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Popular Steering Committee for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas, Black Alliance for Peace. The organizations, social movements, and grassroots networks gathered here in Havana, Cuba, from August 15 to 17, 2026, as part of the “Campaign for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas,” commemorate the 12th anniversary of the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, adopted at the Second Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in 2014, as well as Maurice Bishop’s earlier concept of the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace in 1980. We reaffirm…

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Story at-a-glance Google-owned Debug has proposed releasing 32 million Wolbachia-infected male mosquitoes in California and Florida to suppress populations of Aedes aegypti, the invasive mosquito that spreads dengue fever, yellow fever, and Zika virus The released males don’t bite humans and are designed to mate with wild females whose eggs then fail to hatch, preventing more than 100 offspring from being produced from a single mating Public concern centers on the possibility of unintended environmental consequences, the difficulty of reversing large-scale biological releases and questions about the role of private corporations in ecosystem management Researchers reviewing Wolbachia-based mosquito-control programs found…

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Avik Jain Chatlani Prism Reports Back in June, when I read that author Marjane Satrapi “died of sadness,” I knew that the writing day was over.  As I made a coffee and scanned the news and comments about her passing, I wasn’t surprised to see overwhelming grief expressed by small literary blogs and big papers alike. But I was also confronted with criticism of Satrapi and her graphic memoir “Persepolis,” her largest and best-known work, which I have read a dozen times in its complete format.  Originally published in French between 2000 and 2003, in four installments, “Persepolis” was subsequently…

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Millenium News 24. In a significant demonstration of solidarity with Palestine, pro-Palestine activists from the group ‘People Against Genocide’ have occupied a Martin-Baker aircraft parts factory in the United Kingdom. The occupation is a protest against the factory’s alleged links to Israel, highlighting the activists’ campaign against what they describe as complicity in Israeli actions against Palestinians. BREAKING: People Against Genocide occupy the roof of Martin Baker in Woking, England.The company provide ejection seats for Israel’s F-35 jets. Without which, the fighter jets can not operate and be used for deadly strikes against Palestinians. pic.twitter.com/ijsCy80SWA— The Aftershock (@The_Aftershock_) August…

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House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries pledges that if Democrats gain the majority in Congress, they will prosecute “every single member of the Trump cartel” — after reportedly meeting with Jared Kushner.”Far too many people are stressed the F out when it’s time to go to the grocery store, pay the rent, or put gas in the tank,” he said. “That’s crazy. That should not be happening in the United States of America.” HAKEEM JEFFRIES: What’s up, y’all?Just finished up an event here in the community in Brooklyn. I want to give you a little real talk on this Jared Kushner…

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