If a company cannot determine how its technology was used in a military operation, what does oversight mean? If executives lack visibility into deployment, then claims about safeguards become difficult to evaluate. If a system contributes to military processes whose consequences include mass civilian casualties, can responsibility be confined solely to the final human actor? These are not questions for Anthropic alone. They confront the entire emerging alliance between Silicon Valley and the US national security state. Throughout history, periods of technological transformation have produced new partnerships between capital and military power. Railways, telegraphs, aviation, nuclear physics, and digital networks all followed this path. Artificial intelligence is now walking the same road. Its advocates promise precision, efficiency, and fewer mistakes. Yet every generation hears similar promises.
The twentieth century was filled with claims that new technologies would make war cleaner, more rational, and more humane. The historical record offers little support for such optimism. Technology often expands the scale and speed of violence even as it promises to restrain it. The children of Minab did not encounter AI as a philosophical debate. They encountered it as part of a military system whose consequences arrived in the form of explosive force. Whether Claude played a significant role, a minor role, or no role at all in the targeting process remains to be determined. Investigators must establish the facts, journalists must continue asking difficult questions, and citizens must demand transparency. But even before those facts are fully known, the episode reveals something important about our political moment. The question is no longer whether AI will be integrated into war. That integration is already underway. The question is whether societies will permit decisions about life and death to be increasingly shaped by systems that even their creators struggle to monitor, explain, or control.
The schoolhouse in Minab stands as a warning, not only about a single strike, or a single company, or a single war. It warns of a future in which technological power advances faster than public accountability. And in that future, the distance between the engineer and the battlefield grows ever smaller with AI and drones, even as responsibility becomes harder to find amongst the humans who send the machines out to kill for them.
2026-06-18
Quote of the day - 06-16-2026.
2026-04-15
Quote of the day - 09-17-1964.
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Yes - because honestly Malcolm X was truly ahead of his time. Even today, more than 60+years after this was published, these words are still neither heard, understood, or largely accepted by much of Western nations.
https://www.blackagendareport.com/essay-zionist-logic-malcolm-x-1964
The modern 20th century weapon of neo-imperialism is "dollarism." The Zionists have mastered the science of dollarism: the ability to come posing as a friend and benefactor, bearing gifts and all other forms of economic aid and offers of technical assistance. Thus, the power and influence of Zionist Israel in many of the newly "independent" African nations has fast-become even more unshakeable than that of the 18th-century European colonialists...and this new kind of Zionist colonialism differs only in form and method, but never in motive or objective.
At the close of the 19th century, when European imperialists wisely foresaw that the awakening masses of Africa would not submit to their old method of ruling through force and fear, these ever-scheming imperialists had to create a "new weapon," and to find a "new base" for that weapon.
Dollarism
The number one weapon of 20th-century imperialism is Zionist dollarism, and one of the main bases for this weapon is Zionist Israel. The ever-scheming European imperialists wisely placed Israel where she could geographically divide the Arab world, infiltrate and sow the seed of dissension among African leaders and also divide the Africans against the Asians.
Zionist Israel's occupation of Arab Palestine has forced the Arab world to waste billions of precious dollars on armaments, making it impossible for these newly independent Arab nations to concentrate on strengthening the economies of their countries and elevating the living standard of their people.
And the continued low standard of living in the Arab world has been skillfully used by the Zionist propagandists to make it appear to the Africans that the Arab leaders are not intellectually or technically qualified to lift the living standard of their people...thus, indirectly inducing Africans to turn away from the Arabs and towards the Israelis for teachers and technical assistance.
"They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they."
2026-03-18
Quote of the day - 03-18-2026.
https://www.blackagendareport.com/what-left-era-global-fascism
Ajamu Baraka
To activists and “leftists” in the imperial core: your responsibility is not to lecture the oppressed. Your responsibility is to fight your own ruling class. Your responsibility is to expose, disrupt, and defeat imperialism at its source.
