Tribute to Aaron Swartz: Information Guerrilla Warrior
The internet lost a major figure in the person of Aaron Swartz on Friday January 11, 2013. Swartz, who was facing a possible 50 years in prison and $4 million fine for downloading the contents of JSTOR from an MIT computer, hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment. He was 26 years old. Swartz is credited […]
Haiti: Where Demolition and Exploitation Pass for Reconstruction and Development
How does one drag a people with a sense of enough into the capitalist enterprise? The answer to this question contains the history of capitalism: a process that has traditionally required the outright enslavement of groups of people, or at the least, the appropriation of their commons. The Earthquake Like any major trauma suffered jointly […]
Syria: Could Balkanization Prevent All-Out Sectarian Bloodshed?
Since Syria’s civil war started almost two years ago, it has wrecked the country, displaced more than half a million Syrians to surrounding countries such as Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, and killed more than 50,000 people (60,000 according to a United Nations estimate). The window has been completely shut for a political solution between the […]
Las Malvinas or the Falkland Islands? The Ugly Face of British Imperialism and Its Startling Cost
With regard to the Falkland Islands, also known as Las Malvinas, the ugly faces of colonialism have once more raised their heads above the parapet. In doing so they have presented an invitation to take a metaphorical pop at them that is impossible to resist. On January 3, 2013, Argentina’s President Cristina Fernández de […]
Fiscal Cliff: Middle Class Free Fall, Corporations’ Golden Parachute
It seems like everyone who is paying attention to the fiscal cliff debate has an opinion one way or another about the benefits and disadvantages of the Tuesday night passage of the Senate Bill. The compromise that was agreed upon can be described as a barrel filled with pork for both Democrats and Republicans and […]
