Truthout has an interesting summary of the US “Wars Without Victory and Weapons Without End” [1]. The Korean war seems mostly a win for the US though.
The Golden Age of White Collar Crime is an informative article about the epidemic of rich criminals in the US that are protected at the highest levels [2]. This disproves the claims about gun ownership preventing crime. AFAIK no-one has shot a corporate criminal in spite of so many deserving it.
Law and Political Economy has an insightful article “Privatizing Sovereignty, Socializing Property: What Economics Doesn’t Teach You About the Corporation” [3]. It makes sense of the corporation law system.
IDR labs has a communism test, I scored 56% [4].
Vice has an interesting article about companies providing free email programs and services and then selling private data [5]. The California Consumer Privacy Act is apparently helping as companies that do business in the US can’t be sure which customers are in CA and need to comply to it for all users. Don’t trust corporations with your private data.
The Atlantic has an interesting article about Coronavirus and the Blindness of Authoritarianism [6]. The usual problem of authoritarianism but with a specific example from China. The US is only just astarting it’s experiment with authoritarianism and they are making the same mistakes.
The Atlantic has an insightful article about Coronavirus and it’s effect on China’s leadership [7]. It won’t change things much.
On The Commons has an insightful article We Now Have a Justice System Just for Corporations [8]. In the US corporations can force people into arbitration for most legal disputes, as they pay the arbitration companies the arbitration almost always gives the company the result they pay for.
Boing Boing has an interesting article about conspiracy theories [9]. Their point is that some people have conspiracy theories (meaning belief in conspiracies that is not based in fact) due to having seen real conspiracies at close range. I think this only applies to a minority of people who believe conspiracy theories, and probably only to people who believe in a very small number of conspiracies. It seems that most people who believe in conspiracy theories believe in many of them.
Douglas Rushkoff wrote a good article about rich people who are making plans to escape after they destroy the environment [10]. Includes the idea of having shock-collars for security guards to stop them going rogue.
Boing Boing has an interesting article on the Brahmin Left and the Merchant Right [11]. It has some good points about the left side of politics representing the middle class more than the working class, especially the major left wing parties that are more centrist nowadays (like Democrats in the US and Labor in Australia).
- [1] http://tinyurl.com/rpu7ol8
- [2] https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/white-collar-crime/
- [3] http://tinyurl.com/tv473gk
- [4] https://www.idrlabs.com/communism/test.php
- [5] http://tinyurl.com/vn53f4t
- [6] http://tinyurl.com/rqpn7oa
- [7] http://tinyurl.com/swenoz3
- [8] http://tinyurl.com/v5xtpvl
- [9] http://tinyurl.com/y3m68qgk
- [10] http://tinyurl.com/y395lzwd
- [11] http://tinyurl.com/y4tpy7u5