"How is it possible for a #BBC reporter to have made the following obscene observation in his segment on Israel’s murder at the weekend of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif: "There's the question of proportionality. Is it justified to kill five journalists when you were only targeting one?" (...)"
#journalists #media #complicity #genocide #palestine #gaza
#oped J. Cook AUG-12 
"From the perspective of soothing the conscience, this is a mighty thing – for those in Paris, London and Ottawa. It does not save a single life on the ground in #gaza or the #westbank, provide a single meal for a starving family, or rebuild a single destroyed school. But President Emmanuel Macron, and Prime Ministers Sir Keir Starmer and Mark Carney can all commune as a triumvirate of principled statesmen."
- Dr Binoy Kampmark for MEMO
Uncertain Times for Germany, Its Jewish Community and Its Relationship With the United States and Israel https://www.byteseu.com/1249411/ #Germany #OpEd
“There’s a common misconception that state-of-the-art technology has to be expensive, energy consumptive and hard to engineer. That’s because we have been persuaded to believe that #InnovativeTechnology is whatever bombastic billionaires claim it is, whether that’s commercial #spacecraft or the endless iterations of generative #AItools.
As the #Canadian #technologist and #engineer #UrsulaFranklin once said, fantasies of technology would have it that innovation is always “investment-driven, shiny, lab-born, experimental, exciting”. But more often than not, in the real world, it is “#NeedsDriven, #scrappy, on #location, #iterative, #practical, #mundane”.
The real pioneering #technologies of today are genuinely useful #systems I like to call “frugal tech”, and they are brought to life not by eccentric billionaires but by people doing more with less. They don’t impose #TopDown “#solutions” that seem to complicate our lives while making a few people very rich. It turns out that genuinely #innovative #technology really can set people free.” — Eleanor Drage
#OpEd / #EleanorDrage / #tech / #FrugalTech / #Cambridge #LeverhulmeCentre / #FutureOfIntelligence <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/02/billionaire-big-tech-frugal-elon-musk-innovation>
The world’s AI economy enters the fifth dimension https://www.byteseu.com/1224198/ #AccessAndDeployment(BEAD) #ArtificialIntelligence(AI) #BroadbandEquity #Cloud #economy #FierceNetworkHomepage #modernization #OpEd #PresidentTrump #Regulation
Wonderful little puppet animations throughout the story!
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/10/opinion/car-driving-desert-hot.html
The Unionist Vote and Moldova’s European Future. Op-Ed by Anatol Taranu https://www.byteseu.com/1196149/ #AnatolȚăranu #Moldova #OpEd
"Walt Whitman Would Have Hated DOGE —
... an essential question that any artist and civic figure who believes American ideals are worth sustaining must ask: How shall we honor, remember and learn from our national past? And how shall we transmit essential values of the past to citizens of the future?
... "
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/opinion/doge-nea-neh-walt-whitman.html
#art #arts #history #OpEd #NEA #NEH
#oped The real crimes are taking place in #gaza, not at Glastonbury or Brize Norton
Starmer's government constantly sells us red herrings to throw us off the scent of the UK's complicity in Israel's #genocide
By Jonathan Cook
(published JUL-02)
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-real-crimes-are-taking-place
Absolutely cannot make America healthy again if you ignore the biggest and most solvable problems. Ask the Onion.*
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/24/rfk-jr-make-america-healthy-again-killers-american-children
*"‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1819576527/
@foufoutos From what I learned about diplo talks, at least the EU wants to find a solution with Iran. I'm talking about the parliament in Strasbourg, not the von-der-Leyen-Commission. There's no united decisionmaking in the Gulf, dispatched workers from Asia ruled by criminal tribal bosses, Arab League a clown circus, that's why they always follow the US currency.
Iran will only return to peace talks after a regime change in the US. For Iran, China is a talking table ware 
. #short #oped
https://www.europesays.com/uk/193003/ Expert-Speak: The Quantum Leap And The Digital Backbone – The Future Of Hybrid Computing #Computing #OpEd #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.europesays.com/uk/191791/ Expert-Speak: The Quantum Leap And The Digital Backbone – The Future Of Hybrid Computing #Computing #OpEd #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom
Is this the same WaPo that didn't have the gumption to print Ann Tellnaes' cartoon of Jeff Bezos and a cabal of billionaire media/social media/tech celebs (Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong — and Walt Disney Company mascot Mickey Mouse!) bootlicking at trump's feet?* Wonder what changed.
*https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post
#USpol #USpolitics #USelections #OpEd #dystopia #military #USArmy
The #US has started with operative steps that indicate a decision about #war with #iran has been taken.
"Trump ordered the withdrawal of non-essential personnel from its bases and diplomatic outposts in West Asia (Middle East). Why now? Well, look at the mess Israel is in and it suddenly gets clear that Tel Aviv really needs this war to happen now." -- Pascal Lottaz
#oped #assessment #geopolitics
Video credit: Neutrality Studies
Update JUN-12 Dr. Birsen Gaskell tells of her experience in #rafah, Southern #gaza:
Skeletons of ambulances and hospital equipment lie scattered, half-buried. Following its invasion almost a year ago, the Israeli army damaged and burned down hospital properties (...)
#oped by Dr. Birsen Gaskell for Anadolu
#palestine #genocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity #un #icj
#huamnrights
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/opinion/opinion-notes-from-nasser-hospital-gaza-april-2025/3595122
Congress Passes Socialized Medicine and Mandates Health Insurance -In 1798
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2011/01/17/congress-passes-socialized-medicine-and-mandates-health-insurance-in-1798/
#ycombinator #Law #OpEd #Policy #Politics #byline_Rick_Ungar #Health_care #John_Adams #Jonathan_Dayton #mandated_health_insurance #Marine_Hospital_Service #Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act #Socialized_Medicine #Thomas_Jefferson #United_States #United_States_Constitution
#oped Timo Al-Farooq explores Germany’s unshakable support for "Israel" amid its war on #gaza, revealing how this stance echoes past militarism and a failure to reckon with history.
The word 'Beratungsresistenz', resistance to advice, captures Berlin’s dangerous obstinacy.
#germany #deutschland #völkermord
Full article on Al Mayadeen (
w/ audio)
Facts. Sadly. 
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