JAMES BIRMINGHAM JOINS SIMON AND JON FOR A TRANSATLANTIC SHOW TO KICK OFF 2026 ~ US bellicosity in Venezuela and Greenland has shocked the world with what has been a naked display of gangster tactics in the first instance, and a seeming disdain for Nato in the second – and just today it has announced withdrawal from 66 international organisations. The shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Good meanwhile has been kicking off protests nationwide. Back in Blighty, the Filton Palestine solidarity hunger strike has seen one of the hunger strikers, Teuta Hoxha, forced to stop amid fears she has suffered irreversible damage to her body, while Kamran Ahmed was admitted to hospital for the sixth time yesterday and his immediate family notified. The hunger strikers are between 50 and 70 days in, which is the same range that killed Bobby Sands. In London, a recent FT story has gone into a bit of detail over a proposed data centre at the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane. And last but not least, Freedom has published an exclusive interview with Iranian group the Anarchist Front about the uprising which is taking place there  The post Anarchist News Review: The US gets aggressive while the UK sits around appeared first on Freedom News.

Il 2026 inizia con l'attacco al Venezuela, chiaramente motivato dal petrolio. Cosa si può dire di Taiwan? Quanto incide la produzione di chip sull'isola sugli equilibri geopolitici? Partiamo da lì, passiamo dai costi della RAM, e proviamo a fare qualche ragionamento sul tanto temuto (o auspicato?) scoppio della bolla dell'intelligenza artificiale. Notiziole: * In Uzbekistan, un leak nel sistema di sorveglianza delle automobili ne mostra il funzionamento e la pervasività * TikTok diventerà a guida Oracle, e le personalità più in vista sono decisamente schierate con il sionismo * L'Europa si accorge di essere alla mercé delle norme statunitensi (in particolare il Cloud Act) sull'accesso ai dati. Sarà la volta buona per sviluppare soluzioni alternative a quelle fornite dalle Big Tech statunitensi? * L'antitrust italiana sanziona Apple per delle regole sull'App Store riguardanti la privacy; e ordina a Meta di ammettere anche chatbot concorrenti su WhatsApp

