{"id":35722,"date":"2018-07-04T06:06:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T11:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35722"},"modified":"2018-07-04T06:06:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T11:06:46","slug":"amazons-fusion-with-the-state-shows-neoliberalisms-drift-to-neo-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35722","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s Fusion With the State Shows Neoliberalism\u2019s Drift to Neo-Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"site-header\">\n<nav class=\"nav-primary\">\n<div class=\"wrap\"><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<div class=\"socialicons-container social-icons\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/amazons-fusion-with-the-state-shows-neoliberalisms-drift-to-neo-fascism\/244967\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-banner size-featured-banner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/amazon2-001.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1186px) 100vw, 1186px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/amazon2-001.jpg 1186w, https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/amazon2-001-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/amazon2-001-768x381.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/amazon2-001-800x397.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/amazon2-001-1145x568.jpg 1145w\" alt=\"Image | Elliot Gabriel | MintPress News\" width=\"1186\" height=\"588\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"site-inner\">\n<div class=\"featured-post\">\n<div class=\"featured-post-text first-featured-post-text black-box\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/amazons-fusion-with-the-state-shows-neoliberalisms-drift-to-neo-fascism\/244967\/\">Amazon\u2019s Fusion With the State Shows Neoliberalism\u2019s Drift to Neo-Fascism <\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-sidebar-wrap\">\n<article class=\"post-244967 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail category-highlights category-special-reports-2 category-national category-news tag-amazon tag-cia tag-jeff-bezos tag-john-bellamy-foster tag-neoliberalism tag-rekognition tag-surveillance-capitalism tag-washington-post tag-yasha-levine first-post has-thumbnail item-count-1 entry\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<div data-js=\"social-icons-bar-reload\" data-post_id=\"244967\">\n<div class=\"social-icons-full addthis_inline_share_toolbox at-style-responsive\" data-url=\"\" data-title=\"Amazon\u2019s Fusion With the State Shows Neoliberalism\u2019s Drift to Neo-Fascism\" data-description=\"MPN spoke to Yasha Levine, the author of \u201cSurveillance Valley,\u201d and Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster about the rise of the Amazon.com empire and the merger of Big Data, finance capitalism, and the U.S. state apparatus.\n\n\" data-media=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/amazon2-001.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"at-resp-share-element comment-icon-wrap\"><i>In Part 1 of our investigative series on Surveillance Capitalism, <\/i><b><i>MPN <\/i><\/b><i>spoke to author Yasha Levine and <\/i><b><i>Monthly Review<\/i><\/b><i> editor John Bellamy Foster about the rise of the Amazon.com empire and its fusion with the U.S. state apparatus.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><i>In our next installments, we will continue exploring the rise of Surveillance Capitalism and the implications of Amazon-fueled spying technology, both in the workplace and in U.S. city streets.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cCapitalism is a system that seeks to transgress all boundaries in its production and sale of commodities, commodifying everything in existence, which today, in the age of monopoly-finance capital and surveillance capitalism, means intruding into every aspect of existence,\u201d John Bellamy Foster told <\/i><b><i>MPN<\/i><\/b><i>. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>SEATTLE \u2013 <\/b>This year may go down in history as a turning-point when the world finally woke up to the dark side of the ubiquitous presence of popular Silicon Valley companies in our daily lives. One can only hope so, at least.<\/p>\n<p>From Amazon to Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft and PayPal \u2013 among others \u2013 revelations poured out confirming the ongoing abuse of user data by monopolistic corporations, as well as their growing role as vendors of surveillance technology to the U.S. police state, military, and migrant detention agencies.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/surveillance-capitalism-and-the-state-facebook-devastated-on-multiple-fronts-as-data-theft-crisis-grows\/239324\/\"> lid was blown off<\/a> of the violation of user data on Facebook, with Cambridge Analytica mining user information for the purpose of providing millions of detailed \u201cpsychological profiles\u201d to the Trump campaign, among others. Scarcely two weeks later, the Google campus was in an uproar over the development of its \u201cProject Maven,\u201d which was building an AI-fueled platform to vastly upgrade the automatic targeting abilities of the U.S. military\u2019s global drone fleet. Faced with public outrage and internal dissent, the company<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/google-employee-protests-now-google-backs-off-pentagon-drone-ai-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pulled out of bidding to renew its Pentagon contract<\/a>, which ends next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon\u2019s Fusion With the State Shows Neoliberalism\u2019s Drift to Neo-Fascism In Part 1 of our investigative series on Surveillance Capitalism, MPN spoke to author Yasha Levine and Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster about the rise of the Amazon.com empire and its fusion with the U.S. state apparatus. 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