At least five die as anti-government protests rock Iran
Demonstrations sparked by anger among Tehran shopkeepers over a collapsing currency have spread to multiple cities.
Demonstrations sparked by anger among Tehran shopkeepers over a collapsing currency have spread to multiple cities.
Popular organizations created sovereign food distribution systems in response to US sanctions, says Andreína Chávez.
In the new year, Palestinians face new forms of colonization and new challenges to our rights and survival.
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.
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 […]
The ICE drive would use an ad-targeting technique called “geofencing” to send recruitment ads to users’ phone browsers.
The war in Sudan is not simply “between two generals, but between two wings of a comprador parasitic capitalist class,” fighting each other against the backdrop of a regional and global contest over Sudan’s land, resources, and geostrategic location on the Red Sea, argues Sidgi Kaballo of the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP).