Are the money men killing the Internet?

June 11, 2000 – 12:00 am

[ via Scripting News ] Is the drive to IPO killing the Net? The Guardian sponsored a debate on the topic last fall. (Note to the Guardian: You gotta do a better job of spell checking on your site.)

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May Fourth Task Force

May 4, 2000 – 12:00 am

“Four dead in Ohio.”

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Livingstone tells Labor to sod off — he will run for mayor on his own

March 8, 2000 – 12:00 am

From the UK desk: Tony Blair’s got Clinton Syndrome: that’s where you stab a liberal member of your party in the back to appease rightists who aren’t going to vote for your party in any case. Even though Old School Labour Party MP Ken Livingstone won 75% of the popular vote in the ’selection’ ballot [...]

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Confessions of a Recovering Statist

January 23, 2000 – 12:00 am

This essay from 1997 keeps coming back to me. Barbara Ehrenreich suggests that the left bypass government in part by creating a network of “alternative services” for the poor as the “cultural core” of a new political movement. But she also talks about the dark side of the nation-state:
“But there is another reason we can [...]

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Motion from a forum on non-commercializion

December 10, 1999 – 12:00 am

“Two years in a row, representatives from a number of ”groups, associations, and trade unions” have met in Paris under the sponsorship of a group called IRIS (http://www.iris.sgdg.org/) to discuss policies that would create and preserve an ”Internet that promotes non-commercial interests and solidarity.””
The document emphasisizes privacy, rejects software patents, and opposes any content filtering [...]

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WTO Blog

December 1, 1999 – 12:00 am

The Independent Media Center in Seattle’s using a PHP-backed Web site so that activists and witnesses can post stories, sound and images from the WTO meetings and protests. This is a great application of the Web. Well done folks!

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Seattle All Stars + Biafra to Perform at WTO Protest

November 28, 1999 – 12:00 am

“The WTO Band will be a supergroup: fronted by Biafra, with Krist Novoselic (Sweet 75 and formerly Nirvana), Kim Thayil (formerly Soundgarden), and Gina Mainwal.”

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The Devils Dictionary of Free Trade

November 25, 1999 – 12:00 am

[ via Robot Wisdom ] An Ambrose Beirce inspired glossary of Free Trade terms: “protectionism: Other nations’ health, environment, and labor standards.”

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Down Amoung the Economists

November 14, 1999 – 12:00 am

[ via Brain Log ] As a recovering economist, I appreciated Jonathan Rowe’s article on his experience at an American Economic Association panel discussion on the coverage of economics in the media. Rowe had written an article in the Atlantic Monthly about how GDP was measured and how non-monetary transactions (parenting, housekeeping, helping friends and [...]

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Critiques of Libertarianism

November 5, 1999 – 12:00 am

Handy bookmark to have when you’re under saturation bombing from Ayn Rand quoters on /.

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Hitchens wonders if the UN should monitor the 2000 US elections?

October 29, 1999 – 12:00 am

Christopher Hitchens, that gadfly, wonders if the US elections are in need of third party observers.

Here are some of the questions that the UN and international monitors would have to consider, before validating the 2000 election:
1) Has there already been the open purchase of votes, as seemed to be the acknowledged case in the Iowa [...]

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Cooper on KPFA

July 22, 1999 – 12:00 am

KPFA v. Pacifica: Marc Cooper thinks both sides are at fault. He doesn’t think there’s a ‘conspiracy.’
I don’t think there is a conspiracy either, but there are opportunists.

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Cockburn on KPFA

July 22, 1999 – 12:00 am

KPFA v. Pacifica: Alexander Cockburn thinks the Pacifica board wants to make KPFA friendly to KQED contributors.

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Joel Rogers (and others on the 2000 Elections)

July 22, 1999 – 12:00 am

I’m proud to have worked for Joel Rogers while I was at the University of Wisconsin. He has wise council for progressives concerning the 2000 elections: concentrate on the House.
“If you really want to make a difference, get organized and target. Don’t sweat the presidential or Senate stuff, as neither your vote nor money will [...]

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Conference on Building the New Antiwar Movement

June 6, 1999 – 12:00 am

I’m leery of this combined Left/Right movement against the Yugoslav War. Several Christian Rightists have announced their opposition to the war–and I think they are opposing it simply because it is not a Republican war. The onus is on these newly minted Rightist pacifists to denounce warfare and violence of all kinds (especially violence against [...]

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