‘Climate change’, ‘infant mortality’, ‘fair trade’… the list goes on by Johann Hari September 2, 2009 The English language needs periodically to be given a spring-clean, where we scrape off the phrases that have become stuck to the floor and toss out the rotting metaphors that have fallen down the back of the settee. George Orwell warned that [...]

by Danny Schechter August 27, 2009 What do we have a right to know?  In this web-based age, where we can Google almost everything, you’d think we would be better informed than we are. We have Freedom of Information laws and a President who has promised transparency, offering some details on what he’s doing on an easy to [...]

by Tiffiniy Cheng August 27, 2009 What’s stopping us from finding solutions to world hunger, environmental crises, poverty, and health issues? It’s not that we don’t have answers. It’s that lobbying and special interest public branding has turned us into a society that makes decisions without observable facts and in a fundamental way, disregards science. We have [...]

see video of The Corporation: Democracy Ltd. by Robert C. Hinkley The corporation is no more than an aggregation of capital managed for the proportional benefit of those who supply it.  It is a system controlled by managers, administrators and clerks largely for the benefit of passive investors looking for a higher return than they can earn [...]