By Brian Mier, reporting from Recife, Brazil Millions of Brazilians woke up on August 31 in a country without X, after the Supreme Court ordered the national telecommunications agency to block the social media platform. This move culminated over a year of X’s refusal to follow Brazil’s telecommunications laws, particularly those requiring deplatforming of suspects in internet crime investigations. In ...
By Rodolfo Treber, Buenos Aires, Argentina* In Argentina, the government of Javier Milei is implementing a series of delirious political measures that cannot be explained in any way from the logic of national interest, nor from any economic theory, no matter how liberal and absurd the latter may be. Price liberalization, subsidy removal, devaluation of the local currency, indiscriminate opening ...
Elon Musk is unquestionably the most talked-about entrepreneur and businessman today, marking even world politics. The influence of businessmen and wealth holders on political power is a phenomenon that dates back to the earliest ages of history. Not going too far back, just mentioning names like Rockefeller, Rothschild and Ford would be sufficient. Their counterparts in Europe can be added ...
By Ljubodrag Simonovic, Belgrade / Serbia * Historically, capitalism, through its propaganda machinery, has created “legendary” personalities who serve as a symbol of its “developmental power”. Today, it is Elon Musk. The ruling media have created a myth out of him, to create an impression that developmental powers of capitalism are unlimited. The “genius visionary” Musk is the one who ...
Throw any understanding of economic class out the window, cross the political views of a stoned hippie with those of a strange hipster, and Elon Musk seems like a successful businessman who is out to do good in the world. After all, the trendy now-richest-man-in-the-world called himself a socialist on Twitter. He’s capitalist #1 who claims he is “cash poor” ...