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Bust 'Em All: De-Monopolize Tech, Telecoms And Entertainment
By Cory Doctorow/The Electronic Frontier Foundation
The early 1980s were a period of tremendous foment and excitement for tech. In the four years between 1980 and 1984, Americans met:
* The Vic-20 (1980)
* The Commodore 64 (1981)
* The IBM PC (1982)
* The PC-compatible ROM (1984)
But no matter how exciting things were in Silicon Valley during those years, even more seismic changes were afoot in Washington, D.C., where a jurist named Robert Bork found the ear of President Reagan and a coterie of elite legal insiders and began to fundamentally reshape U.S. antitrust law.
Posted on September 29, 2020
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Bust 'Em All: De-Monopolize Tech, Telecoms And Entertainment
By Cory Doctorow/The Electronic Frontier Foundation
In boolean terms, trustbusting tech, entertainment, and cable is an AND operation, not a XOR operation.Posted on September 29, 2020
Europe Picks Top Judges Way Better Than U.S.
By David Orentlicher/The Conversation
Bipartisan approval creates ideologically balanced high courts.Posted on September 28, 2020
President Trump Has 3,400 Conflicts Of Interest
By Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
Averaging more than two conflicts of interest per day, Trump continues to be the most corrupt president in history.Posted on September 24, 2020
Ignoring U.S. War Crimes In Yemen
By Andrea Prasow/Human Rights Watch
The State Department warned for years that the U.S. was complicit in war crimes in Yemen. No one put a stop to it.Posted on September 23, 2020
When Bigotry Masquerades As Choice
By Andre Perry/The Hechinger Report
"Choice" has always been a term a racist can love.Posted on September 16, 2020
Really, COPA? Vaunted Police Video Policy Not Working
By The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General
Supposed to publicly release video and audio files and certain police documents related to use-of-force incidents within 60 days of the incident. Not compliant.Posted on September 15, 2020
Busted: Chicago Police Oversight Agency Improperly Closing Investigations
By The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General
Agency improperly disposing of police misconduct allegations.Posted on September 12, 2020
Why Mocking The Marines At Belleau Wood Is A Blood Libel
By David Rutter
They likely saved France that month in 1918. They might have saved Western civilization, at least until they had to do it all again with Adolf Hitler. All they had to do was what we always ask of them. Be our heroes, and die.Posted on September 9, 2020
Are CEOs Worth $20 Million?
By Dean Baker/Center for Economic and Policy Research
I don't mean are they worth $20 million in any moral sense. I am asking a simple economics question; does the typical CEO of a major company add $20 million of value to the company that employs them or could they hire someone at, say one-tenth of this price ($2 million a year) who would do just as much for the company's bottom line?Posted on September 7, 2020
Companies Flagrantly Flout Labor Department Rules To Report Workplace Injuries
By Jennifer Gollan and Melissa Lewis/Reveal
Chicago-based McDonald's and Boeing among them.Posted on September 1, 2020
Patronizing Evil: The Nonprofit Sector Perpetuates The Worst Legacies Of Capitalism
By Alexi Jenkins/Common Dreams
The nonprofit and for-profit sectors operate in tandem in the furtherance of the brutal concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, at the expense of the many.Posted on August 30, 2020
How The World's Billionaires Are Cashing In On COVID-19
By Carl Rhodes/Common Dreams
Oxfam calls it "pandemic profiteering."Posted on August 27, 2020
A Guide To The Sleazy Tactics Used By Union-Busting Law Firms
By John Logan/The Conversation
Let's just say they occupy the "gray area" of labor law.Posted on August 24, 2020
Politics Slows Flow Of U.S. Pandemic Relief Funds To Public Health Agencies
By Lauren Weber, Hannah Recht and Laura Ungar/Kaiser Health News and Michelle R. Smith/AP
Since the pandemic began, Congress has set aside trillions of dollars to ease the crisis. A joint KHN and Associated Press investigation finds that many communities with big outbreaks have spent little of that federal money on local public health departments.Posted on August 20, 2020
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