U.N. rights body to examine ‘systemic’ U.S. racism and police brutality
Day: June 15, 2020
Will More Syria Sanctions Hurt the Very Civilians They Aim to Protect?
The past three months have proved it: the costs of lockdown are too high
Project Venezuela: Right-Wing Activists Push Wikipedia to Blacklist MintPress, other Alternative Media
Still unable to convince a sufficient number of their countryfolk to support them, the Venezuelan opposition has turned their efforts towards convincing an international audience – primarily Americans – to support their cause. Part of that is spending inordinate amounts of time online, arguing in English on social media, creating bot networks, and editing Wikipedia articles. Many Wikipedia articles on Venezuela are particularly biased towards the opposition, containing numerous inaccuracies, falsehoods and non-sequiturs.
Alan Macleod
Related: Political Bots and the Manipulation of Public Opinion in Venezuela (PDF)
The capitalist “great reset” and the descent into techno-tyranny
The capitalist “great reset” and the descent into techno-tyranny
The NSCAI explicitly praises the potentials for helping law enforcement that all these new technologies will provide, stating that “police are making convictions based on phone calls monitored with iFlyTek’s voice-recognition technology” and that “police departments are using [AI] facial recognition tech to assist in everything from catching traffic law violators to resolving murder cases.” You can imagine what such a drastic expansion of these surveillance tools will mean for political organizers who represent the “dangerous” ideas that are now being censored so heavily.
Rainer Shea
Related: Who Profits from the Pandemic?
The Violence of Organized Forgetting
The Violence of Organized Forgetting
The merging of the military-industrial complex, surveillance state and unbridled corporate power points to the need for strategies that address what is specific about the current warfare and surveillance state and the neoliberal project and how different interests, modes of power, social relations, public pedagogies and economic configurations come together to shape its politics.
Henry A. Giroux
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 