(2025-02-08). DEI's Demise Exposes Absurdity Of Trusting Oppressors To Correct Themselves. popularresistance.org Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs did not emerge from Biden's Executive Order. Many corporate efforts at diversity emerged or were expanded following the 2020 uprisings against racist terrorism sparked by the murder of George Floyd. These corporate efforts claimed to have a goal of addressing the underrepresentation of marginalized groups within their workforces and supply chains. These moves were in response to yet another moment in American history where the deep inequality between white and Black people in the U.S. was exposed as an ever growing chasm, rather than the rose-tinted example of Americ…
(2025-02-08). Students, faculty attend meeting to oppose attacks on pro-Palestinian protesters and democratic rights at the University of Michigan. wsws.org Over 150 people attended a meeting held by the pro-Palestinian Tahrir Coalition on Tuesday to oppose the escalating attacks on students protesting the US/Israeli genocide in Gaza by the University of Michigan. Members of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality spoke at the meeting, fighting for an independent working class-based socialist response to fascism, war and genocide.
(2025-02-08). Will the Current Musk Coup Define Our Future? inequality.org
(2025-02-08). Tom Brady And Snoop Dogg's Super Bowl Ad Isn't What You Think. popularresistance.org Football star Tom Brady and rap legend Snoop Dogg will appear in a big-money Superbowl ad denouncing hatred. The ad is paid for by the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, a group staffed by Israel lobbyists that attempts to equate opposition to Israel's destruction of Gaza with anti-Jewish racism. The group was founded by billionaire owner of the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft, who is one of the pro-Israel Lobby's most generous benefactors. Kraft has used his power to attempt to crush the nationwide Palestine solidarity movement on campus and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
(2025-02-08). Remember What Audre Lorde Told Us: The Oppressor Doesn't Determine What's True. truthout.org Since Donald Trump came to power for the second time in the United States, the attacks on all of our intersecting communities have been raining down fast and hard. The current Trump administration has unleashed an assault on undocumented immigrants; teachers who refuse to excise discussions of systemic racism from their curricula; trans schoolchildren and their teachers; people in need of… |
(2025-02-08). Mayo Clinic and American Hospital Dubai Strengthen Collaboration to Transform Healthcare and Medical Education in Dubai. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org DUBAI — American Hospital Dubai, a distinguished member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network and the globally renowned Mayo Clinic, announced an enhanced collaboration marking a milestone in advancing healthcare delivery, medical education, and research in Dubai and the region. The announcement was made at Arab Health 2025, the healthcare industry's premier event being held in Dubai from Jan. 27-30, 2025, at the World Trade Centre. The strengthened relationship between American Hospital Dubai and Mayo…
(2025-02-08). Turkey raises year-end inflation forecast. newarab.com 
Turkey's central bank on Friday increased its year-end inflation forecast to 24 percent from 21 percent. | Turkey has experienced double-digit inflation since 2019, making life increasingly expensive for millions of people, notably hitting the cost of education, housing, healthcare, hotels and restaurants. | Speaking at a briefing in Istanbul on the 2025 Inflation Report, bank governor Fatih Karahan said the inflation forecast was set at 12 percent for 2026 and eight percent for 2027. | He said the revision of the inflation forecast for this year did not signal any easing in Turkey's monetary policy stance.
(2025-02-08). Trump's Anti-Trans Education Order Relies on Intimidation. We Must Not Yield. truthout.org
(2025-02-08). BAN Toxics to Content Creators and Online Sellers: Stop Spreading Misinformation on Mercury-containing Skin Lightening Products. pressenza.com Toxic watchdog BAN Toxics urges content creators and online sellers to remove social media content, advertisements, and listings promoting prohibited and banned skin-lightening beauty products containing hazardous mercury. | Recent social media monitoring by BAN Toxics revealed that illegal skin-lightening products continue to be widely advertised and sold online through platforms like TikTok and Facebook Reels, as well as e-commerce sites such as Lazada and Shopee. Many of these products contain hazardous mercury, posing serious risks to consumer health. | Last year, the group purchased 50 skin-whitening beauty…
(2025-02-08). Is the PROFESSIONAL UPDF YELLING at the CONSTITUTION. independent.co.ug 
COMMENT | Olivia Nalubwama |Dear reader, as we say in Ugandan speak, let us be guided. Today's class will revisit the use of UPPER CASE (or CAPITAL LETTERS as my teachers taught) in online communication. The great internet code deems typing in CAPITAL LETTERS offensive, equivalent to YELLING. Typography and graphic communication experts observe that …
(2025-02-07). Who Truly Profits from Porn? bylinetimes.com 
200 Elgin Street in Ottawa, Canada, is a nondescript office building – the kind of place you'd expect to house accountants or consultants. But beneath its plain exterior lies the corporation that controls Aylo, a rebranded iteration of MindGeek, the company that sits behind the world's biggest porn site: Pornhub. | And this being porn even that is not what it seems. To complicate matters further, Aylo is owned by a company called Ethical Capital Partners (ECP), a private equity firm that claims to bring "principled ethical leadership" to industries requiring "transparency" and "accountability." | Let that se…
(2025-02-07). Worst mass shooting in Swedish history claims 11 lives. wsws.org The 35-year-old lone gunman shot and killed 10 people before turning one of his weapons on himself. The mass shooting occurred against the backdrop of rapidly growing social inequality, the promotion of militarism and war fever, and ongoing gang violence driven by the deepening social crisis.
