Daily Archives: January 11, 2024

2024-01-11: News Headlines

Pepe Escobar (2024-01-10). BRICS member South Africa takes Zionism to court. thealtworld.com Pretoria's genocide case against Israel is crucial, not just to stop Tel Aviv's carnage in Gaza, but to plant the first flag of mutipolarism in the globe's courtrooms: this is the first case of many that will seek to halt western impunity and restore international law as envisioned in the UN Charter. | Nothing less than the full concept of international law will be on trial this week in The Hague. The whole world is watching. | It took an African nation, not an Arab or Muslim nation, but significantly a BRICS member, to try to break the iron chains deployed by Zionism via fear, financial might, and non-stop threa…

Editor (2024-01-11). Charter schools will desert and violate thousands in 2024. mronline.org Currently, about 3.7 million students are enrolled in roughly 7,800 privately-operated charter schools across the country. The U.S. public education system, on the other hand, has been around for more than 150 years and educates about 45 million students in nearly 100,000 schools.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-01-11). Cuba Endorses South Africa's Case Against Israel at the ICJ. libya360.wordpress.com Cuba supports South Africa's claim before the International Court of Justice against Israel's genocide in Palestine Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterates its deep concern at the continuing escalation of violence by Israel in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories, in flagrant violation of the Charter of the United…

UMMID (2024-01-11). CA Final Nov 2023 Result: Mumbai Twin Sisters Among All India Toppers. ummid.com ICAI CA Final Nov 2023 Results: Sanskruti and Shruti Atul Parolita, 22-year-old twins from Mumbai, have cleared the CA Final November 2023 results announced by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) Tuesday January 09, 2024.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-01-10). BRICS Member South Africa Takes Zionism to Court. libya360.wordpress.com Pepe Escobar Pretoria's genocide case against Israel is crucial, not just to stop Tel Aviv's carnage in Gaza, but to plant the first flag of mutipolarism in the globe's courtrooms: this is the first case of many that will seek to halt western impunity and restore international law as envisioned in the UN Charter. Nothing…

UMMID (2024-01-10). CA Final Nov 2023 Result: Mumbai Twin Sisters Among All India Toppers. ummid.com ICAI CA Final Nov 2023 Results: Sanskruti and Shruti Atul Parolita, 22-year-old twins from Mumbai, have cleared the CA Final November 2023 results announced by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) Tuesday January 09, 2024.

Gabisile (2024-01-10). Work experience opportunities for Western and Eastern Cape youth now open. sanews.gov.za Work experience opportunities for Western and Eastern Cape youth now open | The Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport, through its Youth and After School Programme, is calling for unemployed youth, aged between 18 and 25, to apply to be part of the Year Beyond Youth Service Programme for 2024. | Applications for the education programmes are now open for youth living in the Western and Eastern Cape who meet the criteria. | All the education programmes require a matric certificate and some require minimum marks for language or maths. | The Year Beyond platform offers young people the opportunity to…

Staff (2024-01-10). Rahmani30 shines with record-breaking 67.5% success in ICAI CA Intermediate Exam, triumphant over national 19% average. muslimmirror.com By Muslim Mirror Staff In a remarkable triumph, Rahmani30, a trailblazing educational initiative dedicated to nurturing deserving students, recently attained an extraordinary milestone in the ICAI CA Intermediate exams. Amidst a national average success rate of around 19%, Rahmani30 soared high with an unparalleled 67.5% achievement, etching an indelible mark in the institution's history and …

Angela (2024-01-10). Wednesday 1/10: Santa Clara Board of Education Meeting: Ceasefire Resolution. indybay.org 1290 Ridder Park Dr. | San Jose, CA…

