Paris Marx is joined by Spencer Ackerman to discuss the past year of Israel's actions in Palestine and the innovations in war technology being used to carry out what the ICJ has deemed a "plausible" genocide in Gaza.

Spencer Ackerman is a Pulitzer-prize winning author of Reign of Terror (https://bookshop.org/a/18331/97819848...) . He’s a contributor at Zeteo and publishes the Forever Wars newsletter. He’s also writing a new series of Iron Man comics (https://www.marvel.com/articles/comic...) that come out very soon.

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The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Spencer wrote a piece marking a year since October 7 (https://zeteo.com/p/october-7-war-on-...) for Zeteo. He’s also written about the Lebanon pager attack (https://zeteo.com/p/israel-pager-deto...) and Israel’s innovation with quadcopters (https://www.forever-wars.com/israels-...) .
• Yuval Abraham has written about the use of AI (https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassina...) in Gaza (https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-is...) and how Israel is relying on US cloud companies (https://www.972mag.com/cloud-israeli-...) for military purposes.
• Roberto González wrote a paper (https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...) about the links between Silicon Valley and the military-industrial complex.

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