The US government has dashed the hopes of companies eager to use drones to deliver packages by unveiling new draft rules stating that drone pilots must always be able to see the unmanned aircraft, and that they cannot fly over populated areas. The ruling comes as a particular blow to Amazon, which had hoped to …
Recently there was a reference to the current trade negotiations in the New York Times, which reported: “In an op-ed article in The Washington Post on Thursday, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, who enjoys strong backing with the party’s most liberal members, argued that the Trans-Pacific Partnership would undermine American sovereignty by allowing foreign …
United for a Fair Economy has released an annual report, entitled “Underbanked and Overcharged”, that examines the racial aspects of the American unbanked and underbanked crisis. 56.7 million adults are currently unbanked or underbanked, disproportionately Blacks and Latinos, and they collectively spend $103 billion per year on fees and services to predatory lenders like check …
“Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind”. Albert Einstein It was nationalism that was a major cause of the First World War and the Second one, too, although the nationalism was a trifle one-sided in that case. There are many good things about living in the US, but the nationalism of a certain …
Following the lively discussion yesterday between Owen and Ezra I would like to return to the issue of “neoliberalism”. The best way to do this is to quote a review by Eugene McCarreher of a book by Philp Mirowski called How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown, (Verso, $29.95) In the neoliberal imagination, the human person is …
