# Anti-Tech Extremism, or Populism? | China-Data Center Conspiracy Theory | New Zealand’s Military Trap | Bernie’s A.I. Proposal | Hegseth’s Shangri-La Primacy Fantasy | Ep. 305

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Published: 2026-06-05T03:50:23+00:00
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The government is now going after regular people who oppose data centers and are calling it "anti-tech extremist violence.” Congress's anti-China data center conspiracy theory is a very real farce. Bernie Sanders is in the New York Times with a new proposal to seize the means of A.I. production, sort of. New Zealand is allowing itself to follow into a militarist trap of its own making--what's at stake in the debate about New Zealand military spending and its anti-nuclear stance. Pete Hegseth's speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue confirms one thing: The US is still pursuing global primacy, only under conditions where it's neither possible nor justified, and that means violence. What makes opposition to A.I. data centers a strategically useful site for both people-power struggle and state repression. And the U.S. has illegally killed more than 200 people in over 60 strikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific--that's what the Monroe Doctrine looks like.

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