The Red Bull Racket

June 19, 2010 Morphizm 0

Red Bull is a tiny can of caffeinated hope. It’s not the first subject I would pick for an AlterNet article, but that’s why they pay my editor Jan the […]

The Cell Phone Racket

May 30, 2010 Morphizm 0

If you’re not angry with AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint — America’s four national wireless providers that reportedly control 90 percent of the market — then here’s some ridiculous news to raise your righteous ire.

Deepwater Horizon’s Epic OilGas Catastrophe

May 18, 2010 Morphizm 0

If you’ve been railing for decades against the fossil fuel sector for everything from deliberately removing safeguards that could have prevented what will likely end up being the worst U.S. oil disaster in history to its lethal emissions that could, in the extreme, end up warming planet Earth to the point that human habitation is an impossibility, well, this is all old, sad news.

Showdown On Wall Street

April 22, 2010 Morphizm 0

[Scott Thill, AlterNet] Good thing Goldman Sachs reported its first-quarter profits on the popular pot holiday April 20. Because you had to be totally stoned to appreciate the sheer, corrupt […]

Goodbye, Paper Money

April 6, 2010 Morphizm 0

[Scott Thill, AlterNet] Currency has come a long way in the past few thousand years of human existence. Ancient Turkey started using hybrid silver and gold coins around 640 B.C. […]

Wikileaks Under Fire

April 3, 2010 Morphizm 0

On April 5, WikiLeaks.org plans to release at the National Press Club what it alleges is a video confirming a Pentagon cover-up of a wartime massacre of civilians and journalists […]

Gold Fever and Artificial Value

March 24, 2010 Morphizm 0

[Scott Thill, AlterNet] Quick, check out this hot investment tip! For decades now, the Federal Reserve has been suppressing the true value of gold to keep its prodigious impact out […]

Vuture Funds Savaged in Liberia

February 25, 2010 Morphizm 0

[Greg Palast, Guardian UK] Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, is urging MPs to back a bill banning vulture funds from using British courts to prey on poor countries […]

Global Warming’s Catastrophic Polarities

January 29, 2010 Morphizm 0

Climate change deniers argue that the frozen storms battering America have nothing to do with the arrival of hell on Earth. But destabilizing intensity on either end of the weather spectrum is our new normal, and we better get used to it.