On March 18, 2024, Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong met with Assistant of
Traditionally, teachers unions have kept a laserlike focus on improving members’ pay, benefits, and working conditions. Now, though, teachers unions are diverting their energies from Read More
Vice President Kamala Harris looked up from prepared remarks in the White House’s ornate Roosevelt Room this month to make sure the reporters in the room could hear her clearly: “Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed.” Harris’ “marijuana reform roundtable” was a striking reminder of how the politics have shifted for a onetime prosecutor raised in the “Just Say No” era of zero-tolerance drug enforcement. As President Biden seeks badly needed support from young people, his...
Washington (IraqiNews.com) – Iraq’s Foreign Minister, Fuad Hussein, has arrived in Washington DC for a pivotal series of meetings with US officials, including a highly anticipated discussion with Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The visit comes at a critical juncture, with both countries seeking to explore fresh avenues to fortify bilateral ties and enhance joint
We give things up when we believe we can change; we give up when we believe we can’t. By Adam Phillips Continue reading
On March 15, the next stage of an intriguing legal process seeking to hold the Biden administration accountable for its failure to prevent, as well as being complicit in, alleged acts of genocide taking place in Gaza, was taken. It all stems from a lawsuit filed last November in the US District Court for the More
Voters in Orange, California, successfully recalled two school board members accused of pushing anti-LGBTQ policies, including one that “outs” transgender students to their parents. Madison Miner and Rick Ledesma, the former board president, lost recall elections for the Republican-leaning Trustee Area 4 and the Democratic-leaning Trustee Area 7, respectively. Organizers behind the recall elections claimed […]
When the foreign policy of a country as large and significant as the United States is governed by a case of cognitive dissonance, terrible things happen. These terrible things are, in fact, already taking place in the Gaza Strip, where well over 100,000 people have been killed, wounded or are missing, and an outright famine is currently More
Shafaqna English- Gaza became a “graveyard” for the most important principles of humanitarian law, the EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell said Monday. “Gaza was, before the war, the greatest open-air prison. Today it is the greatest open-air graveyard. A graveyard for tens of thousands of people, and also a
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On March 16th, I emailed to the editor at Strategic-Culture.org a message that when I tried to see their https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/06/01/new-generation-of-us-trained-extremists-fighting-russia-are-we-prepared-for-blowback/, I got a notification that, “This site can’t be reached. Check if there is a typo in www.strategic-culture.org.” This sort of thing (and similar lies falsely ‘explaining’ why the given […]
The Amarillo City Council announced that it will hold a special workshop at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday in the council chambers on the third floor of City Hall to discuss a number of topics related to city policies and processes, ahead of its regularly scheduled meeting at 3 p.m.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on March 20 called former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's foreign policy stance towards China a "bubble". Speaking at the News18 'Rising Bharat Summit 2024', Jaishankar was critical of early India's foreign policy direction under then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru."This is a bubble we have created. In the earlier years, it was very much a Nehruvian ideological bubble. Nehru was against America, so everybody was against America. Nehru says China is a...