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Corporate Europe Observatory: Coded for Privileged Access – How Big Tech Weakens Rules on advanced AI

April 30, 2025 Ben Wray 0

The EU is developing a Code of Practice to govern general purpose AI, as part of the implementation of the AI Act. But Big Tech has heavily influenced the process to successfully weaken the Code.  […]

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Politico – EU readies counterstrike on Big Tech and US banks over Trump’s mega tariffs

April 1, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Let’s see whether when it comes down to it, Von Der Leyen is really prepared to take on Silicon Valley and Wall Street. Read the article HERE.

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Jem Bendell – It’s The Empire, Stupid: Trump, Tariffs, the Dollar, Big Tech, EU Regs and CBDCs

March 18, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Behind the media circus around Trump’s latest shenanigans, there is a serious agenda to entrench the American empire. Jem Bendell is Professor of Sustainability Leadership, University of Cumbria, UK. He has recently published the book ‘Breaking […]

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Cédric Durand – Fragile Leviathan?

February 5, 2025 Ben Wray 0

On Trump and big tech. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.

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Yanis Varoufakis – Cloud Capital vs AI: DeepSeek, Technofeudalism, Capitalism and the New Cold War

January 29, 2025 Ben Wray 0

What does Deepseek tell us about the relationship between the tech oligarchy and market competition? Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist and politician. A former academic, he served as the Greek Minister of Finance from […]

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Antony Loewenstein – Israel’s use of AI in Gaza is a terrifying model coming to a country near you

January 29, 2025 Ben Wray 0

An under-reported aspect of the Gaza genocide is the role of big tech in sharpening the Israeli murder machine. Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist, best–selling author, filmmaker and co–founder of Declassified Australia. He’s written […]

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Ambuj Tewari – DeepSeek’s great innovation is efficiency

January 29, 2025 Ben Wray 0

A simple explanation of what DeepSeek has done to reduce the costs of generative AI so spectacularly. Ambuj Tewari is Professor of Statistics at the University of Michigan and an expert in Machine Learning. Cross-posted […]

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Corporate Europe Observatory – Uncovering Big Tech’s hidden network

October 30, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Conflicts of interest gone wild in the world of EU big tech regulation. This investigation was a joint initiative between the Corporate Europe Observatory, SOMO and Lobby Control. Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory Over the […]

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Finance

Julia Conley – US Court Rules Google a Monopoly in ‘Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century’

August 7, 2024 Ben Wray 0

A significant verdict, but will it really bring Google to heel? In ‘Common Dreams’. Read the article HERE.

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EU politics

George Kerevan – The American ruling class is shifting towards Trump

July 29, 2024 Ben Wray 1

Beneath the tumult and polarisation of American politics lies serious divides among the US ruling class about how to govern capitalism. George Kerevan is a Scottish journalist and economist, and a former SNP MP. Cross-posted […]

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Economics

The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

June 15, 2025 2

Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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