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Music Notes

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This week's big read on music should be Dayen's piece on the monopolies that place the music industry at peril because artists can't make any money. Dwarfing all that in significance is streaming, which has become the industry’s primary revenue source, despite giving a pittance to...
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Water Wars?

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By TheConduqtor - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24642259 Some thoughts at the Diplomat on what we mean when we use the term "Water Wars," The term “water wars,” in order to be analytically useful, refers to conflicts over rights of economic exploitation of water, whether through...
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The Cuban Vaccine

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The framing of this Post story on Cuba developing COVID vaccines that will go far to immunize the world's poorer population is so frustrating. Titled "Against the odds, Cuba could become a coronavirus vaccine powerhouse" it invites readers to express surprise that such a nation could...
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