2023

• “5G,” ALEC and the U.S.’s Second-Rate Telecom System, CounterPunch, September 13, 2023.
• The Great Telecom Rip-Off, CounterPunch, March 23, 2023.
• The Cartel Economy and the Telecom Cartel, CounterPunch, January 5, 2023.

2022

• NYC Digital Redlining: A Tale of Woe, CounterPunch, December 7, 2022.
• Secrets of an AT&T Scandal, CounterPunch, November 11, 2022.
• One Year Later, Biden’s FCC Nominee Remains In Limbo, The Progressive, November 1, 2022.
• AT&T Fumbles: the Tryanny of Big Telecom, CounterPunch, March 30, 2022.
• Dude, Where’s My High-Speed Internet?, The Progressive, March 4, 2022.
• Digital Redlining or Digital Divides, CounterPunch, March 3, 2022.
• Net Neutrality Still Matters, CounterPunch, February 10, 2022.

2021

• The Broadband Plan Will Not End the Digital Divide, CountePunch, November 11, 2021.
• America’s Broadband Crisis: Making of a 21st Century Cartel, Monthly Review, September 23, 2021.
• Cities Struggle to End the Urban Digital Divide, The Progressive, September 16, 2021.
• Getting Connected, The Progressive, August-September 2021.
• Why Community Broadband Matters, CounterPunch, August 5, 2021.
• What’s Happening to the Telecom Trust, CounterPunch, May 25, 2021.
• AT&T’s “Harvesting” Scam, CounterPunch, May 6, 2021.
• An End to Broadband Inequality—or Just More of the Same?,
  The Progressive, April 3, 2021
• Electricity vs. Broadband: Does History Repeat Itself?, CounterPunch, March 4, 2021.
• Confronting the Digital Divide: New York City vs. Verizon, CounterPunch, February 24, 2021.
• Taking on Telecom’s ‘5G’, CounterPunch, February 3, 2021,

2020

• The Great 5G Hype, CounterPunch, March 20, 2020.
•  Irregulators v FCC: The Trial Begins, CounterPunch, January 17, 2020.

2019

• Taking on the FCC: Unraveling a $500 Billion Rip-Off, CounterPunch, June 7, 2019.

2016

• Verizon Strike Exposes Broader Shifts in Telecom Labor Conditions, TruthOut, May 13, 2016.

2014

• Save Net Neutrality: Make the Internet a Common Carrier, CounterPunch, April 25-27, 2014. 
• Media Consolidation Intensifies: Can the Comcast and Time/Warner Cable Merger be Stopped?, CounterPunch, February 13, 2014.
• The School Broadband Scam: Kids Suffer as Telecoms Profits Soar, CounterPunch, February 7-9, 2014.
• Privatizing the Public Good:  Is This the End of Net Neutrality?  CounterPunch, January 15, 2014.

2013

• Will 2014 Be the Year That Smartphone Filmmaking Goes Mainstream?, IndieWire, January 29, 2013. 
• Obama Disses Digital Promise to U.S. Kids: Broadband to the Classroom, CounterPunch, August 9-11, 2013.
• The Great Sandy Shell Game: American Telecom Users Will Be the Real Losers.  CounterPunch, July 18, 2013.
• Regulatory Capture at the FCC:  Corporate Corruption and The Special Interest State,  CounterPunch, May 24-26, 2013.
• Another Internet is Possible: Some Questions for the New FCC Chairperson,  CounterPunch, April 5-7, 2013.
• Opium of the 21st Century:  The Telecom Crisis. CounterPunch, January 25-27, 2013. Content is the opium of the 21^st century telecom user.

2012

• How Telecoms Sell Your Private Info to the Highest Bidder, AlterNet, November 8, 2012.
• Why Our Phones and Internet Are Being Threatened by a Big Telecomm Privatization Scheme, with Bruce Kushnik. AlterNet, July 26, 2012.
• ALEC, Tech and the Telecom Wars: Killing America’s Telecom Utilities, with Bruce Kushnick.  Huffington Post, July 24, 2012.
• What Secrets Is Your Cell Phone Company Telling the Government About You?, AlterNet, July 11, 2012.
• Obama’s Broadband Vision vs. the Communications Trust, with Bruce Kushnick. Huffington Post, June 25, 2012.
• America’s Spy State: How the Telecoms Sell Out Your Privacy, AlterNet, May 29, 2012
• The Telecom Scammers’ Latest Ploy to Screw You for More Cash,  AlterNet, March 21, 2012.
• Telecom Rip-Off: The Hidden Fees in Your Wireless and Phone Bills, with Bruce Kushnick.  AlterNet, January 16, 2012.

