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Stories by Donnell Alexander

Women who play video games and other mysteries

A piercing and hilarious look at media coverage of women's roles in gaming.
Posted on Jun 2, 2006

Handing your life over to tyrants

The NSA spying scandals aren't about security, they're about who owns you.
Posted on Jun 1, 2006

Feds pressuring Internet companies to track you

Gonzales and Mueller want to know what you're doing online
Posted on May 30, 2006

NSA: you might be a terrorist if...

The privacy invasion continues in the AT&T/NSA scandal.
Posted on May 29, 2006

Who speaks American here?

If English is the unifying language of the country now, we've got to figure out what flavor we're going to use.
Posted on May 26, 2006

FCC says NSA illegal spying with AT&T is OK

The FCC won't investigate due to the "classified nature" of NSA's work.
Posted on May 25, 2006

GLENN GREENWALD: Imprisoning journalists

Attorney General Gonzales threatens investigating journalists with prison time and prosecution.
Posted on May 24, 2006

Fear factor: gay people are after you

Hilarious song on how Republicans use wedge issues to divide and conquer.
Posted on May 23, 2006

Wired publishes secret AT&T whistleblower docs

The king of tech news joins the fray against corporate giants' complicity in data-mining and spying on American citizens.
Posted on May 22, 2006

Moby and the Dixie chicks to the rescue

Commentary on some suprisingly bipartisan action to save Net Neutrality.
Posted on May 19, 2006

Feds to women: stay healthy and breed

New guidelines show what the federal government really thinks of women.
Posted on May 18, 2006

Internet thieves and straw men

The telecommunications industry is lobbying to steal your Internet from you.
Posted on May 16, 2006

McCain hates bloggers

Shameless pandering to the fundamentalists while getting off on making fun of grassroots media.
Posted on May 15, 2006

William Gibson: they'll keep spying on us anyway

The sci-fi author talks about our dangerously complicit cultural assumptions in the spy scandals.
Posted on May 12, 2006

MySpace hijacks artists

It's all fun and games until someone gets their content ripped off by a huge media conglomerate.
Posted on May 11, 2006

Does Wal-Mart own the smiley face?

Evidently, it thinks it does, and is battling a guy who says he invented it in the '60s.
Posted on May 9, 2006

No more cancer screenings for you

A new healthcare law allows insurers to kill coverage for basic services.
Posted on May 8, 2006

The dicks of Digg

Boys will be misogynist jerks when it comes to women in online communities.
Posted on May 5, 2006

No permission slips for the Internet

The creator of the WWW has something to say about Net Neutrality.
Posted on May 4, 2006

The economic American Dream turns into a nightmare

The wider gap between the rich and the rest of us spells out the end of prosperity for our lower and middle classes.
Posted on May 3, 2006

Wal-Mart's public enemy no. 1

A new site links community struggles nationwide with loads of tools, information and resources.
Posted on May 2, 2006

Wal-Mart undermines the Wikipedia

How the worst corporation in America is helping to ruin Internet democracy.
Posted on May 1, 2006

Alternative Freedom: documenting the war on culture

A new film about saving creativity and artistic integrity through participatory culture and digital freedom.
Posted on Apr 28, 2006

Buying the Internet, $1 million at a time

How telcos are influencing Congress with charitable donations to take over your Internet.
Posted on Apr 27, 2006

Arianna Huffington: A handy rebuttal to 'We Have to Finish the Job'

Somehow this twisted sentiment has worked its way into conventional wisdom; here's how to get it back out.
Posted on Apr 26, 2006

Saving the Internet with strange bedfellows

What do Craigslist, Gun Owners of America and the United Church of Christ all have in common?
Posted on Apr 25, 2006

Personal Democracy Forum 2006

The yearly conference tackles all-things-politically-online, plus an opportunity to learn about open source website management.
Posted on Apr 24, 2006

SEIU president Andy Stern to join hunger strikers in Miami

Workers organizing for healthcare and other rights are on Day 17 of their hunger strike.
Posted on Apr 21, 2006

Missing women can't speak out

What Natalee Holloway, the survivor in the alleged Duke rape case, Hillary Clinton and Dianne Feinstein all have in common on Fox News.
Posted on Apr 21, 2006

Messing with Wal-Mart's branding

Time to retire the Smiley? Plus, NYC's City Council Speaker has a few words on the big blue monster.
Posted on Apr 20, 2006

The gender gap returns to the voting booth

Women strongly favor Democrats at the polls again.
Posted on Apr 18, 2006

Why is AOL blocking detractors' emails?

The Internet giant blocks incoming email containing information about the DearAOL.com coalition.
Posted on Apr 17, 2006

Subverting the Swiffer

The finalists are in for the contest to define just what makes an "Amazing Woman."
Posted on Apr 14, 2006

Hardwiring gender differences

A new study showing different brain structures in men and women is sorely misused.
Posted on Apr 13, 2006

Not just birth control refusals -- now antibiotics, too.

In Seattle, pharmacists have refused women lifesaving medications.
Posted on Apr 12, 2006

Pro-active legislation for a pro-choice country

Might as well make it the actual law.
Posted on Apr 11, 2006

Whistleblower reveals extent of AT&T spying role

A former employee recounts how the telco has been reading in your email.
Posted on Apr 10, 2006

Undermining the Great Firewall of China

How Chinese folks are maneuvering around online censorship.
Posted on Apr 7, 2006

How fake news and trends hurt women

Breaking down the studies, stereotypes and myths in one fell swoop.
Posted on Apr 6, 2006

Arianna Huffington: The perfect going-away present for Tom DeLay

From the perky sounds of his going away speech, he's going to need this...
Posted on Apr 5, 2006

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