Google, Scroogle and Bing: Microsoft and Google’s Pathetic, Revealing and Frightening War by Alfredo Lopez
1 March, 2013 - 18:36
If it wasn’t so harmful, it would be funny: a marketing battle between the two technology giants MicroSoft and Google over who lacks integrity and is exploitative. It’s been going on for a while and with every thrust and block the thing becomes more grotesque and more revealing.First, by way of introduction, well…you don’t need an introduction.(Republished by kind permission of CounterPunch www.counterpunch.org)
Masters of the Internet: Dan Schiller's report on the December 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT)
11 February, 2013 - 14:20
The Political Economy of Cyberspace Masters of the Internet by DAN SCHILLER
Anti austerity conference follows mass demo against the cuts
19 October, 2012 - 19:05
On Saturday October 20th the Coalition of Resistance march against austerity expects many thousands of people to take to the streets of London to oppose the cuts regime imposed by the coalition government.The march will assemble along Victoria Embankment on the north bank of the Thames from 11am on Saturday October 20, moving off around noon.The Europe Against Austerity conference will take place from 11am till 4:30pm on Sunday 21October in the head office of the UNITE trade-union, 128 Theobald’s Road, London WC1X 8TN
Snoopers' charter: report on "Scrambling for Safety", 19 April 2012
20 April, 2012 - 12:59
"What does the UK Home Office think they want to do, and why do they think they want to do it?"  The question was a recurring theme at Scrambling for Safety 2012, a conference to discuss the mooted new powers for the "Surveillance State", swiftly arranged in the wake of April's media furore.
Interception and Surveillance, Privacy
Sign up for WWF's Earth Hour, Saturday 31 March at 20.30
29 March, 2012 - 00:00
If you want to be part of something huge on 31 March, just sign up now to say you’ll join the hundreds of millions switching off for a brighter future.However you plan to spend the hour, make sure you’ve told as many people as possible. Because a healthy planet isn’t just good for polar bears or tropical tree frogs. It’s essential for us all. http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/
CUT WAR NOT WELFARE
23 November, 2011 - 16:49
Stop the War will be joining CND in a Cut War not Welfare - Jobs not Bombs contingent on the November 30th demonstration in London. There will be similar demonstrations up and down the country.One third of the budget deficit could be wiped out by ending spending on foreign wars and scrapping trident.
Trouble squaring the circle of US policy on Palestinian statehood
4 November, 2011 - 16:35
Something I'm genuinely curious about is the public justification for the US veto of Palestinian statehood at the UN security council meeting next week (11 November), and for this week denying $60m to UNESCO as a sanction against the recognition there.  Is there any logical argument that recognition of a party to potential negotiations makes those negotiations either more unlikely or more difficult, or somehow harms the prospect of Middle East peace and security?    
Rebellious Media Conference DVD to order now
7 October, 2011 - 12:18
Although tickets for next weekend's Rebellious Media Conference have now sold out, you can interact with Conference participants - and access post-Conference documentation, including films and audio - through the recently launched "Interactive Site": http://live.rebelliousmediaconference.org/
Press statement on the London Riots: Social media does not cause social problems
15 August, 2011 - 13:10
JOHANNESBURG AND LONDON (APC/GreenNet) August 15 2011In the media and in public policy debates fingers were quick to point at the use of social media and mobile phones in spurring on the riots that overwhelmed several English cities last week and in helping looters evade the police. On Thursday 11 August Prime Minister David Cameron issued a statement condemning social networking sites, claiming that the riots were "organised via social media". He went on to say that his government is considering a crackdown on online communications: 
Updated introduction to ecological ethics
10 August, 2011 - 17:15
GreenNet member Dr Patrick Curry has published a revised and greatly-expanded second edition of his successful Ecological Ethics: An Introduction, first published in 2006 by Polity Press. 

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