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Democracy Now Video • 2 weeks ago
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Democracy Now • 2 weeks ago
"Empire of AI": Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World
In this holiday special, we revisit our interview with longtime technology reporter Karen Hao, author of the new book Empire of AI, which unveils the accruing political and economic power of AI companies — especially Sam Altman’s OpenAI. Her reporting uncovered the exploitation of workers in Kenya, attempts to take massive amounts of freshwater from communities in Chile, along with numerous accounts of the technology’s detrimental impact on the environment. “This is an extraordinary type of AI development that is causing a lot of social, labor and environmental harms,” says Hao, in an extended interview.
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The Majority Report • 2 weeks ago
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Scheer Post • 2 weeks ago
The Trillion Dollar War Machine (w/ William D. Hartung) The Chris Hedges Report
Once warned against as a looming danger to democracy, the military-industrial complex has evolved into a vast and entrenched system of power that shapes U.S. policy, budgets, and global conflict. Now far beyond what even its earliest critics imagined, the question is no longer whether it exists, but how far it will go — and […]
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The Majority Report • 2 weeks ago
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Zohran Mamdani’s Symbolism-Inspired Campaign Becomes Reality
Mamdani made himself an approachable, real and concerned New Yorker who was able to both identify the issues facing ordinary citizens as well as solutions he plans to implement.
Scheer Post • 2 weeks ago
Listening to Frank Sinatra on New Year’s Eve
Do people fly south in the winter time to find new leaves, only to find their old selves when they get there?
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The Majority Report • 2 weeks ago
Intellectualism Is Dead And The Right Killed It
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Iran’s Protesters Are Caught Between State Repression and Foreign Intervention
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ACLU Sues Federal Government to End ICE, CBP’s Practice of Suspicionless Stops, Warrantless Arrests, and Racial Profiling of Minnesotans
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Appeals Court in Mahmoud Khalil’s Case Decides Federal Court Lacks Jurisdiction Until Immigration Court Proceedings Complete
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China’s new condom tax will prove no effective barrier to country’s declining fertility rate
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ACLU Statement on President Trump’s Threat to Invoke the Insurrection Act and Deploy Military Troops to Minneapolis
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‘Israeli Society Has Become Completely Genocidal' - B'Tselem Head on Israel's Growing Extremism
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Crypto Bill Markup Delayed Following Coinbase CEO’s Opposition
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Voters Think Trump Is a Pro-War President, See Venezuela Invasion as Mostly for Oil
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