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The Electronic Intifada:
- Ceasefire Day 5: Bringing genocide perpetrators to justice
This is from the end of January but it’s still very interesting. The EI podcast is pretty insufferable (Nora Barrows-Friedman and Jon Elmer manage to be even more obsequious towards Hamas than Ali Abunimah, which is quite something) but it’s still quite informative. They bring on Dyab Abou Jahjah, co-founder of the Hind Rajab Foundation, to discuss the legal strategies that they will try to use to make IDF soldiers accountable abroad for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza. They have a three-pronged approach, one of which has already freaked out Israel and forced them to smuggle citizens out of the countries they were visiting so they could save face, but the other tactics have a longer time horizon and will probably challenge how far justice systems can go on these questions in many countries.

- My imprisonment in Switzerland, with Ali Abunimah
Abunimah went to Switzerland in January, after having managed to get the Schengen ban that Germany had stuck on him last year lifted. He entered the country with no problem, but then Switzerland retroactively revoked his entry, kidnapped him on the street, and then kept him imprisoned for a few days. He recounts the whole tale. He was treated relatively well other than the detention, but it's still a chilling event.

Tech Won't Save Us - How Cloud Giants Cement Their Power w/ Cecilia Rikap
The show’s own synopsis: “Paris Marx is joined by Cecilia Rikap to discuss the ways Amazon, Microsoft, and Google gain power from companies becoming dependent on their cloud services and how generative AI exacerbates that problem.” There are vertical and horizontal leverage opportunities for the cloud infrastructure and AI providers, and that includes Facebook to a certain degree as well, even though it’s not in the cloud business.


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