‘No-Grow Zone’: Israel Admits to Spraying Poisons Inside Gaza Strip – Sputnik

February 25, 2016, 2:36 pm

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“The Israeli Army has admitted that they used crop-dusters to kill hundreds of acres of Palestinian crops, claiming that it was to ‘enable security operations.’ Palestinian officials have stated that over 420 acres of land inside the Gaza strip were damaged by the poisons sprayed to kill vegetation.

Israeli planes were seen spraying the toxins for several days straight, destroying spinach, pea, parsley and bean crops.”

Source: ‘No-Grow Zone’: Israel Admits to Spraying Poisons Inside Gaza Strip – Sputnik International (December 29, 2015) ... Read More

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South Korean lawmakers try first filibuster since 1969 to block anti-terrorism bill – LA Times

February 25, 2016, 6:29 pm

≫ Next: The US the big winner in ‘comfort women’ agreement – East Asia Forum

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“With the quiet resolve of an endurance athlete, the 52-year-old member of the Minjoo Party embarked upon her mission: to speak for 10 hours as part of opposition lawmakers’ effort to block a vote on controversial anti-terrorism legislation with a filibuster – a highly unusual move that South Korea hasn’t seen in more than 45 years.”

Rep. Eun Soo-mi is a former activist and labour sociologist (PhD from the prestigious Seoul National University). She survived torture by the KCIA and served 6 years in prison (1992-1998) for her involvement in 남한사회주의노동자동맹 (사노맹) [South Korean Socialist Workers Alliance]. See this informative interview (in Korean).

 

Source: South Korean lawmakers try first filibuster since 1969 to block anti-terrorism bill – LA Times (February 24, 2016) ... Read More

The US the big winner in ‘comfort women’ agreement – East Asia Forum

February 27, 2016, 12:36 pm

≫ Next: The ever-shifting sands of Japanese apologies – East Asia Forum

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By Prof. Mikyoung Kim, Hiroshima Peace Institute. “More than anything, the agreement has proven that US leadership is alive and well in East Asia. The agreement is a powerful reminder to China that the US pivot to Asia is a viable strategy. China’s ability to use the history card against Japan will lose its steam with South Korea’s concession. And collaborative efforts by China and South Korea, such as the joint application to include records relating to ‘comfort women’ in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, will be put on hold. The Obama administration has managed to send a clear message to President Xi Jinping that East Asia is still under US headship.”

Source: The US the big winner in ‘comfort women’ agreement – East Asia Forum (January 7, 2016) ... Read More

The ever-shifting sands of Japanese apologies – East Asia Forum

February 27, 2016, 1:34 pm

≫ Next: Dolores Huerta Is Wrong – Latino Rebels

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By Prof. Tessa Morris-Suzuki, ANU. “[N]either Abe nor any of his ministers or spokespeople has ever been heard to echo the key words of the Kono Declaration. Instead, when challenged on the question of state responsibility for the ‘comfort women’ issue, they repeatedly respond with a formula developed during the first Abe administration of 2006–2007: ‘in the documents discovered by the Japanese government, none confirmed the forcible taking away of comfort women’.

This statement is extremely significant. It treats official Japanese government and military documents (the most incriminating of which were deliberately burnt in the closing days of the war) as the only reliable source of information on the topic. It entirely discounts the testimony of surviving former ‘comfort women’. This includes testimony collected and taken into account by the Japanese government at the time of the Kono Declaration. By implication, this formula says to the survivors that their testimony is at best unreliable evidence and at worst lies.”

