Bill Weinberg
@billweinberg.bsky.social
Journalist, blogger, ranter, raconteur. Pragmatic anti-dogmatic anarchist. Obsessive copy-editor. Support my CounterVortex podcast on Patreon. http://patreon.com/countervortex
The new #CounterVortex podcast, following the devastating hack of our website, celebrates authentic human culture, the material world, and REAL LIFE.... Listen (and support us!) on #Patreon.... www.patreon.com/countervorte...
In defense of real life | Bill Weinberg
With the CounterVortex website debilitated by Chinese state-sponsored hackers, chief blogger and ranter Bill Weinberg takes heart in the vib
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The new #CounterVortex podcast, following the devastating hack of our website, celebrates authentic human culture, the material world, and REAL LIFE.... Listen on #SoundCloud.... soundcloud.com/user-7521672...
In defense of real life
Summer of Ludd With the CounterVortex website debilitated by Chinese state-sponsored hackers, chief blogger and ranter Bill Weinberg takes heart in the vibrant scene unfolding this summer in the Lower
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The #CounterVortex podcast, following the devastating hack of our website, celebrates authentic human culture, the material world, and REAL LIFE.... especially the vibrant scene flourishing this summer in the Lower East Side's #TompkinsSquarePark... classic.countervortex.org/node/19067
Podcast: In defense of real life
With the CounterVortex website debilitated by Chinese state-sponsored hackers, chief blogger and ranter Bill Weinberg takes heart in the vibrant scene unfolding this summer in the Lower East Side's To...
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It should be "problematic" use. "Problem" is a noun, not an adjective. I may get high, but at least I can write, @nytimes.com .... www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/w...
As More Americans Turn to Cannabis, Problem Use Is Increasing
A growing number of Americans report they are unable to quit or cut down.
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Facing 10 years in prison for their peaceful vigils commemorating the #TiananmenSquare massacre ...BEFORE the law banning them was passed! Still #Chinamaxxing, Democratic Socialists of America? classic.countervortex.org/node/19060
Hong Kong: Tiananmen commemorators guilty
The Hong Kong Court of First Instance on Aug. 21 found activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan, as well as the pair's now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance, guilty of a "subversion" offense under the Be...
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Israeli strike on Syria signals tension with Türkiye
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The #CounterVortex website was targeted by Chinese state-sponsored hackers (yes, really) and it will take me a while to put it back together, if it is even possible (the backup failed). Meanwhile, you can continue to follow my work on Patreon, SoundCloud and Substack... countervortex.substack.com
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Podcast: politics of the NYC synagogue attack | Bill Weinberg
Following the attack on Manhattan's historic Central Synagogue, Jewish establishment voices are calling for stepped up surveillance and poli
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Politics of the NYC synagogue attack
Following the attack on Manhattan's historic Cent…
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A lot of my friends on both "sides" on this question—the anti-Semitism question, which, alas, there seems to be "sides" on... need to hear this. I submit. classic.countervortex.org/node/19058
Podcast: politics of the NYC synagogue attack
Following the attack on Manhattan's historic Central Synagogue, Jewish establishment voices are calling for stepped up surveillance and policing. But the threat, alas, is real.
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We should be supporting Russians like this brave soul. Not the dictator who has imprisoned him. countervortex.org/blog/russia-...
Russia sentences anti-war politician to prison
A Russian court sentenced politician Lev Shlosberg to 11 years and one month in a penal colony on charges of "discrediting" the Russian military and spreading "false information." Amnesty Internationa...
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The #CounterVortex #podcast on the politics of the #TrojanWar, and how the only thing that has fundamentally changed since 3,000 years ago is our weaponry. #TheOdyssey #Kablooie Listen (and support us!) on #Patreon.... www.patreon.com/countervorte...
Geopolitics of The Odyssey | Bill Weinberg
The righties are apoplectic that Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey famously portrays a Black Helen—displaying their ignorance of the actual in
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The #CounterVortex on the politics of the #TrojanWar, and how the only thing that has fundamentally changed since 3,000 years ago is our weaponry. #TheOdyssey #Kablooie countervortex.org/blog/podcast...
Podcast: geopolitics of The Odyssey
The righties are apoplectic that Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey famously portrays a Black Helen—displaying their ignorance of the actual intercourse between Africa and the ancient Greek world. But ap...
