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Ghosted by ChatGPT: How I was First Defamed and then Deleted by AI

Ghosted by ChatGPT: How I was First Defamed and then Deleted by AI

by | Dec 16, 2024 |

Below is my column in The Hill on recent reports that the use of my name in search requests on ChatGPT results in an error and no response. I am apparently not alone in this haunt of ghosted individuals. The controversy raises some novel and chilling questions about the rapid rise of AI systems. Here is the column: It is not every day that you achieve the status of “he-who-must-not-be-named.” But that curious distinction has been bestowed upon me by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to the New...

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Ukraine and Syria, A Western Plan Goes Awry

Ukraine and Syria, A Western Plan Goes Awry

by | Dec 16, 2024 |

Triumphant rhetoric in the corridors of Washington, DC celebrating the collapse of the Syrian government as a major victory over Russia is both foolish and short-sighted. I will explain. Let’s start with the situation in Ukraine. There is a growing atmosphere of desperation and panic among Western leaders as they watch Ukraine’s military collapse along the entire front and cast about for a strategy to stave off Ukraine’s defeat. But there is no viable solution. Russian military operations that...

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What Are We Doing in Syria?

What Are We Doing in Syria?

by | Dec 16, 2024 |

My first reaction to news earlier this month that the Syrian government had been overthrown was, how much did we have to do with it; how involved was the CIA; and how much is it going to cost. As with Saddam and Gaddafi before him, we know that Assad was no libertarian hero. But unleashing an army dedicated to establishing an Islamic state in once-secular Syria hardly seems like a good idea to me. As with President George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” moment after Saddam’s overthrow,...

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US In ‘Direct Contact’ With Designated Terror Group HTS, Blinken Admits

US In ‘Direct Contact’ With Designated Terror Group HTS, Blinken Admits

by | Dec 15, 2024 |

The US has made "direct contact" with the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) under Abu Mohammad al-Jolani which now holds Damascus and most major Syrian cities in the wake of Assad's fall. "We’ve been in contact with HTS and with other parties," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said following talks with Arab diplomats in Aqaba, Jordan. This is the first official acknowledgement that the Biden administration is interacting with HTS, which has long been an officially...

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South Korea – National Assembly Impeaches President Over Failed Putsch Attempt

South Korea – National Assembly Impeaches President Over Failed Putsch Attempt

by | Dec 15, 2024 |

On December 3 the President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol launched a coup against the opposition ruled National Assembly. He declared martial law and ordered military special forces and police units to block law makers from assembling. But the assembly members did win the race: Just 150 minutes after the presidential announcement 191 of the 300 members of the National Assembly voted to immediately end the martial law status. Troops and police entered the parliament but the vote...

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Abolishing Democracy in Europe

Abolishing Democracy in Europe

by | Dec 14, 2024 |

On 4 October I spoke to a meeting of the United European Left group of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Arriving a bit early, I sat though a presentation by a Moldovan judge, Victoria Sanduta, who was formerly the President of the Association of Judges in Moldova. She had recently been dismissed, along with other judges, after investigation by a committee set up by the President to vet judges. She said the “vetting” was openly political, and the purpose was to remove...

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Death of Syria

Death of Syria

by | Dec 13, 2024 |

What is clearly a joint US-Israeli plan to remake the Mideast map is now well underway. Changes will be seismic. The Biden administration, by now almost totally controlled by pro-Israel neocons, is making its final major moves by loosing a Parthian shaft into the heart of the Mideast. Syria – or what’s left of it – was divided up into zones – a third of the country with all its oil and gas fields is under the control of US military forces. Revenues from this oil and gas accounted for half of...

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Syria is disappearing

by | Dec 13, 2024 |

To all intents and purposes Syria has ceased to be a sovereign state and is in the process of being partitioned. A new international proxy war has been ignited in the region, with known terrorists empowered. When states disappear, so do people. CrossTalking with Stanley Cohen, Ashish Prashar, and Daniel McAdams.