LIVING IN MINNEAPOLIS-SAINT PAUL, I LISTEN TO THE STORIES OF OTHER ABOLITIONISTS TO LEARN HOW THEY CAME TO THIS RADICAL APPROACH ~ Camille Tinnin ~ We are living in a time of increased authoritarianism around the globe, propped up by police and other forms of law enforcement. In the United States we see the deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the National Guard, with police cooperation on various levels. Masked agents, refusing to provide names or identification, appear in workplaces, homes, roads, and businesses, snatching up neighbours. Fear abounds, as does resistance. As we fight this new onslaught and rollback of personal civil liberties, it is important to not only focus on what we are fighting against, but what we are fighting for. Police abolitionist organisers provide wisdom for this moment. Abolitionists are not only fighting against the police state, we are building alternative practices and institutions that push against assumptions about conflict, power, and interpersonal and community relationships. We are questioning our collective conception of power, considering accountability for harm over discipline and punishment, developing skills to better resolve conflicts in our neighbourhoods, families, organising spaces, and society. We are engaging in mutual aid and the creation of community spaces. We are building skills that generations of capitalist individualism have attempted to train out of us. Living in Minneapolis-Saint Paul (Twin Cities), Minnesota, I listen to the stories of other abolitionists to learn how they came to this radical approach, and about what people are doing to model and build the world we want to see. The Twin Cities have an array of organisations working toward abolition (and related movements) creatively. I see three main ways that abolitionists are engaging which go beyond obstructing injustice to creating prefigurative alternatives. The modelling of imagined future in the now, while fighting against present oppression. These works of what Sarah Lamble calls “everyday abolition” include: 1. the development of conflict skills and education around conflict transformation, 2. mutual aid, and 3. claimed and created spaces. CONFLICT SKILLS During my interviews, many abolitionists mentioned how we, as a society, need to build conflict skills. Collectively, we often outsource responsibility for managing conflict to the State, rather than addressing it ourselves. One way this occurs is through calling the police (or State institutions that do similar work). Abolitionists avoid doing so. One said, “if I have a problem with my neighbour and can talk to my neighbour about it, or if I can talk to another person who knows my neighbour, and get that solved, why would I ever have to go over here [to the police]?” Abolitionists talked about how, to not rely on the police, people need to be willing to step in and help neighbours-in-crisis, or diffuse disagreements. To respond, people need to have the skills to do so. By conflict skills, I mean approaches or tools to use in conflict that equip parties to respond to acute or ongoing situations with de-escalation, communication of disagreement, and collective problem solving. This can include listening skills, conflict mapping, understanding underlying needs and feelings, nonviolent communication, and collective problem-solving skills. These skills are relevant beyond avoiding the police. Abolitionists focus on the need to holistically respond to conflict, including in movement spaces. Conflict is neither good nor bad. Rather, it is something that can be positively or negatively engaged with, arising from disagreements, communication challenges, opposing interests, and so on. It can be interpersonal, or exist within a broader group. We must use conflict, and its transformation, as a way to identify harm, take accountability, repair relationships, grapple with complexity and differences of opinion or strategy, and ultimately determine how we can work together toward transformation. Often, people can be quick to sever ties during conflict. adrienne maree brown, in their book We Will Not Cancel Us, discusses how the disposability projected onto others uses similar carceral logic to the systems we are working to dismantle. Of course, when harm has occurred, people must be willing to acknowledge it and take accountability, and the safety needs for individuals and groups must be considered when navigating repair and transformative justice work. Abolitionists also discussed examples of groups helping people develop these skills, and the importance of education and training. REP, in South Minneapolis, is a local organisation with a crisis hotline that operates several nights a week, and offers ‘studios’ to build conflict skills and knowledge around abolitionist principles. REP’s studios have included ‘consent and abolition’, ‘self-de-escalation and regulation’, ‘community trauma and care’, and ‘solving problems ourselves’. One abolitionist involved in the project said: “We’re striving towards a deep cultural shift in how people assess a crisis and address the crisis, instead of having that knee-jerk response to call someone else.” This is key to the work of unlearning our existing social structures and learning how to face accountability without isolating ourselves, or choosing self-pity or self-flagellation rather than action and repair. There are other community education projects, reading circles, and so on, around the Twin Cities offering different ways for people to learn together. People are creating participatory education programs, sometimes in a certain career or sector, sometimes in certain identity groups, and often for people looking to develop certain skills. MUTUAL AID Several abolitionists interviewed mentioned how they engage in mutual aid work, particularly supporting unhoused neighbours, because many of the biggest challenges our communities face are connected to lack of resources. Mutual aid is when people work together to meet basic human needs because they recognise the capitalist system is not designed to do so. Multiple people discussed working with programs that support our unhoused neighbours. One said of unhoused encampment sweeps, which often result in people losing everything they have, that a lot of our ‘public safety’ interventions are more about preventing people from seeing the realities of capitalism than safety. Community members organise free distributions of clothing and food through Little Free Pantries in people’s front yards, the People’s Closet in George Floyd Square, neighbourhood-based “Buy Nothing” groups on Facebook, and cooked-meal distributions. Abolitionists discussed how people come together to meet collective and individual needs, often stepping in to fill gaps that could be filled by reallocation of government funds. George Floyd Square, the memorial and community space located in the intersection where he was murdered by the police, was a mutual aid hub during the 2020 uprisings, and continues to be where free clothing, books, and other supplies are distributed. An abolitionist explained: “In press conferences, [Governor] Tim Walz, Mayor Frey, [city council member] Andrea Jenkins and the crew, were all saying, ‘oh, that’s the best part of Minneapolis.’ You see it. You see it. You see the people coming together. You see the people forming groups to protect each other and their neighbourhoods. That’s the best Minneapolis, to which I respond, if that’s the best of Minneapolis, why aren’t you doing it?” While city officials continue to destroy encampments, state officials cut public health insurance for undocumented immigrants, and federal officials cut food, housing, and health programs, the needs of our communities will continue to grow. Mutual aid will become even more important. SPACE/ TAKING UP SPACE/ INTENTIONAL SPACES Abolitionists discussed the importance of taking up space and having intentional spaces. John Gaventa, in his piece Finding Spaces For Change: A Power Analysis, calls these spaces “claimed by less powerful actors from or against the power holders, or created more autonomously by them.” One such space is George Floyd Square, which one abolitionist described as “community-built systems of networking and safety doing a lot more to provide feelings of safety than policing does.” Others discussed student anti-war encampments pushing for their demands to be heard through getting in the way of business-as-usual, and providing space to try out alternatives. Abolitionists discussed the need for community spaces that foster imagination, like ‘third spaces’, where people can gather, without needing to spend money, to exchange ideas, host events, and build community. Several interview participants are working on creating such spaces. In this period of amplifying and expanding inhumanity by the State, people are working locally to meet our collective needs. We have the opportunity, amidst the intentional chaos created by those with formal power, to build ways-of-being in community that model a future worth fighting for. The abolition movement in the Twin Cities provides just one example of the prefigurative work happening around the globe. We may not live to see the future we prefigure, but as links in a chain, we continue this work, as Mariane Kaba says “until we free us.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This article was first published in the Winter 2025-6 issue of Freedom anarchist journal The post Everyday abolition in the Twin Cities appeared first on Freedom News.

