Category: Thinking Politically

The tech-industry bestowed name, “Artificial Intelligence (AI)”, is a head-fake; there is no intelligence, just algorithms.

American higher ed has become a mesh of corporate contracts and outsourced services. From dining halls to student records, private vendors now run many institutions’ most basic operations — atomizing workers and undermining the university’s public mission.

The government of Qatar slammed Israel for a “cowardly” attack in violation of international law on Tuesday, an assassination attempt which targeted members of Hamas’ negotiating team in the capital city of Doha who had gathered to discuss a new Gaza ceasefire proposal put forth by US President Donald Trump.“The whole point was to gather…

“The world must mount a campaign to end Israel’s apartheid, as countries did for South Africa,” he said.

When Israel targets Palestinian seed banks, it’s not just destroying buildings. It’s attacking the future itself.

This trope has long been used to justify repression of anarchists, communists, liberals, immigrants, and unions.

Argues that counterposing economic populism to identity politics is counterproductive.

Talks about how Cuba offered doctors and other health care personnel when New Orleans was overwhelmed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and how the US refused to let them enter the country.

From Minnesota to Palestine, a reminder that the children are ours, all of them, because that is what morality requires of us.

Shows that even wealth cannot protect you from environmental destruction.