Joseph Stiglitz on Scrooge and intellectual property rights and why the IP regime that the US has spearheaded is not only a threat to our lives and wellbeing but also economically unsound.
At Christmas, we traditionally retell Dickens’s story of Scrooge, who cared more for money than for his fellow human beings. What would we think […]
The wired world has been buzzing with the fear-mongering perpetrated by the most American of American organizations — the National Rifle Association (NRA). For a while, the authenticity was being questioned and NRA-folk would have had us believe it was all some disinformation campaign. Not so. So anyway, just in case anyone did miss the […]
Your guide to electronic freedom and bad ISPs. Or in other words, what does the US, Canada, China, Russia, UK, Pakistan, France, Malaysia, Chile, Argentina and a number of other repressive regimes have in common?
It is not entirely surprising that US citizens are increasingly being subjected to the very same abusive treatment, which we have come to know from America’s imperial armies overseas. In fact, it would be far too kind to denote this as simply a case of chickens coming home to roost. One could argue over chickens […]
Or smothering it. Microsoft wants to streamline, standardize gaming for Windows Vista. Should we be afraid or really, really afraid?
We recently sat down with Games for Windows (GFW) Marketing Director Kevin Unangst and PR Manager Michael Wolf for a brief pre-launch tour of gaming on Vista. Admittedly, the implementation hasn’t changed much since we first […]
Joe Mowrey writes for the Dissident Voice.
The United States’ most plentiful and seemingly inexhaustible national resource is collective denial. I have an acquaintance whose son, a senior in college (not high school mind you, but college) only recently found out about global warming. Another acquaintance, when asked what she thought of the war in Afghanistan […]
Mel Gibsons Apocalypto did fairly well at the box office, but do people get it? Some praise it for showing that Mayans still exist and some fear it will fuel prejudice and racism. How many will realize — and indeed appreciate — the apt parable about the modern, warring American civilization, not willing to give […]
Statistics don’t lie — Americans are fat “There’s no polite way to say this: Americans are the fattest people on the planet.” They also waste an impressive amount of resources on bottled water.
Daily Show and Samantha Bee on Al Jazeera English and everything that is wrong with Americanized “news” reporting. Unfortunately, most Americans can’t get Al Jazeera English since it is indirectly and directly censored by politically motivated cable operators. The clip juxtaposes Al Jazeera English to American media outlets in a humorous way and exposes the […]
For a good reason - or so they claim … Lifted from Metafilter …
Senator John McCain (R. - AZ) has introduced legislation [PDF] that would hold blogs responsible for all activity in their comments sections and user profiles. Provisions of the proposed bill include: (1) commercial websites and personal blogs “would be required to report […]
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