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The R(AI)cial Divide Of Big Tech And Data Center Buildout
Above photo: Protesters march against xAI in Memphis. Stu Boyd II/ USA TODAY Network/Reuters. Artificial intelligence and hyperscale data center buildout constitute a new front of environmental racism. And a project to optimize white supremacy, with Black communities targeted as sacrifice zones. The specter of a cross-class white “supremacy” consolidation is more pronounced than ever in the United States (U.S.).
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Protesters march against xAI in Memphis. Stu Boyd II - USA TODAY Network/Reuters Artificial intelligence and hyperscale data center buildout constitute a new front of environmental racism and a project to optimize white supremacy, with Black communities targeted as sacrifice zones. The specter of a cross-class white ‚Äúsupremacy‚ÄĚ consolidation is more pronounced than ever in the United States (U.S.).
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Progressive candidates rarely remain so after winning public office. Zohran Mamdani is no exception, but his capitulation to New York zionists angered his supporters, and the people he hoped to placate are still working to make him a one-term mayor.
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The interview with Hasan Piker exposed Sanders as a bad-faith interlocutor who uses identity as a cudgel while remaining silent on the poverty, pollution, and police violence that plague the community she claims to represent. By now you have likely either watched the entire interview that MSNOW (aka MSDNC) hosts Symone Sanders and Eugene Daniels conducted with Twitch streamer Hasan Piker or seen reaction to it on various social media outlets and social media talk shows.
How The Big Apple’s Annual Environmental Gathering Surfaces An Imperative Inquiry
A Climate “Movement” Homonym: Climate Week or Climate Weak? The climate movement has been captured by a professional managerial class that prefers charity galas and virtue signaling to building power. “Eat, drink and be merry…for tomorrow we die.” – Dave Matthews Band According to Climate Group, who are the lead hosts of the annual New York City (NYC) Climate Week, this year’s gathering will attract over 100,000 people to the Big Apple who will be attending over 1,000 events throughout the week.
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In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Colin Kaepernick. Kaepernick is a former NFL quarterback, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, and civil rights activist. He is the founder of the Know Your Rights Camp, Kaepernick Media (Formerly Ra Vision Media), and Kaepernick Publishing, and Lumi Story AI. His book is The Perilous Fight.
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The climate movement has been captured by a professional managerial class that prefers charity galas and virtue hoarding to building power. “Eat, drink and be merry…for tomorrow we die.” - Dave Matthews Band According to Climate Group, who are the lead hosts of the annual New York City (NYC) Climate Week, this year’s gathering will attract over 100,000 people to the Big Apple who will be attending over 1,000 events throughout the week.
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Find me another 11,780 votes? Resurrection of old questions: How many jelly beans in a jar, How many bubbles in a bar of soap? Heads we win, tails you lose with 6 White Supremacist Courtesans of capital in coal tar-dyed robes, confirming Frankenstein-scarred, gerrymandered maps. Calling passport, birth certificate, drivers license ID square dances over spiked hurdles and flaming hoops to jump through.
The Path Black To Socialism: Dispatches From The Socialism Conference
Above photo: Hubert H. Harrison. Many in the U.S. “Left” are actually liberal elements that pull socialism toward the Democratic Party. Black organizers must build independent power. “With all due respect to the Marxists, however, the hard facts remain . Revolutionary nationalism has not waited for Western Marxian thought to catch up with the realities of the “underdeveloped” world. From underdevelopment itself have come the indigenous schools of theory and practice for achieving independence .
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Hakeem Jeffries climbs the political ladder because he engages in dirty deeds with the world’s worst people. Being called a monkey gives him an easy out. The presence of a Black face in a high place is still rarely worth celebrating or defending. “He [Hakeem Jeffries] is a bought and paid AIPAC monkey. With all due respect, I don’t mean it in a racist way.
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The Attica rebellion was never just about prison reform, because the rebels understood that the prison is the most intense expression of a system of imperialist domination that operates at every scale.
