This article was originally published by Vincent Cook at Natural News.  When it comes to production, capitalism and socialism are often presented as constituting extremes of a spectrum of economic organization, where control over the means of production is either entirely in the hands of profit-seeking private owners (the capitalists) at one extreme or in the hands of central planners (supposedly acting for the benefit of society according to socialists) at the other extreme. Framing the question with such terminology implicitly smears capitalists as profiting at the expense of society; a sordid linguistic trick that pretends that coercive centralization is…

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) is expanding rapidly. There are now over 900 suspected cases, as violence and displacement make it more difficult for health care officials to contain the outbreak. Out of the 900 suspected cases, 101 infections have been confirmed so far,…

Ah, the quietude (yes, it’s a word) of a holiday weekend.  American markets are closed. And on the pending/predictive/mythic timeline, no U.S. ship has been blown-up yet, Pandemic 2 is still percolating, and that Baltic region power outage isn’t here yet.It will – in probabilistic terms – be along soon…

This article was originally published by Edison Reed at Natural News.  A former artificial intelligence (AI) engineer at Google DeepMind has filed a claim with a British employment tribunal alleging unfair dismissal after he protested the company’s contracts with Israel, according to The Guardian. The engineer, who is of Palestinian origin,…

You’ve been “blinking” the situation in the Middle East – and like us – I bet you don’t like it one bit either.  We’re going to ramble a bit – think of it like getting out and walking the land for a bit. Because when you walk the land, it’s…