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AI Is Turbocharging Bosses’ Efforts To Spy On Their Workers

July 10, 2026 Michael Arria, Truthout. , , , ,
In March, The Lever reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had hired the infamous software company Palantir to implement its controversial return-to-office directive, warning that the contract could bring surveillance technology — commonly referred to as “Bossware” — to the federal workforce. Days later, those suspicions were confirmed. A published disclosure reveals that the company will “design, configure, deploy, and manage a secure, user-friendly tool to track USDA employees’ return to the office.” “AI has supercharged surveillance,” Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, told Truthout.

The Data Center Showdown In Lackawanna County

June 16, 2026 Dave Rollo, Resilience. , , , ,
As the artificial intelligence (AI) boom explodes with a race for ever more powerful models, so does the need for its infrastructure. This takes the form of huge, windowless buildings housing thousands of data servers. Projects may involve numerous buildings—sometimes a dozen or more—with added infrastructure such as hundreds of backup generators. These amalgamations are termed data centers or, in some cases as an indication of their enormity, “hyperscale data centers.” Over 4,000 data centers have been built or are under construction in the United States, with corporations seeking approval for thousands more.

Government Money Without Strings Attached

June 12, 2026 Ellen Brown, Scheer Post. , , , ,
The first two articles in this series explored the proposition that artificial intelligence and robotics will soon be ushering in an economy of unprecedented abundance, and examined the resource and energy constraints that could limit that voluminous growth. If machines eventually replace most of the workforce, society may need some form of Universal High Income (UHI), as Elon Musk and others have suggested, simply to keep purchasing power aligned with productive capacity. In a world where goods and services can be produced in abundance, the challenge may no longer be creating supply.

Everybody Hates Data Centers

June 6, 2026 Paul Messersmith-Glavin, Truthout. , , ,
Between 4,000 and 5,000 data centers are actively humming in the U.S. right now, draining energy and, in the case of some of the hyperscale ones, consuming as much as 5 million gallons of water per day. Even this does not satisfy the demand cultivated by the tech industry, however: At least 3,000 more data centers are under construction or planned, prompting a diverse grassroots mobilization against their construction. Indigenous people are resisting continued attempts to exploit their land, air, and water. Rural white folks, some of whom voted for Donald Trump, are now going door to door, outraged about rising electricity costs and water shortages.

How Washington Is Building A Surveillance State Without Calling It One

June 3, 2026 Jeffrey Wernick, Scheer Post. , , ,
The most effective systems of control rarely arrive wearing jackboots. They arrive wrapped in reassuring language about innovation, security, and public safety. In a blistering critique of the Trump administration’s new artificial intelligence executive order, economist and commentator Jeffrey Wernick argues that Washington is quietly constructing something far more consequential than a technology policy: a framework for government-managed access to the most powerful AI systems ever created. Not through outright bans or formal licensing requirements, but through classified thresholds, privileged partnerships, and incentives that make resistance increasingly irrational.

No Tech For Fascism, War, Plunder

June 3, 2026 International League of People's Struggles, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Bay Area, CA — 700 anti-war, labor, and community organizers from across the country gathered from May 30th to June 1st for an Anti-Imperialist Political Conference, Peace Forum, and mass protest in response to the Trump administration's attacks on working people around the world, aided by increasingly powerful tech and weapons companies, many of them based in the Bay Area. The protest targeted OpenAI and ScaleAI headquarters in downtown San Francisco and included testimonies from communities directly impacted by US high-tech warfare, environmental destruction by data centers, and AI-powered ICE surveillance.

Where Capitalism Meets Socialism: The Abundance Paradigm, Part 2

June 2, 2026 Ellen Brown, Web of Debt. , , ,
Part 1 of this “Abundance Paradigm” series discussed predictions that artificial intelligence and robotics will in the relatively near future produce an economy of extraordinary abundance – one in which most labor is automated. The contention of Elon Musk is that this development will require some form of government-issued “Universal High Income” (UHI) to provide the consumer demand necessary to keep the economy functioning in a world where machines do most of the work. Based on those projections, I argued that if a UHI were to become necessary, it could not realistically be financed through taxes or debt alone, but would require some form of debt-free sovereign money issuance — a modern version of Lincoln’s Greenbacks.