2011

• Occupy Telecom, Occupy the FCC: How the Communications Trust is Harming America’s Futures, AlterNet, November 18, 2011.
• The Smart Phone Con Job: Your So-Called 4G Phone Isn’t What It’s Cracked Up To Be AlterNet, June 30, 2011.
• Shills R Us: Organizations That Get AT&T Cash Endorse its Mega-Merger with T-Mobile, AlterNet, June 22, 2011.
• The Secret $8 Billion Wireless Scam: How AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Game the System, AlterNet, June 20, 2011.
• AT&T and T-Mobile Edge Closer to Merger, What’s In It For Customers? Very Little, AlterNet, June 9, 2011.
• It’s Time to Break Up AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner and the Rest of the Telecoms, AlterNet, May 11, 2011.
• “TV wars:  How the telecommunications trust is shaping the future of the Internet … and indie film”, Filmmaker, Spring 2011.

2010

• Network Faiure: The Crisis in America’s Telecommunications Network (with Bruce Kushnick), CounterPunch, March 12-14, 2010.
• The Comcast-NBC Merger & the Future of Internet Video, Z magazine, February 26, 2010.
• The Outrageous Ways Your Phone Company May Be Stealing from You, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, February 9, 2011.
• How AT&T, Verizon and the Telecom Giants Have Captured the Regulator Supposed to Control Them, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, January 8, 2011.

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• “Independents & the Digital Video Future,” NVReports, Fall 1996.

• “Theatrical Distribution of Feature Films,” in Morrie Warshawski, ed., The Next Step: Distributing Independent Films & Videos (New York: FIVF, 1995).

• “Distribution of the Digital Video Media: A Technology Primer for Independent Producers and Distributors,” NVReports, November 1995.

• “KQED Multimedia Publishing: A Strategic Market Analysis,” KQED/San Francisco, 1995.

• “Technological Innovation & the Role of the Humanities,” Humanities (California Council for the Humanities), Fall 1994.

• “Technology: The Virtues of CD-ROM,” Foundation News, July-August 1994.

• “Welcome to Your Future,” San Francisco Focus, November 1993.

• “Crossover: Hispanic Specialty Films in the U.S. Movie Marketplace,” in Chicanos and Film: Representation and Resistance, Chon Noriega, ed. (University of Minnesota Press, 1992).

• “High Fiber: Fiber Optic Technology,” Off-Hollywood Report, Winter 1992.

• “Interactive Compact Disc,” NVReports, Winter 1992.

• “High Fiber, High Impact: High Fiber Technology, Independent Lobbying,” Off-Hollywood Report, Spring 1992.

• “Fiber Optics and the Future of Television,” NVReports, Winter 1991.

• “The World on a Disc: The Introduction of Interactive Media,” Commodore Interactive, 1991.

• “Independent Features: Foundation Support for Narrative Film” (with Nancy Sher), Benton Foundation Bulletin, May 1990.

• “Going Theatrical: Theatrical Distribution of Independent Films,” in Morrie Warshawski, ed., The Next Step: Distributing Independent Films & Videos (New York: AIVF/FIVF, 1989).

• “Expanding Interactive Media, New Observations, October 1 – November 14, 1989.

• “The Electronic Home in the Year 2000,” Center for Advertising Services, Interpublic Group, March 1989.

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• “History in the Making: A Report from Microsoft’s First International Conference on CD-ROM” (with James Schamus), Educational Technology, July 1986.

• “Prime Time: Show Devant!” (with Gail Harper), de visu, Printemps 1986.

