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In her keynote speech at last year’s annual Netroots Nation gathering, Darcy Burner pitched a seemingly simple idea to the thousands of bloggers and web developers in the audience.
New App Buycott Lets Users Protest Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance - Disquieting Truths
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I Was a Paid Internet Shill: How Shadowy Groups Manipulate Internet Opinion and Debate
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The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur
Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - physics-math - 19 October 2011
AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies , mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy. The study's assumptions have attracted some criticism, but complex systems analysts contacted by New Scientist say it is a unique effort to untangle control in the global economy. Pushing the analysis further, they say, could help to identify ways of making global capitalism more stable.A few months ago Nassim Taleb, author of the Black Swan , an influential book about the crucial importance of unpredictable, unforeseen events on our financial system was asked whether the hundreds of thousands taking to the streets in Greece was a Black Swan event. He replied , “No. The real Black Swan event is that people are not rioting against the banks in London and New York.” They are now. Not rioting perhaps but vigorously protesting.
It's Labor vs. Capital, Stupid
Three Charts to Email to Your Right-Wing Brother-In-Law
Problem : Your right-wing brother-in-law is plugged into the FOX-Limbaugh lie machine, and keeps sending you emails about "Obama spending" and "Obama deficits" and how the "Stimulus" just made things worse. Solution : Here are three "reality-based" charts to send to him. These charts show what actually happened. Spending