by PPJC Admin2 | January 8, 2016 | PPJC Picks
By Trevor Timm The Guardian The White House and its national security team are set to meet Friday with the country’s largest tech companies, like Facebook and Google, to discuss how they can help “disrupt” Isis’s online activities (that cringe-worthy phrase is theirs,...
by PPJC Admin2 | November 11, 2015 | PPJC Picks
By Jelani Cobb The New Yorker Of the many concerns unearthed by the protests at two major universities this week, the velocity at which we now move from racial recrimination to self-righteous backlash is possibly the most revealing. The unrest that occurred at the...
by TD Daniell | August 7, 2014 | Current News
Juan Cole truthdig http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_salaita_firing_is_zionism_jewish_nationalism_a_political_cult_20140807 This post originally ran on Juan Cole’s Web page. Liberal politics in the broad sense, in the tradition of Locke, Voltaire, Madison,...
by TD Daniell | July 22, 2014 | Current News
Kathy Kelly Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/22 On July 10, 2014, in New York State, Judge David Gideon sentenced Mary Anne Grady Flores to a year in prison and fined her $1,000 for photographing a peaceful demonstration at the U.S. Air National...
by PPJC Admin2 | February 14, 2014 | Current News
By Dominic Rushe The Guardian Consumer groups reacted angrily to the merger of cable giant Comcast and Time Warner Cable on Thursday, claiming the combination could “throttle” choice on the internet. Comcast’s proposed...