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Urgent: The greed of Big Pharma

mardi 9 avril 2024 à 09:54

US citizens: call on Biden to direct Medicare to lower drug costs and fight Big Pharma's greed.

If you phone, please spread the word! White House: +1-202-456-1111and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213

Military AI databases, ISR

mardi 9 avril 2024 à 09:54

Israel has implemented in real life the most horrible fictional scenario of a bloodbath caused by letting algorithms choose targets for bombing.

When it came to targeting low-ranking Hamas and PIJ suspects, they said, the preference was to attack when they were believed to be at home. “We were not interested in killing [Hamas] operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity,” one said. "It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations."
Another said that after the 7 October attacks by Hamas, the atmosphere in the IDF was "painful and vindictive". "There was a dissonance: on the one hand, people here were frustrated that we were not attacking enough. On the other hand, you see at the end of the day that another thousand Gazans have died, most of them civilians."

Urgent: Apply over-pricing laws, Big Grocery

mardi 9 avril 2024 à 09:54

US citizens: call on the FTC to enforce the law and stop supermarket chains from putting massive profits over consumers.

USA to ISR: reach HAMAS deal, NOW

mardi 9 avril 2024 à 09:54

*Protect civilians and aid workers or risk losing US support, Biden tells Israel.*

That is a big step towards making Israel stop killing them. We now know it, that the cause was a central policy, not mere mistakes or randomness.

*Amid the slaughter and with famine looming, Israel’s allies must say enough is enough. If not now when?*

Let's not lose sight of where we want to end up.

Pivotal point in Gaza war

mardi 9 avril 2024 à 09:54

Biden's threat to stop support for Israel led it to make a concession to allow aid into Gaza through Israel.

Whether Israel will really allow all the food, water, medical supplies and other aid that the people of Gaza need is something that remains to be seen. We can't take for granted Israel will sincerely implement what it has agreed to.

However, there is also the matter that we now know from whistleblowers that the Israeli army was disregarding its obligation to avoid wanton killing of civilians. The US must not tolerate the continuation of this attitude towards causing civilian casualties.

Let's not lose sight of where we want to end up.