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Agitators united by Chinese money, hate for America target data centers, experts warn
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In 2024, climate activists in New York City protested alongside anti-Israel protesters at a rally headlined «Climate Justice Means Free Palestine.» Last year, climate change celebrity icon Greta Thunberg tried to storm Israel by sea on a flotilla protesting the country’s war in Gaza, yelling «Free! Free! Palestine!» when she was refused entry.
And, last week, activists from CodePink, a far-left feminist activist group that has received funds from an American expatriate, Neville Roy Singham, living in Shanghai, took a break from their rallies supporting the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Cuba Communist Party to circulate a video on Instagram, attacking a Utah data center project backed by investor Kevin O’Leary.
What connects these causes?
Climate activists, anti-Israel protesters and other activist movements with very different agendas have become strange bedfellows united by a shared disdain for America and funding from China, according to experts who warn the trend is weakening the United States amid a rapidly accelerating AI race.
Critics say the same activist ecosystem is now targeting America’s AI infrastructure and industrial power, in a development that experts warn could undermine the United States in its technological competition with China.
The growing convergence increasingly includes communist and Islamist activist movements, and it recently extended into campaigns targeting America’s artificial intelligence data centers, with activist and environmental groups helping delay or block dozens of such projects worth billions of dollars over concerns about energy use, water consumption and environmental impact amid rising power demand.
Fox News Digital has observed many of the movements protesting side-by-side at demonstrations across the country despite their otherwise stark ideological differences.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg, while wearing a keffiyeh scarf, speaks alongside pro-Palestinian activists in Catania, Italy, ahead of a Gaza flotilla-related event. (The Associated Press/Salvatore Cavalli))
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«What all of these protests have in common — the protests against AI data centers or the environmental protests or the protest against Israel — is that anti-American trend within them,» Hudson Institute fellow Zineb Riboua told Fox News Digital.
«Climate change was also one of those very trendy causes to protest for or against, and now there’s always this quest to find what is the next thing to revolutionize,» Riboua added. «And this revolution against the United States is always welcome, no matter what type of forms and shapes it takes.»
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Fox News Digital has previously reported that Singham, a U.S.-born tech tycoon living in Shanghai, funneled roughly $285 million into six activist nonprofits accused by lawmakers and analysts of promoting pro-China narratives and anti-American protest movements.
O’Leary accused local groups opposing the Utah project of being tied to China-linked funding networks and argued the backlash reflected a broader nationwide trend of activist campaigns targeting AI infrastructure, though Fox News Digital has not independently verified the Utah-related allegations.
Protesters react as the Box Elder County Commission approves a large AI data center project in Tremonton, Utah, on May 4, 2026. Activists opposed the proposed 40,000-acre development over concerns about water use, energy demand and environmental impact. (Natalie Behring/Getty Images)
‘Red-green-green alliance’
Riboua, who specializes in anti-West ideological movements and China’s influence in the Middle East, warned that the overlap between climate activists, anti-Israel protesters, communists and Islamists is being driven by a broader anti-American worldview she described as «Third Worldism,» an ideology that divides the world into «oppressors» and «oppressed» and casts the United States and the West as the primary source of global problems.
The ideology unites otherwise unrelated activist causes under a shared anti-Western framework, she said.
«Third Worldism drives anti-Americanism because the goal of Third Worldism is basically dismantling a cohesive Western society or Western country,» Riboua said.
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Energy expert Brenda Shaffer, a research faculty member at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, described the broader activist convergence as part of a «red-green-green alliance,» an ideological overlap between three elements: communist movements, characterized by the color red; Islamist activism, described as green; and environmental protest groups, symbolized as green.
They increasingly unite around anti-West and anti-American causes, she said.
Riboua said the alliance has become increasingly visible as activist groups move rapidly from one issue to another — from climate protests to anti-Israel demonstrations and now toward campaigns targeting AI infrastructure and data centers.
The overlap has also become increasingly visible on the streets. At a 2024 «Climate Justice Means Free Palestine» rally in New York City, climate activists and pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested side-by-side.
