I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our soldiers engage the enemy. Over the course of 12 months, I covered more than 9,000 miles and talked, …
On September 25, 2011, just eight days after the Occupy Wall Street protests began in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, the much acclaimed CBS News program, 60 Minutes, aired a fawning look at the thousands of surveillance cameras affixed to buildings and lampposts throughout New York City. The cameras feed …
The enigmatic Internet-driven collective Anonymous, thank goodness, has an anthropologist in its midst. For a few years now, Gabriella Coleman [4] has been arduously participant-observing in IRC chat rooms, watching Anonymous turn from a prankster moniker to a herd of vigilantes for global justice. In an extraordinary new essay at Triple Canopy, “Our Weirdness Is …
Even as Iran has come centre-stage of another likely military conflict in the Middle East with the US and its western allies determined to force it to forgo its nuclear programme, the Asia-Pacific region is emerging as another potential trouble spot pitting China against the US. With the US now …
Listen to The News Dissector weekly on Friday’s at 1pm only on PRN.fm The TV series House of Lies is about business but it could as easily be about government and foreign policy. In a recent episode, one of the management consultants pitches a company about the need to launch a new product. …
A painstakingly detailed investigation shows that mass extinctions need not be sudden events. The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of Earth’s marine life, and it killed in stages, according to a newly published report. Thomas J. Algeo, professor of geology at the University of …
The tone of this year’s Republican presidential primary (which now seems destined to last much longerthan Mitt Romney had been planning) seems sort of, well, fearful. One after the other, these would-be presidents have warned of looming threats — war with Iran, economic collapse, class warfare, social disintegration, illegal immigration — …
“Corporations are people, my friend.” Mitt Romney at Iowa State Fair Corporations are obviously not people. But Romney is accurate in the sense that corporations have hijacked most of the rights of people while evading the responsibilities. An important part of the social justice agenda is democratizing corporations. This means …
Brad Coates is a prominent Honolulu divorce attorney and founder of Coates and Frey, Hawaii’s largest family law firm. His award winning book Divorce with Decency is now in its forthcoming 4th Edition. The provocative topic for today’s program was “Is Marriage Dead?…Will Civil Unions and Other Changing Social Trends …
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Deborah Wolfe is talking with Darlene Arden, author of some of Deb’s favorite pet books; both dogs and cats because like Deborah, Darlene is bipetual. If you’ve got a cat question or dog question about behavior or training please call the show 1-888-874-4888 or just kick back and listen to …
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Guest: Nomi Prins Sandy LeonVest (www.solartimes.org) talks to author, journalist and consumer advocate Nomi Prins, about the US “economic recovery,” in the context of the European monetary crisis and austerity measures in Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and other countries. They discuss the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the evisceration of capital …
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