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Trade unions and civil rights groups across the European Union are calling on national governments to stop using the software of US data analytics firm Palantir. The campaign, highlighted by Common Dreams, describes Palantir as 'not just another tech company', arguing its surveillance and data-processing work poses risks to privacy and civil liberties that governments should not rely on.

Common Dreams reports that US tax rules effectively shift the cost of private jet travel onto ordinary taxpayers, arguing these subsidies disproportionately benefit the ultra-wealthy while their flights produce outsized carbon emissions. Critics say the practice amounts to working-class Americans financing climate pollution by billionaires, and are calling for the tax breaks to be scrapped.

A Common Dreams article on artificial intelligence in healthcare billing is drawing attention online, framed with a riff on the classic 'all your base are belong to us' meme to suggest insurers and AI systems are taking over medical claims. The piece fuels ongoing concerns that automated billing tools could deny care, inflate costs, and reduce patient oversight.

Satellite imagery accessible on Google Earth and Google Maps shows extensive destruction across the Gaza Strip, according to a report circulated by Common Dreams. The article stresses that Google faces accusations of complicity in what critics call genocide in Gaza. Online users are sharing the images as visual documentation of the scale of devastation in the Palestinian territory amid the ongoing conflict with Israel.

A Common Dreams opinion piece argues that three interlocking dangers — the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, the spread of authoritarian or fascist politics, and the accelerating climate disaster — form a pendulum that is swinging dangerously low toward catastrophe. The author contends this combined crisis is not inevitable and that collective political action can still stop the worst outcomes, urging readers to resist complacency and organise against all three threats at once.