«There’s always this quest to find what is the next thing to revolutionize,» she said.
People participate in a «Climate Justice Means Free Palestine» rally outside Citibank headquarters in New York City on June 18, 2024. Protesters carried pro-Palestinian signs and climate justice messaging during the demonstration. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Riboua pointed to Thunberg’s evolution into a vocal anti-Israel activist as an example of the growing ideological overlap between climate activism and broader anti-West protest movements.
«Greta is not an Islamist, and I think that she never read Karl Marx, but she has all the good instincts of a revolutionary against the evil oppressor, Westerner, and the United States,» Riboua said.
China, energy and the AI race
Shaffer warned the growing convergence is increasingly affecting industries critical to America’s economic and technological competition with China.
«Energy is crucial to the AI race, to the data centers,» Shaffer told Fox News Digital via a Zoom interview.
Shaffer argued that while activist groups in the West target fossil fuels, AI infrastructure and industrial development, China continues rapidly expanding coal production, manufacturing capacity and energy generation.
«So we’re truly by adopting international climate policies, we’re weakening the West,» Shaffer said.
«China really benefits from these policies that we adopt and we just let them keep forging ahead with coal.»
Shaffer compared the trend to Soviet-backed anti-nuclear activism during the Cold War, arguing that adversarial powers have historically benefited from anti-energy movements in the West.
Racks of servers with colorful wires are seen in a data center as AI expansion strains the power grid, prompting a proposal for tech firms to fund their own energy needs. (Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images)
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«You saw traditionally the Soviet Union funding movements against nuclear energy in Europe so that Europe would remain dependent on Soviet and later Russian gas,» Shaffer said.
She also warned that increasing Western dependence on Chinese renewable-energy supply chains could create new strategic vulnerabilities because China dominates major parts of the global solar and inverter market.
Shaffer argued many activist campaigns focus on delaying or blocking energy and infrastructure projects in the United States while China rapidly expands coal consumption and industrial production.
Riboua added that many ordinary protesters are not necessarily driven by ideology, but by simplified narratives amplified through social media clickbait and activist messaging.
«Some people are generally good people and they want to have a moral position,» she said. «They know headlines … there’s a lot of ignorance.»
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Shaffer warned that artificial intelligence infrastructure requires enormous amounts of reliable electricity and said the West risks falling behind China if energy costs continue rising and infrastructure projects continue facing activist opposition.
«You can’t have an arms industry built on solar energy,» she said.
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Leah Stewart, an Australian mother and teacher who lost an arm after a shark attack at Sydney’s Coogee Beach, has been reading messages from supporters around the world during sleepless nights as she continues her long recovery, her family said.
«We’ve been sharing some of the beautiful messages we’ve received with Leah and she’s loved them, finding inspiration from the care and love you’ve all shared,» her brother, Joshua Stewart, wrote in a GoFundMe update on Sunday.
«Leah has had some challenging days but has found real strength from your kindness and support,» he added.
Leah Stewart has struggled with sleep in her recovery and has leaned on the wave of support from family, friends and strangers.
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«Since the incident Leah has had difficulty sleeping, and on those nights she’s been reading back through your messages, not only from her family and community in Australia and her whānau in New Zealand, but also from people all across the world,» he wrote, using the Maori word for family. «They’ve given her real comfort and strength.»
Stewart, mother to a 1-year-old daughter and passionate teacher, was attacked June 13 while on a morning swim close to shore and within the flags at Coogee Beach, according to her family. She suffered life-threatening injuries, including multiple bites across her arms and legs, lacerations, fractures and extreme blood loss.
She was placed on life support, put under a medically induced coma and underwent multiple surgeries in the days after the attack. Her treatment required the amputation of one arm, and the family said more surgeries were scheduled as doctors worked to save her life and stabilize her condition.
Stewart, who woke up from her 10-day coma after doctors reduced her sedation, told her mother and partner, Fernando, «I love you.» Her brother said at the time that her first thoughts were with her young daughter, August.
