Anti-Tech “Extremism,” or Populism? | Anti-China Data-Center Conspiracy Theory | New Zealand’s Military Trap | Bernie’s A.I. Proposal | Hegseth’s Shangri-La Primacy Fantasy
The government is now going after regular people who oppose data centers and are calling it the policing of “anti-tech extremist violence.” Guess who benefits from that?
Congress is pursuing an anti-China conspiracy theory about data center opposition in the US. It’s as absurd as it sounds, but with real consequences that Mike Brenes and I warned about in The Rivalry Peril.
Bernie Sanders is in the New York Times with a new proposal to seize the means of A.I. production, sort of.
New Zealand is allowing itself to fall into a militarist trap of its own making—what’s at stake in the debate about New Zealand military spending and its anti-nuclear stance.
Pete Hegseth’s speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue confirms one thing: The US is still pursuing global primacy, only under conditions where it’s neither possible nor justified…and that means violence.
What makes opposition to A.I. data centers a strategically useful site for both people-power struggles and state repression.
And the U.S. has illegally killed more than 200 people in over 60 strikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific—that’s what the Monroe Doctrine looks like.
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