Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon. Everyone uses them. Many like them. They are monopolies – and destructive ones at that.
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Kevin Carty: Tech giants are the robber barons of our time
Economics
Huffington Post: New York Activists Announce ‘Massive Wave’ Of Rent Strikes Starting May 1
The effort aims to pressure Gov. Andrew Cuomo to cancel rent for the duration of the coronavirus crisis, which has decimated the state’s economy. Read here
Geopolitics
Zero Hedge: Ukraine Formally Asks NATO To Send Troops For First Time, Pentagon Mulling
The continued inevitable and disastrous slide into a WW3 nuclear-armed confrontation between Russian and the West continues as The New York Times reports NATO appears to actually be seriously mulling sending troops to Ukraine to […]
Austerity
Thomas Piketty: Social-nativism, the Italian nightmare
Piketty brings together two simple phenomena: a neo-liberal EU resulting in a neo-liberal/far-right success – in this case in Italy. Read here
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