Becoming Serfs
Aug 26, 2018 The global rich have demolished institutions that once protected the working class and dismantled our democracy to orchestrate the largest transfer of wealth upward in over a century.China Approves 13 Ivanka Trump Trademarks in 3 Months
May 28, 2018 The first daughter's company continues to win foreign trademarks in China and the Philippines, adding to questions about conflicts of interest at the White House.
U.S. Will Pay the Price for Ignorance in Trade War With China
Apr 17, 2018 Donald Trump's lack of understanding about Chinese culture—and the need to save face at all costs—increases economic risk for America.Xi Jinping Offers U.S. Possible Trade Concessions
Apr 10, 2018 China's president promises to cut auto tariffs and make other concessions aimed at defusing a dispute with Washington that investors fear could harm the global economic recovery.
TPP Is ‘Fundamentally Flawed’ and Should Be Resisted, Says U.N. Human Rights Expert
Feb 3, 2016 Alfred de Zayas, the United Nation's independent expert on the promotion of democratic and equitable international order, said the Trans-Pacific Partnership "is fundamentally flawed and should not be signed or ratified unless provision is made to guarantee the regulatory space of [s]tates."
TPP Chapter Released by WikiLeaks Would Let Governments Curtail Trials So as to Contain Information
Oct 10, 2015 What WikiLeaks claims to be the full intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership appears to give countries greater power to stop sensitive information from going public.
The Newest Phenomenon in Israeli Politics
Jan 16, 2013 Naftali Bennett, a "forty-year-old settlement leader, software entrepreneur, and ex-Army commando," is the face of Israel's new religious right, and he's ready to give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a run for his money; a woman stole a train in Sweden and crashed it into an apartment building; meanwhile, although Jodie Foster's coming out speech certainly made a statement, some LGBT activists argue she should have done so sooner. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Google’s Many Changes
Sep 26, 2011 With the simple dictum "don't be evil" as its motto, the Internet software giant Google -- which ranked as the third-highest lobbying spender in the tech industry in 2010 -- wages an aggressive image and relations campaign with an international public, and its strategy is evolving. (more)
Danny Goldberg on the Digital Music Revolution
Jun 26, 2009 Is there a social consequence to the increasing numbers of consumers who expect to get information and entertainment for nothing? Can there be too much of a good thing? "Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age” by Steve Knopper provides a useful autopsy.
