Archive for February, 2006
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
The first advocate of Open Source was none other than the patron saint of neoliberal economics: Adam Smith. Although Smith's classic The Wealth of Nations has become the de-facto Bible of the neoliberal agenda, invoking Smith to justify cut-throat capitalism is nothing more than a distortion of his true [...]
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
The Bush administration has declared that this week is "energy week", as the President and his cabinet travel the country to tout the programs that will, in the President's words "help us reach another great goal: to replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East [...]
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
In order to successfully resist the wholesale devastation of local economies at a global scale, it is necessary to pick apart, piece by piece, the philosophical underpinnings of neoliberal economics. At first glance, this seems an impossible task, since each year billions of dollars are invested to sequester the model [...]
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
Here at Agroblogger we are counting down to the launch of the new Agricultural Innovations website. The site is being built based on Joomla!, a robust, Open Source content management system loaded with features and licensed under the GPL.
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Friday, February 10th, 2006
Hello all. Sorry for the lack of content as of late. I've been real busy with work related projects that are currently demanding all of my time. The good news is, in a couple of weeks agroblogger.com will be back in full force, making good on my rhetoric of Open Sourcing AT and integrating [...]
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