Tag: Crime
Can new leadership rescue Twitter & CNN?
Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey has resigned his position at Twitter and will be leaving the board in the coming months. CTO Parag Agrawal is preparing to take his place at the helm of the social media giant. Meanwhile, CNN continues to struggle for relevance amid hemorrhaging viewership as right-wing media outlet FOX and Newsmax appear to overtake the “most trusted name in news” in popularity. …
Twilight of truckers: Drone tech to sacrifice 3.5 million jobs on altar of profit (Full show)
Faran Fronczak compares the precarious and exploited position of today’s truckers with the job security and expectation of a dignified retirement enjoyed by truckers generations ago. Fortune 500 companies have paid lobbyists millions to keep Congress from raising wages and improving life for the country’s innumerable professional truckers …
China to NATO: why should we listen to you? (Full Show)
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is urging Beijing to join NATO-led talks on missile restriction. He complains that China is increasing its nuclear capability at a breakneck pace and “without any limitation or constraint.” While still dwarfed by the arsenals of US and Russia, China has responded with bluster and pointed out NATO’s hypocrisy and double standards on nuclear proliferation. …
How elite US institutions created Afghanistan’s neoliberal President Ashraf Ghani, who stole $169 million from his country
Before he stole $169 million and fled his failed state in disgrace, Afghanistan’s puppet President Ashraf Ghani was formed in elite American universities, given US citizenship, trained in neoliberal economics by the World Bank, glorified in the media as an “incorruptible” technocrat, coached by powerful DC think tanks like the Atlantic Council, and given awards for his book “Fixing Failed States.” …
