Daily Archives: September 17, 2023

2023-09-17: News Headlines

Ana Luisa Brown (2023-09-16). Ambassadors of Russian language volunteer program travel to Cuba. plenglish.com Moscow, Sep 16 (Prensa Latina) An educational expedition of the Russian Language Ambassadors in the World program will travel to Cuba from September 17 to October 13, TVBrics channel reported.

Michelle Chiang (2023-09-16). Perspectives] The weight of words: human relationality in end-of-life memoirs. thelancet.com Working in the intersection of literature and philosophy, one of my research interests is literary representations of loss. In medical education, illness narratives are often used as tools to foster professional identity development, clinical empathy, and cultural understanding. What this approach sometimes loses sight of is what scholars, such as Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Rita Charon, Arthur W Frank, and Arthur Kleinman, established while charting the way forward for the use of stories in medical curricula: narratives are important at the level of the human.

Pankaj Kumar Garg (2023-09-16). Correspondence] Challenges and opportunities for India on the world stage. thelancet.com Although India faces numerous domestic challenges, such as health care, education, and the economy,1 India's Government is striving to address these challenges and is implementing policies that promote the wellbeing and prosperity of its citizens.2,3 India's G20 priorities reflect a commitment to inclusive and resilient growth and focusing on issues such as climate, finance, sustainable development, and global health resilience.4 India advocates for a gradual and systematic approach to sustainable development and reducing carbon emissions while supporting the most affected sections of society.

Staff (2023-09-16). 19 September, Vancouver: Political Education Discussion on Walid Daqqah. samidoun.net Tuesday, 19 September 7 pm Centre for Socialist Education 706 Clark Drive Vancouver Join Samidoun Vancouver for a political education discussion on the writing of Walid Daqqah, Palestinian political prisoner, freedom fighter and revolutionary intellectual, struggling for freedom while suffering from a rare cancer. We will be reading "Consciousness Molded, or the Re-Identification of Torture," …

Pavel López Lazo (2023-09-16). President Abinader returns from Cuba after attending G77+China Summit. plenglish.com Santo Domingo, Sep 16 (Prensa Latina) Dominican President Luis Abinader returned to his country after attending at the G77+China Summit in Cuba, where he called for promoting an innovative culture based on education and technology.

Mark Taliano (2023-09-17). Video: Crimes Against Syria. globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-09-17). The Covid "Killer Vaccine". People Are Dying All Over the World. It's A Criminal Undertaking. globalresearch.ca First published on November 26, 2022 | *** | We are being accused of "spreading disinformation" regarding the Covid-19 vaccine. | The Reuters and AP media "trackers" and "fact checkers" will be out to smear the testimonies of parents who have lost their …

Ahmed Adel (2023-09-16). Record Growth in Russia-China Trade, Joint Russia-PRC Military Exercise in International Waters: Washington Has "Concerns" globalresearch.ca

Dean Henderson (2023-09-16). The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families. globalresearch.ca The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco)…

Dr. T. P. Wilkinson (2023-09-16). Policing and Policy: Prisons, Prices, the Fiction of "Free Markets" and the "Era of Global Nihilism" globalresearch.ca

Igor Chudov (2023-09-16). Europe Abandons All-Electric Car Mandate. Stupidity of the CO2 Transition. globalresearch.ca

Irwin Jerome (2023-09-16). Future of Australia Hangs on a Yes or No Vote for a New Voice in Its Parliament. globalresearch.ca

Kester Kenn Klomegah (2023-09-16). Russia's Far East. European and Asian Business Interests Participate in The Vladivostok Eastern Economic Forum (EEF). globalresearch.ca

Michael Welch (2023-09-16). Problem. Reaction. Solution. Wildfires About More than CO2 Induced Climate Change? globalresearch.ca

Mojmir Babacek (2023-09-16). Psychotronic and Electromagnetic Weapons: Remote Control of the Human Nervous System. globalresearch.ca Note to readers: please click the share buttons above | This incisive article by Mojmir Babajek predicted more than 10 years ago, what is happening today, namely the development of informational weapons and the remote control of the human brain. | It …

