Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, has been named the largest lobbyist in Washington, DC, in 2017, the first time ever that a tech company has claimed that mantle. Alphabet spent $18 million to influence US government policy in the past year. Brian Becker and John Kiriakou of Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear spoke to Chris Garaffa, an independent tech journalist and web developer with... 

YouTube will implement a new policy where content can be hidden & demonetized even if it isn’t in violation of their rules but merely flagged. And what are the standards? Violence, depiction of terrorism or extremism? No. Merely “controversial religious” or “supremacist” content as judged by organizations with a political bias. “Controversial religious” will likely include content... 

Facebook is reportedly censoring an article critical of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Within the first 30 minutes of its publication on Infowars.com, the article entitled TPP to Kill Thousands by Expanding Monopoly Power of Drug Companies would constantly hit around 50 shares on the embedded Facebook counter, but then the counter would drop dramatically, as shown in the videos below. This occurred... 

China and Russia are changing the financial architecture of the world, award-winning author, sociologist and geopolitical analyst Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya emphasizes, recommending the Wall Street financial elite to focus on America’s domestic problems instead of trying to undermine China’s economy. The rise of the yuan sends shivers down the spine of America’s financial elite: fearing... 

US pharma giant Pfizer and Hertfordshire-based drug company Flynn Pharma abused their market dominance by charging “excessive and unfair prices” for an anti-epilepsy drug, Britain’s competition watchdog has said. Following a comprehensive investigation, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) released a scathing statement on Thursday suggesting the two pharma firms may have breached UK and... 

Manipulated Search Results: At least 40% of all websites on the internet are not even shown in Google’s search results anymore and they usually get hidden in the “Omitted Results” at the very bottom, which is a form of severe censorship. The EU has officially filed a complaint against Google for allegedly abusing its dominance in the European market. The case could carry a fine of... 

The escalation of the economic crisis in Argentina has forced the government to take drastic actions that had been rejected in the past, due to the impact they could have on the people. This time the Central Bank raised the interest rates by 3%. While the Argentine economy faces a complicated and serious agenda to solve, The problem is intensified by destabilizing moves of foreign firms, such as the... 

Microsoft, the company which created abusive monopoly in the PC desktop space and did not leave any room for a single player to breath and survive for almost three decades is now crying wolf when competitors are doing better. Microsoft and it’s pizza delivery boy Nokia filed complaints with the EU, via is proxy body FairSearch, against Google’s free and open source Android OS. According... 

An Australian court has ruled in favor of allowing a company to patent a human gene. Concerns have been voiced that allowing a company to monopolize genes will turn the human body into a commodity, and will adversely affect healthcare. The judge argued the act of removing a specific gene from the body and isolating it made it into a product “of new manufacture” and therefore open to be patented,...