight for Universal ProgressLecturer: Anton Chaitkin (author of Who We Are: America’s Fight for Universal Progress) Teddy Roosevelt’s Last Mad CrusadeLecturer: Martin Sieff (author of Cycles of Change) Hamiltonian Economics and the…
Katehon, Hexagram and Manifest Destiny: Three Names for the Axio-Epistemo-Political Triangle
By Quan Le DYNAMICS FROM TEMPUS, KAIROS & CHRONOS I was inspired to write the following lines after having read some candid words produced by MK Bhadrakumar, an author who also was a distinguished former member of the Indian Diplomatic Corps. In the the article ‘A Sino-Russian Military Alliance is Gratuitous, As of Now’, Mr….
Prometheus and Atlantis
By Gerald Therrien In Part 1 of my recently published Trilogy on the School of Athens (The Pre-Socratic Philosophers Explored), we read that, ‘Prometheus therefore, being at a loss to provide any means of salvation for man, stole from Hephaestus and Athena the gift of skill in the arts, together with fire, and bestowed it…
The Legislation of Lycurgus and Solon
The great poet, historian and dramatist Friedrich Schiller recognized that the study of universal history were impossible if the mind of the researcher missed the fundamental tension between two opposing paradigms which strike at the heart of the nature of man, god, and reality itself. While this fundamental tension has expressed itself in diverse manners…
Plato’s Fight Against Apollo’s Temple of Delphi and the Cult of Democracy
We are too often drawn into the bad habit of thinking of ancient Greek thinkers like Plato and his teacher Socrates as ivory tower philosophers lost in the abstract realm of “ideas” and utopian ideals detached of all reality and human struggle on earth. In this lecture, Rising Tide Foundation president Cynthia Chung shatters that…
Uncovering the Lost Secrets of Weber’s Electrodynamics (Dr Andre Assis RTF Lecture)
Everyone knows that a revolution in physics occured with Max Planck’s insights into the quantum world over a century ago. But did you know that 50 years before Planck’s revolutionary insights into the quantum of action, the great German scientist Wilhelm Weber, working with a network of great renaissance scientists like Carl F. Gauss, Bernard…
Towards a New Study of Planetary Science: Expansion Tectonics 101 [James Maxlow RTF Lecture]
What evidence exists to demonstrate the constant radius of the Earth and is there evidence pointing to a more dynamic model of planetary geometry? In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, delivered as part of the Science Unshackled Symposium, Professor James Maxlow, an expert in expansion plate tectonics lays out an incredible argument with empiricle evidence…
Solving The Mystery Behind the Building of the Great Pyramid
By Dr. Quan Le Some words about a mesmerizing documentary Grande Pyramide K 2019 by director Fehmi Krasniqi. Its premiere was in Paris on September 2019 and it’s available for free on the Internet since December 2019. For people interested in the history of Egypt in particular and of mankind in general, it’s an absolute…
There are No Limits to Scientific Abundance (feat. Cynthia Chung)
Listen to the podcast here. In this episode we talk to Cynthia Chung, President of the Rising Tide Foundation and a writer at Strategic Culture Foundation. Topics include: geopolitics, Davos/World Economic Forum, China, debunking Malthus & Darwin from a scientific pov, wind & solar vs nuclear & fossil fuel; debunking scientific technology myths about: genetic…
Africa’s Emerging Renaissance: The New Silk Road and Beyond
In this RTF lecture, African affairs expert Lawrence Freeman delivers a comprehensive analysis of Africa’s current struggle to break free of the chains of imperialism and leap into the 21st century. Speaker Bio: Lawrence Freeman is a political-economic analyst for Africa with thirty years of experience on the continent. He is a physical economist who…
Discourse On the Debt of Africa, Thirty-Three Years On
by PD Lawton Today, Africa stands at the cross-roads. This is the last opportunity for the continent`s leadership to decide the fate of 1.3 billion people. This is the most crucial moment in Africa`s history. The choice on one hand, is to continue following IMF diktat and agree to a future of economic policy that benefits the…
Plato’s Republic vs Klaus’ Great Narrative: Who Guards the Guardians?
In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Matthew Ehret introduces the two opposing solutions to the One/Many problem of governance first developed by Plato through the character of his mentor Socrates 2400 years ago. The question in its basic terms can be summarized the following way: IF human society is capable of breaking free of the…
Beyond the Lines: Shelley’s “Ozymandias”
By Adam Sedia Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” is one of his shortest works, but also one of his best known, anthologized to the point of ubiquity. But it deserves every bit of the reputation it has gained. Short, yet powerful and descriptive, it illustrates the sonnet at its best. And it is one of the…
Schiller’s Mission of Moses
What were the geopolitical and cultural realities shaping the world Moses was born into and upon which he intervened? How did his experience growing up in the royal halls of Egypt with access to the highest cultural education then available during the 12th century BC also shape his mind and heart as he struggled over…
Unifying Spirit between East and West: Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766), Italian Renaissance painter in the Forbidden City.
By Matthew Ehret “In pursuing the Belt and Road Initiative, we should ensure that when it comes to different civilizations, exchange will replace estrangement, mutual learning will replace clashes, and coexistence will replace a sense of superiority. This will boost mutual understanding, mutual respect and mutual trust among different countries” -Xi Jinping, Belt and Road…
Why the Poetic Principle is Imperative for Statecraft
Cynthia Chung Today, perhaps more so than at any time in history, we are experiencing a divide between what is considered to be the “domain” or “confinement” of art as wholly separate from the domain of “politics.” The irony of such a perception is its failure to recognise that the root of our political system…
Is Philosophy Relevant in the Age of Science?
