With Lebanon under bombardment [16] and the world awaiting Israel's response to the Iranian missile attacks [17] on its territory, fears mount that Iran's nuclear facilities could be targeted [18]—which, in addition to being an environmental disaster in its own right, could represent the crossing of a moral threshold toward the use of nuclear weapons. So two theaters of the world conflict—the Middle East and Ukraine [19]—now constitute a looming nuclear threat [20]. Meanwhile, the other horsemen of the apocalypse continue their relentless advance—climate change [21], cyber-based disinformation [20] and the ultimate replacement of humanity by artificial intelligence [22]. In Episode 246 [23] of the CounterVortex podcast [24], Bill Weinberg looks for glimmers of hope in emerging signs of human resistance—such as the East Coast dockworkers' strike [25], which is demanding a ban on all automation at the ports.
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