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«Leah has a long road ahead,» Joshua Stewart wrote after she briefly woke, calling the moment a hopeful first step in her recovery.
Joshua Stewart said the family wanted to apologize for delays in responding to supporters, explaining they have had issues with the GoFundMe messaging system.
«Leah is beyond overwhelmed at the amazing support she has received and that her story has resonated with so many people,» he wrote. «Thank you!»
The fundraiser was launched to help Stewart, her partner and their young daughter through what her family described as a heartbreaking situation. The money will support her recovery, prosthetics, rehabilitation, ongoing care and the major adjustments she will need as she works toward returning to life as a mother.
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Her family also thanked the lifesavers, first responders, helicopter crew and medical team at St. Vincent’s Hospital who helped care for Stewart after the attack.
«As a family we are shocked and devastated that this could happen to our beloved partner, daughter and mother who is so full of life and energy,» Joshua Stewart wrote.
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República Dominicana: Nuevo grupo eleva a 171 personas retornadas desde Venezuela tras los terremotos
Un grupo de 84 personas llegó este sábado a República Dominicana, tras haber permanecido en Venezuela durante los recientes terremotos que afectaron ese país. Según datos del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (MIREX), el total de personas retornadas hasta la fecha asciende a 171.
Por medio de un comunicado de prensa, el MIREX informó que el operativo, dispuesto por el presidente dominicano Luis Abinader, en el marco de la Operación Quisqueya Solidaria 2026, facilitó el retorno seguro de estos ciudadanos, entre los que se encuentran 19 rescatistas y la misión diplomática desplazada para asistir a los afectados.
En la terminal del Aeropuerto Internacional de las Américas, los repatriados fueron recibidos por la vicepresidenta Raquel Peña, el ministro de Defensa, teniente general Carlos Antonio Fernández Onofre, y el viceministro de Política Exterior Bilateral del MIREX, Francisco Caraballo, quien representó al canciller Roberto Álvarez.
El vuelo humanitario, gestionado por la Cancillería, trajo a 50 dominicanos y 12 venezolanos con vínculos familiares con ciudadanos dominicanos. Además, permitió el retorno del equipo dominicano de búsqueda y rescate en estructuras colapsadas (USAR), conformado por los 19 primeros rescatistas internacionales que arribaron a Venezuela después de los sismos.
Entre los pasajeros del vuelo también regresó la misión oficial del MIREX, encabezada por el director de Protección a Nacionales en el Exterior, Miguel Reyes, acompañado de otros dos funcionarios. Este grupo tuvo a su cargo la asistencia a los dominicanos que solicitaron regresar a la isla tras los movimientos telúricos.
La coordinación de la operación estuvo a cargo del viceministro para Asuntos Consulares y Migratorios de la Cancillería, Opinio Díaz, quien viajó junto al embajador Juan José Portorreal, director de Gabinete del MIREX, y el embajador Briunny Garabito, inspector del Servicio Exterior Dominicano. El operativo incluyó la logística para recibir y atender a los repatriados, así como la gestión de los trámites consulares necesarios.
En paralelo al retorno, la misión humanitaria dominicana llevó a Venezuela un nuevo cargamento de ayuda humanitaria y un equipo multidisciplinario del Ministerio de Salud Pública, encabezado por el ministro Víctor Atallah. El grupo, integrado por 40 profesionales entre médicos, ingenieros en agua, psiquiatras, psicólogos y técnicos, tendrá como función ofrecer atención especializada a los ciudadanos venezolanos afectados por los terremotos, a través de un hospital móvil EMT-1.
Durante la visita oficial, el director general de la Oficina Nacional de Evaluación Sísmica y Vulnerabilidad de Infraestructura y Edificaciones (ONESVIE), Leonardo Reyes Madera, realizó una evaluación estructural de los inmuebles de la Embajada y el Consulado de República Dominicana en Venezuela. Tras la inspección, señaló que las edificaciones no presentan daños importantes y recomendó mecanismos correctivos para algunas fisuras detectadas en paredes, información que será detallada en un informe técnico.
