Finance
David Beer: The power of our social media data
David Beer looks at various apsects of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and considers some solutions to the problems posed by social media. Read here
Monopolies
Finance
Reuters: KPMG hit by Hong Kong High Court in $400 million China Medical fraud
Odd, not much happens to the Big 4 accounting firms in Europe. Read here
EU politics
Mike Gold: Neo-Liberalism – Invisible Fascism?
The Italian fascist leader Mussolini claimed: “Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” Thus this article makes a number of good points. Read here
Corruption
Larry Elliot: Is it time to break up the tech giants such as Facebook?
The United States has been promoting monopolies for decades. This has been supported by a perversion of free market economics: monopolies provide cheaper prices and thus benefit consumers. Maybe at the till, but what about […]
Finance
Bella Caledonia: In Defence of Social Media
“At what point did politics move from being a competing narrative of possible futures and become instead the wasteland of our sub-conscious fears exploited for a lucrative buck by Etonian snake-oil salesmen?” Read here
Economics
Jennifer Cobbe – The problem isn’t just Cambridge Analytica or Facebook – it’s “surveillance capitalism”
We’ve ended up with an internet built not for us – but for corporations, political parties, and the state’s increasingly nebulous ‘security’ demands. We need to better understand this problem so that we can challenge […]
EU politics
Global Justice Now – iFail: How Apple tried to silence tax justice activists in France – and lost
So typical. Those who do not pay their fair share of taxes are the first to call on the state, in this case the police and courts, to defend them against the people they are […]
Finance
Prem Sikka: Carillion collapse: here’s how much corporate undertakers could make from the liquidation
First you earn millions for poorly advising or auditing a company, then you make hundreds of millions after it has gone bankrupt. The pension fund was not covered and thousands are unemployed as a result. […]
Austerity
Bernie Sanders: The corporate media ignores the rise of oligarchy. The rest of us shouldn’t
The main difference between the media in the United States and the EU is that here two journalists who tried to report the non-corporate-media side of the story were recently murdered. Read here
Finance
Fuck Off Google: Don’t let Google take over Berlin!
Google plans to implant a “Google Campus” in Kreuzberg, Berlin. We, as a decentralized network of people are committed to not letting our beloved city be taken over by these tax-evading criminals who are building […]