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On Sunday the President of the United States stood on a golf course in County Clare, Ireland and was asked what he intended to do about the most serious technological warning of our lifetime. His answer, in full, was that America is beating China. “We’re leading China in AI. We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to keep it that way, because whoever wins AI wins.” He added that “you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn’t be bringing it up, and …

The US federal government is expanding AI use in high-stakes decisions that affect people’s civil rights, privacy, health and safety, access to education, housing, employment and public benefits, and exposure to law-enforcement and immigration while simultaneously transforming the data, demographic variables, classifications, research programs, government webpages, publications, and risk frameworks through which social inequality can be observed and measured.

These changes are being accelerated by the federal adoption of AI outlined in Executive Order 14179 and President Trump’s AI Action Plan. The latter …

United States President Donald Trump at a dinner for Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud of Saudi Arabia IMAGE/White House

Nuclear weapons

The United States was the first country to develop nuclear weapons which are extremely dangerous and destructive, without any doubt. The only time they were used was in 1945 when the Second World War had almost ended. The honor of both bombings goes to the US. It was an instantaneous mass murder of Hiroshimians and Nagasakiites — a terror from heavens. It was also a message to the world, particularly the USSR (Union …

Increasingly, it seems like it’s only a matter of time before civilization collapses. It might happen because of nuclear war, but the more likely cause is ecological chaos. Carbon emissions continue to rise and global warming is accelerating; the destruction of ecosystems, from forests to marine environments, is accelerating; countless species of animals and plants are going extinct every year because of human activity. A century from now, when the climate is much warmer than today and nature even more severely degraded, billions of people may be dying from floods, famines, scorching temperatures, lack of access to water, wars over …

More than rhetorical, this is the lived, material reality imposed on Iranians since 1953 for the crime of claiming their own resources. While by no means the first colonial intervention, Operation Ajax introduced a new paradigm of the postwar colonial West: a more efficient method of controlling resources without the costly business of physical occupation.

The national flag is raised, the government adopts a native name, but the nation’s independence is subdued through financial coercion, coups, proxy wars and sanctions. The methods changed, the $10 trillion per year extraction …

Ed Miliband began his statement on Israel-Palestine by telling the nation about his unshakable devotion to Israel despite its 78 years of relentless terror, theft and slaughter.  The message was clear enough: another Israeli stooge is in charge of OUR foreign affairs.

He then followed up with an assortment of disinformation, Mickey-Mouse measures and other nonsense.

I say to anyone here or around the world who questions Israel’s right to exist as a homeland for the Jewish people: you are wrong and we will call you out whenever you engage in this attempt at the erasure of Israel.

Israel still hasn’t declared …

USS Abraham Lincoln after docking in Laem Chabang port in Thailand

When the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln finally limped into the Thai port of Laem Chabang after an unbroken stint of 286 days at sea, the corporate media and defence commentators were seized by the visible layer of rust coating the ship from bow to stern. Mainstream analysts interpreted these indecorous and embarrassing signs of decay as the consequences of inadequate naval logistics, overextended supply chains, procurement backlogs, and insufficient maintenance budgets.

If we do not suppose too much …

This may seem like a dumb question, but perhaps it’s brilliant because it’s dumb: What happens if you just give struggling people money? Like on a regular basis? Have we ever studied that? Have we ever even tried it? We totally should.

(*Types question into internet machine.*)

Oh yes, we have indeed tried it, and it turns out it works spectacularly every fucking time. Like, every time.

Whether it’s an attempt to help with homelessness or joblessness or hunger or dropping out of school, guaranteed income always helps a lot — without fail — …

The men of the Russian military forces doing the fighting on the Ukraine front are defending far more unequally distributed Russian national income and asset wealth on the home front than the Red Army which fought and won the war against Germany and Japan, the Great Patriotic War of 1939-45.

Moreover,  if expert estimates are correct,  the men fighting World War I were defending the Romanov-regime tsarist nation whose measurable inequality was less – repeat less – than the Russian society of today. In 1917 that inequality …

On September 11, 2001, the world watched as the World Trade Center, the twin towers that represented US global dominance, were struck by hijacked U.S. commercial jetliners and came crashing to the ground. Nearly 3,000 people were killed, from high-powered executives to clerical workers and immigrant kitchen workers. The hijackers were Middle Eastern men, primarily from Saudi Arabia.

Twenty-five years later, many questions remain about how the US military and security establishment could have allowed this to happen. Hardly anybody believes the official 9/11 story, which raises more questions than it answers, and there are many competing theories about who was …

With the twenty-fifth anniversary of “9/11” this week, it is important to remember all the warning signs that were evident in the months leading up to the events of that terrible day and the anthrax attacks that followed. Despite their obviousness, the Bush administration, after the fact, denied that they were aware of them. They claimed they were taken by surprise by Al Qaeda terrorists led by Osama bin Laden.

They were lying.

The bitter truth – hard to swallow – is …

See “BUSTED! 2 ‘Measles Deaths’ Turned Out to Be Fake! As Per Coroner. Who Put the Story Out and Why…”

31 years ago, today the Ontario Provincial Police killed Ojibway protester Dudley George. The act of colonial violence highlights one way the Canadian military has dispossessed First Nations.

During World War II 1,000 hectares of Chippewa Territory was appropriated for a Canadian Forces (CF) training ground near Sarnia, Ontario. After the Kettle and Stoney Point First Nation rejected their offer, the government expropriated the land under the War Measures Act. At the time the Crown Canada Company had a similar sized piece of land nearby, but it would have cost the military …

How angry America gets when it attacks people and those people resist!

— Osama bin Laden, December 1998

How can they hope to be blessed with security while they are dishing out destruction, devastation, and murder on our people in Palestine and Iraq?

— Osama bin Laden, December 16, 2004

He dated his political awakening to 1973, when a U.S. airlift helped Israel turn the tide in the so-called Yom Kippur War. Egypt and Syria had overrun Israeli defenses and its vaunted Bar-Lev line at the beginning of the war, leading a stunned Tel Aviv to hint that it might resort to nuclear weapons …

The essay begins in Peter’s experience and widens into a shared reflection.

Let me start by saying that, up to a point, I am such a person. I live in Cambodia, where I am a stranger. My life’s work has made that a semi-permanent condition. I have resided and worked in many more strange lands, and for longer periods, than I have in those places that you could, if pressed, say I was “from”.

But there are strangers and strangers.

Some strangers are much stranger than others. And some seem much less aware than they should be of the fact that they are …