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Pax Silica

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) https://antiracist.org/pax-silica/ Talk about Orwellian Double-Speak. Pax Silica is a US-led initiative to put Artificial Intelligence, which is still primarily driven by military and surveillance tech, at the center of an international geo-strategic economic development and national security alliance directed at countering China and protecting US economic, political and military dominance in the second quarter of the 21st Century. It is being [...]

By |2026-05-30T17:00:41-05:00May 30th, 2026|A-I Artificial Intelligence, Activism, Afghanistan, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Artificial Intelligence, Asia, China, CIA, Donald Trump, Drones, Economy, Energy, Environmentalism, Immigration/Migrant rights, India, Labor, Marco Rubio, Michael Novick, Palestine, Peace and War, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Security and Insecurity, Surveillance, Tech, Ukraine, Venezuela, War|0 Comments
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A-I, Labor, and the Future of LA, War & the World

Teach-in Held Sat., Feb. 7, 11 am - 5 pm, IAM Machinists union Hall, 1261 N. Avalon Bl., Wilmington Part 1: https://youtu.be/oaPdrHmrOAI Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH3Xy5bf8Jo The first thing to understand about "artificial intelligence", A-I, is that it is military technology. The techno-fascist moguls promoting it are all military contractors with Trump's War Department. The principal driver of research and development in autonomous vehicles has been the US Army Tank Division. Elon Musk's [...]

By |2026-02-16T03:24:21-05:00February 1st, 2026|A-I Artificial Intelligence, Anti-capitalism, Artificial Intelligence, Big Business, Democracy, Economy, Fascism, Human Rights, Internet, Labor, Michael Novick, Movements, National Security, News, Peace and War, Politics, Socialism, Solidarity, Solidarity Economics, Surveillance, Tech, Unions, War|0 Comments
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Anti-Capitalists Arrested in LA on Federal Terrorism Charges

According to the US Justice Department, four members of an anti-capitalist group have been arrested for allegedly plotting to attack two US companies with improvised explosive devices (IEDs) this New Year’s Eve. See: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-defendants-arrested-alleged-anti-capitalist-and-anti-government-plot-bomb-us-companies US Attorney General Pamela Bondi claims that members of “The Turtle Island Liberation Front — a far-left, pro-Palestine, anti-government, and anti-capitalist group — [were] preparing to conduct a series of bombings against multiple targets in California beginning on [...]

By |2026-01-01T00:35:10-05:00January 1st, 2026|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Crime, Donald Trump, Fascism, Indigenous Nations, Israel and Palestine, Justice/Injustice, Movements, National Security, News, Police, Political Prisoners, Repression, Surveillance|0 Comments
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Fake A-I CEO Indicted by Feds

Used hundreds of low-paid Filipino workers to simulate automated purchasing by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA I have written before that all A-I depends heavily on super-exploited digital contract employees in the Global South to tag and process the  text, visual and audio files "fed" to generative A-I so-called "machine learning". See https://antiracist.org/a-i-squared-artificial-intelligence-product-and-tool-of-american-imperialism/ But this latest scam takes the cake. According to a press release from the US Attorney for the Southern [...]

By |2025-04-25T01:44:19-05:00April 25th, 2025|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Artificial Intelligence, Big Business, Crime, Economy, Labor, Michael Novick, Philippines, Socialism, Solidarity, Surveillance, Tech|0 Comments
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As Trump Attacks “DEI”, CA Israel Lobby Aims to Muzzle, Censor Ethnic Studies

CA Israel Lobby Aims to Police Ethnic Studies - Why? AB 1468: Don’t say Palestine By Marcy Winograd  https://www.codepink.org/cateachers As the Trump administration engages in a frontal assault on the teaching of race and ethnicity at the K-12 level, a quieter but no less important battle is shaping up in deep blue California.  Communities of color are mobilizing statewide to defeat AB 1468, the latest bill to emerge from the CA Legislative Jewish Caucus [...]

By |2025-03-04T22:35:49-05:00March 4th, 2025|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, California, California, Commentary, Education, Free Speech, Human Rights, Israel and Palestine, Labor, Marcy Winograd, Movements, News, Palestine, Peace, Politics, Repression, Solidarity, Surveillance, War|0 Comments
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Laws taking effect in CA January 1, 2025

From multiple reporting sources New laws in CA seek to prevent the use of digital replicas of Hollywood actors and performers without permission and to allow the estates of dead performers to sue over unauthorized AI use. Parents who make money on social media posts featuring their children will be required to set aside some earnings for the kids. The new allows children to sue their parents for failing to do so. [...]

