Hundreds of people protested outside Romania’s Health Ministry the day after a fatal fire at one of the country’s main hospitals for COVID-19 patients, calling Saturday for the resignations of the president, the health minister and the emergencies chief. At least five people died in the fire, which broke out early Friday on the ground […]
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Romania: Protests after hospital blaze leaves at least five people dead
UK opens special visa route for Hong Kong residents to become citizens
Hong Kong residents can apply from Sunday for a new visa offering them an opportunity to become British citizens after Beijing’s imposition of a national security law in the Asian financial hub last year. The move comes as China and Hong Kong have said they will no longer recognise the British National Overseas (BNO) passport […]
English Football Association announces push to stamp out racist abuse of players
England’s Football Association has vowed to work with the British government and social media platforms to tackle racism after a spate of incidents over the past week involving Premier League players from Chelsea, West Bromwich Albion and Manchester United being targeted by online abuse. In the aftermath of his team’s goalless draw with Arsenal on […]
India’s cinemas get greenlight to go back to 100% capacity as Bollywood reels from Covid-19 restrictions
New Delhi has allowed cinemas and theaters all over the country, except for Covid-19 containment zones, to increase seating from 50 percent to full capacity in a move welcomed by the battered movie industry. The new guidelines, released by India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Saturday, pertain to “cinemas, theaters and multiplexes,” allowing them […]
First, They Came For Our Masks
First, they came for our masks!Then they came for our muzzles!But… we’d been masked for so longWe all felt naked without them! We’d been muzzled for so long,We couldn’t find our voices!Naked and voiceless, we wandered in darkness.“Didn’t there used to be a sun?” someone wondered, Pointing…. “Didn’t there used to be a moon?”Someone else […]
A New U.S. Foreign Policy
President Biden has inherited a terribly flawed US foreign policy. For the past few decades, the pro-corporate US foreign policy has been a catastrophic failure, especially in the Middle East. Our criminal military interventions there have resulted in the devastation of much of that area, impoverished millions, created millions of refugees, and injured or killed […]
Rosa Parks and Equal Rights
Rosa Parks learned to stand her ground for which she was hauled off to jail. This incident wasn’t the first time, nor the last time, that an Afro-American would be incarcerated for an act of civil disobedience. Her arrest was due to this event: A bus driver in Montgomery, Alabama ordered her to give up […]
Noam Chomsky – Why Does the U.S. Support Israel?
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Livelihood Crisis Greatly Aggravated in Covid Times
Written by Bharat Dogra & Kumar Gautam While India had serious unemployment and livelihood protection problems even earlier, the Covid crisis accentuated these problems in unprecedented ways for some weeks, also leaving behind longer-term serious impacts. A report by Oxfam on Covid-time inequalities has highlighted this aspect of the crisis and recommended shorter as well […]
Trump parts ways with impeachment lawyers -source
Former US President Donald Trump abruptly parted ways on Saturday with the two lead lawyers working on his defense for his Senate impeachment trial, a source familiar with the situation said, leaving Trump’s legal strategy in disarray.Butch Bowers and Deborah Barberi, two South Carolina lawyers, are no longer on Trump’s team, the source said. The […]
Voices Which Help to Understand Critical Phase of the Farmers’ Movement
There has been a lot of interest in the farmers’ movement and many people in distant parts of the India, and even outside India, feel a strong emotional connect with the movement. Recently this movement has been passing through a critical phase . It is useful to see what some well-informed persons in important positions […]
The unraveling of a script in two parts and writing a new Script
Written by Amit Bhaduri and Chaman Lal The script of collaboration is in two parts. The first part was written long ago when the once revolutionary Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was released after long years from prison in the Andamans. He collaborated with the British as he had promised in several petitions for mercy he had […]
Israel’s COVID cabinet to vote on extending lockdown without exit date
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Population Problem Today
ABSTRACT Today no one is talking of controlling population any more. Fertility rates are falling all over the world and many governments are encouraging births; giving monetary support and withdrawing free contraceptives and free vasectomy operations. The new problem is that of ageing. No one is prepared to talk of decreasing the longevity. Increasing longevity […]
Protest against lapdog media held to mark Gauri Lankesh’s birthday in Canada
Members of Indians Abroad for Pluralist India (IAPI) came together on Saturday January 30,to mark the birth anniversary of a slain journalist, outside the Indian visa and passport center in Surrey. Gauri Lankesh was a critic of the current right wing Hindu nationalist government. Born on January 29, 1962, she was assassinated in 2017 by […]
RH – The Velvet Revolution: War/Genocide Against Christian Armenia, w/ Matt Johnson
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Leifer gets a change of chaplain
Browse > Home / News / Leifer gets a change of chaplain January 31, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk Read on for article With the ultra-orthodox Malka Leifer imprisoned in Victoria facing 74 charges of child sexual abuse, the Department of Justice and Community Safety has dismissed the chaplain chosen to offer her counselling. Malka Leifer […]
Former Israeli official: Americans should not give Iranians leverage by easing sanctions
Browse > Home / Featured Articles / Former Israeli official: Americans should not give Iranians leverage by easing sanctions January 31, 2021 by Israel Kasnett – JNS.org Read on for article As the new Biden administration takes shape, Israeli leaders in recent days have been outspoken in their warnings about Iran and its pursuit of […]
Kevin Annett Interview With Victim of Satanic British Empire
Breaking the Chains: Three Weeks of Illegal Imprisonment and Torture in a Canadian JailAn Exclusive interview with Republic of Kanata organizer Paul Kuleba and your host Kevin AnnettThis Sunday, January 31 on the Voice of the Republic – “Here We Stand” www.bbsradio.com/herewestand at 3 pm pacific, 6 pm eastern, 11 pm GMT On January 8, Paul Kuleba, a […]
Wahhabism/Saudi’s A Colonial British Creation, & U.S.
by Admin · January 31, 2021 [embedded content] hammadalqadri6.71K subscribersSUBSCRIBEWahabism In Arab & Its B Team In Subcontinent Deobandism/Tablighi Jamaat Are Colonial Era’s British Planted Traitors Among Muslims, These Both Deviant Cults Emerged Only After The British Arrival On Muslim Lands With Infamous Policy Of “Divide & Rule”. Wahhabism Or Fake Salafism With Backing Of […]