Facebook Bans News in Australia to Avoid Paying Charges
Facebook shuts off news and important information in Australia to bullly the government into dropping a bill requiring it to share revenue.
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“Almost Cartoonish Defender of the 1%, Kathryn Wylde” Rears Her Head to Attack Plans to Tax the Rich to Save New York City
The usual suspects, like Kathryn Wylde, try to defend why the top wealthy, who’ve made out like bandits under Covid, should not be made to share.
Read more...Links 2/17/2021
James Galbraith: CBO Not Competent to Assess Economics of Minimum Wage
James Galbraith slams an “unreliable” CBO report claiming that raising the minimum wage would reduce jobs.
Read more...Global Coup d’État: Mapping the Corporate Takeover of Global Governance
Why you should be very, very worried when our supposed betters start talking up the newest neoliberal Trojan horse, global governance.
Read more...‘The Mauritanian’ Rekindles Debate Over Gitmo Detainees’ Torture – With 40 Still Held There
A new movie puts the hot lights on America’s abuse of law and routinized torture at Gitmo.
Read more...Family Caregivers, Routinely Left Off Vaccine Lists, Worry What Would Happen ‘If I Get Sick’
Caregivers already have it rough. Worries about getting Covid only make matters worse.
Read more...Links 2/16/2021
Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Four: Uber Loses Another $6.8 Billion
Even as Uber throws more business ballast over the side to try lighten the ship, it still continues to sink.
Read more...The Non-Profit Industrial Complex Stands in the Way of Direct Aid
How non-profit organizations are too often about the career advancement of their staff, and what marginalized communities can do about that.
Read more...Black Lives Matter Inland Empire Announces Break With BLM Global Network: Calls Out Lack of Transparency, Democratic Party Control
A Black Lives Matter group calls out the organization’s embrace of capitalism, self-promotion, and the Democratic Party.
Read more...‘Fire DeJoy Before He Burns Down USPS’: Postmaster General Pushes Plan for Slower Mail, Higher Prices
The planned demolition of the USPS continues. Can it be stopped?
Read more...Links 2/13/2021
Working From Home: Too Much of a Good Thing
Why and how much the working from home trend is likely to be unwound post Covid (assuming a post Covid).
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Trumpism after Trump – NEWSWEEK Magazine, Interviewed by Basit Mahmood
Varoufakis believes Biden Administration fecklessness and love of austerity will strengthen the Trump faction.
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