Monthly Archives: October 2023

2023-10-29: News Headlines

Larry Johnson (2023-10-30). The REvised Hamas Charter — 2017. sonar21.com I decided it was time to discuss the Hamas Charter (the 2017 revision) and its implications for the current conflict. You have to ask yourself a question — do the leaders of Hamas embrace the words they adopted or was it just a political ploy? I believe it was the former. The words of this charter clearly express how those who are members of Hamas view Palestine, Israel and the Zionist movement. I am curious what you, the readers, think. | Taken at face value, this document makes it very clear there is no room for a negotiated settlement with Israel. That means there is no alternative but war. If I am…

Jamila Salim, Ibrahim I Abubakar (2023-10-28). Perspectives] A medical student's odyssey in 1990s Nigeria. thelancet.com Some autobiographies tell a factual individual story, allowing focus and continuity, whereas others bring in wider contextual and social factors to create a relatable story. While the former provides room to be unique and interesting, the latter may draw in a broader audience. It can be challenging to write a wider human story that combines the specific and generic, especially on a subject such as medical education. What will ring true for most who have undergone medical training globally are the frequent challenges it presents, often pushing students to the limit.

ecns.cn (2023-10-29). (W.E. Talk) Dr. Joseph W. Polisi: China has become an international center of Western classical music teaching. ecns.cn In the latest "W.E. Talk", Dr. Polisi accepted an exclusive interview with China News Service to share his artistic philosophy, educational outlook, and thinking about Chinese and American cultural exchanges.

Centre for Research on Globalization (2023-10-29). Israel's Gaza War: "Situation is Now Catastrophic". "Nakba is Ongoing" globalresearch.ca Targeting Palestinian Civilians: | As of Saturday morning October 28, Israel's genocidal attacks on Gaza have killed more than 7,300 Palestinians including about 3,000 children according to Al Jazeera. | Another 1,650 Palestinians are trapped under the demolished remains of their homes …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2023-10-29). Biden's Bungles Over Gaza. globalresearch.ca

Fayha Shalash (2023-10-29). Israel-Palestine War: Settlers Threaten West Bank Children with Bloody Dolls. globalresearch.ca

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-10-29). Widening the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Yellow Journalism Stoking Potential War on Iran. globalresearch.ca

Peter Koenig (2023-10-29). An All-out War May Have Just Begun in the Middle East. globalresearch.ca

Andrew Green (2023-10-28). Obituary] Hoosen Mahomed Coovadia. thelancet.com Paediatrician, HIV researcher, and anti-apartheid and health activist. Born on Aug 2, 1940, in Durban, South Africa, he died in Durban on Oct 4, 2023, aged 83 years.

Asad Ismi (2023-10-28). Large Scale U.S. Military Buildup in the Middle East: Is America Preparing to Launch World War III? globalresearch.ca

Colin Todhunter (2023-10-28). Food, Dispossession and Dependency. Resisting the New World Order. globalresearch.ca Food, Dispossession and Dependency.: | Resisting the New World Order: | by: | Colin Todhunter: | We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of …

David Hearst (2023-10-28). Video: The Myth of Israel's "Self Defence" globalresearch.ca TFF Associate professor Farhang Jahanpour in Oxford writes: | "Anyone who wants to learn the truth about what is going on in Gaza and Israel should watch this short video which not only deals with the carnage in Gaza but also …

Dougal Macdonald (2023-10-28). Gaza vs. Dresden, The February 1945 Dresden Fire Bombing: Allied War Crime Prelude to the Cold War. globalresearch.ca This article was originally published in 2016. | Is this the model of killing innocent civilians now being applied against the people of Palestine: | Not only is Israel demanding Guterres's resignation but its officials have "proudly compared" its killing of Palestinian …

Dr. Ariyana Love (2023-10-28). Graphene COVID Kill Shots: Let the Evidence Speak for Itself. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2023-10-28). Air Vax — The Latest mRNA Delivered Into Lungs. No Jab Required. globalresearch.ca

ecns.cn (2023-10-28). One-year-old giant panda Huan Cai dies of acute hemorrhagic necrotic enteritis. ecns.cn Giant panda Huan Cai died of acute hemorrhagic necrotic enteritis on Oct. 2, according to a post on the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda's WeChat account released on Wednesday.

