Can Marxism offer a framework for understanding artificial intelligence (AI) and the tech bros behind it? This is not to suggest that Marxism is a viable economic system or a practical alternative to capitalism. It’s not. But Karl Marx was a heterodox economist before he became an ideologue, and some of his ideas are powerful…
Can Marxism offer a framework for understanding artificial intelligence (AI) and the tech bros behind it? This is not to suggest that Marxism is a viable economic system or a practical alternative to capitalism. It’s not. But Karl Marx was a heterodox economist before he became an ideologue, and some of his ideas are powerful…
In our third #SolutionsWatch/Independent Media Alliance crossover episode, host James Corbett, a panel of IMA regulars and special guest Tim Lacy discuss books that have inspired them personally and politically. Panel & Recommendations: James Corbett of corbettreport.com. Recommended Book: Animal Farm by George Orwell Secondary recommendation: Dune by Frank Herbert Tim Lacy of ReportageBook.com: Recommended book: Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco Quote…
“We are standing at the precipice of something we cannot comprehend, and the silence from those who know is deafening. The mechanisms are already in motion, the chess pieces positioned with mathematical precision while the world sleeps. I have seen the projections. I have read the classified briefings that never reached your evening news. What…
US prosecutors are accusing a legal permanent resident of Louisiana of participating in the October 7 attacks in Israel. Yet their case relies almost entirely on intelligence from Israel which the defendant’s lawyers are unable to see, and an Israeli agent they can not identify. The US Department of Justice has accused a 33-year-old Louisiana…
The map above is so crazy that I don’t even have the words to adequately describe it. It is a real map that comes from WatchDuty.org, and it shows wildfires that are actively burning in this country right now. As you can see, enormous wildfires are raging throughout the western third of the nation. A combination…
Coordinated action sent the yen sharply higher, but bitcoin’s recent correlation suggests U.S. dollar strength, rather than the carry trade, may be the bigger risk. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed Sunday that the U.S. joined Japan in coordinated foreign exchange intervention last Friday, calling it a move to counter “disorderly yen movements.” The USD/JPY pair almost…
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (CHATGPT), stood in front of a packed Chase Center alongside Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan and described a future where ordinary people have no freedom, no agency and no privacy. In his version of what the world could look like ten years from now, artificial intelligence cures cancer, produces endless…
A Trump lawsuit claims politics. Capital One has disclosed the real reason. Money Laundering Probe Reuters reports Capital One says it closed Trump Organization’s accounts after anti-money laundering probe Capital One Financial hit back on Friday against a lawsuit over its decision to close the Trump Organization’s bank accounts years ago, stating that it did so after…
While the American public remains deeply divided by electoral theater, a select coalition of Jewish organizations consistently steers the ship of state, ensuring that regardless of who occupies the Oval Office, the underlying geopolitical trajectory remains unchanged. Nowhere has this become more apparent than in the ongoing Iran war. The Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish…
