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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
June 21, 2018
An open letter to Jeff Bezos:
June 21, 2018
The Unsurpassed Power Trip By An Insuperable Control Freak by Ralph Nader
Amazon
“Google Should Not Be In The Business of War”: Understanding the Weaponization of Artificial Intelligence by Marc Eliot Stein
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Republished with permission from David Swanson at World Beyond War
by Marc Eliot Stein
World Beyond War
June 9, 2018
In early April, more than 3100 Google employees signed a letter that begins with the words “Google should not be in the business of war”. The letter is a response to the company’s participation in a new US Department of Defense artificial intelligence program called Project Maven, which it describes as a “customized AI surveillance engine” designed to interpret visual images from drones, and concludes with a powerful request from Google employees to their management:
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Chris Hedges: The Disposable Temporary Workers
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Jan 19, 2018
Jessica Bruder, Author of Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, discusses America’s footloose senior workforce.
Don’t Let the “Welfare Kings” Pick Your Pockets by Ralph Nader
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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
November 8, 2017
The political hypocrisy of crony capitalism – touting market capitalism while making taxpayers fund corporate welfare – is a rare and unfortunate case of bipartisan consensus. Republicans openly embrace it, but many Democrats also fall prey to government-guaranteed corporate capitalism when they believe it to be politically expedient.
The Destructive Power Trips of Amazon’s Boss by Ralph Nader
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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
July 6, 2017
For his smallish stature, Amazon Boss Jeff Bezos has a booming, uproarious laugh. Unleashed during workdays, its sonic burst startles people, given it comes from as harsh and driven a taskmaster as exists on the stage of corporate giantism.
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