Gangs of America by Ted Nace - the rise of Corporate Power and the disabling of democracy:
Corporations are the dominant force in modern life, surpassing even church and state. The largest are richer than entire nations, and courts have given these entities more rights than people. To many Americans, corporate power seems out […]

Thanks to Peter Coyote:
A must read on our current economics
“It is through the newspapers and TV channels that the
socially destructive notions of a small group of
extremists have come to look like common sense.”
The Guardian UK
By George Monbiot
Tuesday 28 August 2007
A cabal of intellectuals and elitists hijacked the
economic debate, and […]

Introduction
Economic development in LDCs [Least Developed Countries] is very hard and, historically, prone to failure.  It rarely fits neatly into corporate time frames, earnings requirements or agendas.  Nor does it fit neatly into either political time tables or within shifting political agendas in “donor nations”. To date, nobody has figured out how to do it […]

The magic of the market, and its genius, is simply that it is heuristic. At its best, it seeks multiple goals, such as improving community, the environment as well as personal well being. This was also the genius of Benjamin Franklin’s Junto.
The question, then, is about the goals the heuristic process seeks. […]

If today’s candidates for President have a broadband strategy for rural America, it amounts to little more than bringing the inadequate and over priced broadband offered up to urban residents to their country cousins. This is hardly a path towards recapturing global communications leadership for America. More of the same old same […]

The recent FCC decision concerning the upcoming spectrum auction clearly shows that the FCC creates policy that best suits the business plans of the companies that spend the most on lobbying. Clearly, this FCC policy is NOT based on what is best for the future of nation. This FCC shows no leadership.
For more […]

NATION
16 July 2007,
DR FAROOQ HASSAN
As the Lal Masjid offensive in Islamabad ended on July 10, it had left behind according to the Pakistani Government an estimated 88 people dead, including the deputy head of the Mosque and the military colonel who led the initial assault. The casualty figures according to the online edition of an […]

Dr. Farooq Hasan has a new editorial essay in The Nation.
This government’s abrupt and seemingly ruthless behaviour towards the Chief Justice of Pakistan has triggered such a velocity of political agitation against the military rule as never seen in the past in Pakistan. Indeed nowhere in recent history has a third world country seen such […]

I have always been fascinated by innovation. It is what America was built on, has helped keep America strong, and I believe is where our strength in the future lies. I’ve always been an early adopter of technology and seek to add my own innovations.
For me, and I believe for many others, that […]

In the first plenary session of the Media in Transition conference, Tom Pettitt’s presented the idea of the Gutenberg Parenthesis. With the advent of the printing press, we moved to a culture where text was fixed. The author of works became fixed. The content of the work became fixed. Prior to […]