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
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
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 […]
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...
Israel using starvation as weapon of war, says Josep Borrell, as UN report warns 1.1 million face ‘catastrophic’ food supply conditions. This live blog is closedSee all our Israel-Gaza war coverageOxfam has accused Israel of controlling “an unpredictable and chaotic regime of approval, scanning and inspection” of humanitarian aid destined for the Gaza Strip.In a new report, the NGO says “people living in Gaza will suffer mass death from disease and starvation far beyond the current 31,000...
'This guy – he has no basis of understanding what American foreign policy is about,' President Joe Biden told supporters in Reno. Former president Donald Trump is currently leading in the polls in Nevada. Biden targeting union voters and voters of color during Nevada, Arizona trip
As Biden basks in presidential support & cash from millionaires and billionaires, Trump is touting the ‘gathering of elites’ to rally his small-money donors.
Earlier this week, as I drove from patient to patient, I was consumed with the worry of being a parent. Seeing your children, adult or young, struggle with life is the most emotionally painful thing I have ever experienced. I just want to solve everything for them make life easy for them. Unfortunately, my children and […]
There were a few responses to yesterday's Backchannel about the "everything sucks" era that I wanted to share with you. The first is from TPM Reader JY I think a related problem is that