Mar 6, 2010
Capitalism: A Good Word for a Bad Thing
Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary • 3 commentsKevin Carson examines the matter of whether or not the word “capitalism” is useful to describe a true free market economy.
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Mar 5, 2010
Obama and Liz Cheney: Separated at Birth?
Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary • No commentsKevon 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 commentKevin 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 commentsKeith 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 commentsKevin 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 commentsKevin 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 commentsKevin Carson points out that we’re already in Wilson’s dystopia.
Feb 19, 2010
Colin Ward, RIP
Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary • 3 commentsKevin Carson remembers Colin Ward.
Feb 17, 2010
So-Called Free Trade Agreements are to Free Trade, as the Ministry of Love is to Love
Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary • 23 commentsKevin Carson discusses the sham that is neo-liberalism.
Feb 15, 2010
Capital: A Diversion?
Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary • 4 commentsKevin Carson says that the monopolization of capital is becoming increasingly irrelevant.