Il colosso aeronautico prepara una gara da oltre 50 milioni per portare sistemi e dati mission critical su un cloud europeo «digitalmente sovrano» e ridurre i rischi legati al CLOUD Act Usa Airbus vuole mettere in discussione una delle dipendenze più profonde dell’industria europea: quella da Amazon, Google e Microsoft. Lo ha detto la vicepresidente per gli Affari digitali del colosso europeo dell’aeronautica, Catherine Jestin, citata dall’emittente francese Bfm, secondo cui il gruppo starebbe preparando una gara per portare applicazioni e dati «mission critical» su un cloud europeo «digitalmente sovrano», con l’obiettivo esplicito di ridurre l’esposizione a norme Usa come il CLOUD Act (la legge del 2018 che può obbligare i provider cloud sotto giurisdizione americana a consegnare dati che controllano, anche se quei dati sono conservati in Europa). La partita si aprirà all’inizio di gennaio 2026 e vale oltre 50 milioni di euro su un orizzonte fino a dieci anni. * Che cosa vuole spostare Airbus * La gara * Concorrenza e lock-in: la partita europea sul cloud * L’«80/20» di Jestin * Il convitato di pietra (Cloud ACT) * Perché Airbus accelera adesso Leggi l'articolo completo

“Negli ultimi 30 anni i governanti europei hanno rinunciato a controllare le reti chiave per la gestione delle informazioni. Le hanno lasciate in mano ai giganti digitali Usa. Così l’Europa ha perso la sua indipendenza” Intervista a tutto campo di TPI a Juan Carlo De Martin, professore di ingegneria informatica al Politecnico di Torino, autore di "Contro lo Smartphone". Nella conversazione De Martin si esprime non solo sulla computerizzazione del mondo e sul pericolo proveniente dalle Big Tech USA, ma anche sul ruolo che potrebbe avere l'Europa se solo abbandonasse la corsa al riarmo e investisse in ricerca, sviluppo e istruzione. In sostanza: sta agli europei riconoscere che la fase della colonizzazione è finita ed è giunto il momento di riconoscere apertamente che si è chiusa una fase storica e puntare su rapporti il più possibile pacifici e collaborativi con il resto del mondo Leggi l'intervista completa

