Tag: the 1 percent

• Surveillance Capitalism

  June 23, 2019

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• The Self-Destruction of American Power

  June 16, 2019

  Sometime in the last two years, American hegemony died. The age of U.S. dominance was a brief, heady era, about three decades marked by two moments, each a breakdown of… more ›

• The Autonomous Economy

  June 9, 2019

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• The Coalition Out to Kill Tech as We Know It

  June 6, 2019

  Updated on June 5 at 12:39 p.m. In October 2016, then-President Barack Obama hosted a miniature version of the blowout tech conference South by Southwest, which the White House called… more ›

• Salvage Accumulation, or the Structural Effects of Capitalist Generativity

  May 29, 2019

  How is it that capitalism is at once so generative, flexible, and creative, and, simultaneously, so effective at doing certain things, such as making rich people richer? I address this… more ›

• This Is What It Takes to Be in the 1% Around the World

  May 19, 2019

  Since the financial crisis, income inequality has garnered increasing attention from economists, politicians, and journalists, and perhaps no income level has been cited more than the so-called 1 Percent. Yet… more ›

• Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s Unlikely, Untested, Unprecedented Presidential Campaign

  May 5, 2019

  As Pete Buttigieg addressed supporters off a back porch in Marshalltown, Iowa, the Devil was whispering his name. “Pete,” the Devil hissed into a microphone. “You’re sooo smart, Pete.” http://time.com/longform/pete-buttigieg-2020/ more ›

• The End of a Liberal International Order That Never Existed

  April 28, 2019

  By Michael N. Barnett Professor of International Affairs and Political Science Elliott School of International Affairs George Washington University barnett@gwu.edu https://theglobal.blog/2019/04/16/the-end-of-a-liberal-international-order-that-never-existed/ more ›

• Who owns the country? The secretive companies hoarding England’s land

  April 19, 2019

  Multi-million pound corporations with complex structures have purchased the very ground we walk on – and we are only just beginning to discover the damage it is doing to Britain.… more ›

• Weaponized against the poor

  April 13, 2019

  And with the environment increasingly weaponized against the poor, to borrow Wallace-Wells’s phrase, the sectors that rely on cheap labor will face more unrest among workers; the state will struggle… more ›