Readers who are parents might be forgiven for thinking that Alice Munro who blamed her abused daughter for her husband’s paedophilia was a sociopath whose condition might have a bearing on her books. (Alice Munro claimed her daughter was lying about being abused by stepfather) Mukul Kesavan A year and a half ago, while moving… Read More Life and Fiction
GAZA casualties, live statistics By Andre Damon The Lancet, the prestigious peer-reviewed British medical journal, has warned that the true death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 or more. This staggering figure amounts to 8 percent of the population of Gaza. A similar percentage of the US population would be 26 million people. It stands as… Read More Lancet warns Gaza death toll could be over 186,000
Toddlers go up in flames, and the Israeli public celebrates, erases, chatters or yawns – that’s what our hell looks like. When you embark on a campaign of vengeance, as the saying goes, dig two graves; Israel has such a strong desire for revenge that it is slowly sinking in a dark abyss, hand in… Read More Israel’s Tents Massacre in Rafah Is a Heinous War Crime / Israel Is Blind to Rafah’s Inferno, but Its Own Ruin Is Entwined With Gaza’s
The Turkish Ministry of Education’s decision to allocate only 10 positions for Kurdish language teachers out of 20,000 new teaching positions has sparked significant backlash, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported. Last year the ministry appointed 50 Kurdish teachers under a program titled “Living Languages and Dialects.” This year, the number was reduced to 10, comprising six… Read More Turkey allocates only 10 out of 20,000 teaching positions for Kurdish language
GAZA casualties, live statistics Rest in peace little one. I weep for your parents but you rest in peace An undated photo of Shahed Awda Talla. Obtained by CNN The last time Mona Awda Talla saw her daughter Shahed alive, she was leaving the house to go buy her some cake, wearing pink pants. The 10-year-old… Read More Israeli precision-guided munition likely killed group of children playing foosball in Gaza
By Colin Gonsalves * After having read the 72nd report of the Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on alleged irregularities in the conduct of studies using HPV vaccines by PATH in India, it was startling to see Bill Gates bobbing his head up and down and smiling ingratiatingly on prime time television while the Prime Minister lectured him in… Read More What’s Bill Gates up to? Have ‘irregularities’ found in funding HPV vaccine trials faded?
“Now, my son can even tell what types of explosives are falling” GAZA casualties, live statistics Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem Even before the war in Gaza broke out, people in the besieged Palestinian territory had some of the world’s worst rates of mental illness. Israel and Egypt’s blockade of the Mediterranean strip is now 17 years old; a… Read More ‘Chronic traumatic stress disorder’: the Palestinian psychologist challenging western definitions of trauma
President Joe BidenThe White House1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.Washington, D.C. 20500 Re: United States aiding and abetting mass starvation and war crimes in Gaza Dear Mr. President: Willful avoidance does not exculpate your responsibility. There is no exception for the Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is bound by the Geneva Conventions to provide for the health and… Read More Ralph Nader: Open Letter to President Biden March 12, 2024
Martin Luther King Jr’s 1967 speech condemning the Vietnam War offers a powerful moral compass as we face the challenges of our time Michelle Alexander / The Nation This moment feels different. Something new is in the air. Of course, everything is always changing. Impermanence is the way of life. Philosophers, theologians, and poets have reminded us… Read More Only Revolutionary Love Can Save Us Now
NB: Israel and its enablers, the Western establishment, led by the USA & UK have mutated into a global manifestation of the Ku Klux Klan. They are carrying out a mass lynching in front of our noses, in full view of the whole world, and the don’t give a damn. The atrocities they have committed,… Read More Israeli Genocide Causing ‘Complete Psychological Destruction’ of Gaza Children
After the truth-shower 