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Action in the peace movement?

Sheldon Richman points us to the New York Times Review of Books where one will find a printed copy of this insert “Crimes Are Crimes – No Matter Who Does Them“.

2010 05 31 J.B. Nicholson-Owens Comments Off

Naomi Klein gets it in one

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2010 05 31 J.B. Nicholson-Owens Comments Off

The Sleeping Left: Obama feeds them reasons to object, where’s the outrage?

The Iraq and Afghanistan occupations rage on with no national marches in the US in sight, even while a majority of students are available to participate on summer holiday. In Afghanistan the Obama drone attacks kill civilians a third of the time. On top of all this, “the United States must reserve the right to [...]

2010 05 30 J.B. Nicholson-Owens Comments Off

Read John Pilger’s acceptance lecture and his analysis of President Obama

In November 2009 Australian journalist and filmmaker John Pilger received the 2009 Sydney Peace Prize at a ceremony at the Sydney Opera House. In a lecture as worth watching as Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Pilger points out an uncomfortable truth about the American president: It doesn’t matter who is president – George Bush [...]

2010 04 25 J.B. Nicholson-Owens Comments Off

Patent Absurdity: A short movie on the problems of patents covering algorithms used in software

You should get a free software web browser that can handle playing movies in free codecs. I suggest GNU Icecat or Firefox. Patent Absurdity explores the case of software patents and the history of judicial activism that led to their rise, and the harm being done to software developers and the wider economy. The film [...]

2010 04 24 J.B. Nicholson-Owens Free Software
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Frontline’s “Obama’s Deal” doesn’t explain what HMOs fear most

I watched PBS’ “Frontline” called “Obama’s Deal” which attempts to explain the behind-the-scenes machinations that produced an HMO-written American health care plan which essentially forces Americans to purchase a health care insurance package from an HMOs. But I didn’t see any clear examination of what the HMOs were fighting against. Frontline’s report mentioned a little [...]

2010 04 18 J.B. Nicholson-Owens Comments Off

Michael Moore’s unjustified anger at Ralph Nader

On March 25, 2010 famous documentarian Michael Moore appeared on Democracy Now! (video, audio, transcript) and spoke about how disappointed he was in President Obama’s health care reform (which he got largely right: pushing people into buying health care insurance from HMOs is a strong victory for capitalism; I’d have also pointed out the bailout [...]

2010 03 26 J.B. Nicholson-Owens Comments Off

Glenn Greenwald versus Rachel Maddow and Andrea Mitchell on whether Andrew Joseph Stack is a terrorist and his suicide note

I happened to see the 2010-02-18 Rachel Maddow show and the 2010-02-25 Democracy Now!. Both discussed Andrew Joseph Stack III, the man who flew his plane into Building I of the Echelon office complex in Austin, Texas which killed Stack and IRS manager Vernon Hunter. Stack left a suicide note (local copy) published on his [...]

2010 02 25 J.B. Nicholson-Owens Comments Off

Sita Sings the Blues vs. Ink: How licensing treats us differently

“Sita Sings the Blues” is an independently produced movie that is widely legally copied on the Internet. Writer/director/producer Nina Paley released “Sita” under a license that allows sharing (and far more, actually, but the details of how much more are beside the point of this article). Sita is also for sale on her store and [...]

2010 02 06 J.B. Nicholson-Owens Digital Citizen
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Laying bare the myth of Obama’s beneficial presidency

How good can a president be when he continues the hated acts of his predecessor? How valuable can that president’s support be when they challenge the predecessor’s wrongdoing but remain virtually silent about continuing the same bad policies? Glenn Greenwald on Bill Moyer’s Journal in a web exclusive (video, transcript) had this to say about [...]

2009 10 31 J.B. Nicholson-Owens Comments Off