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Global • Safety
Have things reached the point where it’s time to leave the U.S.?
David Kirp
San Francisco Chronicle
No one, except perhaps the authors of Project 2025, could have predicted that the so-called guardrails of democracy were made of papier-mâché, that this country could so quickly be teetering on the precipice of autocracy.
Published On: 04/12/2025
Technology
The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI
LUKE O’BRIEN
Mother Jones
Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
Published On: 04/10/2025
Democracy
The Putinization of America
Thom Hartmann
Hartmannreport.com
What happens when a country stops pretending to care about democracy and just lets the billionaires run wild? Look no further than Putin’s Russia — a place where wealth buys protection, loyalty buys power, and corruption isn’t hidden, it’s institutionalized.
Published On: 04/08/2025
Technology
Meet the Tech Billionaire Just as Dangerous as Elon Musk
TAYLOR LORENZ
zeteo.com
As CEO of Palantir, which he co-founded with Thiel more than two decades ago, Alex Karp is part of a new breed of Valley billionaires integrating their businesses with America's military-industrial complex.
Published On: 04/01/2025
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