As Gaza suffers, US companies are reaping horrific payoffs | Katrina vanden Heuvel
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War profiteering is a phenomenon as ancient as war itself, but Albanese’s investigation shows that the military-industrial-technological complex is reaping uniquely horrible payoffs in Palestine. Albanese describes how companies led by Lockheed Martin have built fighter jets for Israel that have carried out bombings which have killed or wounded almost 200,000 Palestinians. She describes Palantir’s work with the Israeli military, and its consummation of that partnership by holding a board meeting in Tel Aviv (Palantir has denied involvement in IDF programs identifying Gaza targets). And she brings to light how Caterpillar Inc equipment has demolished homes and hospitals, crushing to death civilians stuck inside those structures.
Perhaps the most hypocritical offenders are the members of the Magnificent Seven. Google’s unofficial motto was once “Don’t be evil,” but now the company has joined Amazon to provide cloud computing services to Israel and its military for a persuasive $1.2bn. Albanese quotes an Israeli colonel who calls this technology “a weapon in every sense of the word”, a cloud as deadly as any poison gas.
Beyond pouring into the streets, Americans can also boycott the corporations living large while the population of Palestine dwindles. The employees of those very companies can do the same, like the 50 now-terminated workers at Google who led “No Tech for Apartheid” protests last year. Otherwise, the warning recently issued by Beinart will remain true: “Blood is on our hands as Americans because it is our weapons that are responsible for those children starving to death.”
As Gaza suffers, US companies are reaping horrific payoffs | Katrina vanden Heuvel
A report this month details US corporate involvement in IDF actions. Grassroots organizing offers opportunity for change
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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War profiteering is a phenomenon as ancient as war itself, but Albanese’s investigation shows that the military-industrial-technological complex is reaping uniquely horrible payoffs in Palestine. Albanese describes how companies led by Lockheed Martin have built fighter jets for Israel that have carried out bombings which have killed or wounded almost 200,000 Palestinians. She describes Palantir’s work with the Israeli military, and its consummation of that partnership by holding a board meeting in Tel Aviv (Palantir has denied involvement in IDF programs identifying Gaza targets). And she brings to light how Caterpillar Inc equipment has demolished homes and hospitals, crushing to death civilians stuck inside those structures.
Perhaps the most hypocritical offenders are the members of the Magnificent Seven. Google’s unofficial motto was once “Don’t be evil,” but now the company has joined Amazon to provide cloud computing services to Israel and its military for a persuasive $1.2bn. Albanese quotes an Israeli colonel who calls this technology “a weapon in every sense of the word”, a cloud as deadly as any poison gas.
Beyond pouring into the streets, Americans can also boycott the corporations living large while the population of Palestine dwindles. The employees of those very companies can do the same, like the 50 now-terminated workers at Google who led “No Tech for Apartheid” protests last year. Otherwise, the warning recently issued by Beinart will remain true: “Blood is on our hands as Americans because it is our weapons that are responsible for those children starving to death.”
As Gaza suffers, US companies are reaping horrific payoffs | Katrina vanden Heuvel
A report this month details US corporate involvement in IDF actions. Grassroots organizing offers opportunity for change
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Are you fucking kidding me?
Ro Khanna bought $8000 of Palantir Technologies Inc (PLTR:US) on 2025-04-23
Beyond pouring into the streets, Americans can also boycott the corporations living large while the population of Palestine dwindles.
Or protest by saying one thing publicly and profiting from genocide privately.
Perhaps the most hypocritical offenders are the members of the Magnificent Seven.
I think there might actually be someone more deserving of that title. -
Are you fucking kidding me?
Ro Khanna bought $8000 of Palantir Technologies Inc (PLTR:US) on 2025-04-23
Beyond pouring into the streets, Americans can also boycott the corporations living large while the population of Palestine dwindles.
Or protest by saying one thing publicly and profiting from genocide privately.
Perhaps the most hypocritical offenders are the members of the Magnificent Seven.
I think there might actually be someone more deserving of that title. -
Thiel taking diligent notes on how to start WWIII.
Topics for next year's discussion:
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•Deregulating nuclear safety to power AI: How the West finally kicked its fossil fuel habit.
•Have the 99% really earned autonomy?
•Global organ harvest and the path to immortality for the chosen elite.Nobody wants to call him out bc they've already accepted the future. If anyone in the U.S. actually cared about stopping genocide wouldn't they be demanding the U.S. stop giving billions of dollars in contracts to Palantir, and that any government official investing in genocide be forced to step down?
