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Ben Wray – The Cloud Cartel Has Created a Global Rentier Economy

July 28, 2026 Ben 0

‘The US tech giants have achieved an unprecedented concentration of economic control, forcing other firms, American or not, to pay intellectual rents. These cloud hegemons are boosting US global power even as it declines in […]

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Climate Crisis

Politico – Don’t let Big Tech hide ecological cost of AI, environment agency chief tells EU

May 26, 2026 Ben 0

If Big Tech can build data centres and hide the energy consumption of those data centres, transparency is dead in the EU. Read the full article HERE.

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Corruption

Nico Schmidt, Ella Joyner – How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll

April 20, 2026 Ben 0

‘Microsoft and DigitalEurope, a lobby group whose members include Amazon, Google and Meta, secured a secrecy provision in EU law to block public access to critical information on data centres’ environmental impact, Investigate Europe can […]

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EuroNews – European Parliament to take Commission to court over technology patents

November 25, 2025 Ben 0

Ursula Von Der Leyen’s European Commission has become little more than an institutional lobbyist for American big tech. Read the article HERE.

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John P. Ruehl – Technology Empires and the Race to Cement Dominance

November 10, 2025 Ben 0

The US-China tech duopoly risks polarising the world into two camps. John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living in Washington, D.C. He is a contributing editor to Strategic Policy and a contributor to several […]

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Branko Milanović – How to prevent an increase in income inequality due to new technologies

September 29, 2025 Ben 0

The introduction of labour-saving technology like AI reduces the percentage of income which goes to workers, unless government action is taken to ensure otherwise. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His […]

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Geopolitics

EuroNews – EU defends sovereign right to regulate tech against Trump’s latest tariff threat

August 26, 2025 Ben 0

After capitulating to Trump, did the European Commission really thing it would end there. The trade deal was agreed a month ago and The Donald is already back for more. Read the article HERE.

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Geopolitics

Alina Utrata – Starlink, the Cloud, and Corporate Dependency

July 15, 2025 Ben 0

US corporations control the critical digital infrastructure of not just the US but also many other countries, including in Europe. That level of corporate control puts democracy at risk. Dr Alina Utrata is a political […]

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Deregulation

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

April 30, 2025 Ben 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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EU politics

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

April 1, 2025 Ben 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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Reindustrialise Britain – A Strategy for Wealth Creation by Costas Lapavitsas, Larry Elliot, and Doug Nicholls

September 4, 2026 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose With the exception of the Epstein Class and the Professional and Managerial Caste in Britain there is now a broad consensus that neo-liberalism has failed the nation. It has […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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