Paul St-Pierre Plamondon on election night -- image via Paul St-Pierre Plamondon on X By Gabriel Haythornthwaite, The DNA Report With only 8 days until Alberta’s pre-annexation referendum, The DNA Report engages a third round of This Week In Annexation with commentary on the minority government victory of the Parti Québécois (PQ) on October 5. This event, returning the PQ to power with 59 seats after a decade in the political wilderness (they won a pitiful three seats in 2022

Trump delivers remarks at the White House AI Summit, July 23, 2025 -- public domain image By Rezgar Akrawi On 8 September 2026 the researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic, declaring that the two largest companies in the field are ‘gambling with our lives,’ and the people building these systems ‘earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.’ His concern was not an isolated one. Tens of thousands of people, among them leading scientists, have sign

While costs rise for everything, SNAP recipients who lost benefits — and the farmers who fed them — are being asked to shell out $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon. Trump walking past military equipment at Fort Bragg, June 2025 -- public domain image By Danaka Katovich In an era of high prices for fuel, food, and housing, an extra $4,000 could make a life-saving difference for many families. But instead, that’s what the average household had to shell out for the Pentagon last yea

Capitalism has elected AI as the next tool to distribute and dismantle labor, create a new power structure in the world, and repress social and political movements. Elon Musk in September, 2025 -- Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By João Camargo, Common Dreams AI is being diffused throughout society under chatbots, models, and agents which are explicitly reactionary and create communicative and physical walls to defend the status quo. Capitalism has elected

The agents who shot Renee Nicole Good shot her because they knew they could; they shot her because the Trump administration has specifically and purposely empowered law enforcement to act without impunity or care. Image via X By Jordan Liz, Common Dreams On January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent murdered Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. Immediately, the Trump administration sprang into action to propagandize the incident. Homeland Security spokesperson Tr

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