It is objectively reactionary to subject nations under attack to colonial “litmus tests.” To demand purity from those fighting for survival, to echo the language of the empire while pretending to oppose it.
You must stand with resistance, with the defense of national sovereignty and the right of people to defend themselves from Western White colonial/capitalist imperialism.
2025-12-29
Quote of the day - 12-29-2025.
Dr. Ramzy Baroud
The horrifying statistics aside, we bear witness to the final agonies of a people. We have watched their extermination in real-time, broadcast to every handheld screen on earth. No one can claim ignorance; no one can claim innocence. Even now, we watch as 1.3 million Palestinians endure a precarious existence in tents ravaged by winter floods. We share the screams of mothers, the hollowed-out faces of broken fathers, and the haunted stares of children, and yet, the world’s political and moral institutions remain paralyzed.
If Israel resumes the full, unrestrained intensity of this genocide, will we stop it? I fear the answer is no, because the world refuses to dismantle the circumstances that permitted this slaughter in the first place. Israeli officials never bothered to hide their intent. The systematic dehumanisation of Palestinians was a primary export of Israeli media, even as Western corporate outlets worked tirelessly to sanitise this criminal discourse.
The record of intent is undeniable. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir openly championed the “encouragement of migration” and demanded that “not an ounce of humanitarian aid” reach Gaza. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich argued that the starvation of two million people could be “just and moral” in the pursuit of military aims. From the halls of the Knesset to the pop charts, the refrain was the same: “erase Gaza,” “leave no one there.” When military leaders refer to an entire population as “human animals,” they are not using metaphors; they are issuing a license for extermination.
This was preceded by the hermetic siege — a decades-long experiment in human misery that began in 2006. Despite every Palestinian plea for the world to break this death grip, the blockade was allowed to persist. This was followed by successive wars targeting a besieged, impoverished population under the banner of ‘security,’ always shielded by the Western mantra of Israel’s ‘right to defend itself.’
In the dominant Western narrative, the Palestinian is the eternal aggressor. They are the occupied, the besieged, the dispossessed, and the stateless; yet they are expected to die quietly in the world’s ‘largest open-air prison‘. Whether they utilised armed resistance, threw rocks at tanks, or marched unarmed toward snipers, they were branded ‘terrorists’ and ‘militants’ whose very existence was framed as a threat to their occupier.
2025-06-22
Quote of the day - 06-22-2025.
Vijay Prashad
The greatest spur to nuclear weapons proliferation will be this attack on Iran.
Slowly, larger and larger groups of people have begun to drift onto the streets, horrified by the implications of this hyper-imperialist attack by Israel and then by the United States. There have been statements from groups across the world to condemn these attacks and to assert the fact that peace and development are the desires of the world’s people, not war and backwardness. There is no confusion amidst the people of the Global South that this attack by Israel and the United States has nothing to do with Iran’s behavior but everything to do with the war aims of the Global North to dominate West Asia.
2025-01-28
Quote of the day - 01-28-2025.
Kshama Sawant
This question of strategy and tactics in relation to the ruling class comes up again and again throughout history. In the late 19th century in Russia, there were similar kinds of attacks on individual members of the nobility, culminating in the killing of a czar, Alexander II. This led not to a surge in working people’s movements, but to a brutal crackdown that undermined the workers’ movement for decades. It was not the ideas of anarchism or methods of terrorism that led to the overthrow of capitalism for the first time in history, in Russia in 1917. It was genuine Marxism, which based itself on building the organized power of the working class to fight for revolutionary change.
What we need is to eliminate the for-profit system — capitalism — altogether.
https://scheerpost.com/2025/01/28/kshama-sawant-fight-the-rich/
2024-10-24
2024-08-21
Quote of the day - 08-21-2024.
"Voting for genocide is the ultimate fascist act."
Bonus:
Everyone who wants to end Israel’s crimes or the proxy wars against Russia and China is forced to protest. Code Pink activists interrupted a Tim Walz appearance at the Women’s Caucus. Their chant was, “Stop killing women in Gaza!” Unlike the whining Karens who snitched on a protester or who snatched away a sign, they took it straight to the man who may be the next vice president and some of them were arrested in the process.