Natali Milenkovic (2023-09-16). Crimes against Humanity: Serbia's Law Suit against NATO. More than 15 Tons of Uranium Bombs Dropped on Yugoslavia in 1999. globalresearch.ca

Pavel López Lazo (2023-09-16). Guatemala thanks Cuba for hosting the G77+China Summit. plenglish.com Taking the floor on the second and last day of the meeting, under the theme "Current development challenges: the role of science, technology and innovation", René Castillo said that emerging technologies can and should provide solutions for sustainable development. He described them as a key factor for a sustainable and resilient recovery ahead of present international crises, as a planning tool, and from this analysis to generate relevant social, economic and environmental measures. | The diplomat encouraged increased research and development through cooperation among experts, to join efforts in technology trans…

Peter Koenig (2023-09-16). The Brain Is the Battlefield of the Future. globalresearch.ca

Peter Koenig (2023-09-16). Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Is This An Act of Terror? globalresearch.ca "We are living through the most painful days in our history. Two powerful earthquakes, …have caused large-scale damage in 10 provinces. Around 13.5 million of our people have been affected." says President Erdogan…

Pierre-Henri Bunel (2023-09-16). Al Qaeda: The Data Base. globalresearch.ca Global Research Editor's Note | Today, September 11, 2023, we are commemorating 9/11. Today our thoughts are with the thousands of Victims of the 9/11 attacks. | This incisive article by Pierre-Henri Bunel, a former member of France's Military Intelligence, initially published …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-09-16). U.S. Tactical Nuclear Weapons' Attacks against Non-Nuclear States? globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-09-16). Multi-Billion Dollar "Directed Energy Weapons (DEW)" Market, For Military and "Civilian Use" (?). Were DEWs Used in Hawaii? globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-09-16). Global Nuclear War and Staged Pandemics: Michel Chossudovsky and Mike Adams. globalresearch.ca We are currently at the crossroads of the Most Serious Economic and Social Crisis in World History. It is an outright war against all humanity: the Planet's 8 billion people. | Starting with the corona crisis in late January 2020, the …

Prof Peter Dale Scott (2023-09-16). The JFK Assassination: Why CIA's Richard Helms Lied About Oswald. globalresearch.ca First published by GR in December 2015 | On April 26, 2018 the National Archive released 19045 classified documents on the JFK assassination: | In accordance with President Trump's direction on October 26, 2017, the National Archives today posted 19,045 documents subject …

Robert J. Burrowes (2023-09-16). The Elite's 5,000-Year War on Your Mind Is Climaxing. Medical and Technological Mind Control. Can We Defeat It? globalresearch.ca

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. (2023-09-16). The Polycrisis Is The Singular Dilemma Of Humanity Called Capitalism. popularresistance.org Dilemmas of humanity abound. There is little need to look at statistical data to know that we are in a spiral of crises, from the environmental and climate crisis to the crises of poverty and hunger. In 1993, the philosophers Edgar Morin and Anne-Brigitte Kern used the term 'polycrisis' in their book Terre-Patrie ('Homeland Earth'). Morin and Kern argued that 'there is no single vital problem, but many vital problems, and it is this complex intersolidarity of problems, antagonisms, crises, uncontrolled processes, and the general crisis of the planet that continues the number one vital problem'.

Elsy Fors Garzon (2023-09-17). Díaz-Canel and Lula meet in Cuba and sign several agreements. plenglish.com Havana, Sep 17 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, met today with his Brazilian counterpart, Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva, and signed three bilateral instruments in the spheres of science, technology and innovation, health and agriculture .

