Osama bin Laden is experiencing one of death’s disadvantages: his dirty laundry is being exposed especially his penchant for viewing pornography. Among the items recovered from his hideout in Pakistan, the Navy SEALs confiscated a "stash" of pornographic material. While not much is known about bin Laden’s sexual proclivities, the discovery of pornographic material shouldn’t […]
Understanding democracy from working class perspectives
Workers of the world observe the 1st of May as the global May Day. Although the international day is mainly related to the workers’ labor movement, its rationale works for all the sectors in the human society. The basic of the global May Day is that labor is fundamental to the development of human society […]
Tis The Season: Beware The Parking Lot Insurance Claim Predators
(Edited) With the holiday season upon us with everyone rushing to and fro from one retail outlet to another, and especially with the insurance focus of this latest disaster of a bill feeding the health care industry and lobbyists (mostly lawyers) once again due to the length of the bill, and actually no real accountability […]
U.S.A., Inc.: States Now Levying Service Charges For Traffic Offenses
Even in light of all those millions in stimulus monies that have now been distributed to the states and state legislatures in order to fund local and municipal budgets, and with also the ever increasing amounts of fines and penalties that are now leveraged against American citizens nationwide in monies collected for routine traffic violations […]
China: A leaking dam?
Chinese information activists have been testing and collecting information about the government sponsored filter software, “Green Dam Youth Escort” via blog posts, twitter (search #greendam) and collaborative platforms since the WSJ’s news about Beijing government required PC makers to install filter software for all the PCs shipped to China from July 1 2009 onward popped […]
Hepatitis : In HIV’s Long Shadow…
The story of the hepatitis B outbreak in Gujarat has not received the attention it deserves. More so because Hepatitis B is not the typical jaundice that comes around in the monsoon season every year and then trails off as the rains dry up. This variety of Hepatitis is chronic in nature; has no cure […]