Tag: US
AI, Robot Dogs, Anti-Drone Systems: World Cup of Surveillance
Critics called the 2022 World Cup in Qatar a massive surveillance operation and a demonstration of digital control—but the U.S. is taking it a step further.
Albanians Revolt Against Luxury Resort Construction
“Albania is not for sale.”
Podcast: Mourning, Mobilizing, and New Forms of Labor Resistance
Who’s torching the driverless taxis? How many AI features can people swallow before Google gets socialized? And why is kicking ICE out of neighborhoods a union issue? In this Turning Point conversation, we explore the new horizons of labor struggles with Sarah Jaffe.
US-Israel war on Iran driving historic levels of global hunger
“We take from the hungry to give to the starving,” the World Food Programme warns.
US Law Enforcement Prepares for “Anti-Tech” Unrest
Internal intelligence reports reveal a quiet shift in the US surveillance apparatus toward growing protests against data centers and AI technologies.
Cuba Is Quietly Driving One of the Fastest Solar Transitions in the World
The Caribbean country more than tripled its renewable energy share from 3% to 10% within a year—all while navigating a crippling US-led trade embargo.
Cuba Has Run Out of Diesel And Fuel Oil, Energy Minister says
Hospitals limit services and schools shutter as energy embargo drives Cuba toward its worst humanitarian crisis in decades.
A Message from Venezuela: An Alternative Must Be Built Beyond the Regime and the US
The people want and need an end to the persecution under the current political regime. Above all, the end of this repression would allow social and political forces in Venezuela to reorganize so that an alternative to the US-led projects can be strengthened.
Testifying from the Ground
In a world where geopolitics is often discussed in the abstract language of “spheres of influence” and “market stability,” we are choosing to ground our coverage in the visceral reality of those living through the cracks.
Utopia, Not Futurism
Visual composition: Turning Point. Original photo: Public Domain (Murray Bookchin, photographer unknown) Link copied! The following text is a transcript of the speech the American […]