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America's Soviet-style TV I downloaded the app for Al Jazeera on my Android phone and it works fine. Just now there was an intelligent ...

Great Movie: No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti A film that I suggested for the Film Columbia festival, “No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti” (“I Can’t Live Without Yo...

Thoughts on the Nobel Peace Prize for Barack Obama The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama came as a shock to many people, ...

Global citizens deliberate and vote on Global Warming policies (from the organization's web page ) "On September 26, 2009, World Wi...

Widespread attempts by Teabagger healthcare reform protestors to completely disrupt the congressional town hall meetings raise an interestin...

At the wonderful, but lamentably very wet, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, I visited a porta-potty. On the wall was a printed message: "Y...

At Obama's press conference last Wednesday, the main headline concerned an ugly racial incident in Cambridge, Massachusetts involving th...

An interesting post in Daily Kos , "WORDS YOU'LL NEVER HEAR IN THE CANADIAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM," describes understandings and p...

Insurance companies are to today's health, as leeches were to medieval medicine. Just one example .

The Apollo 11 Moon landing: a hollow anniversary It’s fully predictable that the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission would be caus...

Orwellian Tweets It's high time. The North Korean government is using Twitter to get its message out. Short URLs take you to longer stor...

Sarah Palin and Reactionary Politics While Sarah Palin's resignation may a way to dodge personal and political scandals, it seems likely...

New Chinese Software: protecting youth from objectionable online material During my recent travels in China, it was fascinating to notice wh...

Free marketeers in the toilet in Iceland These are evidently pictures of bankers who fled Iceland after leading the country into bankruptcy....

$1.5 billion wind tunnel? In the first three games at the new Yankee Stadium, there have been seventeen home runs. Yesterdays score was 22-4...

After watching Obama’s first “Open for Questions” session Old political communications model: Elect a “conservative” president who mai...

Langdon's visit to the Obama inauguration: Some photos here.

Again in the forefront of every backward step: U.S. refuses to sign ban on cluster bombs OSLO, Norway (AP) — An Afghan teenager who lost bo...

Human flesh search engines -- another dark side of the internet The Obama campaign's use of the internet to mobilize positive, political...

China's plans to bailout Detroit Chinese carmakers SAIC and Dongfeng have plans to acquire GM and Chrysler, China’s 21st Century Busines...

Vroom-Vro0m!! -- Detroit in crisis, no surprise From my vantage point, what’s happening to Detroit is the culminationof a slowly developing...

American power fantasies today: Housing The above photo shows unfinished McMansions in Las Vegas, construction halted by the mortgage crisis...

Green technology updates GM chief admits failure to develop hybrid auto. Detroit has long dragged its heels in energy saving, planet saving...

Confronting Tyranny and Stupidity: What Works? -- My talk at the Democracy Teach-in Below are links to the edited YouTube version of the tal...

Welcome to Troy -- Home of Banned Art Right up there with...OH, NO!! The history of banned art is truly an ignoble one, ranging from silly g...

Joseph Weizenbaum, computer scientist and social critic, is dead at 85 He was a good friend. I learned a great deal from him and appreciate...

University tramples free speech and artistic liberty: some lingering questions Yielding to pressure from right wing political groups, Shirl...

Art Police: the saga continues Things are heating up around the censorship of artist Waffa Bilal at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (see my...