No, CNN, Trump hasn’t denounced racism
He’s been too busy denouncing Hamilton and SNL and leveraging the presidency for profit.
Do good fences make good neighbors?
Why do we feverishly build more walls when they offer us less and less protection?
Conformist media outlets hide realities of power. Noam Chomsky has exposed them.
For many decades, the core of corporate greed and militarism has remained basically the same. So has the core of Chomsky’s message.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, September 14
15 groups account for nearly all dark money, Trump claim Democrats rigged hurricane death toll, Bezos commits fraction of $163B fortune to help homeless, and more.
Central banks have gone rogue, putting us all at risk
Central bankers are now aggressively playing the stock market. To say they are buying up the planet may be an exaggeration, but they could.
Growing my way out of dystopia
Can we stop feeling quite so helpless and hopeless in a world on the skids?
Facebook’s secret censorship rules protect white men from hate speech but not black children
A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.
Facebook is no friend to democracy
If democracy is to survive in this brave new world, mass movements of people will need to organize together to restrain these corporate behemoths and protect our digital commons.
A shiny new tool to pad profits: Stealing
One entire group being victimized by corporate thieves are the 4.3 million Americans who make up our “tipped workforce.”
Survival of the richest
Real people in the real world, those not at the top, have experienced a decade of ever greater instability, while the inequality gap of this beyond-gilded age is sure to shape a truly messy world ahead.