Dispatch #180 White Lesbian Age 73 Considers that Globalization of AI-Enabled Warfare -- Funded by Global Capitalism -- Will Continue to Power 21st Century Fascist Imperialism

December 12^th 2025 Day 326 White Supremacist Misogynist Christian Nationalist Regime  

1269 Days Since SCOTUS Ruled American Women Don’t Have Human Rights 797 Days Since Israel Began Genocidal Campaign on Palestinians in Gaza

“The Gaza war may represent not just a humanitarian catastrophe but also a pivotal moment in the globalization of AI-enabled warfare. If unregulated, the collaboration between private tech firms and military powers risks accelerating the spread of surveillance, repression, and high-casualty targeting strategies around the globe, placing civilians in authoritarian regimes—and democratic ones—at unprecedented risk.”

Israel and US military tout their AI-powered battlefield platforms as their imperialist adventurisms creates riches for the 21^st Century arms merchants AKA private high-tech firms.

Gaza: Israel’s AI Human Laboratory.  Israel’s use of artificial intelligence has wreaked horrific destruction on Gaza; this technology will likely be sold across the globe in the near future.  Anwar Mhajne │The Cairo Review of Global Affairs│ The American University in Cairo│Spring/Summer 2025.

The Gaza war may represent not just a humanitarian catastrophe but also a pivotal moment in the globalization of AI-enabled warfare. If unregulated, the collaboration between private tech firms and military powers risks accelerating the spread of surveillance, repression, and high-casualty targeting strategies around the globe, placing civilians in authoritarian regimes—and even democratic ones—at unprecedented risk. www.thecairoreview.com/essays/gaza-israels-ai-human-laboratory/ 

USA/Global: Tech made by Palantir and Babel Street pose surveillance threats to pro-Palestine student protestors & migrants. │Amnesty International │21 August 2025.

The US authorities are using automated artificial intelligence (AI)-powered surveillance tools to deliberately target non-US citizens and pose risks to those who speak out for Palestinian rights, said Amnesty International, amid the country’s ongoing unlawful clampdown on migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.

The coercive ‘Catch and Revoke’ initiative, facilitated by AI technologies risks supercharging arbitrary and unlawful visa revocations, detentions, deportations and violations of a slew of human rights. These include the rights to privacy, freedom of expression and access to information, freedoms of movement equality and non-discrimination, and the right to liberty and protest.  https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/08/usa-global-tech-made-by-palantir-and-babel-street-pose-surveillance-threats-to-pro-palestine-student-protestors-migrants/

AI-powered surveillance firms are gunning for a share of Gaza spoils.  The presence of Palantir and Dataminr at the new U.S. military compound in Israel offers a glimpse of how tech companies are cashing in on the genocide. │Sarah Goodfriend │+972 Magazine│28 November 2025.

For the last decade, and certainly since October 7, U.S.-based firms like Palantir and Dataminr, alongside Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, have seized on the catastrophe of war as an opportunity for capital investment and growth. Israel’s unchecked power over Gaza converted it into the ideal incubator for an increasingly militarized AI industry. The unprecedented scale of destruction Israel inflicted over the last two years hinged in no small part on the steady supply of weaponry and computing power from the U.S. and its tech titans.

Palantir has also worked closely with Israel’s military since January 2024, when the two parties entered into a “strategic partnership” for “war related missions.” The company has been aggressively recruiting employees to staff its Tel Aviv office, which first opened in 2015 and has expanded significantly over the last two years. Justifying its stalwart commitment to Israel in spite of mounting charges of war crimes and genocide, Palantir CEO Alex Karp recently said his company was the first to be “completely anti-woke.”

The U.S. military calls [Palantir-created] Maven its “AI-powered battlefield platform.” It has already been deployed to guide U.S. airstrikes across the Middle East, including in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq. Palantir has marketed its technology as shortening the process of identifying and bombing military targets — what the company’s CTO recently described as “optimizing the kill chain.” Over the summer, Palantir scored a $10 billion contract to update and refine the Maven platform for U.S. armed forces. 

