UN and Red Cross renew push for global limits on autonomous weapons
The United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross have renewed calls for countries to agree global bans and limits on autonomous weapons. The appeal, issued on Tuesday, focuses on systems that can identify and attack targets without direct human command. The organisations said the technology is advancing faster than the rules meant to govern it.The two bodies said they are not seeking a total ban on every related technology, but want clear rules to control development and use. They said they have not confirmed autonomous weapons being used in combat, even though such systems are already being... [Continue Reading]
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Fear the Shia, Arm the Sunnis: The Uncomfortable Numbers Behind America’s War Narrative
“When fear is managed carefully enough, a nation can be taught to look away from the blood on the floor and stare instead at the shadow on the wall.” A friend of mine, whose name I will not reveal because he asked me not to, sat across from me over dinner and placed a question on the table that would not leave me alone. He was born into a Muslim Shia background, and for the angle of this article, that detail matters, not because I wish to reduce a man to a sect, but because sect has become one of... [Continue Reading]

