Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. (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…

John Wight, Consortium News. (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…

WSWS (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.

Felicity Arbuthnot (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…

Israel Shahak (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…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-07-13). Video: Biden Gets "His Countries Mixed Up" At NATO Summit, Introduces Zelensky as Putin. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (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.

Geoff Watts (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.

noemail (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.

Mohammed B A Sarhan, Rika Fujiya, Rita Giacaman, Masamine Jimba (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…

Roghayeh Gandomkar (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.

ecns.cn (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.

Emily Mendenhall (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…

noemail (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.

Talha Burki (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.

newarab (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…

Betsey Piette, Workers World. (2024-07-12). NEA Educators For Palestine Call On Union To Un-Endorse Biden. popularresistance.org Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Hundreds of educators held a pro-Palestine rally outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on July 3. They were participating in the National Education Association Representative Assembly, where they planned to introduce 10 New Business items (NBIs) involving education around Palestine, U.S. military spending in support of Israel, support for boycotts targeting Israel and solidarity with Palestinian unions and with teachers in the U.S. engaged in protests against the genocide in Gaza. | The rally was called by NEA Educators for Palestine, who are also pushing the U.S.

presstv.ir (2024-07-12). Indian universities establish deeper ties with Israel amid Gaza war. presstv.ir Indian universities strengthen research collaborations with Israeli academic institutions amid calls at Western schools for Israeli disinvestment.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2024-07-12). We Must Understand Israel as a Settler-Colonial State. counterpunch.org While attending the University of Oklahoma in 1956 — 57, I met a Palestinian petroleum engineering student named Said Abu-Lughod. Said, whose older brother Ibrahim Abu-Lughod would become a renowned professor at Northwestern University, told me how Israeli settlers had violently forced his family out of their ancestral home in Jaffa during the establishment of the state of

Or Kashti (2024-07-12). Israeli ultra-Orthodox network diverts state funds from girls' education toward schools that turn kids religious. haaretz.com The United Torah Judaism school system siphoned hundreds of millions of shekels from girls' education and transferred them to schools that aim to draw children closer to religion. A Haaretz reporter donned a kippa and visited these institutions, to discover a boutique framework that seeks to turn Israel more Haredi — with secular taxpayers footing the bill…

newarab (2024-07-12). Israel university bill part of Gaza narrative clampdown: lawyer. newarab.com A bill in the The bill in the It would empower the Council for Higher Education in Israe…

newarab (2024-07-12). Let us come together to build a strong, prosperous region. newarab.com At the start of my Our guiding principles are rooted in the eternal teachings of the Holy Quran: "And hold fast, all of you together, to the rope of Allah, and do not be divided," and "Cooperate in righteousness and pie…

newarab (2024-07-12). Seized oil tanker by Iran moving to international waters. newarab.com A Chevron-chartered oil tanker that was seized by The Marshall Islands-flagged Advantage Sweet was boarded by Iran's military in the Gulf of Oman in April 2023 after an alleged collision with an Iranian boat. | The US State Department welcomed reports that the vessel has been released and again condemned the Iranian regime's unlawful seizure of the vessel from international waters, an agency spokesperso…

ecns.cn (2024-07-12). China's summer grain output hit nearly 150 million tons. ecns.cn China's output of summer grain totaled 149.78 million tons in 2024, an increase of 3.627 million tons, or 2.5 percent, over 2023 levels, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Friday.

ecns.cn (2024-07-12). China releases case of using campus loans to force student to steal national secrets. ecns.cn MSS released on Friday a case involving a foreign spy intelligence agency using campus loans to pressure and threaten a student borrower through high-interest loans, violent debt collection, and intimidation in order to steal national secrets from China.

ecns.cn (2024-07-12). U.S. students go green at exchange camp in Fujian. ecns.cn U.S. college students are experiencing China firsthand through a cultural exchange program that aims to dispel stereotypes and foster environmental awareness.

ecns.cn (2024-07-12). Students graduate from Xizang Buddhism University. ecns.cn Over 320 monk and nun students who recently completed their studies at Xizang Buddhism University have been encouraged to practice and promote positive thoughts in Tibetan Buddhist doctrine.

Global Research News (2024-07-12). This Week's Most Popular Articles. globalresearch.ca Peter Koenig, July 9, 2024 | Lee Turner, Ju…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-07-12). Pfizer's "Secret" Report on the Covid "Vaccine". Beyond Manslaughter. The Evidence is Overwhelming. The Vaccine Should Be Immediately Withdrawn Worldwide. globalresearch.ca Pfizer was fully aware that the mRNA vaccine which it is marketing Worldwide would result in a wave of mortality and morbidity. This is tantamount to a crime against humanity on the part of Big Pharma.

