Israelâs October 27 election could reshape the countryâs political landscape, but neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuâs allies nor the opposition has a clear path to a governing majority. The outcome of the vote could determine not only who leads Israel, but how the country contends with various domestic and foreign policy concerns.
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Trump gives âwarriorâ Netanyahu âcomplete and total endorsementâ for reelection
âBibi Netanyahu has been Strong, Brave, and Brilliant in the face of tremendous opposition,â writes Trump, âincluding that coming from even Israel, itself.â
Trump says Netanyahu has âendured and, in fact, he has thrived!â
âI have watched Bibi under the most trying of times,â writes Trump. âNormal men or women in such situations would have wilted under the pressure â But Bibi did not wilt, he actually got stronger, and maintains that same Strength today. This is the kind of Partner that the United States of America is demanding of Israel, a Country for which it has done so much.â
From Morocco to South Africa, Israel election watched closely across Africa
Israelâs relationships across Africa are shaped by competing priorities. While the Gaza war has intensified diplomatic pressure and public opposition in many countries, security needs, commercial interests and longstanding bilateral partnerships continue to influence government decisions.
Israel‘s Most Consequential Election?
Watch an expert conversation previewing Israel‘s historic October 27 elections.
Israeli voters head to the polls on October 27, and the stakes are exceptionally high.
AI Under Control
Bring the World Along
âą International Public Cooperation and Governance Boards: We should negotiate a US-China treaty to pause and ban superintelligence, modeled on the Cold War deal in which Reagan and Gorbachev eliminated a class of nuclear missiles through inspections. A verification board would count chips and data centers, a scientific panel would share threat assessments, and a 24-hour hotline would flag incidents. Access to American chips and cloud services should be conditioned on signing and complying, and we should tighten chip export controls now.
âą No AI in Nuclear Command and Control: Humans, and only humans, should decide whether to use nuclear weapons. That is already US policy: Biden and Xi agreed to it in 2024. We must make it permanent, cover early warning and decision support, keep frontier AI out of the chain, and get every nuclear nation to sign on.
Safeguards Everyone Can Count On
âą Independent Audits: Outside experts test frontier AI before release. Even leading AI companies now accept this.
âą Protect Whistleblowers: Insiders who sound the alarm should get legal protection, back pay, and rewards.
âą Hands Off State Laws: No weak federal law should block states from protecting their people more strongly.
âą Be Ready: We need a national AI emergency plan, with regular drills across government.
âą Get AI Money Out of the Fight: Full disclosure of AI-industry political spending, including through super PACs and other dark money entities.
NEW: As Big Tech Billionaires Let AI Wreak Havoc, Abdul El-Sayed Releases Plan To Get AI Under Control
Plan Builds On Sanders-Casar Bill To Ban AI Superintelligence And Impose Severe Criminal Penalties For AI Abuse
New Proposals Address Growing Concerns In Wake Of AI Whistleblowers, Follows Release Of Abdulâs AI Under Democracy Proposal
In Stark Contrast, Mike Rogers Has Up To $2.6 Million In Investments In Tech Companies That Stand To Benefit From AI Boom, Calls Concerns About AI âFearmongeringâ
âThis a reminder to the world that we need to strengthen international lawâ
Following the announcement, JĂžrgen Watne Frydnes, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, was interviewed by freelance journalist Stig Arild Pettersen about the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump plans to form âAI Force,â appoint âAI Czarâ
The president compared his proposed âAI Forceâ to the Space Force, which he established during his first term, but did not elaborate on how the agency would operate or what its duties would entail.
For the new âAI Czarâ position, Trump said, âOnly High I.Q. individuals need to apply!â He did not expand further on the latest iteration of the role.