Source: The ever-shifting sands of Japanese apologies – East Asia Forum (February 22, 2016)

Dolores Huerta Is Wrong – Latino Rebels

February 28, 2016, 7:36 pm

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“Notwithstanding her political alliances and her reasons for them, Dolores Huerta is still a Latina icon, and deservedly so. She’s made an invaluable impact on Latinos, leaving her people in better position politically, socially and economically than how she found them. […] Huerta believes Clinton’s neoliberal pragmatism is better for Latinos than Sanders’s socialist vision. But Dolores Huerta is wrong: wrong about Bernie’s supporters being misinformed and unrealistic, and wrong to ask Latinos to ignore the serious stains on Hillary’s record. She’s also wrong to put her friendship with Hillary before her stewardship of Latino rights and dreams.”

Source: Dolores Huerta Is Wrong – Latino Rebels (February 24, 2016) ... Read More

5 Favorite Ways to Collect Content in Evernote – Evernote Blog

February 28, 2016, 7:37 pm

≫ Next: Nearly 1 in 4 Cal State students are going hungry, new report says – 89.3 KPCC

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“Whether you’re new to Evernote or just need a refresher, here’s a friendly guide to our favorite ways to bring ideas into your notebooks.”

Source: 5 Favorite Ways to Collect Content in Evernote – Evernote Blog (February 22, 2016) ... Read More

Nearly 1 in 4 Cal State students are going hungry, new report says – 89.3 KPCC

February 28, 2016, 7:38 pm

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“A year-long study released by the California State University on Friday finds that 24 percent of the system’s 460,000 students could be going hungry. The report also found that as many as 12 percent of students suffer ‘housing displacement’ such as homelessness…

The report detailed food, housing, and financial help resources at each CSU campus. The CSU campuses in Chico, Northridge, Pomona, and San Bernardino offered the most help, including short-term loans, free food pantries, and emergency lodging. The CSU campuses in Channel Islands, Fullerton, Los Angeles, Monterey Bay, and Sonoma offered the least help to students going through food and housing insecurity.”

Source: Nearly 1 in 4 Cal State students are going hungry, new report says – 89.3 KPCC (February 26, 2016) ... Read More

I thought I could reason with Antonin Scalia: A more naive young fool never drew breath – Salon.com

February 28, 2016, 7:54 pm

≫ Next: Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupts in violence; 3 are stabbed and 13 arrested – LA Times

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“Scalia passed away in his sleep at a luxurious hunting lodge. He died as he lived, gun at hand, dreaming of killing helpless prey from a position of safety and comfort. May his successor on the Court have a loftier vision of law, and of life.”

Source: I thought I could reason with Antonin Scalia: A more naive young fool never drew breath – Salon.com (February 27, 2016) ... Read More

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Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupts in violence; 3 are stabbed and 13 arrested – LA Times

March 3, 2016, 1:07 pm

≫ Next: ‘Comfort women’ removed from South Korean textbook – Chicago Tribune

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“The Klan has a long and troubling history with the city. Klansmen were once the dominant political force in Anaheim, holding four of five City Council seats before a recall effort led to their ouster in 1924.

At the height of the group’s power in Orange County, nearly 300 Klansmen lived in Anaheim, patrolling city streets in robes and masks. A large KKK rally once attracted 20,000 people to the city…

Anaheim, home to Disneyland and Orange County’s largest city, is now more than 52% Latino and about 28% white, according to the 2010 U.S. Census.”

Source: Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupts in violence; 3 are stabbed and 13 arrested – LA Times (February 28, 2016) ... Read More

‘Comfort women’ removed from South Korean textbook – Chicago Tribune

March 6, 2016, 9:10 pm

≫ Next: Korean Statue Depicts A Jesus So Jacked It Looks Like His Last Supper Was Pure Protein – BroBible

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SEOUL – Expressions such as “comfort women” and “sex slaves,” as well as a photo of comfort women, have been deleted from a South Korean government-designated social studies textbook for six-grade primary school students, which was revised earlier this year, The Japan News has learned.

