Maybe it's time that they be taken to task for what is clearly a misleading
advertising campaign? Sure. But then, I have yet to see an advertising campaign
that wasn't misleading, Soenke
http://www.saschameinrath.com/node/403
[UPDATE 1] HandsOfftheInternet.com -- More Sock-Puppetry from the
Maybe it's time that they be taken to task for what is clearly a misleading
advertising campaign? Sure. But then, I have yet to see an advertising
campaign that wasn't misleading, Soenke
http://www.saschameinrath.com/node/403
[UPDATE 1] HandsOfftheInternet.com -- More Sock-Puppetry from the
Please note that threats emanating in the global commons will be
addressed in business casual (polo shirts and slacks for _all_
participants), military personnel desiring to wear uniforms should wear
khaki (for Navy) or service equivalent, Soenke
Global Legal Challenges:
Command of the Commons,
:: 14.12.05
http://www.metamute.com/look/issue.tpl?IdLanguage=1IdPublication=1NrIssue=30
by Soenke Zehle
The info-technological development of Africa is providing a critical
laboratory for testing the utilitarian and egalitarian claims of the
FLOSS community. The question of whether to adopt a free
On code is becoming today's hegemonic metaphor, also see what T.P.M.B. has to
say on code/hegemony, Soenke
I have come to believe ever more deeply in Americas fundamental purpose as
source code for this eras successful and far-reaching brand of globalization.
We
have set in motion a powerful
Nor is something special simply because it's passed through a DMA bus, or a
Cisco
router. Well, if you take the Cisco-in-China debate, passage through a Cisco
router is becoming a special privilege indeed. More to the pt: not (simply) an
attack on the CC logic, but trying to shift the discussion
Didn't someone say way back when that television wouldn't be
revolutionized? I have been wondering whether 'global' and 'independent'
really go together that well, but it looks like the network is going to
launch its first network, finally proving Chomsky right and return us to
democracy, sz
According to a number of ecological economists and post-normal science
advocates [1], we are about to witness the return of the great social
science of political economy - with growing grassroots support, as even
econ students are beginning to rise up against their neoclassical
masters
Whichever way you approach this conflict, local grassroots coverage is
hard to come by and probably worth watching no matter how you feel about
the matter, sz
[via Debate]
The Balatacamp.net Film Collective is made up of Palestinian volunteers
living in Balata Refugee Camp. The collective was
In a way, election results are still coming in, as they undoubtedly will
over the next four years. This bill is a sequel to one of the marriage
referenda that helped raise voter turnout to unprecedented levels and
received media attention primarily as that, a voter-recruitment
strategy. But
Check out http://www.bios.net, part of a much broader effort to counter
the aggressive proprietarization in the natural sciences (here especially
ag-bio-tech research, http://www.cambia.org) with OSS-derived models of
research archives/commons etc., sz
About BIOS
BIOS is fundamentally an
Who would have thought of that? Florida may once again make or break the
presidency. Says Greg Palast, that is, sz
CONGRATULATIONS, MR. PRESIDENT!
FLORIDA'S COMPUTERS HAVE ALREADY COUNTED THOUSANDS OF VOTES FOR GEORGE
W. BUSH
Before one vote was cast in early voting this week in Florida, the
Turner's critique of media capitalism is devastating indeed: We've gone
from Father Knows Best to Who Wants to Marry My Dad?, and from My Three
Sons to My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance. I wonder if Murdoch is equally
concerned about journalistic standards? So what's next - a CNN-led
anti-trust
Another sign that the encounter between media studies and political ecology
is overdue, sz
[via GMWatch Daily at http://www.gmwatch.org]
1. Genocide? What genocide?
From genocide revisionists to biotech apologists
This week marks the tenth anniversary of the start of the genocide that
took
Haiti and state failure, anyone? Online a decade after it's introduction
into general usage, 'state failure' seems to have become the
default-reference in case a country is in serious trouble. [2] But whatever
you make of the current reporting on Haiti, do give the term/concept a
chance, the TNI
Bruce Hoffmann, Vice President for External Affairs, Director of RAND's
Washington, D.C. Office, and extraordinarily prolific contributor to the
roster of its pubs [1], suggests that we need to learn from the way
Al-Quaeda turned itself into a global brand:
Indeed, what bin Laden has done is to
Worker organization may not be the only social-movement dynamic to look at,
nor will class most necessarily be the primary vector along which such
self-organization is likely to articulate itself. Consumer activism,
much-despised by authentic leftists for its lack of a radically
transformative
A low-brow piece on the US media, for a change. Reading a bunch of essays
on 'interventionist' media and the idea of a 'peace' journalism (not a new
idea, but part of the current trend toward something like 'best practice'
international human rights journalism - witness a tremendous proliferation
I would have put (the term) postmodernism in the deader-than-dead box of
trends, hoping that it was gone for good, but here it is again. Anyway,
the end of top-down journalism Heaton announces (once again) is not that
new a topic, to say the least, and Nik Gowing has been writing better and
more
This is funny, no? It's the media, stupid. sz
Galloway, Joseph L., and James Kuhnhenn. Bush orders officials to stop the
leaks. Philadelphia Inquirer (16 Oct 2003).
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/7023679.htm
Bush orders officials to stop the leaks. He warned of action if
Notes on the Civil Society/NGO Nexus on the Eve of the WSIS
To approach the dynamic of so-called civil society organization in the
context of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), it might make
sense to attempt to identify some of the trends occuring across what is
often referred
I looked into some of the touch-screen voting issues (some say these, not
Arnie's house-cleaning-campaign will be the cause of the real disaster in
the upcoming CA recall elections) when the Diebold case bubbled up from
the depths of blog to the surface of mainstream media. [1]
As far a I can
Felix' analysis might be (mis)read as suggesting that OSS needs to spread
beyond a single realm of origination, but a different way of looking at it
would be to trace where OSS once already existed but, for whatever reason,
(temporarily) disappeared, and reconnect (to) some of these multiple
The UN Special Rapporteur on Adverse Effects of the Illicit Movement and
Dumping of Toxic and Dangerous Products and Wastes on the Enjoyment of Human
Rights has recently turned to e-waste issues. The EDC review [1] includes
Basel Action Network [2] and EarthJustice [3] materials submitted to the
The war in Iraq could not have taken place without a network of for-profit
contractors upon which the U.S. military has come to depend. Some 20,000
employees of private military companies (PMCs) and of more traditional
military contractors accompanied the U.S. forces in the buildup to war in
the
Sandra Braman refers to biotech as a 'metatechnology' because it links,
among other areas, agriculture and (national) security
(http://www.uwm.edu/~braman/singh2001.html. Here's a beautiful example,
coming at a time when a) the US is attempting to subject the European
anti-GPS Galileo project to
TITLE: Making Global Trade Work for People
EDITOR: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
PUBLISHER: Earthscan
DATE: January 2003
URL: http://www.undp.org/dpa/publications/globaltrade.pdf
NOTE: UNDP has recently released a report
I wonder what front-page images of carbonized bodies would do to further
quell what seems to be already flagging enthusiasm for the war? It seems
less important to me whether these are 'American' or 'Iraqi' bodies, there's
a strange humanism in these images that accompanies their (sometimes
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