FROM RACIST ELECTORAL ENGINEERING TO HOLLOWING OUT PUBLIC HEALTH, TRUMP’S SECOND TERM IS CONSOLIDATING AUTHORITARIAN POWER ~ Louis Further ~ As anarchists we can’t get excited about constitutions such as that of the United States. But its 14th Amendment also guarantees citizenship (and hence protection against deportation) to non-white children who are born in the US – regardless of their parents’ origins. Any amendment to the constitution would be a lengthy and complex process requiring congressional majorities. But the US Supreme Court announced that it would hear Trump’s challenge to this ‘birthright citizenship’ Amendment, which seeks to annul those rights. This is unnecessary if judges wish to hear the case merely to re-affirm that they cannot amend the Constitution. Alternatively, if they uphold his challenge, they will unequivocally establish a supremacist dictatorship which is legally and officially above the law and against the constitution. Similarly, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case which would confer on Trump powers to sack state officials without cause or notice, something which the law also currently forbids. What’s more, the Court has finally sided with moves in Texas to redraw electoral maps along unequivocally racist lines. There is some token resistance to the kidnapping, abduction and trafficking of non-whites from the streets particularly in some of the United States’ larger cities. But one would hope this were much stronger in the light of the harm being done by the ICE raids – particularly since over 97% of those abducted are not criminals; just not white. Those attacked increasingly include Asian Americans. Trump’s overt racist abuse and threats towards the Somali population need little comment. Indeed, tirades like those reported here and ‘views’ reported here would probably be enough to end the career of a politician under most ‘normal’ circumstances. HEALTH Health has become a greater locus of dogma, dispute, dismay, distress, disease and death under Trump’s second term than in any recent presidency. Legislation and changes are driven by the MAGA belief that only the fittest should survive. Tenets of proven medical science are disregarded in favour of fascist dogma advancing ‘superior’ race(s). Monstrous liar and eventually struck-off anti-vaccine fraudster, Andrew Wakefield, was recently rehabilitated to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) by quack Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has lauded Wakefield’s work, while influential Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson posted, “Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who were maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions.” This as fake claim after fake claim is published on the CDC site replacing helpful and verifiable medical facts. Medical professionals at all levels are retiring or otherwise exiting Kennedy’s mess rather than promote junk science and collude in spreading preventable diseases and deaths. They are being replaced by ill-equipped MAGA cult members who act out of uninformed dogma, like Dr. Ralph Abraham, surgeon general in Louisiana who will be the second in command at the CDC; Abraham ordered health officials to stop promoting vaccinations. Paradoxically, this degradation of federal health agencies could sponsor a positive turn of events. Local, putatively independent, alternative bodies are quickly springing up to take matters into their own hands for the real benefit of residents who need proper public healthcare. Regional coalitions are beginning to share communications, briefs, and insights. Data is being tabulated across traditional demographics and communities by non-federal groups like the Vaccine Integrity Project. Professional groups like the AAP and The Evidence Collective are promoting the publication and spread of reliable information while initiatives like PopHIVE are fully aware of the disastrous effects of disinformation put out in the interests of fascist dogma. Nor is there evidence of ‘partisan rivalry’ amongst these enterprises. But to replace a nationwide structure ostensibly designed to advance public health won’t be easy, of course. Neither is an attempt to impeach Kennedy. Then if Trump/MAGA is serious about discriminatory ideas like his announcement that he will oblige visitors to the USA to disclose recent social media before being allowed into the country to ensure that they are loyal to fascism, and given that he considers criticising him a crime punishable by death, there could be a concerted attempt to shut down anyone providing accurate health information. This would be endorsed and supported by a legal system hell-bent on advancing the MAGA ‘agenda’ regardless of the law – as one of the US Supreme Court justices herself recently outlined. FASCISM Indeed, according to one source it may well not be long before criticising Trump and his policies becomes literally illegal; those belonging to groups which point out the illegality of the MAGA cult in power could soon be targeted as ‘terrorists’ whose “non-traditional” views are disallowed. This is in sharp contrast, of course, to Trump’s own blatant illegality in myriad spheres, in which he has complete immunity. The Trump administration has already designated Maduro as the head of a foreign terrorist organisation, fuelling fear of a potential U.S. invasion of Venezuela, which holds the world’s largest known reserves of oil. While the Trump administration claims its escalating attacks on boats in the Caribbean are in response to drug trafficking, critics say this is just another attempt by the U.S. government – effectively supported by the Democrat opposition – to destabilise Venezuela to force a regime change and exploit resources, including oil. As Trump lied in referring to the illegal murder of sailors in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean; but before his marine terrorists illegally seized a Venezuelan oil tanker (imagine if the Venezuelan navy had boarded a US vessel!), Florida Congressmember María Salazar, Republican assistant whip, remarked: “Venezuela, for the American oil companies, will be a field day, because it will be more than a trillion dollars in economic activity.” And to complete your holiday cheer, you may need to read this twice: in 2023 the US State Department adopted the Calibri font for its memos and publications because of its greater readability than the previous standard, Times New Roman, particularly on screens and when employees were engaged in text-to-speech and optical character recognition. Last week Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, ordered a return to Times New Roman because helping the visually impaired is seen by MAGA cultists as a weakness and too ‘woke’. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Image: Molly Riley, official White House photo on Flickr The post Notes from the US: Supremacist dictatorship appeared first on Freedom News.

Venerdì 21 novembre a Roma, in Via della Dogana Vecchia 5, alle ore 17:30, un incontro organizzato da Scuola critica del digitale del CRS e Forum Disuguaglianze e Diversità. * ne parlerà Franco Padella * ne discutono Stefano Bocconetti, Davide Lamanna, NINA, Michele Mezza, Giacomo Tesio * coordina Giulio De Petra I conflitti contemporanei, dall’Ucraina al Medio Oriente, sono sempre più guerre digitali, dove le capacità di elaborazione dei dati e l’uso della AI diventano elementi decisivi sul campo di battaglia. Non si combatte più solo con armi fisiche: reti, dati e algoritmi sono ormai il sistema operativo della guerra moderna. In questo scenario, le Big Tech hanno rafforzato il loro ruolo di fornitori primari dell’apparato industriale-militare degli USA. Ma mentre i riflettori restano accesi sul ristretto gruppo FAMAG (Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google), è un’altra azienda, mediaticamente “minore”, a rappresentare l’esempio più completo e preoccupante della integrazione tra tecnologie digitali e regimi di guerra. Una azienda tanto silenziosa quanto potente: Palantir Technologies. Poco visibile rispetto alle altre, si è già profondamente integrata con gli apparati di sicurezza e di guerra americani, e si muove nella stessa direzione in tutti i paesi dell’Occidente. A differenza delle altre aziende, Palantir preferisce rimanere in penombra: non vende se stessa al pubblico, non fa pubblicità. Vende potere agli apparati dello Stato. Potere di prevedere, di controllare, di dominare. E facendo questo, in qualche modo, diventa essa stessa Stato. Prosegui la lettura

