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Alan Macleod for Mintpress News New documents from government agencies such as the FBI and Department of Homeland Security show that Washington is preparing for widespread anti-A.I. riots, as the technology destroys communities and industries across the country. Ironically, the Trump administration is already using invasive A.I. technology to identify and suppress what it calls anti-A.I. “extremists,” in the process, sweeping the entire nation into its massive surveillance dragnet. More than 1,000 pages of leaked documents reviewed by WIRED Magazine show that government agencies are anticipating a huge wave of domestic unrest in the coming years, as artificial intelligence upends American…
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Norliza binti Saleh for Middle East Monitor The latest exchange between Iran and Israel raises a fundamental question: Who is really driving events in the Middle East – Washington or Jerusalem? Following Israeli strikes on targets in Beirut, Lebanon, Iran responded with strikes against northern Israel and military facilities around Haifa. Israel then immediately retaliated by attacking Tehran, Tabriz, Karaj and Isfahan. While the ceasefire between the United States and Iran is technically in place, the broader regional conflict continues to intensify. Throughout the crisis, President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed support for de-escalation and urged all parties to…
Photo by Micah Williams Many of us have anticipated a great breakdown of global systems coming at some point. Too many exponential curves pointing upwards inevitably having to peak and begin tumbling down. Too many interlocking complex systems vulnerable to failure cascading from a single point. Now we are asking – Is this it? Is the closure of most traffic on the Hormuz Strait due to the Iran War the trigger that sets off broad systemic collapse? Loss of a significant share of global oil and gas supplies, as well as fertilizer made with fossil fuels and their byproducts, argues…
Gig worker unionization could be coming to an Uber ride near you. On June 1, the Illinois legislature passed a bill allowing rideshare drivers in the Land of Lincoln to unionize. The legislation, which would apply to the state’s nearly 100,000 Uber and Lyft drivers, marks the third such state law to pass in just the past three years. The state isn’t the first. Gig work unionization is spreading, and it’s likely to hurt both drivers and riders in the years ahead. The history of rideshare unionization starts in Massachusetts, which became the inaugural state to allow rideshare drivers to unionize in 2024.…
With the war on Iran stuck in low-intensity conflict, new focus is on the U.S.-Israel relationship. Everyone has a theory, but it’s perhaps more complex than it looks. This week we try to unravel it. 8pm EDT Tonite. Guests: Peter Kuznick and Ray McGovern. Host: Joe Lauria. Producer: Cathy Vogan. Please Donate to the Spring Fund Drive! Source link
Robin Andersen When the DNC finally released its 192-page “autopsy” of what went wrong in the disastrous 2024 election that propelled Donald Trump back into the White House, it was a poorly written document full of typos that offered few if any insights. As Michael Arria noted in “It’s the Genocide Stupid,” the report contained “virtually no analysis of the Democratic policies that might have helped propel Trump to another victory. If one were compiling such a list, support for the Gaza genocide would presumably be near the top, but the issue is not mentioned once in the massive report.” The Biden,…
In his massive tome Capitalism: A Global History, Harvard Professor Sven Beckert writes that “the attraction” of The Communist Manifesto is its “ability to combine an incisive critique of the social inequalities produced by capitalism with a deeply optimistic account of the future and the role of workers in bringing about that future.” Only masochists and nihilists would want a steady diet of doom and gloom. To rally the faithful one has to issue at least a glimmer of hope. In On Resistance: A Manifesto (Melville House, $17.99; 2026), Curtis White follows in the footsteps of Marx and Engels and…
In a special America 250 issue, Reason takes a look back at our country’s founding people and ideas. Read more here. Joanna Andreasson As a big, even-numbered anniversary of the Declaration of Independence rumbled into view, an inner-circle Founding Father gazed upon the man claiming to be his worthy successor and shuddered with revulsion. “I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing Gen. [Andrew] Jackson President,” Thomas Jefferson told Daniel Webster in 1824. “He is one of the most unfit men I know of for such a place. He has had very little respect for laws and constitutions….His passions are terrible.…
Jeff Cohen for FAIR For 40 years now, FAIR has raised hell about corporate media bias, censorship, and persistent exclusion of peace and justice voices. I left FAIR’s paid staff in the year 2000, but 26 years later, I still often receive totally undeserved thanks and compliments for FAIR’s excellent output that I had absolutely nothing to do with. I came up with the idea for FAIR in the mid-1980s, when corporate news outlets were on bended knee for a reactionary, declining, war-mongering president—and when Reaganism was ushering in an era of dangerous media mergers. Thankfully, FAIR is still around to challenge today’s even…