(2024-10-20). A Prime Competitor: Understanding Amazon's Market Power. socialistproject.ca 
A large body of scholarship has emerged in recent years attempting to assess if Amazon is a monopoly. Such accounts generally define monopoly in terms of the neoclassical "quantity theory of competition," which measures competition by the number of sellers in a market.
(2024-10-19). Ralph Nader: Last Clear Chances for November. scheerpost.com 
By Ralph Nader / Nader.org Wouldn't you think the Republican Party, that is as gung-ho for Empire and Genocide as the Democratic Party, but domestically is blatantly open about its policies against women, children, workers, the environment, climate crisis, public lands, public education and fair share taxes for the wealthy would be easy to defeat? …
(2024-10-19). Ralph Nader: Last Clear Chances for November. scheerpost.com By Ralph Nader / Nader.org Wouldn't you think the Republican Party, that is as gung-ho for Empire and Genocide as the Democratic Party, but domestically is blatantly open about its policies against women, children, workers, the environment, climate crisis, public lands, public education and fair share taxes for the wealthy would be easy to defeat? …
(2024-10-19). Australian students denounce Labor foreign minister for complicity in Gaza genocide. wsws.org Wong was to give a speech at the University of Tasmania on international relations and policy. Her speech was interrupted by protesters on about a dozen occasions.
(2024-10-19). Lessons From The Tulane And Loyola Encampments For Gaza. popularresistance.org Baton Rouge, LA — On October 9, Louisiana State University's Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held a panel on the Tulane and Loyola University encampments for Gaza as part of their October 7 Week of Rage. LSU SDS invited members of Tulane and Loyola SDS and a member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) from New Orleans. They highlighted their wins and explored lessons learned from planning and implementing the encampment. | Last spring, the National Students for a Democratic Society put out a call for campuses across the country to enact encampments for Gaza on their universities' lawns to e…
(2024-10-19). DNA Contamination in Bivalent COVID-19 "Vaccines": Insights from Kevin McKernan. globalresearch.ca The greatly respected geneticist Using five different laboratory methods, McKernan and his team studied two vials each of Moderna's and Pfizer's bivalent "vaccines." Both …
(2024-10-19). How not to measure poverty. mronline.org 
Several international organisations are now engaged in the business of measuring what they call "poverty".
(2024-10-19). Diabetes Patients Are Starting To Beat Big Pharma's Price Gouging. popularresistance.org T1International was born out of anger. | Elizabeth Pfiester had lived with type 1 diabetes since she was four years old. The daughter of a Monticello, Illinois railroad worker and library clerk, Pfiester and her family together had to learn the daily regimen of insulin injections, finger pricks for blood testing, and constant fear of blood sugar spikes and crashes. Fortunately, her dad's railroad job provided solid health coverage, which got even better when Pfiester enrolled in the London School of Economics, where she qualified for the U.K.'s National Health Service program.
(2024-10-19). Why Nations succeed or fail: a Nobel cause. mronline.org 
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson have been awarded the Nobel (really the Riksbank prize) in economics "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity."
(2024-10-19). Spain's prime minister unveils pro-immigration policy, citing moral duty and economic growth. leftfootforward.org 'I want citizens to understand that this is not a battle between Spaniards and foreigners, or Christians and Muslims or saints and criminals. It is a battle between truth and lies, between tales and data, between what is in the interests of our society and the interests of a few who see fear and hatred of foreigners as their only path to power.'