L’azienda Usa è privata ma lavora per i governi. Il potere, militare e non, oggi parla in codice. Palantir, la società fondata vent’anni fa a Palo Alto, è diventata la piattaforma che governi e eserciti usano per mettere ordine nel caos dei dati. Non produce armamenti, ma costruisce il software che li guida, nelle missioni e nelle decisioni. Ma soprattutto è lo strumento attraverso cui Peter Thiel, imprenditore e investitore, allarga la sua influenza sulla politica di Washington e sulla nuova amministrazione Trump. Un unicum diventato imprescindibile per ogni esercito. I prodotti principali di Palantir hanno nomi evocativi, funzionali per far comprendere in fretta la loro utilità marginale. Gotham, usato da intelligence e forze armate, integra basi dati classificate e scenari operativi. Foundry, pensato per imprese e amministrazioni civili, costruisce copie digitali dei processi per ottimizzare logistica, forniture, ospedali. Apollo gestisce la distribuzione del software anche su reti isolate e ambienti critici. L’ultima evoluzione è AIP, la piattaforma che incapsula modelli di intelligenza artificiale nei contesti più sensibili, evitando fughe di dati e garantendo tracciabilità. L’obiettivo è ridurre la distanza tra analisi e decisione, riducendo i rischi collaterali. Leggi l'articolo

Una settimana di sentenze per il mondo della silicon valley, tanto in Europa quanto negli Usa. Nonostante Google prenda una multa da quasi 3 miliardi di dollari per abuso di posizione dominante, non si può lamentare: il "rischio" antitrust è scongiurato, e l'Unione Europea si mostra più tenera del solito. Infatti nonostante negli Usa Google sia riconosciuto come monopolista nel settore delle ricerche sul Web, il giudice ha valutato di dare dei rimedi estremamente blandi, molto lontani da quelli paventati. Ricordiamo che si era parlato addirittura di obbligare Google a vendere Chrome. Anche nell'Ue i giudici sono clementi. Il caso Latombe, che poteva diventare una sorta di Schrems III, non c'è stato: la corte ha dichiarato che il Data Protection Framework è valido, e che quindi la cessione di dati di cittadini Ue ad aziende Usa è legale. È un grosso passo indietro nel braccio di ferro interno all'unione europea tra organismi che spingevano per questa soluzione (la Commissione) e altri che andavano in senso opposto (la Corte di Giustizia). Difficile pensare che i recenti accordi sui dazi non c'entrino nulla. Ascolta l'audio sul sito di Radio Onda Rossa

Il Tribunale dell’Unione europea, con sentenza del 3 settembre, ha respinto il ricorso del deputato francese Philippe Latombe diretto ad annullare il nuovo quadro normativo per il trasferimento dei dati personali tra la UE e gli USA. Non si sono fatte attendere le prime reazioni alla sentenza. Il team legale di Latombe ha scelto un ricorso piuttosto mirato e ristretto contro l'accordo sui dati UE-USA. Sembra che, nel complesso, il Tribunale non sia stato convinto dalle argomentazioni e dai punti sollevati da Latombe. Tuttavia, ciò non significa che un'altra contestazione, che contenga una serie più ampia di argomenti e problemi relativi all'accordo, non possa avere successo. Latombe potrebbe anche decidere di appellare la decisione alla CGUE, che (a giudicare dalle precedenti decisioni in "Schrems I" e "Schrems II") potrebbe avere un'opinione diversa da quella del Tribunale. Max Schrems, fondatore di NOYB – European Center for Digital Rights, ha dichiarato: "Si è trattato di una sfida piuttosto ristretta. Siamo convinti che un esame più ampio della legge statunitense, in particolare dell'uso degli ordini esecutivi da parte dell'amministrazione Trump, produrrebbe un risultato diverso. Stiamo valutando le nostre opzioni per presentare tale ricorso". Sebbene la Commissione abbia guadagnato un altro anno, manca ancora la certezza del diritto per gli utenti e le imprese" Leggi l'articolo