Redacción Chile (2024-01-10). Chile: Mario Aguilar returns to the presidency of the Teachers' College calling on the government to fulfill its commitments. pressenza.com In his first speech as the new National President of the Chilean Teachers' Association, Mario Aguilar called on the government to fulfill its commitments to education. | The union leader denounced that "once again the Government has failed in its commitment to resolve the Historical Debt, reminding that it should send a Bill last December and that was not fulfilled. In this line, we will demand to schedule a meeting as soon as possible to move forward resolutely on this issue". | The National President of COLPROCH reminded the Government of another of its commitments, "another issue is that of the Mention of our…

Shannon Ikebe, Labor Notes. (2024-01-10). Québec Workers Conduct Largest Strike Ever. popularresistance.org One of the largest strikes in North American history happened this winter and the struggle is ongoing. In Québec, 420,000 public sector workers in health care and education, united in a "Common Front" (Front Commun) of four major union federations, spent seven days on strike December 8-14. This followed half-day and three-day work stoppages in November. | In addition to the Common Front, 66,500 workers in one of the teachers unions—la Féderation Autonome d'Enseignement (FAE)—were on strike for more than a month and more than 80,000 workers with a nurses union, la Fédération Interprofessionelle de la S…

Abayomi Azikiwe (2024-01-11). United States and Britain Threaten to Bomb Yemen in Defense of Gaza Genocide. globalresearch.ca

Adam Johnson (2024-01-11). Coverage of Gaza War in the New York Times and Other Major Newspapers Heavily Favored Israel, Analysis Shows. globalresearch.ca

Anuradha Chenoy (2024-01-11). The Israeli Genocide in Gaza and the International Court of Justice (ICJ). globalresearch.ca

Caleb Crowder (2024-01-11). New Report from Leading Research and Civil Society Organizations Reveals New Information on the Arrests of Water Defenders and the State of Human Rights in El Salvador under the Bukele Administration. ips-dc.org The new report highlights the full extent of human rights abuses under the Bukele administration, as well as evidence that the Bukele administration would like to bring back mining.

Centre for Civil, Political Rights (2024-01-11). Namibia: CCPR Centre and IPPR strengthen Civil Society's role on UN human rights mechanisms. reliefweb.int Country: Namibia | Source: Centre for Civil and Political Rights | CSOs from Namibia ready to engage with the Human Rights Committee in March 2024 | Windhoek, Namibia – In a collaborative effort between the Centre for Civil and Political Rights and the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), a two-day workshop unfolded in Windhoek, Namibia on 13rd and 14th December 2023. This workshop brought together 15 participants from various NGOs including at least 50% women human rights defenders. It aimed at deepening the understanding of civil society organizations on the Treaty-based Human Rights mechanisms, with…

Dave DeCamp (2024-01-11). Israeli MK Doubles Down on Call to 'Burn' Gaza, Says There Are 'No Innocents'. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2024-01-11). Tall Tales and Murderous Restraint: Blinken on Gaza and Israel. Meaningless Statements on Control and Protection of Civilians. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Paul Larudee (2024-01-11). South Africa's Charges of Genocide Against Israel: The World Court Judges' Vote Is Political, Not Legal. Neither "Evidence" Nor "Law" (The Genocide Convention) Will Convict Israel. globalresearch.ca

Dr. William Makis (2024-01-11). Young Girls Around the World Dying from Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines. globalresearch.ca

Drago Bosnic (2024-01-11). Is Latin America Finally Making United Stand Against US Imperialism? globalresearch.ca

ecns.cn (2024-01-10). Study finds Gigantopithecus blacki extinct 295,000 to 215,000 years ago after failure to adapt to environmental changes. ecns.cn Chinese, Australian and U.S. researchers have revealed more about the extinction of the Gigantopithecus blacki great ape in their latest joint study, which was published in Nature on Thursday.

ecns.cn (2024-01-11). Study finds Gigantopithecus blacki extinct 295,000 to 215,000 years ago after failure to adapt to environmental changes. ecns.cn Chinese, Australian and U.S. researchers have revealed more about the extinction of the Gigantopithecus blacki great ape in their latest joint study, which was published in Nature on Thursday.

