Top US senators join business trip to Tunisia , Egypt
© AFP/Getty Images/File Win McNamee AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – Top senators John McCain and John Kerry will accompany a delegation of US business leaders on…
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Bigger than Blackwater: Arming the UAE
IDEX 2011 – Photo credit, GulfNews Hannah Gurman Foreign Policy in Focus The International Defense Exhibition, otherwise known as IDEX, has been held bi-annually in…
Apple wants to turn off iPhone cameras
Editor’s Note: Also could be used as a way to stop people from filming police brutality? RT Some of the newest technology out of Apple…
Hugely Successful Oil Auctions in Iraq Creating Windfall for US Oil Services Companies
Rumaylah Oil Fields, Iraq – Wiki Image The Mad Hedge Fund Trader Minyanville The success of the recent oil auctions in Iraq is creating a…
Apple to stop accepting DUI checkpoint apps
image credit Larry Copeland USA Today It’s getting harder for tech-savvy drivers to pinpoint the locations of police drunken-driving checkpoints: Apple will ban from its…
America Is Bankrupt (But Not the Way You Think)
Wiki Commons Image Harvard Business Review Healthcare, schools, police, tax breaks: which would you keep, slash, or cut? The axe has to swing, so where,…
US lawmakers query smartphone ‘apps’ privacy
Alan Davidson, director of US public policy of the Americas at Google Inc., testifies on Capitol Hill in 2010 © AFP/Getty Images/File Win McNamee AFP…
Apple, Google to attend hearing on mobile privacy
A customer looks at an iPhone 4 at the Apple store in Palo Alto, California © AFP/Getty Images/File David Paul Morris AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) –…
The Realization is Now
Seth Godin New polling out this week shows that Americans are frustrated with the world and pessimistic about the future. They’re losing patience with the…
US lawmakers ask Apple about tracking feature
Senator Al Franken © AFP/File Saul Loeb AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – US lawmakers are seeking an explanation from Apple following a claim that iPhone and…
JPMorgan CEO sees compensation jump 1,500 per cent to $20.8million
Editor’s Note: Our bailout tax dollars at work. Long live the too-big-to-fail cartels. Death to democracy! Image source Daily Mail He has piloted America’s second…
American Manufacturing Slowly Rotting Away: How Industries Die
Ian Fletcher Activist Post I wrote in a previous article about why America’s manufacturing sector, despite record output, is actually in very deep trouble: record…
The Problem With Transnationals And What To Do About It
The Prisoner’s Dilemma Anthony Migchels, Contributing Writer Activist Post New York’s Public Advocate, Bill de Blasio, recently released a very important study about Wal-Mart’s effects…
Don’t be blinded by the web. The world is actually stagnating
If we want to step up the pace of invention, there has to be a huge shift in the way we think Will Hutton The…