El MIREX reiteró su compromiso de mantener la asistencia y protección para los dominicanos en el exterior, así como de sostener el apoyo solidario al pueblo venezolano mediante iniciativas humanitarias y cooperación internacional. El organismo confirmó que seguirá coordinando acciones para atender emergencias que involucren a nacionales residentes fuera del país.
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9/11 Museum CEO reflects on lasting impact of terror attacks as America marks 250th birthday
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As America marks its 250th anniversary, 9/11 Memorial and Museum President and CEO Elizabeth L. Hillman said this year’s milestone coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, highlighting the nation’s past and its resilience.
«This year, America’s 250th birthday coincides with the 25th anniversary of 9/11, which means that what’s happening at our site is very much connected to the history of the country and to the recognition of this important milestone,» Hillman told Fox News Digital.
«9/11 is an important part of our nation’s history, but especially now as the nation turns 250.»
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the terrorist attacks when hijacked planes struck the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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Two flags flutter on a fence in front of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center at the Tear Drop 9/11 Memorial at sunset on June 13, 2026, in Bayonne, New Jersey. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)
Hillman said it is more important than ever for future generations to learn about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to understand how they helped shape the nation and «where we are today.»
«Now, 25 years have passed since that date, so if we don’t elevate 9/11 in the eyes of the 100 million Americans who were born since or were too young to remember 9/11 when it happened, we’ll lose the opportunity for them to understand what happened on that day and how the world came to heal, how the nation came together, and how this city and the other sites, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, worked to recover afterward,» she said.
Hillman said the nation’s recovery after 9/11 shows that even after a devastating tragedy, people can come together, heal and rebuild.
«I think everyone’s hungry for evidence that we can survive things that are difficult,» she said. «There’s nothing like 9/11 to help people realize, given how the nation has recovered since, that it is possible to persevere, to heal, to recover, even in the face of really unfathomable loss, and that’s what 9/11 has the chance to teach us.»
Reflecting on the museum’s role, Hillman said the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks affected not only New York City but the entire country, calling the museum «a testament to the resilience of the city» and to «the perseverance that enabled us to actually rebuild.»
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Colorful flowers are left by mourners at the 911 Memorial, offering gifts to remember those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City. (Getty Images)
«At the center of the rebuilt World Trade Center is a monument to the people who were killed that day and a testimony, really, to what we can do when we come together after that kind of catastrophe,» she said.
This year, the museum opened «Our Flag Was Still There,» an exhibition featuring flags, artifacts and photographs that tell stories of resilience from first responders, veterans and Americans who lived through 9/11. The exhibit includes the Ground Zero flag raised by FDNY firefighters, the flag draped over the Pentagon by soldiers and firefighters, a flag raised over the last column of the South Tower, and one carried during the mission that killed Usama bin Laden.
«It reveals how important the flag was in the healing and the coming together that happened after 9/11,» Hillman said.
Hillman said commemorating 9/11 is especially important at a time when «many things seem to be splitting us apart.»
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Attendees hold American flag posters during the Great American State Fair Kickoff Celebration on the National Mall on June 24, 2026, in Washington, DC. The Great American State Fair runs through July 10 celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States of America. (Al Drago/Getty Images)
«The opportunity to bring people together around a symbol like the flag and around a symbol like the rebuilding of the World Trade Center after 9/11, it’s a great opportunity, especially right now,» she said.
On July 4, Hillman said the museum will place an American flag at each victim’s name on the memorial, «to recognize how important the flag was as a symbol of the country on its birthday, but also of the recovery from 9/11 that happened and continues to happen now as we remember that day at this site.»
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Looking ahead to fall, Hillman said the museum will also start offering free admission to veterans whose «willingness to serve after 9/11» helped rebuild the World Trade Center and unite the nation.
«If there’s one message that we feel we can elevate now that we couldn’t do 25 years ago because we didn’t know enough about what would happen afterward, it’s that so many people were inspired to serve their country, serving in the military,» she said.
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