Rachel Boothroyd Rojas (VA) : Cuban President Raul Castro vowed to support the Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro in the face of ongoing attempts to destabilise his administration. Raul Castro address the 70th UN General Assembly (VTV) Addressing world leaders at the United Nations 70th General Assembly in New York City this Monday, the Cuban leader […]
Archive for September, 2015
Raul Castro to UN: Cuba Will Support Venezuela in the Face of Destabilisation Attempts
Obama’s Human Rights Speech Ignores Illegal Israeli Occupation of Palestine
Michaela Whitton (AM) : Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat expressed disappointment this week with U.S. President Barack Obama, condemning the American head of state for ignoring the Palestinian issue during his speech at the U.N. general assembly on Monday. Saeb Erekat (nsnbc file) For the first time since he took office in 2009, the president […]
Saudi-US Aggression on Yemen, Popular Committees Control Saudi Post, Town in Jizan
Yemeni Army, Popular Committees Control Saudi Post, Town in Jizan Local Editor The Yemeni army and the Popular Committees announced on Tuesday their control over the Saudi military post of Ka’b al-Jaberi and the town of Mohannad in the border area of Jizan, leaving several Saudi soldiers killed and wounded. In a similar development, […]
Zionist Forces Nab 7 Palestinians over al-Aqsa Clashes
Israeli occupation forces have nabbed seven Palestinians on charges of involvement in recent tensions at al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds. The abductions were made on Tuesday with Israeli officials claiming that the captives were involved in Monday’s clashes when Palestinians, they alleged, gathered inside a mosque at the site and “threw firebombs and rocks at […]
World Bank Warns of ’High Risk’ of Zionist-Palestinian Conflict
Local Editor The World Bank warned of the “high risk” of renewed Zionist-Palestinian conflict if the political and economic status quo between the two sides persists, in a report released Tuesday. “The persistence of this situation could potentially lead to political and social unrest,” it said. “In short, the status quo is not sustainable and […]
Praying at Al-Aqsa is hazardous. Israel made it a near-free-fire zone, the ruthless policy of a racist state
Israel’s War on Al-Aqsa by Stephen Lendman Muslim’s call Islam’s third holiest site the Noble Sanctuary/Al-Haram al-Sharif. Over 35 acres enclose fountains, gardens, buildings and domes. At one end is the Al-Aqsa Mosque. In the center is the Dome of the Rock. The entire area is considered a mosque – sacred ground for Muslims, freely […]
Don’t laugh, ‘israel concerned with build-up of Iranian forces in Syria near Golan border’
‘Israel concerned with build-up of Iranian forces in Syria near Golan border’ Outside of claims coming from Israeli propaganda sources, there is no confirmation that Iranians are anywhere near the border with Israel. But Israel, following the usual “By way of deception, thou shalt do war,” is clearly intending to launch a ground invasion of […]
UM Student Arrested for Powdered Sugar Prank
The dorm rooms at the University of Miami are subject to regular administrative searches, and students are notified days in advance so they can clean up the beer bottles from the previous weekend and hide their weed. Jonathan Harrington decided to prank the housing officials conducting the search. He left lines of powdered sugar, rolled […]
Unarmed Man Bites Cop’s Finger And Cop Shoots Him Dead
Junior Prosper a yellow cab driver drove into a light pole at the entrance to I-95 Monday morning. The cab was only slightly damaged, but then things took a turn for the worse. For unknown reasons Junior Prosper fled the scene of the accident and ran up the southbound ramp at Northwest 119th Street. That’s when […]
Planned Parenthood Supporters Rally To Stop Funding Cuts
Print Friendly (Miranda Katz / Gothamist) Following a summer of slanderous attacks against Planned Parenthood and repeated attemptsby Congressional Republicans to cut its funding, several hundred people turned out in Foley Square today for a #PinkOutNYC rally in support of the organization that serves nearly 50,000 patients in New York City alone. That number might well start […]
Protests To Defend Penobscot Nation Of Ancestral Waterway Rights
Print Friendly PORTLAND, MAINE — Last night, Monday, September 28, a small group of Native people and a large group of allies came together to speak out against the perpetuation of oppressive and genocidal acts against Maine’s Native peoples. They showed up outside the University of Southern Maine’s Portland campus. Specifically, the group came to challenge […]
Black Lives Matter Takes Back The Night & Shuts Down Toronto
Print Friendly Black lives were the focus at Take Back The Night on Saturday, an event that shut down Toronto streets and highlighted sexual violence. Hundreds rallied against police brutality and in solidarity with marginalized black lives, with particular attention to the lives of black individuals who are cis women, trans, queer, on the gender spectrum, […]
Grassroots Women’s Response To Climate Change
Print Friendly Photo Courtesy of Womens Earth Alliance. The Malnad Mela is an opportunity for these women to share traditional ecological knowledge. For the very same reasons that women are intimately connected to the challenges that climate change brings, they are also uniquely positioned to identify the most effective solutions. When we invest in women, […]
REDress Project Highlights Missing & Murdered Aboriginal Women
Print Friendly Photo: The red dress of Jamie Black’s work is meant to symbolize the violence faced by indigenous women but is also a symbol of the power of a community coming together to fight this violence. In 2014 there were an estimated 225 missing or murdered aboriginal women in Canada, according the RCMP statistics. […]
The meaning of “Trump”
The meaning of “Trump” “In all corners of the earth the words “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” brought to our ranks, thanks to our blind agents, whole legions who bore our banners with enthusiasm. And all the time these words were canker-worms at work boring into the well-being of the GOYIM, putting an end everywhere to peace, […]
One Little-Known Mistake That Keeps Millions Overweight
More than two-thirds of all Americans are overweight. And right now, more than 108 million Americans are on a diet. The average dieter makes four or five attempts each year, yet less than one percent of these attempts actually results in long-term weight loss. Before we continue, it should be noted that the issue of weight […]
This Is The World’s Biggest Eye Contact Experiment
Where has human connection gone? This is the question that The Liberators International social movement is hoping to answer and resolve through the world’s biggest eye contact experiment. On October 15th, 2015, over 20,000 people across 50 cities will be sitting in public spaces to share eye contact with one another and break down some […]
A step toward clothing that guards against chemical warfare agents
In today’s world, in which the threat of terrorism looms, there is an urgent need for fast, reliable tools to detect the release of deadly chemical warfare agents (CWAs). In the journal ACS Macro Letters, scientists are reporting … Source Article from http://phys.org/news/2015-09-chemical-warfare-agents.html Views: 0
Light does not have to be a (rapid) killer of chemical molecules
The photostability of chemical molecules suspended in a polymer can be enhanced by limiting their contact with oxygen, as found by researchers from the IPC PAS in Warsaw, Poland. Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski Chemical molecules strongly interacting with light generally disintegrate very rapidly. At the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of […]
Math and me: Children who identify with math get higher scores
How strongly children identify with math (their math “self-concept”) can be used to predict how high they will score on a standardized test of math achievement, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Washington. The study, published in the October 2015 issue of the journal Learning and Instruction, is the first […]