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Isaac Anderson, a former MakerBot employee, tells a cautionary tale about the perils of venture capital inserting itself in the Open Source community 
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If the future of finance is going to be digital, we want it to be populated with those who value the deeper tenets of open source philosophy
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In Capitalism what matters is not whether fictional entities or human beings are making money, but whether decision makers are making money.
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Rather than wasting these vast sums on the inhumane machinery of warfare, we could provide emergency assistance to desperate refugees and asylum seekers.
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America’s status as the world’s leading producer of oil and natural gas is delivering major benefits to U.S. families and businesses.
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The Davos elite are increasingly deluded about the role they can play in creating a sustainable future.
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Okay. As in all good blues songs, this story starts with ‘woke up this mornin’…’ and goes on to bemoan conditions of the storyteller’s life. We then go on to tie in an excellent critique by Stephanie McMillan of Paul Mason’s views on Post-Capitalism and why she thinks he is wrong to claim that it …
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Although Solar Citizens are reducing greenhouse emissions, SA Power Networks wants to implement a residential solar tariff.
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Patents give patent-holders the power to deny access to others, thereby limiting or denying the public’s right of participation to science and culture.
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A lawsuit filed in Nevada federal court claims that Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio effectively don't own the rights to their own life stories as told in the Tony-winning musical Jersey Boys, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Few commentators have mentioned that the Volkswagen scandal would not have happened if the software for the pollution-control equipment had been open source
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“This was not a mistake; this was not something that they tried to avoid. It is what they wanted to happen, a crisis that would cause a realignment of political power and the end of the European welfare state.”
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Ever since Bill Clinton and the World Bank enthusiastically embraced the microfinance concept in the 1990s, we at Local Futures have been skeptical of its benefits.
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Grey literature - produced by government departments, academic institutions, private companies - are hidden away from the public.
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Sharing economy companies like Uber and Airbnb aren’t helping local economies — they’re just helping themselves.
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When are crimes against humanity “arcane references”? When the United States government commits them.
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Individualism, at first, only saps the virtues of public life; but in the long run it attacks and destroys all others to be absorbed in selfishness
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The approval of the current Trade Secrets directive would lead to very serious threats for citizens who undercover corporate abuses
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Despite its stated poliical intentions, which we reported about in this blog, every time push came to shove, Syriza did not support commons solutions, shows Theodoros Karyotis in ROAR magazine (which is now a print publication as well), highlighting different case studies: “Let us look into some examples where the SYRIZA government, instead of ratifying …
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Hard hitting commentary from Chris Hedges on the futility of appealing to corporate-bought regulatory agencies and bodies.
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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a comprehensive free trade and investment treaty currently being negotiated – in secret – between the European Union and the USA.
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Most people haven’t heard about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). And if you have, there’s probably a rosy halo emanating from the deep recesses of your subconscious.
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A campaign which highlights the true reality of poverty while pointing the way towards real solutions for a fair and sustainable world.
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Activist and software developer Dmytri Kleiner gives his perspective on Germany's treason scandal to RT International.
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