Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Jessica Corbett is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow her on Twitter: @corbett_jessica.
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News Wednesday, July 18, 2018 World's Artificial Intelligence Experts Sign Pledge Aimed at Averting 'Dystopian Future With Robots Flying Around Killing Everybody' Thousands of artificial intelligence (AI) experts and developers have signed a pledge vowing to "neither participate in nor support the development, manufacture, trade, or use of lethal autonomous weapon," and imploring governments worldwide to work together to "create a future with strong international norms, regulations, and laws" barring so-called killer robots. Read more |
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News Wednesday, July 18, 2018 With Lurking Demand Google Be Broken Up, EU Hits Tech Giant With Record $5 Billion Antitrust Fine The European Union (EU) on Wednesday hit Google with a record-breaking €4.34 billion ($5.06 billion) antitrust fine and ordered the tech giant to make changes that will scale back its dominance of the mobile phone market. Should Google be broken up? "The answer is yes." Characterizing the move as "... Read more |
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News Tuesday, July 17, 2018 'The Dam Is Breaking,' Declare Net Neutrality Defenders After First House Republican Backs CRA "The dam is breaking, as it should," an ACLU director declared on Tuesday after Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado became the first House Republican to sign a petition to force a vote on a measure that would reinstate net neutrality protections that the GOP-controlled Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rolled back in December. Read more |
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News Tuesday, July 17, 2018 After Maria Butina Charged for Using NRA to Push Russian Agenda in US, Democrats Demand GOP Hold Gun Group, Trump Accountable As details of Russian national Maria Butina's interactions with key U.S. political figures have continued to surface since she was charged as a Russian agent on Monday for trying to use political groups including the NRA to influence American politics, some Democrats in Congress are demanding that Republicans hold accountable the gun group and President Donald Trump—whose Monday press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin has heightened concerns about Russia's influence over U.S. elections and his administration. Read more |
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News Tuesday, July 17, 2018 As Russian Maria Butina Arrested for Trying to Infiltrate NRA, Trump's Treasury Dept. Makes It Easier for "Dark Money" Groups to Hide Secret Donors As President Donald Trump's "embarrassing spectacle" of a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin exacerbated concerns about foreign interference in U.S. elections—and Russian national Maria Butina was charged with conspiracy to act as a Russian agent for trying to infiltrate right-wing American political groups including the NRA—the U.S. Treasury on Monday revealed that it will no longer require certain nonprofits, including "dark money" groups, to disclose donors on their tax returns. Read more |
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News Monday, July 16, 2018 'The Pressure Is Working': Watchdogs Welcome FCC's 'Serious Concerns' With Sinclair-Tribune Merger "The pressure is working!" declared the advocacy group Free Press, a critic of media consolidation, in response to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai's remarks on Monday that he has "serious concerns" about right-wing Sinclair Broadcast Group's proposed $3.9 billion merger with Tribune Media. Read more |
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News Monday, July 16, 2018 Tenants Accuse 'Predatory' Kushner Real Estate Firm of Exposing Families to Cancer-Causing Dust Then Forcing Them Out The family real estate firm previously headed by President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is accused of exposing families to cancer-causing dust and forcing out tenants to convert rent-stabilized units to luxury condos, according to an investigation reported by The Associated Press and $10 million lawsuit tenants planned to file on Monday. Read more |
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News Monday, July 16, 2018 'Warm Our Hearts Not Our Planet': Greenpeace Demands Climate Action From Trump and Putin As U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin came together in Helsinki, Finland on Monday for a closely watched summit, Greenpeace activists partnered with a local parish to unfurl two massive banners on the Kallio church's bell tower to call on the leaders to "warm our... Read more |
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News Friday, July 13, 2018 'Dark Money': New Documentary Offers Up-Close and 'Harrowing Portrait' of How Secret Corporate Cash Is Destroying American Democracy The PBS documentary Dark Money , which paints "a rather harrowing portrait of democracy under threat" in the years that have followed the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, opens in New York City on Friday night following its festival premiere at Sundance earlier this year. Read more |
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News Friday, July 13, 2018 With 'Carefully Calculated Strategy' to Slash Safety Net Underway, White House Claims War on Poverty 'Largely Over' Anti-poverty advocates are rejecting a new Trump administration report that ridiculously declares the "War on Poverty is largely over and a success" asin the words of Rebecca Vallas at the Center for American Progress—"part of a carefully calculated strategy to reinforce myths about the people these programs help" and "to smear these programs with a dog-whistle of welfare, in order to make them easier to cut." Read more |