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US Big Tech corporations are feudal landlords. Silicon Valley monopolies own digital land the global economy is built on, charging higher rents to use privatized infrastructure.

Cybersecurity has become a central element in Venezuela, in a context where computer attacks have not ceased since the presidential elections.

Prabhat Patnaik | The French economist J B Say had believed that there could never be a problem of aggregate demand in any economy, that whatever was produced was ipso facto demanded.

The Breach | For everyone from Donald Trump to the United Nations, Canada’s system is seen as a highly effective way to control and manage migration for the needs of the corporate class

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) of 32 Western countries has formally declared its security interests to be global, despite its title and founding mandate as a transatlantic security alliance. The 75th anniversary summit held in Washington (10 July) conceptualised its security as a “360-degree approach,” indispensable and essential.

The Tricontinental | Fascism is an insufficient term, as it denies the intimacy between liberal and far right forces. In this week’s newsletter, we present ten theses to understand this ‘intimate embrace’ and the rise of this far right of a special type.

The Tricontinental | This dossier presents a broad overview of the Latin American far right’s political, economic, and cultural programmes and how the absence of a real left political project that secures better living conditions has thrown different fractions of the working class into the grip of neofascism.

The overthrow of the Sheikh Hasina’s dictatorial government in Bangladesh by students and the populace last week is a startling outcome of the economic nightmare that many so-called developing economies are experiencing now: stagnant trade, rising debt interest costs and severe austerity being imposed by the IMF and private capital in return for ‘financial aid’.

Orinoco Tribune | Jiménez also said in her report that when analyzing the source of the attacks against platforms in Venezuela, the leading country from which they were launched was the United States.

The Conversation | It happens in journalism and it happens in the arts. But in Congress – where just 2% of representatives held blue-collar or service-industry jobs before entering politics – it’s rampant.

Paris Marx | More competition won’t be enough to dismantle Silicon Valley’s power

Without the foregrounding of root causes, utilitarian piecemeal attempts at improvements to a weakened, degraded system are destined to failure. If decisive action is not taken against the privatizers and their enablers in government, then we are in grave danger of losing a vitally important part of what defines us as a decent society: a system in which one and all have access to quality health care.

The Maple | The tight labour market only appears as such because our standard measures of unemployment and job vacancies fail to capture reality.

National Lawyers Guild electoral observers praise fairness, transparency of Venezuelan election process; condemn the U.S. backed opposition’s refusal to accept the outcome of democratic election.

Tribune | Rachel Reeves’ plans to slash public spending and investment on the basis that Britain is ‘broke’ is a rehash of the exact rhetoric that gave us 14 years of Tory austerity.

Tribune | The Labour Party reportedly agreed not to introduce media reforms in exchange for Rupert Murdoch’s backing — ensuring that the corrosive role that media elites play in our country will continue with impunity under a Starmer government.

Venezuelanalysis | The Venezuelan president secured a third term while the US-backed opposition has not recognized the results.

Canadian Dimension | The financialization of housing is a result of policy choices made by successive federal and provincial governments over decades. The Federal Housing Advocate points to three major policy drivers: the retreat of the welfare state in Canada; the removal of rent control and tenant protections; and financial liberalization and deregulation.

Canadian Dimension | Here’s how bad things have gotten in Canada’s troubled newspaper industry: one bankrupt chain is now being taken over by a chain that is effectively bankrupt. Believe it or not, there is a high-finance method to this madness, but as CD media columnist Marc Edge explains, it takes a vulture capitalist mindset to wrap your brain around it.