Source: ‘Comfort women’ removed from South Korean textbook – Chicago Tribune (March 2, 2016) ... Read More

Korean Statue Depicts A Jesus So Jacked It Looks Like His Last Supper Was Pure Protein – BroBible

March 25, 2016, 8:39 am

≫ Next: Here’s What a Man Who Studied Every Suicide Attack in the World Says About ISIS’ Motives – The Nation

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The statue is in a Christian sculpture garden in Yeongcheon City in southeastern Korea. It’s big — 14 meters tall, and the arms span 6 meters. The face is described as a “strong Asian face,” and the globe foregrounds Korea because… you know, Korea is God’s chosen nation?

More pics here: http://www.huffingtonpost.kr/2016/02/27/story_n_9339598.html

Source: Korean Statue Depicts A Jesus So Jacked It Looks Like His Last Supper Was Pure Protein – BroBible (February 25, 2016)

 

Here’s What a Man Who Studied Every Suicide Attack in the World Says About ISIS’ Motives – The Nation

March 25, 2016, 8:59 am

≫ Next: Listen to James Baldwin Read from “Another Country”

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“Despite the existence of a good deal of research about terrorism, there’s a gap between the common understanding of what leads terrorists to kill and what many experts believe to be true. Terrorist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda are widely seen as being motivated by their radical theology.”

Source: Here’s What a Man Who Studied Every Suicide Attack in the World Says About ISIS’ Motives – The Nation (December 2, 2015) ... Read More

Listen to James Baldwin Read from “Another Country”

March 25, 2016, 9:04 am

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“It goes without saying that James Baldwin was a legendary speaker — a preacher turned orator turned public intellectual who knew the power of words. But hearing him never ceases to shock. Very little can be added to this mesmerizing recording of Baldwin reading from his 1962 novel, Another Country.”

Source: Listen to James Baldwin Read from “Another Country” – The Paris Review (March 23, 2016)

These 5 Native Women Know Their History – ICTMN.com

March 25, 2016, 9:15 am

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K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Shannon Speed, Jean O’Brien, Jennifer Denetdale, and Brenda Child.

“History matters, so does who teaches it. For Women’s History Month we have put together a list of some American Indian women who teach Native history.”

Source: These 5 Native Women Know Their History – ICTMN.com (March 23, 2016) ... Read More

Pope Francis Calls for Ending Tax-Exempt Status of Churches That Don’t Help the Needy

March 28, 2016, 8:00 am

≫ Next: Why the Black Lives Matter Founders Are Great Leaders – Fortune

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“Some religious orders say ‘No, now that the convent is empty we are going to make a hotel and we can have guests, and support ourselves that way, or make money.’ Well, if that is what you want to do, then pay taxes! A religious school is tax-exempt because it is religious, but if it is functioning as a hotel, then it should pay taxes just like its neighbor. Otherwise it is not fair business.”

In the meantime in South Korea, reform movements are likewise calling for religious clergy and organizations to pay taxes. More on that later.

Source: Pope Francis Calls for Ending Tax-Exempt Status of Churches That Don’t Help the Needy – U.S. Uncut (September 15, 2015) ... Read More

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Why the Black Lives Matter Founders Are Great Leaders – Fortune

March 28, 2016, 8:02 am

≫ Next: Open Letter in Support of Students and Faculty in University of Hyderabad by Concerned Academics in Canada – Stand with HCU | Justice for Rohith

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“Modern social movements often fizzle after their moment in the national news (Occupy Wall Street and to a lesser extent the Tea Party come to mind). But Black Lives Matter has steadily gained momentum since its founding in 2013, when activist Alicia Garza coined the phrase and fellow activist Patrisse Cullors made it a hashtag. Alongside Opal Tometi, they created the Black Lives Matter network, which has grown to 28 local chapters, each fighting a range of racial injustices like police brutality and racial profiling. Last year the movement inspired college students to take up the mantel, with some successes (the system president and chancellor of the University of Missouri resigned over outcry they failed to address campus racism). They also pushed the presidential candidates to address the country’s systemic racism – an issue would-be nominees would probably have preferred to sidestep.”

