Israel can win the war in Gaza, but at what cost? Despite widespread criticism Israel's strategy aims to dismantle Hamas, but at too high a price | World
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.
Israeli intelligence sources reveal use of ‘Lavender’ system in Gaza war and claim permission given to kill civilians in pursuit of low-ranking militants
Reportage über den Konflikt um Bergkarabach
Im Herbst 2020 besiegte Aserbaidschan nach sechs Wochen Krieg armenische Truppen in Bergkarabach. Tausende Soldaten starben, die Zahl der zivilen Opfer ist nicht genau bekannt. Der armenische Regisseur Aram Shahbazyan filmte für "Re:" an der Front, sprach mit den Menschen und geriet in Bombenangriffe.
Sechs Wochen lang bekämpften sich im Herbst 2020 armenische und aserbaidschanische Truppen in Bergkarabach. Bereits in den 1990er Jahren wurde um dieses Gebiet gekämpft. Damals siegten die Armenier. Hunderttausende Aserbaidschaner wurden vertrieben. Der armenische Regisseur Aram Shahbazyan war für „Re:“ im Kriegsgebiet unterwegs. Er filmte an der Front, sprach mit den Menschen, die trotz der Kämpfe in den Städten und Dörfern ausharrten und geriet selbst in Bombenangriffe. Tausende Soldaten starben, die Zahl der zivilen Opfer ist nicht genau bekannt. Beide Seiten sollen nach internationalen Beobachtern Kriegsverbrechen begangen haben. Der Hass sitzt tief bei den Menschen. Nach einem von Russland vermittelten Waffenstillstand mussten die Armenier Mitte November viele Gebiete in der von ihnen beanspruchten Region räumen. Das Filmteam wurde Zeuge, wie Armenier ihre Häuser verbrannten und historische Ornamente aus Klostermauern brachen, um nichts den Aserbaidschanern zu überlassen.
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Seit Wochen überziehen sich die Türkei und Griechenland im Erdgasstreit gegenseitig mit Vorwürfen. Nun bringt Ankara ein weiteres gefährliches Szenario ins Spiel, droht für den Fall einer Ausdehnung der Territorialgewässer in der Ägäis offen mit einer militärischen Auseinandersetzung. Athen spricht von „Größenwahn“: „Wenn das kein Kriegsgrund ist, was denn sonst?", so Griechenlands Vizepräsident.
The publication of this week’s open letter by leading technology academics protesting Google’s role in drone murder exposes the partnership between the major technology giants and the US military/intelligence complex.
More than 3,000 Google employees have signed an open letter to management, urging the company to pull out of a Pentagon program that uses artificial intelligence to aid with video imagery used by drones.
US military medical ethics evolved during its involvement in two recent wars, Gulf War I and the War on Terror. Norms of conduct for military clinicians with regard to the treatment of prisoners of war and the administration of non-therapeutic bioactive agents to soldiers were set aside because of the sense of being in a ‘new kind of war’. Concurrently, the use of radioactive metal in weaponry and the ability to measure the health consequences of trade embargos on vulnerable civilians occasioned new concerns about the health effects of war on soldiers, their offspring, and civilians living on battlefields. Civilian medical societies and medical ethicists fitfully engaged the evolving nature of the medical ethics issues and policy changes during these wars. Medical codes of professionalism have not been substantively updated and procedures for accountability for new kinds of abuses of medical ethics are not established. Looking to the future, medicine and medical ethics have not articul
The Western-backed war in Syria, like the invasion of Iraq, was so smothered by propaganda that truth was not only the first casualty but has been steadily suffocated for five years, now reaching the Oscars, says Rick Sterling.
a website which brings together research into the nature and role of hostility and violence in contemporary life, and explores how violence is portrayed in media, art, and literature
On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya, which still is the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
On September 20, 450 AD, the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains also referred to as the Battle of Chalons took place. A coalition led by the Roman general Flavius Aëtius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I against the Huns and their allies commanded by their leader Attila faced each other in a decisive battle that should decide the fate of Europe and the whole Western civilization...