In this interview on Zain Khan Live, The Rising Tide Foundation’s Matthew Ehret, and renowned Pakistani philosopher Abdul Manan explore the relationship of philosophy and science with a focus on the figures of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Bertrand Russell. How do these popular philosophers fail to bridge the gap separating these two worlds? Are…
Why H.G. Wells’ World Brain and Yuval Harari’s Hackable Human Will Not Succeed
The following is the transcript of a lecture I delivered this past March in Basel, Switzerland as part of the Kernpunkte Kongress. Why H.G. Wells’ World Brain and Yuval Harari’s Hackable Human Will Not Succeed A Study on the Abolition of Man By Cynthia Chung In 2018 Yuval Harari delivered a presentation to the World Economic…
The Everlasting Civilization
By Dr. Quan Le I would like to offer some of my musings on Universal History- More precisely on the theoretical possibility of an everlasting civilization. That idea is in total contradiction with the meditations by the illustrious French author & poet Paul Valéry (1871-1945) having written in “La Crise de l’Esprit” (The Crisis of…
Geoffrey Chaucer and Cultural Confidence
By Gerald Therrien Have you ever thought about where the English language, that we speak today, came from? In school, we were told that there was some indigenous Celtic language, and when the Romans invaded, the Celtic got mixed in with the Latin. And when the Romans left, the Angles and Saxons invaded, and some…
South Africa and the Anglo-American Corporation: Africa’s Liberation from the Rhodes’ Legacy is Now
Today’s Africa is seeing a re-emergence of a robust Pan-Africanism, and break from imperialism unseen in the last several centuries. What is the nature of those imperial structures which have kept the “dark continent” trapped in dark age conditions for over 120 years and how did the British-imperial nest around Cecil Rhodes set the stage…
How To Conquer Tyranny and Avoid Tragedy: A Lesson on Defeating Systems of Empire
By Cynthia Chung This is a transcription of a lecture, which can be found here, given as part of the RTF series “Art, Science and Civilization: The Renaissance Principles Across the Ages.“ It is common today to be confronted with the belief that any country, any civilization that gains a certain degree of power, will…
Schiller’s Ghost Seer, Intelligence Methods and a Global Citizenry
A Study of Schiller’s The Ghost Seer By Cynthia Chung [The audio version of this article can be listened to here.] The Ghost Seer first appeared in several instalments in Schiller’s publication journal Thalia from 1787 to 1789, and was later published as a three-volume book. It was one of the most popular works of…
Seeking Truth and Sanity in Climate and Energy Policy [RTF Presentation with Jim O’Brien]
In this Rising Tide Foundation presentation featuring Jim O’Brien, Chair of the Irish Climate Science Forum introduces the reality of climate science, while debunking the pervasive belief in human-driven global warming, and outline what a healthy energy and climate science looks like. Speaker Bio: Jim O’Brien is “retired” after a 39-year career in CRH plc,…
The British Empire Returns To A 168 Year Crime – A Scene
By Andrew Laverdiere On January 1, 2023, the New York Times published an opinion column by Nigel Gould-Davies, a former British ambassador. His piece, “Putin Has No Red Lines,” is a call for the West, and the United States in particular, to go for maximum confrontation with Russia. The West must drop its remaining hesitations on sending…
Uncovering the Secret History of the Metric System with Fehmi Krasniqi
In this second part of a series of Rising Tide Foundation interviews with researcher Fehmi Krasniqi, we explore the forgotten ancient origins of the metric system, which involves a multifaceted debunking of the fiction that this scientific method of measurement emerged out of the French Revolution and instead review the evidence pointing to the physical…
The Secret of the Great Pyramid- Interview Series with Fehmi Krasniqi PART 1
In this first part of a series of interviews with the Rising Tide Foundation’s Matt Ehret, K19 Great Pyramid director Fehmi Krasniqi introduces his motives, intersectional background and research methods. Support Fehmi Krasniqi’s work using his official site
The Ancient Celts & Ramayana
By Raj Vedam Ramayana is well-known all over India, and its impact is seen in ancient and popular culture spread across south-east Asia, including Japan, China and Mongolia. I often state the incongruity of Indian culture spreading only to its east, but not to its west — as asserted by Western historians. Several attempts have…
The Dope Trade and the Crown: A Very-British Wealth of Nations
By Cynthia Chung The following is from my newly published book “The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set.” “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.” – Henry John Temple, aka Lord Palmerston (Britain’s Prime…
China’s BRI Shapes a Multipolar Future for Saudi Arabia
By Matthew Ehret Xi Jinping’s visit to Saudi Arabia is heralding more tectonic changes in the rules of the Great Game in ways that few have begun to realize. While many people are quick to criticize China for having looked the other way while the atrocious Saudi-led offensive in Yemen has continued to kill hundreds…
The Chinese-Russian-Iranian Alliance Ushers in a New Hope for the Middle East
By Matthew Ehret Russia and China have accelerated the next phase of Middle East reconstruction and stabilization with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s March 24-30th 2022 Middle East tour resulting in the finalization of the long-awaited Five Point Initiative for Security in Southwest Asia on March 30th and $400 billion Iran deal on March 27th. These milestones were accompanied by a…
Beyond Oil: How the UAE’s HOPE Mars Mission Is Breaking the Arab World Out of the Crisis of Scarcity
By Cynthia Chung Something truly remarkable happened on Feb. 9th, 2021, which I fear has not been fully comprehended by most of the Western hemisphere in terms of its massive implications as a game-changer in geopolitics for the Middle East. Here in the West, we have become accustomed to our jaded denigration of space exploration. It…