Alan MacLeod on the capture of media systems by the planet’s mega-rich and the existential threat that poses to an open society and the free flow of information.
The Richest Men in the World Are Media Moguls
Tag: Elon Musk
Bill Gates & the Hot Tub of Death
Hedges Report: Construction of the Surveillance State
Whitney Webb on how mass surveillance and the military industrial complex are beginning to coalesce in unprecedented ways under the Trump administration.
Profiting From an Ethnically-Cleansed Gaza
U.S. plan proposes to replace Palestinians in Gaza with projects including Gaza Trump Riviera & Islands and Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zones.
Palantir’s Value Soars With Dystopian Spy Tool that Will Centralize Data on Americans
By contracting the surveillance firm to agglomerate the U.S. population’s personal data across government agencies, the White House has turbo-charged the company’s value, Kit Klarenberg reports.
X Made Me Dark
And Grok sheds light on the mysterious suspension from X of Consortium News’ CN Live! Executive Producer Cathy Vogan, as more than 5 million accounts were suspended by X in the first half of 2024.
The New Age Militarists
The high-tech oligarchs surrounding Trump are set on using artificial intelligence and new technologies for the sake of uniting us around perpetual war, says William Hartung.
USAID Funded Ukraine Group That Smears Americans
The Trump administration has lambasted the foreign aid agency for absurd foreign expenditures, but Wyatt Reed says it has omitted what is perhaps its most scandalous operation.
The Warfare State & Trump’s Rise to Power
While the military industrial complex seems all too natural to most politicians and journalists, Norman Solomon says its consequences have transformed U.S. politics.
Chainsaw Diplomacy
If Elon Musk is using Javier Milei’s Argentina as inspiration for his own mission with the Department of Government Efficiency that bodes extremely poorly for the U.S., writes Alan MacLeod.