The Economy
- The Other 99% of Us Can’t Buy Our Way Out of the Impending Global Ponzi Scheme Collapse | ThinkProgress.
- Debunking Another Green Jobs Attack by Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal | ThinkProgress
Steve Jobs
- An Alternative Eulogy for Steve Jobs | NationofChange —
…Jobs was, moreover, an inspiration to those who wanted to believe that a different kind of businessman—even a different kind of American—could master the capitalist system. He was, in the words of progressive blogger Juan Cole, an “Arab-American, Buddhist, Psychedelic Drug User, and Capitalist World-Changer.”But Steve Jobs was something else, too: the personification of Apple’s anti-establishment brand. He was a living, breathing monument to the underdog and the freethinker, an image most famously peddled by Apple in its notorious “1984” commercial heralding the arrival of the Macintosh computer. In the days since his untimely death, the social media universe has been suffused with quotations from Jobs’ addresses to students, his thoughts on life on death, and his exhortations to the passionate yet frustrated youth of the world, bearing testimony to the resilience of his reputation….”
- Mining the Legacy of Steve Jobs for Lessons on Sustainability | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media