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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lies

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lies

by | Dec 13, 2024 |

How can you tell when a politician is lying? His lips are moving. That joke is apropos for the new English language video monologue that Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released Thursday, and which Netanyahu said in his first words spoken is directed to the “people of Iran.” He managed to fit a bunch of lies in the under three minutes presentation. Netanyahu said Iranians’ “oppressors,” by which he apparently means the Iran government, “keep losing” in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria...

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One Agency That Trump Shouldn’t Nominate Anyone To Lead

One Agency That Trump Shouldn’t Nominate Anyone To Lead

by | Dec 12, 2024 |

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has withdrawn. This is one agency that Trump shouldn’t nominate anyone to lead. The selection of Florida Hillsborough County sheriff Chad Chronister was opposed by many Republicans. Chronister “has a long and sordid history of making the exact sort of decisions that have contributed to widespread distrust in law enforcement. He arrested a pastor who defied the lockdowns during the...

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Will Donald Trump Stop Domestic Spying?

Will Donald Trump Stop Domestic Spying?

by | Dec 12, 2024 |

During the course of an FBI written response to a Freedom of Information Act request asking about the trade names and suppliers of surveillance software the FBI had purchased, the government has yet again quietly acknowledged its antipathy to constitutional provisions that all of its employees have sworn to uphold. Since we are dealing with software used to spy on Americans in the U.S. and abroad, the constitutional right being transgressed is the right to privacy. This is the ancient natural...

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Al-Qaeda Rides Again…in Syria

Al-Qaeda Rides Again…in Syria

by | Dec 11, 2024 |

As Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Christmas, a hell has been unleashed inside Syria with the seizure of the country by the re-named "al-Qaeda in Syria" now called Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Its leader is a former deputy commander of ISIS, Abu Mohammed al-Julani.  While neocons and the mainstream media in the US and Europe celebrate the overthrow of the Assad government - a priority since the Obama Administration - as with previous US "liberations" in Libya and Iraq the...

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After US ATACMS Strike On Strategic Target Russia Announces To Retaliate

After US ATACMS Strike On Strategic Target Russia Announces To Retaliate

by | Dec 11, 2024 |

Just five days ago I postulated that the U.S. Has Stopped Ukrainian ATACMS Strikes On Russia. Today that claim turned out to have been premature: Status-6 @Archer83Able - 13:24 UTC · Dec 11, 2024 The remains of a US-made MGM-140 ATACMS ballistic missile lying on the street in the Russian city of Taganrog following Ukrainian strikes last night. Image AFAIK the target was the 325th Aviation Repair Plant located in the vicinity of the Taganrog-Tsentralny Air Base. Taganrog, on the...

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Cowboy Cartels and Drug-War Inanity

Cowboy Cartels and Drug-War Inanity

by | Dec 11, 2024 |

Having watched the great drug-war Netflix documentaries Narcos and Narcos Mexico and the excellent drug-war drama La Reina del Sur, I wasn’t too interested in watching another drug-war-related series. But when I realized that the Apple TV+ documentary “Cowboy Cartel” revolved around my hometown of Laredo, Texas, where I lived almost half my life and practiced law for 8 years, I couldn’t resist watching it. While I can recommend Narcos and Narcos...

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How the Neocons Won the Transition

How the Neocons Won the Transition

by | Dec 11, 2024 |

One of the least competent administrations in recent American history is now currently giving way to one of the least impressive presidential transitions. It is hardly a stretch to observe that the Trump transition, co-chaired by Howard Lutnick and Linda McMahon, seems to have set for itself the goal of ensuring that the incoming president will receive the narrowest range of policy alternatives possible. What is emerging is a far cry from either the conservative “America First” nationalism...

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Congressional Committee Condemns (Nearly) Every Feature of the Covid Response

Congressional Committee Condemns (Nearly) Every Feature of the Covid Response

by | Dec 10, 2024 |

Are there words in the English language that fully describe what happened during the Covid years that are not already overused? Calamity comes to mind. Disaster. Cataclysm. Ruin, devastation, catastrophe, unprecedented debacle, fiasco, and utter wreckage – all fine words and phrases but nothing quite captures it.  Given that, there is probably no report on the thing that can properly characterize the whole of it. On the other hand, it’s worth trying.  Meanwhile, the results of Covid...

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