From Brexit to Bannon’s failed Movement, the through‑line has always been fragmentation: dismantling the European Union into smaller, more pliable states that Washington could manage one‑by‑one. Where Bannon faltered, Heritage has stepped in — not only with slogans, but with policy machinery designed to export Trump’s nationalist agenda across the Atlantic.
‘Make Europe Great Again’ and more from a longer version of the National Security Strategy
Read More »In this next of a series of reviews of some important books published this year, I look at Branco Milanovic’s Visions of Inequality.
Visions of inequality
Elections & Lithium Mining: Why is the US Suddenly Running ‘Get Out the Vote Ads’ in Nigeria?
Last year, US-based electric vehicle company Tesla put in a bid for a contract to mine some of that Lithium, but the Nigerian government denied them. Nigeria, like most African countries, has a history of foreign powers exploiting them for their national resources while offering little value to the people of Nigeria.
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The real story behind Facebook’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week
Interestingly, some policy organizations have argued that “stripping this law away could entrench reigning tech giants because it would make it harder for smaller social media platforms with fewer content moderation resources to operate without facing costly lawsuits.”
Social media: How might it be regulated?
Another excuse for Big Tech censorship! 😡
Brad Smith says governments need to step in and set rules for the Internet giants. “Almost no technology has gone so entirely unregulated, for so long, as digital technology,” he says.
— Read on www.npr.org/2019/09/13/760478177/microsoft-president-democracy-is-at-stake-regulate-big-tech
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