„A World Beyond Humans ?“ (96′ / ARTE / 2012) A Documentary Film By Philippe Borrel
(Uploaded on Aug 23, 2016)
Despite being invented by thinking humans, technology is advancing faster than we could have ever predicted. From robot apps to nanotechnologies, the documentary „Un Monde sans Humains ?“ („A World Beyond Humans ?“) by Philippe Borrel gives an insight into the potential excesses of technoscience. Machines have become omnipresent, but is improving our lives their only objective ?
These warnings are at the heart of this investigative documentary‘s reflection, at a cross-section of huge financial stakes, powerful lobbies and people who are sounding today‘s alarm bells. The fusion between man and machine has already started and it is high time to question where exactly does man stand in this race for progress !
this is the biggest blunder in American history. Mark my words
(December 9, 2023)
The Need for Accountability: Israel Must Be Expelled from the United Nations
(October 28, 2024)
It is of vital importance that member states of the UN start taking immediate steps towards expelling Israel under the UN Charter. Expulsion from the UN is not only warranted in this case, but is imperative, as it is the only way to ensure the legitimacy of international law, and of the UN itself. Should expulsion prove politically difficult, due to the veto power Israelâs allies â in particular, the US â wield in the UNSC, member states should, at least as a first step, de facto suspend Israel from the UNGA, as was done in the case of South Africa.
Francesca Hong concedes tight primary race for governor
State Rep. Francesca Hong has conceded after an upset win by opponent and Democratic nominee for governor David Crowley Tuesday night.
Iranâs leaders show a united front over the war but are divided over what the goal is
On one side, the ultra-hardliners who oppose any negotiations with the United States are pressing for total victory in the war. Known as the âPaydariâ movement â Persian for âstabilityâ â they are hard-core ideologues who want to enforce the Islamic Republicâs control over society.
On the other, those who support President Masoud Pezeshkian and powerful parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf â who doubles as Iranâs chief negotiator â see military pressure as a way to win a negotiated deal with the United States. This camp is also spurred by concern over the economic toll Iran is suffering from the war and the need to adapt to social change in the country.
Slamming Trumpâs Cuba Report as âMcCarthyite Attackâ on Free Speech, Dems Vow to Fight Back
President Donald Trumpâs escalating claims that Cuba and its supporters poses a threat to US security have been denounced as âlaughableâ and âcrazy,â but progressive lawmakers are warning that the State Departmentâs report alleging that the country of roughly 10 million people aims to âconquerâ the United States and is backing âleft-wing terrorism on American soilâ represents a genuine attack on Trumpâs perceived political enemies.
âTrump appears hell-bent on taking America back 70 years to the height of Cold War McCarthyism, when hawkish foreign policy was paired with unsubstantiated accusations of communist subversion and political repression against dissidents at home,â said a group of Democrats led by progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Peace and Security Taskforce. âWe condemn this reportâs attack on Americansâ constitutional rights to free speech and assembly.â
US accuses Cuba of sweeping spy campaign, aiding American left
(July 21, 2026)
Containing little new information, the report, titled „Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,“ comes as US President Donald Trump pushes to end communist rule of the island while amping up anti-leftist rhetoric at home.
A months-long pressure campaign has seen Washington effectively impose an oil embargo on Cuba, while issuing economic sanctions against key state-run companies and even indicting the former president, Raul Castro.
State Dept. again deems Cuba a threat amid talk of U.S. push for regime change
(July 20, 2026)
A new report claims Havana influenced âthe George Floyd riots to the rise of Antifaâ and accuses the Democratic Socialists of America of Cuba ties.
Senate Democrats Block Advancement of $1.1 Trillion NDAA Over Iran War
Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked the advancement of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, citing President Trumpâs war with Iran, which continues to rage following the collapse of the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding.
The NDAA would provide the Pentagon with over $1.1 trillion in funding as part of the White Houseâs plan for a $1.5 trillion military budget for 2027, a nearly 50% increase from this year. The bill also includes an amendment, Section 1217, to further merge the US and Israeli militaries under a plan being pushed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
A procedural vote of 50-46 fell well short of the 60 votes that it needed to advance the NDAA. Every Democrat, except two who werenât present for the vote â Senators Jon Fetterman (PA) and Alex Padilla (CA) â voted against advancing the sprawling military spending bill.
