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[ad_1] A proposal from the Trump-chaired Board of Peace seeks to replace the U.N. agency that touches every aspect of Palestinian life, sparking fear among Gaza residents Hassan Abo Qamar Prism A U.S.-backed proposal to dismantle the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is sparking fear in Gaza about the future of the agency that has shaped every aspect of refugee life for nearly eight decades. Earlier this month, the Board of Peace, chaired by President Donald Trump, reposted on its X account a June 30 speech by Jeff Bartos at the annual UNRWA Pledging Conference, where he…

[ad_1] Here’s the Wednesday Grail news briefs to get you over the hump… The Nerd Reich: Are Silicon Valley billionaires building a new fascist world order? Related: The technocratic conspiracy – how tech tycoons plan to disrupt democracy and become the new rulers of the world. Ancient Calakmul mural is the earliest evidence of Maya calendar writing. A genuine science-based debate about near-death experiences? NASA detects intense heat beneath Io, Jupiter’s most volcanic moon. Heatwave reveals lost ancient Welsh landscapes. The body’s hidden light detectors: From camouflage to timekeeping to wound healing, light-sensing proteins called opsins perform all kinds of…

[ad_1] Ahead of the doctor’s public testimony, making sense of what the dominant press helped to keep buried. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] FACA requires that a “[c]ommittee’s members represent a fair balance of viewpoints given the functions to be performed,” but it does not define what constitutes a “fair balance.” As such, the statute leaves unanswered three sets of questions regarding whether a committee is appropriately balanced. First, “even before the points of view on an advisory committee can be balanced at all,” one must ask: “which points of view should be balanced[?]” Is a single member representing each view enough, or does a committee need more? And finally, “which kind of organization or individual legitimately represents” a viewpoint by being…

[ad_1] Sami Mshasha, Mondoweiss. Now, can they finally build political power? Palestinian Americans have transformed the U.S. debate over Palestine in ways unimaginable just a few years ago. Now, the question is whether they are prepared to build institutions that can turn these shifting attitudes into real political power. When Salim Totah and Dr. Fuad Shatara appeared before the U.S. Congress in 1922 to oppose the Balfour Declaration, they were asking America to pay attention to a people most Americans knew little about and a cause few cared to understand. Their audience was small, their influence negligible and the political…

[ad_1] Senator Joseph McCarthy (right) with a map of Communist Party organizations, 1954 – Public Domain On July 16, 2026, the Trump administration launched the Red Scare 3.0.  In a press release, the White House proclaimed in bold type: “an unprecedented global offensive against the transnational threat of Radical Left terrorism.”  It then added, “Under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump, far-left extremism will be treated with the same seriousness and ferocity the world has long reserved for jihadist terrorism.” Key administration spokesmen championed the new offensive: + Sec. of State Marco Rubio: “Today, we face a new wave of…

[ad_1] The pipeline from the campus protests to the DSA. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] A group of Catholic healthcare providers has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to enjoin enforcement of New York’s new Medical Aid in Dying Act. Among other things, the plaintiffs allege that the Act, which takes effect next month, violates their rights under the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause. The litigation is at a very early stage. New York has not yet responded. Still, if the statutory regime operates as the plaintiffs allege, they appear to have a pretty good free exercise argument. The controversy concerns a practice supporters call medical aid in dying and opponents call medically assisted suicide.…

[ad_1] Ramzy Baroud Common Dreams During a military raid on the small town of Tell, southwest of Nablus, a moment of direct defiance shattered the illusion of total Palestinian submission. Faced with relentless military incursions, land confiscation and settler harassment and violence, local villagers and farmers refused to retreat. In the confrontation that followed, a single Palestinian disarmed an Israeli soldier and opened fire on the invading forces near the illegal Havat Gilad settlement outpost, killing two soldiers and wounding three others. What followed was the predictable, unyielding fury of the occupation: Israeli forces and state-backed armed settlers immediately…

[ad_1] The lobbyists always win. Last summer, the National Institutes of Health sent out notices to shut down a Tony Fauci initiative launched in 2020 called the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases or “CREID” after deeming them unsafe for Americans and not a good use of taxpayer funding. Well, university lobbyists have struck back—managing to slip language into the Congressional appropriations bill that forces NIH to spend $18.2 million to fund CREID centers once again. A senior official with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) who did not wish to be named said they are unsure how university…