Catégorie : Politics

Say goodbye to the Internet we’ve known – Published on Axis of Logic (first on Mercury News), by Troy Wolverton, Jan 15, 2014.

If you like how cable television works, you’re going to love how a court decision Tuesday could change the Internet.

Thanks to the ruling, broadband providers can now exert a lot more control over what sites you visit on the Internet and what services you can access. The decision would allow Comcast, for example, to bar its Internet subscribers from seeing videos from Netflix (NFLX) or from using Vonage’s Internet phone service.  Continuer la lecture de « U.S. Court of Appeals Allows ISP's to Selectively Block Web Traffic »

Sternstunde Philosophie: Gespräch mit Juli Zeh und Ilija Trojanow, von  absinth1987 im Januar 2010 hochgelden:
1/6, 9.57 min; 2/6, 9.57 min; 3/6, 9.29 min; 4/6, 9.47 min; 5/6, 9.57 min; 6/6, 8.39 min:   Continuer la lecture de « Freiheit & Überwachung »

American journalism has entered highly dangerous terrain – Published on Global Research.ca, Jan 13, 2014.

• … For the CIA, the emerging newspaper role of Mr. Amazon is value added to any working relationship with him. The CIA’s zeal to increase its leverage over major American media outlets is longstanding.
• After creation of the CIA in 1947, it enjoyed direct collaboration with many U.S. news organizations. But the agency faced a major challenge in October 1977, when — soon after leaving the Washington Post – famed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein provided an extensive expose in Rolling Stone.  Continuer la lecture de « Why the Washington Post’s New Ties to the CIA Are So Ominous »

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 927, by Alfredo Saad Filho, January 13, 2014.

This article reviews the background and the implications of two transitions in Brazil: the political transition from a military regime (1964-85) to democracy (1985-present), and the economic transition from import-substituting industrialization (ISI, 1930-80) to neoliberalism (1990-present). It subsequently examines how neoliberal economic policies were implemented in a democracy, under the centre-right administrations led by Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-98, 1998-2002), and the centre-left administrations led by Luís Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula, 2003-06, 2007-10) and Dilma Rousseff (2011-present). Continuer la lecture de « Two Transitions in Brazil: Dilemmas of a Neoliberal Democracy »

Published on BRICS POST (Source: Agencies), Jan 10, 2014;

The South African government has vowed to restore land to its rightful owners, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.
“Land Reform is an important part of national reconciliation and nation building,” asserted Zuma while handing over 13,184 hectares of previously white-owned land to the black N’wandlamhlarhi Community in Mpumalanga Province.   Continuer la lecture de « South Africa: Will return land to dispossessed – Zuma »