YES! Magazine [1] / By Lori Wallach [2]
December 5, 2012  |

While the election season seized everyone’s attention, government officials and 600 official corporate “advisors” were working behind closed doors to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Negotiations have been cloaked in unprecedented secrecy and its proponents have mislabeled the ( Read more... )

By Gaius Publius on 5/24/2012 01:35:00 PM
A Facebook quick hits - another look behind the Matrix, this time at the Facebook IPO lawsuit (do click) and what it says about the "markets."

Matt Taibbi sums things perfectly in this Taibblog post (my emphasis and paragraph tweakage):
All of these stories suggest that Wall Street is increasingly turning ( Read more... )

Tuesday May 22nd, 2012

One of the first things written on this site was a lengthy six-part series on automation and its implications for the economy titled What Are People Good For? That article predicted continuing unemployment and decay, and sure enough, that's exactly what has occurred. You're sure to hear politicians blathering over the next few ( Read more... )

16 August 2010 Last updated at 07:51 ET
By Matthew Danzico
From BBC News, Washington

( Many have begun trading in CD, DVD, and book collections for digital music, movies, and e-books. But this trend in digital technology is now influencing some to get rid of nearly all of their physical possessions - from photographs to furniture to homes altogether. )

Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity
~Scroll down and listen to the Prologue of the audio book.

( And now for something completely different... )