Gig Economy
Rob Lucas – Unlearning Machines
A review of Matteo Pasquinelli’s new book, The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
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Geopolitics
Gideon Levy – 11,500 Children Have Been Killed in Gaza. Horror of This Scale Has No Explanation
Two hundred and sixty names of babies whose age was 0; names of babies who didn’t get to celebrate their first birthday, nor will they ever celebrate anything else. Here are some of their names: […]
Economics
DeStatis – German Recession: Exports in December 2023 -4.6% on November 2023
Exports (calendar and seasonally adjusted exports of goods), December 2023 125.3 billion euros -4.6% on the previous month -4.6% on the same month a year earlier 2023 1,562.1 billion euros -1.4% on the previous year […]
Climate Crisis
RTE: Paris votes in favour of tripling SUV parking charge to over €18 per hour
Paris voters have backed a proposal from the capital’s socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo to triple parking charges on hefty SUV-style cars, according to official results from city hall. Parisians voted 54.55% in favour of charging […]
Climate Crisis
Bill Mitchell: Moving to a sustainable system of food production within a degrowth paradigm
André Gorz: “The profit-driven economy must be replaced by a decentralised, distributive economy. Only in integrated communities, “on a human scale”, can the adjustment of production to needs and of needs to resources – as […]
Fake News
Vidya Krishnan: Western coverage of Gaza: A textbook case of coloniser’s journalism
Israel’s war on Gaza has exposed the true nature and purpose of Western media. Read HERE
Geopolitics
France 24: UN top court rejects most of Ukraine’s ‘terror financing’ case against Russia
The United Nations’ top court on Wednesday (31 January 2024) mostly rejected Ukraine’s claims that Russia was financing “terrorism” in eastern Ukraine, saying only that Moscow had failed to investigate alleged breaches. Read HERE
EU politics
The Hub: Lana Bastašić’s blazing response to yet another act of German/Austrian literary censorship
It is my political and human opinion that children should not be slaughtered and that German cultural institutions should know better when it comes to genocide. Lana Bastašić Read HERE
Geopolitics
Kyle Anzalone: US to Begin Shipping Long-Range Bombs to Ukraine
Washington plans to ship its first batch of ground-launched long-range bombs to Kiev this week. The arms were designed for the Ukrainian military and will give Kiev another option for deep strikes. The new weapon […]
EU politics
France 24: Private school faux pas spells trouble for France’s new education minister
France’s new Education Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra has been accused of lying about why she enrolled her children in a private school, in a row that has overshadowed President Emmanuel Macron’s attempt to relaunch his second […]