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Two Years After Facebook’s IPO, the Company Can No Longer Be Trusted By Yaël Ossowski — 20. May, 2014, PanAmerican Post On May 18, 2012, Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking website, was taken from the hands of the programmers and innovative entrepreneurs and thrust into the world of Wall Street. Facebook’s 2012 IPO…
Privatization, Government Downsizing Are Talk of the Town in Quebec City By Yaël Ossowski – 6. May, 2014, PanAmerican Post Unbeknownst to most political observers and voters in Quebec, Phillippe Couillard and his Liberal Party may be the most ambitious band of reformers to get themselves voted into office in the last several decades. Though…
A Reset Button for the Quebec Independence Movement is Due By Yaël Ossowski | PanAm Post After a whopping defeat in the last provincial election, Quebec secessionists are doing of bit of soul-searching, and with good reason. The Parti Québécois (PQ), the province’s progressive separatist party, held the reins of a minority government when it…
In Times of Repression, Leaving Your Country May Be Best By YAËL OSSOWSKI | PanAm Post Usually, individuals look for ways to be freer. Among individuals already aware of the mounting problems of ever-repressive tax, police, and social policies of Western governments, the focus is on practical fixes more than philosophical questions. Though many may turn to political…
I was invited by famous Canadian podcasters Ed & Ethan to sit in on one of their recent shows to talk about Quebec’s election and other topics of interest. Enjoy! (My part starts at 25:50)
Provincial Leader Debate Shows PQ’s Turn to Irreverent Populism By Yaël Ossowski | PanAm Post In 1995, Quebec premier and Parti Québécois (PQ) leader Jacques Parizeau declared in his speech following the province’s failed referendum on secession that the battle was lost due to the “ethnic vote.” Almost 20 years later, his party has taken that message…
On the weekend on the 14-16 of March, 2014, a new European generation of freedom-loving youth assembled in Berlin, Germany for the 3rd Annual European Students For Liberty Conference. It was an event which united over 570 students and young professionals from 40 countries. Apart from the rich experience of uniting hundreds of individuals interested in…
By Yaël Ossowski | PanAm Post Worthless, invisible, and impractical. Impossible for the poor to use. A fantasy of the privileged. For devotees of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, these pessimistic criticisms are ceremoniously raised in conversations and articles invoked by skeptics. In the viral YouTube video “Shit Bitcoin Fanatics Say,” the rudimentary objections to the digital currency are laughingly…
By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org When President Barack Obama chooses to enforce select portions of federal law, is he playing the part of chief executive or skirting around Congress and, by extension, the U.S. Constitution? That’s the question House Republicans put forth in a House Judiciary Committee meeting Wednesday, stacking the witness panel with four fellow House GOP members and three law professors all too…
By Yaël Ossowski | PanAm Post In Ukraine, the citizen uprising is beyond bloody. In Venezuela, it’s a full blown crisis. All across the world, people are rising up against their governments and demanding a change to the status quo. In several Latin-American countries, the anger against government is just as strong; citizens are frustrated with corrupt politicians, deteriorating security,…