Across numerous countries, including Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and the United States, the percentage of people who say it is “essential” to live in a … Continue reading How Stable Are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing Red’ 

Italian politics and the economy have been in a state of paralysis for decades, with the situation only worsening since the end of the Great Recession.  Italy is now in a Long … Continue reading The long depression in Italy | Michael Roberts Blog

Nearly a year after being shot in a terrorist attack, employees of San Bernardino County, Calif., are struggling with delayed or denied workers’ compensation claims. Huh? We don’t even bother to treat … Continue reading ‘Victimizing Me All Over Again’: San Bernardino Victims Fight for Treatment

It’s one way the social network could make up for the damage it’s done to journalism. Makes sense. Local news has been decimated and the idea that Facebook should start determining what … Continue reading Facebook should consider subsidizing local news.

Even superheroes have problems with social media Whoops! I knew facial recognition on Facebook was going to be a problem! Source: Even superheroes have problems with social media / Boing Boing Continue reading Even superheroes have problems with social media

The tracking siphons data from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other sites and has taken place largely out of the public eye. This is why people need to download the shit outta Underground’s … Continue reading Police are spending millions of dollars to monitor the social media of protesters and suspects 

While we are being bombarded by the mainstream media and their propaganda war, with the fake, new buzzword called “Fake-News”, the real people of Aleppo are slowly regaining hope that their liberation … Continue reading ALEPPO: Tears, Hugs and Smiles, the Relief of Escaping Imprisonment in East Aleppo

I think that what the papers failed to do was write the big story of the fact that Donald Trump wasn’t playing chess. It’s like the endless fact checking was a little … Continue reading How Journalists Need to Begin Imagining the Unimaginable 

Dean has one enormous blind spot – his assumption that federal deficits are evil and that the answer is to continue to wage vigorously the long war – … Continue reading Bill Black: Howard Dean Wants to Continue Austerity’s Assault on the Working Class 

The Snoopers Charter gives these 48 organisations unlimited, secret access to all UK browsing history Every website you’ve ever visited for a year, all of these organizations get full, searchable access without … Continue reading The Snoopers Charter gives these 48 organisations unlimited, secret access to all UK browsing history

With the help of uncritical journalists, a story about “fake news” ended up disseminating far more than it exposed. This truly is the same as McCarthyism with the media calling out other … Continue reading Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group

A Kentucky man who, in 2012, hacked into an online account for followers of a Ohio high school’s football team to expose a gang rape of a teenage girl has pleaded guilty … Continue reading Hacker who helped expose Ohio rape case pleads guilty, faces more prison time than rapists