(2024-01-02). Unilateral Coercive Measures and Human Rights. orinocotribune.com By Alfred de Zayas — Dec 29, 2023 | As a matter of proper terminology, it is best not to use the term "sanctions" too loosely, because the term is judgmental and implies that the entity imposing them has the legal or moral authority to do so. This is the case e.g. when the United Nations imposes certain coercive measures under article 41 of the Charter. By contrast, what politicians and media routinely denominate sanctions are actually "unilateral coercive measures"[1] (UCMs) imposed by a country in pursuance of its geopolitical agenda and lacking any international legitimacy. Such measures actually constitu…
(2024-01-03). Sunday 1/7: Virtual event: Palestine in Israel's education system. indybay.org Zoom (Registration link is below)…
(2024-01-02). Reimagining Economics Education. popularresistance.org
(2024-01-02). Sunday 1/7: Virtual event: Palestine in Israel's education system. indybay.org Zoom (Registration link is below)…
(2024-01-02). Muyingo: No school should open before February 5th. independent.co.ug 
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | State Minister for Higher Education Dr. John Chrysostom Muyingo has cautioned schools against opening the school term before the official date. According to the official school calendar from the Ministry of Education and Sports, the school term will commence on 5th February. Muyingo says that he has already received …
(2024-01-02). Individual Coaching Improved Cognition in People at Risk for Dementia. jamanetwork.com Personalized lifestyle counseling aimed at reducing risk factors for developing dementia improved cognition by 74% compared with educational information sent by mail every 3 months, according to results from a randomized clinical trial involving 172 participants without dementia aged 70 to 89 years. Participants in the intervention group also experienced improvements in their risk factors for dementia and in their quality of life after the 2-year intervention.
(2024-01-03). Selected Articles: The Economic Incentive: Blocking Israel's Supply Chain. globalresearch.ca 
By The Israel-Gaza conflict is invigorating a global protest movement against the state of Israel which is seeing various manifestations. From an economic standpoint, Israel can …
(2024-01-03). Far-right Israeli Minister Urges Eviction of Palestinians from Gaza. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-03). Israeli Assault Causing Disease, Hunger to Rapidly Spread Across Gaza. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-03). Almost 70% of Gaza Homes Damaged or Destroyed: WSJ. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-03). Charge Israel with Genocide at the International Court of Justice! globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-03). After South African Petition, Israel on High Alert with Growing Pressure to File Genocide Charges. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-03). Scott Ritter's Take on the Most Important Events of 2023. "A Turn Away From US Hegemony" globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-03). Hiroshima at 77: John Pilger — Another Hiroshima Is Coming — Unless We Stop It Now. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-03). John Pilger: A Life Telling Truth to Power. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-03). A New Year's Resolution Worth Keeping. No More Military Aid for Ukraine. "The True Threat is a Corrupt System that Bleeds the Country Dry" globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-03). Mainstream Media Wasn't Good for US Foreign Policy in 2023. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-03). Development to remain the focus in 75th year of nation's founding. ecns.cn China's first domestically built large cruise ship, Adora Magic City, set off from Shanghai on its maiden voyage on Monday. The delivery and operation of the large ship, built after eight years of scientific research and five years of design and construction, has been called a "milestone" in China's shipbuilding industry.
(2024-01-03). The Economic Incentive: Blocking Israel's Supply Chain. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-03). Facebook Approved an Israeli Ad Calling for Assassination of Pro-Palestine Activist. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-03). New Year Donation Drive: Global Research is Committed to the "Unspoken Truth" globalresearch.ca We at Global Research extend our best wishes to everyone for 2024! | A new year has come yet our mandate is one and the same: to focus on the unspoken truth. | The burgeoning Palestinian solidarity despite of Zionist propaganda is …
(2024-01-03). Thousands March in Istanbul, Chanting 'Killer Israel, Get Out of Palestine'. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-03). Four giant pandas to meet public in Chongqing. ecns.cn Four giant pandas, Qing Hua, Qing Lu, Qiao Yue, and Ai Lian, from the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, recently arrived at the Chongqing Locajoy Animal Theme Park in Yongchuan District, Chongqing."ÄÄ…
(2024-01-02). How One British Business Could Stop Israeli Jets Bombing Gaza. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-02). 1st January AD 2024: The Genocide in Palestine and the Fascist Continuum: Nuremberg 2 Now! globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-02). A Message to Israeli, U.S. and NATO Soldiers and Pilots: It's Genocide, "Disobey Unlawful Orders, Abandon the Battlefield" globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-02). A Message to Israeli, U.S. and NATO Soldiers and Pilots: It's Genocide, "Disobey Unlawful Orders, Abandon the Battlefield" globalresearch.ca It is not through negotiations with Netanyahu & Biden, that we will be able to put an end to the genocide. What is required is a campaign which enables Israeli, U.S. & NATO combatants To Disobey Unlawful Orders…
(2024-01-02). The Engineered Destruction and Political Fragmentation of Iraq. "America's Third War against Iraq" initiated by Obama. globalresearch.ca The objective is to engineer a civil war in Iraq, in which both sides are controlled indirectly by US-NATO. The scenario is to arm and equip them, on both sides, finance them with advanced weapons systems and then "let them fight".
