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Warren's Facebook ads

jeudi 23 mai 2019 à 02:00

Facebook blocked Senator Warren's ads that called for breaking up Facebook.

It reminds me of when Amazon remotely deleted copies of 1984: so ironic that it is hard to believe they wouldn't know better.

Arab-Jewish leftist party

jeudi 23 mai 2019 à 02:00

A subcommittee of the Knesset voted to ban an Arab-Jewish leftist party from running for election, based on its political position.

Mainstream (right-wing extremist) politicians are calling it "terrorist".

One candidate was banned for advocating a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

International trade

jeudi 23 mai 2019 à 02:00

Walden Bello, cofounder of Focus on the Global South, summarizes how the WTO arranges "the corporate capture of international trade" based on an ideology disconnected from economic facts.

He does not mention the harmful political effects of business-supremacy treaties.

Production in the West Bank

jeudi 23 mai 2019 à 02:00

A UN investigation compiled in 2013 a list of companies involved in production in Israel's colonies in Palestine's West Bank. The UN has kept the list secret, under pressure from the US.

BirthStrikers

jeudi 23 mai 2019 à 02:00

BirthStrikers — an organization of people who refuse to have children until we avoid global heating disaster.

The article's discussion of how laws and individual decisions can affect the future population is flawed. It may be true that a global one-child policy would not make the population smaller by 2100, but simply reducing the increase is a step away from disaster.

I agree that individual decisions are not enough to avoid disaster, but the conclusion from that is a reason to push for more.

I think that convincing many people not to have children is a goal we should work for. The fact that so many people report being unable to resist natalist pressure on their own shows how much room there is to make progress.

There are many other reasons not to have children.