Jeff Bezos

The New American | As we transition from an industrial economy to a post-industrial economy, the new robber barons are repositioning themselves.

One of the great unexamined questions of our times is why there is so much suffering, despair, misery and rage in the midst of unimaginable wealth. Naturally, pundits and politicians wish to avoid this question because an open public discussion of the widening wealth gap can impart critical insights into the nature and logic of […]
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In the last three months, tech giants have censored political speech and journalism to manipulate U.S. politics, while liberals, with virtual unanimity, have cheered. By Glenn Greenwald | January 12, 2021 Critics of Silicon Valley censorship for years heard the same refrain: tech platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter are private corporations and can host […]

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John Steppling “it’s the proper morning to fly into Hell.” Arthur Miller (The Crucible) “One of the greatest delusions of the average man is to forget that life is death’s prisoner.” Emil Cioran (On the Heights of Despair) Increasingly, I think, the American public operates in a mild dissociative state. I wrote about it here. …

It announced the figure in the middle of a public relations statement detailing the measures it was taking to try to keep its employees safe from the virus. The company presented itself as a proactive and responsible business. “As part of this commitment, we’ve decided to publicly share the COVID-19 infection rates among Amazon front-line employees—something few if any companies and no other major retailers have done,” noted its blog post.

A new report from advocacy group Public Citizen details how retail giant Amazon “misled the public, law enforcement, and policymakers about price increases during the pandemic,” raising their prices on essential products “to levels that would be considered violations of price gouging laws in many states.” The prices of many products in high demand during the pandemic jumped by over 1,000 percent when compared to this time last year.

Besides the admission that Trump knew coronavirus was deadly yet he deliberately downplayed the outbreak, Bob Woodward has made several other startling revelations in his book Rage set to be released on September 15.

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For the first time in history, the 12 richest individuals in the United States collectively hold over $1 trillion in wealth.