Eric Zuesse (2024-01-11). Taiwan's Election on Saturday Will Decide War or No-war in China. asia-pacificresearch.com

Global Research News (2024-01-11). Selected Articles: The "Silent Cardiac Killer" Fraud: At Least 20 Young People Age 14-35 Drop Dead Each Week. One in 300 Now Carry an "Undetected Heart Condition" globalresearch.ca

Greg Guma (2024-01-11). Mergers and Mind Games: From Media Consolidation to Digital Indoctrination. globalresearch.ca

His Excellency Carlo Maria Viganà≤ (2024-01-11). Video: Archbishop Carlo Vigano. A False Pandemic and The Imposition of A False Vaccine. A Criminal Plan of World Depopulation. globalresearch.ca

imperial.ac.uk (2024-01-11). Psychedelic therapy may help break the chains of gambling addiction. imperial.ac.uk Researchers at Imperial's Centre for Psychedelic Research are using brain imaging to understand addictions and devise new approaches to treating them.

Jafar Ramini (2024-01-11). Israeli Genocide in Gaza: A Cry from the Heart — "When Will This End? How Much More Can We Expect Them to Take?" globalresearch.ca

Medea Benjamin (2024-01-11). A Chance to Hold Israel and the US to Account for Genocide. globalresearch.ca

Michael Jansen (2024-01-11). The Gaza War Has Finished Off Israeli Impunity. globalresearch.ca

Monica Piccinini (2024-01-11). Wines Tainted with 'Pesticide Cocktail'. globalresearch.ca

Peter Koenig (2024-01-11). Israel Confronted at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Does it Matter? Will It Effectively Take on Israel for its Atrocious Crimes? globalresearch.ca

Reuters (2024-01-11). Iranian Navy Boards 'American oil tanker' in Gulf of Oman. Will This Lead to US-Iran Confrontation? globalresearch.ca

Staff (2024-01-11). Gaza War Fuels Climate Crisis: "Massive" Carbon Emissions from Israeli Bombing. democracynow.org Israel's military assault on Gaza is not just a humanitarian disaster but also generating massive amounts of planet-heating emissions and exacerbating the climate crisis. The carbon emissions from Israel's bombs, tanks, fighter jets and other military activity in the first two months of the war were higher than the annual carbon footprints of 20 of the world's most climate-vulnerable nations, according to researchers in the United States and United Kingdom. That is "a really conservative estimate," says Guardian reporter Nina Lakhani, who reported on the new study. We also speak with…

Staff (2024-01-11). Israeli war in Gaza revives the Arab solidarity with Palestine. peoplesdispatch.org Over 92% of people in the Arab countries consider Palestine an Arab cause and expressed their solidarity and support to Palestine, according to a recent survey. It was published by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies based in Doha, Qatar on Wednesday, January 10. The survey was conducted across 16 Arab countries, including …

Tina Renier (2024-01-11). "Canada's Foreign Student Surge Prompts Changes and Anxiety". Opinion Response to a New York Times Article. globalresearch.ca

Zero Hedge (2024-01-11). Blinken Slams South Africa's Genocide Case Against Israel as 'Meritless' & 'Galling'. globalresearch.ca

Zero Hedge (2024-01-11). Russia Is Still — by Far — the World's Most-Sanctioned Country. globalresearch.ca

Dr. William Makis (2024-01-10). The "Silent Cardiac Killer" Fraud: At Least 20 Young People Age 14-35 Drop Dead Each Week. One in 300 Now Carry an "Undetected Heart Condition" globalresearch.ca

isabella (2024-01-10). How Redlining's Legacies Demand New Policy Action. inequality.org

John W. Whitehead (2024-01-10). Criminality in the White House: The Rise of the Political Psychopath. globalresearch.ca

Josef Finsterer (2024-01-10). Neurological Adverse Reactions to SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines. "Affect the central or peripheral nervous system (CNS, PNS)" globalresearch.ca

