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>Human rights advocates celebrated Thursday after the International Criminal Court determined that an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by United States forces and others in Afghanistan during the so-called War on Terror can proceed.

I know it's Common Dreams so the bar is low but if you're reading the comments first just know that the article doesn't get any better or informative from here. Case in point, the writer had all the time in the world to quote tweets from activists but couldn't even be bothered to mention that the US never ratified the Rome Statute and is also among the list of countries to declare they changed their mind on committing to the ICC.

At a glance I see a few articles, it looks like the topic came up in 2018 and 2019, potentially in different but related circumstances. One of those stories is from the Associated Press but the article I skimmed from them didn't make the Israel assertion and was more general. If I had to guess, the topic didn't gain much reaction because the most 'in-depth' articles are from infotainment rags like Gizmodo, Common Dreams, and Politico. Politico seem to have been there ones to break the 2019 story but I'm still reading so can't confirm that.

Given that the USA is apparently forming a Spaceforce and the long history of astronomical products becoming military products I'm surprised that more companies aren't trying to "go to Mars". Elon can probably tell that a race to be the first to expand heavily into space is coming and that even if he can't sell people on Mars he can sell tourists and the military on the moon.

Who are they advertising to though? They might look like bullies to people in the industry but that's probably not who they're trying to market themselves as privacy/security concerned towards. Combined with how dire the state of mainstream tech 'news' is, I'd be surprised if this actually backfired regardless of which way the lawsuit goes.