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Project Lavender
May. 4th, 2024 08:06 amThere is a very revelatory 972mag.com expose about why the carnage in Gaza is so much worse post October 7, probably has been happening to a lesser degree with US target killings post-9/11, and we'll surely see more of in the future: Project Lavender (which was also covered by the same publication with less operational detail late last year when it mentioned the Habsora ("The Gospel") AI system, but with a lot more historical context around killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure intentionally going back to 2006 and the Dahiya doctrine).
The top two US papers dedicated exactly two articles to this in the past month: Wapo 4/5 analysis and NYT 4/10 subscriber-only newsletter op-ed. Only days ago, Foreign Policy covered the subject, El Pais covered it as well a while back, Le Monde did it, and as far as I can tell DW and BBC have not covered it yet (by googling the key word).
Related to this expose, read also this Nation article about how the US govt and private US businesses such as Palantir AI cooperate and feed the Israeli war machine. Even more troubling is the US govt's use as far back as 2010 of Palantir to "[spread] disinformation" and "disrupt" Glenn Greenwald's support for WikiLeaks (translation: shape and distort US public opinion about the US govt's own unforgivable anti-democratic transgressions, often against its own citizenry).
The top two US papers dedicated exactly two articles to this in the past month: Wapo 4/5 analysis and NYT 4/10 subscriber-only newsletter op-ed. Only days ago, Foreign Policy covered the subject, El Pais covered it as well a while back, Le Monde did it, and as far as I can tell DW and BBC have not covered it yet (by googling the key word).
Related to this expose, read also this Nation article about how the US govt and private US businesses such as Palantir AI cooperate and feed the Israeli war machine. Even more troubling is the US govt's use as far back as 2010 of Palantir to "[spread] disinformation" and "disrupt" Glenn Greenwald's support for WikiLeaks (translation: shape and distort US public opinion about the US govt's own unforgivable anti-democratic transgressions, often against its own citizenry).
