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No Reproductive Justice Without Palestinian Liberation

CounterPunch 

The following speech was given at Union Park at the March on the DNC on Monday, August 19th. Chicago for Abortion Rights is out here today because we REFUSE to allow the Democrats to use abortion rights and trans rights as a bargaining chip to force us to vote for their imperialist agenda. We refuse the More

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Khwansuda wins first Paralympics medal

BangkokPost.com 

Para-taekwondo star Khwansuda "Khwan" Phuangkitcha won Thailand's first bronze medal at the Paris 2024 Paralympics on Thursday by defeating Iran's Maryam Abdollahpour Deroei in the women's 47-kilogramme K44 category, which features athletes with limitations in one arm or leg.

Slow tropical storm dumps rain around Tokyo after flooding southern Japan

Business Standard 

A slow-moving tropical storm had a far-reaching impact in much of Japan on Friday, dumping heavy rain around Tokyo and flooding roads and riverside areas in the south. Flooding was reported in a number of areas in Kanagawa prefecture, west of Tokyo, where floodwater blocked roads, stalling vehicles and traffic. Warnings for heavy rain and potential landslides included the densely populated capital, Kanagawa and nearby Shizuoka prefecture. Muddy water flowed down the Meguro River in one of Tokyo's popular cherry blossom viewing spots... Читать дальше...

Manipur CM promises full peace in 6 months, says no question of resigning

Business Standard 

With ethnic violence gradually subsiding, Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh has promised to fully restore peace in the state in six months with the Centre's help, and also ruled out stepping down, saying he has neither committed a crime nor spawned a scandal. In an interview with PTI Videos here on Thursday, Singh revealed for the first time that he has appointed an emissary to hold talks with Kuki-zo and Meitei leaders. The clashes between the Kuki-zo and Meiti ethnic groups since May 2023 has left 226 dead, according to official count. Читать дальше...

US elections: America ready to turn page on Trump, says Kamala Harris

Business Standard 

The American people are ready to "turn the page" on Donald Trump, Kamala Harris has said, asserting that her Republican challenger is pushing an agenda which "divides" the country and "diminishes the character" of its people. In her first major television interview of her presidential campaign, the 59-year-old US Vice President, who will face Trump in the November 5 elections, said the American people are ready for a "new way forward". "I think sadly in the last decade, we have had in the former... Читать дальше...

'Grossly Offensive': Esther McVey Condemned For Comparing Smoking Ban With Nazi Germany

Huffingtonpost.co.uk 

Esther McVey has insisted she will not delete the offending post.

Esther McVey has been condemned for apparently comparing the government’s plans to extend the smoking ban with Nazi Germany.

The former Tory cabinet minister posted a famous poem about the Nazis’ persecution of the Jews on X.

The poem, written in 1946 by German pastor Martin Niemoller, says: “First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist.

“Then they came for the... Читать дальше...

Break on Through: Finding The Doors

CounterPunch 

I was at university when I first heard the Doors.  It was springtime, coming on summer.  I was living on campus, my first year, and I was eighteen.  I was in a housemate’s room, waiting for him to get back for some reason I don’t recall now.  The building we lived in was a little More

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Most clear on Friday, chance of rain in the mountains

Cyprus Mail 

The weather is expected to be mostly clear on Friday, with some isolated showers set to affect eastern areas and the mountains later in the afternoon. The met office said that there will be increased cloud cover in the western areas of the island, followed by isolated storms in the mountains and in some eastern […]

Pastor Hastings Salanje’s errand boy, Pastor Mlotha, starts serving 10-year jail term in S.Africa over stolen batteries

Malawi Voice.com 

Pastor Mlotha Nelson Usale, a subordinate of Pastor Hastings Salanje at Gods Chapel Church, has begun serving a 10-year prison sentence in South Africa for his role in a network tower battery theft syndicate. The Pretoria Magistrate’s Court found Usale guilty of tampering with essential infrastructure and fraud, after he orchestrated the theft of batteries […]

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October 7 Has a Prehistory

CounterPunch 

In belatedly disposing of teaching materials long after retiring, I came across a cutting from the Guardian Weekly (that convenient pre-internet medium for far-flung colonials, comprising articles from the UK Guardian, the Le Monde and the Washington Post). The cutting was a review of David Montgomery’s The Fall of the House of Labor; the issue, 22 May 1988. But wait, there’s something on More

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