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7 April 2025 was the launch date for the report of the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health. I'm a co-author, along with the colleagues listed below - an international network, who have been working on this project since 2020. The process was interrupted and delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic - which itself brought important issues about gender and global health to the surface. The Report is a 66-page document with a main narrative and a variety of illustrative cases of policies, programmes and problems.

The UK City of Culture initiative was founded in 2009, a year after Liverpool — like Bradford, often unfairly derided by outsiders — benefitted from being European Capital of Culture, and was intended to bring investment and tourism, as well as an increased sense of civic pride, to cities who successfully bid for it, once […]

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“President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tariffs from other countries, which is precisely what happened… Most historians look back on Smoot-Hawley as a mistake that made a bad economic climate much worse. But tariffs have a new champion in President Donald Trump.” – AP News, 4/8/25

Let’s face it: America is struggling. Gone are the days of the “Roaring Twenties” when the economy was booming, America was a manufacturing powerhouse, and gals with bob haircuts spun around speakeasy dance floors in those fun little dresses. There’s only one way to return to those glory days and make America great again, and that is why I, extremely popular and generally well-regarded president, Herbert Hoover, am signing this massive tariff bill into law.

A legacy of the most hated bird in America

The post The Starlings’ Curious Odyssey appeared first on Nautilus.

Under public pressure, an Israeli network censored a report which would have exposed a key face of Israel’s October 7 PR campaign as a fabulist. Rami Davidian claimed to have rescued over 750 young Israelis and witnessed hideous scenes of rape by Hamas. His bogus testimonies were cited by the UN and filmmaker Sheryl Sandberg. Israeli broadcaster Channel 13 has announced that it will no longer air an investigation into the fabrications of Rami Davidian, a settler who was lionized […]

The post Israeli network censors report exposing Oct 7 ‘hero’ as hoaxer first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Israeli network censors report exposing Oct 7 ‘hero’ as hoaxer appeared first on The Grayzone.

Meta’s recruitment of vast numbers of former Israeli soldiers raises serious questions about the tech giant’s commitment to free speech – and provides a peek into a biased content moderation process that’s been heavily censoring pro-Palestinian accounts amid the Israeli siege of Gaza. This article was originally published by ¡Do Not Panic! More than one hundred former Israeli spies and IDF soldiers work for tech giant Meta, including its head of AI policy, who served in the IDF under an Israeli […]

The post 100+ Meta employees, including Head of AI Policy, confirmed as ex-IDF first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post 100+ Meta employees, including Head of AI Policy, confirmed as ex-IDF appeared first on The Grayzone.

Trump’s March 25 declassification order revives buried documents showing the Steele dossier was debunked by insiders before it ever hit the press — yet it was promoted as fact anyway.

The post Leaked Files Reveal the Steele Dossier Was Discredited in 2017 — But Sold to the Public Anyway appeared first on MintPress News.

“President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plans hammered global financial markets and U.S. stocks braced for more turmoil on Monday, after he warned foreign governments they would have to pay ‘a lot of money’ to lift the levies he called ‘medicine.’” — Reuters

I know it hurts. I can hear the screams, the crumpling metal. I’m not deaf. I’m an iceberg. What I need from you right now, RMS Titanic, is less screeching and more patience. After the fine bone china settles a few inches into the pelagic sediment, you’ll appreciate the mid-ocean meet-cute we’re experiencing.

Believe me, I get it.

Trump’s attacks on the courts and Big Law are an existential threat to the legal system. Expect a reckoning.

The post The Clear and Present Danger to the American Rule of Law appeared first on The Intercept.

From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior high and high school, I was riveted by this country’s Civil War. Among all my toy soldiers — cowboys and Indians, British marching troops in red jackets, and plastic Army-green World War II soldiers (from my father’s war) — and those Landmark Books on American history that I piled up on my floor to create hills and valleys where I could play out the cowboy and Indian ambushes and battles I had seen at local movie theaters, my favorites were always the blue and grey lead soldiers of the Union and Confederacy, including Commanding General Ulysses S. Grant on... Read more

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Students from Muslim-majority countries as well as Asia and Africa are having their visas revoked with little or no explanation.

The post Trump Appears to Be Targeting Muslim and “Non-White” Students for Deportation appeared first on The Intercept.

Dear Star Bank Customer,

We’re writing to let you know that the Star Bank online portal is down today. You won’t be able to log in or access your money. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Please don’t call or stop by the bank in person. It’s a mess right now.

Sincerely,
Star Bank

“Treating your money like a star since 2005.”

Dear Star Bank Customer,

This is Gordon Star, CEO of Star Bank.

The previous email generated some confusion. I do apologize.

I’ll be direct. There’s been an issue with our banking servers, and your account records were compromised. We’re furiously trying to restore your account as I type this.

I want to be clear: We still have all of your money. We just don’t know how much money you have, if that makes sense.

Isn’t it wild that money is just ones and zeros on a server, and if you erase the ones and zeros, then you don’t know whose money is whose? I’m the CEO of a bank, and even I think that’s bonkers.

We’re working on this. You have my word.

What I always remember about Xi is something the founder of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yee wrote—that he had only met two people in his life who never let anyone else influence their emotions: Nelson Mandela and Xi Jingping.

Xi took over the CCP at a time it was completely ridden with corruption, to the point where regular citizens regularly mocked and complained about it. There were major factions, centering around the two previous leaders and the party had lost much of its ideological orientation. Citizens were happy with economic progress, but there was a sense that there was too much inequality, young people couldn’t afford homes and there was flirting with western ideas of democracy.