Israel Spent $1 Million Through NY-based Firm Piro To Influence AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT & Perplexity On Gaza Related Responses
The PR initiative used the marketing firm, Piro, to set up a Pseudo think-tank called the Hanover Institute. This project then published 100+ reports that were specifically formatted to be indexed and referenced by LLM Chatbots.
This is part of a wider Israeli propaganda effort that seeks to manipulate AI Chatbots in order to have them cite IsraelI State-funded propaganda to educate responses to users.
A Shropshire vicar played a key role in a new two-part BBC documentary featuring Welsh Hollywood actor Michael Sheen’s investigation into toxic waste dumps. The Rev Paul Cawthorne is also a long time environmental campaigner. He began looking into the history of the former landfill site at Stoney Hill, in Telford, where Monsanto is known to have legally dumped waste in the mid to late 1980s. “When I found out about the Monsanto chemical dumping at Stoney Hill, I next identified Sutton Walls in Herefordshire, then Cefn Mawr in north Wales,” he said. “I then went around south Wales valleys identifying historically documented sites which needed additional testing,” he added. Cawthorne said he has been on a 20 year mission to uncover the truth. He said that “dangerously elevated levels” of polychlorinated biphenyls – toxic man-made chemicals which don’t easily break down in nature – were found in nine out of 10 sites discussed in the Buried BBC radio series. BBC News
Narrative control has seemingly rendered our societies incapable of distinguishing between ‘explanation’ and ‘justification’. There is overwhelming evidence that Russia has considered NATO expansionism to be the main security threat since the end of the Cold War, and that Russia has considered NATO’s incursion into Ukraine to be an existential threat. Yet, our political-media establishment smears and censors any explanation as “justification”. By doing so, they also criminalise any path toward a political settlement to end the war.
LEFT: Senior year high school basketball lay up line before a game RIGHT: Signing my book at the Chinese publisher who translated it
The world is undergoing profound change. For many Americans, this change is intense, overwhelming, and confusing. Many don’t recognize it’s happening due to the pro-US hegemony and empire propaganda blitz they’re fed everyday coupled with the economic and social alienation of material reality in the “USA.” Yet it’s still happening.
Over the past two decades, hardline Ukrainian ultranationalists have waged an ever-escalating war on history at home and abroad, with dramatic, world-changing consequences. In the country itself, a highly repressive legal apparatus is increasingly enforcing dangerously skewed narratives of Kiev’s near and distant past, with excessive criminal penalties even for those who unwittingly fall foul of the law. A brazenly politicised battle, it has become turbocharged since the Ukraine proxy conflict’s eruption. Despite widespread opposition, Kiev’s aggressive ultranationalist offensive on history is only intensifying.
A former adviser to infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci has pleaded guilty to conspiring to evade public records laws and conceal government documents related to grant research funding and the Covid-19 pandemic. David Morens, who had worked under Fauci as a senior official at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) during the pandemic, entered his plea to a conspiracy charge during a hearing in federal court. The 78-year-old had been indicted in April on charges related to what prosecutors said was a scheme to thwart public records requests received by the agency beginning in April 2020 related to Covid-19 research grants. The Guardian
The most important question of social systems is what creates order by managing competing interests? In international security, we must therefore ask the question: How do we manage the competing security interests of states?
Geopolitical analyst and independent journalist Pepe Escobar discusses the new phase of war ignited by the expiration of the MoU. Has Iran really struck the UAE, and what’s behind the extreme confidence expressed by both sides of the conflict amid renewed escalation? We answer these questions and so much more.
Trump’s White House tried to buy off Iran’s Revolutionary Guard with a multi-billion-dollar offer modeled on the Venezuela playbook — and got refused twice, first by IRGC commander Vahidi, who called it treason, and then by Pakistan’s Army Chief Asim Munir, who told Trump directly that Islamabad would not help destabilize Tehran’s leadership. In this episode, Zulfiqar Ali, Pepe Escobar, and Larry Johnson break down the failed bribery attempt, China’s directive to Pakistan to prioritize its Iran relationship, and why the collapse of the US–Iran memorandum of understanding is now pushing Washington toward open discussion of a nuclear strike on Iran.
Behind the polished story of Western progress lies another history: steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation but paid for with the blood of enslaved people.
Naudline Pierre (Haiti), This, I Know to Be True, 2023.
“We cherish our heritage of covert action, which we keep alive today in helping Ukraine resist the Russian invasion”. Speech by Sir Richard Moore, Chief of SIS, 29 November 2024.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The democrats’ backtracking on what they dismissively refer to as “wokeness” is the newest iteration of their political trickery as once again they give the appearance of supporting what they actually oppose. They serve the interests of the oligarchs, and not those of the people.
Now we are in perhaps the Third Cold War, the first being after WW1 and the second after WW2, the West turns up the propaganda campaigns to new levels that include the ongoing denigration of actually existing socialism. Sadly, greatly aided by the Western Marxist facilitators. A good place to start in ridding ourselves of this constant Othering is basic statistics about the human condition and economic growth. (more…)
In 2022, negotiations on a police agreement between the European Union and the Israeli government reportedly came to a halt over concerns related to Israel’s occupation of Palestine.1 Yet, an investigation by Statewatch shows discussions have continued—and involve a standoff between the European Commission and the Council of the European Union.
Iran has reportedly given Washington a matter of days — not weeks — to change course on the Strait of Hormuz, according to Pakistani and Iranian mediation sources detailed in this Transition Protocol special. In this breaking-news episode, Zulfiqar Ali and Pepe Escobar break down MBS’s second phone call blocking a revamped US strike on Iran, the UAE’s stunning gold-and-cash outreach to Tehran, Pakistan and China’s central role as mediators, and Iran’s readiness — including a reported 2,000-boat swarm fleet — to defend the Strait of Hormuz if diplomacy fails.
Pepe Escobar is a veteran geopolitical analyst and journalist covering Eurasia, BRICS, and multipolar world affairs for over two decades; Zulfiqar Ali hosts Transition Protocol, a source-driven geopolitical and economic analysis show reaching audiences in fourteen languages. This is analysis and source-based reporting — claims marked DEVELOPING or UNVERIFIED are clearly flagged throughout.
Transition Protocol / Power Shift delivers unfiltered, source-driven breakdowns of the biggest shifts in global power — de-dollarization, BRICS, great-power rivalry, and the wars reshaping the multipolar world order. Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don’t miss the next emergency episode.
A judge has threatened defendants with a ‘terrorism connection’ if they even attempt to explain to jurors why they targeted a weapons factory.
As the British state seeks to destroy Palestine Action, a new trial is underway in which a judge has threatened defendants with a ‘terrorism connection’ if they explain the motives behind their activism.
Now what, exactly, do the ruling class expect will eventually happen as each summer the temperature creeps up a couple more degrees, the rainfall decreases even further and wild fires spread? This year Europe is expecting 100,000 deaths due to the heat, mostly the old, the sick and the very young and of course, living and working in buildings not designed for searing heat and of course, with no air conditioning (as if we have the energy available to power them).
Former UN Weapons Inspector & US Marine Intel Officer Scott Ritter discusses the shocking developments in an alleged Iranian attempt on Trump’s life plus new details emerging on the crisis aboard the USS Lincoln as 5,000 US Sailors face the brink of catastrophe
Naudline Pierre (Haiti), This, I Know to Be True, 2023.
The New Dark Age 