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SOPA opponents release Digital Bill of Rights
SOPA opponents release Digital Bill of Rights
Two leading opponents of SOPA are taking their fight for Internet freedoms to a whole new level. This time a team of bi-partisan lawmakers are offering a Digital Bill of Rights to help ensure that Americans continue to have an open Internet. ...[Read more]
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They sold us ‘happy pills’ – but all we got was suicide and misery – Mail Online – Peter Hitchens blog
They sold us ‘happy pills’ – but all we got was suicide and misery – Mail Online – Peter Hitchens blog
Peter Hitchens writes - "A scandal can exist for ages before anyone notices. Here is one such. Ten years from now we will look back in shame and regret at the way the drug companies bamboozled us into swallowing dangerous, useless ...[Read more]
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McDonald’s Sued for Theft In Three States
McDonald’s Sued for Theft In Three States
Alleging systematic wage theft by both McDonald’s corporate and its franchisees, workers filed seven class-action lawsuits this week seeking unspecified damages from the fast food giant. Workers filed two suits in Michigan, one in New York, and four in ...[Read more]
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The Bitter Taste of IMF ‘Economic Medicine’: What the US-backed Regime is Planning for Ukrainian Workers
The Bitter Taste of IMF ‘Economic Medicine’: What the US-backed Regime is Planning for Ukrainian Workers
Behind incessant rhetorical invocations of a “democratic revolution,” Ukraine’s newly-installed government of former bankers, fascists and oligarchs is preparing draconian austerity measures. The plans being drawn up are openly described as the “ ...[Read more]
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Beyond Neoliberal Miseducation and Corporate-molding of Students
Beyond Neoliberal Miseducation and Corporate-molding of Students
As universities turn toward corporate management models, they increasingly use and exploit cheap faculty labor while expanding the ranks of their managerial class. Modeled after a savage neoliberal value system in which wealth and power are redistributed ...[Read more]
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Nonconformity and Freethinking Now Considered Mental Illnesses
Nonconformity and Freethinking Now Considered Mental Illnesses
Is nonconformity and freethinking a mental illness? According to the newest addition of the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), it certainly is. The manual identifies a new mental illness called “oppositional defiant disorder ...[Read more]
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More Than 900 Workers Have Already Died Building Qatar’s World Cup Infrastructure
More Than 900 Workers Have Already Died Building Qatar’s World Cup Infrastructure
IIn 2022, Qatar will host the World Cup. The host city has already made some waves with its stadium shaped like a certain body part. But what you might not know is that, since 2012, about 900 workers have died while working on infrastructure in Qatar, in ...[Read more]
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US Military Averaging More Than a Mission a Day in Africa
US Military Averaging More Than a Mission a Day in Africa
For years, the U.S. military has publicly insisted that its efforts in Africa are small scale. Its public affairs personnel and commanders have repeatedly claimed no more than a “light footprint” on that continent, including a remarkably modest presen ...[Read more]
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The heir, the judge and the homeless mom: America’s prison bias for the 1%
The heir, the judge and the homeless mom: America’s prison bias for the 1%
In 2009, when Robert H Richard IV, an unemployed heir to the DuPont family fortune, pled guilty to fourth-degree rape of his three-year-old daughter, a judge spared him a justifiable sentence – indeed, only put Richard on probation – because she figur ...[Read more]
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USAID Subversion in Latin America Not Limited to Cuba
USAID Subversion in Latin America Not Limited to Cuba
A new investigation by the Associated Press into a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) project to create a Twitter-style social media network in Cuba has received a lot of attention this week, with the news trending on the actual Twitter for ...[Read more]
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An Indictment of the Invisible Hand
An Indictment of the Invisible Hand
Economist Thomas Piketty's new book has stunned both the economic profession and most political observers. But the economic mainstream is not truly dealing with its most serious implications. ...[Read more]
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