It’s time for Congress to ask tough questions about automating combat decision-making before pouring billions of taxpayer dollars into the enterprise, writes Michael T. Klare.
US Military Robots on Fast Track to Leadership Role
Category: Advanced Technologies
Whose Century Is It? Don’t Ask Trump
As the previous piece published here today shows, while the U.S. blows things up, China builds things, better than the U.S., and that has infuriated Washington, says Dilip Hiro.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Huawei, Tik Tok, WeChat & Other Handy Targets
Washington is now committed to preventing any non–Western nations that do not conform to the neoliberal order from rising in any field wherein they threaten to best U.S. companies.
25 YEARS OF CN: ‘How Israel Stole the Bomb’
When Israel launched a covert scheme to steal material and secrets to build a nuclear bomb, U.S. officials looked the other way and obstructed investigations, as described in a book reviewed by James DiEugenio.
UFO Hype Is Probably Just the US Military Lying Again
The U.S. military has for years been using mass media to inflame public interest in alleged UFOs, and it’s entirely possible it is a domestic ploy to get more Space Force funding, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
COVID-19: The Pentagon Confronts the Pandemic
Michael Klare says naval robotic warfare is beginning to move out of dystopian futuristic fantasies and into official battlefield visions.
Nuclear Testing, Never Again
Congress must step in and slam the door shut on the idea of resuming nuclear testing, especially if its purpose is to threaten other countries, writes Daryl G. Kimball.
COVID-19 Means Good Times for the Pentagon
While Americans are overwhelmed by the pandemic, Mandy Smithberger details how the Pentagon and its boosters are exploiting the emergency to feather their own nests.
Israel Leverages Dubious ‘Nuclear Archives’ to Re-Enlist IAEA in Campaign Against Iran
The International Atomic Energy Agency has once again lent itself to the political interests of the United States and Israel, writes Gareth Porter.
UPRISING: Unicorn Riot’s Protest Coverage Recalls Long History of Grassroots Video Production
Errol Salamon looks back at the unfiltered documentaries produced by groups such as Videofreex in the late 1960s.