"Surveillance capitalism, run as the code for everyday life, erases both free will and free markets."

Novelist Zadie Smith rejects the prison of identity. "If I didn’t take a chance I’d only ever be able to write novels about mixed-race girls growing up in Willesden.”

By the same token she also rejects the idea that "cultural appropriation" is wrong.

Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian man who was trying to distribute court documents to a house in the Palestinian city of Hebron.

The fanatical Israelis who forcibly set up a colony in the center of Hebron, and kicked all Palestinians out of the neighborhood, are trying to take one Palestinian house by fraud. This fraud was blocked by an Israeli court. The courier was distributing court documents to that house, perhaps from the same Israeli court.

I can't see the video — I cannot play videos from dailmotion.com due to its Javascript code — but it would not surprise me if his killing had to do with the documents he was carrying.

This isn't the first time Israeli soldiers have blocked medical aid workers from treating Palestinians they have shot.

The euro zone rules are pushing already-battered Italy into recession.

The way to get out of a recession is well known: deficit spending. Since the euro zone does not allow that, it functions as a trap that imposes neoliberalism on every country in it.

The economists that designed it knew this in advance.

Sanders and Warren are proposing bills to curb the cost of prescription drugs in the US.