Daily Archives: January 7, 2024

2024-01-07: News Headlines

teleSUR, MS (2024-01-07). Atentado en Afganistán cobra la vida de dos personas. telesurtv.net El atentado también dejó 14 heridos y se perpetró en un barrio donde residen varias personas de la comunidad chiita Hazara.

Editor (2024-01-07). Armenians Suffering in Nagorno-Karabakh Are Going Largely Ignored in US Media. scheerpost.com

ecns.cn (2024-01-07). Asia's largest natural science museum opens in N China's Hebei. ecns.cn The Paleozoological Museum of China, the largest natural science museum in Asia, opened to the public in Baoding, north China's Hebei Province, on Wednesday."ÄÄ…

ecns.cn (2024-01-07). Changsha residents line up to purchase stamps marking the Year of the Dragon. ecns.cn During an interview with China News Network, Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School, expressed his hope of 2024.

ecns.cn (2024-01-07). Insights丨Rana Mitter: China's engagement to make 2024 a peaceful, prosperous and cooperative year. ecns.cn During an interview with China News Network, Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School, expressed his hope of 2024.

The Independent (2024-01-07). Uganda's top female striker Ikwaput joins Gokulam Kerala FC in India. independent.co.ug KAMPALA, UGANDA | Xinhua | Uganda's top female striker Fazila Ikwaput has joined Indian Women's Premier League side Gokulam Kerala FC. Ikwaput confirmed to Xinhua that she has rejoined the Indian side she featured for in 2018. "I am very happy that I arrived here just a day ago and went straight for a match …

teleSUR, MS (2024-01-07). India avanza en la exploración del sol con una sonda espacial. telesurtv.net Con esta misión exitosa, se convirtió en el primer país asiático en explorar la órbita del sol.

Staff (2024-01-07). Pre-election chaos in Bangladesh; arson, violent clashes, and boycott calls heighten tensions. muslimmirror.com By Muhammad Shoaib, Dhaka 42 incidents of arson took place in at least 23 districts of the country in 24 hours till 10 o'clock on last night before the start of voting in the 12th National Assembly elections. Miscreants set fire to 21 polling stations in 14 districts. At the same time four election camps …

Staff (2024-01-07). Pre-election chaos in Bangladesh; arson, violent clashes, and boycott calls heighten tensions. muslimmirror.com By Muhammad Shoaib, Dhaka 42 incidents of arson took place in at least 23 districts of the country in 24 hours till 10 o'clock on last night before the start of voting in the 12th National Assembly elections. Miscreants set fire to 21 polling stations in 14 districts. At the same time four election camps …

Staff (2024-01-07). General Elections in Bangladesh: Voting for the 12th National Assembly elections begins. muslimmirror.com By Muhammad Shoaib The 12th National Assembly elections are underway, encompassing 299 of the 300 seats of the Jatiya Sangsad. Commencing at 8 a.m. this Sunday morning, voting will persist until 4 p.m., with an unfortunate cancellation of polling for the Naogaon-2 constituency due to the demise of one candidate. Within these 299 constituencies, the …

Staff (2024-01-07). Bangladesh General Elections 2024: Allegations of widespread rigging reported across the country. muslimmirror.com By Muhammad Shoaib, Dhaka Reports of mass rigging have marred the sanctity of the democratic process during Bangladesh's 12 General Elections. The latest 12th National Assembly elections, commencing at 8 a.m. and concluding at 4 p.m. on a Sunday, have once again been plagued by numerous irregularities across the nation. Statistics from the Election Commission …

Editor (2024-01-07). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 92: International Community Rejects Israeli Calls for Gaza Ethnic Cleansing as Assault Nears Three-Month Mark. scheerpost.com Palestinians transport the injured to the Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip on October 9, 2023. Photo from Wikimedia Commons by Wafa. | By Palestine Mondoweiss Bureau / Casualties: : | 22,722 kill…

Staff (2024-01-07). Iranian FM says security of Palestine, region interconnected. muslimmirror.com Tehran : Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has said that the security of Gaza and the West Bank is interconnected with that of the region and "war is not the solution". He made the remarks on Saturday in a phone call with his French counterpart Catherine Colonna, Xinhua news agency reported, citing a statement released …

Staff (2024-01-07). Iranian FM says security of Palestine, region interconnected. muslimmirror.com Tehran : Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has said that the security of Gaza and the West Bank is interconnected with that of the region and "war is not the solution". He made the remarks on Saturday in a phone call with his French counterpart Catherine Colonna, Xinhua news agency reported, citing a statement released …

