IT has been a month since the US and its Zionist outpost started dropping bombs on Iran. The imperial war machine has since killed thousands of Iranians and devastated one of the world’s oldest civilisations. Yet Iran still wages its own air war against the Gulf banana republics and Israel.

Tehran’s defiance has the backing of the vast majority of the world’s people. It may sustain an asymmetrical conflict with the biggest military force in history for the foreseeable future, especially if it retains control over the Strait of Hormuz. But whatever the outcome, this war confirms that we are hurtling fast towards an increasingly digitalised and dystopic abyss.

The very first bombs dropped by the US on Iran, which killed almost 200 schoolchildren in the south of the country, included those deployed through an AI system that integrated Anthropic’s Claude chatbot and Palantir’s Maven tool. We now know that the Trump administration appropriated the use of these AI products in contravention of US copyright and other domestic laws.

Of course, ‘law’ has basically become a meaningless word at the mercy of the US, Zionist, and many other military establishments all over the world. But........

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