Gary, Indiana Is Latest Exemplar Of Wrong Complexion For Protection
Above photo: A man attempts to start a generator at his home, as his community in Gary, IN continues to go without electricity. Reuters. The Manifestation of Surplus Populations. White supremacy works through institutions, and FEMA’s formula for allocating disaster relief shows us how the state decides which neighborhoods are prioritized and which are left to suffer. Those in the surplus population are suffering.
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If the Democratic Party prevails in the midterm elections, Hakeem Jeffries will become the Speaker of the House of Representatives. But his decision to meet with Jared Kushner was a textbook case of how politics really operate and shows why a democratic win will once again bring disappointment to their voters. As Jeffries proved, they work on behalf of the ruling class.
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White supremacy works through institutions, and FEMA's formula for allocating disaster relief shows us how the state decides which neighborhoods are prioritized and which are left to suffer.
White Supremacy And Climate Change: A Sinister Symbiosis
The climate movement will never be effective as long as it refuses to confront white supremacy within its own organizations. And as a belief system which is unconcerned about Black and brown death. This July was the second warmest on recordand tens of thousands of Europeans have died this summer from complications associated with exposure to extreme heat. Climate change still ranks as low as 15th on what U.S. voters consider a key issue.
‘Fascist Country’: Activists, Educators Air Anti-Police, Anti-American Rhetoric During Heated OPS Meeting
(Picture credit OPS) OMAHA — The Omaha Public Schools Board of Education accepted nearly two hours of public comments Monday night after an August 12 NPR story revealed that the Omaha Police Department made electric shock gloves available to School Resource Officers. The Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter (G.L.O.V.E.) is a Compliant Technologies product capable of delivering a momentary shock of over 300 volts, roughly a third of the shock delivered by a police taser.
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The democrats’ backtracking on what they dismissively refer to as “wokeness” is the newest iteration of their political trickery as they yet again give the appearance of supporting what they actually oppose. They serve the interests of the oligarchs, and not those of the people. “It’s good that there are now plenty of young people who like the idea of socialism.
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The climate movement will never save the planet as long as it refuses to confront the white supremacy within its own organizations, because the people most impacted are still not at the table.
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“We wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes …” —Paul Laurence Dunbar They wear the masks — while looting our vast power of the purse J6-pardons, or simply worst of the worse They wear the masks — concealing profits of private prison-profiteers rounding up co-workers, comrades, and peers They wear the masks — abducting co-workers, neighbors, and next of kin white supremacist predators … hunting dark skin They wear the masks — hiding...
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A $400 million tech center is presented as progress for North Nashville. In truth, it means more pollution, more surveillance, and another chapter in a century of land dispossession dressed up as economic development. Within Nashville, Tennessee, there has been a rapid implementation of numerous technological tools and digital infrastructure. This transformation has turned the city into a hub for the growing tech economy.
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The system that convicted George Bell and his codefendants based on hidden evidence has now protected the prosecutors who hid it. Originally published in The Gothamist. Five years ago, one of the stateâs top judges found Queens prosecutors had deliberately hidden evidence that could have spared three men decades in prison. Not long afterward, an attorney asked a disciplinary committee to investigate the incident. The committee has finally returned its own finding.
The Democrat Party’s Precipitous Slide From De Facto To De Jure Racism
Above photo: Senator Joe Biden 1993 Crime Bill speech warns of “predators on our streets” who are “beyond the pale.” C-Span. Should Surprise No One. “…when I talk about our political institutions, there is no reason for any American to continue to be victimized by what we still refer to as the Republican and Democratic parties…We don’t have to be at the mercy of these sordid political machines.
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The Democratic Party will recalibrate its messaging after its well-funded senate candidate in a Michigan primary lost to Abdul El-Sayed, who by his own admission is a capitalist, not a socialist, and a supporter of U.S. wars. El-Sayed is following in the footsteps of another charismatic neo-liberal imperialist. Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Democratic Party Senate primary contest despite constant Islamophobic and zionist attacks.
The Commodification Of Social Justice
Above photo: Demonstrators protest Elon Musk’s xAI data center in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 25, 2025. Brandon Dill for The Washington Post via Getty Images. Or, Saving the Data Center Subject from the Elite Capture of the Climate Industry. There is near unanimity of opinion against data centers in the U.S. But elitist and compromised environmental groups and the climate industry should not lead this fight.
