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Yanis Varoufakis – Discussing Seattle’s Amazon Head Tax

May 16, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Yanis Varoufakis’s take on why Amazon and other companies in Seattle are refusing to pay a “head tax” on their employees to finance housing for the poor and the consequences of such policies. Listen here

Finance

The Seattle Times: Amazon puts high-profile Seattle plans on ice over proposal to tax large employers

May 3, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Whatever happened to the high-tech heroes? Maybe it was just fancy public relations work to hide the true destructiveness of monopolists. Read here  

Finance

The People Vs Tech by Jamie Bartlett

April 29, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by David Beer   Is technology undermining democracy? Do we ever really know how we arrive at our political views? The pixelated vision of the near future offered in Jamie Bartlett’s new book […]

Economics

The Guardian: From Seattle to Luxembourg: how tax schemes shaped Amazon

April 26, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Guardian is doing a series concerning Amazon. This is just one article. Read here  

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Tax Justice Network – Taxcast April 2018

April 25, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

In this month’s Taxcast: Tax justice, women and UN human rights conventions: how we may be beginning to hold governments to account. Also: we discuss scandal-hit Facebook’s checks on whether overseas influencers are funding political […]

Finance

Mail Online: Several Amazon workers ‘have considered suicide since joining the company’, poll reveals while warehouse staff claim they have urinated into bottles because they’re afraid of ‘time-wasting’

April 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Manchester Capitalism is returning to Britain after being resurrected in the United States Read here  

Economics

Bill Mitchell: The Left propaganda that the state is powerless – continues

April 10, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Bill Mitchell takes a recent article in The Guardian, Rana Dasgupta – The demise of the nation state, to debunk the leftist denigration of the national state as an essential instrument in pushing back neo-liberalism. […]

Finance

Thomas Frank: Trump’s enemy is not your friend: why we shouldn’t defend Amazon

April 7, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Substitute Brexit and Remain and you have the same story. We let ourselves for emotional reasons and political laziness accept binary decisions. The world is not black and white or Manichean as the intellectuals call […]

Finance

The Nation: Amazon Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market—It Wants to Become the Market

April 5, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is the story of how a monopoly destroys the free market, affecting all of us. Read here  

Finance

David Beer: The power of our social media data

April 4, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

David Beer looks at various apsects of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and considers some solutions to the problems posed by social media. Read here  

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim

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Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled.  It is a work shaped […]

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

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Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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