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Lois Beckett writes at ProPublica Yesterday, we got a rare look at how information on your public social media profiles—including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn—is being harvested and resold by large consumer data companies. Responding to a congressional query, nine data companies provided answers to a detailed set of questions about what kinds of information they […]

Jon Stewart skewers the fantasyland in which Fox Cable Mews guests seem to live in, in which Mitt Romney was headed for a landslide despite all the polling that showed otherwise. He has special fun with Megyn Kelly’s question to Karl Rove: “Is this just math you do to make yourself feel better as a […]

From Jamiol’s World

Alfred W. McCoy writes at Tomdispatch.com Beyond Bayonets and Battleships Space Warfare and the Future of U.S. Global Power It’s 2025 and an American “triple canopy” of advanced surveillance and armed drones fills the heavens from the lower- to the exo-atmosphere.  A wonder of the modern age, it can deliver its weaponry anywhere on the […]

On one of Denmark’s islands, locals are running their electric cars in some part off wind energy. This kind of arrangement is the only viable future for humankind.

American politics is mainly about domestic issues, and the presidential election season has caused a sort of black out of international news on US networks for the most part. But the planet is still out there, even if inhabitants of the large island that is the United States may find it difficult to believer (or […]

From BillMoyers.com: “Tom Engelhardt on Supersized Politics in the 2012 Election November 5, 2012 If we’ve learned anything from the 2012 race, it’s that American politics have gotten way out of our control. Our guest Tom Engelhardt says that, like our sodas and our military, our elections have become “supersized.” In this web-exclusive interview, filmed […]