‘The ways in which technology controls our minds may go eerily beyond our habits of blindly following GPS directions or instantly Googling something instead of thinking about it. The technology already exists to implant and […]
‘This is a strategic memorandum to all movement organizers, social justice organizations, and free citizens disgusted with a corporate state that has systematically extracted our wealth and resources for its own private gain, while giving […]
‘Imagine a world where mosquito-sized robots fly around stealing samples of your DNA. Or where a department store knows from your buying habits that you’re pregnant even before your family does. That is the terrifying […]
‘Because of the complicated nature of power-sharing in the European Union, some international agreements require the approval of both the European Parliament and of every Member State — so-called “mixed agreements.” It is generally accepted […]
Throughout the history of collapsed civilizations, nearly all of them experienced a phase of rapid morality decline that preceded their ultimate implosion. The Nazi regime promoted the “science” of genetically-selected eugenics and mass death to […]
‘The corporate media is reporting that since the Republican leadership and President Obama support Fast Track trade authority, it is a done deal. And that message, also heard by countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), […]
‘It is the annual networking shindig for the political and corporate elite where the high altitude is matched only by the high-level networking. It might be the only conference in the world where rapper and […]
‘The current American war in Iraq is a struggle in search of a goal. It began in August as a humanitarian intervention, morphed into a campaign to protect Americans in-country, became a plan to defend […]
‘I want to sketch the path along which virtual reality is going. Right now, companies are selling improved tech that allows a helmet-wearer to see landscape and people in a wider perspective, and hear layers […]
‘The world suffers global recession, enormous inequity, hunger, deforestation, pollution, climate change, nuclear weapons, terrorism, etc. To those who say we’re not really making progress, many might point to the fact that at least we’ve […]
‘In June 2014, it was widely reported that the government had abandoned plans to privatise child protection services. However, these services are still under threat. When the Department for Education published draft regulations that would […]
‘Bloodsuckers taking their fangs out of Hinchingbrooke Hospital because they can’t extract juicy profits should end the privatisation of the National Health Service. But it hasn’t. On the day fatcats abandoned the Cambridgeshire complex, Tory […]