Remember when word circulated that Edward Snowden was using Lavabit, an email service that purports to provide better privacy and security for users than popular web-based free services like Gmail? Lavabit’s owner has shut…
Category: Global Issues
Philip Mirowski is the Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science University of Notre Dame. Professor Mirowski’s latest book is Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived…
The Current Employment Crisis Has Deep Roots, Going Back Half a Century Econintersect: The Associated Press (AP) has reported survey data indicating that approximately 80% of U.S. adults face severe economic struggles. The results show the hardship…
Nearly 80 percent reportedly face joblessness, poverty, or welfare at some point in their lives Economists say poverty is no longer an issue of “them” vs. “us.” President Obama’s recent “pivot” back to the economy,…
The CBS Sunday morning showFace the Nation featured a discussion of NSA surveillance with the former head of the agency and two politicians who vigorously defend the agency’s mass surveillance programs. The August 11 show featured a softball interview with Michael…
The massacre in Egypt was committed as a result of the international community’s support for the coup makers; it was perpetrated as a collective crime. This fact should be considered and those who shed hypocritical…
Last week marked the 68th anniversary of the WWII destruction of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (Aug. 6) and Nagasaki (Aug. 9) — the first and only deployment of nuclear weapons in human history. Within…
The conflict has become an ugly proxy battle between innumerable outside forces. If the Australian government is so worried about terrorism, it should stop backing it in Syria Syrian president Bashar al-Assad wasn’t supposed to…
In 3 Months, Do We Want to Entrust U.S. “National Security” and Perhaps Even “Human Survival” In the Northern Hemisphere to These Guys? If an incompetent doctor killed numerous patients doing routine surgery – and…
The rate at which contaminated water has been pouring into the Pacific Ocean from the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant is worse than previously thought, an Industry Ministry official said Wednesday as PM Shinzo Abe pledged…