(2024-01-02). John Pilger — Campaigning Journalist, Film-maker, Author and Fervent Critic of US and British Foreign Policy. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-02). The World Has Lost John Pilger. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-02). Silencing the Lambs. How Propaganda Works. John Pilger, His Legacy Will Live. globalresearch.ca "Today, the most profitable wars have their own brand. They are called 'forever wars': Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and now Ukraine. All are based on a pack of lies." John Pilger…
(2024-01-02). Africa in Review 2023: Imperatives for an Independent Foreign Policy. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-02). Criminal Assumptions: The Howard Cabinet and Invading Iraq. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-02). Excess Deaths and Depopulation: Shall We Sit Around in Our Insouciance and Permit This to Happen? globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-02). Pilot Deaths: 33-year-old US Air Force Staff Sergeant, Military Pilot Incapacitations and Deaths. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-02). Researchers track rare water bird's movements. ecns.cn He said the Chinese population of the white-naped crane had remained almost stable for a decade, and "with further research, we expect to find better ways to restore the population".
(2024-01-02). Selected Articles: An Immense Hunger, Where Are We All Going? Our Visions Into a New Year… Edward Curtin. globalresearch.ca 
By Now that our revels are ended, the holiday celebrations and feasts, if one had them, just a …
(2024-01-02). Why Biden's Red Sea Strategy Will Blow Up in His Face. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-02). Is Al Qaeda an "Existential Threat"? What is the Meaning of Al Qaeda in Arabic? globalresearch.ca Global Research Introduction : | Pierre-Henri Bunel, a former member of France's Military Intelligence, initially published by Global Research in 2005, sheds light on the nature of Al Qaeda, an intelligence construct used by Washington to destabilize and …
(2024-01-02). Was 9/11 a False Flag? America's "Just War" Against Muslim Countries: "Self Defense" Against "The Civilizational War of Islam Against the West" globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-02). Development Studies: Ideological Crisis, No Coherent Stance against the Dominant Neoliberal Paradigm. Tina Renier. globalresearch.ca
(2024-01-02). Four giant pandas to meet public in Chongqing. ecns.cn Four giant pandas, Qing Hua, Qing Lu, Qiao Yue, and Ai Lian, from the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, recently arrived at the Chongqing Locajoy Animal Theme Park in Yongchuan District, Chongqing."ÄÄ…
(2024-01-02). Meta-Analysis: Faster Walking Linked With Lower Type 2 Diabetes Risk. jamanetwork.com Walking at a "fairly brisk" rate of at least 3 to 4 miles per hour was tied to a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, according to an analysis of 10 prospective cohort studies involving more than 500‚ÄØ000 participants. The findings suggest the importance of including speed as well as volume in physical activity guidelines, the researchers reported in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
(2024-01-02). The Distortion of Science. dissidentvoice.org 
Starting in the mid-20th century, companies began distorting and manpulating science to favor specific commercial interests. Big tobacco is both the developer and…
(2024-01-02). In Court Cases Facts Are Losing Their Relevancy as They Have in News Reporting, Scholarship, and Science. thealtworld.com Informed people understand that the indictments, civil charges, and judicial rulings against Trump all involve what is politely called "a stretch of the law." But they do not seem to grasp that Trump's defense against the charges is not based on the falseness of the charges but on whether he has presidential immunity. | In other words, the phony charges stand, and the question is whether Trump has presidential immunity. Whether the charges are factual is not considered relevant. | The advantage in Trump's attorneys taking this approach is that if Trump has immunity, all the indictments are dismissed and trials ov…
(2024-01-03). 135 mln domestic trips made during China's New Year holiday. ecns.cn A total of 135 million domestic trips were recorded in China during the three-day New Year holiday from last Saturday to Monday, according to statistics released by the country's Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
(2024-01-02). Insecurity, Ecuadorians' main concern at the beginning of 2024. plenglish.com Local media here lamented that the new year began with five murders and the robbery of a shopping mall, both events occurred in the cities of Guayaquil and Durán, in the coastal province of Guayas, one of the most violent in this South American nation. | Fear and anxiety due to insecurity continue in the homes of the Andean country which said goodbye to 2023 as the most violent in Latin America, according to statistics that refer to the existence of a rate of violent deaths higher than 40 per 100 thousand inhabitants. During the year that ended several murders shook the country in the political sphere, including…
(2024-01-02). 135 mln domestic trips made during China's New Year holiday. ecns.cn A total of 135 million domestic trips were recorded in China during the three-day New Year holiday from last Saturday to Monday, according to statistics released by the country's Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
(2024-01-02). Life Expectancy in US Climbed After Declines Related to COVID-19. jamanetwork.com US life expectancy has risen by 1.1 years, from 76.4 years in 2021 to 77.5 years in 2022, according to provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. Yet the increase does not cancel out the 2.4-year decrease in life expectancy that occurred between 2019 and 2021, due in large part to excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic.