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Mostly symbolic, as #BasharAssad is still being sheltered by Russia. And I oppose the death penalty in all circumstances—even for war criminals. It is an outrage that Assad (unlike his host Putin!) was never brought up on charges by The Hague. countervortex.org/blog/syria-b...
Syria: Bashar Assad sentenced to death in absentia
A Damascus criminal court sentenced ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia after convicting him of murder, torture, arbitrary detention and crimes against humanity. This was the ...
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The latest #CounterVortex weekly headlines from #Iran, the #UAE, #Nigeria, #Tibet, #Thailand, #Venezuela, the #Amazon and #cyberspace countervortex.substack.com/p/countervor...
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Iran: intensified persecution of Bahá’í
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On #Nagasaki day, the #CounterVortex #podcast grapples with how #ArtificialIntelligence poses a new threat to human survival, and must be resisted—along with the digitization of all reality. countervortex.org/blog/resist-...
Podcast: Resist digital hegemony! V
Eighty-one years after Nagasaki, there is growing awareness of the heightening threat of nuclear war. There must be similar awareness of the existential threat to humanity posed by AI, and the hegemon...
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Still #Chinamaxxing, @demsocialists.bsky.social ? #JustAsking countervortex.org/blog/china-a...
China arrests activist for Dalai Lama photo
Amnesty International urged Chinese authorities to immediately release a human rights activist who was detained for showing a photograph of the Dalai Lama at a monastery in Tibet, emphasizing that his...
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Uh, @newhumanitarian.bsky.social ... The talks in Rome are between Israel and Lebanon—NOT between Israel and Hezbollah. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2026/08...
Ebola response concerns, Tigray war warnings, and Gaza’s ceasefire mirage: The Cheat Sheet
A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues.
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The #CounterVortex podcast continues to make the urgent case for #abolition of #ArtificialIntelligence, on ecological, epistemological and eschatological grounds. Yeah, those are some big words. They also happen to be the right ones. Listen (& support us) on #Patreon. www.patreon.com/countervorte...
AI: the case for abolition II | Bill Weinberg
The popular case against the data centers now proliferating vertiginously across the United States emphasizes the ecological imperative. As
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The #CounterVortex podcast continues to make the urgent case for #abolition of #ArtificialIntelligence, on ecological, epistemological and eschatological grounds. Yeah, those are some big words. They also happen to be the right ones. Listen to it. countervortex.org/blog/ai-the-...
AI: the case for abolition II
The popular case against the data centers now proliferating vertiginously across the United States emphasizes the ecological imperative. As water resources shrink, forcing emergency restrictions on us...
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The #CounterVortex podcast warns of pitfalls for the critical movement against data centers: ugly primitivism manifesting in stochastic attacks, & cooptation by the “Party for Socialism & Liberation” (sic), which only seeks to help China WIN the AI race. www.patreon.com/countervorte...
AI: geopolitics or abolition? | Bill Weinberg
Nationwide protests against data centers and even demands to stop the AI race constitute a significant glimmer of hope as Artificial Intelli
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The #CounterVortex podcast warns of pitfalls for the critical movement against data centers: ugly primitivism manifesting in stochastic attacks, & cooptation by the “Party for Socialism & Liberation” (sic), which only seeks to help China WIN the AI race. countervortex.org/blog/ai-geop...
AI: geopolitics or abolition?
Nationwide protests against data centers and even demands to stop the AI race constitute a significant glimmer of hope as Artificial Intelligence colonizes every sphere of human existence with terrify...
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The #CounterVortex podcast takes heart in the NYS moratorium on data centers, and similar struggles at local levels around the country to halt the hypertrophy of the AI economy. But we must parley these victories into a global movement to #AbolishAI. countervortex.org/blog/podcast...
Podcast: Resist digital hegemony! IV
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's executive order imposing a one-year moratorium or "pause" on new "hyperscale" data centers seems to be a ploy to undercut a more stringent measure passed by the state legi...
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How long before the #tankies drop their facade of opposition to Trump? countervortex.org/blog/us-to-s...
US to seek dismantling of International Criminal Court
The US will launch a diplomatic campaign aimed at dismantling the International Criminal Court, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced. In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, Rubio wrote ...
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Turkish ecological defender faces prison
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