Writers Silenced by Surveillance: Self-Censorship in the Age of Big Data
“We asked Scottish writers how online surveillance has impacted on their work. The answers we got were shocking.”
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Is the Internet to Blame for the Rise of Authoritarianism?
Three perspectives on whether the internet is damaging democracy.
Read more...George Herbert Walker Bush and the Myth of the ‘Good’ Gulf War
Correcting revisionist history about Bush the Senior and the first Gulf War.
Read more...CalPERS PR Messaging on Private Equity Backfiring as Lack of Justification, Flailing About, Become Obvious
CalPERS looks not just reckless but also foolish as it keeps rejiggering a dubious private equity scheme that it presented as ready to go months ago.
Read more...Debunking One “Global Cooling” Argument
A quick kneecapping of some deliberate misconstruction on the global warming front.
Read more...Confidence or Dead CEO Walking? CalPERS Staff Pressured to Wear Badges of Support
Yet another embarrassment at CalPERS.
Read more...Trump Ouster of Sessions Gives New Life to Mueller Controversy
In typical Trump fashion, Trump managed to get himself in more trouble while trying to poke a stick in the eye of his opponents.
Read more...CSU Council Calls for Investigation of CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s Hiring
More proof that the scandal involving CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s resume misrepresentations are not going away any time soon.
Read more...Facebook Erases Hundreds of Alternative Media Pages in Mass Purge
This Real News Network segment with journalist Max Blumenthal and EFF’s David Greene discusses Facebook’s new practice of erasing popular alternative media pages that had millions of likes and suspending anti-war and anti-police brutality accounts, in coordination with Twitter.
Read more...Why Are We Mostly Ignoring the Climate Crisis? The Message Is Wrong
Why is there so little urgency about combatting climate change? What can be done to reverse that?
Read more...#MeToo Under the Golden Arches at McDonald’s
#MeToo on Capitol Hill, and #MeToo at McDonald’s
Read more...Adam Ashton of the Sacramento Bee Publicizes This Blog (and CalPERS’ Frustration With It)
Adam Ashton of the Sacramento Bee questions why we would want to expose public corruption and incompetence at CalPERS. No, I am not making that up.
Read more...California Treasurer John Chiang Calls for an Independent Investigation of CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s Hiring Misrepresentations
California Treasurer John Chiang objects to CalPERS efforts to treat documented evidence of CEO Marcie Frost making repeated misrepresentations about her background as a PR problem and calls for a serious investigation.
Read more...How CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost’s Efforts to Organize Astroturf Support Are Compromising Her
If she succeeds, the survival efforts of CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost will come at a cost to the giant pension fund.
Read more...Los Angeles Times’ Mike Hiltzik Says CalPERS Needs to Come Clean About CEO Frost’s Educational Claims
Pulitzer Prize winner Mike Hiltzik makes clear he is not buying the stories CalPERS has been selling about CEO Marcie Frost’s resume misrepresentations.
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