Lemma Shehadi (2024-01-10). Widespread Famine, Infectious Diseases: Pressure for UK to Shift its Position on Gaza, Parliament Informed of Soaring Hunger. globalresearch.ca

Barak Ravid (2024-01-10). Israel to Tell Blinken Palestinians Can't Return to North Gaza Without Hostage Deal. globalresearch.ca

Benjamin Sonnenberg (2024-01-10). The Chickadee in the Snowbank: A 'Canary in the Coal Mine' for Climate Change in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. counterpunch.org Mountain chickadees struggle with snow extremes. Benjamin Sonnenberg. Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb above 8,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada of eastern California, tugging a sled loaded with batteries, bolts, wire and 40 pounds of sunflower seeds critical to our mountain chickadee research. As we reach the

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-01-10). Tony Blinken Is a Cold-Blooded Sociopath. globalresearch.ca

Colonel Ann Wright (2024-01-10). Biden Is Trump's Poodle on Case of Journalist Julian Assange and Bogus Espionage Charges. globalresearch.ca

Craig Mokhiber (2024-01-10). A Crack in a 75-year-old Wall of Impunity: South Africa Challenges Israeli Genocide in Court. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Colleen Huber (2024-01-10). New Zealand Fudged the Data on How the Kidneys Fare After the COVID Vaccines. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Peter McCullough (2024-01-10). Low RSV Vaccine Acceptance Among Pregnant Women. globalresearch.ca

Emanuel Pastreich (2024-01-10). Video: Just Murdering a Few More Journalists in Gaza? With the Support of Private Contractors. globalresearch.ca

Global Research News (2024-01-10). Selected Articles: Australia Is Building World's Largest Sudden Cardiac Arrest Registry to Solve the "Mystery" of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Sudden Cardiac Deaths. globalresearch.ca By

HispanTV (2024-01-10). Chinese spacecraft shows what it was like to live the first day of 2024 in orbit. pressenza.com For just over five months, the three crew members will continue their research work in space. | After completing their assigned tasks on the first day of the new year, the Chinese astronauts donned special hoodies and turned on the cameras to record their activities in space on New Year's Day. One of the three crew members, Tang Shengjie, took some of his time to review his harvest. | The crew of the Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-17 have shown the world what it was like to live the first day of 2024 in orbit. For just over five months, the three crew members will continue their research work in space. | For the thr…

Jonathan Cook (2024-01-10). War on Gaza: The West Will Stand in the Dock Alongside Israel at the Genocide Court. globalresearch.ca

Leila Warah (2024-01-10). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 94: Israeli Forces Kill Four-year-old Girl in Occupied West Bank; Gaza's Children Face Brunt of the Genocide. globalresearch.ca

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2024-01-10). Blinken's Window Dressing Tour of Arab Capitals. globalresearch.ca

Middle East Eye (2024-01-10). Israel-Palestine Live: Blinken Meeting with Abbas Described as 'Tense'. globalresearch.ca

Noa Shpigel (2024-01-10). Israeli Lawmakers Say It Out Loud: Mass Migration From Gaza and Jewish Settlement Instead. globalresearch.ca

Oliver Mizzi (2024-01-10). 'Unimaginable Situation' in Gaza as 600 Patients and Staff Expelled from Al-Aqsa Hospital. globalresearch.ca

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-01-10). The Criminalization of International Justice, Putting an End to the Genocide against the People of Palestine. Nuremberg Principle IV. globalresearch.ca The ICJ is under the spotlight of the White House. The President of the IJC Joan E. Donoghue was appointed by Hillary Clinton. She is a U.S. appointee. She takes her instructions from Washington.

Prof. Stuart Rees (2024-01-10). Australia Must Support South Africa's International Court of Justice Case Against Israel. asia-pacificresearch.com

Steven Sahiounie (2024-01-10). String of US and Israeli Assassinations Further Inflame the Middle East. globalresearch.ca

Tina Renier (2024-01-10). The Representation of Women and Ethnic Minorities in Politics. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2024-01-10). The University of Sheffield and growing links to the arms trade by academic institutions. wsws.org BAE Systems, the sixth-largest arms company in the world, funded research projects involving academics at the ARMC worth £8.5 million between 2012 and 2022.

