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BOOKS: ‘Capitalism Is Dead. Now We Have Something Much Worse’ | Carole Cadwalladr
In his new book, Technofeudalism, the maverick Greek economist says we are witnessing an epochal shift. At his island home of Aegina, he argues it’s no longer the global finance system that shapes ...
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Our Digital Twins Will Help Diagnose And Treat Diseases | Thomas Gull, University of Zurich
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Thomas Gull -- University of Zurich Sept. 22, 2023 Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the world of medicine. In the future, we will be able to create ...
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Falling Solar Power And Storage Prices Make Global Climate Transition Cheaper Than Expected | Ulrich von Lampe
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Ulrich von Lampe -- Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Sept. 22, 2023 In just the past 10 years, the cost of electricity from solar ...
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European Cities Boycott Apartheid Israel | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudWho Said BDS Has ‘Already Failed?' Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 4, 2023 A succession of events starting in Barcelona, Spain, in February, and followed in Liège, Belgium, and ...
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No Respite from the Slow-Motion US-China Collision | Nouriel Roubini
Despite U.S. efforts to de-escalate tensions with China and Chinese officials’ wariness of economic decoupling, attempting to restore trust between the two powers seems futile. In this increasingly ...
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Winners and Losers in Sudan | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudOn Proxy Wars and Superpower Rivalries in the Global South Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 2, 2023 The world is changing. In fact, it has been undergoing seismic change that ...
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The Post-Human Desert | Slavoj Žižek
Image portraying artificial intelligence. Public domain Unlike past technological innovations, artificial intelligence is not about humanity’s mastery over nature, but rather about relinquishing ...
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Tax the Rich to Save the Planet | Owen Gaffney
Full disk view of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, ...
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ChatGDP: How We End Poverty | Francis Goodwin
Francis Goodwin asks ChatGPT: "How do we end poverty?" ChatGPT: As an AI language model, I do not have personal beliefs or opinions. However, according to the United Nations, ending poverty requires ...
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The Techno-Feudal Method to Musk’s Twitter Madness | Yanis Varoufakis
Elon Musk/Twitter. Source: El Portaculo. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Immediately after taking over Twitter and pronouncing himself Chief Twit, Elon Musk affirmed his ...
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Wars Aren’t Won with Peacetime Economies | Joseph E. Stiglitz
pexels.comSince launching his war of aggression in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has described his barbaric project as a confrontation with the entire West. But while Western governments ...
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