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Peter Bach retweeted
Jun 12
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
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Jun 12
Football’s greatest competition is supposed to transcend borders, politics and prejudice. counterpunch.org/2026/06/12/…
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Jun 11
From above, the scene looks like spontaneous public anger. On the ground, it proves rather more organised than that. counterpunch.org/2026/06/11/…
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Jun 6
Having Will Self back—and long may he persist—is rather like climbing a mountain and suddenly seeing someone half-remembered emerge from the nearest cliff face, climbing irons dangling from his waist like pans. counterpunch.org/2026/06/05/…
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Jun 2
A nod to Eamonn Gearon and his book The Arab Bureau: The Story of Britain’s Most Ingenious Intelligence Unit. counterpunch.org/2026/06/02/…
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May 19
What concentrates the mind is how outbreaks spread, how governments respond, and how political and humanitarian conditions can shape a crisis long before most of the world hears about it. counterpunch.org/2026/05/19/…
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Peter Bach retweeted
May 16
'Originality is about where something comes from. Urgency is about why it exists at all. The two are often confused, but they are not the same."
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May 15
I am not entirely up to speed on what the feature film business in London is like these days, but I do remember a production meeting for 28 Days Later… counterpunch.org/2026/05/15/…
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May 12
World Cup, Victory Day, unions, Rosalía not Emin, Franco-British maritime security missions, Camavinga and Mbappé. counterpunch.org/2026/05/12/…
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May 8
By late morning, the light will be hard and precise. The surface—what remains of it—will not be the smooth, mythic white that people expect, but a kind of broken grey: meltwater channels, soot, wind-scored ridges. counterpunch.org/2026/05/08/…
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Peter Bach retweeted
We are in a transition without settlement, within a system whose direction is visible but whose authors are not. It is unclear who this transition ultimately serves. counterpunch.org/2026/05/06/…
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Apr 22
Identity becomes untenable. The living and the dead blur. Unity here is not comforting—it is disorienting. counterpunch.org/2026/04/22/…
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Apr 17
“You should write about Viktor Orbán,” a close English friend told me before heading back to the Himalayas. counterpunch.org/2026/04/17/…
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Apr 15
For all our domestic troubles, we are not the ones most likely to start a third world war. The eye, inevitably, remains locked on the United States. counterpunch.org/2026/04/15/…
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Apr 13
Whether or not one agrees with Trump’s view, and people obviously can disagree, his rhetoric echoes Kremlin-style attacks on Ukrainian legitimacy a hell of a lot more than it resembles any kind of pressure on the aggressor state that invaded Ukraine. counterpunch.org/2026/04/13/…
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Peter Bach retweeted
At some point—and I can’t quite say when—it has become harder, at least from this side of the Atlantic, to separate our image of Donald Trump from the United States itself. The two have begun to blur in ways that feel new, and, frankly, unsettling. counterpunch.org/2026/04/08/…
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Apr 8
At some point—and I can’t quite say when—it has become harder, at least from this side of the Atlantic, to separate our image of Donald Trump from the United States itself. counterpunch.org/2026/04/08/…
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Apr 3
Somewhere in this untethered medley is a singular curling series of colours, like a conch shell. I see green. I see another green. Purple, orange, brown. Light blue, then deep dark blue—“blue to blue in the night”. counterpunch.org/2026/04/03/…
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Apr 2
In recent days, Donald Trump has used Truth Social to cast the UK in unusually stark terms, folding it into the same narrative of civilisational decline he applies to domestic opponents. Watch the flowers of freedom wilt and slowly die. counterpunch.org/2026/04/02/…
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Mar 27
The question is whether Washington is in no rush to restore normal passage on the Strait of Hormuz because disruption has in itself created an advantage for the United States. counterpunch.org/2026/03/27/…
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