Colonel Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. (2024-01-07). China, Iran and And North Korea Have Warned The US On Their Red Lines. popularresistance.org On Tuesday, January 3, 204, a small group waved signs on Honolulu's busy Beretania Street in front of the Hawaii State Capitol to commemorate the sixth year since the citizens of Hawaii were informed by text messages that there was an incoming nuclear missile. The phone alert said, "This is not a practice." People in Hawaii dived into man-holes on the street, headed into their homes or into other places like caves. 20 minutes later, the State of Hawaii Emergency Management System issued an apology for a systems operator pushing the wrong button. | But the drill made real to the people of Hawaii how close our worl…

Brian Berletic (2024-01-07). Video: Who Is Behind the Deadly Iran Bombing and Why? The US has Backed Terrorism in Iran for Years. globalresearch.ca

thecommunists (2024-01-07). Who wants war with Iran? thecommunists.org John Bolton, erstwhile US national security advisor (and neocon blowhard for all seasons, in or out of office) wrote an article in the Telegraph newspaper shortly after Christmas. The article lambasted the inaction of the Biden administration over attacks on Israel-affiliated shipping, accusing it of "ignoring the reality of who is calling the shots in …

People's Dispatch. (2024-01-07). Iraq Slams US Attack On PMF As Violation Of Sovereignty. popularresistance.org On Thursday, January 4, the Iraqi government called the US attack on the headquarters of semi-official armed group Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) or Hashd al-Shaabi "a dangerous escalation and aggression against the country's sovereignty." | At least four people were killed, including a top commander of the PMF, and six others were injured when a US drone hit PMF's headquarters in eastern Baghdad. The PMF commander killed in the US attack was identified as Hajj Moshtaq Taleb al-Saidi (Abou Taqwa). | Reacting to the US attacks, Iraqi president Abdul Latif Jamal Rashid issued a statement on Thursday condemning i…

Binoy Kampmark (2024-01-07). Circle of Secrecy: The Iraq War's Missing Cabinet Documents. dissidentvoice.org They are unlikely to be revelatory, will shatter no myths, nor disprove any assumptions. Cabinet documents exist to merely show that a political clique — the heart of the Westminster model of government, so to speak — often contain the musings of invertebrates, spineless on most issues such as foreign policy, while operating at the …

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-07). Released cabinet papers on Iraq war support still not transparent. greenleft.org.au

english.almayadeen.net (2024-01-07). Day 93: 22,835 martyrs, 58,416 injured by 'Israel'The latest toll released on the 93rd day of the Israeli aggression came after the occupation committed 12 massacres against entire families in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, killing more than 113 people and injuring another 250.

yenisafak.com (2024-01-07). Israel fears ruling from International Court of Justice to stop its army attacks on GazaSouth Africa is using photo evidence captured by Turkish global news agency Anadolu to show that Israel committed war crimes in its onslaught on the Gaza Strip as it brings its genocide case against Tel Aviv at the ICJ. | In the case file submitted by South Africa to the international court based in The Hague, photos by Anadolu, also featured in a report by Amnesty International, are serving as evidence to help prove Israel's use of banned white phosphorus munitions in Gaza, one of the most densely populated regions in the world.

Palestine Bureau, Mondoweiss. (2024-01-07). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 91: Hunger And Cold Take A Toll In Gaza. popularresistance.org The first International Court of Justice hearings scheduled for next week over whether Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip constitute genocide are not deterring the Israeli military from continuing to wage a relentless campaign of bombardment and deliberate humanitarian devastation on the besieged Palestinian territory. | WAFA news agency reported deadly Israeli airstrikes between Thursday and Friday in Jabalia refugee camp, Khan Younis, al-Zawaida, al-Maghazi refugee camp, al-Bureij refugee camp, Deir al-Balah, Rafah, and Nuseirat refugee camp. Israeli forces notably hit a cemetery and tents where Palestinian civ…

mondoweiss.net (2024-01-07). Why we have to make the Jewish Ghetto comparisonThe horror of the past has returned in a new guise, and the comparison of the Jewish ghetto under Nazism with the Gaza ghetto under Israel's current fascistic authority must cease to be sacrilegious.

