EPA Approves Another Pesticide Highly Toxic to Bees
Flying in the face of recent science demonstrating that pollinator populations are declining, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made the decision to unconditionally register another
Theory Thursday: It Is Not a Revolution, It Is a New Networked Renaissance
"We were very pleased to promote the response to the State of the Union from Kshama Sawant on Tuesday evening. One of the most important values of the Occupy Solidarity Network, is that we support ...
Lawsuit Seeks To Shed Light On Rove's 'Dark Money' Donors
After a recent three-to-three decision by a partisan-deadlocked Federal Elections Commission (FEC), Karl Rove may have thought he was off the hook for federal campaign finance violations by his ...
Pay Close Attention To This Marijuana Millionaire's Weed Venture Capital Fund
Before medical marijuana, before Colorado and Washington's legalization initiatives, there was only the underground weed economy. There was no such thing as a mainstream marijuana entrepreneur. How
US Democrats Introduce Bill To Restore Net Neutrality - Slashdot
New submitter litehacksaur111 writes "Lawmakers are introducing the Open Internet Preservation Act (PDF) which aims to restore net neutrality rules enforced by the FCC before being struck down by ...
How Do We Defeat Big Finance Capitalism?
Robert Jensen: Critiques of capitalism have been around since the beginning of capitalism. Is there anything distinctive about this moment? Mainstream society continues to operate as if "there is no
On Founders and Keepers of Occupy Wall Street
"Occupy Wall Street is making the power elite crazy. They can't control them, there's no one in charge." - Diane Ravitch, education historian, on her first visit to Zuccotti Park, fall 2011 "Our ...
The Day We Fight Back By The Numbers
The Day We Fought Back: by the numbers Thanks to everyone who participated on Tuesday. Together we demonstrated that activists, organizations, and companies can work in unison to fight mass ...
Michel Bauwens on the pitfalls of start-up culture
Our second extract from the transcript of the C-Realm Podcast Bauwens/Kleiner/Trialogue, Michel Bauwens talks about the disconnect between young idealistic developers and the business models many of