While the planet burns and the sky is full of Flock’s police-camera tyranny, AI is increasingly pervasive and intrusive and making everyone dumber and exposed to wild unpredictability.
Caitlin Johnstone: Another Day in Dystopia
Elon Musk’s Fortune Comes From Not Paying Taxes
If it weren’t for laws that permit the wealthy to endlessly defer paying taxes by keeping their gains unrealized, there would be no trillionaires, write Stephen Land and Bob Lord.
Jonathan Cook: The Corporate Climate Catastrophe
Governments knew what was coming, but they shrank from taking on the corporate sector, which is now more powerful than ever.
Afghanistan, American Empire, Analysis, Anti-Colonialism, BRICS, China, CN Live!, Commentary, Cuba, Europe, Gaza, Genocide, Gulf States, History, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Military, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, United States, Veterans
WATCH: TWTW — ‘A Fraying Empire’
An empire is as good as its military and the U.S. military is in crisis: running out of ammunition; Middle East bases destroyed; volunteers exhausted. Ann Wright, Ray McGovern. 8 pm Tonite.
US Military Morale in Middle East in the Overflowing Toilet
Ann Wright says the frustration expressed by military families at a recent Veterans for Peace conference echoed those of families with relatives on U.S. military bases in the Middle East.
A State of Surveillance
No person should have to fear that every trip down the street is being permanently recorded, writes Judge Andrew P. Napolitano.
Paper Tiger: The US Trillion-Dollar War Machine
With its unwinnable war on Iran, the U.S. urgently needs to rethink the illegal and corrupt policy of aggressive war it has pursued since 2001, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
Whistleblower David McBride Released on Parole
The military whistleblower who revealed Australian war crimes committed in Afghanistan has been released from federal prison after a lung cancer diagnosis, reports Joe Lauria.
Column, Human Rights, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Israeli Violence Pushing West Bank to Breaking Point
Israel can maintain the illusion that overwhelming violence has pacified Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, writes Ramzy Baroud. But military domination is not real control.
DC Under Siege: A Year of Military Occupation
Olivia DiNucci reflects on a year of living with National Guard troops meandering around the streets, metro stations, museums and grocery stores of the U.S. capital city.
Assassinations, Gaza, Genocide, InternationalCriminal Court (ICC), Israel, Middle East, Nazism, Prisons, Zionism
Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Board of Pieces
There is no ceasefire in Gaza; no functioning “Board of Peace.” There is only genocide. It changes shape and intensity but not its essence.
Jonathan Cook: The ‘Morbid Symptoms’ of a Dying West
Our unwillingness to think about how to change our reality may simply be the noise of capitalism speaking through us.
BBC Censored Film on British Army Killing Child
Downing Street persuaded Panorama to cut an exposé on the shooting of an unarmed boy in Derry in 1972, reports Anne Cadwallader.
Vijay Prashad: Social Power Is Built Before It Is Seen
While popular energy can fill streets and win elections, social power is the patient, organised capacity of the working class to transform society.
Local US Cops Adding AI Drones to Tech Surveillance
First came the Flock cameras. Now, hundreds of local police departments have received government waivers to fly surveillance drones that navigate with AI, Mike Ludwig reports.
A Groundbreaking US Political Defeat for Israel
James Zogby calls El-Sayed’s victory in the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan, a bellwether Midwestern battleground state, a watershed moment in U.S. politics.
Chris Hedges Report: Epstein & Ohio’s ‘Silicon Heartland’
Whitney Webb discusses how the Epstein Network is privatizing the government, building out the Surveillance State and pursuing a new model of feudalism enforced by technology.
DNC Buries Reasons It Lost to Trump
An unpublished chapter in the U.S. Democrats’ “autopsy” report on the party’s loss to Trump in the last presidential election made its way to The New York Times, as Brad Reed reports.
Colonialism, Commentary, Cuba, Trump Administration, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Trump Adds to Long History of US Abuse of Cuba
For over a century, U.S. officials have regarded Cuba as a plantation to exploit, rival to defeat, or dissenting voice to silence, never shedding their colonial outlook, writes Jonathan Ng.
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Marco ‘McCarthy’ Rubio: Wrong on Cuba & ‘Terrorism’
Those who challenge and protest U.S. policies are not foreign-paid terrorists; Rubio and other Trump appointees are using “McCarthy” tactics to stop dissent, says Ann Wright.