Claudio Chiarolla @CChiarolla

When those who protest against genocide are accused of TERRORISM, and those accused of committing genocide are left roaming free... *** ... it is the time to unite to protect human rights, ethically and in the name and spirit of solidarity.

Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries

2 months ago

BREAKING: Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja unlawfully arrested under the Terrorism Act. He was amongst hundreds of protestors arrested for holding signs which say "I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action". The ban is unlawful, and so are these arrests.

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The Pentagon just threatened to BLACKLIST one of America's most valuable AI companies. Not Huawei or some Chinese chip maker... It's ANTHROPIC. The company behind Claude. $380 billion valuation. And the reason is genuinely insane: For months, the Pentagon has been pushing every major AI lab to remove their safety restrictions for military use. The ask is simple: let us use your models for anything that's technically legal. Weapons development, intelligence collection, battlefield operations, mass surveillance of American citizens. OpenAI said yes. Google said yes. xAI said yes. Anthropic said no. Not to everything tho. They were willing to negotiate. But they held firm on two things: They don't want Claude used to build fully autonomous weapons that fire without a human in the loop, and they don't want it used to mass surveil American citizens. That's it. That's the line they drew. But Pete Hegseth's response was to threaten to designate Anthropic a "supply chain risk." Here's why that matters: That label isn't a contract cancellation. It's not a fine. It's not a strongly worded letter... It means every single company that wants to do business with the US military has to certify they don't use Claude anywhere in their operations. 8 of the 10 largest companies in America use Claude. Defense contractors, government suppliers, enterprise companies with any federal exposure... ALL of them would have to cut ties with Anthropic overnight or lose their government contracts. A senior Pentagon official told Axios: "It will be an enormous pain in the ass to disentangle, and we are going to make sure they pay a price for forcing our hand like this." That's a US government official threatening to financially destroy an American company because it doesn't want its AI used to spy on American people. And it gets WORSE. Last week, Anthropic's head of safeguards research resigned. His parting message: "the world is in peril." Elon Musk - whose xAI already handed the Pentagon a blank check - is now publicly attacking Anthropic calling Claude anti-human. And the Pentagon official told Axios they're "confident" OpenAI, Google, and xAI will all agree to the "all lawful purposes" standard. So what you're actually watching right now is every major AI company in America quietly handing the government unlimited access to the most powerful technology ever built. With no guardrails. No limits. No company-imposed restrictions on what it can be used for. One company tried to hold a line. But the government is about to make an example out of them. If Anthropic folds, it's over. Every lab just learned what happens when you push back. And every restriction, every safety policy, every ethical guardrail these companies spent years building gets negotiated away behind closed doors the second the government asks. If they don't fold, a $380 billion company gets made radioactive in its OWN country. Watch what happens next. Because whatever Anthropic decides in the next few weeks, it sets the precedent for how much control AI companies actually have over their own technology. Turns out the answer might be: none.

⬇️Statement by the OIC Group in Geneva regarding false allegations directed against the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, Ms. @FranceskAlbs ⬇️

🇺🇳❗️UNRWA is a subsidiary body of the General Assembly: only the GA can decide its fate. Israel is dismantling the UN system brick by brick, metaphorically and literally. Silence and inaction by member states and UN agencies deeply dishonours the UN itself.

Rima Hassan @RimaHas

5 months ago

Ce matin, les autorités israéliennes démolissent le siège de l’UNRWA à Jérusalem-Est. Nouvelle violation du droit international diffusée en direct. L’impunité d’Israël doit cesser ! Il y a quelques mois à peine, la CIJ a réaffirmé qu'Israël « ne peut entraver le fonctionnement

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@EmmanuelMacron We want to prevent this! Sane Americans do not want this!!!

What goes around comes around. @UEFA has been warned times and times again.

Drop Site @DropSiteNews

6 months ago

European soccer league is under scrutiny and could lose its Swiss nonprofit status over alleged complicity in Israeli apartheid. @Ash_Prashar from the Game Over Israel campaign broke it down to @ryangrim and @emilyjashinsky.

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The lack of pressure on Israel to release the thousands of Palestinian hostages (including CHILDREN) says a lot about what Peace that lays ahead, for the Palestinians. There cannot be peace without justice, human rights and dignity of ALL. Palestinian lives matter.

