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: Books
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.
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.
Hedges Report: On Mutual Aid & ‘Palaces of the Crow’
Against the violent landscape of World War II, author Ray Nayler poses fundamental questions about human existence. Is our natural state war against all, or is it grounded in mutual aid?
JOE LAURIA: Mutual Aid or Mutual Assured Destruction
WATCH: Cooperation is more important than competition in human survival, argued Peter Kropotkin. After competition brought two world wars, mutual aid twice sought to rescue humanity. Will there be a third chance?
On Blackshirts & Reds: Remembering the Class Analysis of Michael Parenti
On Saturday, a memorial service will be held in Berkeley, Calif., for Michael Parenti, radical historian, social scientist, author and public speaker. Ann Garrison takes a look at one of his many invaluable works, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and…
Blowback 2026
In case after case, conflicts initiated or intensified by the United States appeared to subside, only to reemerge in new, more volatile forms, writes Eric Ross as he assesses the price of empire and the costs of war on Iran.
Hedges Report: The US in Freefall
Chris Hedges and Ahmed Eldin discuss the propagandistic purpose that corporate media serves in the age of the American-Israeli project of genocidal colonialism.