On June 18, 1815, a battle was fought near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, which should be Napoleon's last. An Imperial French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition, comprising an Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. The defeat at Waterloo ended Napoleon's rule as Emperor of the French, and made way for a shift in the European balance of power.
On 16 March 1938, at about 22:00, two SA men arrived at the house of prominent Austrian philosopher, historian, journalist and critic Egon Friedell to arrest him. While they were still arguing with his housekeeper, Friedell committed suicide by jumping out of the window. Before leaping, he warned pedestrians walking on the sideway where he hit by shouting "Watch out! Get out of the way!". This was the tragic end of a brilliant mind.
"It should never have been in the speech. I didn't need Wilson to tell me that there wasn't a Niger connection. He didn't tell us anything we didn't already know."
ACLU filed Freedom of Information Act requests with various components of the Defense Department. The documents searchable on this page were provided to the ACLU in response to those requests.
For the entire war in Iraq, the press has been kept largely in the dark concerning the number of civilians killed by our forces, and what happened in the aftemath. Now several hundred files posted online reveal some of the true horror while raising questi
The American Scholar. I suddenly realized that this is the way the world lives... in terms of an enemy. It’s exactly the target that Jesus aimed at all his life, and Buddha too, and Freud; and Gandhi and Martin Luther King: trying to make this invisible creature unnecessary.... Is there truly an enemy, a serpent, devil, PLO terrorist, Libyan hit-man.... Of course there is an enemy; reality says so. Only meditate, say the great teachers: Is there really? Or do we create him?
112 years ago, famous american writer Stephen Crane died at age 28. Despite of his youth, he already had become one of the icons of american literature. Most famous is his american civil war novel 'The Red Badge of Courage', which has been read by almost every american high school kid.
Author, journalist, satirist, and critic Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born 70 years ago today. He had a great influence in the literature of the 20th century through his works, most of them dealing with the American Civil War.
Die Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg hat mit Unterstützung der Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg 19 ihrer Feldzeitungen aus der Zeit des Ersten Weltkrieges digitalisiert und mikroverfilmt. Um dem interessierten Benutzer online einen möglichst lückenlosen Bestand anbieten zu können, wurden vorhandene Lücken im Printbestand durch Digitalisierung von Exemplaren aus anderen Bibliotheken geschlossen.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an even easier way for developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud without having to worry about the physical infrastructure or the resource configuration that accompanies setting up that infrastructure. You simply upload your application and AWS Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring, while allowing you to change configuration settings anddeploy new versions.
Weil sie zu viele Informationen zur Verfügung hatte, fällte eine US-Drohnenbesatzung im vergangenen Jahr eine schwere Fehlentscheidung. Sie kostete 23 afghanische
Der Iran hat am Samstag erstmals eine Cyberattacke auf seine Industrieanlagen durch den mysteriösen Computerschädling „Stuxnet“ bestätigt. Das Computervirus scheint speziell gegen die iranische Industrie und Energieversorgung gerichtet zu sein. Aber auch andere Länder sind betroffen. Stuxnet braucht industrielle Steuerungssysteme der Firma Siemens und Windows-Rechner, um sich entfalten zu können. Diese Struktur findet sich vor allem im Iran. Experten schätzen, 60 Prozent der Stuxnet-Attacken seien im Iran zu verzeichnen. Das Virus ist aber auch bereits in den USA, Großbritannien, Indonesien und Indien aufgetaucht.
"to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity."
The National Security Archive is an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
-623415318 World War II Propaganda Posters By OMGuide updated 02/16/2009 Share on Digg 4 diggs Share on Reddit Share on StumbleUpon Add to del.icio.us Share on Facebook Tweet this Guide! The United States government and its military endeavors are always questioned in the media
This is a look at the furious battle that raged between the RAF and the Luftwaffe during the summer of 1940. A battle that not only saved Britain but perhaps the entire war.
nominated for both Best Novel (for The Last Colony) and Best Fan Writer, which I think is pretty neat. This guy should be nominated for the best blog, if you ask me. - ptw
Speech by Richard von Weizsacker, President of the Federal Republic of Germany,
in the Bundestag during the Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the End of the War in Europe and of National Socialist Tyranny,
May 8, 1985