How Section 219, the US-Israel Military Merger, Would Thwart American Democracy
(July 13, 2026)
The House provision, which has a Senate version known as Section 1217, would also forbid the president of the United States from limiting intelligence collaboration with Israel over its human rights abuses. If the President ever wants to limit such collaboration, he or she must tell Congress and can only cite American national security as a basis.
In other words, these bills would connect the US and Israeli militaries in unprecedented ways and make it exceedingly difficult for any future president to unwind this partnership with a foreign government.
Congressional Proposal Could Deepen US Complicity
(June 16, 2026)
Buried in the US$1.15 trillion National Defense Authorization Act is a provision that would deepen US military cooperation with Israel while walling that cooperation off from further congressional oversight.
Section 219 (formerly section 224) creates the role of an âexecutive agentâ focused on folding Israeli technology into US weapons programs, and vice versa, including in missile and air defense technologies as well as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, cyberwarfare, and autonomous systems. Once implemented, the provision would speed efforts to embed Israeli technologies into US weapons systems in ways almost never codified into law, even for allies. As the protracted experience with unwinding Turkish participation in the F-35 program shows, practically, integration binds the United States to rely on producers in ways that become next to impossible to walk back later, even if lawmakers want to.
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Section 219 also calls for âdata fusion.â In defense doctrine, data fusion means combining feeds from many sensors and intelligence sources into a single targeting picture. The United States would be absorbing Israeli data, which may have been collected under problematic mass surveillance programs. Moreover, section 219 would be reinforced by section 622 of the intelligence appropriations bill, which mandates intelligence sharing and would further promote combining US intelligence streams with Israeli ones that could then be used by the Israeli military for targeting.
Die neue Arbeiterklasse
(May 23, 2026)
Der Mensch trat spÀter noch einmal auf, fast wie ein letzter Zeuge der alten Ordnung. In einem Zehn-Stunden-Wettkampf gegen Figure 03 sortierte der Praktikant Aimé Gérard 12.924 Pakete; der Roboter kam auf 12.732. Der Mensch gewann, aber nur um 192 Pakete. Seine durchschnittliche Zeit lag bei 2,79 Sekunden pro Paket, die Maschine bei 2,83 Sekunden. Das ist kein Triumph mehr. Das ist ein Vorsprung von vier Hundertstelsekunden.
Brett Adcock schrieb danach sinngemĂ€Ă: âGlĂŒckwunsch an AimĂ©. Er sagte, sein linker Unterarm sei im Grunde gebrochen.â Und dann der Satz, der wie ein GeschĂ€ftsplan klingt und wie ein Epitaph fĂŒr eine Arbeitswelt: âDas ist das letzte Mal, dass ein Mensch jemals gewinnen wird.â
F.03 Livestream: Day 9 (Hour 192-200)
May 23, 2026
Replay of the F.03 Livestream that started May 13, 2026 at 10AM PT.
Democratic socialists eye 2028 White House race
(June 25, 2026)
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are eyeing a 2028 presidential bid in the wake of recent electoral successes across the country.
DSA Co-chair Ashik Siddique told The Hill in a Thursday interview that the organization has more than 100,000 members and 200 chapters across the country. âWe want people to be talking proactively about what they would want to see in a presidential campaign,â he said. The organization is looking to see how voters would engage and what would motivate them, he added.
âEs gibt keine Gesellschaft mehr. Was es gibt, ist eine transnationale Sicherheitselite, die damit beschĂ€ftigt ist, die Welt mit Ihren Steuergeldern unter sich (und ihresgleichen) aufzuteilen.
