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Vice’s Vice
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Gambling is a vice, and Vice’s founder is a gambler. And then there are many other vices that are commonplace in the organization too, including groping and forced kisses. More than two dozen women have reported experiencing or witnessing sexual harassment at the company first hand. The Sexual Harassment Incidents One woman said that while she was riding a Ferris wheel at Coney Island after a company event, a co-worker suddenly took her hand and put it on his crotch. Another complained that she was fired because she rejected the sexual advances of a male colleague. A...
Stop the Blame Game: Research Shows That the US Is the Real Election Meddler, Not Russia
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Let’s be clear on one thing, although there is a lot of fuss now regarding election meddling, it is not something new, neither is it something rare. And while recently there has been a lot of unsubstantiated finger pointing at Russia for its alleged meddling in the American election, Russia is not the only country that stands accused of meddling in the elections of other countries. As a matter of fact, there is much more evidence of the West, particularly the US meddling in the elections of other countries—by way of various means including channeling funds to spread propag...
Rome Traded Freedom for Autocracy. What Will America Decide?
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“Two things only the people anxiously desire — bread and circuses.” Rome was not built in a day. And while the might of the empire pinnacled, the gulf between the rich and the poor widened. When the empire started stretching its geographical boundaries, the rulers found it cheaper to build the cities, and its infrastructure using the slaves it had acquired by conquest. As cheap labor put Roman citizens out of work, unemployment increased. And with unemployment came hunger and other problems associated with it. Crime in society increased and so did poverty and ill health....
Is It Finally Time to Quit Facebook?
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I will be honest, I have a Facebook account and just before writing this article I posted a photograph of myself on it. And even though I have often criticized it on many fronts, trying to quit it has been difficult and so far, I have failed. However, now that I am through with all my Christmas and New Year celebrations, I thought of pondering over whether it is now time to finally quit Facebook. Revelations after revelations in 2018 showed us that Facebook has the scantest of regards for our privacy. Month after month in 2018 Facebook has made it absolutely clear that it...
Teachers Leaving Jobs at Record Rate Across Country
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“It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the world, than to rule a state.” — William Ellery Channing As we step into another year, we should also look back at the year bygone and try to understand and learn the lessons that it had to teach. 2018 was a mixed-bag year, but with more disappointments than reasons to cheer. America faced many problems, however, most of them were such whose effects shall not echo far into the fut...
America Has Become a ‘No-Vacation’ Nation
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Christmas is a day of celebration, not just because of its religious importance, but also because it provides Americans a rare opportunity to break away from their otherwise mundane life and enjoy a day off with family and friends. In an otherwise Stakhanovite regime, Christmas represents a rare break. It is no secret that the American oligarchs treat workers as slaves, forcing them to work long hours and with almost no paid vacation time. Fear of repercussions, of being replaceable, and of being forced out of job is increasingly forcing Americans to let go of their vaca...
"Racial Discrimination at Facebook Is Real," Writes a Former Employee
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“Facebook has a black people problem,” says Mark Luckie, a former manager at the social network's headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Luckie joined Facebook about a year ago. “I was really excited. Facebook is an amazing company that reaches a lot of people,” he said in an interview with The Washington Post. “I didn’t plan to leave.” He saw his job at Facebook as an opportunity to make difference in the lives of black people on the influential social network. But life at Facebook was not as rosy as he had imagined. Within a year, seeing the discrimination that black...
Facebook Policy Chief Admits Hiring PR Firm to Attack George Soros
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Facebook officials on Wednesday admitted that it was involved in digging up dirt and trying show Jewish billionaire George Soros and its competitors in a poor light. This admission comes less than a week after The New York Times published an exposé on the tech giant. Last week The New York Times reported that Facebook, facing flak over allegations that the Russians used its platform to interfere in the 2016 presidential elections, hired the Republican-linked consulting firm Definers Public Affairs to divert media attention from it and to tie all anti-Facebook groups to th...
I Am Angry. Facebook Deleted My Post on Trying to Save a Dying 80,000-year-old Forest, Saying It Went Against Their Community Standards
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I wanted to tell you a story today about how a friend of mine found love on Facebook and got married. But today is not that day. Today I will tell you about the draconian ways of Facebook, about its suppression of free voice and its relentless war against democracy. Today I will share with you about my experience, in the first person, for if I were to put it in the third person, my angst at the entire incident would get lost. My angst is not at Facebook, as a concept it is fantabulous. No doubt it has brought people together. Many have found friends, family, and love on Fa...