Palantir, the Peter Thiel-backed company that sold data to ICE and NYPD, has a CEO who is a ‘self-described socialist’

Drew Angerer/Getty Images Palantir CEO Alex Karp is a self-proclaimed socialist, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Palantir has historically worked with intelligence agencies and law enforcement through the sale of big data. It’s even credited with helping the United States find Osama Bin Laden. It was cofounded and backed by Peter Thiel, the […]

Champagne socialist? French PM spends over $415k on plane flight, gets roasted on Twitter

Published time: 20 Dec, 2017 16:25 French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has come under fire over the whopping cost of his recent trip to New Caledonia and Japan, and the use of a private luxury plane for more than $ 415,000. Philippe and the French delegation of about fifty people took a private plane to […]

Spanish govt, opposition agree on January elections in Catalonia – Socialist party

Published time: 20 Oct, 2017 08:13 Edited time: 20 Oct, 2017 08:43 The Spanish government has agreed with the opposition Socialists (PSOE) to hold January regional elections in Catalonia, Reuters reports. The move is part of an extraordinary package of measures to temporarily impose direct rule on the region, Socialist politician Carmen Calvo told national […]

Venezuela arrests brownie and croissant bakers as socialist government launches ‘bread war’

Reuters/Marco Bello CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela this week arrested four bakers making illegal brownies and other pastries as President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government threatens to take over bakeries in Caracas as part of a new “bread war.” Maduro has sent inspectors and soldiers into more than 700 bakeries around the capital this week to enforce […]

A Socialist French minister says he may vote for centrist Macron

Thomson Reuters PARIS (Reuters) – Stephane Le Foll, the French Socialist government’s spokesman and its agriculture minister, said on Tuesday he backs his party’s official candidate Benoit Hamon but might vote for independent centrist Emmanuel Macron instead. Hamon, elected as candidate in a Socialist party primary in January, is struggling to make an impact on […]