Tag Archive: Tech

In California, We Need to Fight Fire With Fire

Released for Syndication: 09/14/2020

Western capitalist approaches have created dangerous conditions in California, but Indigenous communities have managed fire as a natural part of the ecosystem.

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Polling Place Bottleneck Delays Could Begin Soon After They Open, Election Logistics Experts Warn

Released for Syndication: 09/03/2020

During the busiest periods, the process will slow due to COVID-19’s constraints.

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Florida’s Eight Biggest Counties Will Save Digital Ballot Images If There’s a Presidential Recount

Released for Syndication: 09/01/2020

A legal stipulation preserves the images, which could become evidence proving who won the presidential election in a major battleground state.

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Facebook’s Business Model Thrives on the Virality of Hate

Released for Syndication: 08/31/2020

The problem of hate news is built into the genes of big digital monopolies like Facebook. We need to break up these monopolies and regulate them as the new public utilities of the digital age.

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Why U.S. Political Scientists Are Arguing That Evo Morales Should Be the President of Bolivia

Released for Syndication: 08/28/2020

Three political scientists from the United States closely studied allegations of fraud in the Bolivian election of 2019 and found that there was no...

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Why Courts Across the World Are Ruling That the Gig Economy Is Paving the Road to Serfdom

Released for Syndication: 08/21/2020

Companies have consistently sought to deny their workers traditional benefits via labor law loopholes that the courts are rapidly closing.

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Will There Ever Be Elections Again in Bolivia?

Released for Syndication: 08/18/2020

On November 10, 2019, President Evo Morales Ayma of Bolivia announced his resignation from the presidency. Morales had been elected in 2014 to a...

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Why 5G Is the First Stage of a Tech War Between the U.S. and China

Released for Syndication: 08/12/2020

The U.S. tech war on China continues, banning Chinese equipment from its network, and asking its Five Eyes partners and NATO allies to follow...

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Why Taiwan Is at the Heart of a Geopolitical Struggle to Produce Cutting-Edge Computer Chips

Released for Syndication: 08/06/2020

Geopolitical contests between the U.S. and China hinge on technology more than the ability to deploy a gunboat somewhere; Taiwan could resemble a prototype for a tech proxy war.

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‘We Will Coup Whoever We Want’: Elon Musk and the Overthrow of Democracy in Bolivia

Released for Syndication: 07/28/2020

On July 24, 2020, Tesla’s Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that a second U.S. “government stimulus package is not in the best interests of...

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