BREAKING: Pro-Palestine activists have disrupted a presentation by Werner Vogels, Amazon vice president and Chief Technology Officer, at the UN’s “AI for Good” summit in Switzerland.
Palestinian civil society strongly condemns the UN International Telecommunication Union’s shameful partnership with criminal tech companies in this summit, particularly Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Cisco, Oracle, and IBM. In providing cloud infrastructure and AI technologies to the Israeli war ministry, these companies are deeply complicit in Israel's military occupation, apartheid and genocide against Indigenous Palestinians.
Project Nimbus, the joint $1.22 billion contract between Google and Amazon signed in 2021, provides cloud and AI tech services to the Israeli government and the Israeli military. It enables the Israeli military to run deadly AI programs such as Lavender and Gospel — crucial to its ongoing, livestreamed genocide in Gaza.
We call for global pressure on the UN and its member States to end all UN partnership and contracts with these and similarly complicit corporations, and on Amazon and Google to drop their genocidal Project Nimbus.
Ahead of July 4, I wrote about Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan and how their wars against the British were avidly followed by the Founding Fathers. It concludes with my memory of visiting Tipu’s fortress as a teenager:
These battles have completely receded from the American imagination, even though, in some ways, the American rebellion was a sideshow to a far greater imperial drama. Britain, arguably, decided to cut its losses with the unruly thirteen colonies to better safeguard its more lucrative possessions in the Caribbean and South Asia. Meanwhile, every Indian schoolkid knows of Tipu Sultan’s last stand, and generations of Britons were raised on tales of colonial derring-do and the menace of the “tiger of Mysore,” Tipu’s sobriquet. (An ornate automaton that Tipu once possessed, of a tiger eating a British soldier, is probably the most well-known object in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.) In more recent years, the culture wars waged by India’s ruling Hindu nationalists have complicated the image of Tipu and his father, who some now have recast as bloodthirsty Muslim warlords rather than icons of national resistance. But that was not the case when, as a teen-ager, multiple decades ago, I went with my family on a tour of the ruins of Tipu’s fortress. Guides spoke of the monthlong siege that ended only because of the treachery of a local noble who turned on the sultan and allowed British troops to scale the walls. Tipu himself was found slain near a passageway once used to bring water into the fort; it’s dubbed the Water Gate. “First Watergate, Seringapatam,” the guide told us, elongating the consonants in melodious, if broken, English. “Second Watergate, Washington.”
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#EXCLUSIVE: "Israeli soldiers said it was 'like a game'—sitting remotely and killing children."
In a searing interview, Justice S. Muralidhar, Chairperson of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, discusses findings that allege the deliberate targeting of Palestinian children by Israel through bombings, sniper fire, and drones.
"We had to create a category: Wounded Child With No Surviving Family", he told India Today Global.
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Watch the full interview here: https://t.co/MLY1fR0dWx
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #UN #IndiaTodayGlobal
@nabilajamal_ Why our Viswhaguru is not speaking directly to his best friend that attack on Indian seafarers was illegal since their blockade was not authorised by UN.
No human on this planet represents 19th C. statist verbalism more than Kissinger
"Stability is a precondition to creativity".
Now explain #Antifragility:
“In Italy for 30 y under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, & bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, & the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had 500 y of democracy and peace, & what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”[Well's addition to Greene's The Third Man]
Realistically, "one of the most evil, terrorist, blood bathed regime of the last 50 years*" is, simply, no other than Israe!
It's just that they have --I mean had-- good, very good, very very good marketing.
* Actually, since 1936.
Trump is figuring out that Zionistan is committing LITERAL acts of TERRORISM by KNOWLINGLY killing uninvolved civilians.
Next step: he will figure out that the Zionistan PROJECT is to terrorize civilians into LEAVING, something they have been doing since 1936.