Daily Archives: 2024-02-11

2024-02-11: News Headlines

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (2024-02-11). Israel Destroyed My University — Where Is The Outrage? popularresistance.org On Jan. 17, the Israeli military detonated 315 mines to destroy Gaza's last standing university, al-Israa University, located south of Gaza City. For 70 days prior, the Israelis occupied the university as a military base, posting snipers in its buildings and using it as a detention and interrogation center. According to university authorities, prior to the detonation Israeli soldiers looted the university museum, which contained 3,000 artifacts dating back as far as the Roman era. With al-Israa University's destruction, Israel has now destroyed or damaged all of Gaza's 12 universities, and also targeted 280 gover…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-02-11). World Cancer Day: Making a commitment to close the cancer care gap. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) recognizes World Cancer Day annually on February 4. The UICC's 2024 theme for World Cancer Day is "Close the Care Gap." The care gap is the gap between people who can obtain healthcare related to the prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment of cancer and those who cannot. The factors that create this gap include income, education and geographical location barriers. Discrimination based on ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, age,…

Editor (2024-02-10). It's Known as "Death by Incarceration." These People Want to End It. scheerpost.com

Christophe Peschoux, Consortium News. (2024-02-11). Dear Mr. High Commissioner: Help Free Assange. popularresistance.org On 20-21 February, a High Court in London will decide Julian Assange's fate: freedom or death. Two judges will decide whether the WikiLeaks founder will still be able to lodge an ultimate appeal, or will end his days in an American jail. | Mr. Assange has committed no crime. His only fault is to have revealed some of the crimes of the powerful of our time. Lèse majesté crime! | American wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere have destroyed millions of lives and ruined these countries for generations to come. No one has been prosecuted. On the contrary, these crimes have been covered up with impunity in the Unite…

People's Dispatch. (2024-02-11). Imran Khan's PTI Claims Victory In Pakistan's General Election. popularresistance.org As per the early results announced by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday, January 9, candidates supported by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek e-Insaf (PTI) were leading in a large number of constituencies in the National Assembly. | PTI claimed their candidates have won a majority of the seats and alleged ECP of attempting to rig the election after a delay in the publication of the final results. | The final results were expected to be announced hours after the voting was over on Thursday evening. However, the final results were not declared even at 10 pm, Friday. So far…

Staff (2024-02-10). Pakistan elections 2024 : Imran Khan And Nawaz Sharif both claim victory. muslimmirror.com Pakistan : Jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan is claiming victory in Thursday's poll, as independent candidates linked to him have won most seats so far. But another ex-PM, Nawaz Sharif, says his party has emerged the largest and urges others to join him in coalition. There are reports that coalition talks between Mr Sharif's …

Staff (2024-02-10). Pakistan elections 2024 : Imran Khan And Nawaz Sharif both claim victory. muslimmirror.com Pakistan : Jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan is claiming victory in Thursday's poll, as independent candidates linked to him have won most seats so far. But another ex-PM, Nawaz Sharif, says his party has emerged the largest and urges others to join him in coalition. There are reports that coalition talks between Mr Sharif's …

Tatyana Tandanpolie (2024-02-10). Conservative Activist's Lawsuit Threatens Grant Program for Black Women. truthout.org The same conservative activist that led the legal push behind last summer's Supreme Court takedown of race-based college admissions has set his sights on the corporate sector, now challenging the legality of a grant intended to support Black businesswomen's ventures. Edward Blum's American Alliance for Equal Rights filed a complaint against venture capital firm Fearless Fund in early August… |

UUSF Justice in the Middle East (2024-02-10). Sunday 2/25: Also Happening: Violence and Oppression in the West Bank. indybay.org Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco | 1187 Franklin St. @ Geary | S.F. Ca.

Andy Worthington. (2024-02-11). Held For 1,000 Days Since Approval For Release From Guantánamo Prison. popularresistance.org In the first of a new series of profiles of men held at Guantánamo — specifically, the 16 men (out of the 30 still held) who have long been approved for release by high-level US government review processes — I'm focusing on Uthman Abd Al-Rahim Muhammad Uthman, a 43-year old Yemeni citizen, who, today, has been held for 1,000 days since the US authorities first decided that they no longer wanted to hold him. | Uthman arrived at Guantánamo on January 16, 2002, five days after the prison opened, when he was just 21 years old, and, as a result, he has been held for over half his life at Guantánamo. The ph…

krish-rad_ind (2024-02-11). Man Who Leaked Massive C.I.A. Crimes Given CRAZY Prison Sentence! youtu.be

The Independent (2024-02-11). Jacob Kiplimo, Chebet win National Cross Country championships. independent.co.ug Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Long-distance runner Jacob Kiplimo won the National cross-country championships held in Tororo on Saturday. The reigning World cross country champion, secured the 10km meter race victory in 29 minutes, 3 seconds. Dan Kibet from the Uganda Prison Services followed in the second position as he crossed the finishing line at 29 …

Editor (2024-02-10). Much like Prison Visiting Rules, The Use of the Espionage Act is Arbitrary and Punitive. scheerpost.com By Jeffrey Sterling / Progressive Hub In Mid-December 2023, Charles Glass, the esteemed writer, journalist, broadcaster, and publisher visited with Julian Assange, an inmate at Belmarsh Prison in the U.K. Assange has been confined there since April, 2019. He is awaiting his final appeal to quash U.S. efforts to extradite him to face some of …

mforinoco (2024-02-10). US Questions Pakistan Election Process Amid Imran Khan Allies Lead. orinocotribune.com This comes as candidates aligned with imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan maintained a lead in election results thus far. | Washington on Friday questioned the implementation of "undue restrictions" during "We join credible international and local election observers in their assessment that these elections included undue restrictions on freedoms of expression, association, and peaceful as…

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