Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 27, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump Stuns By Saying ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked Directly NBC’s Kristen Welker ‘Don’t You Need to Uphold the Constitution?’ Joe DePaolo, May 4th, 2025 [mediaite.com] A […]
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The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory […]
Large publicly traded tech companies seem to no longer consider their customers – that is, people and organizations who actually buy their products or pay for access to their services – their core focus. The focus has instead turned towards the stock price.
Their real clients, the entities they really care about, are the stockholders. Reasons are many, perhaps one of them being that people making decisions tend to own stock options or have bonuses tied to stock performance of the companies they run.
This means that for a large, established tech company the product or service it offers does not matter all that much anymore. It needs to be just barely good enough to keep people using it. The easiest way to do this is some form of a monopoly.
Monopoly is the business model of Silicon Valley, and they are not even shy about that.
Billionaires come for your molars, the feds backtrack on the Epstein files, and more from The Lever this week.
The government’s proposed new rules will allow a flood of toxic chemicals to be sold in the UK. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 23rd July 2025 It’s what the extreme right of the Tory party wanted from Brexit: to tear down crucial public protections, including those that defend us from the most brutal […]
… as long as they are healthy, well fed and well educated Much of the panic about falling birth rates can be dispelled once we realise that (barring catastrophe) there will almost certainly be more people alive in 2100 than there were in 2000. But what about the distant future? Dean Spears, co-author of After […]
In politics, things just happen. I always hope those caught in the moment make the right choices, so that good might follow. That’s the optimism I hold now. As my three colleagues and I were unexpectedly stripped of the whip last week for voting against government plans to cut Personal Independence Payments, we have to […]
I recently organized a homelessness study tour of Edmonton and Calgary for the Toronto Alliance to End Homelessness. Here’s a ‘top 10 overview of the study tour:https://nickfalvo.ca/homelessness-and-supportive-housing-in-alberta/
Hospital bills are wiped clean, writers win against chatbots, a bill beats the heat, and foreign aid is saved.
Jo Martin's Fugitive Doctor returns in 2026 for the epic Doctor Who multimedia saga Circuit Breaker, including audio dramas, books, and more.
Israel’s Parliament voted in favor of annexing the West Bank. Other Democrats interviewed by The Intercept condemned the move.
The post Israeli Parliament Votes for Making Apartheid Official. Fetterman: “I Haven’t Been Following It.” appeared first on The Intercept.
A 21-year-old writer living in Gaza documents her daily life under the U.S.–Israeli program of mass starvation.
The post “Food Has Become a Memory”: My Hunger Diary in Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.
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Exclusive: UCU staff say they have been victims of "bullying and intimidation" by management, as they ballot for another set of walkouts
Exclusively for premium subscribers, listen to David Sirota’s full conversation with Nathan Tankus about the fate of the Federal Reserve.
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If you haven’t seen this week’s season premiere of South Park, you might be forgiven...
Uber started in 2009. It incurred losses every year until 2023 except for a profit in 2019 which was due to selling subsidiaries in various countries. Numbers before the IPO are difficult to obtain, but it lost 31.5 billion from 2016 to 2022. Let’s assume a loss of equal to funding during the pre-IPO period, […]
Gather round, fellow diners, and feast your eyes upon the meal that sits before me, for I have ascended to a new level of gastronomy. As you gape in awe at my order, I welcome you with open arms as an acolyte ready to worship at the altar of my culinary majesty.
For I, your friend and newly anointed food deity, have forgone the customary side order of french fries and instead ordered a side salad.
You wonder whether the whispers of the personal trainer I often speak of factored into my decision to replace the beloved yet calorie-rich french fry with a bowl of spring mix bathed in balsamic vinaigrette. They did not. Rather, after being yelled at while sweat poured from every pore in my body for an hour straight this morning, I am more than deserving of a serious carb load. Yet willpower is a formidable tool in my belt of dietary supremacy, and, as such, this mélange of leafy greens graces my plate.
The first sitting of the assembly recommended a 'People's Charter', backed a wealth tax and an arms embargo on Israel
To understand real-world ‘non-routine’ decisions and unforeseeable changes in behaviour, ergodic probability distributions are of no avail. In a world full of genuine uncertainty — where real historical time rules the roost — the probabilities that ruled the past are not necessarily those that will rule the future. When we cannot accept that the observations, […]
AIPAC did its second poll this year on potential candidates to challenge members of Congress who have criticized Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The post Is AIPAC Testing the Waters to Primary Rep. Summer Lee? appeared first on The Intercept.