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Geoffrey Hinton, AI, and Google’s ethics problem
Talk about the dangers of artificial intelligence, actual or imagined, has become feverish, much of it induced by the growing world of generative chat bots. When scrutinising the critics, attention should be paid to their motivations.
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Sowing seeds of plunder
A Lose-Lose Situation in Ukraine
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Charles III coronation reminds of Britain’s bloody history of genocide, slavery, and loot
The coronation ceremony and centuries of plunder by the British Empire cannot be seen in isolation.
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Biden breaks all-time record for most weapons sold during fiscal year
The U.S. President, who has constantly held up the banner of human rights in his policies with non-friendly states, has sold weapons to the majority of ‘autocratic’ states in 2022.
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Nicaragua: What we learned about agroecology
“Why did we choose to study in Nicaragua? Hunger, poverty, and illiteracy are major issues plaguing much of the world, and climate change is one of the greatest threats to humans on the planet. Nicaragua is setting an example for sustainable development that addresses all these issues.”
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European ‘strategic autonomy’ and the perception of reality
French President Emmanuel Macron’s statement in China about developing “strategic autonomy” from the United States is empty posturing intended for the domestic French market.
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Nakba at 75
The Nakba, “catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine, which includes the expulsion and subsequent displacement of Palestinians, the destruction of Palestinian towns and villages, and other attempts to eradicate the Palestinian people from their ancestral homeland in the territory that became the State of Israel.
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What’s behind the attack against Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement?
The Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST), Brazil’s largest social organization and a major force for land reform, is under attack from the country’s conservative forces in the parliament and the mass media.
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May 8 and the rehabilitation of Nazism in Germany
On 8 and 9 May, Berlin traditionally hosts numerous commemorative events to mark the end of the Second World War in Europe.
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Big bad Canada pushes to protect profits from Mexico
The Trudeau government is pressing Mexico to maintain its loosely regulated, pro-capitalist mining policies.
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Public opinion and imperialism
A New York Times News Service report reproduced in The Telegraph of Kolkata (May 7), discusses the findings of a global public opinion survey carried out by the Bennett Institute of Public Policy of Cambridge University. These show that the Ukraine conflict had shifted public sentiment “in developed democracies in East Asia and Europe as well as the United States of America, uniting their citizens against both Russia and China and shifting mass opinion in a more pro-American direction”.
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Michael Lebowitz, presente! (1937–2023)
Marxist economist Michael A Lebowitz passed away at home on April 19.
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The work that Tricontinental does: The Nineteenth Newsletter (2023)
Over the past few years, we have become increasingly alarmed by the serious tensions that have been imposed on the world.
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The rollback of child labor protections is well underway
The hunt for profits is driving ever more despicable labor laws and practices.
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The great denial: Why they don’t want us to talk about class
In the first of three extracts from his new book, Radical Chains, Chris Nineham asks why the establishment is so desperate to suppress the very idea of class.
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“Israel is built on the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages”
The International People’s Assembly (IPA) organized an online event to mark 75 years of the Nakba and the Palestinians’ continued resistance against the Zionist colonial apartheid occupation of Israel
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Viewpoint: We are all salts
Today’s revival of union “salting” could not be more welcome or more urgently needed.
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Clarence Thomas reversed position after gifts and family payments
The Supreme Court justice switched sides on a landmark legal doctrine, satisfying his benefactors’ conservative advocacy machine.
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UN nuclear watchdog chief says intensified fighting around Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant ‘unpredictable and dangerous’
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi says intensified fighting around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine render the situation “unpredictable and potentially dangerous.”
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The murder of Jordan Neely Abetted by Eric Adams, worst Black Mayor in the Country
Black New Yorkers should have a semblance of confidence that their lives can’t be snuffed out without a killer being punished.