Hacking Scandal: Was Rebekah Brooks Arrested to Shut Her Up?
With the issuing of a very rare Sunday arrest appointment, Rebekah Brooks, News International’s recently resigned CEO, was taken into custody by the Metropolitan Police Service only two days before she was to appear before the Culture Select Committee of the British government to give testimony regarding the News of the World Hacking scandal. The […]
Is Default the Only Chance for Real Economic Reform?
Everyone is worried about the possibility of the economic system crashing. That would be understandable if this economic system was working for you, but it isn’t. The current system of predatory global capitalism is more centralized, and more serving of a particular elite, than any form of state socialism or state communism has been. The […]
Who Are the Job Creators? Not Who Boehner Would Have You Believe.
The current refrain from the Republican Party is that raising taxes on the most wealthy Americans will be hurting the ‘job creators.’ This reasoning seems to hinge on the belief that the wealthy, given money, will put it back into the economy and generate growth. This is just another rephrasing of the debunked trickle-down economic […]
Are Our Politicians Forcing a Revolution?
The only numbers that seem to matter to politicians are the corporate contributions for their endless election campaigns and the amount of salary those institutions will pay them when they pass back through the revolving door into private sector political careers such as lobbying, running PACs and Super-PACs; or using their political influence on behalf […]
Anonymous: Bigger, More Contentious, More Chaotic… but Better?
Image by Rock Lou Much has been made about conflicts that have arisen within the hacker community; the main stream media has made sure of that. Stories of rogue programmers sabotaging parts of networks, or supposed splinter groups pursuing alternative agendas have proliferated. Focus has been put on isolated cases, and rumors of questionable provenance, […]
