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Get ready for Greece's third bailout. Business commentator Alan Kohler writes that this latest exercise giving Greece a bailout is an exercise in wishful thinking. "As for the latest Greek …

Good luck if you manage to do it. According to The Guardian, Facebook bans images of breastfeeding if nipples are exposed. However, it allows "graphic images" of animals if shown "in …

The world has heaved a sigh of relief that Eurozone ministers have sealed a 130-billion-euro ($172 billion) bailout for Greece to avert a massive default never moth after persuading private bondholde…

Analysts say the stock market is telling us that Obama should be writing his inauguration address now.In a recent paper, Social Mood, Stock Market Performance and U.S. Presidential Elections: A Socio…

At last the Germans have made it clear what they want to do to Greece. They want to turn it into a dictatorship run by technocrats. That's come from no-one less than German Finance Minister Wolfga…

The law will have to redefine piracy. According to a new Columbia University study, reported here, 70 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds said they had bought, copied or downloaded unauthorized music, TV …

It now looks like the rest of the Eurozone is dump Greece. As reported here, Luxembourg's finance minister Luc Frieden has put it bluntly. "If the Greek people or the Greek political elite d…

The big piece of news is that a group of farmers is using biotechnology behemoth Monsanto's tactics against the company. As reported in Grist, the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association file…

This week, I did a blog entry on how Apple had gone into damage control mode and had organised for the Fair Labour Association to inspect working conditions at the Foxconn plant in China which produce…

There are American bankers who should be behind bars, says economist Paul Krugman. In an interview with Playboy, he makes it quite clear that they deserve nothing less."It's hard for me to be…