Category Archives: petit-bourgeois freedoms
Social Media Giants Adopt “Mob Rule” Tactics
30.01.2015 Author: Janet Phelan Social Media Giants Adopt “Mob Rule” Tactics Column: Society Region: USA in the World The recent decisions by social media giants Facebook and LinkedIn to adopt user crowd-censoring strategies may be less than benevolent. According to … Continue reading
Occupy Hong Kong, Take Two
03.02.2015 Author: Ulson Gunnar Occupy Hong Kong, Take Two Column: Politics Region: Eastern Asia Country: China Were Hong Kong’s street demonstrations a movie, the director’s chair would certainly be placed in Washington D.C. Several independent researchers have exposed the shockingly large number … Continue reading
Money: The Great Corrupter – David Harvey
Money: The Great Corrupter – David Harvey Laura Flanders Economic Policy by Laura Flanders | February 7, 2015 – 10:18am Is the economy recovering, or is the system itself the problem? Economist and philosopher David Harvey on money; which he … Continue reading
4 Things You Probably Know About Poverty That Bill and Melinda Gates Don’t
Published on Tuesday, February 03, 2015 by Fast Company 4 Things You Probably Know About Poverty That Bill and Melinda Gates Don’t To fix global poverty, you first need to acknowledge where it comes from. by Martin Kirk, Joe Brewer, … Continue reading
The Super-Rich Can’t Hide From the Rest of Us
Published on Tuesday, February 03, 2015 by Common Dreams The Super-Rich Can’t Hide From the Rest of Us by Michael Winship Private jets of participants of the World Economic Forum in Davos stand at the airport in Kloten near Zurich, … Continue reading
Book Review: Immunity for the rich, a police state for the poor
Book Review: Immunity for the rich, a police state for the poor “The problem is, if the law is applied unequally enough over a long enough period of time, at some point, law enforcement becomes politically illegitimate. Whole classes of … Continue reading
America, land of the stupid …?
America, land of the stupid … A Vermont 8th-grader suggests her state adopt a Latin motto, Stella quarta decima fulgeat, which means, “May the Fourteenth Star Shine Bright.” (Vermont was the 14th state to join the Union.) A local TV station airs a … Continue reading