F. William Engdahl (2023-10-28). How Blackrock Investment Fund Triggered the Global Energy Crisis. globalresearch.ca The energy crisis is a long-planned strategy of western corporate capital to dismantle industrial economies in the name of a dystopian Green Agenda. That has its roots well before February 2022, when Russia launched its military action in Ukraine.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-28). October 7th: The Permanent Death of the Oslo Accords. libya360.wordpress.com Ameed Faleh Destroy them, destroy them, this time, Israel must destroy Hamas, otherwise we're done. — An unnamed Palestinian Authority official to an Israeli researcher after Israel announced its post-October 7th siege of the Gaza Strip1 Hamas' surprise military assault on the settlements of the so-called 'Gaza Envelope' on October 7th shocked everyone by the…

James A. Lucas (2023-10-28). The U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 "Victim Nations" Since World War II. globalresearch.ca

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya (2023-10-28). Preparing the Chessboard for the "Clash of Civilizations": Divide, Conquer and Rule the "New Middle East" globalresearch.ca The ripple effects of the US-NATO Invasion of Libya. Redefining and Destabilsing the Arab World…

Manlio Dinucci (2023-10-28). Operation False Flag to Set the Middle East on Fire. globalresearch.ca Facts, not opinion, are increasingly showing that the attack carried out by Hamas on Oct. 7 in Israel was the detonator for an Operation False Flag, similar to the Sept. 11, 2001 attack in the United States. | Remarkable are the …

Manlio Dinucci (2023-10-28). Operazione False Flag per Incendiare il Medioriente. globalresearch.ca I fatti, e non le opinioni, dimostrano in modo sempre più evidente che l'attacco effettuato da Hamas il 7 ottobre in Israele ha fatto da detonatore a una operazione False Flag, simile a quella dell'attacco dell'11 Settembre 2001 negli Stati …

Mark Keenan (2023-10-28). 1500 Scientists Say "Climate Change Not Due to CO2" — The Real Environment Movement Was Hijacked. globalresearch.ca

Mark Steele (2023-10-28). Fifth Generation (5G) Directed Energy Radiation Emissions In the Context of Contaminated Nanometal Covid-19 Vaccines with Graphite Ferrous Oxide Antennas. globalresearch.ca

Michael Welch (2023-10-28). Israel's 9/11: The War Waged Far Away from the "Only Democratic Country in the Middle East." The GRNH with Michael Welch. globalresearch.ca

Peter Koenig (2023-10-28). The Brain Is the Battlefield of the Future. The WEF's Stated Objective is "Altering the Human Being" globalresearch.ca We are all vulnerable — vaxxed or unvaxxed — to mind interference through the worldwide coverage of 5G shortwaves. And the worst is, we may not even notice when it "hits" us.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-10-28). "Justified Vengeance" and The History of Israeli "False Flags"(2001-2023): Palestine Portrayed as "The Aggressor" globalresearch.ca The longer term objective of "Operation Justified Vengeance" (2001) was and remains the destruction of Palestine and the expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland.

Prof Rodrigue Tremblay (2023-10-28). Dangers and Lessons from the Perennial Israeli-Palestinian War: The Big Picture. globalresearch.ca

Prof. Anthony J. Hall (2023-10-28). From Auschwitz to Gaza: The History of Mass Murder and Genocide. globalresearch.ca

Rhoda Wilson (2023-10-28). Treatment of covid vaccine injury should include natural self-managed approaches. expose-news.com Dr. Guy Hatchard reviews newly published research studies on the adverse effects of mRNA injections. He draws out the implications of a meditation and whole food diet programme which could play a …

Robert J. Burrowes (2023-10-28). We Are Being Smashed Politically, Economically, Medically and Technologically by the Elite's 'Great Reset': Why? How Do We Fight Back Effectively? globalresearch.ca

The Editors of The Lancet (2023-10-28). Comment] Retraction: The first tissue-engineered airway transplantation: 5-year follow-up results. thelancet.com Further to the two Expressions of concern The Lancet issued in February, 20231,2 for the Article presenting the 5-year follow-up results3 of the case of tissue-engineered transplantation,4 the Swedish National Board for Assessment of Research Misconduct5 has concluded in an investigation into this paper that it "contains fabrication and falsification in several places, and three falsified figures (4, 5 and 6C)". We are therefore now retracting this Article3 together with the original description of this case.

