technology

TikTok – Trump’s anti-China tech war is a protection racket for U.S. capital

August 7, 2020 By Ian Goodrum

Microsoft or some other oligarch gets one of the world’s top social media sites for peanuts, and a Chinese competitor gets choked out of the U.S. entirely. It’s a protection racket on an international scale.

Out of bounds: How media monopolies keep radical ideas off the agenda

July 16, 2020

The solution to bad media is not no media; it’s a genuine revolutionary media that focuses on truth and how it affects the working people, and what we can do about it.

Public Tools for Public Schools: Stopping tech giants’ online education takeover

June 29, 2020 By Jeffrey Elkner

The tech oligarchs are about to get a lot richer, and you and I are going to pay for it.

AT&T job cuts loom over bargaining with Communications Workers

February 19, 2020 By PAI

Since the GOP's tax cuts for corporations passed, AT&T has fired 37,800 workers.

Predictive analytics: How capitalism’s “knowledge economy” profiles us all

January 29, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Into the fiscal crisis step for-profit education companies offering a mixture of devious dispossession, futuristic technology, and high-pressure sales pitches.