Doing otherwise is to be complicit. Of course the KHive Karens proved that there are many willing accomplices. Liberals may claim that Genocide Joe Biden is a good man, or that Trump and his supporters are the only villains in the country while they are either in support of or in denial about the fake democracy that tells the people their needs can’t be met while the system always does the bidding of weapons manufacturers, banks, fossil fuel producers, and big pharma.
2024-07-05
Quote of the day - 07-05-2024.
From Joseph Tracy -
This really stands out against our increasingly feeble ‘ America, Fuck Yea !’ version of Independence Day. How is the historic vision of a revolution against empire, rallied by the anti-authoritarian appeal of Tom Paine’s Common Sense taught in schools today, in the power center of an anglo empire constantly spewing about global dominance? The 5 eyes configuration does leave out a key member of the alliance and the modern face of violent of settler colonialism and in many ways the source of the mythic model for European colonialism, Zionist Israel. The massive scale of this blatant hypocrisy requires a Josef Goebbels version of media, and the intelligence agencies discussed in this article have been managing news media without restraint since successfully silencing any real inquiry into the murder of JFK. In the mainstream media the 33 trillion dollar debt load of the American people is the envy of the world. In the MSM the anglo nations are leading the way to increased democracy through coups, and empire friendly dictatorial rulers who kill or jail political opponents. It may not look like political freedom, but trust them, they rely on experts who know what is best. In the MSM Joe Biden’s brain was in tip-top shape until last week. In the MSM large numbers of deaths from the covid vax is not newsworthy, even as states mount lawsuits against the vax makers. In the MSM we should not be afraid of Nuclear war, and even if it did turn out rather badly for those with no access to billion dollar bunkers, we can rest assured it was all the fault of the Russians. America, Fuck Yea!
Fuck yea!
2024-05-29
Quote of the day - 05-29-2024.
While Trump is demonized as a fascist who cannot be permitted near the white house again, the current occupant is also a fascist who is rarely called upon to explain his dangerous policies. The term World War III is generally used as a plot device in movies, but imperialists committed to continued violence and folly could make it a reality. A presidential election will be held in five months but it doesn’t seem that the risk the U.S. poses to all life on earth is a subject of much interest. It would be if the public were aware of the dangers planned in their name. Of course, that is why they aren’t told. The political class wants to act without interference from the people who don’t realize the democracy they are told to vote to uphold is just a sham meant to keep them quiet.
Can you say 'World War III'?
Whether initiated in Ukraine, Palestine, or against Russia or China, the common denominator is the US ruling class.
2024-03-21
Quote of the day - 03-21-2024: Kevin Gostzola.
https://scheerpost.com/2024/03/21/report-justice-department-considering-plea-deal-for-assange/
Kevin calls is just as I see it -
Kevin Gostzola, author of the book “Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange,” suggested the US could have leaked the talk of a plea deal to the press to portray Assange as unreasonable if he didn’t take it.
“Basically, US officials chat to the press about some possible plea deal for Assange when he isn’t guilty of any crime. If Assange’s team signals it would never be acceptable, then it is Assange’s fault that he remains in prison. Officials can say he wants to martyr himself,” Gostzola wrote on X.
2023-12-05
Quote of the day - 12-05-2023.
“As a general principle, it is the tactics of the oppressor that creates the context for the tactics of the oppressed.”
Which could also illustrates how capitalism operates -
“As a general principle, it is the tactics of the employer that creates the context for the tactics of the employees.”
2023-09-13
Quote Of The Day - 09-13-2023.