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The evisceration of the Voting Rights Act (Voting Rights Act) is of great concern to Black voters. But most of them are affiliated with the Democratic Party, whose leadership has no real interest in once again making the VRA a political instrument that protects their rights. Recently Kamala Harris made that lack of concern quite clear and demonstrated the urgency of redirecting Black politics away from the misleaders.
US Support Of Israel Is Absolutely An Issue Of Affordability And Economic Populism
Above photo: Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and U.S. Representative Haley Stevens in their debate on Monday, July 27, 2026. Screenshot. So Why Won’t the Democrats Discuss it as Such? The Democratic Party’s continued support for Israel’s genocide is not just a moral and political liability but also an economic one which impacts its voters, yet the party refuses to frame it as such.
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Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference The crisis of late-stage capitalism has stripped away the liberal disguise and revealed white supremacy as the official ideology of the American state. To understand the current historical moment, it is not enough to catalog the reactionary policies of the Trump administration. One must understand the deeper ideological logic that makes those policies appear both rational and necessary to the ruling class.
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The Democratic Party establishment's continued support for Israel's genocide is not just a moral and political liability but also an economic one, yet the party refuses to frame it as such. Doing so would expose its own complicity in militarism and the war against the working class.
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From the United States to the Dominican Republic to the Bahamas, the violence, collective scapegoating, and mass deportation of Haitians lay bare a particular kind of anti-Blackness. Anti-Haitianism not only denies the humanity of Haitians, but originates in tandem with the West’s fears of independent Black states, which were realized first in the Western Hemisphere after the Haitian Revolution. Originally published in Pambazuka News.
Marco Rubio Represents A Clear And Present Threat To Global Climate Liberation
Above photo: Lee Zeldin, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Gage Skidmore. So Why is the U.S. Climate “Movement” Ignoring Him? The climate crisis is first and foremost a crisis caused by the U.S. denying other nations their sovereignty through imperialist violence, but the U.S. climate movement is more comfortable talking only about emissions.
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The climate crisis is first and foremost a crisis of self-determination, but the U.S. climate movement seems more comfortable talking about emissions than imperialism. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin has been an absolute menace and major impediment to advancing climate and environmental liberation in the United States.
Race Trading Race Traitors, Identity Reductionism, and the New Nadir of the Democrat Party Establishment
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright Black Agenda Report The social democrat wing gains in strength but establishment Democrats continue their allegiance to the donor class. That a messy and vindictive interparty uncivil war is in full effect between the establishment wing of the Democrat Party and the party’s emerging social democrat elements – most notably those who identify as members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) – is irrefutable.
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The social democrat wing keeps running as Democrats and getting crushed by an establishment that would rather lose to Trump than cede power. That a messy and vindictive interparty uncivil war is in full effect between the establishment wing of the Democrat Party and the party‚Äôs emerging social democrat elements ‚Äď most notably those who identify as members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) ‚Äď is irrefutable.
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Haiti qualified for the World Cup on the anniversary of its revolution, the DRC brought the spirit of Lumumba to the pitch, and Iran wore pins for children killed by U.S. bombs, proving that football cannot be separated from politics. Football/soccer is a world sport of the poor and the working class, although at its highest levels, it is, like all sports, controlled by the ruling classes. It is played in the alleys of Sao Paulo and the dirt fields in Accra.
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The Grayzone has reviewed a sealed indictment for pro-Palestine donor Fergie Chambers, who was arrested in Spain on dubious money laundering charges concocted by the Trump DOJ. His partner accuses the US government of “political persecution.” Originally published in The Grayzone. Fergie Chambers, a communist philanthropist and heir to the Cox family fortune, has been jailed in Ibiza, Spain, on the orders of the US Department of Justice.
Declaring Our Collective Independence From The Sinking Ship Of US Empire
Above photo: Hulton Archive/ Getty Images. F$$K the Fourth. The settler colonial state is now more corrupt and more unequal than even the genocidal “founding fathers” imagined. As with most years around the so-called Independence Day “holiday,” the Black masses and our accomplices of all races and ethnicities reflect on the sage words offered by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York: What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
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The opening of the Obama Center has brought Barack Obama back into the spotlight, although he offers nothing new. He will be in the pocket of the oligarchy for the rest of his life, and that means he must continue to erase the history of Black people in order to stay in their good graces. Now he praises George Washington, the slaveholding genocidaire.
