Current Events : American

In OurSpace, Christine Harold examines the deployment and limitations of Òculture jammingÓ by activists. For Harold, it is a different type of opposition that offers a genuine alternative to corporate consumerism. Exploring the revolutionary Creative Commons movement, copyleft, and open source technology, Harold advocates a more inclusive approach to intellectual property that invites innovation and wider participation in the creative process. more...

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“They’re still trying to hide the weenie,” thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company’s creditors and cautioning them against a rash judgment. more...

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No one knows the story behind the sensational headlines of the Scott Peterson murder trial better than defense attorney Matt Dalton. For six straight months after Peterson's arrest, Dalton was the defense's only full-time investigative attorney on the case. During that time, he lived in Modesto and investigated every element of the case, interviewing scores of witnesses, reviewing more than 35,000 pages of police documents, and meeting almost daily with Scott Peterson in jail. Compelling, provocative, disturbing, Presumed Guilty is the fascinating story of one lawyer's relentless efforts to find the truth behind one of the most complex and notorious murder cases in American history. more...

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As the mayor of New York City, Rudolph Giuliani was as controversial as he was determined to revitalize 'the greatest city in the world'. Never one to pull punches, he did things the way they had to be done, not the way everyone else thought they should be done. But during the chaotic aftermath of the September 11 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Giuliani's courageous actions and bold decisiveness propelled him from his place as the leader of a city under siege to the beloved Mayor of America. more...

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Every society has its undergrounds, black markets and hidden economies – and we all need them more than we would like to admit. Drugs are one of our most profitable industries. Immigrants provide a vast, disposable work force yet are vilified by the press. And, despite anti-obscenity crusades, the sex business just keeps on growing … In this brilliant exposé Eric Schlosser looks at the three pillars of America’s, and the world’s, subterranean economy – pornography, marijuana and the traffic in illegal immigrants. He visits prisons to investigate government wars on cannabis; meets the exploited workers of California’s strawberry fields; and interviews the ‘Walt Disney of Porn’. As well as providing a glimpse beneath the shiny, happy surface of American culture, these stories illustrate how the commodities we publicly abhor and privately adore are now the major source of everyone’s wealth, with the EU’s shadow economy even outgrowing the USA’s. more...

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