Big Tech

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Exorcising AI: The Ghost in the Machine is white “supremacy,” and it Aims to Haunt the World with Human Redundancy, Neocolonialism, and Militarism
28 Oct 2026
Reflections on Valerie Veatch's documentary, Ghost in the Machine.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Big Green + Big Tech = Bigger Environmental Racism: How Certain white-led “environmental” Groups are Selling out Frontline Communities to Accommodate Data Centers
25 Mar 2026
Big Green groups taking millions from Big Tech have abandoned vulnerable communities to become accomplices in data center proliferation rather than opponents.
Austin Cole
Data Center Boom, Corporate Extraction, and the Obfuscation of the Land Question in the U.S.
28 Jan 2026
The grassroots resistance against data centers is about more than zoning and community benefit agreements. It is the latest front in America’s war against the people over land, sovereignty, and who…
Hanna Eid
American Lumpen Development - The Data Center Boom
05 Mar 2025
The rise of the data and technology industry plays a key role in the rapid deterioration of social and economic conditions in the U.S.
Pavan Kulkarni
The DRC’s Historic Case Against Apple Over Blood Minerals in its Supply Chain
15 Jan 2025
The war-torn country has accused the US-based global tech giant of war crimes, forgery and deception by using illegally extracted and smuggled minerals in its products.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Malcolm Harris’s Book, “Palo Alto”
19 Apr 2023
This week’s featured author is Malcolm Harris. Harris is a freelance writer and the author of Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials and Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End of…
Amanda Yee
TikTok on Trial: The Latest Front in the U.S. Tech War on China
05 Apr 2023
The U.S. engages in a futile effort to diminish China's economic prowess. The propaganda war against Tik Tok is the latest salvo, and concerns about data privacy are misdirection intended to help U.S…
Ken Klippenstein , Lee Fang
Truth Cops: Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation
02 Nov 2022
An exposé reveals the extent of collusion between big tech social media platforms and the surveillance state. Far from being independent actors, social media companies restrict access and de-platform…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Obama Wants Censorship
27 Apr 2022
Barack Obama and his ruling class bosses are losing legitimacy with more and more people. They have decided that censoring information will resolve their problems.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Twitter Bans African Anti-Imperialists
12 Jan 2022
Many liberals and even some leftists welcomed the removal of Twitter accounts for Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Richard Spencer, Donald Trump, and other right-wing ideologues, but it was clear