Jake Johnson (2024-01-07). Israel Accused of Attempting to Intimidate Judges in World Court Genocide Case. truthout.org The Israeli government has mounted a pressure campaign urging governments around the world to publicly denounce South Africa's genocide case at the International Court of Justice, which is set to convene hearings on the detailed charges on Thursday. According to a cable obtained by Axios, the Israeli Foreign Ministry is calling on the country's embassies to pressure host country diplomats and… |

aljazeera.com (2024-01-07). Israel war on Gaza: Condemnation after Israel kills two journalists in GazaHamza Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya killed when car attacked after reporting trip near Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

vanguardngr.com (2024-01-07). Does a Genocidal Nation Have the Right to Exist?By Femi Fani-Kayode | | The genocidal monster and strange little creature that appears in a video, which I posted on X boastfully proclaiming that "every single Gazan is an enemy of Israel" & that "every man, woman & child in Gaza should be killed", proves that the Jewish state is now a nation of demonically-inspired souls that are in the grip & power of satan.

News Desk, The Cradle. (2024-01-07). Israel Readies Political Blitz To 'Quash' Genocide Case At World Court. popularresistance.org The Israeli foreign ministry has ordered officials around the world to lobby diplomats and politicians to "issue statements against South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ)," according to an internal cable reviewed by Axios. | In particular, the cable highlights that Israel's "strategic goal" is for the ICJ, also known as the World Court, "to reject the request for an injunction, refrain from determining that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and recognize that the Israeli military is operating in the Strip according to international law." | "A ruling by the court could have significan…

krish-rad_ind (2024-01-07). Israel readies political blitz to 'quash' genocide case at ICJ. new.thecradle.co

aljazeera.com (2024-01-07). Why is Germany so viciously anti-Palestinian?German support for Israel is used as a cover to ramp up racist anti-immigration policies and downplay homegrown anti-Semitism.

Mustafa Abu Sneineh (2024-01-07). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 93: Israel surpasses three months of Gaza bombing campaign, UN warns of starvation. mondoweiss.net Israeli forces killed eight Palestinians in the West Bank in overnight raids. In Gaza, an Israeli airstrike killed Hamza Dahdouh, son of Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, in Khan Yunis.

Michelle Weinroth (2024-01-07). Why we have to make the Jewish Ghetto comparison. mondoweiss.net The horror of the past has returned in a new guise, and the comparison of the Jewish ghetto under Nazism with the Gaza ghetto under Israel's current fascistic authority must cease to be sacrilegious.

MEE staff (2024-01-07). War on Gaza: Son of Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief killed by Israeli air strike. middleeasteye.net War on Gaza: Son of Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief killed by Israeli air strike | Journalists Hamza al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya killed after missile targets their vehicle in Khan Younis | Sun, 01/07/2024 – 09: 54 | Al Jazeera journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh hugs his daughter and son as they attend the funeral of his son, Palestinian journalist Hamza Al-Dahdouh in Rafah, southern Gaza on 7 January 2024 (Mo…

David Cronin (2024-01-07). Firms profiting from Gaza genocide take part in London weapons fair. electronicintifada.net Sponsors have made equipment used in Israel's war.

Tareq Baconi, Consortium News. (2024-01-07). Al-Aqsa Flood And The End Of Partition. popularresistance.org Hamas' surprise offensive last Oct. 7 dealt the most lethal blow to the Israeli military and public since the establishment of the state in 1948. | In retaliation, Israel launched the most extensive military assault on Gaza in its history, destroying large swathes of the territory and killing more than 22,185 Palestinians and injuring at least 57,000 as of Jan. 2, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. | With green lights from the U.S. and much of Europe, Israel has carried out what scholars and experts have called a genocide campaign, seeking to rid itself of the Palestinians in Gaza under the guise of decimatin…

Mnar Adley, MintPress News. (2024-01-07). How Corporate Media Whitewash Israeli Crimes: A Personal Narrative. popularresistance.org Like many of you, my heart is weighed down so heavily by the ongoing turmoil in Gaza. And every day, I witness in absolute horror what Israel is doing to Palestinians, as it commits war crime after war crime; it's watching dismembered children with their limbs blown off or helpless fathers carrying their decapitated babies while collecting the body parts of their wives and children in plastic bags. Or mothers carrying the dead bodies of their children, crying and screaming for them just to wake up. Or the newlywed wife who embraces her deceased husband, her lover, and gives him her last kiss and hug goodbye.

