Above photo: Aeronautical engineer Ayoub Entezari died, and Iran believes Israel poisoned his food. Politecnico di Torino. Monday’s report by the New York Times that Iranian government officials suspect Israeli involvement in the recent deaths of two Iranian scientists – Ayoub Entezari and Kamran Aghamolaei – should come as no surprise to onlookers. In the long-running shadow war between Tehran and Tel Aviv, the assassination of Iranian officials by Israeli agents has become a mainstay of the Zionist state. Indeed, the deaths of both Entezari and Aghamolaei came less than two weeks after an assassin on a motorcycle gunned down Hassan […]
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Do Texas Prison Conditions Violate Human Rights Standards? By Keri Blakinger, The Marshall Project. March 18, 2022 Do Texas Prison Conditions Violate Human Rights Standards?2022-03-182022-03-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220318-4.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Chelsea Stahl / NBC News. One Scottish Court Says Yes. Tiny Cells, Lacking Medical Treatment And Sweltering Conditions Cited By Judge Who Blocked Extradition. Late last year, a Scottish court quietly refused what seemed like a routine extradition. It wasn’t that of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose drawn-out efforts to avoid the American prison system have grabbed international headlines for years. Instead, it was that of a relatively unknown Scottish man, Daniel Magee, who’d […]
Above Photo: Teachers and students at a Freedmen’s School in New Bern, North Carolina, c. 1868. National Museum of African American History and Culture. The Radical Promise of Reconstruction. Reconstruction was the era in which 4 million newly emancipated people seized their freedom (to borrow from the evocative title of Dr. Kidada Williams’ fantastic podcast, Seizing Freedom). In thousands of acts of creation, both individual and collective, humble and grand, formerly enslaved people and their allies sought to build the world anew. In the words of Frederick Douglass, the era offered “nothing less than a radical revolution.” Reconstruction has much to teach […]
The Global Standards Mapping Initiative is the most “comprehensive” attempt so far to survey blockchain technical standards, the WEF said. Source link
A Washington Post editor provoked an onslaught of online ridicule after he opted to compare and contrast the real-life 2020 presidential race with TV series ‘The West Wing’, beloved by US liberals for its ideological outlook. Glenn Kessler, chief writer of Washington Post’s Fact Checker section, which rates the supposed veracity of political statements by assigning them a ‘Pinocchios’ score, pondered on Monday the meaning behind the ongoing election season being very unlike the 1999 TV show ‘The West Wing’. Kessler rushed to Twitter with his observation that the structured somber stories in Aaron Sorkin’s White House drama were quite different […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107827/00/1078270062_0:0:3087:1737_1200x675_80_0_0_34c110572def79ab12cc21640f3373f4.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009091080405915-oscars-announce-new-standards-for-best-picture-nominees/ To be included in the list of nominees for the best picture award, a candidate should meet at least two of four categories of standards, according to a statement released on the website of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Oscars have announced a new set of standards for the Academy Awards’ best picture category. The move is aimed at giving more space to so-called underrepresented racial minorities, women, LGBTQ and disabled people. There will be four categories of standards for films, the Academy’s statement says, adding that at least two […]
Novak Djokovic’s US Open default for ‘aggressive behaviour’ after a flippant flick of the wrist, is a disgraceful double standard, as the sport idolises Serena Williams and those who use aggression to solidify their SJW status. READ MORE: ‘So unintended. So wrong’: Djokovic apologizes for hitting line judge with ball after US Open disqualification Novak Djokovic is probably used to his forehand being the talk of the sports world. Such is his supreme skill, that goes doubly so when it’s responsible for costing the men’s world number one his place at a Grand Slam. But Djokovic has never before faced a […]
As the United Kingdom negotiates its exit from the European Union single market and customs union, concerns over a potential trade deal with the United States impacting domestic food standards begin to rise. Demonstrators from Save British Farming (SBF), farmers, and their supporters took to Westminster, London on Wednesday to show their opposition to any future reduction of food standards in any potential trade deals. Around 20 tractors slowly drove through the streets around Parliament in a loud demonstration just before the Agriculture Bill’s return to the House of Lords on Thursday. Other activists dressed up in fruit and vegetables to […]
A former British ambassador has called US and UK claims that Anne Sacoolas – the wife of a US intelligence officer – had immunity, as “a palpable absurdity.” Sacoolas is accused of killing Harry Dunn last year in a car crash. The 19-year-old was fatally injured after he was allegedly struck by Sacoolas in her car outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in August 2019. Sir Ivor Roberts, a former top British diplomat in Serbia, Ireland and Italy, was asked by lawyers representing the Dunn family for his opinion on the tragic case. The ex-British ambassador hasn’t minced his words, branding it […]
US companies will be allowed to cooperate with Huawei in the development of 5G standards, according to new rules from the Department of Commerce. It has been reported that the new measure is not a step towards easing things for the Chinese company, but is only aimed at maintaining the competitiveness of American producers. Not only businessmen, but even some US politicians, including anti-Chinese hawks such as Marko Rubio and Tom Cotton, have expressed concern that Huawei’s blacklisting could have a negative impact on American companies. They sent a letter to the Department of Commerce, Department of State, and the Pentagon […]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is jumping on the woke bandwagon, announcing changes to ensure even more “diversity” of the Oscars, setting up an ‘inclusion and equity’ office and mandating lectures on racism. Surfing the wave of calls for “racial justice” in the US over the past two weeks, the Academy announced several initiatives on Friday, as part of its ‘Aperture 2525’ program. CEO Dawn Hudson said there was “much more work to be done in order to ensure equitable opportunities across the board,” calling the issue “urgent” and adding that the Academy will amend and continue to […]
US President Donald Trump said he would soon sign an executive order to urge police departments around the country to wield force more carefully and put more resources into officer training following weeks of heated protests. The White House is working to finalize an order that will “encourage” police nationwide to “meet the most current professional standards of force,” Trump said at an event in Dallas on Thursday, adding “that means force, but force with compassion.” “Encourage” use of “force with compassion” is an empty executive order by Trump as damage control.The order merely reiterates police departments to “Meet the current professional standards of force” […]