It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
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Can the Occupy Movement and Organized Labor Strengthen Ties in 2013?
With its emphasis on direct democracy, spontaneity and flexibility of tactics – unbounded by union hierarchies or legal impediments such as the Taft-Hartley Act – Occupy has infused the labor movement with a fresh dose of radicalism.
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Aaron Swartz and the New Communists
Aaron Swartz was not pursued by MIT, the university from which he supposedly "stole," nor by JSTOR, the organization whose files he supposedly "stole." He was pursued by the federal government "because they needed to make an example."
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The Death of Aaron Swartz and the New Hacker Crackdown
The first hacker crackdown shook the early internet to its core and helped mobilize political geeks. Today we're in the midst of a new crackdown.
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Techtivist Report: Obama Launches Global Assault on the Cloud
U.S. intelligence agencies have been given carte blanche to monitor activists, journalists, politicians and others across Europe and elsewhere following an amendment to a spy law that legalizes “heavy-calibre mass-surveillance” of Cloud data.
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Year of the Worker: How Labor Struggles Punctuated 2012
As 2012 marked the year of the worker, 2013 must become the year to strengthen the labor movement so that it truly combats poverty and inequality in the U.S.
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The Big Banks Need Breaking Up—and Washington Knows It
The timing is right. The oven is ready. All we need is another multibillion dollar banking loss—like JP Morgan Chase’s last year—and the biggest banks are cooked.
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Global Budget Cuts Threaten Environment
In the World Economic Forum's Global Risks 2013 report, which surveyed more than 1,000 experts and industry bosses, pessimism is growing about the economic, ecological and political outlook for the coming decade.
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Infographic on Education: Numbers No Student Wants to Hear
About one in two high school graduates aren't going to college because the cost of college grew by a staggering 440% between 1982 and 2007.
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Idle No More: Think Occupy, But With Deep Roots
From hunger strikes to road and rail blockades, Idle No More is a surging movement of indigenous activists that may be as important as the Occupy Movement that transfixed the world a year ago.
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Troubles in the Northwest: Longshore Struggle Brews on Both Coasts, Part II
In a conflict involving nearly 3,000 workers at terminals that handle a quarter of the nation's grain exports, the Northwest Grain Handlers Association is demanding harsh concessions from Longshoremen.
