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| USA - The Failed State |
By Chris Hedges 2018-07-14
The two political parties are one party—the corporate party. They do not debate substantive issues. They each support the expansion of imperial wars, the bloated military budget, the dictates of global capitalism, the bailing out of Wall Street, punishing austerity measures, assaulting basic civil liberties through wholesale government surveillance and the abolition of due process, and an electoral process that has cemented into place a system of legalized bribery. They battle over cultural tropes such as abortion, gay rights and prayer in schools. We elect politicians based on how we are made to feel about them by the public relations industry. Politics is anti-politics. |
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| Silicon Valley firms are facing a rise in anger from a new source: Their own employees |
By Matt Lavietes 2018-07-13
Technology workers have lashed out at contracts their firms have won from both the military and law enforcement for drone AI and facial recognition software, as well as work for government agencies, like ICE.... There is no free speech in the private workplace. At-will employment gives companies the power to fire employees for virtually any reason aside from discrimination. |
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| An icon of Scandinavian social democracy faces drubbing |
By Amanda Billne,Rafaela Lindeber 2018-07-12
The New Legalist editor: As part of the Western capitalist world, not surprisingly, Sweden cannot escape from bearing the consequences of its allies' imperialist policies of war and domination.... |
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