Paul Craig Roberts (2024-01-10). Can Big Pharma Be Held Accountable? thealtworld.com In 1935 Trofim Lysenko, a fraudulent agronomist took control of Soviet genetics and agronomy and destroyed the science with political and ideological explanations. With biology under Lysenko's dominance, the principles of Mendel's classical genetics were banned, and real scientists suffered political repression. | The Lysenko affair exemplifies my point that without truth there can be no science and no scholarship. | Tony Fauci and his puppet-masters introduced their own form of Lysenkoism with the Covid campaign. It was early apparent to independent scientists that the virus was a manufactured one made in a labo…

Staff (2024-01-11). Violence in Ecuador Is Result of Deliberate Dismantling of the State. orinocotribune.com The systematic violence which has immersed Ecuador is the product of a process of deliberate destructuring of the rule of law derived from policies implemented by the last three neoliberal governments, warned Jorge Paladines, an academic at the Central University of Ecuador and a professor of law and political science, in an interview with Sputnik. | That, today, Ecuador is in a situation of internal armed conflict, that the country has been plunged into a state of emergency, and that a live television program was interrupted by armed men, is not the result of spontaneity or chance. | On the contrary: the securit…

scorinoco (2024-01-10). How US Customs Shattered Chinese Women PhD Students' American Dream. orinocotribune.com By Jiawen Zhang and Zichen Wang — Jan 5, 2024 | The following is the translation of "Chinese PhD Students in the US Suddenly Deported: Enduring a Nightmare-like 50 Hours," a news report by China Science Daily posted in its Meng Fei, a PhD student originally set to return to her university in the US, was denied entry at a US airport and rapidly repatriated. The 50 hours she spent there is utterly an unforgettable nightmare for her. | After Meng landed in Washington DC on December 19, 2023, she was immedi…

Zane McNeill (2024-01-10). Study Calls for Halt in New Factory Farms, Citing "Enormous" Human Health Risks. truthout.org A new study published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science argues that there should be a moratorium on building or expanding poultry and pig farms because of the high risk of zoonotic disease. While the study focused specifically on the U.K., the findings concern pig and poultry farming globally. "The disease risks to humans from industrialized intensive animal farming, and especially mixed swine… |

ecns.cn (2024-01-10). China's GDP projected to increase 5.3% in 2024. ecns.cn China's economic growth is projected to reach 5.3 percent in 2024, Xinhua Finance reported on Tuesday citing a report by Chinese Academy of Sciences.

noemail (2024-01-10). NBCC bags contract worth Rs 218 crore from NIFT. devdiscourse.com State-owned NBCC Ltd has bagged a contract worth Rs 218 crore from National Institute of Fashion Technology.

Ben Gardner (2024-01-11). Growing number admit doing nothing to help climate change, data shows. thecanary.co Recent data shows growing inaction towards acting on climate change by people in England and Wales over the last three years. | Climate crisis: less people making lifestyle changes: | In three Office for National Statistics (ONS) surveys, the number of people who said they have made no lifestyle changes to help tackle climate change has increased from 19% in October 2021, to 23% in July 2022, to 28% in November 2023. | The surveys also asked respondents why they had not made any changes to their lifestyle, with the belief that their changes will have no effect becoming the most common reason, increasing f…

Gabisile (2024-01-11). NSFAS Board Chair Ernest Khosa takes leave of absence. sanews.gov.za NSFAS Board Chair Ernest Khosa takes leave of absence | The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) announced on Wednesday that its board chairperson, Ernest Khosa, has voluntarily tabled a notice of 30 days leave of absence. | This is after the NSFAS Board held a special meeting to discuss the financial aid scheme's state of readiness for the beginning of the 2024 academic year. | The leave of absence, according to the NSFAS, will enable the board to deal with all the allegations against him as contained in the recordings distributed by the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA). | The OUTA is accusing both…

