Twenty-five years ago today the media tour I was on after finding the lab in rural West Virginia ended abruptly, writes Joe Lauria. Watch the replay!
WATCH: Cloned in the USA
Category: Science
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘The Palantir Imperium’
Palantir’s Western supremacist empire is reaching all corners of the globe, as Australian Sen. David Shoebridge explains to CN Live!
Under Blockade & the Threat of Invasion
A short film about a breakthrough Cuban drug for treating Alzheimer’s shines light on the resilience of a nation striving to innovate under the constraints of the American blockade and threats of an invasion, writes Ullekh NP.
US Agency Pulls Climate From Judges’ Manual
The move by the Federal Judicial Center in the U.S. leaves judges without any official support on how to weigh evidence about basic weather and climate changes, Abrahm Lustgarten reports.
Bill Gates & the Hot Tub of Death
ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80: How US Spies Secured the Hiroshima Uranium
A dark secret behind the Hiroshima bomb is where the uranium came from, a spy-vs.-spy race to secure naturally enriched uranium from Congo to fuel the Manhattan Project and keep the rare mineral out of Nazi hands, reports Joe Lauria.
AI & the End of Thinking?
Wolfgang Messner explores the risks that mediocrity and conformity will accompany an AI-powered cognitive revolution.
Google’s Wiz Purchase Strengthens Ties to Israel
The Silicon Valley giant’s deal with the U.S.-Israeli cybersecurity company deepens its links with former members of Unit 8200, Israel’s elite signals intelligence group, Alan MacLeod reports.
Chris Hedges Report: The Military History of the Internet
The internet, from its inception, was created as a tool of mass surveillance. Yasha Levine traces the origins of the web in his book and how its roots in counter insurgency shape its function today.
The New Age Militarists
The high-tech oligarchs surrounding Trump are set on using artificial intelligence and new technologies for the sake of uniting us around perpetual war, says William Hartung.