Artificial Hype, Authentic Resistance: Gen Z Calls Out Big Tech Hype

May 26, 2026 Nolan Higdon, Scheer Post. , , ,
When a speaker at the University of Central Florida’s May 8, 2026 commencement declared, “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next Industrial Revolution,” it triggered boos that escalated when she spoke of “living in a time of profound change.” Gloria Caulfield, an aloof real estate executive, paused and looked around confused, asking, “Whoop, what happened?” She seemingly did not realize the graduating students were booing her techno-utopian position on AI, a fact made clear seconds later when she drew cheers for saying, “Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives.”

The Abundance Paradigm: Why AI Forces Rethinking Money

May 10, 2026 Ellen Brown, Web of Debt. , , ,
A Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been proposed as a way to cushion the blow of jobs lost to automation. Under that model, everyone receives a modest monthly payment – enough to cover basic needs and prevent extreme poverty. Rather than a subsistence stipend, Universal High Income (UHI) would be a level of income allowing ordinary people to live well in a world where machines do most of the work. Musk has also said that AI and robotics are the only things that can solve the massive U.S. debt crisis.

Massive AI Data Center Transforms Rural Utah Into National Flashpoint

May 9, 2026 Devin B. Martinez, People's Dispatch. , , , ,
“Shame! Shame! Shame!” chanted over a thousand voices on May 4, at the County Commission meeting of Box Elder, a rural county of Utah, as the three commissioners collected their things and quickly made their way toward the exit. Police moved toward the crowd as chants continued: “Who are you protecting?” and “People over Profit!”  The county commissioners had just voted to approve one of the world’s largest data centers. A 40,000-acre complex known as the “Stratos Project” is now moving forward in the rural area. These data facilities, although typically much smaller, are the essential infrastructure powering the AI technology boom.

Google AI Workers Unionize Against Tech Giant’s Role In US, Israeli War Crimes

May 6, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , , , , , , ,
On 6 May, Google DeepMind workers in the UK asked management to recognize the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Unite the Union as their workplace representatives, as staff prepare to challenge the use of Google AI technology by the US and Israeli militaries. “We don’t want our AI models complicit in violations of international law, but they already are aiding Israel’s genocide of Palestinians,” one DeepMind employee said. “Even if our work is only used for administrative purposes, as leadership has repeatedly told us, it is still helping make genocide cheaper, faster, and more efficient.

Indigenous Land Defenders Are Being Killed; AI Is Scraping Their Knowledge

April 27, 2026 Michael Cugley, People's World. , , , ,
Indigenous land defenders are being killed and criminalized at alarming rates, AI systems scrape traditional knowledge without consent, while Indigenous women face escalating rates of violence — crises that Indigenous leaders confronted this week at the United Nations, where they warned that the fight for health and sovereignty now extends from traditional territories into digital spaces. Those warnings came during the 25th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, or UNPFII, where the overarching theme “ensuring Indigenous peoples’ health in the context of conflict” resonated with participants from around the world.

Death By Artificial Intelligence

April 25, 2026 Ken Klippenstein. , , ,
The U.S. military’s secretive Special Operations Command plans to establish its first-ever center for AI-driven missions like targeted assassinations. Autonomous warfare is all the rage at the Pentagon, where computers and artificial intelligence process intelligence data, select targets and then transmit kill orders to a waiting robot, or a “loitering” missile or airplane. The new “Special Operations Forces Autonomous Warfare Center” is referenced in the $1.5 trillion Department of War budget request to Congress this week.

AI Advocates Using Same Playbook As Free Traders Before Them

April 25, 2026 Danny Parys, Rabble.ca. , , ,
From the late 80’s to the early 2000’s, Canadian politicians and business leaders sung sweetly about the promises of free trade and globalization. Indeed, in 2005, just three years before the 2008 global recession, a consortium of business leaders proudly declared “as an economy, Canada seems to be in great shape,” and that globalization in the 80’s and 90’s had “unleashed a wave of innovation and creativity” within the private sector. Though after two decades of free trade evangelization from thought leaders, many of the arguments in favour of globalization were being repeated by rote: New markets to sell to. More foreign investment. Cheaper goods for consumers.

Is Another Financial Crisis Brewing In The US Economy?

April 22, 2026 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. , , ,
There are growing signs that the United States may be on the verge of another major financial crisis, one that could start in the private credit market, which is already seeing significant turmoil, before spreading to other sectors. Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton interviewed economist Michael Hudson to discuss the serious problems on Wall Street. Hudson warned that the US economy is built on a Ponzi scheme that depends on continuing to pour money into a bloated, bubbly financial system based on unsustainable speculation, not industrial production.
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