Net neutrality and other efforts to promote internet fairness and prevent a corporate stranglehold on Americans’ access to the web and other telecommunication technology may be at risk thanks to a prospective new head of the agency that oversees the nation’s telecom industry. President Obama’s first chairman of the Federal Communications Commission announced last week [...]
DOES ISRAEL HAVE A RIGHT TO EXIST? Let’s put that another way, says Patrick Higgins; does “murderous settler-colonialism” have a right to exist? The current Israeli raids on Gaza provoke this question. Higgins compares the Jewish settler movement in the middle east to the process of white settlers “winning the west” from native Americans. [...]
“IT DOESN’T MATTER WHETHER A CAT IS BLACK OR WHITE PROVIDED IT CATCHES MICE.” This statement, attributed to former Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping, reflects the pragmatic combination of private enterprise capitalism and state-controlled communism that set China on its continuing course of rapid economic development. Now, as Ronald Reagan might say about the [...]
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