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Reports about African migrants dying to breathe free have become normalized, so much so that they hardly register in public consciousness, let alone prick our collective conscience. At least 65 migrants have died after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia. … The incident is thought to be one of the… Read more.
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is trending for insisting that the only way to hold it accountable is to break up its social-media monopoly. Clueless Facebook responded by insisting that it’s too successful to break up. This might sound like big banks insisting that they’re too big to fail. Except that it’s even more absurd and… Read more.
I have been warning for years about the Orwellian machinations of tech companies. I refer you to such commentaries as “Tech Companies Worse than Snowden’s Bogeyman NSA,” March 3, 2017, and “Complaints about NSA Spying Are Schizophrenic…and Misguided,” June 8, 2013. The latter includes the following: In this Information Age, tech companies like Google, Amazon,… Read more.
The New York Times – of all papers – published an anti-Semitic cartoon on April 25. It depicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dog leading US President Donald Trump as a blind man. This incited unprecedented condemnation, and rightly so. The literary allusion in my title is decidedly more flattering. But I hope… Read more.
President Trump is notoriously thin-skinned. And nothing gets under it quite like observations that he’s behaving just like his predecessor, Barack Obama. Yet there’s no denying that he’s behaving towards Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro just as Obama did towards Syrian President Bashir al-Assad. No doubt you recall Obama declaring that Assad must go: The future… Read more.
