Analysis

  • Democracy • Economy

    Peter Thiel is betting on the apocalypse

    JULES EVANS

    Ecstatic Integration

    An emerging alliance between Tech, the Pentagon and the Christian Right

    Published On: 03/07/2025

  • Legal

    Trump’s Biggest Corruption is Flying Under the Radar

    Chris Murphy

    Chris Murphy's Substack

    It’s all just a shameless scheme for Trump to legalize large scale bribery, and shockingly, very few people seem to have taken notice.

    Published On: 03/07/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way

    Brett Wagner

    San Francisco Chronicle

    A joint Department of Defense and Homeland Security report will soon recommend whether or not to invoke the Insurrection Act over illegal migration

    Published On: 03/05/2025

  • Canada • Democracy

    ‘A scary place’: Jason Stanley on leaving Trump’s America

    Stuart Braun

    DW

    Philosopher Jason Stanley is among several critics of US President Donald Trump who have left Yale University, and the United States, to work and live in Canada. He equates the new leadership with "fascism."

    Published On: 03/04/2025

  • Democracy • Technology • Threat Management

    Memo: ‘Capture of U.S. Critical Infrastructure by Neoreactionaries’

    Gil Duran

    thenerdreich.com

    Memo details how Elon Musk has orchestrated a stunning takeover of the U.S. government

    Published On: 02/10/2025

  • Democracy • Technology

    The Plot Against America

    Mike Brock

    notesfromthecircus.com

    Teams of young tech operatives are systematically dismantling democratic institutions and replacing them with proprietary artificial intelligence systems. Civil servants who raise legal objections are being removed. Government databases are being migrated to private servers. Decision-making power is being transferred from elected officials and career bureaucrats to algorithms controlled by a small network of Silicon Valley elites.

    Published On: 02/08/2025

  • Social Media • Threat Management

    Amid Meta Policy Changes, Neo-Nazis Monetize Hate on Instagram

    Global Project Against Hate and Extremism

    globalextremism.org

    In this new more permissive online environment, an investigation by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) has discovered neo-Nazi activity flourishing on Instagram, including degrading hate speech, antisemitic conspiracism, and even Nazi symbols being used to sell merchandise.

    Published On: 02/06/2025

  • Democracy • Economy

    Peter Thiel and the American Apocalypse

    Dave Troy

    The Washington Spectator

    In May, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced H.R. 8421, the “Federal Reserve Abolition Act” which aims to “abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Reserve banks” and repeals the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, the law that created the Federal Reserve System. ...This bill, as designed, would end the current dollar system and introduce a new financial system rooted in a gold-backed dollar and cryptocurrencies.

    Published On: 07/30/2024

  • Global • Technology

    The New Propaganda War

    Anne Applebaum

    The Atlantic

    If people are naturally drawn to the image of human rights, to the language of democracy, to the dream of freedom, then those concepts have to be poisoned.

    Published On: 05/06/2024

  • Social Media • Technology

    Welcome to the Age of Technofeudalism

    Morgan Meaker

    Wired

    In Yanis Varoufakis’ latest book, the former Greek finance minister argues that companies like Apple and Meta have treated their users like modern-day serfs.

    Published On: 04/09/2024

  • Safety • Threat Management

    Iran’s AI Assault on Women

    Rachel George

    Council on Foreign Relations

    Iran and other countries in the Middle East are increasingly using artificial intelligence as a tool to crackdown on women's rights.

    Published On: 12/07/2023

  • Democracy • Technology

    The Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality

    Jonathan Taplin

    Vanity Fair

    In an excerpt from his new book, The End of Reality, the author warns about the curses of AI and transhumanism, presenting the moral case against superintelligence.

    Published On: 08/22/2023

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Safety

    Equally Safe

    Jennifer Robinson, Dr Keina Yoshida

    Article 19

    What might a feminist approach to the protection of journalists look like? What concrete benefits might it bring? And could it provide solutions to the well-documented – and highly gendered – abuse that women journalists face every day?

    Published On: 05/03/2022

  • Recommended • Social Media • Technology

    Yuval Noah Harari Is Worried About Our Souls

    Steve Paulson

    Nautilus

    Are you saying this loss of individual control is feeding the breakdown of democracy?

    Well, two things are happening at the same time. First of all, we’ve gained the ability to hack human beings. If you believe in free will, you will say this is impossible. Nobody can know me better than I know myself. Nobody can predict my choices or manipulate my desires, because they are a reflection of my free will, of my free spirit. But then you become the easiest person to hack and to manipulate.

    Published On: 12/26/2018

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