Blair Attard-FrostIn the last year, the rapid uptake of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Stable Diffusion has led to countless public discussions about the ethics and regulation of AI. There have also been revelations of significant harms caused by those systems. The development of ChatGPT and many other AI systems is deeply entwined with exploitative labour…
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Lula and Petro: “Tell Me Who You Are With and I Will Tell You Who You Are”
Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein I do not write this article with joy. Rather, I do it with pain, but when forms are not kept, things must be said by their name. The Presidents Lula and Petro decided to become part of the group of corifeos that, led by the United States and the European Union, attack…
Australia: Answers Needed on Pine Gap Complicity in Gaza Genocide
Pip Hinman Although officially a ‘joint facility’, Pine Gap is essentially a United States military base. Richard Tanter, a senior research associate at the Nautilus Institute, formally complained to the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS) about possible Australian complicity in what the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regards as “plausible claims of genocide in Gaza”….
Palestine: What Would Che Guevara Do?
Qamar Taleb “With Guevara, hero of the Cuban Revolution, at the mansion of the Governor General, Lieutenant General Ahmad Salim. Gaza, 1959.” As there is a growing trend among the Left to sway away from openly supporting Resistance groups, leftists need to pause and ask themselves what the figures they cherish would do. To say…
Secret CIA Presence on January 6th
Kit Klarenberg Many powerful figures and government agencies clearly foresaw “mayhem” on January 6th. Few issues, other than John F. Kennedy’s assassination was a conspiracy, 9/11 was an inside job, and Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself, unite Americans more than belief that the January 6th 2021 Washington DC “insurrection” was incited by federal agent provocateurs. While initially…
The Russiagate Hoax Illustrates the Power the National Security Police State
Stansfield Smith U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin speak to reporters following their meeting in Helsinki How the CIA, DNI, FBI, and NSA Interfered in a Presidential Election and How Progressives Bought the Lie The US rulers and their national security state foisted two major campaigns of lies on us to win…
FBI Storms African Liberation Movement with Fabricated Charges: U.S. Government Escalates Brutal Assault
Solyana Bekele Omali Yeshitela holding a press conference in front of his home on Friday, July 29, 2022. (Post-Dispatch) The Uhuru 3 were recently indicted by the federal government, continuing a historical pattern of connecting revolutionary Black organizations and movements to an outside malign state actor to destroy and delegitimize them. On July 29, 2022,…
Manufacturing Consent: The Border Fiasco and the “Smart Wall”
Whitney Webb The political response to the crisis at the southern border continues to advance the bipartisan “smart wall,” having been backed by Trump and Biden alike. This bipartisan consensus reaches far beyond the US, as much of the world is similarly speeding along in implementing “digital borders.” The disastrous situation at the US-Mexico border…
Targeting Palestine
Peter Cronau Pine Gap, here seen from the south-east, is a sprawling US military base sprouting some 40 satellite dishes and radomes. It is jointly run by the US and Australia, and forms part of the Five Eyes global surveillance network. (Photo: Felicity Ruby) Australia’s secret support for the Israeli assault on Gaza, through Pine…
Canada: Gusanos Cheer on Israel’s Genocide and Police Repression at Home
Jack Dempster Millions of Canadian workers, young people, Arabs, and oppressed peoples have taken to the streets in opposition to this barbaric slaughter. There is a political synergy and harmony between various right-wing elements of diasporas within the Canadian state. The Israeli Zionists, Ukrainian Banderites, Iranian Pahlavists and anti-communist Cubans, Chinese and Vietnamese have common…
US: People in Solidarity with Both Palestine & Uhuru Pose the Greatest Threat to Empire
Rainer Shea The media is carrying out a blackout of the Uhuru case, so the average person can’t be blamed for not knowing about it. That almost no Americans are at present aware of their government’s attempt to prosecute an African revolutionary organization on fabricated “Russian interference” charges is by the design of the imperialist…
The European Left and the Global South: An Existential Take
Matteo Cappasso Women supporters of military administration in Niger storm French air base When looking at the current geopolitical moment, it is a rather painful exercise to figure out what role Europe—and the remnants of its progressive force—can play. Can Europe become a somewhat progressive force for the good of the world, or is the…
Indigenous Resistance: From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock
David Baramian and Nick Estes Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, an assistant professor in American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota, and co-founder of The Red Nation, an Indigenous resistance organization. He is the author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the…
How US Government Prosecution of Uhuru Activists Threatens a ‘First Amendment Exception”
Anya Parampil Members of the Uhuru 3 and their defense lawyers outside the Sam Gibbons US courthouse in Tampa, Florida The Uhuru 3 are accused by the US DOJ of “sowing discord” on behalf of Russia. Their attorneys warn the case threatens to “blow a hole in the First Amendment.” TAMPA, FLORIDA – Defense attorneys representing…
Canada-India Assassination Allegations, as Further ‘Logic’ to Expand Spying Powers and Intelligence Integration
Morrigan Johnson Canadian PM Justin Trudeau shaking hands with Indian PM Narendra Modi. Image credit: Hindustan Times. Someone has to be lying On September 22, CTV News published a report revealing new allegations against India for the assassination of an Indian political dissident in Canada. In this report, it became known that Prime Minister Justin…
How Washington Weaponizes Radicals for its Political Goals
Fiorella Isabel Christopher “Hammer” Pohlhaus (C) leads a rally with neo-Nazi groups on September 2, 2023 in Orlando, Florida © Stephanie Keith/Getty Images An outspoken American neo-Nazi recently voiced support for the Democrat president. That’s not a glitch, it’s a manifestation of US policies Orlando, Florida is home to Mickey Mouse, popular beaches, sunshine, alligators,…
Media Counterinsurgency Against the African People’s Socialist Party: Ignore the Show Trial, Reinforce the Anti-Russia Psyop Behind it
Rainer Shea The fraudulent charges against the African People’s Socialist Party are supposed to represent the starting stage in our national security state’s war against dissent during the post-Ukraine war era. The ruling elites have to succeed at suppressing the anti-imperialist movement, and at doing so in a way which doesn’t provoke an uprising. If…
The Danger Lawfare against Trump Presents to the Progressive Movement
Stansfield Smith Many have noted that the indictments of Trump ring of lawfare by the Biden administration. Donald Trump has now been indicted four times, and in blatant overkill, now faces 91 criminal charges. In New York alone he was hit with 34 felonies for the payments to Stormy Daniels. Trump also faces felony charges…