2012 - The Year of the World War Web...
Doing a PhD is often a waste of time...
LAPD, Pentagon Conduct Military Drills In Downtown LA ...
Anonymous is ready for the revolution. ...
"B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth" enters the paperback graphic books best-seller list at No. 7 this week.
AnonymousIRC: #Anonymous: Topiary gets a plea date http://t.co/v5FcHJL3 #May11 #LulzSec #AntiSec...
Ian Johnson This is the fourth in an NYRblog series about the fate of democracy in different parts of the world. Ian Johnson Chang Ping Chang Ping is one of China’s best-kn...
Six eurozone sovereigns (but not France!) downgraded by Fitch on Friday…-Belgium LT IDR downgraded to ‘AA’ from ‘AA+’; Negative Outlook; ST IDR...
AnonymousIRC: LOL! MT @ThomasRHart The Media Morons Award goes to @JanFleischhauer @ilgiornale for being nationalistic dickheads http://t.co/WH7WKFrg...
The obvious place to start when discussing the impact of Wednesday’s FOMC meeting on US banks is with the downward pressure on net interest margins that will result from...
AnonymousIRC: RT @anonops: RT! #TwitterBlackout I will not tweet for the whole of January 28th due to the new twitter censor rule #Twitter #J28...
AnonymousIRC: RT @AnonyOps: We Have Every Right To Be Furious About #ACTA https://t.co/bjUZwusa MUST READ by @EFF tl;dr we got screwed, badly...
Artforum: Picks: Michael Snow. 01.07.12-02.11.12 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, review written by Courtney Fiske http://t.co/IKEmAV9O...
Artforum: Picks: Goldin+Senneby. 01.12.12-02.11.12 Crystal Contemporary Art, Stockholm, review written by Theodor Ringborg http://t.co/TWkiAE73...
ubuweb: @paulmyerscough Yep. Somehow the .avi's got lost on those. Rare for Ubu.
Roche said on Friday that it had begun its unsolicited tender offer of $44.50 a share in cash for the shares of Illumina.
The solace of sociological distance in the music of Rush by Rob Horning Certain rock groups persist as their own subgenre. The venerable Canadian band Rush is one of them, maintaining a legion of loya...
The CPI (Maoist) cadres from Tamil Nadu have reportedly infiltrated Karnataka and are strengthening the hands of their comrades here, according to a recent Intelligence report. On January 6, in a fire...
“You can look at hunger as a Malthusian nightmare, or you can look it as a tremendous opportunity because everyone has to eat,” says Josette Sheeran, executive director of the WFP (..) Describing...
The good news:the Chicago Tribune is getting a new stand-alone, 24-page book review section. The bad news: ...
Not just in the way it produces a general subject...
The good news:the Chicago Tribune is getting a new stand-alone, 24-page book review section. The bad news: ...
Not just in the way it produces a general subject...
Unilever has teamed up with Oxfam, PSI, Save the Children, Unicef and the World Food Programme (WFP) to launch The Unilever Foundation. The foundation was launched today (27 January) at the World Econ...
Despite being misunderstood by sci-fi nerds the world over, the event in Davos - the one in Switzerland - is proceeding at a brisk, impressive clip this week.
Much of Dawood Boy’s village in northern Afghanistan is empty. More than 1,000 families from Alburz in Balkh Province abandoned it 4-6 months ago after a drought affecting nearly half the country le...
A growing number of aid agencies have teamed up with companies offering logistics services and new technologies in recent years to find ways of responding more effectively to disasters like famine, fl...
The vice president of research at the Private Equity Growth Capital Council contends that the research on private equity is exhaustive and conclusive.
The novel 'War Horse' sells more copies in two weeks than it did in its first 25 years.
The African nation of Chad is in the middle of a hunger crisis as drought has struck, ruining the country's food supply. (..)The World Food Programme (WFP) is providing school feeding in Chad as part...
Warum kontrollieren Sie nur mich?!! Wir rufen zur Abschaffung der Residenzpflicht auf! Abschaffung der Rassistischen Polizeikontrollen sofort! read more...
From Renae Hathway, Ron Paul's former secretary, on his famously racist and loony newsletters: It was his newsletter, and it was under his name, so he always got to see the final product. . .&...