Die Kriegstreiber in diesem Land und anderen LĂ€ndern haben ein BĂŒndnis geschlossen, um Geld aus den USA, der EU, aus jedem NATO-Staat heraus- und zu den eigenen (Finanz-)Eliten zurĂŒckzuschleusen, indem sie es im Blut der Menschen waschen, das in den Kriegen in Afghanistan, dem Irak, Somalia, dem Jemen, Pakistan vergossen wird.â
JĂŒngere werden vielleicht erschrecken, und vielleicht auch Vergessliche unter den Ălteren, weil die SĂ€tze, die Julian Assange 2011 auf der Antikriegsdemonstration in London gesagt hat, SĂ€tze sind, die er gestern gesagt haben könnte. Sie beschreiben nĂ€mlich ein Muster: das Muster westlicher Wertekriege und ihrer drei wiederkehrenden Wesensmerkmale: Die Werte, mit denen sie legitimiert werden, gibt es nĂ€mlich nicht – jedenfalls nicht bei denen, die vorgeben, sie mit vorgehaltener Waffe zu vertreten. Und: Sie – ausnahmslos Angriffs- & Profitkriege – werden von der als âVerteidigungsbĂŒndnisâ vermarkteten NATO âantizipiertâ, orchestriert & exekutiert und ziehen die weitere Vermögenskonzentration in den HĂ€nden Weniger nach sich, womit sie – ausnahmslos, aber nicht ausschlieĂlich – der Profitmehrung professioneller Kriegsprofiteure dienen.
Immer dasselbe – in zeitlichen Schleifen, auratischen Wellen, historischen Episoden. Dasselbe eine Muster, wieder und wieder: dieselben knarzenden Argumentationsschemata & Narrationsabsolutismen. Dieselben Behauptungen, Tatsachenverdrehungen, Selbstvergewisserungen.
Dazu der immer selbe Raub an der Gesellschaft und den Menschen, die sie tragen. Dieselbe soziale Verarmung, dieselbe geistige Leere und dieselbe ethische Verelendung. Und immer dasselbe Elitenbereicherungs-, âSicherheitsâ-, âFeindesâ- & Tötungsmuster. Wieder und wieder und wieder.
Wir, die wir alt genug sind, uns (mit Assange) an die letzte Welle westlicher Wertekriege zu erinnern, können den erinnerungslosen JĂŒngeren heute nur eines sagen, nĂ€mlich: dass sie sich einmal erinnern werden. Wenn sie, nachdem (in 15 Jahren) die nĂ€chste Welle westlicher Wertekriege losgebrochen sein wird, ihrerseits auf erinnerungslose Junge treffen.
Assange hatte schon damals und hat noch heute recht. Wir mĂŒssen eigene Netzwerke und BĂŒndnisse schlieĂen, um unsere Werte gegen den eigennĂŒtzigen Zynismus der Kriegstreiber zu behaupten. In diesem Land und anderen LĂ€ndern.
Heute vor 2 Jahren war Julian Assange nach 14jÀhriger politischer Verfolgung & Haft endlich wieder frei.
Norway: International law is worth defending, even when allies break it
In an interview with Middle East Eye‘s Expert Witness podcast in Oslo, four months into the devastating war, Andreas Kravik said the war on Iran, launched on 28 February, had no basis in law.
„In our interpretation of the law, it is not a legal operation,“ Kravik said. „We think that is a violation of the UN Charter, and we have said so in no unclear terms.“
Kravik, a public international lawyer and the foreign ministry‘s former chief of legal affairs, said a state could lawfully use force against another only with authorisation from the UN Security Council, in self-defence against an immediate threat, or with the consent of the state concerned. None applied in Iran‘s case.
„There is no authorisation here from the UN Security Council⊠and there was no consent from Iranian authorities,“ he said. Norway had carried out its own legal assessment, he added.
this is the biggest blunder in American history. Mark my words
(December 9, 2023)
What Astrophysics Has Taught Me About Changing the World
None of us is helpless. Our actionsâas well as the actions we donât takeâmake a real, tangible impact. So, ask yourself: in which direction will you push the world today?