âWhen the future of humanity is at stake, we need a PAUSE on advanced AI development and a ban on artificial superintelligence â an AI mind smarter than any human and capable of operating independently beyond our control,â Sanders said.
The US Senator further said: âAt their upcoming AI summit, Trump and Xi must negotiate a treaty to pause AI and ban superintelligence before it is too late.â
House Speaker Mike Johnson says it‘s time for President Donald Trump to „summon everyone together“ and take the lead addressing questions about AI at the White House, rather than Congress.
If a terrorist threat led subject experts to warn of a near-term existential menace to humanity, the weight of the US government would mobilize in an immediate and limitless effort to save the day.
Yet a remarkable sequence of warnings by leaders of artificial intelligence firms that their creation may soon outpace humansâ capacity to control it has so far been met with a shrug by Republicans who run Washington.
President Trump brushed off the risks of artificial intelligence and warnings that the technology has gone rogue. The calls for caution were amplified by tech CEOs who say AI is advancing too fast. Ramy Inocencio has more.
(August 19, 2014)
Radio Utopie dokumentiert dieses in jeder Hinsicht verheerende historische ErmÀchtigungsgesetz im Wortlaut.
âą Keynote speech: President Donald Trump, in his address to the GOP midterm convention, vowed to pay every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate, an extraordinary attempt to seemingly buy votes to keep his party in power. He did not explain how he would make it happen.
âą Economic push: In a speech replete with misleading facts, the president also touted the success of his administrationâs economic policies despite CNNâs poll of polls showing his approval rating stands at 35%. Read our fact check here.
Watch Trump‘s remarks in the video player above.
„If the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000,“ Trump told the crowd at the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas. „It will be called the Trump dividend.“
The Republican National Committee launched its midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday, with President Donald Trump set to be the keynote speaker on Wednesday followed by Vice President JD Vance and the president on Thursday.
The average price for a gallon of diesel fuel in the United States hit an all-time high average price of $5.85 on Friday as the Trump administrationâs war on Iran and its resulting disruptions to the global energy market showed no signs of ending.
You might even be murdered, without a trial finding you guilty of anything. In addition to Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota last January, ICE agents have murdered two others just this summer.
One was Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, murdered by ICE in Houston on July 7, 2026. Salgado Araujo had lived in the US for decades. ICE agents pursued him in unmarked cars and shot him while he was driving a work crew to a job site. The Department of Homeland Security claims Salgado Araujo tried to use his vehicle as a weapon against an officer, but witnesses dispute this account.
The other was Johan Sebastian DurĂĄn Guerrero, murdered by ICE on July 13, 2026, in Biddeford, Maine. DurĂĄn Guerrero was a 25-year-old immigrant from Colombia. Agents pursued him while he was driving to work. The Department of Homeland Security claims its agent feared for public safety as DurĂĄn Guerrero tried to drive away, but elected officials and family members dispute this account, noting that DurĂĄn Guerrero was not an intended target of the immigration operation.
None of these murders has been fully investigated.
The Iranian Red Crescent Society has asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate a missile attack by the United States that hit a wedding party in the southern town of Kuhestak, killing at least four people and wounding dozens.
In a letter to the court on Wednesday, the humanitarian group said the attack warrants âan independent, impartial, thorough, and effective investigationâ given the âcivilian character of the locationâ.
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Washington, D.C. â Following the Trump Administrationâs submission to Congress on a proposed U.S.-Saudi civil nuclear cooperation agreement, referred to as a â123 agreement,â Oregonâs U.S. Senator Jeff Merkleyâco-chair of the bicameral Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group and a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committeeâissued the following statement:
âWith this deal, President Trump is not only triggering a nuclear arms race in the Middle East but also weakening Americaâs security and standing on the world stage.
âThe Presidentâs decision to provide Saudi Arabia with a nuclear deal that does not meet the bipartisan Gold Standard nor mandate the Additional Protocol, both necessary to ensure sensitive U.S. technology is not used to help build a nuclear bomb, is dangerous and a strategic mistake for our national security.