2010

• Sinner Men: The Rehabilitation of the Sex Sinner, CounterPunch, February 18, 2010.
• The New Morality Police:  The Crisis in America’s Telecommunications Network, CounterPunch, March 12-14, 2010.
• Network Failure: The Crisis in America’s Telecommunications Network, CounterPunch, March 12-14, 2010.
• The Third Front: Sexual Assault in the U.S. Military, CounterPunch, March 19-21, 2010.
• The GOP in Freewill?:  They Don’t Call It the Grand Old Party for Nothing, CounterPunch, March 31, 2010.
• Globalizing the Culture Wars: Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill, CounterPunch, April 2, 2010.
• Selective Journalism?: The New York Times vs. the Pope, CounterPunch, April 16, 2010.
• Obama’s Rwanda?:  Halt the Slaughter in the Congo Now, No Apologies Later, CounterPunch, May 2, 2010.
• Come Out George, Come Out!: Scandal Again Rocks the Christian Right, AlterNet, May 9, 2010.
• The Great Telecom Rip-Off:  Or Why Aunt Ethel Hung-up on AT&T, CounterPunch, May 28, 2010.
• The New Abortion Wars:  Recalling the Lessons of the 1929s, CounterPunch, June 25-27, 2010.
• Blood on the Floor:  The Mounting Social Crisis & the Fate of the Working Class, CounterPunch, August 8, 2010.
• Know-Nothings of 2010, Part 1:  The Tyranny of False Consciousness, CounterPunch, August 13, 2010.
• Know-Nothings of 2010, Part 2:  The Tyranny of False Consciousness, CounterPunch, August 20-22, 2010.
• End of “the American Century”?:  Suffering the New Normal, CounterPunch, September 10, 2010.
• Tea Party Panic:  The Fear of Sex & Race & Interracial Sex, CounterPunch, September 17, 2010.
• How the Phone Companies Are Screwing America: The $320 Billion Broadband Rip-Off. AlterNet, October 6, 2010.
• The Sexy Sisters:  Tea Party Infatuation with the “New” Republican Woman, CounterPunch, October 15, 2010.
• Conservatives’ Big Hypocrisy: Turning Women Candidates (Who Are Anti-Sex and Anti-Woman) into Sex Symbols, AlterNet, October 15, 2010.
• Class War in America:  The War That Dares Not Speak Its Name, CounterPunch, October 29-31, 2010.
• Class War Spurs Violent Clashes in Europe — Why Are Americans Just Letting the Super Rich Win?, AlterNet, November 1, 2010.
• Class War Redux:  The Tea Party Congress and Likely Return to Social Purity, CounterPunch, December 3-5, 2010.

2009

• Nails in the Coffin:  Last Gasps of the Culture Wars?, CounterPunch, February 1, 2009.
• Sexting: Latest Innovation in Porn, CounterPunch, March 25, 2009.
• Sexual Torture, Yet Again:  We Will Ever Know the Complete Truth?, CounterPunch, May 15-17, 2009.
• Porn Wars:  One Step Forward, But Too Many Steps Backward in the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, May 22, 2009.
• Cry, Hypocrite, Cry:  Politicians & America’s Grand Tradition of Sex Scandals, CounterPunch, June 26, 2009.
• Prison Rape as Policy:  The Domestic War on Terror, CounterPunch, July 8, 2009.
• Shouts from the Gallery:  Sotomayor Hearing & the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, July 15, 2009.
• Silent Slaughter:  Sex Wars & Nation Building in Iraq, CounterPunch, August 28, 2009.
• System Failure in the Garrido Case:  Sex Offenders, Media Hype and the Bureaucracy, CounterPunch, September 18, 2009.
• Bankrupt Morality:  The Staying Power of Republican Sinners, CounterPunch, October 8, 2009.
• America’s Failing Sexual Health:  An Unacknowledged Crisis, CounterPunch, December 1, 2009.
• 10-Plus-1 Top Sports Sex Scandals:  All’s Fair On & Off the Playing Field, CounterPunch, December 4, 2009.
• Sexual Politics in the Age of Obama:  A Year 1 Assessment, CounterPunch, December 22, 2009.

