FireChat: Yet another spurious techno-panacea
Almost every day we hear about some new “revolutionary” technology that is going to make the world a more open, transparent, and better place.
Almost every day we hear about some new “revolutionary” technology that is going to make the world a more open, transparent, and better place.
In an otherwise excellent piece on the TUC’s passing of an idiotic resolution on Ukraine, Dale Street writes that “for the first time since the Second World War the territory of a European country has…
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The downfall of Chang Song-thaek, once considered the second most powerful person in North Korea, is a lesson in history for a new generation – and not only in Korea. The parallels to Soviet history…
This article appears in the current issue of Solidarity. Thom Hartmann is a prominent left-wing radio broadcaster from the USA. I first came across him when he interviewed me at a conference in Washington and…