Political poetry from Skip Tenczar
Oh my dear frightened Senator Graham. He’s real worried he might get in a jam. So he sits home eating trifle, With his trusty assault rifle, If his doorbell rings, Lindsey yells scram! Part one: Jonathan Guyer The American Prospect Thinker, Tanker, Scholar, Consultant. Bio: Jonathan Guyer is managing editor of The American Prospect. He has written for Foreign Policy, The New Yorker, Harper's, Le Monde diplomatique, and Rolling Stone. A former fellow of Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, he is writing a book about political cartoons and comics in the Middle East. We discuss what seems to be a common pattern in Washington. Every former policymaker in Washington is an academic, a researcher, or an adviser to big business. Although most of those individuals are not classified as lobbyists, they are not transparent about what they actually do: they advise on policy, and, in effect, are selling access to power, and looking forward to doing so after they leave their government jobs. Links: https://prospect.org/power/biden-adviser-jake-sullivan-think-tanker-scholar-consultant/ Part two: We have a conversation with Matt Stoller about corporate monopoly power. This includes tech companies, and the effects of their activities on all aspects of commerce and the lives of the populace. We discuss the recent Suez Canal mishap with the ship that didn’t fit, the poor performance of Google search, and other large fails. We talk about the weakness of efficiency. Bio: Matt Stoller is the Research Director at the American Economic Liberties Project. He is the author of Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy also the author of BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly and finance. Links: https://www.economicliberties.us/matt-stoller/ What Can We Learn from a Big Boat Stuck in a Canal : Financiers thinned out our supply chains. That was a risky bet. https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/what-we-can-learn-from-a-big-boat The FTC had a monopoly lawsuit against Google in its sights, and it blinked https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/the-ftc-had-a-monopoly-lawsuit-against-google-in-its-sights-and-it-blinked/ Matt Stoller calls for 'stark change' in Big Tech regulations https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/545113-matt-stoller-calls-for-stark-change-in-big-tech-regulations NEWS: Latest Big Tech Front Group Admits Plans To Trick LawmakersMARCH 29, 2021 HTTPS://WWW.ECONOMICLIBERTIES.US/PRESS-RELEASE/NEWS-LATEST-BIG-TECH-FRONT-GROUP-ADMITS-PLANS-TO-TRICK-LAWMAKERS/
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