Part 1 discussed “Digital labor and material.” (workers.org/2024/04/78192/) Part 2 discussed “Labor under surveillance.” (workers.org/2024/05/78468/) Part 3 discussed “The media of digital capital.” (workers.org/2024/10/81336/) This part takes up a discussion of how algorithmic technologies are used in the context of imperialist exploitation and military operations. Graphic: Zoran Svilar: fromprinttopixel.ch/en/the-power-of-images/digital-colonialism In a digital landscape marked by…
Home » Human needs before profits » Blame billionaires, not migrants – Keep New York a sanctuary city Solidarity with migrants demonstration, New York City, Dec. 18, 2024. By Hugo East New York City — Supporters of immigrant rights formed a picket line in front of New York City Hall Dec. 18, International Migrants Day,…
A report published in June of 2020 states that in 2017, 2018 and 2019, the state of Israel demolished over two thousand homes of Palestinian citizens of Israel per year in the Naqab region alone. The report was put together by an Israeli Non-Governmental agency called, “The Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality.” History The…
JERUSALEM — “Palestinians are being treated extremely unfairly.” This quote by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) came to mind as I was watching the documentary film 1948: Creation and Catastrophe. The terms “fair” and “unfair,” and even “extremely unfair,” come to mind when children quarrel on the playground, or maybe in a family feud when parents…
LONDON — “I came here hoping to see if the other side had any new arguments, any fresh things to say, but what I found out [is] that this gentleman has trotted out every single cliche the Zionists have in their bag and it is very depressing that this is all you have got.” This short…
JERUSALEM, PALESTINE — It is 2:30 p.m. on a weekday in Jerusalem’s Old City, and one would expect the stores and restaurants to be open and busy. Standing near one of the first stations along the Via Dolorosa, the final path Jesus took as he carried his cross to his own crucifixion, I was looking…
The English-language Bangkok Post reported on May 5 that the Rohingya refugees who return to Myanmar will be safe, according to the military there, as long as they stay confined to the camps being set up for them. Myanmar’s current commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, told a visiting delegation from the UN Security…
Jai Subedi, 38, meticulously counts the inventory in his small store ensconced in the north of Syracuse, New York. He pauses, then rubs the palms of his hands and securing his muffler, enthusiastically steps out to help two men unload the towering crates of water bottles along with sacks of onions, and apple cartons, from…
Part 1 discussed “Digital labor and material.” (workers.org/2024/04/78192/) Part 2 discussed “Labor under surveillance.” (workers.org/2024/05/78468/) Part 3 discussed “The media of digital capital.” (workers.org/2024/10/81336/) This part takes up a discussion of how algorithmic technologies are used in the context of imperialist exploitation and military operations. Graphic: Zoran Svilar: fromprinttopixel.ch/en/the-power-of-images/digital-colonialism In a digital landscape marked by…
Home » Human needs before profits » Blame billionaires, not migrants – Keep New York a sanctuary city Solidarity with migrants demonstration, New York City, Dec. 18, 2024. By Hugo East New York City — Supporters of immigrant rights formed a picket line in front of New York City Hall Dec. 18, International Migrants Day,…
Home » Im/migrants and Refugees » Protesters to Biden: ‘Dismantle the Deportation Machine’ Over 100 people rallied at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall next to the Liberty Bell on Dec. 18, International Migrants Day, to pressure the Biden Administration to dismantle the deportation machine before he leaves office. The demonstration was organized by a coalition of groups…
As the designated terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) establishes its proto-government in Idlib, notoriously corrupt NGOs are stepping in to fill the gaps in public services, with some even defecting to work alongside the group. The United States, which spent two decades and $5.4 trillion overthrowing governments hostile to al-Qaeda, now finds itself in…