Israel Just Quadrupled Its PR Budget to $730M

Asaf Elia-Shalev Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Experts say it won’t work. Spending on image should be “like investing in jets, bombs and missile interceptors,” Israel’s foreign minister says.

“They Died With Their Fists Raised.”

Vangelis Panagiotara and Boris Kanzleiter in conversation with Menelaos Charalambidis Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
On May 1 1944, Wehrmacht soldiers shot 200 communists in Athens. Recently photographs of the massacre surfaced online, reopening old wounds.

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AI Chatbots | John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses AI chatbots, why they’re flirting with users unprompted and encouraging people to open soggy cereal cafes, and how their flaws can be genuinely hazardous to the public.

 

Hegseth's Holy War

His 2020 book is titled American Crusade. The final chapter is titled “Make the Crusade Great Again.”

Union of Hearts and Minds

''Descansen en Paz" (May they rest in peace) represents the six road workers -- all immigrants -- who plunged to their deaths when Baltimore's Key Bridge collapsed. Words and music by John McCutcheon. Video by Saul Schniderman.