Private Prisons Are Profiting From Harsher Sentencing Laws (jacobin.com)
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Private Equity–Backed Firm Bowlero Is Ruining Bowling (jacobin.com)
For the most part, Bowlero doesn’t build its own centers. Instead, it purchases existing ones and makes them over in the Bowlero style: dim lights, loud music, expensive cocktails. At Bowleros, bowling isn’t bowling. It’s “upscale entertainment.”...
Private Equity–Backed Firm Bowlero Is Ruining Bowling (jacobin.com)
Joe Biden Is Shipping Weapons to Israel Every 36 Hours (jacobin.com)
Video Game Execs Are Ruining Video Games ["introduction of layoffs to boost (company) share prices"] (jacobin.com)
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Never Ended (jacobin.com)
Israel was founded with the Nakba, a series of atrocities that ethnically cleansed Palestinians from their homeland. Today we are witnessing Israel engage in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza on an even larger, more violent scale....
Israel Rejected a Cease-Fire. The Media Isn’t Telling Us. (jacobin.com)
Can a Major Antitrust Case Rein in Apple? (jacobin.com)
Last month, the Justice Department charged tech giant Apple with serious antitrust violations related to the iPhone. It’s a relatively aggressive suit — but likely an inadequate response to Apple’s outsize power.
Hungary’s Support for Israel Exposes Its Fake Pacifism (jacobin.com)
Far-right Hungarian premier Viktor Orbán has claimed that his refusal to help Ukraine is a “pro-peace position.” Yet Hungary is also the only EU state that openly backs an Israeli attack on Rafah — showing the hypocrisy of Orbán’s supposed pacifism....
Your Car Is Spying on You for Insurance Companies (jacobin.com)
It turns out that the “Internet of Things” is full of automated snoops and spies. Data collection, now integrated into new car designs, is more pervasive than ever and is ushering in a brave new world of surveillance and corporate collusion.
Gustavo Petro Wants to End the War on Drugs (jacobin.com)
Shawn Fain: Workers Deserve More Time for Themselves (jacobin.com)
The Obscene US Profiteering From Israeli War and Occupation (jacobin.com)
It’s not just the defense industry — plenty of US-based corporations do business with Israel and are complicit in its violation of Palestinian human rights in Gaza and beyond. Here are some of the worst offenders.
Tech Titans Are the Robber Barons of Our Gilded Age (jacobin.com)
Tech Titans Are the Robber Barons of Our Gilded Age (jacobin.com)
Apple’s battle with Epic is a reminder that today’s tech companies behave like 19th-century monopolists. Installing democratic control over these modern throwbacks to Gilded Age robber barons is the only way to curb their power.
Forty Years Later, the Miners’ Strike Leaves Bitter Memories (jacobin.com)
The Starbucks Workers’ Union Has Finally Broken Through (jacobin.com)
El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele Committed Blatant Election Fraud (jacobin.com)
This month, incumbent Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele seemed poised to easily win reelection and sweep the legislature with his New Ideas party. But when his legislative supermajority appeared in doubt, Bukele and his supporters resorted to outright fraud....
Are We Transitioning From Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom? (jacobin.com)
Are We Transitioning From Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom?::The idea that we are entering an era of techno-feudalism that will be worse than capitalism is chilling and controversial. We asked former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to elucidate this idea, explain how we got here, and map out some alternatives.
Are We Transitioning From Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom? (jacobin.com)
The idea that we are entering an era of techno-feudalism that will be worse than capitalism is chilling and controversial. We asked former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to elucidate this idea, explain how we got here, and map out some alternatives.
Colombia’s Right Is Trying to “Soft Coup” Gustavo Petro (jacobin.com)
Migrant Caravans Are Challenging an Oppressive Border Regime (jacobin.com)
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France’s Elites Are Turning Their Backs on Public Education (jacobin.com)
The Chicago Teachers Union Has Called for a Cease-Fire in Gaza (jacobin.com)
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