(2025-02-07). G20 Development Group meetings kick off under SA's leadership. sanews.gov.za G20 Development Group meetings kick off under SA's leadership | South Africa has reiterated its intention of using its G20 Presidency to foster global solidarity, equality and sustainable development. | Minister in the Presidency for Monitoring, Planning and Evaluation, Maropene Ramokgopa, on Friday said her department has held its first meeting of the G20 Development Working Group. | "The Development Working Group recently held its first meeting and will continue in its meetings during the year to advance financing for development, social protection and global public goods. | "South Africa is determined to utili…
(2025-02-07). DOGE Member Resigns Over Social Media Posts Promoting Racism and Eugenics. truthout.org A member of billionaire Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has resigned after reports exposed that he was behind a deleted social media account that advocated for racism and eugenics. Engineer Marko Elez, one of the infamous young members of DOGE, has worked for Musk's companies in other staff roles before. According to reporting from Wired, Elez's role at DOGE… |
(2025-02-07). South Korea: Submission on discrimination against North Korean escapees. fidh.org
(2025-02-07). My Local Union Leaders Reject a Resolution Calling for Equal Pay for Equal Work. counterpunch.org 
The exploitation of part-time faculty, adjuncts, lecturers, etc. in higher education, in which many have difficulties supporting themselves and their families is scandalous.[1] In many colleges across the country, there could be two equally qualified and experienced people teaching the same class with the same number of students (paying a similar amount in tuition whose
(2025-02-07). Paraguay praises sports cooperation agreements with Cuba. plenglish.com Asuncion, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) Paraguayan Sports Minister Cesar Ramirez expressed satisfaction on Thursday during the signing of a memorandum of cooperation between the National Secretariat of Sports and Cuba's National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER).
(2025-02-07). Trump's Anti-Trans Education Order Relies on Intimidation. We Must Not Yield. truthout.org Autocracy depends in large part on conformity of thought, which explains Donald Trump's focus on K-12 education during the early days of his second administration. Executive orders he issued in January include an executive order attacking "gender ideology" and defining gender as immutable and based on biological sex; an order attempting to push federal funding towards private charter schools… |
(2025-02-07). How Grand Theft Auto is helping Nigerians survive rampant police abuse. aljazeera.com 'Cops and robbers'-type online gameplay is helping young people re-enact and process real-life challenges with police.
(2025-02-07). China cracks 73,000 cross-border gambling cases in 2024. ecns.cn Chinese police investigated 73,000 cross-border gambling and related cases last year, dismantling over 4,500 online gambling platforms, according to the Ministry of Public Security.
(2025-02-07). Report airs concern over trafficking. ecns.cn Human trafficking for forced criminality, including committing online scams and financial fraud, has been a growing trend in the Asia-Pacific region over the past four years, posing threats to migration safety, according to a UN report.
With each passing day, we're seeing more signs of our federal government becoming on oligarchy that puts the economic interests of the ultra-rich above the needs of ordinary Americans. In the face of this billionaire takeover in Washington, state governments need to step up and fight for the working class. Here are eight ways states …
As schools officially opened their doors for the 2025 academic year, Uganda's education landscape faced significant challenges on the first day. While most schools began the term as scheduled, a few defiant institutions ignored the national school calendar and opened a week earlier. However, the most notable concern on the first day was the low …
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Why has any discussion about Israel, its violations of international law, and the international legal expectations for third party states to hold IDF soldiers accountable not been addressed? Why is criticism of Israel being conflated with racism, even though many Jewish people oppose Israel's war crimes, and what about Palestinians, what does this mean for a people experiencing genocide?
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Afghanistan's women cricketers played their first game since Hundreds of women athletes fled Afghanistan as the Taliban took over in August 2021, escaping a hardline stance that essentially banned women's sports and education. | Most of the national women's cricket side settled as refugees in Australia, where they reunited for the first time on 30 January to play a charity match in Melb…
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