A new book, Deaths of Despair, looks at the three leading causes of high worker mortality rates: suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholic liver disease. These three causes are particularly prevalent among workers without a university degree and those with only a high-school diploma
Thomas Klikauer
For years, journalism has been increasingly replaced by the Internet, IT, algorithms, and even AI or artificial intelligence
Just a tick over thirty years ago in 1988, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky published what became one of the most important books ever published on the media
What right-wing conspiracy theorists achieve when peddling conspiracy theories is that it decreases political engagement because people are left feeling powerless
Many workers in Amazon’s warehouse do not last long because of stress, workload, the fact that management is constantly on their backs, the evaluation process is horrid, they are written up or fired, jobs are physically abusive, etc
Aided with today’s technology, this would be a new vision and an extension of human solidarity through modern technology. Mutual Aid is what makes us human
Due to global warming, natural disasters are set to increase, and so will global warming driven conflicts over resources
The idea behind many laughable conspiracy theories is rather straight forward. They are purposefully invented and spread, even when conspiracy theorists know that they are false, to manipulate public opinion
Humanity has to convert fossil-fueled means of transportation, the distribution of goods, and logistics into planned and ecologically sustainable ways.
Every unethical step management has taken has been ideologically legitimised by business ethics, which has not only morphed into an ideology but also into a business ethics industry