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. (2023-09-16). Six Of Nine Planetary Boundaries Have Now Been Exceeded. popularresistance.org A new study by an international team of 29 scientists from eight countries provides the third update to the planetary boundaries framework. The update shows how human activities are increasingly impacting our planet, thus augmenting the risk of triggering drastic changes in Earth's overall conditions. | The nine planetary boundaries represent the limits within which humans can continue to thrive and develop. | "The planetary boundaries framework draws upon Earth system science," the study said. "It identifies nine processes that are critical for maintaining the stability and resilience of Earth system as a whole.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-16). G77 Final Declaration Rejects "Digital Monopolies" and Calls for "Reform" of the Financial System. libya360.wordpress.com Gabriel Vera LopesCuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, the host and president of the G77+ group, addresses the summit. Photo: Presidencia Cuba Declaration of the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Group of 77 and China on "Current development challenges: the role of science, technology and innovation" In the final declaration, the G77+China Summit…

Misión Verdad (2023-09-16). G77 Summit in Cuba to Focus on Global Financial System Reform. orinocotribune.com The G77+China Summit is taking place in Havana, Cuba, during September 15-16. The G77 is a group of countries that brings together the leaders and representatives of the Global South. Founded in 1964, the bloc now consists of 134 countries that account for nearly 80% of the world's population, 46% of the world's GDP, and two-thirds of the member countries of the United Nations. | The summit agenda includes dialogue on science and technology for development, the environment, the world economic order, and other issues of global impact. According to Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez, the final declaration of th…

Pavel López Lazo (2023-09-16). Bolivia VP urges at G77 Summit to decolonize global scientific order. plenglish.com Havana, Sep 15 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian Vice-President David Choquehuanca on Friday called for a decolonization of science by breaking the prevailing anthropocentric paradigm which must be replaced by a biocentric vision.

Pavel López Lazo (2023-09-16). G77+China agrees to declare a Science, Technology, Innovation Day. plenglish.com In the final declaration of the meeting, the member states also requested the President of the General Assembly to call, in the context of the Eightieth Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), a High-Level Meeting on Science, Technology and Innovation for Development. | This event will focus in particular on the actions to be taken to meet the needs of developing countries in these areas. | The member states also urged the United Nations Commissions, Agencies, Funds and Programs to make additional efforts to support developing countries in strengthening institutional frameworks and public policies related to s…

Pavel López Lazo (2023-09-16). G77+China: Final Declaration defends developing countries claims. plenglish.com After two-day debates at the Havana International Conference Center, a hundred official delegations agreed upon the significance of science, technology and innovation use to boost the nations of the Global South. | At the closing ceremony of the event, the host Prime Minister Manuel Marrero stressed that for a few days Havana became the capital of the world and a center of hope. | Marrero thanked participants for their valuable contributions and invited them to continue working on the proposals put forward. | He claimed that all the countries of the Global South have proved what the leader of the Cuban Revolution…

Pavel López Lazo (2023-09-16). Thailand urges G77+China to innovative approach for development. plenglish.com According to Chaivaivid, director general of the Department of International Economic Affairs at the Foreign Minister, his country has policies of investment in human development. | He cited as an example the policies implemented by the government with science-based approaches to deal with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. | He acknowledged, however, that this problem and today ¥s geopolitical conflicts have a negative effect on international cooperation and, therefore, on nations ¥ development. | He warned that all the member states face similar concerns and appreciated the role of the G77+China as p…

Emily Hilliard, Dissent Magazine. (2023-09-17). Students Of The Strikes. popularresistance.org On Monday, August 21, hundreds of students at West Virginia University, the state's flagship land-grant institution, walked out of their classrooms to protest the massive gutting of their university by its administration. Students wore red T-shirts and red bandanas around their necks, carried homemade signs with messages like "Stop the Gee-llotine" (a reference to WVU President E. Gordon Gee), played protest songs on fiddles and guitars, chanted "STOP THE CUTS!" and shouted impassioned speeches into megaphones. At issue was the administration's proposal to fire 16 percent of the faculty and cut 9 percent of its u…

Fight Back (2023-09-17). Seattle protest demands Justice for Jaahnavi Kandula. fightbacknews.org Seattle, WA – On September 14, over 200 people came to an emergency rally and march organized by the Seattle Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (SAARPR) to fight for justice following the murder of Jaahnavi Kandula by Kevin Dave, an officer in the Seattle Police Department. | On January 23, Jaahnavi Kandula, a 23-year-old graduate student from India attending Northeastern University, tragically lost her life at the hands of SPD officer Kevin Dave. Dave was driving 74 miles per hour in a 25 zone without using his continuous sirens. Kandula was using the crosswalk on Dexter Avenue and Thomas Street wh…

