The "Costs of War" project, based at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, estimates that the total death toll in post-9/11 wars – including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen – could be at least 4.5-4.7 million:
Stephanie Savell (2023) watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pa…

Blair is one of the Western leaders who shares complicity for this appalling death toll: mondediplo.com/2003/07/01ramon…

State lying has been thrown down the memory hole by media outlets who welcome him with open arms.

(to be continued)

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"The US will no longer worry about🚨civilians getting in the way of their bombs."
-E Higgins

"Trump Admin's Cuts Hit💔Vets Esp. Hard."

The disgust I feel about #Trump & his fellow sadists... They have disdain for others in the world, esp. brown & black ppl, LGTBQ ppl, women, ppl with disabilities, undocumented immigrants, vets, those who don't agree with them, Muslims, Dems...

#GOPDeathCult #CollateralDamage #Cruelty #ExtrajudicialKillings #Musk #WarCrimes #Vets #USPol
nytimes.com/live/2025/03/04/us…

As #Israel uses US-made #AI models in #war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies

Source: apnews.com/article/israel-pale…

The investigation also revealed new details of how AI systems select targets and ways they can go wrong, including faulty data or flawed #algorithms. It was based on internal documents, data and exclusive interviews with current and former Israeli officials and company employees.

#cyberwar #technology #death #humanity #Military #Research #Problem #news #ethics #humanrights #economy #collateraldamage #algorithm #Software

How US tech giants' AI is changing the face of warfare in Gaza and Lebanon

U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services.

^{Michael Biesecker (AP News)}

Trump's approach carries both risks & rewards bc the streamlined process can potentially degrade foreign terrorist orgs capabilities faster, given the lower threshold required to strike & widened target selection, but -inherently raises the risk of flawed decisions &🚨UNINTENDED CIVILIAN CASUALTIES.

#CollateralDamage means nothing to Trump, Hegseth, many Rs...

I hope that the troops don't comply. The US will become another banana republic, or is it?

#USPol #GOPDeathCult
cbsnews.com/news/trump-eases-r…

Trump eases rules on military raids and airstrikes, expanding range of who can be targeted

The increase in the range of people who can be targeted by the U.S. military dismantles Biden-era mandates that included more safeguards.

^{James LaPorta (CBS News)}

What do Ukraine and Taiwan have in common? A U.S they can't depend on

#TrumpRussiaUkraine #UkraineTaiwanComparison #USPolicyShift #CollateralDamage #TaiwanChinaConcerns

haaretz.com/us-news/2025-02-28…

What do Ukraine and Taiwan have in common? A U.S they can't depend on

In the same way that the Trump administration is now favoring Russia over Ukraine, Taiwan fears it could soon be the collateral victim of a grand geopolitical and economic deal between the U.S. president and China

^{Alon Pinkas (Haaretz)}

"DOGE AI" automates rapid MAGA response to lib tweets

#CollateralDamage #InternationalLaw #LettersOfMarque #BoldSolutions #Privateers

nationalzero.com/2025/02/26/do…

In war against DEI in science, researchers see collateral damage

#CollateralDamage #DEIScienceWar #DEIInScience #SciencePolitics #GrantScrutiny

arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…

In war against DEI in science, researchers see collateral damage

Senate Republicans flagged thousands of grants as “woke DEI” research. What does that really mean?

^{Undark Magazine (Ars Technica)}

'I became collateral damage': the trans pilot falsely targeted over Washington DC crash

#AliveAndWell #FalseAccusation #CollateralDamage #TrumpBlameDiversity #NoEvidenceProvided

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f…

‘I became collateral damage’: the trans pilot falsely targeted over Washington DC crash

Without evidence, Trump blamed diversity after the crash, leading some to accuse Jo Ellis of being one of the pilots

^{Rachel Leingang (The Guardian)}

"In this episode we talked with Sefi Cohen, head of Data Science squad in the IDF. He tells us about the different projects they're doing and how he started a Data Science team with very little knowledge of Machine Learning and Data Science techniques, how he chose the right people for this team and how they all learned the craft together."

(December 2017) podtail.com/en/podcast/unsuper… @dataGovernance @data @ai @israel @ethics @military @idf @terrorism

#tech #techCulture #teamWork #BigBoys #army #DataScience #intelligence #MilInt #C4I #IDI #IDF #Habsora #Matzpen #history #data #analytics #planning #CrowdSourcing #CROSINT #military #dataDon #dataGovernance #dataMining #dataCapture #technoSolutionnism #techCulture #engineering #engineers #generativeAI #fix #externalities #productivity #ethics #bias #AIWar #AIWarfare #AIEthics #AIRisks #collateralDamage #casualties #civilians #dehumanisation #airStrikes #bombing #weapons #arms #terrorism #counterTerrorism #israel #israelGazaWar #Hamas

What do Data Scientists do in the Army? with Sefi Cohen – Unsupervised – Podcast

In this episode we talked with Sefi Cohen, head of Data Science squad in the IDF. He tells us about the different projects they're doing and how he started a Data Science team with very little kn...

^Podtail

Behind any aircraft that takes off for an attack, there are thousands of soldiers, men and women, who make the information accessible to the pilot. "They produce the targets and make the targets accessible. To set a target, it’s a process with lots of factors that need to be approved. The achievement, the collateral damage and the level of accuracy. For that, you have to interconnect intelligence, (weapon) fire, C4I [an integrated military communications system, including the interaction of troops, intelligence and communication equipment] and more," said Nati Cohen, currently a reservist in the Exercises Division of the C4I Division of the army.

Published in 2021 in a security mag: israeldefense.co.il/en/node/50… @military

#data #analytics #planning #intelligence #MilInt #military #army #C4I #ES2 #IDI #productivity #ethics #AIWar #AIWarfare #AIRisks #collateralDamage #casualties #civilians #airStrikes #bombing #weapons #arms #terrorism #counterTerrorism #israel #israelGazaWar #warCrimes

A person who took part in previous Israeli offensives in Gaza said:
“If they would tell the whole world that the [Islamic Jihad] offices on the 10th floor are not important as a target, but that its existence is a justification to bring down the entire high-rise with the aim of pressuring civilian families who live in it in order to put pressure on terrorist organizations, this would itself be seen as terrorism. So they do not say it.”

+972 and Local Call investigated: 972mag.com/mass-assassination-…

(to be continued)

#airStrikes #bombing #weapons #arms #terrorism #counterTerrorism #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #israelHamas #Hamas #Habsora #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #tech #israel #army #productivity #ethics #bias #aiEthics #collateralDamage #casualties #civilians