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…
Screwing in a Mirror While the World Smokes
Edward Curtin We were screwing in a mirror when we realized our mistake. Since the handyman was unavailable, we had to do it ourselves. Certainly it was very pleasurable to…
Commoning, Thresholding, and the Concrete Fantasy: Lessons from France
Ida Susser Over a decade ago two innovative movements mobilized in France to take on the neoliberal assaults on the commons and the public good. The Nuit Debout was an…
Silence Belongs to the People
Jeffrey Wernick ScheerPost Many people ignore the Ninth Amendment. James Madison wrote it, and he wrote it to answer an objection he had raised himself. During ratification, Madison and Hamilton…
Masked, Protected and Growing Bolder: The White Supremacists Marching Through America
“Don’t look towards the politicians or the elected officials to be your savior,” Jenkins says. “You are your savior. Your people are your savior.” Joshua Scheer Masked white supremacists marching…
Dennis Kucinich Warns Congress Is Quietly Merging the U.S. and Israeli War Machines
The former congressman tells Robert Scheer that a provision buried in the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act could integrate the United States and Israel at the highest levels of military…
PEN America Sells out. Again.
PEN America, once a fearless advocate on behalf of persecuted writers around the globe, has become a shill for Zionism and American imperialism. Chris Hedges PEN America, an organization founded…
ONE CHECKBOOK. ONE CALL.
Jeffrey Wernick Buried in the Senate’s version of the defense authorization bill is a provision that changes the relationship between the American state and private industry. Section 1051 would give…
Federal Judge Schools MAGA-Friendly Supreme Court Justices on the Importance of Taking Trump’s Words Seriously
Austin Sarat Writing in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and anticipating what American life would be like under Donald Trump, M. Gessen offered some rules for surviving autocracy.…
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…
What I Saw When I Stopped Pretending
Mercedez Some of the most peaceful moments of my life were spent standing on the deck of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier just before dawn. It feels like looking over…
Jeffrey Sachs: We’re Led by the Most Incompetent Leaders Imaginable
ScheerPost Staff The latest NATO summit was presented as a demonstration of Western unity. Instead, according to economist Jeffrey Sachs, it revealed something far more dangerous: an alliance increasingly consumed…
Cut the Pentagon, Save the Planet: The $1.5 Trillion Climate Solution We Can’t Ignore
Aaron Kirshenbaum Last week, millions of people around the world were subjected to record-breaking heatwaves. At least 25 deaths in the U.S. from this heat dome were reported. The French…
Colleges and Universities Should Take Their Civic and Social Purposes Seriously
Austin Sarat On July 6, the New York Times published an editorial entitled “A Great University Undermines Its Mission.” I turned to it eagerly, expecting to see a stirring defense…
Big Tech
Carousel
Chris Hedges
chris hedges report
Empire
Gaza
Informed Rant
Israel
isreal
Original
Palestine
War
Francesca Albanese: “The World Is Not Sleeping—It Is Looking Away”
In When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine, the UN Special Rapporteur speaks with Chris Hedges about Gaza, international law, media complicity, and why she believes silence…
