CIO HEROES!!
Edward Snowden!
Edward Snowden is an American hero who has significantly raised public awareness about the United States' government's threat to global freedom by using extreme and illegal measures of surveillance.
Author Archives: meganwilson
Don’t Try This Abroad
By Dave Algoso FOREIGN POLICY Many globally minded, can-do Americans these days have come to believe that the world’s major problems have solutions, and that these solutions are within reach. This feeling often leads to frustration: Why doesn’t someone just … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, GLOBALIZATION, INTERNATIONAL, RESOURCES
Leave a comment
Google Tax-Evasion Scheme Costs U.S. BILLIONS
By Jesse Drucker BLOOMBERG Google IS Evil Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda. Google’s income shifting … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, ECONOMY, GOVERNMENT, POLICY
Leave a comment
Ben Prince’s BIG RETURN
As part of Heather Sparks’ Big Return, Ben Prince contributed:
Posted in ARTISTS/ACTIONS, CAPITALISM, CONSUMERISM
Leave a comment
Tropics in Decline as Natural Resources Exhausted at Alarming Rate
ScienceDaily (Oct. 18, 2010) New analysis shows populations of tropical species are plummeting and humanity’s demands on natural resources are sky-rocketing to 50 per cent more than the earth can sustain, reveals the 2010 edition of WWF’s Living Planet Report … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, CONSUMERISM, ENVIRONMENT, GLOBALIZATION, INTERNATIONAL, POLICY, RESOURCES
Leave a comment
Opening Gambit: Moore’s Flaw
BY CHARLES HOMANS Foreign Policy Magazine Next year marks the 50th birthday of the first commercially produced silicon microchip, a device that has arguably reordered society more profoundly than any invention since the internal combustion engine. It will also be … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, CONSUMERISM, ENVIRONMENT, RESOURCES
Leave a comment
Poverty In Suburbs Increasing Rapidly
BY HOPE YEN Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The American suburb is no longer a refuge from poverty in cities. A pair of analyses by the nonprofit Brookings Institution paints a bleak economic picture for the 100 largest metropolitan areas over … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, ECONOMY, EMPLOYMENT, GOVERNMENT, POLICY, RESOURCES
Leave a comment
The Fed’s New Bubble (Masquerading as a Jobs Program)
BY ROBERT REICH The Huffington Post The latest jobs bill coming out of Washington isn’t really a bill at all. It’s the Fed’s attempt to keep long-term interest rates low by pumping even more money into the economy (“quantitative easing” … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, ECONOMY, EMPLOYMENT, GOVERNMENT, POLICY, RESOURCES
Leave a comment
The Mortgage Morass
By PAUL KRUGMAN The New York Times American officials used to lecture other countries about their economic failings and tell them that they needed to emulate the U.S. model. The Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, in particular, led … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, ECONOMY, GOVERNMENT, POLICY
Leave a comment
Is Free Thinking A Mental Illness?
OFF THE GRID NEWS Is nonconformity and freethinking a mental illness? According to the newest addition of the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), it certainly is. The manual identifies a new mental illness called “oppositional defiant disorder” … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM
Leave a comment
Banks seize 288,000 homes in third quarter, but challenges await
By ALEX VEIGA, AP Real Estate Writer LOS ANGELES – Lenders seized more U.S. homes this summer than in any three-month stretch since the housing market began to bust in 2006. But many of the foreclosures may be challenged in … Continue reading
Posted in CAPITALISM, ECONOMY, POLICY
Leave a comment