The Editors of The Lancet (2023-10-28). Comment] Retraction: Clinical transplantation of a tissue-engineered airway. thelancet.com After The Lancet issued two Expressions of concern in February, 20231,2 for the original case description3 and the 5-year follow-up Article,4 the investigation by the Swedish National Board for Assessment of Research Misconduct5 into the 5-year follow-up paper has led us to retract this paper.6 During that investigation, it was confirmed that a stent was inserted in the patient's trachea less than 4 months after the operation. The Swedish National Board for Assessment of Research Misconduct5 found that the statement made in that Article4 that a "4-month follow-up showed no complications" and that omitting informa…

The Vigilant Fox (2023-10-28). Video: Dr. Naomi Wolf Uncovers Pfizer's Depopulation Agenda, as Evidenced by Its Own Documents. globalresearch.ca

Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. (2023-10-28). How The International Monetary Fund Continues To Shrink Poorer Nations. popularresistance.org From 9 to 15 October, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank held their annual joint meeting in Marrakech (Morocco). The last time that these two Bretton Woods institutions met on African soil was in 1973, when the IMF-World Bank meeting was held in Nairobi (Kenya). Kenya's then President Jomo Kenyatta (1897—1978) urged those gathered to find 'an early cure to the monetary sickness of inflation and instability that has afflicted the world'. Kenyatta, who became Kenya's first president in 1964, noted that, '[o]ver the last fifteen years, many developing countries have been losing, every year, a s…

Felicity Arbuthnot (2023-10-29). Video: "Wiping Gaza Off The Map": Big Money Agenda. Confiscating Palestine's Maritime Natural Gas Reserves. globalresearch.ca There is an unspoken "Big Money Agenda". Netanyahu's objective is not only to exclude Palestinians from their homeland, it consists in confiscating Palestine's multi-billion dollar Gaza offshore Natural Gas reserves…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-29). Healthcare professionals, caregivers, people living with dementia to connect at Mayo Clinic Conference on Brain Health and Dementia. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Artwork by Anne Labovitz ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic and community partners working to advance the health of older adults and people impacted by dementia will host a conference Saturday, Nov. 4, to share the newest research and strategies for reducing dementia risk and living well with cognitive decline. The Mayo Clinic Conference on Brain Health and Dementia is hosted with collaborators AARP Minnesota and Alzheimer's Association Minnesota-North Dakota, and offers people living with dementia…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-29). 17-gene signature linked to remission after triple-negative breast cancer treatment. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered a distinctive pattern in a specific set of 17 genes that may be associated with remission after treatment for triple-negative breast cancer. The multi-omics study, published in Breast Cancer Research, highlights the potential for further investigating this signature as a target for individualized medicine. Approximately 10-15% of breast cancers fall into the category of "triple-negative," indicating that their growth is not driven through the hormone receptors for estrogen or progesterone, nor by…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-10-29). Mayo Clinic selects Owen Garrick, M.D., as dean of Clinical Trials. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic Research leaders are excited to announce the arrival of Owen Garrick, M.D., as the dean of Clinical Trials. Dr. Garrick will start in his new position on Oct. 30. The dean of Clinical Trials is tasked with strengthening Mayo Clinic's standing as a national leader of innovative, demand-generating clinical trials for patients everywhere. Dr. Garrick will lead the transformation of Mayo Clinic's clinical trials, including developing digital capabilities, accelerating the volume of remote…

Ryan Cristián (2023-10-29). Gaza Genocide Was Always The Plan & FDA Admits Dangers Of Getting Flu/COVID Jabs Together. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (10/29/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth

Institute of the Arts, Sciences (2023-10-29). Wednesday 11/1: Art, Liberation, and Institution Building. indybay.org Institute of the Arts and Sciences, 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz…

Institute of the Arts, Sciences (2023-10-28). Wednesday 11/1: Art, Liberation, and Institution Building. indybay.org Institute of the Arts and Sciences, 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz…

WSWS (2023-10-28). Students and workers speak out against Israeli genocide in Gaza at IYSSE meeting in Chicago. wsws.org On October 25, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality hosted a successful meeting in Chicago to discuss the ongoing Israeli genocide against the Palestinians living in Gaza, and to build a socialist opposition to war.

