Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now It pisses me off whenever I see someone claiming that “AI music” is about to make normal music obsolete. There is no such thing as “AI music” or “AI art”. AI cannot make music. It cannot create the experien...

British soldiers interrogated dissidents in Oman before nearly a dozen of the men were executed in 1973, newly discovered files show. Although Britain had abolished the death penalty for almost all offences four years prior to the executions, UK troops on loan to the Sultan of Oman were em...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I hate it when people say humanity’s problems will be solved by “artificial superintelligence” as though all we need to fix the cruelty and abusiveness in our world is an AI that is smarter than a human. Ma...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The Wall Street Journal has a new article out titled “ Why Are So Many Adults Cutting Off Their Parents? ” about the rising levels of family estrangement in our society. “Many experts believe that estrangem...

The last Conservative government passed the Legacy Act, which shut down many routes to justice for victims of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Inquests were stopped, even when British soldiers fired the fatal shots. Labour’s manifesto pledged to pass a Troubles Bill which would reverse...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now More and more humans are suffering from empire psychosis. People who can’t go ten minutes without checking their phones, losing hours a day to social media and mindless scrolling. People talking to chatbot...

The Great Dicktator – by Mr. Fish Chris Hedges ScheerPost By any standard of morality, Trump is depraved. But adorned with the power of the state, he descends to another level — the level of evil. Donald Trump exhibits the classic traits of psychopaths — superficial charm, grandio...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Tech plutocrats are the high-budget expression of the “ everyone is twelve now ” theory. You wanna go to Mars? Of course you do, you’re twelve. You think you can merge your consciousness with machinery and u...

Chris Hedges  and  John J. Mearsheimer For all of President Trump’s recent threats to “annihilate Iran,” the reality is that the United States is running out of both options and time to resolve this US- Israeli-initiated war. The US has made overtures toward renewing a hot war, but it has no...

Declassified journalists have been banned from the Labour Party’s annual conference for the third year in a row. The event in Liverpool next week is the first under new prime minister Andy Burnham and is traditionally an opportunity for reporters to question politicians. But three De...

The UK government’s new sanctions on Israel have resulted in zero arms export licences being revoked or suspended, it can be revealed. Earlier this month, Ed Miliband announced a fresh range of measures against Israel including a ban on trade with illegal settlements. The foreign se...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Doordash has reached a historic $131.5 million settlement to repay workers in New York City for wages the food delivery app stole from them over the last four years, which sounds like a big win for the littl...

Kathmandu’s arrest of a prominent political observer who shared critical reporting by The Grayzone is the latest sign that a government which promised reform may be more repressive than the one it forcibly replaced. The Supreme Court of Nepal has ordered the government to explain its reasoning for ...

Andy Burnham’s decision to send a Royal Air Force plane to Saudi Arabia for “defensive” aerial refuelling in the kingdom’s war against the Houthis has a familiar ring to it. His words echo those of his predecessor. Keir Starmer provided the same support “to aid self-defence” of the USS Harr...

Camden Council’s investments in Palantir, the controversial AI company with ties to the Israeli military, have increased by over 1,200% since October 2023. The council’s overall holdings in companies complicit in Israel’s violation of Palestinian rights have risen in value by almost 30 perce...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I strongly disagree with the idea that it’s unhelpful to bully celebrities about their position on Palestine. On the contrary, I think we should bully them more. We tend to underestimate the consequences of...

Is the public entitled to know exactly where Oxford University invests billions of pounds of its endowment – and if that includes firms profiting from Israeli military operations? This is the question now facing a tribunal, following a legal challenge brought by an Oxford climate scientist a...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The biggest AI threat isn’t artificial superintelligence wiping out humanity in a fit of mechanical vengeance like some digital Old Testament God, it’s the same oligarchs and empire managers as usual inflict...

A pre-inquest review opened today into the killing of three British citizens working as security consultants for World Central Kitchen (WCK) in Gaza. James ‘Jim’ Henderson, 33, James Kirby, 47, and John Chapman, 57, were among seven aid workers killed in a series of Israeli drone strikes on ...

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Every so often I like to write out an explanation of who I am and what I’m trying to do here, for the benefit of new followers and for my own mental clarity. The Caitlin Johnstone project is actually run by...