Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing When Abolitionists Say “Free Them All,” We Mean Palestine Too We must fight militarism and oppression abroad as fiercely as we do at home. By Nadine Naber , Truthout December 29, 2023 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Police Tech Isn’t Designed to Be Accurate — It’s Made to Exert Social Control Policing technologies are inaccurate by design. By James Kilgore , Truthout December 16, 2023 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing When the FBI Is Asked to Go After the Right, It Inevitably Comes for the Left The FBI was never meant to address right-wing extremists. We can’t look to it to stop the right. By Alex S. Vitale , Truthout December 15, 2023 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez Vote Against Record $886 Billion for Military Spending The U.S. is hurtling toward a trillion-dollar-a-year military budget, progressive advocates warned. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout December 14, 2023 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections Senate Passes $886 Billion Military Bill That Extends Mass Spying Authorization The Congressional Progressive Caucus leadership is calling for a "no" vote as the measure heads to the House. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams December 14, 2023 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections EU’s AI Act Falls Short: No Ban on Live Facial Recognition Raises Concerns EU's AI Act faces criticism for omitting a ban on live facial recognition, raising concerns of dystopian surveillance. By Julia Conley , CommonDreams December 10, 2023 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing Chicago Nixed Its Racist Database of Gangs. Other Cities Should Follow. Six years of tireless organizing by a coalition of grassroots activists led to this month’s victory in Chicago. By Tynetta Hill-Muhammad , Truthout October 1, 2023 Truthout
News Analysis | Prisons & Policing “E-Carceration” Is the Newest Surveillance Trend Spreading Across the Globe As the use of “e-carceration” spreads globally, invasive, AI-powered surveillance comes with it. By James Kilgore , Truthout September 11, 2023 Truthout
Interview | Prisons & Policing Community Organizer Spied on by FBI and Colorado Springs Police Speaks Out “This was one of the worst moments of my life,” said Jacqueline “Jax” Armendariz Unzueta, who is suing the agencies. By Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh , DemocracyNow! August 3, 2023 Truthout
Op-Ed | Human Rights Israel Is Already Weaponizing AI — But Not in the Ways It Claims to Be Israel claims to be a leader in AI tech, but its main innovations are lax industry ethics and widespread surveillance. By Shir Hever , Mondoweiss July 2, 2023 Truthout