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Germany @[email protected] · 2026-09-08 · 05:10 UTC

Volkswagen workers demand freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk

VW plant in Wolfsburg We are publishing below a statement by Volkswagen workers calling for the release of…
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https://www.europesays.com/germany/86953/

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Egberto Willies @[email protected] · 2026-04-04 · 15:51 UTC

Iran Can’t Hit U.S. Directly—So It’s Hitting Everyone Around It

Iran strikes Gulf nations, oil hubs, and U.S. bases across the region. The result: rising oil prices, global instability, and a war spreading through allies.

#assassinationPolicy #CIAIntervention #Diplomacy #economicFallout #geopoliticalAnalysis #globalInstability #Hezbollah #Houthis #InternationalLaw #Iran #Israel #MiddleEastConflict #MILITARISM #MossadeghCoup #OilPrices #ProgressivePolitics #reserveCurrency #StraitOfHormuz #USForeignPolicy #warEconomy https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oMY

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Miguel Afonso Caetano 🦾 🌹 @[email protected] · 2026-02-25 · 01:23 UTC

"The US Air Force had sent the Rivet Joint, one of the world’s most powerful surveillance aircraft, to gather intelligence before a hostile operation. The UK also owns three of the planes and last month dispatched one to the North Atlantic to support the seizure of the Marinera tanker, which the US said had transported sanctioned oil for Venezuela.

Equipped with cutting-edge military technology, the Rivet Joint can pick up radar signals, geolocate enemy systems and intercept communications from 150 miles away.

Exactly how it does this is kept strictly under wraps. But we can reveal that an Australian tech company called Appen has performed work for a secretive US military unit, code-named Big Safari, that installs the planes’ tech systems.

Appen recruits gig workers from all over the world to help train AI systems. The company’s latest annual report says it has a workforce of a million people who speak over 500 languages.

Many of these gig workers are paid very little. Some are from countries that have faced attacks from US armed forces. None were told by Appen that they may have been working for the US military."

https://restofworld.org/2026/gig-workers-us-military-appen/

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Miguel Afonso Caetano 🦾 🌹 @[email protected] · 2025-03-04 · 16:34 UTC

"Karp and Zamiska’s basic historical claim that Silicon Valley owes its modern origins to Cold War defense spending is broadly true, even if the ethical mandate they derive from it—making the U.S. armed forces more lethal in order to uphold American global supremacy—is question-begging. Still, at times, their critique of the post–Cold War commercialization of Silicon Valley is surprisingly lacerating: “Far too much capital, intellectual and otherwise, has been dedicated to sating the often capricious and passing needs of late capitalism’s hordes,” they write, decrying a generation of software engineers for applying its prodigious talents to building the next food delivery or social media app.

But their critique of tech-enabled consumerism only goes so far. In one of the book’s many unintentionally funny moments, they single out the early retail website eToys, a darling of pre-dot-com-bubble Silicon Valley, and castigate it for the “shallowness” of its ambition and “abdication of everything beyond the light hedonism of the moment.” But they’re quick to clarify: “To desire, even a toy, is to be human.” The point of refashioning the government in the image of a Silicon Valley start-up, they write elsewhere, is to ensure it delivers “the goods and services that are essential to our lives.” How did we get from “late capitalism’s hordes” to “goods and services”? It helps to remember that Palantir also runs a commercial business accounting for nearly half of its revenue.
(...)
This tonal seesawing—for every Karpian truth-bomb, a lawyerly qualification; for each saber rattled, a pitch-deck cliché—is symptomatic of this book’s generic incoherence. [I]t reads as though you asked an AI chatbot to write a set of Gladwellian think pieces in defense of American techno-militarism, with as many smart-sounding yet ultimately vacuous quotes as possible."

https://newrepublic.com/article/191786/alex-karps-war-west-palantir

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