William Hartung and Janet Abou-Elias describe how a clique of unhinged techno-optimists is putting humanity at risk.
Planet Palantir: The Brave New War Machine
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A Neocolonial Billionaire Fantasy in Honduras
Edith Romero reports on the unbridled power, tech fantasy and resource hoarding of ZEDEs — Zones for Employment and Economic Development — where the governments are run by AI and crypto is the main currency.
Hedges Report: Trump’s Gaza ‘Peace’ Plan
Norman Finkelstein says U.N. Resolution 2803 (2025) annuls decades of precedent established under international law on Palestine — erasing its entire legal history.
Chris Hedges: Decline and Fall
The British Empire, in steep decline on the eve of World War I, is a cautionary tale for a decayed U.S. Empire a century later.
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.
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.
Droning the Pentagon
An assortment of new firms, born in Silicon Valley or incorporating its disruptive ethos, are beginning to win lucrative military contracts, writes Michael T. Klare.