WSWS (2023-10-28). A call to the working class and youth: Stop the imperialist-Zionist genocide in Gaza! wsws.org The WSWS calls for strikes and other protest actions by the working class in every country. We urge the organization of mass demonstrations in cities and emergency solidarity protests by college and high school students.

WSWS (2023-10-28). Two Dartmouth College students arrested for peacefully protesting genocide in Gaza. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site received this submission from the Sunrise Movement at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, documenting the university administration's crackdown on a peaceful protest against Israel's attack on Palestinians.

WSWS (2023-10-28). Western Sydney University IYSSE holds successful AGM opposing Gaza genocide. wsws.org The club won enthusiastic support from students for its condemnation of Israel's genocidal assault on Palestinians and the complicity of Australian, US and world governments.

Angela (2023-10-29). Monday 10/30: TEACH-IN: No to Genocide, No to War, Ceasefire Now! Call for Palestine. indybay.org Zoom (Registration link is below)…

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2023-10-13: News Headlines

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-12). The UN-Blessed MSS Could Be the First Step Toward a Decade-Long U.S. Military Occupation of Haiti. libya360.wordpress.com Travis Ross A Kenyan policeman stomping on a prone demonstrator in Nairobi in 2016. Credit: Ben Curtis/AP Photo On Mon., Oct. 2, 2023, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 2699 authorizing a non-UN Multinational Security Support (MSS) force for Haiti. The resolution, adopted under UN Charter's Chapter VII, was drafted by the United States and Ecuador. This…

Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO Operations (2023-10-13). Friday 10/20: Report On 50th Anniversary Of Chilean Coup With Chilean American UTPE Member Lisa Milos. indybay.org 518 Valencia St/16th St. | San Francisco…

WSWS (2023-10-13). Australian educators rank-and-file committee endorses Voice referendum active boycott campaign. wsws.org Education workers, parents and students call for a unified struggle by the working class, indigenous and non-indigenous, against the racialist policies of both the Yes and No camps.

Paul Adepoju (2023-10-14). World Report] Malaria community welcomes WHO vaccine approval. thelancet.com After many decades of research, there are now two approved vaccines for malaria. Paul Adepoju reports.

Josephine Morris (2023-10-13). Offering treatment to drug users instead of arresting them reduces crime and addiction — new research into police diversion program shows. nationofchange.org Treatment programs rather than incarceration are far more effective for drug-related offenses.

Barbara Nimri Aziz (2023-10-12). "We Are at War!" declares Netanyahu. Oh really? Your War or My War. globalresearch.ca

Ben Bartee (2023-10-12). Israeli Ambassador Claims Hamas Attack '10 Times Bigger Than 9/11′. globalresearch.ca

Benjamin Roberts (2023-10-12). Letter to Karolinska Institute Regarding Covid mRNA Vaccine Technology: Nobel Prize Committee Should Give Themselves Award for 'Negligence of Due Diligence'. globalresearch.ca

Brian McGlinchey (2023-10-12). Israel Fostered the Rise of Hamas, Even After It Turned to Terror. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2023-10-12). "Dear Students": Breaking Bread at the Terminus of Learning. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2023-10-12). Information Compliance — Bill Passed to Demolish Free Speech. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović (2023-10-12). History of Russia. International Relations Following the Disintegration of the Soviet Union: "Western Colonization" versus The Strengthening of the Russian Federation as a Nation State. globalresearch.ca

Dr. William Makis (2023-10-12). Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Blood Clots in the Heart Up to 40cm Long Clots. globalresearch.ca

Germán Gorraiz López (2023-10-12). Is Hamas a Creation of Israel? Does the Hamas Offensive Favor Netanyahu? globalresearch.ca

