The Daily Shaarli
August 12, 2021
One of the key components of U.S.-China strategic competition is the technology war, the essence and implications of which can be further understood in the in the broader context of the international division of labor and the two countries’ internal contradictions. From this front, we can decipher the antagonism between different classes/groups within and across the two countries. The capitalist world-economy under declining U.S. hegemony is facing a fundamental dilemma that will not be settled any time soon.
The rebranded “digital bolívar” will wipe out six zeroes from the current “sovereign bolívar” and enter circulation on October 1.
But even more to the point, just 100 companies have been the source of more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988, according to a new report. It’s big capital that is the polluter even more than the very rich.
In 2020, one in four women and one in six men reported having experienced inappropriate sexualized behaviours in their workplace during the previous year. Additionally, one in ten women experienced workplace discrimination based on gender, gender identity or sexual orientation, compared with less than one in twenty men.