Author Archives: ann li-summers

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About ann li-summers

retired professor, independent scholar

How posse comitatus or Commadus’s posse is already here

Posted on August 15, 2015 by ann li-summers

by ann summers Regardless of the degree of derangement, lone gunmen are always the decentralized form of terror, whether domestic manslaughter or random carnage. The problem despite some neologistic tendencies by the MIC to organize fear or procurement of weapons … Continue reading →

Posted in American History, Capitalism, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Courts, Crime, Criminal Law, Democracy | 8 Comments

The Election of 2016 is a remake of Arsenic and Old Lace

Posted on August 8, 2015 by ann li-summers

By ann summers What if Strindberg wrote Hellzapoppin’ or as we’ve seen, 10 Downing Street wrote a memo about WMDs or President Obama gave Syria away like the Sudetenland with the current Iran Nuke deal? With all due respect to … Continue reading →

Posted in American History, Barack Obama, Big Oil, Capitalism, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Countries, Democracy | Tagged | 7 Comments

Despite the BP oil spill and Arctic exploration, simulated exploitation is at your fingertips

Posted on August 2, 2015 by ann li-summers

By Ann Summers Imagine if seismic analysis was not applied to the oceans, a more open frontier despite the Law of the Sea but to the task of fracking, what kind of multi-player online role playing game (MMORPG) could be … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Oil, Capitalism, Climate Change Deniers, Climatology, Countries | 3 Comments

Technology is taking the informal economy for a ride

Posted on July 8, 2015 by ann li-summers

By Ann Summers “Why has informal employment expanded so much in the context of neoliberal globalisation?” An informal economy could be the transfer of commodities ranging from adults buying alcohol for teenagers hanging about convenience stores to the proliferation of … Continue reading →

Posted in Economic Policy | Tagged | 5 Comments

Minister No More!

Posted on July 6, 2015 by ann li-summers

Originally posted on Yanis Varoufakis:
The referendum of 5th July will stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage. Like all struggles for democratic rights, so too this historic rejection of the…

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Lacking Grace: Flag mania trumps loss of Faith in a free market for symbols

Posted on June 29, 2015 by ann li-summers

By: Ann Summers “They got a goddamn day for Confederate flags. This is some bullshit!” says the (presumably black) man filming this video And just when you’re wondering how long this line of assholes in lifted trucks can possibly be, … Continue reading →

Posted in Barack Obama, Christianity, Civil War, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Courts, Democracy | 136 Comments

Geoinformation approaches to tracking down wildlife poachers

Posted on June 16, 2015 by ann li-summers

By: Ann Summers A tiger skeleton soaks in rice wine in Harbin, China. There is a growing, clamoring demand for tiger bone wine, a tonic made by steeping a tiger carcass in rice wine to produce an extremely expensive elixir. … Continue reading →

Posted in Corruption, Countries | Tagged | 14 Comments