Chris Hedges and David Harvey: Enough is Enough of This Capitalist Fraud

Dear Capitalism...

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Dandelion Salad

with Chris Hedges

RT America on June 9, 2018

David Harvey, author of Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, discusses the future of global capitalism.

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“Google Should Not Be In The Business of War”: Understanding the Weaponization of Artificial Intelligence by Marc Eliot Stein

End War

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Dandelion Salad

Republished with permission from David Swanson at World Beyond War

by Marc Eliot Stein
World Beyond War
June 9, 2018

In early April, more than 3100 Google employees signed a letter that begins with the words “Google should not be in the business of war”. The letter is a response to the company’s participation in a new US Department of Defense artificial intelligence program called Project Maven, which it describes as a “customized AI surveillance engine” designed to interpret visual images from drones, and concludes with a powerful request from Google employees to their management:
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