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Headlines for April 12, 2024; “Council of War”: Walden Bello on Biden’s Trilateral Summit with Philippines & Japan to Contain China; “A Stalemate and Attritional Grind”: Journalist Luke Mogelson on 2 Years of Russia’s War in Ukraine; Israeli Scholar Neve Gordon on Israeli Mass Surveillance in Gaza & the Use of AI to Kill Palestinians