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Will newspapers survive the economic downturn? This question has plagued the industry for awhile now -- the consensus seems to be that if they quit relying on an outdated business model, there is still hope. Two alternatives that have surfaced are re...
An Unprecedented Illusion: Fashion and Consumerism
"Delusional consumerism" is a good way to describe the fruitless endeavors of the economically privileged to stay fashionable with trends that exist solely from the physically, ecologically, and mentally toxic practices of corporations.Charty Durrant...
More Oil in the News
Last year, we talked about Exxon's legal troubles stemming from oil spills and their acceleration of global warming. This year, it looks like another oil giant, Texaco/Chevron, will learn whether it must pay damages for irreparably polluting the Amaz...
The Uru Chipaya and Global Warming
Coming on the heels of Earth Day and a meeting of indigenous groups in Alaska to discuss global warming, today's Guardian article about the Uru Chipaya of Bolivia brings to light just one of the effects and possible casualties of rising temperatures....
Labor Writing and Union Building
A fascinating article by Steve Early about the role of books and union-building came across Znet a few weeks ago. In discussing the ability of labor writers to connect with readers, and the overall climate of the labor writing marketplace, Early argu...
Giroux: Commodifying Kids
A recent essay by Henry Giroux, "Commodifying Kids: The Forgotten Crisis," dovetails nicely with our previous post and follows another article by him that we posted back in February about the criminalization of today's youth. In this most recent essa...
Off the Record: The Collapse of Traditional Journalism?
"...the Industrial Revolution didn't totally revolutionize life. So perhaps the Communications Revolution, though possibly even more sweeping, might not, after all, fundamentally alter human nature, what Faulkner called 'the old truths of the human h...
Land & Decolonization in Bolivia
Last weekend, news broke that Bolivian president Evo Morales had redistributed some 94,000 acres of land in the hostile (and wealthy) eastern lowlands region. In a Reuters article, "Bolivia Passes Land From Rich to Poor," Morales explained, "Private ...
International Women's Day
So far, 63 countries have hosted 981 events in celebration of International Women's Day, according to the IWD website. Although calendars marked March 8 as the official Women's Day, events, protests, and celebrations are occuring throughout the month...
Foiled: Sustainable Food
Even a brief perusal of news headlines, magazine articles, academic databases, etc. will tell you that food has moved to the forefront of many social and theoretical conversations. The local and organic food movements have also gained a foothold -- i...
Giroux: Criminalizing Youth
Last week, a lawsuit involving the corruption of two northeast Pennsylvania judges made national headlines. The suit alleges that the two judges accepted millions of dollars in kickbacks to incarcerate juveniles convicted of petty crimes to private d...
Killer Hamburgers & Theiving Diplomats
A few days ago on Znet, Supriyo Chatterjee posted "From Killer Hamburgers to Theiving Diplomats: A Snapshot of Latin America 2008," a list of under-reported events and news--both positive and negative--in Latin America over the past year. "The hideou...
Socialism's Comeback
With all the buzz generated by speculation about the Obama administration's left-leaning plans, the idea of U.S.-brand corporate capitalism being supplanted by socialist-like policies is tantalizing. How realistic it is remains to be seen. Neil Clark...
The Food Crisis is No Sweat off of Corporate Backs
From the New Internationalist comes an interesting article that begins to reveal an uncomfortable side to the world-wide food crisis - uncomfortable to corporate America at least. Rising costs of food around the globe has led to food shortages and ri...