(2024-01-03). 5am Tues: Stop Bulldozing of People's Park! indybay.org UC Berkeley wants to build student housing where protests and community events have been held by the local community for over 50 years. Come out and stop the bulldozers!
(2024-01-02). 'Material Support' In The Form Of Speech Can Be Criminalized. popularresistance.org Depending on when you hear this, the Rutgers/New Brunswick chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine might be the most recent campus group to be suspended for what administrators called "disruptive and disorderly conduct," and "failure to comply with university or civil authority." | SJP is a student-activist network of campus groups in support of Palestinian lives and liberation, and naturally very active now in the midst of Israeli military attacks on Gaza that, as we record, have killed some 20,000 Palestinians minimally, injuring and displacing orders of magnitude more. | Calls for a ceasefire, at least, a…
(2024-01-02). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 88: Israeli army kills 4,000 students in Gaza, detains hundreds in torture camps. mondoweiss.net 
Israel's opposition welcomes Supreme Court ruling against Netanyahu's law restricting judicial powers. Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in a single West Bank village, and a seventh Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli prisons.
(2024-01-02). 5am Tues: Stop Bulldozing of People's Park! indybay.org UC Berkeley wants to build student housing where protests and community events have been held by the local community for over 50 years. Come out and stop the bulldozers!
(2024-01-02). Indian students highlight Cuba ¥s bravery facing imperialism. plenglish.com New Delhi, Jan 2 (Prensa Latina) The secretary general of the Students Federation of India (SFI), Mayukh Biswas, today stressed the bravery of the Cuban people for their resistance against the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the United States.
(2024-01-02). When the KKK Planted Bombs at the University of Dayton, Part of Its Crusade Against American Catholics. counterpunch.org 
A KKK rally in Dayton, Ohio, on Sept. 21, 1923. Dayton Metro Library. It was December 19, 1923 — 100 years ago. The first day of Christmas break at the University of Dayton, with fewer than 40 students still on campus. At 10: 30 p.m., the quiet was shattered by a series of explosions, as 12
(2024-01-02). January 1-7: National Week of Action (U.S.) for Palestine. samidoun.net 
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joins the US Palestinian Community Network, National SDS and the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression in calling for the 1-7 January Week of Action for Palestine. Read the call below — all updates at: uspcn.org/weekofaction24/ The U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR), and Students …
(2024-01-03). 5 January, NYC: A Night of Resistance — A Teach-In. samidoun.net 
Join Samidoun NY/NJ on Friday, January 5 at 7 pm at 176 St. Nicholas Ave in Brooklyn for a teach-in on Palestine, the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the Palestinian and regional resistance to Zionism, imperialism and reactionary regimes. This event will take place at Mayday Space!
(2024-01-03). Criticism LTD w/ Matt Seybold. mronline.org 
Matt Seybold joins Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson to discuss the political economy of literary criticism from past to present, amateur to professional. Seybold is Associate Professor of American Literature at Elmira College and Resident Scholar at the Center for Mark Twain Studies. In addition to writing and teaching in the field of literature & economics, Seybold produces and hosts The American Vandal podcast, an ever-growing collection of conversations and presentations about literature, humor, and history in America that is inspired by Mark Twain's life and legacy.