John Helmer (2023-10-12). Moscow's Silence In Relation to the Israel-Palestine War: Russia Is Reorienting Towards the Arabs. globalresearch.ca

John-Michael Dumais (2023-10-12). 'The Nobel Lie': Doctors, Scientists Cry Foul After Nobel Prize Awarded to Team Whose Research Led to mRNA COVID Vaccine Technology. globalresearch.ca

Karsten Riise (2023-10-12). US Hitting the Brick Wall of Military and Financial Self-destruction. globalresearch.ca

Kary B. Mullis (2023-10-12). Video: Dr. Kary Mullis, The Other "Covid Nobel Prize". Inventor of PCR "Test", Died in August 2019. globalresearch.ca A brilliant scientist Dr. Kary Mullis passed away 4 months before the Covid-19 crisis. His PCR duplication / amplification process, earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1993). According to Mullis The PCR " does not tell you that you are sick."

Kester Kenn Klomegah (2023-10-12). Russia Continues Supplying Food to Africa in Multipolar World. globalresearch.ca

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2023-10-12). A defesa de Israel e o sistema de inteligência sà£o mais fracos do que os militantes sionistas pensam. globalresearch.ca O recente ataque do Hamas à s foràßas de ocupaàßà£o israelenses parece ter causado um "choque" aos apoiantes de Tel Aviv. Até agora, muitos cidadà£os israelenses e ativistas sionistas em todo o mundo nà£o parecem acreditar que as foràßas de seguranàßa …

Maram Humaid (2023-10-12). Today in Gaza, I No Longer Believe We'll Get Out of Israel's Assault Alive. globalresearch.ca

Michael Jansen (2023-10-12). Gaza's Military Operation Against Israel Surprise to No One. globalresearch.ca

Mike Adams (2023-10-12). Video: "Israel has chosen the Path of Committing Genocide against Two Million Civilians": Mike Adams Interviews Martin Armstrong. globalresearch.ca

Palestine Chronicle (2023-10-12). Israeli Army Bombs a Single Neighborhood in Gaza 450 Times in 24 Hours. globalresearch.ca

Peter Koenig (2023-10-12). Video: Ready for the Economic Crash? Reiner Fuellmich with Peter Koenig. globalresearch.ca

Prof. Yakov M. Rabkin (2023-10-12). Palestine and Ukraine: Peace Is Possible. globalresearch.ca

Rayhan Uddin (2023-10-12). Israel-Palestine War: These Posts Are Fake or Misleading. globalresearch.ca

Richard Gale (2023-10-12). Disinformation Campaign Launched Against Ivermectin Led by Anthony Fauci, the FDA and the CDC? globalresearch.ca

Robert Koehler (2023-10-12). Hardening Ourselves into Weapons. counterpunch.org Something happened on Tuesday, as I began researching this column — I wound up having to give myself a COVID test. A good friend had just tested positive and, well, we had recently gotten together. I needed to see if I was OK. I note this not because there was bad news — I tested

Ryan Cristián (2023-10-12). Killed In Gaza By Israeli Bombing: 140 Kids, 11 UN Staff, 30 UN School Pupils & 4 Israeli Hostages. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (10/12/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth

Vanessa Beeley (2023-10-12). NATO Member States' Al Qaeda Proxies Commit Massacre in Homs, Syria. globalresearch.ca

William Walter Kay (2023-10-12). The "Post Cold War" 1993 Yeltsin-CIA Presidential Coup. globalresearch.ca

Bruce Lerro (2023-10-13). The Science of Superstition Part II. dissidentvoice.org Summary of Part I In Part I of this 2-part article, I began by listing the typical superstitious behavior college students engage in before taking a test. I identified the conditions of superstition, what superstition is and then added the range of its scope. My piece is about socially shared and personal superstitions rather than …

Patricia Harrity (2023-10-12). The Gain of Function (GOF) Lab Leaked Bioweapon Story is Pure Science Fiction. expose-news.com by Simon Lee, Science Officer, Anew UK Post 9/11 fear porn sets the scene Post 9/11, bioweapons became a major concern pushed by the mainstream media with scary stories about labs genetically …

