Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class – NYTimes.com When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president. But as Steven P. Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama...

Are we on information overload? – Internet Culture – Salon.com The Internet has transformed knowledge. An expert explains why it’s launched the greatest period in human history by Thomas Rogers The last two decades have completely transformed the way we know. Thanks to the...

2011: A Year in Revolt | OccupyWallSt.org 2011 will be remembered as a year of revolution, the beginning of the end for an unsustainable global system based on poverty, oppression, and violence. In dozens of countries across the Arab world, people rose up against broken economies and...

Letter from Istanbul Bakirkoy Women’s Prison by Ayşe Berktay [An October 2011 report on the so-called “KCK operations,” carried out in Turkey by Prime Minister Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party for the past two years, noted that the Erdoğan government has...

Turkey: No tweets from the courtroom! – Global Voices Advocacy “Today the judge is more strict” says the tweet, “One undercover police for each row! All monitoring the ones who are tweeting!“ In Istanbul-Turkey, today is the 2nd day of the hearings of 10...

David Attenborough Reads “What a Wonderful World” in a Moving Video | Open Culture   Sir David Attenborough is England’s finest natural history filmmaker, best known for his Life collection, a series of nine nature documentaries aired on the BBC between 1979 and...

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 47 year old television signals bouncing back to Earth While searching deep space for extra-terrestrial signals, scientists at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico have stumbled across signals broadcast from Earth nearly half a century ago. Radio...

How Tobacco Smokes The World  If you think big tobacco companies have been hurt by the virtually indisputable evidence of cigarettes’ negative health effects, think again. Despite selling a product which will eventually kill their customers, tobacco companies still maintain a...

Occupy vs. Big Labor – Occupy Wall Street – Salon.com In the Dec. 12 port shutdown campaign, the rank and file are leading organized labor, not the other way around by Emily Loftis As Occupy Wall Street groups stretching from San Diego to Anchorage mobilize for a multi-port...

Capitalism, not consumers, is the big green problem | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal By Simon Butler December 4, 2011 — Green Left Weekly — Most environmentalists would agree consumerism and consumer culture put too heavy a burden on the planet. Consumer...

Argentina Shows World How to Beat the Crisis | Common Dreams by Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES – What is happening in the European Union and the United States today happened a decade ago in Argentina, when it was a hotbed of protest and the streets of major cities were seething with...

Gerzeliler yaşamı savundu | Yeşil Gazete Gerze‘de bugün Türkiye‘nin dört bir yanından yaklaşık on bin kişi Anadolu Grubu‘nun kurmak istediği termik santrale karşı bir aradaydı. Bugün Sinop’un Gerze ilçesinde yaklaşık on bin...

Bolivia and Ecuador Grant Equal Rights to Nature: Is “Wild Law” a Climate Solution? | ThinkProgress The concept of “a wild law,” which grants equal rights to nature, is based on the idea that humans do not have an explicit right to destroy our natural environment. Under...

Lost in the Shopping Center – Association for Psychological Science You go to the mall to buy one pair of jeans and leave with your jeans plus new shoes, a pretzel, and a couple of magazines. Sound familiar? Watch Marc Fennell of Hungry Beast explain how store design can encourage...

Radikal – Haber Haklı savaşlar yalan üzerine kurulu. Profesyonel ordu, ulus devletin tarih sahnesinden çekilmekte olduğunun habercisi. Gündüz Vassaf Bütün savaşlara karşıyım çünkü bütün savaşlar insana karşı. Haklı...

The one indisputable triumph of Occupy Wall Street – War Room – Salon.com And the million-dollar question: How vital are the actual protests now to the prominence of OWS issues? by Steve Korniacki Dylan Byers has run the numbers in Nexis and calculated that mentions of...

A Brief, Wondrous Tour of Earth (From Outer Space) | Open Culture   Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.   We have seen several time-lapse views of Earth from the International Space Station, but this may well be the best....

World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns | Environment | The Guardian by Fiona Harvey If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will ‘lose for ever’ the chance to avoid dangerous climate change The world is likely to build so...

Duelity: Creationist and Darwinist Origin Stories Animated | Open Culture Produced at the Vancouver Film School, this split-screen animation tells the story of Earth’ s origins from a creationist and Darwinist/evolutionist point of view. To make things more interesting (spoiler: stop...

Depremzede tepkisine gazlı müdahale CNNTurk.com Başbakan Yardımcısı Beşir Atalay’ın yıkılan Bayram Oteli’nin enkazında yaptığı incelemeler sırasında bir grup vatandaş, “yıkılmayan evlerinize girin” diyen Vali Münir Karaloğlu’nu...

Journey to Midway MIDWAY : trailer : a film by Chris Jordan from Midway on Vimeo.   The MIDWAY media project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses...

Why Is the State Department Using Our Money to Pimp for Monsanto? | Environment | AlterNet The State Department is using taxpayer money to help force genetically modified crops on other countries. People in India are up in arms about eggplant. Not just any eggplant — the fight, which is...

Japanese MP drinks Fukushima water under pressure from journalists | World news | The Guardian Yasuhiro Sonoda’s hands shake as he drinks water collected from the plant to back up government claims of decontamination It was a simple gulp of water, but one that Japan‘s...

Who’s causing the environmental crisis: 7 billion or the 1%? | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal October 26, 2011 — Grist via Climate and Capitalism, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission — Ironically, while populationist...

Worst Food Additive Ever? It’s in Half of All Foods We Eat and Its Production Destroys Rainforests and Enslaves Children | | AlterNet It’s in Half of All Foods We Eat and Its Production Destroys Rainforests and Enslaves Children The production of this ingredient causes jaw-dropping...