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Digital Age

Five Lessons for Journalism in the Age of Rage– & Where Lies Travel Faster Than Truth

By Karin Pettersson* STOCKHOLM, Dec 3 2019 (IPS) – The news-media industry has long lamented how the digital revolution has broken its business models. Today, a majority of digital advertising money goes to Facebook and Google, and media companies are… Continue Reading →

Digital Age, Globalization, Information & Communication, Neo-liberalism

Today’s tech industry mirrors the pre-2008 financial industry. Have we learned our lesson?

By Daniel M. Price* –  The Washington Post  Data-driven innovation from the tech industry promises to improve productivity, competitiveness and growth across the global economy. But it also poses significant risks, such as hacking, data breaches, the exploitation of personal data… Continue Reading →

Commerce, Digital Age, Economy / Finance, Politics

“MARKETS’ GROWING PROBLEM TWINS: ADVERTISING AND TRADING“

By Hazel Henderson* – ETHICAL MARKETS MEDIA Markets are ubiquitous in all human societies.  Since earliest times, when they were conducted using shells, wampum, cattle, or in rituals and potlatches, markets evolved using metal coins, silver and gold, then paper,… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Democracy, Digital Age, Economy / Finance, Information & Communication

The spy in your wallet: Credit cards have a privacy problem

Geoffrey A. Fowler* – The Washington Post In a privacy experiment, we bought one banana with the new Apple Card — and another with the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa from Chase. Here’s who tracked, mined and shared our data. I… Continue Reading →

Digital Age, Economy / Finance, Neo-liberalism

Facebook’s Libra project of a global digital currency. An assessment

BY DR. JOSEPH HUBER* “Ethical Markets shares the misgivings of so many experts, central bankers, politicians and citizens about trusting Facebook’s plan to issue its Libra currency. We have posted links to many experts’ critiques and to  C-SPAN Hearings on… Continue Reading →

Digital Age, Economy / Finance, Globalization, Neo-liberalism

The Precipitous Barbarisation of Our Times

Roberto Savio* When all is said and done, it appears that Thomas Hobbes, the 17th century English philosopher who had a dire vision of man, was not totally wrong. From the frivolous to the serious, in just a week we have… Continue Reading →

Civil rights, Civil Society, Democracy, Digital Age, Human Rights, Information & Communication, Neo-liberalism, Populism, Racism, Violence

Social Challenges and public policies in a global world

By Fernando Reyes Matta*   There are three fears that cross citizenship in different parts of the world: a) the fear of how work life will be changed by automation and robotics; b) the fear of stress in urban life, if the… Continue Reading →

Development, Digital Age, Economy / Finance, Globalization, Immigration and Refugees, Information & Communication, Multilateralism & Unilateralism

Facebook May Pose a Greater Danger Than Wall Street

By Ellen Brown* – Truthdig Payments can happen cheaply and easily without banks or credit card companies, as has already been demonstrated—not in the United States but in China. Unlike in the U.S., where numerous firms feast on fees from… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Commerce, Digital Age, Information & Communication

The World Grows More Dangerous by the Day

By François Delattre* – The New York Times My experience at the United Nations Security Council over the last five years has led me to see a harsh truth: The world is growing more dangerous and less predictable by the day.… Continue Reading →

Democracy, Digital Age, Economy / Finance, Globalization, History, Multilateralism & Unilateralism, Populism

2019 Green Transition Scoreboard® Report: “Transitioning to Science-Based Investing”

By Hazel Henderson, LaRae Long, Timothy Jack Nash Reference suggestion: Henderson, H., Long, L. and Nash, T. “Transitioning to Science-Based Investing”, 2019 Green Transition Scoreboard® Report, Ethical Markets Media, May 2019. © 2019 Ethical Markets Media, LLC This report does… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Climate Change, Democracy, Digital Age, Environment, Human Rights

The Huawei bogey

By GURSHABAD GROVER* – The Indian Express India needs to prove company aids Chinese government, or risk playing into US hands. The Trump administration has not only passed orders restricting the US government and its departments from procuring networking equipment from… Continue Reading →

Commerce, Digital Age, Economy / Finance, Information & Communication

Trump Wants to Wall Off Huawei, but the Digital World Bridles at Barriers

By David E. Sanger* – The New York Times President Trump has finally succeeded in building his wall: not the one he keeps demanding on the southwestern border, but a far more complex barrier meant to block China’s national telecommunications… Continue Reading →

Commerce, Digital Age, Economy / Finance, Globalization, Populism

Neoliberal Reforms Strengthening Monopoly Power and Abuses

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury  (*) KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, May 7 2019 (IPS) – Over the last four decades, growing concentration of market power in the hands of oligopolies, if not monopolies, has been greatly enabled by… Continue Reading →

Commerce, Digital Age, Economy / Finance, Globalization, Neo-liberalism

I’ve known Julian Assange for 10 Years. His Confinement and Arrest are a Scandal

Stefania Maurizi* –  Newsweek “Man is least himself when he talks with his own person. Give a man a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” This famous quote from Oscar Wilde resounded in my head when, wandering around… Continue Reading →

Civil rights, Democracy, Digital Age, Human Rights, Information & Communication, Intelligence

New Zealand and France to Seek Pact Blocking Extreme Online Content

By Charlotte Graham-McLay – The New York Times WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s prime minister said on Wednesday that she would meet with French leaders next month in hopes of forging an agreement between governments and technology companies aimed… Continue Reading →

Digital Age, Information & Communication, Violence

The Buried Maidan Massacre and Its Misrepresentation by the West

By Ivan Katchanovski* – Special to Consortium News The new Ukrainian government is faced with reopening an inquiry into evidence of an organized mass killing in Kiev that Poroshenko stonewalled. Ivan Katchanovski investigates. Five years ago, the Maidan massacre in Kiev,… Continue Reading →

Armed conflicts, Digital Age, Human Rights, Information & Communication, Intelligence, Populism, Violence

Why the Prosecution of Julian Assange is Troubling for Press Freedom

By Alexandra Ellerbeck and Avi Asher-Schapiro (*) NEW YORK, Apr  2019 (IPS) – After a seven-year standoff at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, British police last week arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange–a development press freedom advocates had long feared. For… Continue Reading →

Civil rights, Digital Age, Human Rights, Information & Communication, Intelligence

Assange Arrest A Warning From History

by Tyler Durden – ZeroHedge (*) – via John Pilger** The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times. Might against right. Muscle against the law. Indecency against courage. Six policemen… Continue Reading →

Democracy, Digital Age, Human Rights, Information & Communication

Assange: the Ecuadorian State acted without guaranteeing due process

By Nelsy Lizarazo* ~Pressenza, International Press Agency 12.04.2019 – Quito, Ecuador  Pressenza interviewed Javier Arcentales Illescas, Human Mobility Advisor of the Ombudsman’s Office of Ecuador, an institution that spoke today about the detention of Julian Assange, at the consulate of… Continue Reading →

Corruption, Digital Age, Human Rights, Information & Communication

Hacker, problem, stone in my shoe: why Ecuador turned on Assange

Dan Collyns* – The Guardian President Lenín Moreno made little secret of his desire to evict Assange from embassy building Ecuador’s decision to allow police to arrest Julian Assange inside its embassy on Thursday follows a fraught and acrimonious period… Continue Reading →

Democracy, Digital Age, Human Rights, Information & Communication, Intelligence

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