In her new book, Don’t Be Evil, Rana Foroohar explores how companies like Google and their tech brethren stampede over all of us.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Mariana Mazzucato: What Is Economic Value, and Who Creates It?
Mariana Mazzucato takes apart conventional wisdom about how economic value is generated.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/13/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade deal, Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, impeachment, Epstein, oil, real estate, sweet potatoes, Nestlé, Samsung, Hearst, PFAS debacle, water in Maine, Poland, and Brazil, medical bots, fish antibiotics for humans, McKinsey, magic mushrooms
There is No Economics Without Politics
Debunking the pretense that the economics discipline is neutral or objective.
As NLRB Delivers ‘Victory’ to McDonald’s, Docs Reveal Fast Food Giant’s Dirty Anti-Union Tactics
McDonald’s does not play nice.
Tories Rout Labour; Corbyn to Depart; SNP Also Wins Big, Setting Up Long-Term Dissolution Struggle
A big win for the Tories does not bode well for UK citizens.
In the Shadow of Impeachment, Neoliberal Democrats Hand Trump a Victory With USMCA (“NAFTA 2.0”)
By Thomas Neuburger. Originally published at DownWithTyranny! Donald Trump discussing the new NAFTA trade deal (source) If Trump gets re-elected, if Big Tech continues to evade accountability, if imperial adventures continue abroad, if migrant farmworkers cannot feed their families, you can trace it back to this Tuesday, and the actions a House Speaker took while […]
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/12/2019
Today’s Water Cooler, including Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, Indivisible scorecard methodology, debate schedule, impeachment, diamonds, rail traffic, Amazon, GoDaddy, Sinclair Broadcasting. carbon taxes, Extinction Rebellion, climate and individual actions, the cost of union-busting, acid in Silicon Valley, pr0n, next year’s color
‘Hurricane Truthers’: Bonkers Conspiracies Are Putting Lives in Danger
First ant-vaxxers, now hurricane skeptics……
UK Election Day Is Here
General election day in the UK! If you are eligible, please be sure to vote!
Climate Migration Frightens… Climate Poverty Is Frightening!
Taking a stab at how climate change pressures will increase poverty and migration.
Tesla’s Cybertruck Dead Last In Truck Survey
Only non-truck owners are keen about Tesla’s “cybertruck”.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/11/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Bloomberg, Sanders, Warren, impeachment, voting machines, “economic anxiety,” Michelle Obama, root networks, ecocide, the deep sea, strikes highest since the 1980s, Internet of Sh*t
