40 Reasons to Resist!
by Min Reyes 1. …because the Government’s mandate has been to represent corporate greed, not the people’s needs. 2. …because democracy does not happen only at the ballot box; it should materialize every day. 3. …because there are no super heroes, and there never will be: it must be you. 4. …because our collective responsibility […]
An Anonymous Social Network: Brilliance or Bollocks?
The first reaction for most is that an Anonymous social network is perhaps the epitome of oxymorons. How can you have a social network when all the participants are anonymous? The answer seems to be, quite easily. If you consider that our given names and physical identity are of no importance in comparison to our […]
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 […]
Syria: Who Is In Charge, Bashar Al-Assad or Maher Al-Assad?
By Anthony Zeitouni Among all the information coming out of Syria, there are two pieces of news that can give us a clear idea about the political activities on both the government and opposition sides regarding the ongoing crisis in Syria. First, we have the two-day conference organized by the official commission for national dialogue. […]