The sudden recent escalation of the Iran war has cast renewed attention on its civilian toll âafter Iran reported 18 dead in the last U.S. assault, including four killed and dozens wounded at a wedding.
Iran‘s health minister said 18 people were killed âand 108 wounded in Tuesday night‘s U.S. strikes across Iran. The Iranian Red Crescent said four people were killed and 67 wounded at a wedding ceremony near the coast of the Strait of Hormuz.
Forced displacement of civilians in occupied territory is considered a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.
„There is no real solution for Gaza in the end without this migration,“ Defence Minister Israel Katz told a conference hosted by Israeli news site Ynet and newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
The Israeli government „is organised and prepared to get them outâby sea, by air, by every way possible“, he said.
The city of Kuhestak, located in southern Iranâs Sirik County in Hormozgan province, close to the Strait of Hormuz, was the target of multiple overnight attacks by the United States military, with local sources and authorities saying a wedding ceremony was struck.
The Hormozgan governorâs office on Wednesday identified four victims as four-year-old Amir Ali Karimi, 16-year-old Mohammad Malahi, 43-year-old Kolsoum Malahi and 43-year-old Zarkhatoun Taheri. More than 60 others were wounded, some seriously.
At least four people, including a child, have been killed in a US attack on Tuesday in a residential area near the Iranian city of Sirik, local media reported, citing the Iranian Red Crescent Societyâs provincial branch.
The US strike occurred during a wedding, wounding over 50 people. Rescue efforts in the area remain ongoing.
President Donald Trump greenlights retaliatory strikes on Iran just hours after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was talking about a return to the ceasefire under the memorandum of understanding (MOU). Pezeshkian met Russia‘s Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.
There is a point in the decline of republics when the problem is no longer that government breaks its own laws. Governments will always behave unlawfully. The deeper problem comes when the constitutional machinery designed to prevent those acts stops functioning â when spending becomes detached from arithmetic, presidential power becomes detached from law and Congress and the courts become detached from the Constitution.
Thatâs where America is today.
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The twilight of our constitutional republic has not arrived because the sun suddenly disappeared. It has arrived because, little by little, nearly everyone became accustomed to the darkness.
How close are we to nuclear war? According to Joe Kent, a lot closer than you think.
âWhy isnât there an attempt to remove him from office, like, immediately?â Carlson said. âAnyone who would even tolerate that kind of talk from any of his subordinates or employees is by definition unfit.â
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Elbridge Colby, the undersecretary of defense for policy, earlier this month said at a conference that officials are looking to give the president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth âcredible, rational nuclear options.â
âAt my direction, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, working closely with Highly Respected Interim President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez, and, through a partnership with private business, have secured majority U.S. control of more than 65 BILLION BARRELS of proven Oil Reserves in Venezuela, at no cost to the American Taxpayer,â Trump wrote on social media.
Trumpâs emphasis on lowering American gas prices, almost two months before the US midterm elections, comes as the national average gas price sits at more than $4 a gallon.
President Donald Trump launched an unhinged attack on rising Democratic star James Talarico as the Senate candidate looms as a key threat to the GOPâs control of Congress.
The 80-year-old president turned his social media firehose on the 37-year-old Texas House representative on Thursday afternoon as he headed to the Lone Star State to campaign for the embattled Republican Senate candidate, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
(August 24, 2026)
The next leader of the United Nations could, for the first time, be a woman. But first sheâll need Trumpâs approval.
âThere is no justification for any country to fear Iran unless that country opens its territory to the United States for aggression against Iran,â Iranâs Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Monday. âIt is Iranâs right to target the source and origin of any aggressive action against the Islamic Republic.â
Laut Wilkerson sitzt der eigentliche Treiber dieses Krieges sitzt nicht in Washington, sondern in Jerusalem. Benjamin Netanjahu, so Wilkerson, sei der Einzige, der den Krieg ârichtig interpretiertâ habe â nĂ€mlich als seine letzte Chance, den Iran endgĂŒltig zu erledigen.
