According to the International Herald-Tribune, junior Illinois Democratic Party Senator Barack Obama said: “I think you reserve impeachment for grave, grave breeches, and intentional breeches of the president’s authority,” [and,] “I believe if we began impeachment proceedings we will be engulfed in more of the politics that has made Washington dysfunction,” he added. “We would [...]
Today the GNU General Public License version 3, the preeminent free software license, and the GNU LGPL were released today at noon Eastern Daylight Time. Read the press release about the announcement events or go directly to the Free Software Foundation’s website for live streaming coverage of the events. Here are the official recordings, most [...]
The Creative Commons organization has a blog entry on “mainstreaming open music” quoting a means for taking over with music people can share. I think this is right-headed and entirely more productive than trying to negotiate a less painful arrangement with corporate labels and their representatives. This kind of discussion reframes the debate toward something [...]
No health care proposal so far beats Rep. John Conyers’ (D-MI) HR676 for providing universal health care to Americans. HR676 is a single-payer health care plan also known as “Medicare for All”. HR676 has been Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s (D-OH) health care plan for both of his campaigns for president. Physicians for a National Health Program [...]
The Corporate Crime Reporter‘s Russell Mokhiber gave a talk at the Taming the Giant Corporation conference in Washington, D.C., June 9, 2007. I have reformatted the transcript for clarity and added reference points so you can jump to a particular item (#1, #2, #3, etc.). Twenty years ago, Corporate Crime Reporter, a weekly print newsletter, [...]
Laura Flanders, host of Radio Nation, asks, “When will Democratic leaders stop dissing their base?” When Progressive voters stop blindly supporting the Democrats and start holding Democrats to the same standards to which they would hold Republicans, third parties, and independents. If you keep giving them what they want and asking nothing in exchange, they [...]
It’s nice to see software patents getting mainstream criticism. You as a computer user, regardless of what you do with the computer, are adversely affected by software patents—patents on algorithms used in computer software. The op-ed rightly points out the solution: end software patents. We don’t need them and they chiefly serve to give control [...]
Luis Villa writes that one should not “be afraid to embrace freedom”. don’t be afraid to embrace freedom: open source businesses tend to be allergic to the word ‘free’. That is a mistake. Say ‘freedom’ a lot. Love freedom. Embrace freedom. Your community likes freedom. It differentiates you from the proprietary competition, and if you [...]
Coltan is a metallic ore which is refined into a power that is used in computers. Coltan production doesn’t get much public attention, just the things it helps make possible. John Perkins touched on the subject in his interview on today’s Democracy Now! (losslessly compressed audio, audio, video, transcript). Here’s an excerpt of what Perkins [...]
In 2003, John Nichols cited The Nation’s figures when he wrote about CNN’s televised debate between 9 Democratic Party contenders: And those who were actually right about the war remain off radar. That was obvious last week, during CNN’s televised debate featuring the nine Democratic presidential candidates. Moderator Judy Woodruff put the candidates into a [...]
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