"The AUMF of 2001 was quickly followed by the Patriot Act which Congress also passed hastily on October 25, 2001. The Patriot Ac t rendered moot decades of legal precedent regarding surveillance of individuals. Under the Patriot Act, the FBI can issue National Security Letters without a judge’s approval, which give access to email, phone, and bank records. The Patriot Act also prohibits recipients of NSLs from revealing to anyone that they received them. So-called “sneak and peek” searches are allowed under the Patriot Act. A home or business can be searched, and the target doesn’t have to be notified until after the search takes place. Let’s not forget that an entire new agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), was formed in the wake of 9/11 and it encompasses everything from immigration laws to air travel.
It would appear that the terrorists won after all. The word democracy may be elevated to sacred status, but in 20 years congress has not managed to repeal the AUMF of 2001 or the Patriot Act. It appears that DHS is also here to stay.
Remembrance of September 11 should be elevated above flag waving, and maudlin sentiment expressed by the same politicians who make wars and increase control over our lives. This columnist suggests that the dates September 14 and October 25 be added to the pantheon of solemn commemorations."
2023-08-16
Quote Of The Day - 08-16-2023.
Americans see their country in the romantic context of Reagan’s “Shining City on a Hill” while the Global South sees the US as a monster, in which the taints, the sickness, colonialism/neo-colonialism and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions. The “non-aligned” nations are in realignment. The US should be as Killens says, about “free people” not “free enterprise.”
It is said that a dying mule can manage to engage in some kicks. These kicks may be dangerous, but they don't last long. Progressively, they become weaker and weaker until the mule finally gives up. We know the US empire won’t go quietly into the night. That’s when it is proving to be its most dangerous.
Context here:
https://blackagendareport.com/you-cant-project-power-when-world-knows-you-are-weak
2023-05-31
2023-04-27
Quote of the day - 04-26-2023.
Andrew Lowenthal (https://scheerpost.com/2023/04/26/matt-taibbi-report-on-the-censorship-industrial-complex/):
The people accusing others of “disinformation” run the biggest disinformation campaigns themselves.
2022-12-01
Quote of the day - 12-01-2022.
When the Bomb is treated as the ultimate home run, the loss of reason and diplomacy lies directly at the feet of war censorship and propaganda, which have permeated corporate news since World War I.
2022-07-25
Quote of the day - 07-25-2022.
U.N Secretary General António Guterres
“Collective action or collective suicide.”
It came from here -> https://scheerpost.com/2022/07/25/chris-hedges-the-dawn-of-the-apocalypse/
2022-04-22
Quote of the day - 04-22-2022
Dorothee Benz via FAIR
The Washington Post—with its pretension to be the defender of democracy (“democracy dies in darkness”)—was fine with implying that Trump’s policies were beyond the pale, but is less inclined to paint the same policies the same way under the return-to-normal administration of Biden. What they disliked about Trump was not really his policies, but the fact that he said the quiet part out loud—in the case of immigration, the overt racism, xenophobia and undisguised cruelty—and his unpredictability. With Biden, there is a return to a predictable bipartisan range of politics and policy.
And equally predictably, the Post has returned to its habit of legitimizing and stabilizing the US presidency, and framing immigration policy as part of a chess match between Democrats and Republicans.
Underlying the reflex to defend the administration is an unexamined bias in favor of our racist immigration and border policies, policies that have overall been the same before, during and after the Trump administration.
2022-03-19
Quote of the day - 03-19-2022
... a fundamental shift, in ideology and the economy, as opposed to incremental or progressive change, is precisely what we need today.
We can, and we must, consider what the leftist traditions of economics, politics and social policy were. We must think deeply about what worked, and what did not work, among the experiments undertaken in those revolutions. Remember that many of the experiments from the Soviet Union inspired the regulated economy implemented in the United States during the New Deal of the 1930s.
The trillions of dollars stolen by the billionaires over the last two years, and the even greater sum stolen through inflation, through the destruction of work by multinational corporations over the last twenty years, this theft has fundamentally altered the structure of our society.
We cannot return to a healthy society unless we radically redistribute the wealth from the super-rich to ordinary citizens.
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This time it'll be a little longer than normal. We'll see how well things go. After all, it does apparently keep me employed.
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