Finance
Kieren McCarthy: Mark Zuckerberg did everything in his power to avoid Facebook becoming the next MySpace – but forgot one crucial detail…
No one likes a lying asshole Read here
Monopolies
EU politics
cnet: Facebook fined $11.4M in Italy over data misuse
After a year of woe, the social network’s data-related troubles aren’t yet over. Read here After a year of woe, the social network’s data-related troubles aren’t yet over.
Corruption
The Guardian: Uber pushed for UK congestion charges that would hit poor hardest
Two neo-liberals have a meeting. A Tory minister, notorious for his incompetence in public transport – or attempt to destroy its credibility, who wishes to further privatise public transport, and the CEO of an international […]
Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel: Our best shot at cooling the planet might be right under our feet
Great idea. Unfortunately the problem is always the same: moneyed interests buy corrupt politicians, be it in the USA, EU, or elsewhere, who block these measures. Great ideas do not always change policy. Politics do. […]
Austerity
David Harvey – A History of Neo-liberalism, Part 1
David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at City University of New York and author of A Brief History of Neoliberalism argues with Chris Hedges that Neoliberalism, the manta of the global corporate elites, […]
Finance
Robert Reich: Break up Facebook (and while we’re at it, Google, Apple and Amazon)
Big tech has ushered in a second Gilded Age. We must relearn the lessons of the first, writes the former US labor secretary. Read here
Austerity
Michael Hudson – Rescuing the Banks Instead of the Economy
2018 marks the 10th anniversary of the stock market crash of 2008; the current financial malaise is the result of the bank bailouts, not the crash; an over-indebted economy cannot be saved unless the banks […]
EU politics
Mirror: Glaring tax divide between high street and online rivals destroys 140,000 jobs in Britain so far this year
Anyone really surprised? But it is good to have some numbers. Read here
EU politics
The Local de: Google shelves plans to open campus in Berlin Kreuzberg
Although the article could qualify as a puff piece for Google, the message is clear: Google does not like negative publicity and its image of being “cool” has been tarnished. Monopolies are not cool, they […]
Finance
Jacob Weisberg: The Autocracy App
Facebook is a company that has lost control—not of its business, which has suffered remarkably little from its series of unfortunate events since the 2016 election, but of its consequences. Read here