How We Were Blind-Folded and BRANDED (and what’s being done about it)

By Candice Novak
Consumerism is old hat, but the fast-paced and predatory nature of modern ads is relatively new. We see more ads per day per capita then in any other country, and it was recently recorded that children view at least 100 ads per day. In a time when brands define our character and Google [...]

The Future of Internet Taxation

Just announcing my latest article out in U.S.News & World Report, on a topic that hasn’t gotten a lot of mainstream in-depth media coverage: Internet taxation. I have the usual reporter’s complaints: they cut it down a lot and don’t offer much in the way of visuals — but it is a topic that needs [...]

the tragedy of too much stuff

In a capitalist society obsessed with things — the latest, the highest-tech, the coolest — we are been taught by corporations to be hoarders. That dirty label is not longer saved for crazy cat-ladies with bulging rooms of knick-knacks and depression-scarred lunatics.
This piece on Weekend America about the tragedy that is our junk and the [...]

Buy Nothing Day sails over press’ heads

While people are being trampled by customers in the wee hours of the morning on this Black Friday, many are confronting the control consumerism has on Western culture by rejecting that frenzied need to buy, buy, BUY.
Unfortunately, even independent National Public Radio is jumping on the buy-bandwagon with reports almost harrowing shoppers as heroes in [...]