Eisenhower’s warning that U.S. policy would be captured by a scientific-technological elite explains why Washington sustains the war in Ukraine as a unique, live-fire laboratory for AI warfare at scale.
Jeffrey Sachs: The Enduring US War on Russia
Category: Trump Administration
Caitlin Johnstone: COINTELPRO 2.0
It seems the United States is looking at a reinvigorated COINTELPRO for the 2020s, this time with police drones and AI-assisted mass surveillance. They know they’re losing their grip. They know that they are vastly outnumbered. They are afraid.
Can Trump Sue Himself?
Had the U.S. president asked the IRS to shelve his case until he leaves office, he’d have had a real claim, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Instead he jeopardized the careers of his eager-to-please lawyers.
ICE Is Killing, Blinding & Causing Traumatic Brain Injuries
Just over half of the misuses of force against anti-ICE demonstrators were directed at protesters, while 43 percent targeted journalists, find Physicians for Human Rights and the Human Rights Center at the University of California at Berkeley.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Imperial Court
America’s drift from republican to imperial law is not new, even if no one has so named it. Now — after the Supreme Court crashed out a spate of preposterously corrupt, end-of-term decisions — it is time.
8 Contradictions Behind NATO’s Summit of ‘Love’
Anyone looking beyond the carefully choreographed photo-ops saw a military alliance beset by public feuds, competing visions of security, and widening political divisions, writes Medea Benjamin.
Hedges Report: ‘When the World Sleeps’
Francesca Albanese talks about her new book, international law, and how media complicity in cases such at that of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has become one of the greatest enablers of injustice.
Caitlin Johnstone: Gaza Ethnic Cleansing Rolls On
Israel has seized 70 percent of Gaza and an Israeli official says the plan is to control 100 percent. Meanwhile the “Board of Peace” is planning to herd refugees into an area outside the destroyed cite of Rafah.
US Commanders ‘Bypassed Warnings’ on School Massacre
CNN’s sources say that shortly after Washington’s attack on Iran’s Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school U.S. military officials knew it was based on badly outdated targeting information, Brad Reed reports.
Washington Fails to Block Cuba-Embargo Debate at UN
Member states voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to proceed with a long session of General Assembly speeches mostly condemning Washington’s 70-plus-year-old embargo on Cuba, Damilola Banjo reports.