ALAI this week - 8/10/2021
Choosing public good over corporate power
Once Big Tech play a determining role in public data processing, design decisions are directed by profit, rather than public good.
Bot Populi
Will the media finally learn something from its fake “Havana Syndrome” debacle?
Yet more evidence emerges that the so-called Havana Syndrome caused by a “microwave weapon” in US diplomats and intelligence personnel was a psychosomatic illness.
Branko Marcetic
How a US lawyer’s attempt to make Chevron pay for pollution landed him a jail sentence
The case is seen as an example of using litigation means to undermine rights advocacy and civil society action.
Anish R M
Love belongs to the human being’s DNA
Each being is governed by two processes: the necessity to interconnect with all the others to more easily guarantee its survival; the second is to interrelate by rare gratuitousness, creating new bonds among themselves and by affinity.
Leonardo Boff
Evergrande is not Lehman Brothers: beware the US budget extension
Stop new Washington Putsch
As finance ministers and central bank governors gather next week for the IMF-World Bank annual meetings in the US capital, the first shots of a new putsch against multilateralism have been fired. The target: Kristalina Georgieva
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Global, moral, strategic leadership is urgent says PM of Barbados
During the UN General Assembly, Mia Amor Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, made an impassioned appeal to the world’s leaders to take the multiple global crises seriously and work together for the well being of the people of the world.
Peoples Dispatch
US denounced as 'biggest peddler of financial secrecy' after Pandora Papers leak
The leak of an enormous trove of tax haven files has prompted calls for immediate changes to global rules that let the powerful hide their wealth, skirt their obligations, and starve governments of crucial revenue.
Jake Johnson
Guantanamo bay and the legacy of global “War on Terror”
The failure of the successive governments in the US to shut Gitmo in which the majority of the detainees, past and present, were never charged with any crime formally, exposes their complete disregard to human rights.
Abdul Rahman