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11/01/2025

A study in The Lancet suggests Gaza ministry of health figures over a nine-month period might be too low.

12/11/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0eq7VNCcYY

The Democrats blew it: A depressing yet predictable result.

04/11/2024

08/07/2024

https://www.economist.com/britain/2024/07/05/labours-landslide-victory-will-turn-politics-on-its-head

But even with a majority this big, running bad-tempered Britain will not be easy

12/05/2024

"There are still efforts to steer Americans, particularly American children, away from these options. In April, Senators Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker and Peter Welch introduced the Childhood Diabetes Reduction Act, which would ban advertising junk food to children and require stronger health and nutrition warning labels. The law “would take on the greed of the food and beverage industry and address the growing diabetes and obesity epidemics negatively impacting millions of American children and families across the country,” according to a news release from Mr. Sanders.

Fast food may be a tough habit to legislate away, though. In 2016, 91 percent of parents reported buying lunch or dinner for their child in the past week from one of the four biggest chains — a significant increase compared with the 79 percent who did in 2010 and the 83 percent in 2013."

“Super Size Me” helped lead a backlash against McDonald’s. Twenty years on, the industry is bigger than ever.

23/04/2024

https://scheerpost.com/2024/04/19/gaza-and-germanys-path-to-authoritarianism/

How the German government has embarked on a dangerous confrontation course with freedom of expression and international law.

07/02/2024

Netanyahu, the Palestinians, and the price of neglect.

12/01/2024

The US and the UK have now directly entered into the war in the Middle East...

Strikes follow attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea by Iranian-backed Houthi militants in protest against Israel’s war in Gaza

28/12/2023

"The Ukrainians themselves are engaged in what is becoming a very public debate about how long they can hold out against Putin. With Ukraine running low on troops as well as weapons, Zelenskyy’s refusal to consider any fresh negotiations with Moscow is looking more and more politically untenable at home. The Ukrainian president, seeking to draft another half million troops, is facing rising domestic opposition from his military commander in chief, Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, and the mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko.

The senior Biden administration official told POLITICO Magazine that all these factors — the resistance in Congress and Ukraine’s internal politics — were playing into the new discussions with Kyiv about redeploying toward a defensive posture. “The other wild card is how much the weather is going to be a factor. As they decide how they’re going to posture themselves in the next two to three months, it’s going to become physically harder to operate and go on the offensive.”

For two years, Biden and Zelenskyy have been focused on driving Russia from Ukraine. Now Washington is discussing a move to a more defensive posture.