From Hacktivists To Spammers: Is Anonymous Failing?
Only days after flexing an impressive muscle Anonymous has returned to the posture of beach-bum weightlifter making excuses for avoiding a fight while opting to sit in the sand and work on their tan. Rather than build on the public support that was beginning they have chosen to change their tactic to now assault that very public with annoying false links and purposely mislabeled messages.
Election 2012: Will Sanders Challenge Obama?
Senator Bernie Sanders is suddenly emerging as the new “lion” of the Senate for the left, carrying the mantel for late Senator Ted Kennedy. The Senator from Vermont held the Senate floor for nine hours today to filibuster an attempt to renew the Bush tax cuts for the rich which President Obama, contrary from his […]
Global Corruption: Getting Worse, Say Six Out Of Ten People
The global corruption barometer report from Transparency International is out. The overall trends are concerning for citizens, and for the health of transparency and accountability of governance. Globally, six out of 10 people say corruption has increased in the last three years; eight out of 10 people say political parties are corrupt; 29 percent of […]
John Lennon and Julian Assange: The Faces of Peace and Truth
Wikileaks has become a movement, and just as John Lennon became the face of the Peace movement, Julian Assange is the face of the truth movement.
The Empire Is Collapsing, and Americans Will Be the Last to Know
50 years from now historians will probably be writing about the fall of the American empire. But history is writing itself furiously in the present, accelerated by the revolution of global freedom of information. What would have taken years to unlikely gather is accessible to anyone with a few strokes on a computer keyboard. So […]
