The Techfare state: The 'new' face of neoliberal state regulation
Eds. | mronline.org | 2021-06-18
recent article in the New York Times takes aim at 'How Big Tech Won the Pandemic', highlighting how in the last year alone, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook posted a combined revenue of more than $1.2 trillion. | June 18, 2021…
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Civil liberties group takes aim at the secret dossiers internet firms keep on all of us
Joe Glenton | thecanary.co | 2021-06-18
Civil liberties activists will sue global advertisers and social media giants who keep secret dossiers of our private information. The Irish Council For Civil Liberties (ICCL) says current rules mean firms can store and use our sensitive data. The case could have worldwide implications. | It is claimed the dossiers can include financial and mental health information, and "even whether our children have special needs". | Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Twitter are targets of the lawsuit, as well as Verizon, AT&T and the entire online advertising…
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Rumors Abound Of Chinese Vice-Premier Defecting To The U.S
Anonymous007 | southfront.org | 2021-06-18
Click to see full-size image | In recent days, there's been rumors, especially around Twitter and Chinese Anti-Communist Party media of a high-level defection from the People's Republic. | Reports are filled with rumors that a vice minister of State Security, Dong Jingwei (董经纬) defected in mid-February 2021. | He allegedly flew from Hong Kong to the United States with his daughter, Dong Yang. | t.co/qK2chSPanW via
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Rumors Abound Of Chinese Vice-Premier Defecting To The U.S
Anonymous007 | southfront.org | 2021-06-18
Click to see full-size image | In recent days, there's been rumors, especially around Twitter and Chinese Anti-Communist Party media of a high-level defection from the People's Republic. | Reports are filled with rumors that a vice minister of State Security, Dong Jingwei (董经纬) defected in mid-February 2021. | He allegedly flew from Hong Kong to the United States with his daughter, Dong Yang. | t.co/qK2chSPanW via
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6/15/21 Israel Bombs Gaza, Palestine Breaking Cease Fire
Stop US Aid to Israel | indybay.org | 2021-06-18
The 4th largest military in the world thanks to US taxpayers giving $4 billion a year above the table to the American military base, apartheid settler colony known as Israel is at this moment bombing the open air prison known as Gaza, a part of Palestine, which population of 1.7 million is 45% children, and has no military and no air raid shelters. See twitter.com/hashtag/FreePalestine?src=hashtag_click | twitter.com/hashtag/SaveGaza?src=hashtag_click…
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Mayo Clinic Q and A: Viral skin bumps that are a common occurrence in childhood
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2021-06-18
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My 7-year-old son developed a small pink bump on his arm recently. Soon we started noticing more on his back and under his arms. His pediatrician said they were called "molluscum," and we didn't have to do anything about them. But I am worried about them spreading to his little sister. What are …
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Republicans lose again: Supreme Court upholds Obamacare, 7 to 2
John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2021-06-17
WASHINGTON–The Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge by red states to Obamacare, preserving health insurance coverage for many millions of Americans. Barely able to control his delight, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain immediately tweeted: "It's still a Big F–ing Deal," referencing then-Vice President Biden's 2009 remarks when the Affordable Care Act was first …
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UK: Johnson's mendacious defence of media "freedom", while Assange remains imprisoned
wsws.org | 2021-06-17
That Johnson can tweet supposedly in defence of abused journalist Nicholas Watt while perpetrating the criminalisation of Assange speaks to the atrophying of any constituency for democratic rights within the bourgeoisie.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/17/jour-j17.html