Less than a year after OpenAI quietly signaled it wanted to do business with the Pentagon, a procurement document obtained by The Intercept shows U.S. Africa Command, or AFRICOM, believes access to OpenAI’s technology is “essential” for its mission. The September 30 document lays out AFRICOM’s rationale for buying cloud computing services directly from Microsoft […]
Last Friday, 13 police officers gathered in the early morning hours outside an off-campus residential building in West Philadelphia. It was the home of several University of Pennsylvania students. Donning their full tactical gear, including riot helmets, and armed with assault rifles and handguns, the police threatened to break down the door with a battering […]
The chief legal officer of the European Union’s foreign service advised the department’s top official that a new opinion by judges in The Hague does not require EU states to ban goods imported from Israeli settlements, according to a leaked analysis. Legal experts said that the analysis contradicts the International Court of Justice, or ICJ, […]
A view on Oct. 18, 2024, of destruction in Nabatieh, Lebanon, after Israeli warplanes launched massive air raids destroying a big part of the city’s old market and the municipal buildings. AP Images For readers of Western media since the start of the invasion of Lebanon, Israeli maneuvers appear to be a blinding success. Israeli […]
AL-MUARAJAT, WEST BANK — It was early on a mid-September day when a group of Israeli settlers arrived at a small Palestinian Bedouin school in the occupied West Bank. In short order, they stormed the building. Armed and emboldened, the settlers threw rocks, broke windows, and injured several students and teachers. Children scrambled for safety […]
The leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, was killed in battle between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Sinwar, the architect of the October 7 attacks, was a top target for Israel. After months of Israel claiming that Sinwar was hiding in tunnels behind “human shields,” the Hamas leader was gravely wounded by […]
Earlier this year, two Harvard medical historians published an article on a leading American medical journal’s willful ignorance of Nazi atrocities in the 1930s and ’40s. The article found that the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious medical publications, either chose not to cover the Nazi regime’s racist […]
State Department spokesperson Matt Miller isn’t sure of much when it comes to Israel’s war on Gaza. He doesn’t know how much military aid the U.S. has given to Israel during its war, even though his department oversees such assistance. He doesn’t know how many billions of dollars, above the annual baseline of $3.3 billion […]
U.S and Israeli national flags are waved during a demonstration in front of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv on Sept. 20, 2023. Photo: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images As Beirut burns under Israel’s bombs, it is obvious for anyone who is paying attention that America has long incubated the emergence of the worst possible version of […]
Until a few weeks ago, workers with the Lebanese Civil Defense in the small southern village of Derdghaiya would borrow ambulances from neighboring towns to conduct rescue missions. After the Israeli military escalated its bombardment of southern Lebanon last month, however, resources across the country’s health sector became scarce. Emergency vehicles for the Civil Defense, […]
