Commentary

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 3, 2010

Serf Farming

Posted by Darian Worden in Commentary 6 comments

Darian Worden on the intersection of corporate and government power.


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 24, 2010

Sturm und Drang und Stack

Posted by Thomas L. Knapp in Commentary 3 comments

Thomas L. Knapp on the response of the political class to Joe Stack.


Feb 24, 2010

The Imminent Demise of Government

Posted by Alex R. Knight III in Commentary No comments

Alex R. Knight III loves the stats.


Feb 24, 2010

Marching Orders

Posted by Darian Worden in Commentary 4 comments

Darian Worden: You can demand real changes all you want, but don’t neglect the direct action of making real changes.


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 23, 2010

I.R.S. Blowback

Posted by Alex R. Knight III in Commentary 2 comments

Alex R. Knight III on the recent kamikaze attack in Austin.


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.