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Mar 13, 2010

HEALTH CARE: The Hospital as Soviet Gosplan

Posted by Kevin Carson in Feature Articles 3 comments

Kevin Carson analyzes the problem and points the way forward on health care.


Mar 12, 2010

How Not to Argue for IP

Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary 7 comments

Kevin Carson explains that so-called “intellectual property” adds to GDP only by perversely counting unnecessary costs as productivity.


Mar 10, 2010

Thomas Sowell: Them Pore Ole Bosses Need All the Help They Can Get

Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary 8 comments

Kevin Carson: “The struggle between big government and big business is about as authentic as the struggle between a “good cop” and “bad cop” in a police interrogation room.”


Mar 6, 2010

Capitalism: A Good Word for a Bad Thing

Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary 3 comments

Kevin Carson examines the matter of whether or not the word “capitalism” is useful to describe a true free market economy.


Mar 5, 2010

Obama and Liz Cheney: Separated at Birth?

Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary No comments

Kevon Carson: “Before she can organize a necktie party, Liz may have to get in line behind Obama’s own justice department.”


Mar 3, 2010

The Copyright Nazis: Destroying “Intellectual Property” Rights in Order to Save Them

Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary 1 comment

Kevin Carson on IP advocates stooping to incoherent self-contradiction.


Mar 1, 2010

Ford’s in His Flivver, All’s Well with the World

Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary 8 comments

Keith Olbermann once ridiculed a Republican politician who, in a video clip from a “townhall meeting,” told a woman with a paralyzed husband and no health insurance that the proper first line of defense was neighbors helping each other.
Now, admittedly, that politician was exactly the kind of right-wing shill who uses Norman Rockwell imagery as [...]


Feb 27, 2010

“Intellectual Property” is Not Progressive

Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary 5 comments

Kevin Carson: “Intellectual property” is the linchpin, the keystone in the arch, of global corporate power.


Feb 23, 2010

The Digital Copying Glass is Half Full

Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary 5 comments

Kevin Carson explains that the notion that intellectual property somehow protects “the little guy” is a fraud.


Feb 20, 2010

R. A. Wilson: Optimist?

Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary 2 comments

Kevin Carson points out that we’re already in Wilson’s dystopia.