Finance
Maurice Stucke: Data Competition Won’t Protect Your Privacy
Regulators propose democratizing data and encouraging competition to reign in Big Tech. But such moves won’t go far enough in protecting user privacy. Read Here
Media Concentration
Media
Robert Reich: Why Elon Musk has blocked me on Twitter (and now owns the joint)
This isn’t about freedom of speech. It’s about power. Read Here So let me get this straight: Elon Musk thinks "cancel culture" undermines democracy and calls himself a "free speech absolutist," but he's threatened to […]
Fake News
Alfred de Zayas – Fake News, Fake History, Fake Law
Fake new is not a subversion of the established system, it is the established system Alfred de Zayas is a law professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and served as a UN Independent Expert […]
Fake News
Renegade Inc.: Alfred de Zayas – Weaponising Our Rights
Many Western organisations urgently need reviving, especially in the face of rising global authoritarianism, the weaponisation of human rights, a failing legacy media and the unintended effects of sanctions. Host, Ross Ashcroft, caught up with […]
Media
Jonathan Cook – Social media giants allow hate speech against Russia but silence Israel’s critics
Silicon Valley’s decision to allow anti-Russia threats reveals it as little more than a propaganda arm of the West Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001 Cross-posted from Jonathan […]
Fake News
John Pilger – Western Democracies Have Mutated Into Propagandists for War and Conflict
The changes in the reporting of war crises such as the ‘imminent invasion’ of Ukraine, and the rise of ‘raw propaganda John Pilger is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker, and author. Read his full biography on […]
Media
Jonathan Cook – Is it already too late to say goodbye?
This is a very poignant piece, as we consider Jonathan one of those few journalists with credibility. We are seeing many such websites closing down. One does not launch these websites to end up begging […]
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory: How corporate lobbying undermined the EU’s push to ban surveillance ads
Despite the EU’s talk about regulating the digital sphere, we uncover how Big Tech has successfully waged a major lobbying campaign to prevent a ban on their extremely profitable model of intrusive surveillance advertising. However […]
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – “Civilising a hugely irrational world”
On Brexit and the task of confronting technofeudalism Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, politician, leader of MeRA25 and DiEM25, former Greece’s Finance Minister, author and professor This interview was conducted by Daniel Powell and […]
Climate Crisis
George Monbiot: Losing It
First when we admit that mainstream media is not defending our democratic rights, but instead destroying democracy and the planet, then turn our back on it to develop truly democratic media, do we have a […]