Source: Why the Black Lives Matter Founders Are Great Leaders – Fortune (March 24, 2016) ... Read More

Open Letter in Support of Students and Faculty in University of Hyderabad by Concerned Academics in Canada – Stand with HCU | Justice for Rohith

March 28, 2016, 8:35 am

≫ Next: Doreen Massey obituary – The Guardian

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“We, academics from Canada strongly condemn the police brutality unleashed on students and faculty at University of Hyderabad (UoH). This attack is a part of the recent spate of attacks on students and faculty across Indian universities. In the recent years we have seen the derecognition of Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle (APSC) in IIT-Madras, the clamping down of student protestors in FTII Pune, the suspension of five Dalit research scholars in University of Hyderabad including Rohith Vemula, and the arrests of students in JNU on charges of sedition amongst many others. These events are related and cannot be unknotted and depoliticised.”

The demands:

1. The immediate release of all the students and faculty and the withdrawal of all charges.
2. The withdrawal of all police force from the campus.
3. The prosecution of the Vice Chancellor for abetting the suicide of Rohith Vemula as well as for orchestrating the violence against protesting students and faculty members.
4. While his actions are being investigated, we demand that Appa Rao remain outside the university administration. His position as a VC is a clear conflict of interest.
5. The involvement of students and faculty in decision making regards the working of the university.

Source: Open Letter in Support of Students and Faculty in University of Hyderabad by Concerned Academics in Canada – Stand with HCU (March 27, 2016)

Doreen Massey obituary – The Guardian

March 28, 2016, 1:08 pm

≫ Next: HCU Turned Into A War Zone by Govt, Student In Serious Condition in ICU – The Citizen

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RIP, Doreen Massey (1944-2016).

“Radical geographer, feminist, theorist and political activist admired worldwide for her work on space, place and power”

“Spatial Divisions of Labour (1984) demonstrated that a Marxian approach to uneven regional development and capitalist production could be combined with an attention to the dynamic trajectories and cultures of particular places. The essays in Space, Place and Gender (1994) brought a feminist perspective to the rethinking of power relations. Her concept of ‘geometries of power’ drew attention to the ways in which different people and places experienced processes such as globalisation.

HCU Turned Into A War Zone by Govt, Student In Serious Condition in ICU – The Citizen

March 28, 2016, 1:39 pm

≫ Next: 40% of Students Not Complying with Student Loan Payments – Democracy Now!

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“NEW DELHI: In what was clearly a decision taken at the top, the police was let loose on the students protesting the return of Vice Chancellor Appa Rao Podile under whose watch scholar Rohith Vemula had been compelled to kill himself. The VC of the central university had been moved out for a short while, and now been brought back in by the government sparking off protests across the campus. Two consecutive days of a brutal lathi charge on the students left several injured, and one student in ICU where he was taken unconscious. About 30 students were arrested after being beaten by the cops inside the campus — at the time of writing, the arrested students and staff are being held at undisclosed locations. About 44 students were treated for injuries at the University health centre, including more serious injuries such as fractures and head injuries.”

Source: HCU Turned Into A War Zone by Govt, Student In Serious Condition in ICU – The Citizen (March 23, 2016) ... Read More

40% of Students Not Complying with Student Loan Payments – Democracy Now!

April 9, 2016, 5:16 pm

≫ Next: How Korea’s “Nones” Differ from Religiously Unaffiliated Americans – USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture

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“And new data shows more than 40 percent of people with federal student loans in the United States are either behind on their payments or are refusing to pay entirely—a noncompliance rate that is raising serious questions about the federal government’s ability to ever collect on these debts. One in six people have defaulted entirely. The average student loan debt for last year’s college graduates was more than $35,000, making the class of 2015 the most indebted class in U.S. history.”

Source: 40% of Students Not Complying with Student Loan Payments | Democracy Now! (April 8, 2016) ... Read More