Becky Grant (2023-10-13). CounterPunch is Feeling the Pain. counterpunch.org You already know that CounterPunch is a one-of-a-kind resource. You tell you to turn to CounterPunch year after year because you rely on CounterPunch to find different perspectives on the day's issues. But did you realize we're different behind the scenes as well? According to statistics, most donations to non-profits come from just six households.

ecns.cn (2023-10-13). More friends aspire to study in China after decade of BRI: Russian student. ecns.cn This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative. William, a Russian student at Beijing Language and Culture University, said that many of his friends now aspire to come to China for studies, as China has become increasingly open.

ecns.cn (2023-10-13). Roommate of slain student in Japan in 2016 permanently banned from livestreaming. ecns.cn Liu Nuanxi, the woman who played a role in her roommate's death in Japan in 2016, has been permanently banned from live-streaming, BRTV reported on Wednesday.

presstv.ir (2023-10-13). Thousands of Tunisians express their solidarity with Palestinians. presstv.ir Thousands of unionists, representatives of civil society, political activists, lawyers, and high school students demonstrated in the center of Tunis in support of the Palestinian people.

WSWS (2023-10-13). Australian students denounce attacks on Gaza and hypocrisy of Labor's Voice campaign. wsws.org "In the referendum, the media is saying we need to acknowledge indigenous rights. But when something happens in Palestine, they ignore the rights of the Palestinians."

Binoy Kampmark (2023-10-12). Breaking Bread at the Terminus of Learning. dissidentvoice.org Let this be a lesson to you students. You are now coming to the end of another semester, arbitrarily designated as having an even number of weeks, crammed with a range of objectives that no doubt most of you have not met. For one thing, you did not read. But my, did one try to …

imperial.ac.uk (2023-10-12). Imperial launches new scholarship programme for Lebanese students. imperial.ac.uk Imperial has launched a new scholarship programme for Lebanese Master's students, supported by French shipping and logistics company CMA CGM Group.

presstv.ir (2023-10-12). US CEOs urge blacklisting of Harvard students who signed anti-Israeli statement. presstv.ir CEOs running a whole host of American business giants urge blacklisting of the Harvard University students, who recently signed an anti-Israeli statement.

Staff (2023-10-12). Venezuelan Students Crowned World Robotics Champions in Singapore. orinocotribune.com A team of young people from Venezuela became champions in the FIRST Global Challenge robotics world championship, held in Singapore from October 7 to 10, 2023. After competing against 191 countries, the team—made up of Sofía Parra, Marcela Gómez, Gabriel Sánchez, Alek Caliman, Antonio Colina, and their mentors, Emanuel Andrade, Samuel Paz, María Victoria Uzcátegui, Paulo Ferray, Sebastián Guadagnini, Andrés Rincón, and Elio Urdaneta—won the gold medal "Albert Einstein Award for FIRST Global International Excellence," the highest award given by the founder of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of S…

Priti Gulati Cox — Stan Cox (2023-10-13). Suffering in the Shadows. counterpunch.org Various versions of the aphorism "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" have been making the rounds ever since the rise of U.S. imperialism in the late 1800s. The quip (which, despite legend, appears not to be attributable to Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, or any other famous person) has proven all too accurate when the war

Annelise Whitley (2023-10-12). Suffering in the Shadows. tomdispatch.com Various versions of the aphorism "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" have been making the rounds ever since the rise of U.S. imperialism in the late 1800s. The quip (which, despite legend, appears not to be attributable to Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, or any other famous person) has proven all too accurate when the war in question directly involves American troops. When, however, non-U.S. combatants and civilians suffer and die from conflicts relatively unrelated to Washington's "strategic interests," our media outlets tend to avert their eyes, aid agencies get stingy, and Americans learn no geograp…

WSWS (2023-10-12). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Strikes by teachers and support workers continue in parts of Lithuania, Portugal, Belgium, Montenegro, Germany and Serbia over pay, conditions and funding; protests across Middle East including in Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, the Yemen and Jordan in response to Israeli bombing of Gaza; polytechnic workers in Abeokuta, Nigeria begin indefinite strike over non-payment of salaries and allowances for three months…

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