(2024-07-13). Building A Planet Of Peace Is The Only Realistic Thing To Do. popularresistance.org There are times in life when you want to set aside complexity and return to the essence of things. Last week, I was on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, travelling from Isla Grande to the mainland of Colombia, when it began to rain heavily. Though our boat was modest, we were in minimal danger with Ever de la Rosa Morales, a leader of the Afro-Colombian community on the twenty-seven Rosario Islands (located off the coast of Cartagena), at the helm. During the downpour, a range of human emotions swept through me, from fear to exhilaration. The rain was linked to Hurricane Beryl, a storm that struck Jamaica at a Categor…
(2024-07-13). NATO Summit: Not A Shield But A Bloodied Sword. popularresistance.org The pressing question we are required to grapple with today is the question of why? What lies at the root and what is the common denominator responsible for mankind's abject failure to achieve the vision set out in the U.N. Charter? | Upon due consideration, we are left in no doubt that, fundamentally, the series of conflicts that have come to define our existence are a consequence of the drive by one ideological bloc to dominate and impose a particular political, economic and value system onto a world defined by its diversity of languages, cultures, histories and traditions. | The result is the normalization of…
(2024-07-13). Canada's ruling elite deploys court injunction and police violence to crush two anti-genocide student encampments. wsws.org Using a court injunction and police violence, authorities in Ontario and Quebec succeeded in shutting down the student encampments at University of Toronto and McGill University, without any of their demands being met.
(2024-07-13). 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…
(2024-07-13). "Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East. globalresearch.ca When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…
(2024-07-13). Video: Biden Gets "His Countries Mixed Up" At NATO Summit, Introduces Zelensky as Putin. globalresearch.ca
(2024-07-13). Western Australian teachers' union pushes through sell-out wages and conditions deal. wsws.org The union apparatus worked to intimidate teachers and school workers who were outraged by the deal, threatening an even worse outcome through government-mandated arbitration if it was voted down.
(2024-07-13). Obituary] Lynette Ann Denny. thelancet.com Gynaecologic oncologist and cancer prevention researcher. She was born in Pretoria, South Africa, on Jan 30, 1958, and died of metastatic breast cancer in Cape Town, South Africa, on June 9, 2024, aged 66 years.
(2024-07-13). Sunteck Realty Q1 sale bookings up 30 pc to Rs 502 cr. devdiscourse.com Sunteck Realty Ltd has posted a 30 per cent increase in its sale bookings to Rs 502 crore for April-June FY25 driven by strong housing demand.
(2024-07-13). Correspondence] Improving the health literacy of young refugees. thelancet.com Refugees, especially young individuals, have suffered for decades from unsolved challenges related to their status as refugees. The Lancet emphasised health and higher education as integral parts of the quest to guarantee a better life for refugees.1,2 However, the suffering of the younger refugee population has been overlooked, especially those not yet attending higher education. Young refugees face tormenting physical, psychological, and social suffering, including an exposure to violence.3…
(2024-07-13). Correspondence] Iranian women in medical school leadership. thelancet.com Gender disparities among senior leadership positions in academia, such as medical school deanship, are prominent and persistent worldwide;1 however, this issue is more serious in the conservative academic context of Middle Eastern countries, including Iran. For example, since the establishment of the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) School of Medicine (the oldest medical school in Iran) in 1934, only one of the 31 deans has been a woman.2 The situation is similar in other medical schools in Iran, despite women currently comprising a substantial proportion of academics in medical schools.
(2024-07-13). Atlas of blood vessels to help fight cancers. ecns.cn A Chinese research team has published a groundbreaking study in Nature, creating the world's most comprehensive map of blood vessel networks for various cancers.
(2024-07-13). Perspectives] Long COVID politics and activism. thelancet.com Post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) has been described as a mass disabling event. Many people around the world have lost their jobs, homes, health, and social lives to a virus that sits in the nerves, tissues, blood, brain, and gut. Although rapid medical innovation for diagnostic tests, treatments, and effective vaccines for COVID-19 was largely efficient and effective, there are no verifiable tests for long COVID or a silver-bullet therapy to treat it. Even so, governments have committed millions to research projects that will hopefully explain the complex array of symptoms characteristic of long…
(2024-07-13). Moderate rain lashes parts of Himachal Pradesh, 15 roads closed. devdiscourse.com Moderate rain continued to lash parts of Himachal Pradesh and 15 roads were closed in the state, officials said on Saturday.
(2024-07-13). World Report] Research focus: the Paediatric Dengue Cohort Study. thelancet.com The Paediatric Dengue Cohort Study has now been running for 20 years, including data on thousands of children and driving discoveries across virology. Talha Burki reports.
(2024-07-13). UN chief says no alternative to Palestinian relief agency UNRWA. newarab.com 
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres declared on Friday that there is no alternative to The UN Relief and Works Agency provides education, health and aid to millions of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. Since war erupted nine months ago between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza, UN officials have stresse…