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Under Cover of Mass Death, Andrew Cuomo Calls in the Billionaires to Build a High-Tech Dystopia
By Naomi Klein
May 8 2020
For a few fleeting moments...
Why ‘Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks’ Could Drive Temperatures Even Higher
New research indicates that parts of the Amazon and other tropical forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb. Some scientists are concerned...
Amazon, Google, and Apple have moved past monopoly status to competing...
28 Apr, 2020
US Senator Josh Hawley is demanding a criminal antitrust probe of Amazon as the e-commerce behemoth’s powers grow to rival the government’s...
Jeff Bezos is the planet’s richest man, and Covid-19 is making...
By Jason O’Toole, who has worked as a senior feature writer for the Irish Daily Mail, a columnist with the Irish Sunday Mirror and...
Planetary boundaries
Planetary boundaries is a concept involving Earth system processes which contain environmental boundaries, proposed in 2009 by a group of Earth system and environmental...
Don’t be evil, just OBEY: After Covid-19 tech giants will have...
By Mitchell Feierstein
11 Apr, 2020
Silicon Valley’s algorithms are controlling your cognitive map, and Congress is letting it happen. Covid-19 is providing the perfect cover...
Brazilian Indigenous Leader Davi Kopenawa: Bolsonaro Is Killing My People &...
December 04, 2019
Democracy Now! sat down with indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa, one of this year’s Right Livelihood Award honorees along with the organization he...
Backlash against holiday consumerism targets Black Friday
There is a growing movement encouraging people to shop responsibly and to consider the impact that bargain-hunting and online shopping have on the environment.
Black...
It’s not that we’ve failed to rein in Facebook and Google....
By Shoshana Zuboff
2 Jul 2019
In a BBC interview last week, Facebook’s vice-president, Nick Clegg, surprised viewers by calling for new “rules of the road”...