The Independent (2024-01-07). Israeli army says dismantles Hamas' military framework in northern Gaza. independent.co.ug JERUSALEM, ISRAEL | Xinhua | The Israeli army announced on Saturday evening that it has dismantled the military framework of Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Spokesman Daniel Hagari said in a press conference that in the north of the strip, Hamas had two military brigades with 12 battalions, "which had …

sbs.com.au (2024-01-07). Israel is being accused of genocide in an international court. What is the situation?A crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part. | UN Convention definition of genocide

MEE staff (2024-01-07). War on Gaza: Son of Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief killed by Israeli air strike. middleeasteye.net

ceasefire (2024-01-07). Canada must end potential genocide complicity by suspending arms exports to Israel. ceasefire.ca South Africa justifies its standing to bring the case on the basis of its obligation to prevent genocide.

Editor (2024-01-07). How Israel Leverages Genocide With Hamas 'Massacres'. scheerpost.com

Julia Conley (2024-01-07). Demands for Israeli Ambassador to UK's Expulsion After 'Clear Call for Genocide'. globalresearch.ca

krish-rad_ind (2024-01-07). How Israel Leverages Genocide With Hamas 'Massacres'. consortiumnews.com

radiohc.cu (2024-01-07). Israel conceals heavy losses as Hezbollah operations continue against occupation forcesThe secretary general of Lebanon's Hezbollah says Israel is concealing the "heavy losses" it has suffered in the war on the southern Lebanese border as the resistance movement's operations against the occupying regime are "very exhausting."

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (2024-01-07). Israel Cannot Be A Colonial Power And A Democracy. popularresistance.org Israel's status as a bona fide democracy is often taken to be a self-evident truth, but a more critical look at the history and reality of Zionism calls this into question. After all, how can a democracy exist in a country constitutionally defined as an ethnostate that can only exist through the suppression and gradual elimination of its Others? Israeli historian Ilan Pappé joins The Chris Hedges Report for a discussion on Israel as an inherently colonial, and therefore anti-democratic, project. | Ilan Pappé is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter i…

Philip Weiss (2024-01-07). Weekly Briefing: Claudine Gay was brought down by the Israel lobby. mondoweiss.net Donors to Penn and Harvard angered by pro-Palestinian activity on campus catalyzed pressure to take down the schools' presidents. Their message is clear and helps explain Joe Biden's passivity in the face of Israeli war crimes too.

Fayha Shalash (2024-01-07). Israeli forces kill seven Palestinians from same family during Jenin raid. middleeasteye.net

MEE staff (2024-01-07). Israeli forces kill six Palestinians during Jenin raid. middleeasteye.net

Observer R (2024-01-07). THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX. sonar21.com The recent issue of Foreign Affairs print magazine (January/February 2024) contains a number of articles that illustrate the difficulty in "thinking outside the box." The first article ("The War That Remade the Middle East: How Washington Can Stabilize a Transformed Region," by Maria Fantappie and Vali Nasr) states the following: | "The influence of the United States still looms large over the Middle East. But its support for Israel's war has decidedly compromised its credibility in the region….This means the United States will have to craft a new strategy for the Middle East, one that contends with the r…

Paul Craig Roberts (2024-01-07). Norman Finkelstein Is Perhaps the Most Honest Scholar Alive. thealtworld.com Norman Finkelstein is a Jew and his parents, if you believe in the Holocaust, were Holocaust Survivors. Nevertheless, Norman Finkelstein tells the truth about Israel, which cost him the withdrawal of his tenure at a chickenshit Catholic university, the president of which gave in to the Israel Lobby's objection to Finkelstein's election by the university faculty to a tenured position. The corrupt and fearful president of the university cancelled Finkelstein's tenure as the Zionists demanded. In America Zionists even rule Catholic universities in addition to the Ivy League and the major state universities, which al…

krish-rad_ind (2024-01-07). The U.S. can't blindly support Israel and prevent escalation in the region at the same time. mondoweiss.net

krish-rad_ind (2024-01-07). Israel Wants To Send All Palestinians WHERE?? youtube.com

teleSUR, JDO (2024-01-07). OMS denuncia que Israel lanzó cerca de 600 ataques contra centros médicos palestinos. telesurtv.net Las fuerzas de ocupación perpetraron 304 ataques contra instalaciones de salud en Gaza y 286 en Cisjordania ocupada.

