Capitalism & Neo-Colonialism

Both the police crackdowns at Columbia University and elsewhere, and the propaganda that enabled it resembled scenes from an authoritarian foreign country. So we wrote about them as if they were.

One does not need to be a fortune-teller to understand that the Israel-US game plan for Gaza runs something like this: 1. In public, Biden appears “tough”

Libertarians argue that capitalism is superior to socialism because in capitalism anyone is free to do anything — including start a worker cooperative. In truth, capitalism constrains our options, while socialism can liberate us to live as we please.

Exaggerating the harms of inflation doesn’t help working people.

Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs both want the same land. And a compromise has proven difficult to find.

AI could even out the playing field in recruitment – except that it’s trained by humans.

Protesters believe they cannot change Hamas, but they might be able to change their own government.

And also takes the opportunity to bad-mouth Tesla’s self-driving AI.

Myth-busting documentary finally breaks the stranglehold of Israel and its western media acolytes over the story of what happened on 7 October

Myth-busting documentary finally breaks the stranglehold of Israel and its western media acolytes over the story of what happened on 7 October.

An investigation into Bill Gates’s philanthropic interventions questions the efficacy of his work and asks what gives him the legitimacy to intervene in public policy. It argues that we have become too accepting of his wealth and influence, and we must instead challenge his power.

Transparency, or the appearance of it, is the technology’s new norm.

Not every thing the company says is completely candid.

Some people think machine intelligence will transform humanity for the better. Others fear it may destroy us. Who will decide our fate?

In his new book, economist Yanis Varoufakis argues that we’re living under a new form of feudalism.

The daily grind of non-playable characters offers a clever critique of capitalism’s ‘infinite loop of labour performance’

A Kibbutz Be’eri official said the New York Times's story of sexual violence against two girls is “not true”: “They were not sexually abused.”

Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman's company has sparked a moral debate in Silicon Valley about closed-source versus open-source AI models.

FTC says it's fighting in the public's corner

American humorist and writer Mark Twain is believed to have once said, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

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