Paris Marx
@parismarx@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp last week

The US is bombing Iranian nuclear facilities, transferring AI tech to the Gulf states, and enabling Israeli surveillance and weapons tech.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with Laleh Khalili to discuss how the United States wields technology to enhance its power in the Middle East.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/284_how_the_us_weaponizes_tech_in_the_middle_east_w_laleh_khalili

#tech #israel#gaza #iran#palestine #uae#saudiarabia#unitedstates #politics #geopolitics #ai
(((Baslow)))
@baslow@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@ChemicalEyeGuy
I'll leave specific tactics to others, who will have to weigh Trump's demonstrable willingness to break the law (gleefully) and to deploy armed goons to back up his cruelty, indifference, and narcissism.
The counter-measures I am actively contemplating tend toward long-term cultivation of counter-power via new forms of organizing: seizethemeans.communitarium.or
Preston MacDougall
@ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@baslow And I am focused on the even longer-termed goal that must be achieved before your admirable goal of community organizing can be achieved: reforming #education in the #UnitedStates.

Because stupid people cannot distinguish a beneficial community organization from a detrimental one.
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
@ZhiZhu@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"here in West Africa, the heavy metal doors of a warehouse creak open. Inside are boxes piled high with millions of doses of medicines donated by Merck and other pharmaceutical companies for a #UnitedStates aid program. Yet the medications are gathering dust, and some are approaching their expiration dates and may have to be destroyed, at immense expense.

this waste of drugs exists only because [Trump's] administration shut down #USAID"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/opinion/waste-musk-trump.html

#Trump#USPol #News#World#USA