Who do you think will pay for online surveillance costs that are being pushed with the bill to protect various interests by spying on internet users in Canada ?
Taxpayers. Police 'recommended' a 'public safety' tax on internet bills, which will then be u ...[
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For the first time in Greece a documentary produced by the audience. "Debtocracy" seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media.
This is the earlier documentary made by creators of 'Catastroik ...[
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Trade unions in Poland block parliament after parliament voted to increase retirement age.
Solidarity activists have camped out for the last three days opposite the parliament building in Warsaw and have vowed to disrupt events during the Euro 2012 foot ...[
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In an act that is both art and a protest, 25 life-size figures appeared in front of the Deutsche Bank branch at Berlin's Alexanderplatz today at 10am this morning. The cut-out figures were cardboard 'clones' of Occupy activists from around the world. In ...[
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One develops an odd liking for John McCain over time—attenuated but not grudging. The Republican senator who once found virtue bombing Vietnamese rice farmers reliably brings clarity to purposes the foreign policy clique shrouds in mists of good intent ...[
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Music reality TV has become a key feeding ground for the major labels lately. Shows like American Idol, the Voice, X Factor and the like seem to be where the labels have been picking up some of their bigger name stars lately -- allowing the shows to help ...[
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Curious results from University of California, Berkeley shows that, rich/privileged people are more likely to behave in immoral manners compared to lower socioeconomic classes.
Observers of human nature have long puzzled over the possibility of an ethica ...[
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This week, the American Spring began. You may not have heard much about it yet, because the media seem mostly to have missed it (much as they missed the original occupation of Wall Street at first). But the seeds of the occupation have started to flower i ...[
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