Archives for 7月 2020

泄露的目标清单:以色列担心在国际刑事法院战争犯罪调查中表现最差

存在“秘密名单”这一事实表明,特拉维夫理解这个时代是不同的,而且使巴勒斯坦人失败了70多年的国际法可能一次只能带来很小的正义。

Israel War Crimes Feature photo

When International Court of Justice (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, confirmed last December that the Court has ample evidence to pursue a war crimes investigation in occupied Palestine, the Israeli government responded with the usual rhetoric, accusing the international community of bias and insisting on Israel’s ‘right to defend

五角大楼为“五光十色的共和党医治法”拨款300亿美元

新的1万亿美元GOP救助法案包括数十亿美元用于F-35战斗机,阿帕奇直升机和五角大楼的其他福利计划。

On Monday the Senate GOP released their outline for a new $1 trillion coronavirus stimulus package. A successor to March’s CARES Act, the 177-page document, named the HEALS Act, includes no funding for hazard pay, the Postal Service, state and local governments, nutrition assistance, or help for uninsured or underinsured Americans, but incorporates

大型科技巨头正在强迫进入美国的公共卫生系统

由IBM,Microsoft和Facebook等最强大的技术参与者组成的财团正在与医院网络合作,并与梵蒂冈和技术游说团体建立链接,以就技术在公共领域的未来作用进行对话。

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA), a Big Tech lobby group has just launched a "working group" called the Public Health Tech Initiative (PHTI) to explore the ways in which technology can help in future pandemics. The coalition of companies that form part of the "broad coalition" include tech giants like Facebook and Microsoft, transnational

就像医疗保健一样,民主党人提供三心二意的措施来应对迫迁危机

联邦暂停驱逐本周到期,使1200万租房者有失去房屋的风险,而且与医疗保健一样,民主党提供的只是象征性的非解决方案。

Eviction Moratorium Feature photo

The best defense against a raging pandemic that has already claimed over 152,000 American lives is simply to stay home. But even this could soon become impossible for millions, as the United States is facing an impending eviction crisis of “biblical proportions,” according to the Housing Rights Initiative. Earlier this week, the federal moratorium

科技巨头以无情的市场统治力向前推进了反托拉斯听证会

顶尖的技术首席执行官计划在大型反垄断实践调查结束时作证,这些垄断企业多年来一直从事不正当实践。但是,为时已晚吗?

tech antitrust Feature photo

The much-anticipated antitrust hearing originally scheduled for Monday, July 27 has been moved to Wednesday for the ostensible purpose of allowing members of Congress to pay their respects to recently deceased Rep. John Lewis. The hearing, which is to feature the testimony of big tech CEOs Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Sundar Pichai

美国威胁北约Nord Stream 2管道的欧洲支持者

尽管美国竭尽全力停止其建设,Nord Stream 2管线也已接近完工,这导致华盛顿与其最大的欧洲盟友之间以及北约的潜在灭亡之间产生了裂痕。

Nord Stream 2 Sanctions Feature photo

The U.S. is starting to fret about the imminent completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, the second of two underwater gas pipelines running from the Russian Baltic city of Ust-Luga to Greifswald, Germany, and has begun issuing informal threats of repercussions to companies who are backing the nearly-finished project.  According to unnamed