Welcome to Non Zero World, the weekend edition of the Non Zero podcast.

I'm your host, Connor Eccles, the managing editor of Non Zero. We're going to make some

changes this week to the format. Now, we're still going to have a great interview at the end,

and this week that'll be with the prominent conservative writer and National Review senior writer,

Michael Brendan Doherty, and we are going to talk a bit about Pope Francis and his legacy in international affairs.

He's said things like Ukraine should have the courage of the white flag.

But before that, and this will be a new weekly feature, I'm going to talk about the most important

headlines of the week, or at least some of them from our perspective,

and then dive into some of the more important stories with a bit more detail. And now this week, that will include a very underrated story coming out from the National Institutes of Health

related to free speech and the Trump administration's crackdown on speech

and Gaza. And then I will also talk about the Ukraine war and some updates on the way that

negotiations have been going this week. Spoiler alert, it's not been great. But first, let's go to the

headlines. The U.S. But first, let's go to the headlines.

The U.S. Space Force, which, until recently, has focused entirely on intelligence gathering and defensive efforts,

released a space warfighting playbook that lays out plans to achieve space superiority in the coming years by developing offensive capabilities,

including capabilities that could attack enemy satellites. In 2019, when the Space Force was first

created, one prominent critic warned that, quote, unconstrained space weapons development will

lead to a competition that makes space more dangerous, costly, and unpredictable to use.

A number of struggling actors have sold their likeness to AI marketing companies to make a quick buck,

and some are already regretting the decision.

One actor reported seeing his clone being used in propaganda videos to support a coup leader in Burkina Faso.

We are Americans from Africa, and we are pan-Africanist.

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