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Leonard Peltier is a 77-year-old Anishinabe-Lakota Native American activist imprisoned for 46 years for a crime he says he did not commit. Amnesty International calls him a political prisoner. Peltier recently contracted COVID-19 inside the Coleman maximum security federal penitentiary in…

By John Pilger / Globetrotter Marshall McLuhan’s prophecy that “the successor to politics will be propaganda” has happened. Raw propaganda is now the rule in Western democracies, especially the U.S. and Britain. On matters of war and peace, ministerial deceit…

A growing body of research suggests a connection between the pesticide paraquat and Parkinson’s disease. By Miguel Leyva Agricultural workers in the United States currently use more than 400 different pesticides on their crops to ensure “higher yields and improved…

He did not specify which intelligent systems he was referring to, but it is likely to be OpenAI’s GPT-3 autoregressive language model. The chief scientist of the research group at artificial intelligence development company OpenAI, Ilya Sustskever, posted on his…

Oil and gas CEOs were too chicken to show up to a recent congressional hearing—perhaps fearing that their climate pledges will be revealed as nothing more than slick PR. By Sonali Kolhatkar Everywhere around us there is evidence of climate…

The presidential agreement that protects the projects and works of the federal government promotes “private profit and public dispossession”, as well as representing “a death sentence for the communities and territories affected” by the megaprojects, according to indigenous and peasant…

LIVE SHOW – Thursday, February 10th at 12 (noon) On this show, we speak with Dr. Ernest Biscardi, about the origins of how and why people get stuck. Why we have fixed ways of responding with no easy access to other…

How two nascent artist residencies on opposite sides of the country are giving Black creatives opportunities to rest and create. By Aric Sleeper Under the pervasive stress of the COVID-19 pandemic, waxing and waning ad infinitum, with no end in…

“Utopia is on the horizon. I walk two steps, it moves two steps away and the horizon runs ten steps further. So, what is utopia for? That’s what it’s for, it’s for walking. This famous phrase, popularised by Eduardo Galeano,…

Archbishop Wester highlights Pope Francis’ stance that the “possession of atomic weapons is immoral.” By Deseri Tsepetis – nationalinterest.org Last month, John C. Wester, the Archbishop of Santa Fe, California, issued a pastoral letter calling for nuclear abolition and supporting the…