What Happened to Afghanistan’s Female Academics?
Despite the challenges, the women that researchers spoke to had not given up. Some are finding quiet ways to keep teaching.
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Over a Billion People in the World Live with Disabilities
People with disabilities are neither a minority nor an exception. They are a vast constellation of human experience – one-sixth of humanity (1.3 billion people). And yet, they are too often spoken of as if they exist at the margins of history. In truth, they stand at its centre.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Israel | Online Blog | Palestine
Einstein Opposed Zionist Colonization in Palestine and Predicted the Current Catastrophe
Among Einstein’s biographers—there are hundreds of them—and in the mainstream media, his extensive political writings on Israel and Zionism have been, at best, swept under the rug, or at worst, completely distorted, identifying him as a supporter of the State of Israel.
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Capitalism | Gaza | Imperialism | Israel | Online Blog | Palestine
Global Sumud Flotilla: A Mission of Solidarity Met by Israeli Piracy – 2 Articles
‛The Second Global Sumud Flotilla: Israeli Piracy and Abduction in International Waters’: On April 30, the Global Sumud Flotilla, comprising of 57 ships, while in international waters off Greece, was attacked by Israeli warships – over 1,000 kilometers from the Israeli coast. Also: ‛The Global Sumud Flotilla Is a Mission of Mercy, Met with Cruelty’.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Israel | Online Blog | Palestine
Gaza: Israel’s Slow Strangulation of a People – 3 Articles
‛Medicine Shortages Amid Siege Leave People in Peril in Gaza’; ‛How Israel Is Weaponizing Infectious Diseases in Gaza’; ‛Gaza’s Painful Journeys’: Walking is the main expression of our misery in Gaza. We walk to survive, to swiftly escape the Israeli bombardments and invasions, to provide for our families. And we walk because we have no other option but to walk.
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Europe Begins to Break with the US-Israel Axis – 2 Articles
‛The Pendulum Swings: The Slow Death of Europe’s Pro-Israel Consensus’; ‛Exit Ramps from the U.S.: New Coalitions of the Willing’: As allied confidence in U.S. commitments weakens, and as Trump signals that the lack of trust is mutual, governments are increasingly searching for alternatives.
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US Imperialism in Latin America: Gangsters, Dictators, and Corporate Plunder
‛Gangs and Climate Change, Born in the USA’; ‛New Gangsters for Capitalism’: While most of the world (and the media) is all too reasonably focused on the ever-evolving, increasingly disastrous conflicts in Iran and Lebanon, one shouldn’t forget US aggression in Latin America.
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Finance Capital and Private Credit Markets in the Shadow of the US-Israel War on Iran – 2 Articles
‛Finance Capital in the Age of Aggression’: With the US and Israel declaring war on Iran, profits from defence production are set to increase. But finance capital is staying away and seeking higher yields elsewhere. Also: ‛Militarised AI, Private Credit, and Iran War’.
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The Idea of the ‘Uyghur Genocide’ and the Realities of Xinjiang; and: Reply to the Article – 2 Articles
‛The Idea of the “Uyghur Genocide” and the Realities of Xinjiang’: According to the authors, there is no evidence of a policy of physical annihilation of the Uyghur peoples by the Chinese government – the hallmarks of a genocide. Also: ‛Dismissing China’s Repression in Xinjiang: A Reply to Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak’.
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Demonized Iran: A Tale Told by an Idiot
The current failing effort to make Iran out to be a major threat to world peace starts the clock at 1979 in its propaganda effort to justify U.S. aggression against Teheran. This deliberately overlooks the events of 1953, when a joint U.S.-British effort overthrew the then secular Iranian government in order to take over the country’s oil industry.
