Higgs, 94, who was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 2013 for his work in 1964 showing how the boson helped bind the universe together by giving particles their mass, died at home in Edinburgh on Monday....
Putin has had to rely on a clique of enablers across the globe, especially since his botched lightning attack on Kyiv at the start of the war bogged him down into a protracted conflict....
Concerned governments should impose targeted sanctions and suspend arms transfers to press the Israeli government to ensure access to humanitarian aid and basic services in Gaza, in accordance with Israel’s obligations under international law and the recent International Court of Justice order in South Africa’s genocide...
“We know the PRC clandestinely and deceptively interfered both in the 2019 and 2021 general elections. In both cases, [foreign interference … was] pragmatic in nature and focused primarily in supporting those viewed to be either ‘pro-PRC’ or ‘neutral’ on issues of interest to the PRC government,” a document says...
I’m in Ontario and this past week I got a couple of messages from family and friends in southern Ontario that their sons/nephews/friends who are in the army are going to be sent to either Poland or Ukraine in the next few months....
Remove that necessity from the table and see what the Russians will do.
Russia will attack the next country. Agressions can be seen against Moldova already. And just talk to someone from the Baltics.
Finland is also a good example. The country has been neutral since tbe 1940s and only joined Nato after Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022 for the second time. And Russia attacked Ukraine for the first time in 2014 after the successful citizen protests in Ukraine which put the country on the road from a dictatorship to a democracy.
Because democracy, not Ukraine, is Russia’s true enemy.
‘Moscow Marjorie’: U.S. Republican accuses Republican colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene of irresponsible Ukraine rhetoric (www.theguardian.com)
Cross posted from: beehaw.org/post/13049452...
Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, dies aged 94 (www.theguardian.com)
Higgs, 94, who was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 2013 for his work in 1964 showing how the boson helped bind the universe together by giving particles their mass, died at home in Edinburgh on Monday....
The Microchip Pipeline: Hong Kong’s Hidden Role in Ukrainian Deaths (dominotheory.com)
Putin has had to rely on a clique of enablers across the globe, especially since his botched lightning attack on Kyiv at the start of the war bogged him down into a protracted conflict....
'An alarming attempt to muzzle an independent press': Philippine media groups condemn China’s claim of ‘manipulated’ coverage of maritime tension (globalvoices.org)
Cross posted from: beehaw.org/post/13045995...
Weak government climate policies violate fundamental human rights, the European court of human rights has ruled (www.theguardian.com)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/13044046...
China: Video Exposes Chinese authorities’ Forceful Seizure of Farmers’ Land owned by the Uyghur minority in the Xinjiang region (uyghurtimes.com)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/13043786...
China: Video Exposes Chinese authorities’ Forceful Seizure of Farmers’ Land owned by the Uyghur minority in the Xinjiang region (uyghurtimes.com)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/13043786...
Children in Gaza dying from starvation-related complications since Israeli government began using starvation as a weapon of war, Human Rights Watch says (www.hrw.org)
Concerned governments should impose targeted sanctions and suspend arms transfers to press the Israeli government to ensure access to humanitarian aid and basic services in Gaza, in accordance with Israel’s obligations under international law and the recent International Court of Justice order in South Africa’s genocide...
CSIS warned Prime Minister's Office in 2023 that China 'clandestinely and deceptively' interfered in elections (www.cbc.ca)
“We know the PRC clandestinely and deceptively interfered both in the 2019 and 2021 general elections. In both cases, [foreign interference … was] pragmatic in nature and focused primarily in supporting those viewed to be either ‘pro-PRC’ or ‘neutral’ on issues of interest to the PRC government,” a document says...
No International Backlash Over Canada's Cannabis Legalization, Says Trudeau (businessofcannabis.com)
QUESTION - Is Canada sending our soldiers to Poland or Ukraine?
I’m in Ontario and this past week I got a couple of messages from family and friends in southern Ontario that their sons/nephews/friends who are in the army are going to be sent to either Poland or Ukraine in the next few months....