Review: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff

"Zuboff, a professor emerita from Harvard Business School known for her research on information technology in the workplace, set a monumental task for herself," writes Sam DiBella, London School of Economics (Jan. 15th, 2020)

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While the US and Iran risk a major war, Trump continues his ignorant recklessness

"President Donald Trump’s policy toward Iran is in deep crisis. The president’s approach has the support neither of America’s allies nor of its strategic rivals, China and Russia. And his policy – made even more confrontational by the shooting of a high-ranking Iranian official – has boxed him into a situation where, short of dramatic reversal, Washington and Tehran are edging close to war," writes Klaus W. Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Jan. 8th, 2020)

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VIDEO: I was involved in selling the fake reasons for the Iraq War. I’m seeing the same thing with Iran (6 minutes)

"I watched as the intelligence was cooked, as principals in the George W. Bush government were sold by that intelligence or helped to warp that intelligence... I’m watching the same thing again," says Lawrence Wilkerson, retired United States Army colonel, who served as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff from 2002 to 2005 (Jan. 8th, 2020)

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Andrew Bacevich – The last three decades of American foreign policy have been a colossal failure (Essay)

"Thirty years later, perhaps it’s time to assess just how well the United States has fulfilled the expectations President Bush articulated in 1990. Personally, I would rate the results somewhere between deeply disappointing and flat-out abysmal," writes Andrew Bacevich, Boston University, President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (Jan. 8th, 2020)

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The Dark Side of Plant-Based Food: Money matters more than you think

"If you were to believe newspapers and dietary advice leaflets, you’d probably think that doctors and nutritionists are the people guiding us through the thicket of what to believe when it comes to food," write Martin Cohen, University of Hertfordshire and Frédéric Leroy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Dec. 11th, 2019)

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