Trump, so die Analyse, sei in eine Falle getappt â âkomplett fehlinterpretiertâ habe er den Konflikt. Und jetzt sei er gefangen: Netanjahu werde ihn nicht gehen lassen, egal wie sehr Trump einen RĂŒckzug brauche. Schon im MĂ€rz hatte Wilkerson gegenĂŒber Democracy Now gewarnt, Netanjahu sei bereit, eine Atomwaffe einzusetzen, âsollte es so schlimm werden, wie es gerade aussiehtâ.
Die europÀische Dimension: Gekaufte Vasallen
(August 7, 2026)
The start of the review was announced by Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby during a keynote speech Wednesday. In his comments, Colby repeatedly emphasized the term âoptions,â though he stressed that as of right now, he had âno announcement of any kind of changeâ regarding the Pentagonâs nuclear policy.
âThereâs, you know, a review or sort of relook at the employment guidance, which is more about the commander of STRATCOM [Strategic Command] and his responsibilities and [the defense] secretaryâs authorities, etcetera,â he said in Omaha, Neb., during the 2026 Deterrence Symposium. Colby also noted that the review will not be released to the general public.
Colbyâs comments were not publicly broadcast, but a copy of the audio was shared with Breaking Defense.
The last time a nuclear weapon was used was August 6th and 9th of 1945 on two cities in Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, immediately killing 110,000 people, vaporizing people at ground zero, and total deaths reached 214,000 by the end of the year from severe burns and trauma.
But the extreme suffering continued for the Japanese people from radiation sickness, skyrocketing cancer rates, and generational birth defects.
Not to mention wiping out all means of their economy.
And the suffering was so great that all of humanity vowed, ânever again.â
Trump and his admin were told by our own intelligence that Iran was no where near creating a nuclear weapon, then Israel said the same line itâs repeated for decades, âIran is only weeks away.â
So we bombed anyways, killed their leaders and innocent little children in a school, and Iran has controlled the Strait of Hormuz ever since and punished the region for their part in it.
And now our government is the one actually discussing lowering the nuclear threshold in order to use nuclear weapons against Iran even though Trump claims heâs won the war like 40 times and says the U.S. controls the SoH.
Trump promised no more foreign wars, but may actually be the one who delivers a nuclear holocaust that would likely drag the entire world into major conflict, economic depression, and mass human suffering weâve never seen in our lifetimes and maybe throughout history.
People need to speak out and boldly stop this insanity.
America is not untouchable.
If and when that happens, everyone, and I do mean everyone, will hold ALL of those in leadership right now fully responsible for the rest of human history.
Do not use nuclear weapons and stop this war NOW.
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired Colonel in the US Army and the former Chief of Staff to the US Secretary of State.
Rubio begrĂŒndete den Schritt damit, dass die beiden Juristen an BemĂŒhungen des Gerichts beteiligt gewesen seien, gegen Regierungsvertreter von Staaten zu ermitteln, die dessen ZustĂ€ndigkeit nicht anerkennen. Zu diesen Staaten zĂ€hlen neben den USA auch Israel und Russland.
President Trump told Fox News on Monday that the U.S. would bomb Oman if the country „gets in the way“ of U.S. efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war with Iran, according to the network‘s Trey Yingst.
„If Oman gets in the way, we‘ll bomb the s*** out of them,“ Trump said, according to Yingst‘s recounting of his conversation with the president.
President Trump vowed to declare the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory during a rally in New York as Iran and the U.S. clash over control of the key waterway.
„After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon I‘ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States,“ the president said.
According to the Times, it was registered to a private company whose address was a UPS store mailbox in Virginia, deepening the mystery over who was operating itâand for whom.
âIt would be one thing if the US didnât have an overt maritime strike campaign, but they do, and theyâre posting snuff films of boats going up in flames regularly,â Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer who specializes in the laws of war, told the Times.
âAnd thatâs what makes this even more squirrelly,â added Finucane, now a senior adviser in the US Program at the International Crisis Group. âWho are these people that are operating, and under what authority? And they are using a UPS store as their company address? Come on.â