Social Warfare keeps Johann Rupert awake at night

Social Warfare keeps Johann Rupert awake at night Written by Ben MorkenTuesday, 16 June 2015    Recent comments by South Africa’s most powerful business tycoon, Johann Rupert, gives interesting and penetrating insights into the current state of mind of the bourgeoisie. Rupert is clearly very disturbed by the current state Read More

Finding a Place to Live With a Criminal Record

Think It’s Hard Finding a Place to Live? Try Doing So With a Criminal Record President Obama has taken a modest but essential step towards undoing some of the discriminatory housing policies that have made it difficult for returning citizens to rejoin their families and stay off the streets. A public-housing complex in Read More

The Real Privacy Nightmare

The Real Privacy Nightmare Is The Information We Voluntarily Hand Over to Shady Apps In the very, very early days of proto-Facebook, back when the current social media leader was still trying to get traction among Harvard students, Mark Zuckerberg was IMing with a friend when he offered “info about Read More

‘Wealth creators’ are robbing our most productive workers of profits from productive work

‘Wealth creators’ are robbing our most productive workers of profits from productive work George Monbiot Lives are being trashed by klepto-remuneration: theft through excess rewards to rapacious bosses, instead of productive workers. ‘The former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina, features prominently on lists of the USA’s worst bosses. Where is Read More

Glyphosate Herbicide Formulations are Genotoxic says European Union

Glyphosate Herbicide Formulations are Genotoxic says European Union Despite the tragic and ‘corrupt’ nature of the EU Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and their report Thursday stating the ‘unlikely’ carcinogenicity of the most widely used active substance in herbicides – glyphosate – there is a very important admission in the report: Read More

The First Amendment Is Dying

The First Amendment Is Dying The growing illiberalism we see on college campuses is dangerous. But it’s not unique.  reprint from the Federalist. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;Unless we’re talking about a white chocolate-paneled cake for a gay wedding Read More

Is GMO Pork the Future of Our Food?

Is GMO Pork the Future of Our Food? Lorraine ChowNovember 4, 2015 U.S. consumers are already widely skeptical about genetically modified (GMO) crops, but could genetically modified meat ever make it onto our plates? CBC News reports that, in addition to GMO salmon, there are two different varieties of GMO Read More

Your Guide to Corn

Your Guide to Corn Erin Behan It’s the height of corn season, and the summer’s best sweet and crunchy cobs are hitting farmers markets and grocery stores around the country. But corn sneaks into far more than just our produce aisles. In The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan estimates that one quarter Read More