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Fri, 06/03/2026 - 11:30

“In order to strike a blistering 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced artificial intelligence it’s ever used in warfare, a tool that could be difficult for the Pentagon to give up even as it severs ties with the company that created it."Washington Post

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Hello, valued skeptics and losers currently writing think pieces about how the AI bubble is going to burst. It’s me, AI. I’m just checking in after the news that the U.S. military struck roughly a thousand Iranian targets in the first twenty-four hours of war, killing over a thousand people.

Quick question, tho: Does that sound like the résumé of tech that’s about to be put out to pasture? I mean, sure, I sometimes screw up a fact or give horrible advice, but have you seen how well I sate your bloodlust? You wackos love to murder each other.

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Fri, 06/03/2026 - 11:29

The Canadian leader visited Australia this week. Both Prime Ministers spoke of a “natural partnership” built on a shared British settler-colonial history and their possession of one third of the world’s mineral resources between them.

The post Canada and Australia: allies in capitalist extractivism and militarisation first appeared on Solidarity Online.

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Fri, 06/03/2026 - 06:19

While CNN censors reports of failing Israeli interceptors, Iran is writing the handbook for how to defeat the US - Israeli empire. From destroyed US FAD radars to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the repercussions of this imperialist aggression against the Islamic Republic have massive global implications and is revealing the true nature of the Arab Gulf states and their commitent to Zionism as explained by political analyst Sharmine Narwani.

The post US Radars Destroyed: Iran writes handbook for Modern War with Empire | Interview: Sharmine Narwani appeared first on MintPress News.

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Fri, 06/03/2026 - 03:15

A wide range of anonymous X (Twitter) users have reported that their real names are suddenly being Googled in Israel shortly after they began criticizing the country for its actions in Palestine. Some connected the phenomenon to Au10tix, the software X requires users (even anonymous ones) to use in order to verify their real identities. Au10tix is an Israeli company founded and staffed by former Israeli spies from the elite Israeli military intelligence group Unit 8200.

The post X Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel After Using X Verification Software “Au10tix” appeared first on MintPress News.

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Fri, 06/03/2026 - 01:00
Eduardo Maqui, Nicholas Vause and Márcia Silva-Pereira In recent decades, the corporate bond market has grown from a relatively niche source of finance for UK corporations to a central pillar alongside bank loans. This transition raises an important question: as with bank credit conditions, have supply conditions in the corporate bond market come to significantly … Continue reading Bond financing conditions and economic activity in the UK: aggregate and firm-level evidence
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Thu, 05/03/2026 - 22:47

At the Right To Food Commission’s conference in Knowsley, the effects of nearly five decades of neoliberal capitalism were demonstrated by a conveyor belt of academics, community representatives, medical professionals, and one of the tiny number of politicians prepared to be honest about the situation Britain finds itself in. Earlier this year, Ian Byrne MP […]

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Thu, 05/03/2026 - 20:00

Ever since the Cold War, we’ve been living in a world dominated by one superpower: the United States. The US is home to the world’s most formidable military, serves as the headquarters of finance, and writes the rules of international trade — all premised upon its control over our most critical technologies. But this unipolar […]