22 hours ago by WillyK

Remember Naomi Klein and her book The Shock Doctrine which details the way the corporatocracy uses big upheavals to usher in unrelated, often brutal "reforms" that benefit the statist-corporatist alliance? I've just read how our own corporatist GOP Senator Roy Blunt is trying to pull a similar fast ...

6 days ago by WillyK

Here's one of Roy Blunt recent tweets: I voted against an amdt to cede one of Congress's core constitutional duties to Pres Obama & unaccountable bureaucrats bit.ly/wm6Lt4 Care to hazard a guess about what that means? If you're curious, just follow the link, which leads you to a press release where ...

14 days ago

Student protesters disrupted a speech Friday by US Senator Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American and rising Republican star, accusing him of “anti-immigrant” positions. Rubio was addressing a Hispanic leadership conference at Your parents came to Miami from Cuba in the 1950s. Your dad became a bartender, an ...

17 days ago by Michael Bersin

How did we get here? Honest... I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts! It wasn't my fault, I swear t ...

18 days ago by richyrocks

the on-line protest of the stop online piracy act (sopa) and the protect ip act (pipa), particularly wikipedia‘s blackout on january 18, was a success, at least for the moment. wikipedia jan18, 2012 this article reports waffling by u.s. politicians using a good example of the phrasal verb back down ...

19 days ago by Brian Sfinas

The proposed Internet blackout of January 18th, 2012 wasn’t necessarily a threat made by the major players in the online arena: Amazon, Facebook, Google, Etc. Moreover it was the concept of a silent protest. It was a sit-in. A week later, we now know that it wasn’t going to come to fruition exactly ...

21 days ago by Gavin Greene

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) of 2011 has been quickly losing favor in the House for the past week. After being “shelved” from further discussion three days ago, it was recently announced that 13 members of Congress have withdrawn their support for both its sister legislation The Protect Intelle ...

22 days ago by Wisinluis_Ak47

Un día después que Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo, Facebook y otras empresas de internet se unieran en una protesta contra la ley antipiratería de EEUU, al menos 18 legisladores de ese país han abandonado hoy el proyecto de ley de regulación cibernética, informaron los medios. De acuerdo con la publicació ...

23 days ago by WebSuccessTeam

The Internet just flexed its political muscle with the don’t-mess-with-the-Web campaign in response to an anti-piracy bill before Congress. Fearful that the bill passage could lead to online censorship and put many websites out of business.

23 days ago by AlexOlesker

Some members of the Congress switched sides to oppose antipiracy legislation as protests blanketed the Internet on Wednesday, turning Wikipedia dark and putting black slashes on Google and other sites as if they had been censored. Content providers who favor the anti-piracy measures, such as Hollywo ...