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Day: December 29, 2018

Stax Records President Al Bell Honors Aretha Franklin, a Lost Icon in 2018

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28 December 2018 — TRNN

Stax Records President Al Bell Honors Aretha Franklin, a Lost Icon in 2018

As part of our end-of-year round up, iconic record label executive Al Bell, responsible for soul legends like Isaac Hayes and Otis Redding, tells personal stories about meeting Aretha Franklin when she was 16 and her cultural legacy
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Facebook: The global censor

December 29, 20184 Comments

29 December 2018 — WSWS

The year 2018 has seen a vast intensification of internet censorship by Google, Facebook and Twitter, transforming them from tools for exchanging information and communicating around the world into massive censorship dragnets for policing what their users say, do and think.

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The richest 1% owns more than TWICE as much wealth as 6.9 billion people and the super-rich one percent of the world’s population has accumulated twice as much wealth as the remaining 90 percent, global charity Oxfam said in a newly-released report. The world’s richest 1% emit double the carbon of the poorest 50%, the 2020 Oxfam study found.

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