UK MP Zarah Sultana Calls for Banning Palantir from Public Service Contracts Over Human Rights Concerns
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Summary
UK MP Zarah Sultana argues that Palantir, a data analytics company founded to maintain US global domination, should be excluded from UK public service contracts due to its involvement in US military operations, surveillance, and human rights abuses. The article criticizes Palantir's role in ICE deportations, drone strikes, and the Gaza conflict, questioning why the UK government continues to award contracts to a company complicit in what the author describes as violent US hegemony.
Key quotes
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We know exactly what that means. Endless wars. Drone strikes. A vast machinery of surveillance and occupation stretching from Afghanistan and Iraq to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
A world in which Washington's military reach grows ever longer, and the UK prime minister increasingly behaves less like an ally and more like a compliant poodle, nodding along to whatever the White House demands.
From ICE to Gaza, Palantir is complicit in violent US hegemony. Why do we keep giving it contracts?
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