Rand Paul, Aqua-Buddha, & Media Responsibility
It’s fun to mention, and it’s great fodder for the break room at work, but anything more would have been a serious blow to credibility and all involved would end up looking like Andrew Breitbart and the talking heads of the Fox News propaganda machine.
DiggGate Reveals Pattern Of Behavior For Ultra-cons
DiggGate is a large scale operation of censorship was just exposed on Digg.com following an undercover investigation. This is far from the first, and certainly will not be the last time a conservative group is caught red handed attempting to decide for everyone what to read and think, in fact, it has a very long history.
Digg Patriots & Climate Change: The Confederacy Of Dunces
What makes the Digg Patriots story interesting is not so much what they did, but what it tells us about society that they were able to do it at all. I am referring of course to the revelation that a group of “conservatives” organized to suppress certain kinds of information on the behemoth news sharing […]
Pakistan Floods: Islamists Step In To Fill Government Vacuum
As monsoon rains continue to hammer Pakistan and move southward, relief agencies are warning that the amount of aid needed by Pakistanis is “absolutely daunting”. The life of Pakistanis, especially in the region of the Swat Valley, which was already a nightmare due to the Taliban, the Pakistani army offensive and the US drone attacks […]
Free Market Capitalism: A Bipolar Vicious Cycle of Boom and Bust
What most economists are still calling “The Great Recession” officially started in December 2007. However, the global financial meltdown started a bit later, in the fall of 2008, in the United States. Calling this massive global crash “recession” was always an understatement made to avoid a complete global panic. A more accurate term would have […]