2008

• The Great Disappearing Act, CounterPunch, January 1, 2008.
• Playing the Race Card:  Barack Obama, Love Across the Race Line and Political Dirty Tricks, Counterpunch, February 27, 2008.
• Rape as an Instrument of Total War:  Women, Rape & Modernity’s Self-Negation, CounterPunch, April 4, 2008.
• The New Texas Two-Step:  Polygamy & State Regulation of Sexual Life, CounterPunch, April 19, 2008.
• Sexual Terrorism:  The Sadistic Side of Bush’s War on Terror, CounterPunch, May 13, 2008.
• The Great Disappearing Act:  2008 Presidential Candidates & the Politics of Sex, CounterPunch, June 23, 2008.
• Looking for Safe Harbor:  Teen Prostitution in America, August 2-3, 2008.
• The Culture Wars Are Over:  But Culture Warriors Still Terrorize America, CounterPunch August 23-24, 2008.
• The GOP’s Outed All-Stars, CounterPunch, August 29, 2008.
• One Billion Pills Later:  The Viagra Decade & the Crisis of Masculinity, CounterPunch, September 20, 2008.
• The Great Fear:  The Sexual Politics of Sarah Palin, CounterPunch, September 27, 2008.
• A New Sexual Agenda:  Nine Proposals for President-Elect Obama & the New Democratic Congress to End the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, November 28, 2008.

2007

• The Teen Abstinence-Only Crusade: Bush’s Domestic Sex Policy, CounterPunch, January 12, 2007.
• Pay-to-Play:  The Double-Life of Prostitution in America, CounterPunch, January 27, 2007.
• To Cut or Not to Cut:  Male Circumcision in America, CounterPunch, March 2, 2007
• An American Obituary: Anne Nicole Smith and the Exploitation of Nature, CounterPunch, March 24-25, 2007.
• The New Disappeared:  Sex Offenders, Civil Confinement & the Resurrection of Evil, CounterPunch, May 10, 2007.
• The Hidden Cost of War: American Women Warriors & the War on Terror, CounterPunch, June 23-24, 2007.
• Moral Hypocrisy, Yet Again:  The Christian Right, Sexual Scandal & the Sexual Pleasures of the Courtesan, CounterPunch, July 17, 2007.
• America’s Top Ten Political Sex Scandals:  James Buchanan, the First Gay President, and Other Tales of Sex and Power in Washington, CounterPunch, August 1, 2007.
• The Case of Genarlow Wilson:  Racism, Justice & Age-of-Consent Laws in America, CounterPunch, August 14, 2007.
• The GOP Outed All-Stars:  The Forced Freeing of Gay Men from the Republican Closet, CounterPunch, August 29, 2007
• Slugger Sex:  Athletes, Violence & Male Sexuality, CounterPunch, September 22, 2007.
• Women Warriors & the War on Terror, Z-magazine, October 1, 2007
• Deviants on Parade:  Folsom Street Fair & America’s 4^th Sexual Revolution, CounterPunch, October 20, 2007.
• The Scarlet Hypocrites:  Republican Politicians, Christian Conservatives & the All-American Sin of Adultery, CounterPunch, November 17, 2007.
• Senior Sex: The Real Sex Life of Aging Americans, CounterPunch, November 24, 2007.
• Porn in the Closet:  Mitt Romney’s Secret Life as a Pornographer, CounterPunch, December 20, 2007.

2006

• Bush’s Foreign Sex Policy:  Imperialism’s Second Front, CounterPunch, December 22, 2006.
• Made in China: The Sex-Toy Invasion, CounterPunch, December 2, 2006.
• Those Who Preach in Glass Houses:  Ted Haggard & the Eclipse of Evangelical Fury, CounterPunch, November 15, 2006.
• Perversions of Power: Mark Foley and the Bush Administration, CounterPunch, October 27, 2006.
• Sex Panic on Capitol Hill:  Rep. Foley & the Politics of Sex in America, CounterPunch, October 10, 2006.

 

 

 

Sexual Politics in the Age of Obama

Hopeless:  Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion
 (AK Press)

Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank, editors.

ISBN-13: 9781849351102

David Rosen contributed the chapter “Sexual Politics in the Age of Obama” to this collection assessing Obama’s first term as president.

To Purchase Hopeless, click on you favorite bookseller: AK Press or Amazon

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Sexual Terrorism

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies (2016).

DOI: 10.1002/9781118663219.wbegss004

David Rosen contributed the entry “Sexual Terrorism” to this respected international encyclopedia.

The chapter can be accessed at Wiley.

 

 

 

Off-Hollywood:  The Making & Marketing of Independent Films
 (Grove Press)

ISBN-10: 0802131875. ISBN-13: 978-0802131874

Off-Hollywood was originally commissioned by the Sundance Institute and the Independent Feature Project (IFP) and remains the only detailed analysis based on proprietary marketing, performance and financial data.

To Purchase Off-Hollywood, go to Amazon