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• Killer Haze of Delhi & Rubble of Bombed-out Gaza | Humra Quraishi

  11 November 2023, by Humra Quraishi

  Sitting in this killer-haze that’s been enveloping the New Delhi-NCR and the adjoining areas. The very survival getting tougher and tougher. Pollution of all hues and forms surmounting, with no relief. Anyway, in these barbaric times who cares how many of us die or stay live, and if alive then in what pathetic condition! Save for that small percentage of those who are able to afford air purifiers and the rest of the survival bandobast in these poisonous polluting times, the rest of the (…)

• Ukrainian Letter of Solidarity with Palestinian people | Ukraine-Palestine Solidarity Group

  11 November 2023

  02.11.2023 | Ukraine-Palestine Solidarity Group
  We, Ukrainian researchers, artists, political and labour activists, members of civil society stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine who for 75 years have been subjected and resisted Israeli military occupation, separation, settler colonial violence, ethnic cleansing, land dispossession of Palestinian people, identifying all residents of Gaza with Hamas and the indiscriminate use of the term “terrorism” applied to the whole (…)

• US support for Israeli apartheid aggression against Palestinians smacks of racism | Faraz Ahmad

  11 November 2023, by Faraz Ahmad

  South Africans who suffered apartheid for over half a century under a white supremacist occupation regime, are the first to show to the world how to react to the apartheid regime of Israel’s depredation of Gaza and annihilation of the Palestinians.
  Bolivia, then Colombia and then Chile too have recalled their ambassadors and suspended diplomatic relations with Israel. These Latin American nations have demonstrated, in this horrific situation created by the Zionist apartheid regime of (…)

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  IPES Food Statement on siege in Gaza, Oct 24, 2023

  11 November 2023

  IPES Food International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems
  October 24, 2023
  Food cannot be a weapon of war
  Statement on the siege of Gaza
  The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) unequivocally condemns the heinous and indiscriminate attacks that have terrorized civilians – both Israelis and Palestinians – in the ongoing war in Israel and Gaza. Further, we condemn the catastrophic situation now unfolding in Gaza, in which food is illegally (…)

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  All-India Solidarity to the People’s Struggle in Narmada

  11 November 2023

  National Alliance of People’s Movements National Office: A/29, Haji Habib Bldg., Naigaon Cross Road, Dadar (E), Mumbai – 400014 E-mail: napmindia[at]gmail.com Web: www.napm-india.org
  State-enabled and human-induced destructive flood in the Narmada Valley, is the responsibility of the Central and state governments!
  Reservoir not being regulated and emptied on time to ‘celebrate Prime Minister Modi’s birthday’, led to the massive submergence and destruction
  9th November 2023: The (…)

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  Export of India Workers to Israel Replace Palestinian Workers - Statement from India’s Trade Unions

  11 November 2023

  Press Release issued on 9th November 2023
  The Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions and Independent Federations/Associations oppose any move to
  EXPORT INDIAN WORKERS TO ISRAEL TO REPLACE PALESTINIAN WORKERS
  Israel is shamelessly escalating its genocidal attack against Palestinians, rejecting appeals by the UNO or even their masters, the USA for a ceasefire!
  The Modi government’s unethical and duplicitous stand on this issue too stands exposed : first the quick expression of (…)

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  Long Live Palestine, Death To The Occupation [a public petition from India]

  11 November 2023

  The intensified war on Palestinians across Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories is being protested by democratic and progressive people across the world since Saturday, and many of us here in India have also been watching the siege and genocide unfold with growing dread. All of us on the side of truth and justice in India, across religious, political and regional differences pledge our support to the Palestinian people’s right to life and liberty, and their uncompromised right to (…)

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  Thomas Klikauer’s Review of Machines Behaving Badly

  11 November 2023

  Reviewed by Thomas Klikauer
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  Machines Behaving Badly:
  The Morality of AI
  by Toby Walsh
  La Trobe University Press and Black Inc. Press, Collingwood
  2022. 275 pp.
  pb ISBN 9781760643423
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  Toby Walsh begins Machines Behaving Badly by making clear that ‘[i]n reality, artificial intelligence is [not a] conscious robot […] We cannot yet build machines that match the intelligence of a two-year-old […] program computers […] do narrow, focused tasks’ (1). Like a coffee maker (…)

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  Photo: Agrasen’s baoli, Hailey Road, New Delhi

  11 November 2023

  source: Twitter

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  Photo: Faiz Ahmed Faiz with Yasser Arafat in Beirut between 1978 - 1982

  11 November 2023