The establishment of hyperscale AI data hubs have resulted in protests in Europe –Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy, and France. And it has not been a smooth ride for technology companies in Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, and Mexico. And now, they are coming in big in India… At the core of the objections… Read More When Tech Billionaires Come Marching In…
The hit podcaster, author and former GP says a failure to regulate big tech is ‘failing a generation of children’. He explains why he quit the NHS and why he wants a ban on screen-based homework Emine Saner A16-year-old boy and his mum went to see their GP, Dr Rangan Chatterjee, on a busy Monday… Read More ‘It’s the most urgent public health issue’: Dr Rangan Chatterjee on screen time, mental health – and banning social media until 18
Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis We have an urgent responsibility. Our existing economic system is incapable of addressing the social and ecological crises we face in the 21st century. When… Read More We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps
It’s chilling to watch as Trump and Netanyahu adopt the methods of regimes their countries once condemned Janine di Giovanni In Syria, where I worked during the years of Bashar al-Assad’s terror, people were often taken away to torture cells before dawn by masked men. The timing was deliberate. It disoriented them at their most… Read More After years spent documenting state terror, I know it when I see it. And I see it now in the US and Israel
Palestine Action activists cleared of the aggravated burglary of a UK subsidiary of an Israeli defence firm The families of six Palestine Action activists have hailed a jury’s verdict as a “monumental victory” after they were cleared of the aggravated burglary of a UK subsidiary of an Israeli defence firm. Charlotte Head, 29, Samuel Corner,… Read More Victory in Palestine Action trial, say families / Acquittals Demolish Lies About Palestine Action
NB: An incisive commentary by Professor Mehta. “First, though there is partisan bickering, there is still a kind of attempt to exceptionalise the behaviour of this ruling class… a bounded zone in which elite actors could suspend norms without contaminating the moral order of the centre. Second, there is a pathology of modern political life,… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Epstein Files aren’t an ‘island story’. They are about the nature of collective power
NB: Are the Ayatollahs men of God or assassins in robes? The War Within By Salar Abdoh On the afternoon of 6 January, as protests over the collapse of Iran’s currency kept up around the country, I went to meet my friend Q. When I asked him where, he said, “the Den of Spies” – as the… Read More The Islamic Republic presides over a bloodbath
NB: Solidarity and love to all American citizens resisting fascism. I salute you, Bruce, thank you Bruce Springsteen – Streets Of Minneapolis [Verse 1]Through the winter’s ice and coldDown Nicollet AvenueA city aflame fought fire and ice‘Neath an occupier’s bootsKing Trump’s private army from the DHSGuns belted to their coatsCame to Minneapolis to enforce the… Read More Bruce Springsteen – Streets Of Minneapolis
Our Trash and Our Lives, Here and Abroad By Andrea Mazzarino I learned one of my most valuable lessons about U.S. power in my first year as a Brown University doctoral student. It was in anthropology professor Catherine Lutz’s seminar on empire and social movements. I’d sum up what I remember something like this: Americans consume one… Read More The United States of Consumption
Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul—all spray-painted orange and… Read More America feels like a country on the brink of an authoritarian takeover
After the truth-shower 