Olivier Brizard

Eleven minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story Hundreds of people have died while seeking food since delivery was taken over by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May. But Palestinians facing extreme hunger have no choice but to take the risk Raed Jamal sends the message shortly after he returns, empty-handed, from an aid distribution point to his tent in the al-Mawasi displacement camp in south-west Gaza. “The tanks came and started firing. Three boys near me were martyred,” says the 36-year-old, who has four children. “I didn’t even get anything, just two empty boxes.” Jamal’s journey involved a long walk to and from a former residential neighbourhood bulldozed by Israeli forces and turned into one of four militarised aid distribution centres run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is based in Delaware in the US. Continue reading...

Eleven minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story

Nato rearmament could increase emissions by 200m tonnes a year, study finds Exclusive: researchers say defence spending boosts across world will worsen climate crisis which in turn will cause more conflict A global military buildup poses an existential threat to climate goals, according to researchers who say the rearmament planned by Nato alone could increase greenhouse gas emissions by almost 200m tonnes a year. With the world embroiled in the highest number of armed conflicts since the second world war, countries have embarked on military spending sprees, collectively totalling a record $2.46tn in 2023. Continue reading...

Nato rearmament could increase emissions by 200m tonnes a year, study finds

How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious President Trump, in an early February call, challenged the border treaty between the two countries and told Justin Trudeau he didn’t like their shared water agreements.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada has come to see President Trump’s “51st state” talk as part of an aggressive strategy to take over his country.

Revealed: how Wall Street is making millions betting against green laws Guardian analysis finds fossil-fuel and mining firms have won $92bn of public money from states, with a growing number of cases backed by financial speculators Read more: Fearing toxic waste, Greenland ended uranium mining. Now, they could be forced to…

Revealed: how Wall Street is making millions betting against green laws

Why fear of billion-dollar lawsuits stops countries phasing out fossil fuels Companies can sue governments for closing oilfields and mines – and the risk of huge damages is already stopping countries from passing green laws, ministers say

Why fear of billion-dollar lawsuits stops countries phasing out fossil fuels

Revealed: Israeli military creating ChatGPT-like tool using vast collection of Palestinian surveillance data The powerful new AI model is designed to analyze intercepted communications – but experts say such systems can exacerbate biases and are prone to making mistakes Israel’s military surveillance agency has used a vast collection of intercepted Palestinian…

Revealed: Israeli military creating ChatGPT-like tool using vast collection of Palestinian surveillance data

Trump’s Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say Law professors have long debated what the term means. But now many have concluded that the nation faces a reckoning as President Trump tests the boundaries of executive power.

"We are in the midst of a constitutional crisis right now," said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley. "There have been so many unconstitutional and illegal actions in the first 18 days of the Trump presidency. We never have seen anything like this."

Pour Donald Trump, politique, pétrole et IA vont de pair Pour son 2e mandat, Trump a su bien s'entourer. Mais quels intérêts lient de fervents défenseurs des énergies fossiles et des adeptes du développement de l’IA?

Voici un excellent article de la journaliste Valérie Boisclair qui explore les relations entre les intérêts de l'industrie numérique, les énergies fossiles et la nouvelle administration Trump. Ce reportage fouillé dessine un portrait plus global de ce nouveau complexe "numérico-énergétique".