teleSUR, SH (2024-01-07). Más de 20 muertos en la Franja de Gaza por ataques israelíes. telesurtv.net Aviones israelíes atacaron una escuela de la ONU en el campo de refugiados de Mughazi dejando al menos cuatro fallecidos.

teleSUR, JCM, MER, SH, JGN (2024-01-07). Minuto a minuto del asedio israelí contra la Franja de Gaza. telesurtv.net Más de 90 días se han cumplido de los ataques continuos de las fuerzas de Israel contra el pueblo palestino en Gaza y Cisjordania.

teleSUR, lfb, JDO (2024-01-07). Abogados chilenos denuncian a Netanyahu ante CPI por genocidio. telesurtv.net Presentan denuncia contra varios funcionarios israelíes ante Corte Penal Internacional por crímenes de guerra y delitos de lesa humanidad contra civiles palestinos.

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-07). Australia must support South Africa's International Court of Justice case against Israel. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-07). Australia's selective use of foreign fighter laws in Israel's war on Gaza. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-07). Protests demanding Israel cease fire continue across Australia. greenleft.org.au

Resource Center For Nonviolence (2024-01-07). Thursday 1/11: Shadows of War: Decoding U.S. Role In Israel-Palestinian Conflict. indybay.org Resource Center For Nonviolence, 612 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz…

truthout.org (2024-01-06). Israel Is Terrified the World Court Will Decide It's Committing GenocideFor nearly three months, Israel has enjoyed virtual impunity for its atrocious crimes against the Palestinian people. That changed on December 29 when South Africa, a state party to the Genocide Convention, filed an 84-page application in the International Court of Justice (ICJ, or World Court) alleging that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

ecns.cn (2024-01-07). China and Myanmar pledge peace, stability. ecns.cn Vice foreign ministers from China and Myanmar have pledged to jointly maintain peace and stability along the border between the two countries, while cracking down on cross-border crimes such as telecom fraud.

Larry Johnson (2024-01-07). Is North Korea Doing Combat Missile Tests in ukraine? sonar21.com

Staff (2024-01-07). Caravana de la Libertad evoca entrada de Fidel hace 65 años. cubadebate.cu Más de 40 jóvenes destacados de la enseñanza general, protagonizaron la Caravana de la Libertad en su entrada la noche de este sábado a la ciudad de Cienfuegos, como hace 65 años entraron los barbudos con el Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz al frente del Ejército Rebelde.

Peoples Dispatch (2024-01-07). Harvard student organizer speaks out about Claudine Gay resignation. peoplesdispatch.org Peoples Dispatch spoke to Prince Williams, an undergraduate organiser at Harvard about the censorship and attacks that pro-Palestine activists have faced from the right-wing as well as the Harvard administration.

youtube (2024-01-07). Palestine is an International Liberation Struggle. youtube.com Interview with Leila Khaled.

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-07). Palestine not forgotten, as protests for a permanent ceasefire continue. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-07). Pro-Palestine protesters say Thales has no social licence. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-07). How can we build the movement for the liberation of Palestine? greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-07). NUS votes to support a free Palestine. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-07). Katoomba rallies for Palestine. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-07). As pressure mounts for Palestine, more councils take a stand for ceasefire. greenleft.org.au

Angela (2024-01-07). Monday 1/8: Action: Phone Zap for Palestine. indybay.org

Angela (2024-01-07). Sunday 1/7: Read Palestine: Listening Session and Discussion. indybay.org 48 S 7th St | San Jose, CA…

Angela (2024-01-07). Saturday 1/13: Petaluma: Protest for Palestine. indybay.org Corner of Petaluma Blvd and East Washington | Petaluma, CA…

Angela (2024-01-07). Tuesday 1/9: Woodland Vigil for Palestine. indybay.org Rep. Mike Thompson's office | 622 Main St | Woodland, CA…

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Pressenza Philippines (2024-01-07). A Book about Critically Endangered Animals is now Out. pressenza.com LOVE FOR LIVING ANIMALS | Author Mona Sabalones Gonzalez | Main Photographer Elizabeth Barrett: | "The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchild may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? "— David Attenborough (epigraph) | The writer of this collection of essays tells engaging stories of endangered animals, vividly, lovingly, and with passionate concern. It started as a series initially written for Pressenza. The author says, writing the stories "took me on a voyage that was totally unexpected. In sum, I learned that every problem of every animal that is on the brin…

Balasingham Skanthakumar (2024-01-07). Budget 2024: 'Deep Marketisation' in Sri Lanka. cadtm.org

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