CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Bernie Sanders and #AOC introduce bill to pause building of new #datacentersLawmakers say moratorium on construction would buy time to create strong, federal guardrails for AIhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/datacenters-bernie-sanders-aoc from #TheGuardian March 25, 2026 The policy, announced by #BernieSanders and #AlexandriaOcasioCortez on Wednesday morning, aims to ensure the AI boom protects the #environment and communities, and benefits #workers instead of harming them. A temporary ban, the lawmakers say, would give the #US government time to create strong federal safeguards for #AI, which is “affecting everything from our economy and wellbeing to our democracy, warfare and our kids’ education”.“AI and #robotics are creating the most sweeping technological revolution in the history of humanity,” Sanders said in a statement. “The scale, scope, and speed of that change is unprecedented. Congress is way behind where it should be in understanding the nature of this revolution and its impacts.” #news #USpol

The strait of Hormuz blockade will strangle US defense industryhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/19/west-point-analysis-iran-war-costs#iran #theguardian

The US-Israel relationship is finally facing a reckoning. It doesn’t need to slide into antisemitismIsrael’s role in drawing the US into a war on Iran is attracting healthy scrutiny. It’s also creating a permission structure for antisemitismhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/05/us-israel-iran-antisemitism from #TheGuardian March 5, 2026 Too many Jewish organizations, such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and American Jewish Committee (AJC) have suggested that this is the time to get behind the war effort and not to ask questions. But to say that Americans should not ask questions about the relationship between Israel and the #US because it might raise #antisemitic conspiracy theories means handing over the tools of democratic accountability. That is too high a price.The questions are not being asked only by foreign policy analysts. They are being asked, in far cruder form, by people who have never needed a pretext to believe that Jewish power secretly governs American foreign policy.#news #politics #USpol