Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1.San Fran’s Killer Robots According to a report from The Verge, the San Francisco Police Deparment has submitted a proposal that would permit robots to …
“Tiny flying drones called ‘slaughterbots’ trained to kill humans could be the future of warfare … and terror attacks,” The Sun. “Professors have said the technology is already available to create the killing machines which could be used by terrorist groups or governments.”
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In addition to selling armed drones to oppressive regimes, widespread reports indicate that Israel has long used the armed unmanned aircraft to carry out strikes in Gaza, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, and Sudan.
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Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has called for attacks inside Iran as the country’s drones cause setbacks for the Ukrainian military. On November 5, Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has advocated for military strikes on drone production sites located in Iran. President Zelensky echoed Podolyak’s belligerent rhetoric the following day, demanding Iran be “punished” for allegedly supplying drones to Russia. Kiev adopted its hostile posture towards Tehran after claiming Russia deployed Iranian-supplied […]
by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star: This week saw two unusual things happen: both Sweden and Germany indicated that they knew who had blown up the Nordstream gas pipelines, but neither country was going to share that information. Of course, this touched off a serious round of speculation on the alternative media, and even […]
Moscow’s highly effective usage of Iranian drone technology in Ukraine has sparked a fierce backlash from Washington and its NATO allies. However, the criticism of Tehran for supplying drones, and in the future possibly ballistic missiles to Russia, reflects astounding Western hypocrisy. Calls for everything from a probe into Iranian drone usage in Ukraine to Read More...
Awaiting discharge from a hospital in Cairo, Adel Al Manthari, a Yemeni civilian, faces months of physical therapy and mounting medical bills following three surgeries since 2018, when a U.S. weaponized drone killed four of his cousins and left him mangled, burnt and barely alive, bedridden to this day. On October 7th, President Biden announced, […]
Ayman al-Zawahiri is dead – or so we are told. Al-Qaida’s chief and successor to the slain Osama bin Laden, he was deemed the chief ideologue and mastermind behind the audacious September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. On July 31, he was supposedly killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, while […]
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Much is to be learned from the political correspondence of such Roman luminaries as Julius Caesar, Cicero, Seneca, among many others. Here I am restricting myself to a Gestapo-like bureaucrat, Pliny the Younger (61-113 C.E.), imperial governor of Bithynia province (now part of Turkey) under the divinely mandated autocracy of the Emperor Trajan (53-117 C.E.). […]
