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💡 NewOct 14, 2026
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Using AI Instead Of Writing Turns Your Brain Into Cheez Whiz

Writing is thinking, and outsourcing it to generative AI stunts personal growth, erodes cognitive clarity, and leaves people unchanged, while the technology's deeper dangers lie in surveillance, war, and data centres.

💡 NewOct 14, 2026
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China elevates ties with Botswana and Togo - Friends of Socialist China

China and Botswana elevated ties to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership during President Duma Gideon Boko's October 12-17 state visit; the two marked 51 years of diplomatic relations and 45 years of Chinese medical teams, while Togo and China will celebrate 55 years of ties next year.

Oct 13, 2026
Article

When The Gates Of Tech Dystopia Snap Shut

A viral boar-trap video becomes a metaphor for how oligarchs and empire managers are quietly building surveillance, AI, drones and digital currency into a cage to crush any revolutionary movement before it can end capitalist abuses.

Oct 13, 2026
Article

China’s AI rise – can jobs and education keep pace with the rise of the robots? - Friends of Socialist China

China's humanoid robot makers held more than 97 percent of global shipments in the first half of 2026; UBTECH opened a Liuzhou factory targeting over 10,000 robots a year, and Unitree's US$900 million IPO drew 8,000-fold retail demand.

Oct 13, 2026
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How Western Intelligence Agencies Use AI To Manipulate Public Opinion

Stanislav Krapivnik

A former US Army officer and media analyst explains how Western intelligence agencies deploy AI, bot networks and skewed databases to shape public opinion, citing the Maidan operation and secret disinformation contracts.

Oct 13, 2026
Article

Leaked Files Expose Britain's Covert Influence Campaign in Iraq

Kit Klarenberg

Leaked British files reveal how London funded and directed the Iraqi youth platform Yalla through contractor M&C Saatchi to run a covert influence and behaviour-change campaign.

Oct 12, 2026
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US-Directed Strikes on Russian AI & Energy Centers As False US Diplomacy Floated

Brian Berletic

US-backed strikes target Russian data centres and energy infrastructure while diplomatic and oil deals buy time, as Russia, Iran and China prepare for further confrontation.

Oct 12, 2026
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How the US, Tech Giants, and Imperialism Fuel the Crisis in the Congo

Kambale Musavuli

Kambale Musavuli argues that a US-brokered DRC-Rwanda deal entrenches imperial extraction, linking Congolese coltan and tantalum to the global AI boom and Rwanda-backed M23 control of eastern mines.

Oct 12, 2026
Article

How to Find Depth in This Shallow World

A personal essay arguing that consumer culture and social media train us to encounter people as fragments, and that love, faith, anti-imperialism and Karbala demand sustained attention and recognition of others.

🧵 DigestOct 12, 2026
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Warwick Powell: AI's Money Problem Is Worse Than You Think

AI's Money Problem Is Worse Than You Think

Warwick PowellWarwick Powell

AI firms that once resisted regulation now seek government protection as capital spending soars without a path to profit, while cheaper Chinese open models undercut them and data centres drain US construction.

Warwick Powell argues that large language models are open-ended probabilistic systems whose financial backers face a profitability crisis, driving doomsaying and regulation talk while Chinese open-access models undercut Western firms.

🧵 DigestOct 12, 2026
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They're Setting Up AI Surveillance To 'De-Radicalize' Classrooms In Gaza

India: Eerie Calm to the Violence of Lathis: Walking Through Delhi on October 9 and 10

Caitlin JohnstoneNidhi Suresh

A US charity funded partly by Israeli donors plans to record Gaza classroom conversations and use AI to flag 'hateful' speech, raising surveillance and privacy fears amid the genocide.

Eyewitness account of the October 10 Delhi protests against the Chief Election Commissioner and electoral roll revision, as police sealed the capital, detained organisers and beat demonstrators.

Oct 11, 2026
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Hangzhou’s two transformations: frontier technology and ecological civilisation - Friends of Socialist China

Hangzhou, a 12.7-million-person megacity whose digital economy is 29.5 percent of GDP, hosts DeepSeek and Unitree, yet Zhejiang's data-service electricity use rose 159 percent in 2025, prompting a 1.2 power-usage ceiling on new data centres.

