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Humanity is facing its greatest existential threat ever with climate change and resource depletion. This is not a crisis waiting to happen in the future, but it is already here and manifests itself in the many resource wars going on in several parts of the world, rising food and fuel prices, growing hunger, natural calamities of horrifying proportions, water scarcity, debt crisis, unemployment, social tensions among communities, growing human rights violations and unprecedented ecological degradation. Unless we take urgent action to change the way we live, trashing our only home, this beautiful planet earth, this crisis has the potential to wipe out the entire humanity and a majority of the other species from the face of this earth. Source
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The technological automation led by Artificial Intelligence (AI) is growing on an unprecedented scale unknown in world history, immersing individuals and societies across countries and threatening both the environment and individuals with its negative impacts. It destroys millions of jobs, and human beings and their skills are replaced by robots (dead labour or commoditised human creativity).
Remembering the Sabra-Shatila massacre
Lebanon, September 2026.: When veteran reporter Robert Fisk, first entered the Beirut Palestinian refugee camp 18th September 1982, these are some the words he wrote to describe what he saw: ‘It was the flies that told us. There were millions of them. Big as bluebottles, they covered us, unaware at first of the difference between the living and the dead. If the smell of the dead in Sidon was nauseating, the stench in Chatila made us retch.
Israeli Strike on Vehicle Carrying Civilians in Gaza City Kills Six in Tragic Attack
Gaza (QNN)- An Israeli airstrike targeting a passenger van carrying civilians in Gaza City killed at least six, some of their identities remain unknown, as Israel intensifies its attacks across the besieged enclave despite the US-backed ceasefire. The six victims were killed in the Israeli drone attack on a passenger van in Tal al-Hawa, in southwest Gaza City, on Wednesday. 13 others were also injured.
At the UN Human Rights Council, wife of killed Palestinian doctor Adnan Al-Bursh urges pressure on Israel to release withheld bodies
Yasmin Al-Bursh Geneva – In a statement to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Yasmin Al-Bursh, wife of slain Palestinian doctor Adnan Al-Bursh, called for pressure on Israeli authorities to release his body and the bodies of other Palestinians they are holding, allowing families to exercise their right to bid farewell to their loved ones and bury them with dignity.
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Denial as a Way of Life: Netanyahu on Egyptian Warnings about October 7
Things are looking bleaker by the day for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, most notably for his standing as a competent leader in full mastery of his office. After allegations were made that he had received warnings from the United Arab Emirates leader President Mohamed bin Zayed (MBZ) that the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas was, if not imminent then certainly most likely, a sense of paralytic denial has taken hold.
When a Mother Becomes a Militant: Why Are Baloch Women Taking Up Arms?
There is something profoundly unsettling about the image of a woman carrying a weapon. The image disturbs us because we instinctively associate women with life rather than death, with the protection of children rather than the taking of lives. When the woman comes from a society already marked by decades of conflict, the image becomes even more disturbing. In Balochistan, that image has acquired a political meaning.
Venezuela’s Battle for Sovereignty Continues
Underneath the appearance of “normalcy” in the ongoing relationship between Venezuela and the US lies a manifest asymmetry of power. Even commentators from mainstream international news outlets frame their analyses by drawing attention to the proverbial US gun held to acting President Delcy Rodríguez’s head and, by implication, to the whole Chavista movement. That movement, founded by Hugo Chávez and carried forward by Nicolás Maduro, has broadly united behind her.
Odisha State-Level Convention for the Protection of Natural Resources Protests Mineral Exploitation and Repression of People’s Movements
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I Knew Them: Song Kosal… The Girl from the Rice Fields
Song Kosal was only six years old when her life changed forever. She was helping her mother plant rice along the Cambodian border when her foot struck a landmine left behind by war. The explosion tore apart her right leg, forcing doctors to amputate it above the knee. After long months of treatment, she returned to daily life without her leg and without the ability to attend school for a long period.