~352~ Is Facebooks Smart City The Return Of The Company Town

Watch the full episode: Naomi Karavani introduces viewers to a retro development in corporate totalitarian power. “Company Towns“ were made famous by coal towns where the miners and their families would live in houses, shop at grocery stores, spend independent “scrip“ currencies, and send their kids to schools owned by their employers. Modern corporations are trying to bring back this practice in towns across the US. Also in this episode: Naomi Karavani reports on the US’s quick return to Afghanistan, insider trading from Congress, and more. Jaffer Khan joins Naomi Karavani to cover a development from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem. Israel’s courts decided to allow Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah to stay in their homes under the condition that they pay rent (on their own homes) to Israelis. This comes after a global protest movement kicked off over Israel’s settler-colonist policies in that neighbor