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Naomi Klein’s new book calls out end times fascism. What is this – and what’s the role of big tech?

“A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West,” reads a recent recruitment ad for Palantir, a Silicon Valley firm that increasingly provides data-driven “intelligence” for intelligence, police and military agencies – as well as blue-chip corporations and non-profits. “On the factory floor, in the operating room, across the battlefield,”…

The Conversation

End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor review – the fightback starts here

A sharp analysis of the damage wrought by the reckless super-rich, and a progressive toolkit for repairing it

The Guardian - UK

'Unholy Alliance' Preparing Bunkers, Fortressed Nations and Space Colonies To Escape the Collapse They're Fuelling, New Book Warns

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's new book argues that wealthy elites are pursuing bunkers, fortified nations, space colonies and machines rather than collective solutions to planetary crises.

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‘It does not have to be this way’: the radical optimism of David Graeber

As a new collection of his writing is published, Rebecca Solnit remembers her friend, the late activist and anarchist who believed ordinary people had the power to change the world

The Guardian - UK

‘Organising is the best kind of antidepressant’: Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on solidarity

The activists, who first met at Occupy Wall Street in 2011, talk about the limits of protest – and the power of connecting across difference to change the world

The Guardian - UK

Student loan-relief backers warn Biden ‘failure isn’t an option’

WASHINGTON — Advocates of student debt relief want President Joe Biden to use a 1965 law to cancel student debt if the Supreme Court overturns his loan forgiveness program.

Tribune News Service

Appeals court blocks Biden's debt relief

"The folks who want to keep us in debt are organized," a campaigner says. "We need to be too"

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Rightwingers threaten legal action on Biden’s student loan debt relief

Republicans say they will seek to oppose the student loan forgiveness in the courts and are making it a key talking point in the midterm elections

The Guardian - US

If the Democrats don’t shape up, Biden’s presidency will lead to a Trumpian sequel

The president has failed to capitalise on progressive sentiment: his party needs to stand up for the working class, says writer and organiser Astra Taylor

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