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ChatGPT and human intelligence: Noam Chomsky responds to critics
‘The threat to privacy and data security posed by language models like ChatGPT is real enough. I frankly doubt that there’s any practical way to contain them. The most effective means that I can think of…to counter the spread of malicious doctrines and ideology are education in critical thinking, organization to encourage deliberation, and modes of intellectual self-defense.’ —Noam Chomsky
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A brutal system replaced socialist health care in Europe
Matthew Read, researcher at the IF DDR, talks to the People’s Health Dispatch about similarities between East Germany’s and Yugoslavia’s socialist health systems and the lessons to be learned from these systems.
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Successive Governments in Ukraine have accommodated Nazis to counter Soviet nostalgia: Ukrainian Communist Dmitri Kovalevich (Interview)
Dmitri Kovalevich described a range of issues to Orinoco Tribune, including the 2014 coup, Ukrainian President Zelensky’s rise to fame, war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine, the economic collapse of the country, and many others.
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‘The U.S. incarcerates more immigrants than anywhere else in the World’
CounterSpin interview with Silky Shah on detention center fire.
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Starbucks ‘workers and consumers have the same foe’
CounterSpin interview with Saurav Sarkar on Starbucks organizing.
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Women’s work is not valued properly
In an interview with The Hindu, Ghosh talks about gender blindness of official policies, inequalities in society, the state of women empowerment and why women face multiple disadvantages in India.
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Clare Daly: Europe has become the tail of the U.S. dog, shot itself in its feet
In this episode, member of the European Parliament, Clare Daly, shares the struggles that Europe is facing, and her thoughts on how Europe has been under increasing U.S. pressure to worsen relations with China, against the interests of people in Europe.
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The New Irrationalism: a conversation with John Bellamy Foster
Daniel Tutt of Study Groups on Psychoanalysis and Politics interviews John Bellamy Foster on his new article, “The New Irrationalism,” from the February 2023 (Volume 74, Number 9) issue of Monthly Review.
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Black Agenda Report Book Forum: An Interview with Garrett Felber
To commemorate 100 years since the birth of former political prisoner Martin Sostre, the Black Agenda Report Book Forum interviews Garrett Felber, A Visiting Fellow at Yale University who is currently writing a book about Sostre. The book is called, We Are All Political Prisoners (under contract with the University of North Carolina Press).
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Gerardo Hernández on the resilience and continuity of the Cuban revolution
Cuba today is facing one of its toughest tests. It has been under a U.S. financial and trade embargo for over six decades, and in the past year has suffered catastrophic environmental disasters with Hurricane Ian and the fire at the Matanzas fuel facility. In spite of this, the Cuban people continue to resist and defend their revolution.
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Inside Latin America’s new currency plan, with Ecuador’s presidential candidate Andrés Arauz
Ecuadorian economist and former presidential candidate Andrés Arauz explains Latin America’s attempt to create a new currency and regional financial architecture, to challenge the “hegemonic, neo-colonial” U.S. dollar-dominated system..
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Chávez built a new economy: A conversation with Tony Boza (Part I)
An economist and National Assembly member reflects on the economic transformations that Chávez promoted.
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‘We’ve never been closer to nuclear catastrophe’: Activist Helen Caldicott
Australian anti-war and environmental activist Dr. Helen Caldicott warns that policymakers who understate the danger of nuclear weapons don’t have the public’s best interest at heart.
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The Requirements of the European Left: A Conversation with Peter Mertens, General Secretary of the Workers Party of Belgium
Vijay Prashad in conversation with Peter Mertens, General Secretary of the Workers Party of Belgium.
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The question of the civilizational state: an interview at Guancha with Vijay Prashad
Following the interviews with Zhang Weiwei, director of the China Institute at Fudan University, and Martin Jacques, former senior fellow of the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge University, Guancha.cn (观察者网) invited Vijay Prashad, executive director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, to continue the discussion on the “civilizational state”.
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‘The Cry Is “Lumumba Lives”—His Ideas, His Principles’
‘The Cry Is “Lumumba Lives”—His Ideas, His Principles’
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The ‘old-yet-new’: Past and present intermingle at the Hugo Chávez and Alí Primera communes
Communards from two rural communes in Yaracuy tell their story of a common struggle for the land.
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‘Every issue is a disability issue’
CounterSpin interview with Rebecca Vallas on disability economics.
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‘A crucial part of colonization is taking our children’
CounterSpin interview with Jen Deerinwater on Indian Child Welfare Act.
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Aminata Dramane Traoré: “They want to lead us into war”
An interview with Aminata Dramane Traoré on the chaos caused by Western states in the Sahel and the interests of the international oligarchy.