France's largest bank is looking to sell up to $11 billion of loans to oil and gas companies in an effort to reduce its loan book in the United States, according to people briefed on the matter.
Jaime Caruana, general manager of the Bank for International Settlements, says that he was against extending the phase-in period for new global banking regulations.
As the 18th African Union Summit starts in Addis Ababa, civil society organizations from across Africa are concerned that the summit’s central theme, “Boosting Intra- African Trade,“ risks being...
No one asked me, but I just want to briefly weigh in on the question of whether the increasingly brutal primary process will hurt Mitt Romney in the general election. No. It won't. Voters will forget...
ubuweb: 5 films by The Dziga Vertov Group [Godard, Gorin] 1968-1972. Fabulous & wobbly VHS rips: http://t.co/cEPjBO4Z...
As a service to our readers, every day we are delivering a classic moment from the political life of Newt Gingrich—until he either clinches the nomin...
Cross-Posted from the UK Tar Sands Network Enbridge hearings and Enemies of the State Since Obama gave Harper the cold shoulder last week on plans to send tar sands oil to the Gulf of Mexico via the...
Twitter announced this week that, with an eye on global profits, it has decided to begin censoring content prohibited in the various markets in which the company has users. In China, where Twitter has...
27 January 2012 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement The Interim Eviction Order Against the Shallcross Occupation has been Set Aside The interim eviction order granted by the Durban High Court to evi...
Forty years ago the Ecologist published its landmark ‘A Blueprint for Survival’ issue outlining the need for a serious economic and environmental overhaul...
CHAMPLIN, Minn. - Jan. 19 was the coldest night of the winter here - so far - but that didn't deter a roomful of union members from turning out to Champlin City Hall to learn more about a coming threa...
CARL CONETTA, cconetta at comw.org CHARLES KNIGHT, cknight at comw.org Conetta and Knight are co-directors of the Project on Defense Alternatives, which just released a chart titled “Panetta Rel...
PORTLAND, Ore. (PAI) - A non-profit fundraiser for the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group and its spinoff group Environment Oregon has fired two workers who helped lead a campaign to unionize...
A Missouri campaign to place an initiative to end marijuana prohibition on the November ballot has entered the signature-gathering phase, and petition-toting volunteers across the Show Me state are hu...
Illumina said on Friday that its board would review Roche's unsolicited $5.7 billion offer.
Movie Review Looking for Fidel Directed by Oliver Stone 2011, 60 minutes, Not Rated In Looking for Fidel, award winning director Oliver Stone interviews Fidel Castro on a wide range of issues. While t...
AnonymousIRC: RT @parmy: Amid ACTA Outcy, Politicians Don Anonymous Guy Fawkes Masks http://t.co/LdfOMk3b...
Here is the government’s reply brief in support of its motion to dismiss: TWO SHIELDS – U.S. REPLY BRIEF (1-26-12)...
OAKLAND, Calif. - As income disparity takes center stage around the country, a special spotlight is being trained on the economic, educational and social challenges faced by boys and men of color. Eff...
Just for fun, thanks to Property Prof Blog.
Show your support for the Students Association University of the West of Scotland by casting a vote for thier Waste me not video...
Greenlight Capital's former compliance officer and a JPMorgan Cazenove trader were fined in connection with Greenlight's sale of shares in a British pub operator more than two years ago.
Dans un arrêt qui a fait grand bruit avant les fêtes de fin d’année, le Tribunal fédéral s’est penché sur le nouvel article 98, alinéa 4, du Code civil. Cette «lex Brunner» vise à interd...
Markets Live chat transcript for the chat ending at 16:04 on 27 Jan 2012. Participants in this chat were: Cardiff Garcia Joseph Cotterill, FT CG Hello!CG Hello!JC Hola...
Breaking down the US Q4 GDP numbers, the latest in the Greece PSI negotiations, and we’ll have coverage of P&G, Caterpillar, and some other companies announcing earnings...
CALBIGA, Samar — A militiaman was killed and four government soldiers were wounded in an encounter with New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in a remote barangay here on Monday. The firefight be...
Andy more or less catches my drift (via Pechanga). A few quotes: In his piece, Fletcher goes on to outline three potentially significant legal obstacles: the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ “trust acqu...
Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, said Friday at Davos that action by the central bank had averted a severe credit crunch, but he warned of a "short-term contraction" in the eu...