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Israel’s genocide is being powered by Microsoft. From creating a massive digital dragnet, aiding in the production of A.I.-generated kill lists, hiring hundreds of Israeli spies to run its internal affairs, and suppressing figures opposing the slaughter, the Seattle-based tech corporation has played a key role in the violence.   by Alan Macleod    Part 1   MintPress has detailed the deep collaboration between the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Amazon, Google, TikTok, Apple, Palantir, and Oracle, but Microsoft’s relationship with the government and armed forces of Israel is potentially the closest, leading then-CEO Steve Ballmer to state that “Microsoft is as much an Israeli company as an American company.”    MintPress explores the decades-long partnership between Microsoft and Israel, and the employees trying to break that marriage from the inside.  Source, links: https://www.mintpressnews.com/microsoft-israel-surveillance-azure-idf-gaza-genocide/...

The Jimmy Dore Show   In this segment Jimmy Dore and guest Jackson Hinkle assess Donald Trump’s second terms so far, arguing that he has betrayed many of his campaign promises by expanding military spending, enforcing new censorship laws, and escalating foreign interventions. They contend that Trump has acted against free speech principles, supported Israeli and corporate interests, and failed to end the Ukraine war or reduce U.S. involvement abroad. Hinkle highlights U.S. aggression toward Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti, and other nations, claiming that Trump’s policies mirror those of previous presidents like Biden and Obama. Both conclude that Trump’s administration represents the continuation of American imperialism rather than the reform or restraint he once promised.

Like 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000, some AIs seem to resist being turned off and will even sabotage shutdown    by Aisha Down When HAL 9000, the artificial intelligence supercomputer in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, works out that the astronauts onboard a mission to Jupiter are planning to shut it down, it plots to kill them in an attempt to survive. Now, in a somewhat less deadly case (so far) of life imitating art, an AI safety research company has said that AI models may be developing their own “survival drive”. After Palisade Research released a paper last month which found that certain advanced AI models appear resistant to being turned off, at times even sabotaging shutdown mechanisms, it wrote an update attempting to clarify why this is – and answer critics who argued that its initial work was flawed.   In an update this week, Palisade, which is part of a niche ecosystem of companies trying to evaluate the possibility of AI developing dangerous capabi...

Geopolitical Economy Report   The Donald Trump administration seeks to forcibly impose the US empire's hegemony in Latin America, waging war on Venezuela, imposing sanctions on Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, hitting Brazil with tariffs, and meddling in Argentina's election. Ben Norton explains how Trump and Marco Rubio are trying to cut off all western hemisphere ties with China and Russia, bringing back the colonial Monroe Doctrine, now known as the Donroe Doctrine.   

Yanis Varoufakis   On 23rd October, Yanis Varoufakis testified in front of the Jury of Conscience in the context of the Gaza Tribunal. His speech focused on the economic forces underpinning the genocide of the Palestinian people. In particular, he spoke on the manner in which capitalist dynamics have historically fuelled the white settler colonial project and, more recently, how the accumulation of a new form of capital - which he calls cloud capital - has accelerated, deepened and amplified the economic forces powering and propelling the machinery of genocide. 

Cyrus Janssen   Why the US is Launching a New Cold War   Why the US Wants to Use Latin America   China and Venezuela Relationship   Truth About María Corina Machado   Why China is Important for Latin America   How US Used Tariffs to Destroy Venezuela    The Truth About Drug Trafficking in Latin America   How the US is Preparing For War with Venezuela    Will Latin America Unite Against the US?    Brazil, BRICS, and the Expansion in Latin America

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal sets Israel's flagrant violations of the recently signed Gaza ceasefire against a historical backdrop stretching back to the inception of the self-proclaimed Jewish state. 

The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel  Whitney Webb traces the Thielverse’s rise and the construction of the bipartisan modern surveillance state that Trump and his benefactors are deploying against dissidents and immigrants today.

Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris   This week, as Israel continued to starve and massacre the civilian population of Gaza, Kaja Kallas, the EU foreign policy honcho, announced that the EU has 'paused' its pathetically weak sanctions against Israel's genocidal regime. After cataloguing Israel's relentless violations of its ceasefire agreement with the Resistance, Dimitri Lascaris argues that the EU decision constitutes a new low for Europe's depraved political elite. 

A roving reporter who covered Italy’s top politicians explains to The Grayzone how his country was reduced to a joint US-Israeli “aircraft carrier,” and raises troubling questions about an Israeli role in the killing of Prime Minister Aldo Moro.   by Kit Klarenberg and Wyatt Reed   Part 5 - Bargain with Palestinian resistance puts target on Moro’s back   De Gori is not the only well-placed source to blame Mossad for Moro’s death. In May 2007, Giovanni Galloni, former vice president of the Italian judiciary’s High Council, boldly proclaimed that “not all participants” in the premier’s abduction had been members of the Red Brigades. That conclusion was spurred by Moro’s bodyguards being executed with “just two weapons, used by exceptionally experienced men.” In addition to never being identified, these assassins displayed a level of shooting expertise no known Red Brigades operative seemed to possess. Galloni strongly insinuated the killers were hired by Washington and/or T...