By |2025-01-02T01:44:31-05:00January 2nd, 2025|Activism, Artificial Intelligence, Banks, Bernie Sanders, Big Business, California, Capitalism, Carlos Quintanilla, Economy, France, Health, Mark Lipman, Paul Cleveland, Politics, Prisons, Repression, Robert Reich, Ron Scherer, Social Media, Sue Sturgis, Surveillance|0 Comments
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Protests for Palestine at the DNC

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor 28 Aug 2024 https://blackagendareport.com/protests-palestine-dnc Protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago took place against the backdrop of Israel’s ever more horrifying war on Gaza. Since the Israeli air and ground war began after October 7, the Gaza Health Ministry has registered the death toll at more than 40,000 . Palestinian Civil Defense and OCHA, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, estimates that another [...]

By |2024-09-02T00:43:24-05:00September 2nd, 2024|Activism, Ann Garrison, Anti-Racism/Racism, Events, Free Speech, Independent Journalism, Israel and Palestine, Kamala Harris, Movements, News, Palestine, Peace, Peace and War, Peace Vigils, Police Brutality, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Solidarity, Surveillance, Voting, War|0 Comments
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A I squared:

Artificial Intelligence: Product and Tool of American Imperialism by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Most of the fears expressed about A-I have focused on a couple of issues. There are fears of a fourth industrial revolution in which massive numbers of intellectual, professional, and creative workers are replaced by automatons, along with other skilled and unskilled "blue collar" workers like drivers, warehouse workers, clerks and others. On a more [...]

By |2024-04-03T22:34:48-05:00April 3rd, 2024|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Artificial Intelligence, Big Business, Capitalism, China, Drones, Europe, Independent Journalism, Michael Novick, Movements, National Security, Peace, Peace and War, Surveillance, War|0 Comments
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Fascists in Power: USAmerican Unexceptionalism

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA A world-wide trend toward authoritarianism has been widely noted. Neo-fascist parties have taken the reins of power or serve as part of the parliamentary base or ruling coalition in Israel, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, and Ukraine, among other countries. But the pundits who lament this, and perhaps see Donald Trump as reflecting the same trend in the US, are somehow incapable of seeing that the US is [...]

By |2023-11-08T02:29:29-05:00November 8th, 2023|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Biden, Donald Trump, Fascism, Human Rights, Michael Novick, Movements, Peace, Security and Insecurity, Social Media, Socialism, Surveillance|0 Comments
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The Sound of the New War Drum Goes Tik Tok

By Wei Yu, Nuvpreet Kalra and Melissa Garriga Last [month], a Congressional hearing took place where the TikTok CEO was grilled for five hours on the grounds of “security concerns.” This was days after the FBI and DOJ launched an investigation on the Chinese-owned American company. Isn’t it ironic that while the US government is putting TikTok under the magnifying glass, it’s turning a blind eye to its own surveillance programs on [...]

By |2023-04-29T01:29:08-05:00April 29th, 2023|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Asian-American, Capitalism, China, China, Economy, Internet, National Security, News, Peace, Peace and War, Psy-Ops, Security and Insecurity, Surveillance|0 Comments
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Dynamic New Programming, Newscast on KPFK 90.7 Pacifica Radio

KPFK, listener-sponsored Pacifica community radio for Los Angeles and all of Southern California, is refreshing its programming schedule, adding new more radical, community-based, solution-oriented programming, and launching a locally produced newscast for the first time in over a decade. Anti-racist, anti-war, and anti-capitalist viewpoints are taking center stage in a new morning mix radio magazine. The station is bringing back some other important voices from communities of color that have been missing [...]

By |2022-12-03T21:00:46-05:00December 3rd, 2022|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Calendar, California, Democracy, Environment, Environmentalism, Events, Free Speech, Human Rights, Humanism & FreeThought, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, Latin America, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace, Peace and War, Public Radio, Socialism, Solidarity, Surveillance, Volunteer|0 Comments
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AUTOMATING BANISHMENT

AUTOMATING BANISHMENT The Surveillance and Policing of Looted Lands   Report Summary   Automating Banishment was researched and written by dozens of community members collaborating through the Stop LAPD Spying Coalitionʼs Land and Policing Workgroup. Over the past decade, the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition has been building community power to abolish LAPD surveillance. This report grew out of that organizing and examines the relationship of data-driven policing to real estate development, displacement, [...]

By |2021-12-02T01:36:53-05:00December 2nd, 2021|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, California, Garcetti, Gentrification/Displacement, Hamid Khan, Homelessness, Independent Journalism, Indigenous Nations, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, News, Police, Politics, Psy-Ops, Solidarity, Surveillance|0 Comments
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