Google’s Dominance of Online Ads is a Big Deal. Here’s How to Fix It.
Legal scholar Dina Srinivasan talks to INET’s Lynn Parramore about reining in Google and restoring fairness to a regulatory Wild West.
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Feds OK’d Export of Millions of N95 Masks as U.S. Workers Cried for More
Despite a national shortage of N95 masks, the U.S. government quietly granted an exception to its export ban on protective gear.
Read more...Republicans Offer Preview of Brutal Climate Policies in Texas
Some Republicans are not letting the crisis in Texas go to waste.
Read more...Hoist on His Own Petard? Kentucky Attorney General’s Apparent Plan to Settle Landmark Pension Case Mayberry v. KKR Likely to be Undermined by Discovery
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron may have outfoxed himself by joining a landmark case against grifting private equity moneybags.
Read more...Cold Truth: The Texas Freeze is a Catastrophe of the Free Market
Yves here. The collateral damage of the Texas power grid power failures is getting worse and worse. Extensive burst pipes now mean that 14 million (no typo) are without potable water. From the Wall Street Journal: More than 14 million people in Texas are without safe drinking water, as the fallout of a severe winter […]
Read more...Thomas Frank: YouTube Censorship and Now What’s Happening in Kansas –
Thomas Frank and Paul Jay discuss censorship by tech monopolies and changes in the political landscape of Kansas.
Read more...Pandemics Swing Elections, But Not as Much as You Think
A discussion of election outcomes, using the Spanish flu as a case study.
Read more...CDC School Reopening Guidance Suppresses Aerosols Based on Thin Evidence and Driven by Budgetary Concerns
Third strike for the CDC?
Read more...Chief GameStop Tout and Registered Representative Keith Gill, Target of Class Action Suit, at Congressional Hearings Today
The leader of the GameStop short squeeze, Keith Gill, should have anticipated that he was running legal risks as a securities professional.
Read more...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.
Read more...“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...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...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...Waste Watch: News from the U.S. and the Maldives
The Maldives and the U.S. are each grappling with managing their packaging waste; beware those who tout the EPR panacea.
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