ICRC (2024-07-12). Education programmes for young people. icrc.org

Dania Akkad (2024-07-12). Retired Saudi teacher sentenced to death over posts should be released, UN says. middleeasteye.net Retired Saudi teacher sentenced to death over posts should be released, UN says | UN working group says arbitrary detention of Mohammed al-Ghamdi and others in kingdom may constitute crimes against humanity | Fri, 07/12/2024 – 11: 17 | A Saudi court sentenced Mohammed al-Ghamdi to death last year over his social media…

Azad Essa (2024-07-12). US professor suspended for describing 7 October as 'exhilarating' reinstated by university. middleeasteye.net US professor suspended for describing 7 October as 'exhilarating' reinstated by university | College investigation finds that Jodi Dean's conduct did not threaten or intimidate students, as critics had claimed | Fri, 07/12/2024 – 15: 10 | Jodi Dean is the author of several books and is a noted political scientist based in G…

Staff (2024-07-12). UP: Muslim body rejects order on student transfers from madrasas to govt schools. muslimmirror.com Lucknow : The Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind has demanded the withdrawal of the UP government's recent order directing that all students in unrecognised madrasas and non-Muslim students studying in government-aided madrasas should be shifted to government schools. The Muslim organisation called the order "unconstitutional". The then Uttar Pradesh chief secretary, Durga Shankar Mishra, in an order dated …

ptcnews.tv (2024-07-12). Malala Day 2024: Lesser-known facts about Malala Yousafzai-The youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. ptcnews.tv Malala Day 2024: The renowned Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate, Malala Yousafzai celebrates her 27th birthday todayBorn in 1997 in Mingora, Pakistan, Yousafzai, an advocate for girls' education, survived a Pakistani Taliban assassination attempt when she was just 15 years old when they shot her in the head.In October 2012, Malala was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen for actively supporting girls' right to education in Mingora, Swat Valley in northern Pakistan following which she left the country and shifted to Birmingham, UK. | Malala also underlined the import…

ptcnews.tv (2024-07-12). 22-year-old US woman found beaten to death days after judge releases ex-boyfriend. ptcnews.tv PTC News Desk: Days after her boyfriend was released from jail, a 22-year-old American university student was discovered dead, battered, and wrapped in a sheet in the back seat of her vehicle. The New York Post reports that on July 3 at a Mississippi cemetery, Lauren Johansen's body was found wrapped in garbage bags and a sheet. Her father claimed that he begged the judge to keep her ex-boyfriend in jail, threatening to "kill her" if he did. The court, however, disregarded his advice, and five days later, the 22-year-old's body was discovered mangled in her own car. According to the authorities, her lover was th…

WSWS (2024-07-12). Australia: Rank-and-file committee calls for staff, student and wider support to stop Western Sydney University College cuts. wsws.org The Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee is organising an information and publicity campaign, including posters, leaflets and social media, to call for a wider movement to defeat the restructuring and job cuts at WSU College.

UMMID (2024-07-12). OFSS Inter 1st Merit List 2024, Intimation Letter Published. ummid.com Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) has released OFSS Inter 2024 1st Selection List or Merit List of students who have applied for admission in Class 11 (Intermediate) for the academicyear 2024-25 through Online Facilitation System For Students website www.ofssbihar.info.

Johnny Perez-Gonzalez (2024-07-12). Delaware expands cultural education requirements in K-12 curriculum. whyy.org

Bochen Han (2024-07-12). US senators introduce bill confronting China's dominance in critical minerals. scmp.com Legislation would require consideration of duties on Chinese critical minerals, create a fund to support investments in the sector, and support American projects abroad.

Guest Blogger (2024-07-12). U.S. Urban Air Pollution Trends: Fossil Fuel Ecology. wattsupwiththat.com But sound science, not outlier studies, is needed to inform public policy in light of achievable technological change.

Peter Crimmins (2024-07-12). A 2020 Black Lives Matter protest is revived as a neighborhood celebration in Mantua. whyy.org From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Iquail Shaeed, founder of the modern dance company Dance Iquail!, pulled together a protest rally and performance showcase in June 2020. | Part of the widespread social unrest that summer following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the "Art Thrives from Black Lives" rally was a march from the Community Education Center (CEC) on Lancaster Avenue to Miles Mack playground, followed by a program of mostly drill and drumline teams from the neighborhood and the Dance Iquai…

UMMID (2024-07-12). Meet Indian origin, Faraz Khalid, granted Saudi Citizenship by Royal Decree. ummid.com Saudi Arabia has accorded citizenship by a Royal Decree to a number of scientists, doctors, researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs among them is also Faraz Khalid, an India origin entrepreneur.

UMMID (2024-07-12). CA Final May 2024 Result out; Ghilman Saalim Ansari among toppers. ummid.com Ghilman Saalim Ansari, Kushagra Roy, Shivam Mishra, Yug Sachin Kariya and Varsha Arora are among the toppers of CA Final and Intermediate exams held in May 2024 the results of which were declared by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) Thursday.

noemail (2024-07-12). Breakthroughs in Science: From Space Startups to Ancient Plagues. devdiscourse.com Recent developments in the science community have brought to light several significant breakthroughs. Funding for space startups is on the rise, with global investments reaching $2.41 billion from April to June, marking a third consecutive quarter of growth, as per Seraphim Space.

Mark Cummings (2024-07-12). Being Smart About AI: How to Better Minimize AI Risks While Maximizing Spectacular Benefits. fairobserver.com