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis

8 months ago

IF THIS IS NOT HOSTAGE TAKING, WHAT IS? Israel refuses to release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya who insisted on staying with his patients in his bombed hospital even after his own son was murdered. Since then he has been held in one of Israel's torture facilities.

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❗️ALERT❗️@gbsumudflotilla has been attacked 7 times in a short span! Boats hit with sound bombs, explosive flares, and sprayed with suspected chemicals. Radios jammed, calls for help blocked. Immediate international attention AND PROTECTION required! Hands off the Flotilla!

🔴Breaking: Over twenty of the world's leading experts on the international arms trade have issued a statement in support of @FranceskAlbs's report "From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide"

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I wonder what gives a state representative the right to speak so assertively against int'l law, 30+years of int'l consensus (mostly championed by his own country), UNSC and UNGA resolutions, and ICJ jurisprudence. It would be splendid if the other 191 UN member states, understanding the risks of being complicit with int'l crimes, decided to join forces and reaffirm that no political alliance can be premised upon the flagrant and systemic violation of int'l law.

Drop Site @DropSiteNews

a year ago

🎥 “Does it have to be in Judea and Samaria” US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said the United States no longer endorses an independent Palestinian state as a policy goal. ➤“Unless there are some significant things that happen that change the culture, there’s no room for

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So powerful. Not to Rafah—imagined by some as the gateway to a second Palestinian exodus—but here, at the wall of the ghetto. This is where the international community must stand—not watch. It is time to demand that Israel open its crossings into Gaza—and if there is something to undo: it's precisely its Walls of infamy.

עומדים ביחד نقف معًا Standing Together🟣 @omdimbeyachad

a year ago

RIGHT NOW: Hundreds of people, Jews and Palestinians, are marching towards the Gaza border calling to stop the Israeli government’s horrific plans of occupation, settlement, killing, and population transfer in Gaza. We’re here because we refuse this catastrophe.

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I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

UN experts call for immediate end to Russian attacks on Ukraine’s electricity system to avoid risk of nuclear disaster. Attacks on energy infrastructure indispensable for the survival of the civilian population are prohibited under int'l humanitarian law. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

⚡️Intergovernmental Negotiating Body co-chairs said stakeholders play a catalytic role & urged them to keep pushing for solutions, particularly on PABS (Art 12) & prevention (Art 4). 🧬A full day of PABS is ahead w/an evening session on lingering tech transfer issues.

🚨 In a special press conference today Geneva, the co-chairs of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body for a #PandemicAccord announced negotiations will not conclude this year and will continue through 2025. 🚦So no special Session of the World Health Assembly in December. 🧵

Back from the trenches in Cali: sharing some personal views on the CBD COP 16 outcome establishing a new Multilateral Benefit-Sharing Mechanism on DSI linkedin.com/pulse/back-fro…

Against this kind of figure, I am hoping that the upcoming @UNBiodiversity #COP16Colombia will not be approached as business as usual. Mainstreaming biodiversity in the agriculture and food sector is key to tackle the most important driver of #biodiversity loss worldwide.

WWF EU @WWFEU

2 years ago

🚨 #BREAKING! Species population numbers have dropped by 73% on average since 1970 But there's hope as we have #EUGreenDeal solutions to transform conservation, food, energy & finance to tackle the climate & nature crises. New Living Planet Report 👉 wwf.eu/?15334891/Syst…

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Key statement from @Ginitastar UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of assembly and association on obligations of universities to respect these rights in relation with pro-Palestine solidarity movements

UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts

2 years ago

Universities must respect peaceful activism & revise repressive policies targeting pro-Palestine solidarity movement. UN expert calls for the protection of peaceful assemblies & an end to stigmatisation, repression & retaliation of the academic community. ohchr.org/en/statements/…

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One thing there is very little general understanding of, is that we have passed a critical phase with the climate and ecological crisis, which makes it far different, that it was before. It is very difficult to define this critical phase, but I will try. 1/

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Claudio Chiarolla @CChiarolla

2 years ago

Great #ENB @IISDRS coverage and pictures 📸 from yesterday's session! enb.iisd.org/enb.iisd.org/p…

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