AI Abundance, Part 5: Meaning Beyond Work
Ellen Brown Discussions of artificial intelligence typically begin with the question, What happens when the machines take our jobs? For thousands of years, work has been the means by which…
Whitmer’s Data Center Push Isn’t Just Bad for Michigan – It’s Bad for the World
Jackie Barlow and Stewart Mitchell “We’re used to people saying ‘fuck no’ and doing it anyway.” These words were seemingly spoken by our very own Governor Gretchen Whitmer earlier this…
America’s AI War Has No Civilian Stop Rule
Brian Hudson Foreign Policy in Focus When the Pentagon made Palantir’s Maven Smart System a formal “program of record” in March, it did more than approve software. It gave long-term…
Climate Activists Take On A New Foe: Data Centers
Kate Yoder, People’s World. Amid the many political casualties of 2025 — mass federal layoffs, shuttered agencies, and clean energy spending cuts — the passing of one of the last…
The AI Cold War: How Silicon Valley Is Selling Fear of China to Protect Its Monopoly
Joshua Scheer Is the race for artificial intelligence really about national security—or about preserving corporate power? In this wide-ranging analysis, journalist Ben Norton argues that America’s biggest technology companies are…
Gaza: How We’re Learning to see the AI-Driven Genocide
Hossam Shaker for Middle East Monitor People can be consciously aware of atrocities without experiencing the moral outrage those horrors warrant. This emotional detachment is particularly pronounced when atrocities target…
Frame-Checking Generative AI’s Role in Transmitting News
Shealeigh Voitl and Andy Lee Roth As large language models (LLMs), a new generation of AI chatbots, and other forms of generative AI (artificial intelligence) become more widely used as…
AI Abundance, Part 4:
THE CLARITY ACT AND THE STABLECOIN WARS Ellen Brown As Americans prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, few are paying attention to a bill moving…
Vijay Prashad: AI & the US War on Iran
The Iranian schoolhouse in Minab stands as a warning that goes beyond a single strike, or company, or war. It warns of a future in which technological power advances faster…
The Fight Against AI Data Centers Is the Newest Frontier of Global Class Warfare
By William I. Robinson This article was originally published by Truthout AI is deepening worldwide webs of accumulation, ushering in new class and power relations. The relentless drive by Big…
The Data Center Backlash That’s Uniting America
The passage of New York’s statewide moratorium marks the speed at which the movement is growing — and winning — in both blue and red parts of the country. Nick…
Israel Could Solve Its PR Problem By Simply Ceasing To Be Evil
Israel’s +972 Magazine reports that the Israeli military establishment has launched a training program designed to “influence public consciousness” around the world. Caitlin Johnstone Israel’s +972 Magazine reports that the…
National Abortion Hotline Workers Fight Against Implementing AI
Nicole Froio and Jade Jasmine Hurley for Prism Unionized workers of the National Abortion Hotline initiated a 24-hour unfair labor practice (ULP) strike on May 26 over AI implementation disputes…
The AI Cartel: How Washington Is Building a Surveillance State Without Calling It One
A new executive order claims it is not creating an AI licensing regime. Jeffrey Wernick argues that’s precisely what makes it so dangerous. Jeffrey Wernick The most effective systems of…
Can the Imperial Core Be Reformed? Chris Hedges and Aaron Maté on the Collapse of the Global Order
Joshua Scheer At the Vancouver Web Summit, Chris Hedges and Aaron Maté examine Gaza, the erosion of international law, AI-powered warfare, media censorship, and whether meaningful reform is still possible…