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“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.” - Frederick Douglass 1852 speech In what is perhaps his most famous speech, Frederick Douglass asked, “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” That question can still be asked today by Black people in this country who are technically free.
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The same U.S. military that kidnapped President Maduro is now directing earthquake relief in Caracas, and if Haiti is any guide, that aid is really just a Trojan Horse for plunder and control. For decades, the U.S. has waged a carefully planned and unrelenting attack on Venezuela’s economy using unilateral coercive measures, commonly known as economic sanctions, to destabilize and destroy the country’s socialist Bolivarian government.
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Photo: Junius Brutus Stearns, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts It's time to revisit America's heroic creation myth and what really happened in 1776, author-historian tells Salon. Originally published in Salon. Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates has challenged Americans to reconsider how they view their country’s history and to place the influence of white supremacy front and center.
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NBA superstar Victor Wembanyama grapples with the times we’re living in, even as his career takes off. Victor Wembanyama, commonly known as Wemby, is the 7’4” French basketball phenom who began playing for the San Antonio Spurs in the 2023-2024 season.
How Capitalism Kills The Game For Poor And Working Class People
Above photo: U.S. Guardian. While Normalizing How Imperialism Oppresses and Kills Them. A single working mother could once take her child to a Yankees game for $40, ut today that money would not even cover the online service fees. Sporting events have been stolen from poor and working class people and are now reserved only for the wealthy elite.
The Beautiful Game in an Ugly Country
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service Black Agenda Report Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright – Black Agenda Report Tags: Corruption, FIFA, Racism, Soccer, Soccer World Cup, Sports, USA This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 15 Jun 2026.
The Beautiful Game Can’t Hide The Ugly
Above photo: Referee Omar Artan, was denied a US visa to officiate World Cup games. AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy, File. The United States should never host the World Cup because it is a country built on racism, repression, and endless war.
The Similar Praxis Of Jim Crow And Lord Voldemort
Above photo: Tennessee Sen. Charlane Oliver, unfurled a large sign during debate on a redistricting plan to divide the majority black Memphis into separate districts. John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout. Or, Why the Democrat Party Ain’t Harry Potter. Democrats keep telling us that Jim Crow is a ghost of the past, but the Supreme Court’s latest ruling proves otherwise. “Dark and difficult times lie ahead.
Documents Of Disaster And Conferences Of Calamity
Rhetorical Questions, Questions of Rhetoric and the Transition from Fossil Fuels. The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels produced a People’s Declaration. There have been many such statements over the years, yet the climate crisis continues unabated.
Afro-Descendants Ask How Black Lives Can Matter Without Acknowledging Their Existence
The Eve of an International Fossil Fuels Conference. Afro-descendant organizers are being erased from a fossil fuels conference before the event even begins. This week the Colombian and Dutch governments will host the First International Conference to Phase Out Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia.
Israel Just Passed A Law Sanctioning The Lynching Of Palestinians
So Why is the Congressional Black Caucus So Silent About it? The same caucus that celebrated the Emmett Till Antilynching Act refuses to condemn Israel’s new death penalty for Palestinians.
A Sigh Of Relief, But Breathing Easy Is Impossible In A Circumference Of US Empire
Above photo: People gathered at power plants and bridges after Iran’s government called for human chains to protect potential U.S.-Israeli airstrike targets. April 7, 2026. NBC News. Or, the Perpetual Relevance of Frederick Douglass’s Prescription for Resistance. The ceasefire brings a sense of relief but not safety. Iran showed that the empire is not invincible, but the US commitment to the doctrine of hegemony has not changed.
US Imperialism And The Hubris Of White ‘Supremacy’ Ideology
The Empire Has No Clothes. Completely stripped of its democratic veneer, U.S. imperialism has been exposed as a system of monopoly capitalism driven by white supremacist psychopathology.
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