May 6, 2017
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‘The Internet Should Be Treated as a Public Utility’
Janine Jackson: If it weren’t for an open internet, how much do you think you’d know about Black Lives Matter, or NoDAPL? If it were up to private corporations to determine which websites you can access and which you can’t—based on which ones pay them—what are the odds that you’d be able to keep up… Continue reading
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Media: Declining to Label Lies, NPR Picks Diplomacy Over Reality
NPR is notorious for bending over backwards to avoid the appearance of a liberal bias, even refusing to carry an opera program in 2011 after its host participated in an Occupy protest. But, in the age of Trump and his unprecedentedly loose relationship with reality, the network’s strict adherence to “both sides” journalism does a… Continue reading
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Selected Articles: An Era of Global Warfare
6 May 2017 — Global Research “The holding of mass demonstrations and antiwar protests is not enough. What is required is the development of a broad and well organized grassroots antiwar network which challenges the structures of power and authority.” (Prof. Michel Chossudovsky) “This extreme danger is the new global reality. If the elimination of the threat Continue reading
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‘It Comes Down to Monopoly Control of the Aftermarket’
Janine Jackson: Copyright and farmers don’t generally appear in the same story. They do now, thanks to the argument, recently reiterated by agricultural machine maker John Deere, that farmers shouldn’t be able to independently access the operating software in their tractors, for example, because they don’t own that part, they just license it. As our… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 