Haaretz has more details on IDF drone strikes that killed seven international aid workers on Monday night. The victims included two US-Canadian dual-national Palestinians and five citizens of Australia, Poland and the UK. (Edit: World Central Kitchen – the NGO that...
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News Roundup 1/18/2024
US News OpenAI Cuts ‘Military and Warfare’ Ban From Permissible Use Policy AWC Biden White House Set Up Secrative Court to Oversee Privacy Rights Politico UK Defense Secretary: UK in Pre-War Phase With Several Nations AWC Ukraine Ukraine Ground Forces Commander Says...
The Deadliest Premise
A new documentary film, Unknown: Killer Robots (2023), directed by Jesse Sweet and available on Netflix, addresses some of the perhaps surprising developments in artificial intelligence weaponry—above all, the specter of autonomous lethal aircraft systems programmed...
Give Peace a Chance
Armchair generals and warmongers often share a similar view when it comes to analyzing historical and contemporary events; if the military was not constrained, then victory would be assured. That is the language of mass murderers disguised beneath the need for...
Amid War on Gaza, Scores of Palestinians Killed By Israeli Forces, Settlers in the West Bank
Amid Tel Aviv’s massive bombing campaign against the densely populated, besieged Gaza Strip, Israeli forces and illegal settlers have been on a rampage of violence, terror, torture, and murder throughout the occupied West Bank. On October 7, Hamas carried out a...
Congress Passes Stop-Gap Spending Bill, Ukraine Aid Relegated to Separate Vote
Editor's Note: Before midnight, President Joe Biden signed the temporary funding bill. A partial “shutdown” of the federal government, which seemed inevitable amid battles over spending in both chambers of Congress, was averted after the House and Senate passed a...
Moscow Announces Massive Military Spending Increase to Combat NATO’s ‘Hybrid War’ in Ukraine
Moscow announced that it plans to increase military spending by nearly 70% in 2024 as it fights against what the Kremlin has dubbed NATO’s “hybrid war.” Russia’s defense budget next year, which is dwarfed by the Pentagon budget, will still be less than the total...
White House Close To Providing Kiev With Cluster-Armed ATACMS
This comes amid Kyiv’s failing counteroffensive and poses a major risk of escalation, President Volodymyr Zelensky has desired to use the long-range weapons to attack the Russian mainland. The White House is close to deciding it will provide Ukraine with a...
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