In just one of the multiplying examples of abusive technology developments, physical literature is being destroyed in order to train generative AI products to take our jobs and pollute our environment.
Caitlin Johnstone: Today in Dystopia
Category: Arts
Hedges Report: Democracy Needs Resistance
Roger Hallam of Extinction Rebellion discusses his new book and the tools for effective resistance to climate collapse under repressive systems.
Hedges Report: ‘When the World Sleeps’
Francesca Albanese talks about her new book, international law, and how media complicity in cases such at that of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has become one of the greatest enablers of injustice.
Vijay Prashad: Why the World Needs a Genuine Left
As a declining imperialist system lashes out to preserve its declining order, working-class organisation becomes not only necessary for the oppressed of the world but indispensable to human survival.
Nietzsche’s Demon in Nazi & Zionist Education
Lawrence Davidson on the practical application of Nietzsche’s notion of eternal recurrence in the perverted Nazi and Zionist educational processes.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Heat Waves, Brain Waves
With people jumping into the Canal Saint–Martin in 100°–plus temperatures in Paris, it’s a good time to recall Paul Valéry and his regrets at the mental and spiritual consequences of Europe’s Great War on itself.
Vijay Prashad: Two Ways for East Asia
Contradiction has struck East Asia: the countries most deeply integrated into China’s vibrant economic system are also drawn into military preparations to confront it.
Chris Hedges: The Joke Is On Us
The retreat into satirical attacks on Trump and his supporters fuels the solidification of fascism.
WATCH: Remembering Minab
An art exhibition memorializing the victims of the U.S. massacre of Iranian schoolchildren on the first day of the U.S.-Israel attack on Iran was held in Sydney. Consortium News delivers this report.
Vijay Prashad: Over a Billion Disabled People
People with disabilities are not marginal to society but central to it — and the injustices they face reveal the failures of a world that treats human dignity as subordinate to profit.