May, 2023

• 8 May

  Murder without a Killer—West’s Refusal to Seek Truth on Nord Stream Sabotage

  

  A long time back I was visiting some remote villages where the murder of a youth who had raised his voice against corruption of a powerful local contractor and politician had attracted a lot of attention. There was an undercurrent of simmering anger among people but no one was willing …

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• 8 May

  ‘AI-Shima’ Will Hack Your Password

  

  Perhaps the recent media hype about artificial intelligence (AI) and “not-really-so” OpenAI’s program called ChatGPT, made many people worried about AI. Some – even inside AI – are convinced that, we can’t afford an AI-shima – a Fukushima-like atomic accident inside our computers and the Internet. Like another nuclear accident …

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• 8 May

  Artificial Intelligence & The Polycrisis

  

  This piece doesn’t explain itself much, nor argue effectively (with citations and footnotes), but speaks to those who have already come to understand the situation in — at least — the basic shape I have. To do otherwise would require months of work, if not years. So this is a …

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• 8 May

  ChatGPT and human intelligence: Noam Chomsky responds to critics

  

  The recent emergence of OpenAI’s ChatGPT (part of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer family of language models) has attracted a lot of attention throughout the world. It is a chatbot released in November 2022, and, according to OpenAI’s website, its “dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, …

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• 8 May

  Iran: Unhappy Workers

  

  Iranian workers… have launched a series of strikes and sit-ins to protest what they regard as “systemic exploitation.” By the time of this writing, over 100,000 workers were on strike in 122 businesses in 35 cities, relatively small numbers yet significant for two reasons: the protests seem to be spreading …

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• 8 May

  Blame Putin for Stoking Violence in Sudan

  

  Recent documents published by the Dossier Center, an investigative project set up by Russian dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky, demonstrate unequivocally that the Wagner Group is funded and run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who in turn answers directly to Putin. In recent years, the Wagner Group has been particularly busy in the Middle …

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• 8 May

  India And Iran: Is Creation Of Powerful Alliance Between Tehran And New Delhi On Horizon? – OpEd

  

  India-Iran relations have a deep civilizational background and need to be viewed outside the framework of daily politics and current trends such as anti-government protests in Iran, India-Pakistan conflict and constant geopolitical realignments: India maintains good relations with both East and West, and Iran is under attack western sanctions. In …

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• 8 May

  France On Strike – OpEd

  

  The roots of the injustice that brought over a million to the streets It is the core of a long running joke that the French love to strike more than they like to work – and for good reason. Demonstrations, strikes and even riots, have been a common occurrence for …

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• 8 May

  Africa: New Zone Of Russian Domination – Analysis

  

  On March 19 and 20 this year, the Second International Parliamentary Conference “Russia-Africa” was held in the Russian Duma. The conference was attended by more than 40 parliamentary delegations from the vast majority of African countries. The importance of the event is indicated by the fact that Vladimir Putin himself …

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• 8 May

  What Ukraine Needs For Its Counteroffensive – OpEd

  

  Ukraine’s spring counteroffensive may soon begin, but its armed forces still lack certain weapon systems that could prove decisive in overwhelming Russia’s entrenched troops. Hudson Institute experts have long argued that the United States should equip Kyiv with a range of weapons and equipment—some of which the Biden administration has …

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