Often, economic tracts can be a remedy for insomnia. But What’s Mine Is Yours—The Rise of Collaborative Consumption by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers is more than the exception. It’s a highly readable, “hip” if you will, book full of “seeing moments.”According to its publisher, it “explores the rise of new economic models based on shared resources and collective consumption—and [is] the first articulation of a major socioeconomic phenomenon.” It is that and more, and woke up my own thinking about today’s economic paradigms. Continue reading →
It was Abraham Lincoln who followed his Constitutional right to coin a US currency. President Lincoln created US Greenbacks from 1862–1871, printed by the US mint, delivered to the US Treasury to conduct and pay off the Civil War debt. Yet, after his tragic (if not related) assassination, the country returned and departed again from private banking systems. Continue reading →
For openers, this writer wonders why my Internet provider, Verizon Wireless, signed on as a major sponsor of The Daily, the new Apple iPad-only “newspaper” from Rupert Murdoch’s uber-right wing News Corp. This is the company that brought Fox News’ unfair and imbalanced reporting to us. Murdoch himself admitted he was trying to sway political agendas to the right. And this was the same Fox News that gave a whopping $1 million to the Republican Governor’s Association. Is anybody listening? Continue reading →
While protestors risk their lives, battling in violent confrontation with the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, analysists estimate that nearly a million barrels of Libyan oil a day have been removed from world markets recently, reports the New York Times. And of course we have the standard whine that “Investors fear that more oil production could be disrupted as the unrest spreads to other crucial producing nationals like Algeria.” So which would the world have, the tyrants or the sweet crude? I think I know the answer. Continue reading →
The late, great American historian Howard Zinn, as professor emeritus in Boston University’s History Department, said in January 2001, “For progressive movements, the future does not lie with electoral politics. It lies in street warfare—protest movements and demonstrations, civil disobedience, strikes and boycotts using all of the power of consumers and workers have in direct action against the government and corporations.” Continue reading →
The fact that numerous firefighters and other first responders have continued to fall ill, some of them terminally, has been much discussed in the media. But the mainstream media have not raised the most pressing question: Why have first responders developed cancer and other fatal diseases that should not have been caused by the fires in, and collapses of, the World Trade Center buildings? This 9/11 mystery has still not been answered. Continue reading →
Libya: In revolution or allied war?
Posted on March 24, 2011 by Jerry Mazza
In an earlier article, Libya: Another revolution or special op? I answered by own question about the present color revolution. Yes, it is headed by Washington, Israel, The City of London, the Vatican and their Mary Pranksters of the CIA, with all the bells and whistles, protest signs and revolutionary Libyan flags, for a news movie for Western Media. Continue reading →