Showing posts with label property rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label property rights. Show all posts
Monday, December 3, 2018

US coal firm launches NAFTA suit against Alberta over coal phase-out

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Click here to access article from ISDS Platform . The ISDS Platform, a non-profit NGO, tracks such cases throughout the world. I am post...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Colin Kaepernick Is Righter Than You Know: The National Anthem Is a Celebration of Slavery

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Click here to access article by Jon Schwarz from The Intercept .  (Updated with more commentary at 11 PM Seattle time.) Strange, but I...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Ron Paul Drops Wiretap Truth Bombs

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Click here to access a 9:49 video featuring James Corbett , who expands on some recent comments by Ron Paul and posted on his website. If ...
Monday, September 19, 2016

Life Itself Is Being Patented, Privatized and Re-engineered

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Click here to access a transcript of an interview with Ashley Dawson, author of Extinction: A Radical History , posted on TruthOut . The ...
Monday, July 18, 2016

New trade deals legalise corporate theft, make farmers’ seeds illegal

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Click here to access article from GRAIN . This topic has often been discussed and condemned before, but this report goes into much greate...
Thursday, December 31, 2015

'Free Basics' Will Take Away More Than Our Right to the Internet

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Click here to access article by Vandana Shiva from Common Dreams . (Note: Shiva uses a couple of abbreviations commonly used in India: ...
Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Aspiring to Rule the World: US Capital and the Battle for Syria

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Click here to access article by Stephen Gowans from his blog What's Left .  This article really consists of two essays: 1) an analysi...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

TPP's Copyright Trap

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Click here to access article from the Electronic Frontier Foundation . Capitalism is famous for encircling and fencing off areas of priva...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

VIDEO: Aaron Swartz And The Fight For Free Information

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Click here to access article by Abby Martin from MintPress News. This tragedy is another illustration of how capitalism turns everything ...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Monsanto & Seed Patent Laws

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Click here to access a 4:24m video on the John Stewart's The Daily Show . Notice at one point in the dialog the farmer expresses a fu...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

The Lunacy of Gene Patenting & Angelina Jolie's Mastectomy

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Click here to access article by Prabir Purkayastha from NewsClick (India). Jolie is an icon and her body is an important element of her ...
Friday, April 26, 2013

Are Genes Patentable? An Insider's Review of the ACLU's Supreme Court Argument on Gene Patenting

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Click here to access article by Lenora M. Lapidus from American Civil Liberties Union .  The ownership of property that can be used to ex...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

Introducing: Open Source Philosophy

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Click here if you wish to access the source of these two videos on Open Source Ecology . The 4:12m and  6:59m videos are narrated by Dr. M...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

Locked in the Ivory Tower: Why JSTOR Imprisons Academic Research

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Click here to access article by Laura McKenna from The Atlantic . As has often been observed, under the system of capitalism everything, ...
Monday, January 14, 2013

Aaron Swartz, Canary in a Coal Mine for the Information Cartel

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Click here to access article by Nozomi Hayase from Dissident Voic e. An American Hero On Jan 11, 2013, a bright light burned out. A...
Thursday, August 9, 2012

The corporate steamroller of gentrification is a deliberate process

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Click here to access article by Pete Dolack from his blog Systemic Disorder.  Gentrification is an ongoing process, of which we’ve had tw...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

The Rules of the Game

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Click here to access article by Jim O’Reilly from his blog Comments on Global Political Economy. Although one might dispute the last clau...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

Modernizing Henry George

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by Herman Daly from CASSE . Sacrifice of nature’s scarce services constitutes an increasing opportunity cost of growth, and that in turn me...
Friday, July 16, 2010

Rich countries set intellectual property rules in secret: What’s ours will stay that way

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by Philippe Rivière from Le Monde Diplomatique .  Rich capitalist corporations of the West are secretly attempting to secure more rights o...