Two antitrust lawsuits that accused Amazon and five big book publishers of illegally conspiring to fix prices of traditional and electronic books in the United States were dismissed on Thursday by a federal judge. The five book publishers targeted by the two lawsuits were Macmillan, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Penguin Random House. The…
Lawsuits Alleging Conspiracy Between Amazon and Book Publishers Dismissed by Judge
Exclusive: CCP ‘Keystone Project’ Seeks Global Domination by Centralizing Chinese Industries
Chinese authorities re-emphasized the regime’s goal of achieving “one enterprise for one industry, one industry with one enterprise” in a recent meeting. According to a source close to Beijing’s top official circle, after the 20th National Congress, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) plans to centralize various Chinese sectors through the deployment of the “one enterprise…
House GOP Trust-busting Bill Is an Economic Disaster
Commentary With President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda in ruins, Democrats want to blame Big Business for the mayhem of high inflation and a collapsing stock market. The White House has pointed its finger at every industry, from Big Tech to meat producers, oil and gas producers, the poultry industry and pharmaceutical companies. Apparently,…
Facebook Is No Monopoly
Commentary One wonders if, back in 2004, today’s trustbusters would have been losing sleep over the success of Blockbuster. Back then, Blockbuster had over 9,000 stores globally and was raking in nearly $6 billion in revenue as the leading video rental service in the country. Break up Blockbuster! Enter Netflix. We all know what happened…
Woke Capitalism Is a Monopoly Game
Commentary In 2018, Ross Douthat of the New York Times introduced the phrase “woke capital.” Essentially, Douthat suggested that woke capitalism works by substituting symbolic value for economic value. Under woke capitalism, corporations offer workers rhetorical placebos in lieu of costlier economic concessions, such as higher wages and better benefits. The same gestures of wokeness also appease the…
‘Technocrats’ Are Using COVID-19 to Realize a Totalitarian High-Tech Agenda: Patrick Wood
The world is falling into a new type of tyranny that has been in development for decades, and which uses high-tech and corporate monopoly to instill a system of total social control. With COVID-19 and the pandemic, this form of social control has only accelerated with governments across the world implementing harsh policies in the…
EPOCHTV: ‘Technocrats’ Are Using COVID-19 to Realize a Totalitarian High-Tech Agenda: Patrick Wood
The world is falling into a new type of tyranny that has been in development for decades, and which uses high-tech and corporate monopoly to instill a system of total social control. With COVID-19 and the pandemic, this form of social control has only accelerated with governments across the world implementing harsh policies in the…
US Farm Group Seeks Stronger Antitrust Action With New Campaign
The National Farmers Union, the nation’s second-largest farm group, said on Wednesday it is launching a campaign to expose the negative effects of consolidation in the agriculture industry on family farms and rural towns. The campaign, which it said will include a public relations blitz and lobbying, is part of an effort to push Washington…
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- Jack BradleyThe Irvine City Council Jan. 24 failed to pass a motion to launch an independent investigation after political consultant Melahat Rafiei last week—in a plea agreement relating to an FBI… [...]
- Henry JomAustralia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles has said that the AUKUS deal will be one of the nation’s most significant national security decisions in decades as the federal government is set… [...]
- Mimi Nguyen LyThe U.S. military carried out a counterterrorism operation on Jan. 25 in Somalia that killed multiple ISIS terrorists, among them Bilal-al-Sudani, according to the Pentagon. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J.… [...]
- Victoria Kelly-ClarkThe United States and Papua New Guinea (PNG) are set to negotiate a defence cooperation agreement just after Australia and the southern Pacific nation agreed to a broad-reaching security agreement… [...]
- Mimi Nguyen Ly, Joshua PhilippCalifornia’s controversial COVID-19 misinformation law, which bars doctors from providing “misinformation” or “disinformation” related to COVID-19, is an unprecedented effort by those in power to block doctors from sharing their… [...]
- Daniel Y. TengTeam members of the Cairns Taipans have decided against wearing a special Pride Round jersey in response to a “barrage of abuse and harmful commentary” targeting individual players. The Australian… [...]
- Zachary StieberExperts who advise the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on immunizations were supportive on Jan. 26 of a planned pivot on COVID-19 vaccines. Members of the Vaccines and Related Biological… [...]
- Lee SmithBig pharma has a good deal with big government—even if someone is hurt by a vaccine, the drug maker is exempt from liability claims. Lack of accountability then is at… [...]
- Brad JonesThe California Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced Jan. 26 it expects to deliver 30 percent of requested water to its public water agencies in 2023—1.27 million acre-feet—up from the… [...]
- City News ServiceSANTA ANA, Calif.—The family of an Orange County deputy public defender who died in Mexico while celebrating his first wedding anniversary was expecting to receive the body Jan. 26 so… [...]