The military tech industry’s corporate interests — namely, unfettered data extraction and lethal experimentation — will be permanently etched into the region’s political reality.

https://www.972mag.com/ai-surveillance-gaza-palantir-dataminr/

Drone fair doubles in size thanks to genocide │David Cronin│Rights and Accountability │The Electronic Intifada│27 November 2025.

Featuring 350 exhibitors, the Unmanned Vehicles Israel Defense (UVID) DroneTech event was reportedly double the size of previous years. Alon Unger, the exhibition’s self-described “very excited” founder, is pouncing on the major use in Gaza to promote those weapons as a “growth engine” for Israel, as he prophesies a “new strategic era.”

Drones are multi-purpose instruments of terror. In Gaza, drone operators carried out massacres by firing missiles packed with nails and shrapnel. Quadcopter drones, meanwhile, broadcast nightmarish sounds as they were flown above buildings and people seeking shelter in rudimentary tents. Other drones resorted to “loitering” – a fancy word for spying – before blowing themselves up in attacks on Palestinians.

The drone exhibition in Tel Aviv this week is a sordid reminder of how genocide has given weapons industry representatives an ideal opportunity to test out new killing machines and get richer in the process. No wonder they are very excited. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/drone-fair-doubles-size-thanks-genocide 

After two years of war, Israeli weapons makers showcase their new tech. Daniel Estrin │ Heard on All Things Considered │December 3, 2025 4:29 PM ET.

Israel has tested all kinds of new weaponry in the last two years of war. This week, it revealed some of that technology and other weapons it has created for future wars. Despite a global outcry over the huge civilian death toll in Gaza, Israel is selling the tech to other countries.

“A lot of the military tech on display this week at an expo at Tel Aviv University looked like something out of a sci-fi movie, like a new high-powered laser that looks like a huge camera lens….. To protest the war, some countries said they would restrict arms sales to Israel. But officials from more than 20 countries attended this Israeli defense expo, organizers say.

Israeli Colonel Yishai Kohn says defense exports are soaring.  “In general, Israel's export has been breaking its record for the past three years each year in a row. And we expect that this year will end with a new record, too.”  www.npr.org/2025/12/03/nx-s1-5628404/after-two-years-of-war-israeli-weapons-makers-showcase-their-new-tech 

Watched, Tracked, Targeted: Life Under Surveillance in Gaza. Life in Gaza under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime. │Mohammed R. Mhawish │New York Magazine│3 December 2025.

Life in Gaza for the past two years has been a process of losing everything visible — our families, homes, streets. It also means losing what cannot be seen: the private space of the mind, the intimacy between people, and the ability to speak without fear of being monitored by a machine. A poll conducted just weeks before the October cease-fire by the Palestine-based research organization Institute for Social and Economic Progress found that nearly two-thirds of Gazans believed they were constantly watched by the Israeli government.

This is the dystopian consequence of technology, supplied in part by American companies, being placed into the hands of authorities who have virtually unlimited control over a captive population they have openly villainized. It is the culmination of decades of monitored occupation, a totalitarian nightmare spliced with genocidal terror, a system that is already evolving and growing for whatever comes next. The old admonition of authoritarian regimes everywhere — If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to be afraid of — has no meaning in Gaza. nymag.com/intelligencer/article/watched-tracked-targeted-israel-surveillance-gaza.html

Israeli surveillance targets US and allies at joint base planning Gaza aid and security, say sources. Concerns over recording of meetings at coordination centre excluding Palestinians that was set up to provide support for Trump’s Gaza plan. │Emma Graham-Harrison  | The Guardian │8 December 2025.

Israeli operatives are conducting widespread surveillance of US forces and allies stationed at a new US base in the country’s south, according to sources briefed on disputes about open and covert recordings of meetings and discussions.

The scale of intelligence gathering at the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) prompted the US commander of the base, Lt Gen Patrick Frank, to summon an Israeli counterpart for a meeting to tell him that “recording has to stop here”.

Among the US forces deployed to the CMCC were logistics experts experienced in navigating natural disasters or trained to find supply routes through hostile terrain. They arrived keen to boost flows of aid but soon discovered that Israeli controls on goods entering Gaza were a bigger obstacle than engineering challenges. Within weeks, several dozen had left.  www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/08/israel-mass-surveillance-us-base-planning-gaza-future