The image of “a colony in a nation” is not just a catchy title for Hayes. It is central to his arguments about race, policing, and incarceration in the United States. He contends that the American criminal justice system “isn’t one system with massive racial disparities but two distinct regimes. …
AUDIO interview with Dan Cohen Juan Guaido: Made in the USA Misery in the Name of Liberty On The Media What’s Next for Venezuela as U.S. & Opposition Reject Negotiations Aimed to End Crisis Peacefully? Democracy Now By Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal Juan Guaidó is the product of a …
What next, after Anand finally understood, or actually felt it was necessary to speak up? Time will tell. After his book (Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World) he met to discuss some of the details on the On Being show. Some of the transcript is printed …
There is a short Q & A with Elizabeth Anderson on her book “Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It)” at the Princeton Press website. A link to an hour long audio interview is at the bottom of this post. …other kinds of …
You may be familiar with the IWW. The IWA has a similar story or genesis. I was delighted to find this film, which I believe is an IWA film: Gazelle 1925 from Gazelle Bicycles Australia on Vimeo. IWA- site IWA- wiki also see IWW IFA anarkismo
Capitalism isn’t directly implicated, but this is good nonetheless. Listen to On The Media’s episode “This is America” here. Today, more than 45 million Americans live in poverty. The problem has been addressed countless times since the nation’s founding, but it persists, and for the poorest among us, it gets …
Tariffs were considered one of the big four by Benjamin Tucker many moons before Trumpian Fake-o-nomics: “the tariff monopoly, which consists in fostering production at high prices and under unfavorable conditions by visiting with the penalty of taxation those who patronize production at low prices and under favorable conditions. The …
For a start, AVs [autonomous vehicles] will record everything that happens in and around them. When a crime is committed, the police will ask nearby cars if they saw anything. Fleet operators will know a great deal about their riders. In one infamous analysis of passenger data, Uber identified one-night …
source In a recent article for Wired (“The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online”), Kevin Kelly suggested that P2P was the basis for a new form of socialism. The new digital socialism includes peer production efforts like Wikipedia, file-sharing, and open licenses like Creative Commons. As Kelly says, …