Oct 10, 2026
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They're Setting Up AI Surveillance To "De-Radicalize" Classrooms In Gaza

A US charity funded partly by Israeli donors plans to record Gaza classroom conversations and use AI to flag "hateful" speech, raising surveillance and privacy concerns amid Israel's war on Gaza.

Oct 10, 2026
Article

Venezuela Authorizes Starlink to Provide Internet Service Nationwide

Venezuela's telecom regulator CONATEL granted SpaceX licenses and Ku-band concessions to operate Starlink satellite internet nationwide, part of a broader push to modernise networks under its 2026-2031 telecommunications plan.

Oct 9, 2026
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AI, the Antichrist, and the Dajjal | Episode 2 Docuseries

A documentary series examining parallels between ancient Antichrist and Dajjal prophecies, science fiction, and the technological systems being built around artificial intelligence, surveillance, and control over reality.

Oct 8, 2026
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British chemical warfare commentator's MI6 ties exposed in leaked emails

Kit Klarenberg

Leaked emails reveal that Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, a prominent British chemical weapons pundit on the Salisbury poisoning, privately coordinated with MI6 officer Pablo Miller while profiting from inflated Novichok fears through his gas mask firm.

Oct 8, 2026
Article

The World Can't Afford to Lose Brazil

Marcio Pochmann

Brazil's 2026 first-round results show Lula's vote falling across nearly all municipalities, reflecting a deeper shift in work as platform and digital labour outgrow traditional categories, raising questions of data sovereignty and who captures productivity gains.

Oct 8, 2026
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From fragmentation to integration: Unlocking payments for growth in Africa

Shakirudeen Taiwo

A study of Africa's fragmented payment systems, where most intra-African transactions route through foreign intermediaries and settle in dollars or euros, and of African-led alternatives like PAPSS and mobile money.

Oct 7, 2026
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Socialist China Conference 2026: AI, technology and the new quality productive forces

Panellists at the Socialist China Conference contrast China's mass-consultation AI strategy and green industrial investment with Washington's oligarch-driven approach, arguing Beijing is building the infrastructure for a new productive paradigm.

🧵 DigestOct 6, 2026
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Michael Hudson: The AI Crash Is Coming, And You Will Pay For It

Michael Hudson: The AI Crash Is Coming, And You Will Pay For It

Michael HudsonMichael Hudson

Michael Hudson argues the AI boom is a speculative bubble on the scale of the dot-com and railroad manias, as Washington seeks to turn AI into a monopoly choke point while China's open-source model undercuts it.

Michael Hudson argues the AI boom is a speculative bubble on the scale of the dot-com and railroad manias, as Washington seeks to turn AI into a monopoly choke point while China's open-source model undercuts it.

Oct 6, 2026
Article

Russia, socialist countries greet China’s 77th National Day - Friends of Socialist China

Leaders of socialist and progressive countries greeted the People's Republic of China on its 77th national day, October 1; Vladimir Putin told Xi Jinping China is achieving impressive success in socioeconomic, scientific, and technological spheres.

Oct 6, 2026
Article

Undermining Cuba for Trump Part of Five Eyes Game

Yves Engler

Canada's Five Eyes intelligence alliance has long served US efforts to destabilise Cuba, with Canadian spies passing signals intelligence to Washington as Trump tightens the embargo on the island.

Oct 3, 2026
Article

Ecuador Detains Ola Bini, Opens Deportation Proceedings

Ecuadorian authorities detained Swedish programmer Ola Bini in Quito after revoking his residency visa and opening administrative deportation proceedings, which his defense calls irregular and is challenging in court.

Oct 2, 2026
Podcast

The State of Farces: Pete Hegseth's Quest to Build a Crusader Army

El Garcia Powers

A military commentator and a former Army specialist dissect Pete Hegseth's State of the Force reforms, arguing they purge experienced leaders, impose Christian nationalist ideology, and hollow out the US armed forces.

Oct 2, 2026
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PI Briefing | No. 30 | Nobody's Backyard

Brazil's election pits Lula against Flávio Bolsonaro amid documented US and Russian interference, AI disinformation, tariffs tied to Jair Bolsonaro's prosecution, and a fight over the Pix payment system.

Oct 1, 2026
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AI's Real Crisis: The $4 Trillion Bet That Could Crash the US Economy

Michael Roberts

Economist Michael Roberts argues the $4 trillion AI investment boom is a speculative bubble built on circular financing that could trigger a 2008-style recession far worse than the original.

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