Natalia Marques (2024-01-11). 100,000 expected to take Pro-Palestine demands to Biden's doorstep. peoplesdispatch.org A coalition of Muslim and pro-Palestine organizations are taking the overwhelmingly popular demand for a ceasefire straight to Biden's doorstep on January 13, at 1 pm, at the Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC. The "March for Gaza" is being organized by the American Muslim Task Force on Palestine, which includes American Muslims for Palestine, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Islamic Circle of North America, Muslim American Society, Muslim Student Association-National, Muslim Legal Fund of America, Muslim Ummah of North America, and Young Muslims, alongside the ANSWER Coalition, which played a key role in orga…

UMMID (2024-01-11). Allegation of sexual assault rocks Haryana's Chaudhary Devi Lal University. ummid.com Some 500 girl students of Chaudhary Devi Lal University in Haryana's Sirsa in a letter sent to PM Modi and State Chief Minister ML Khattar have accused a preofessor of sexual assault.

Adam Fishbein (2024-01-10). Student Loan Debt is Common Across All Race and Gender Groups, Especially for Black Women. cepr.net Forty-three million Americans currently have student loan debt. This group of borrowers collectively owes $1.766 trillion, which is a 267.1% nominal increase from 2006 (Hanson 2023). The burden of student debt is not evenly felt. The data analysis above shows that among surveyed Black or African American people who have attended some college or higher, …

Staff (2024-01-10). Hearing on Umar Khalid's bail plea in UAPA case adjourned to Jan 24 by SC. muslimmirror.com New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned till January 24 the hearing on the bail plea of former JNU student Umar Khalid in a case lodged under anti-terror law UAPA over his alleged involvement in the conspiracy behind the northeast Delhi riots of February 2020. A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and …

Alina Ramos Martin (2024-01-10). Díaz-Canel commemorates Julio Antonio Mella's murder in Mexico. plenglish.com Havana, Jan 10 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel commemorated the 95th anniversary of the murder, in Mexico, of student and communist leader Julio Antonio Mella, an act perpetrated by hitmen of dictator Gerardo Machado (1925-1933).

Energia per i Diritti Umani (2024-01-10). Sixth Humanist Forum took place in Senegal. pressenza.com On 6 January 2024, in Pikine, Senegal, the sixth Humanist Forum was successfully held, attracting the participation of 180 guests distributed in 10 work groups, each focusing on a specific theme. | The forum, promoted by Energie pour le droits de l'Homme Senegal, benefited from the active collaboration of numerous organizations, including the Keur Marietou Humanist Women's Network, Boza Fii, SOS Village des Enfants Senegal (Pikine headquarters), the Humanist Association Ndiadiane, JIG-Jam of Sossop, the Association of Mothers of Students of Pikine, Fonk Senegal, the Sports and Cultural Association (ASC) "Dioubo"

UMMID (2024-01-10). Allegation of sexual assault rocks Haryana's Chaudhary Devi Lal University. ummid.com Some 500 girl students of Chaudhary Devi Lal University in Haryana's Sirsa in a letter sent to PM Modi and State Chief Minister ML Khattar have accused a preofessor of sexual assault.

Pía Figueroa (2024-01-10). "A play entirely inspired by failure", Paulina Hunt. pressenza.com We interviewed actress Paulina Hunt, a Chilean playwright and teacher of theatre and television, about the new play she is about to present. Here we transcribe the full conversation: | Pressenza: You are about to premiere a new play of your creation, how did it come about, inspired by what? | Paulina Hunt: Yes, indeed, we are very focused and excited about this premiere. This is a joint creation with Juan Víctor Muñoz, with whom we have been working for some years. The impulse was born out of an enormous need for both of us to create in the current context, with the feeling of having many things to share and refl…

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