Fight Back (2023-09-17). Seattle protest demands Justice for Jaahnavi Kandula. fightbacknews.org Seattle, WA – On September 14, over 200 people came to an emergency rally and march organized by the Seattle Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (SAARPR) to fight for justice following the murder of Jaahnavi Kandula by Kevin Dave, an officer in the Seattle Police Department. | On January 23, Jaahnavi Kandula, a 23-year-old graduate student from India attending Northeastern University, tragically lost her life at the hands of SPD officer Kevin Dave. Dave was driving 74 miles per hour in a 25 zone without using his continuous sirens. Kandula was using the crosswalk on Dexter Avenue and Thomas Street wh…

Fight Back (2023-09-16). U of MN Twin Cities SDS kicks off fall semester with rally to defend ethnic and gender studies. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On September 14, 50 University of Minnesota students, staff and faculty gathered outside of the Student Union to join Students for a Democratic Society at their first rally of the semester to demand that the administration chop from the top and fully fund their ethnic and gender studies programs. | Students and other members of the campus community have been putting pressure on the UMN Board of Regents to defend ethnic and gender studies programs within the College of Liberal Arts through financial means since April, when university faculty from these departments reached out to SDS regarding al…

Fight Back (2023-09-16). FSU students make noise to defend diversity and increase Black enrollment. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On Wednesday, September 13, the FSU Students for a Democratic Society held a noise demo on Florida State's campus. The demonstration began at the Integration Statue and looped around Landis Green, two of the most populated areas of campus. Students and faculty chanted "Stand up and defy! HB 999!" "Increase Black enrollment! FSU, end your silence!" and "Down with DeSantis!" | With this noise demo, the FSU SDS aims to bring attention to one of its three core campaigns for the 2023-2024 school year: "Defend Diversity @ FSU! Increase Black Enrollment!" Governor Ron DeSantis has passed bills to cut f…

Fight Back (2023-09-16). U of MN Twin Cities SDS kicks off fall semester with rally to defend ethnic and gender studies. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On September 14, 50 University of Minnesota students, staff and faculty gathered outside of the Student Union to join Students for a Democratic Society at their first rally of the semester to demand that the administration chop from the top and fully fund their ethnic and gender studies programs. | Students and other members of the campus community have been putting pressure on the UMN Board of Regents to defend ethnic and gender studies programs within the College of Liberal Arts through financial means since April, when university faculty from these departments reached out to SDS regarding al…

Fight Back (2023-09-16). FSU students make noise to defend diversity and increase Black enrollment. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On Wednesday, September 13, the FSU Students for a Democratic Society held a noise demo on Florida State's campus. The demonstration began at the Integration Statue and looped around Landis Green, two of the most populated areas of campus. Students and faculty chanted "Stand up and defy! HB 999!" "Increase Black enrollment! FSU, end your silence!" and "Down with DeSantis!" | With this noise demo, the FSU SDS aims to bring attention to one of its three core campaigns for the 2023-2024 school year: "Defend Diversity @ FSU! Increase Black Enrollment!" Governor Ron DeSantis has passed bills to cut f…

Lucy Dean Stockton (2023-09-16). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: The Kids Are Alright. levernews.com Good things are happening! The country's largest private university just divested from fossil fuels — and we scored a behind-the-scenes account of the victory from one of the organizers responsible. And that's not all: California's legislature passed historic climate legislation and defended Medicare, plus the taxman is coming for the country's negligent millionaires. | NYU Divests From Fossil Fuels: | Following years of pressure from student activists, New York University (NYU) has

Peoples Dispatch (2023-09-16). Nigerian university students protest fee hike amid soaring cost of living. peoplesdispatch.org Students at the University of Lagos have rejected a recent hike of mandatory fees that could see the cost of some courses soar by up to 600%. Several other public universities have announced similarly steep hikes in recent months even as inflation soars…

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