Below is a response to Facebook's announcement that it's releasing a
digital currency and wallet.
Rachel
*The Bank of Facebook*
Marshall McLuhan argued that money is communication. This rings
particularly true at a time when so many platforms are entering the
payments space. The US payments
Parhaps the historical vogue for ‘making’ was a wishful reaction of passive
bodies - TV’s couch potatoes - bound even tighter to the screen by the novel
technics of interactivity, viz. enhanced passivity. I recently heard that 10
year olds in California are averaging 7 hours a day stroking glass
LIBRA isn't "libre"
While LIBRA siphons off all the world's currency, we can also consider the
path of the (true) "libre currency".
It consists in creating a "common monetary protocol". This does not mean
that money is common to all, but that we are equal in terms of monetary
creation.
Practicall
John et al,
No response to your whole text right now, but in the work we are doing
tracking support for Assange - here is another as friends of Assange,
socialists and journalists are called to join forces in defending him and
investigative reporting by John Pilger:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articl
