Who Owns You in the Age of AI?
Coase, Property Rights, and the AI Debate Everyone Is Having Backwards Jeffrey Wernick The AI debate has settled into two camps. One says the technology is too dangerous to distribute,…
Economist Baker Explains: AI Bubble Is About To Burst
Taya Graham and Stephen Janis TRNN Economist Dean Baker (Center for Economic and Policy Research, author of Rigged and creator of the AI Bubble Monitor) joins Taya Graham and Stephen…
ICE and Data Centers Aren’t New, But Face Growing Pushback as They Intertwine
By Austin C. McCoy This article was originally published by Truthout A New Jersey township ordinance is the first in the US reflecting the link between the deportation regime and…
Faith Leaders Collectively Raise Alarm as AI and Nuclear Weapons Systems Merge
By Jon Letman This article was originally published by Truthout As AI complicates nuclear threats, religious groups are doubling down on calls for disarmament. Eighty-one years after the U.S. dropped…
How the Epstein Network Is Privatizing The Government & Building Out The Surveillance State (w/Whitney Webb) | TCHR
Whitney Webb explains how Leslie Wexner privatized Ohio’s state government, and is using his position between the markets and the state to help the Thielverse build out the ‘Silicon Heartland.’…
‘Organized People Can Beat Organized Money’: Lawrence Wins House Primary After Harnessing Opposition to Data Centers
Stephen Prager Common Dreams Dr. Abdul El-Sayed was not the only Michigan progressive to take down a well-funded establishment opponent in a Democratic primary on Tuesday night. In central Michigan’s…
Trump’s Federal Trade Commission Is Threatening to Punish Big Tech for “Woke AI”
As Elon Musk defends nude deepfakes, the FTC is moving to censor AI models trained to recognize historical injustices. By Mike Ludwig This article was originally published by Truthout As…
Whose AI? Whose Opposition?
Will reports of foreign influence campaigns be used to discredit valid criticisms of artificial intelligence? Andy Lee Roth Project Censored Opposition to local AI data centers is bipartisan, according to…
AI Wants Your Land, Water, Power
Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. “This is just like a free-for-all. There’s really no oversight. There’s really no regulation.” (Erin Brockovich, Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting) Erin Brockovich is a well-known…
New York Is Blocking New Data Center Construction
Eliana Perozo, Next City. Here’s What Other Communities Should Know. These facilities are being built across the country without many guardrails. We’ve gathered five resources from organizations aiming to help…
AI Abundance, Part 5: Meaning Beyond Work
Ellen Brown Discussions of artificial intelligence typically begin with the question, What happens when the machines take our jobs? For thousands of years, work has been the means by which…
Whitmer’s Data Center Push Isn’t Just Bad for Michigan – It’s Bad for the World
Jackie Barlow and Stewart Mitchell “We’re used to people saying ‘fuck no’ and doing it anyway.” These words were seemingly spoken by our very own Governor Gretchen Whitmer earlier this…
America’s AI War Has No Civilian Stop Rule
Brian Hudson Foreign Policy in Focus When the Pentagon made Palantir’s Maven Smart System a formal “program of record” in March, it did more than approve software. It gave long-term…
Climate Activists Take On A New Foe: Data Centers
Kate Yoder, People’s World. Amid the many political casualties of 2025 — mass federal layoffs, shuttered agencies, and clean energy spending cuts — the passing of one of the last…
The AI Cold War: How Silicon Valley Is Selling Fear of China to Protect Its Monopoly
Joshua Scheer Is the race for artificial intelligence really about national security—or about preserving corporate power? In this wide-ranging analysis, journalist Ben Norton argues that America’s biggest technology companies are…