morphizm

File this under that insanely annoying reality we all must face together. Writing about the telecom industry and its mostly duopolistic reign of terror over the spectrum and our wallets might sound mundane. But this story was probably one of the most popular article I’ve written in months. It eventually got picked up by the [...]

[Greg Palast]
With the Gulf Coast dying of oil poisoning, there’s no space in the press for British Petroleum’s latest spill, just this week: Over 100,000 gallons, at its Alaska pipeline operation. A hundred thousand used to be a lot. Still is.

On Tuesday, Pump Station 9, at Delta Junction on the 800-mile pipeline, busted. Thousands of [...]

Sure, it sounds like something out of psy-fi. But then again so does a bankster-engineered depression, executed by lightspeed supercomputers running proprietary algorithms from math and compsci PhDs. And look how that worked out. I probed deep into the econopocalypse’s wired nether regions for AlterNet to discern how a electronically initiated Flash Crash could wipe [...]

[Amy Bass, Morphizm]
I distinctly remember the first time I asked my mother why her underwear was showing. She was about to leave for her weekly tennis game, and I was likely somewhere around seven years of age, when showing one’s underpants was a really big deal.

“It’s my tennis skirt,” she answered, demonstrating how the [...]

Here’s another easy entry for my War On Terra manuscript. Just as 9/11 sparked a so-called international war on terror, the Halliburton-Transocean-BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will open the floodgates to the international war on terra. And if we don’t wage them correctly, both resource wars could consume us all. I quickly lit [...]

[Greg Palast]
Wally Hickel invented Alaska and told me he regretted it. He also invented Sarah Palin, and I was hoping, when I travel to Alaska next month, to ask him whether he also regretted that second creation.
Hickel wanted to be President; of what nation, well, that changed. First, he wanted to be President of the [...]

Forty years ago, Let It Be closed out a decade of The Beatles’ artistic and technological influence. It’s a period that has yet to be matched in popular culture. To celebrate that legacy, I will explore the band’s lasting impact in a new occasional series called Geek The Beatles, anchored to the band’s momentous anniversaries [...]

[Scott Thill, AlterNet]
On May 1, China popped the cork on Expo 2010 in Shanghai, a months-long international celebration signifying the ascension of the city, and thereby its parent nation, as a global economic and cultural powerhouse. Meanwhile, in the United States, China’s economic and cultural power has come under mounting fire.

Short-happy hedge funder [...]