the Guardian
Israel’s use of disproportionate force is a long-established tactic – with a clear aim | Paul Rogers
The strategy goes well beyond defeating an opponent: it seeks to destroy key infrastructure and the economy, says academic Paul Rogers
 Israel’s use of disproportionate force is a long-established tactic –- with a clear aim. The strategy goes well beyond defeating an opponent: it seeks to destroy key infrastructure and the economy, with many civilian casualties.
https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=55483&tag=email_blast:127264&supporter_KEY=229474 US citizens: call on the Interior Department to refuse to approve seismic blasting in northern Alaska. In addition to preventing the harm to wildlife that the blasting itself would do, it would impede the extraction of additional fossil fuels from that region.
[2/2] … which declares that any indigenous religion or nationalism trumps science and history. Indigenous people are entitled to the same rights as anyone else, including to practice their religions, but it does not follow that the wishes suggested by their religions should be our commands.
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the Guardian
Archaeologists reveal life stories of hundreds of people from medieval Cambridge
Examination of remains in hospital grounds uses DNA analysis and other disciplines to build ‘biographies’
2011: September - December Political Notes - Richard Stallman
2012: May - August Political Notes - Richard Stallman
 Archaeologists at Cambridge University have reconstructed the "biographies" of hundreds of the city's ordinary medieval residents by examining their skeletons in detail. Such research would be impossible in the US, due to the law NAGPRA …
the Guardian
‘Forever chemical’ in English tap water samples carcinogenic, WHO rules
Exclusive: Decision to categorise PFOA as linked to cancer in humans by World Health Organization increases pressure on UK government
 The evidence that PFOA causes cancer in humans is mounting up. So is the amount of PFOA in our environment, since we keep making more and it accumulates without degrading.
The Intercept
Leading News Outlets Are Doing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Greenwashing
Seven of the world’s “most trusted” media companies produce and promote content touting the key talking points of oil and gas.
 Leading News Outlets Are Doing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Greenwashing.
Win Without War
Tell Pres. Biden: Renew this ceasefire now.
For seven critical days, the ceasefire worked and lives were saved.
 US citizens: call on Biden to pressure HAMAS and Israel to accept a cease fire.
[2/2] … the Soviet Union agreed to allow Jews to emigrate, and charged a ransom for each "exit visa". Do the US and UK give Pakistan any foreign aid? It would be natural to threaten to deduct these exit ransoms from that aid.
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the Guardian
Pakistan under fire for ‘shocking’ $830 exit fee for refugees who fled Taliban
Afghans waiting to be resettled in the UK and other western countries face steep charge in ‘unprecedented’ move
 Pakistan is holding for ransom some 45,000 Afghan exiles to whom the UK and US want to give asylum, charging $830 to allow each of those exiles to leave Pakistan. That puts Pakistan in the amazing self-contradictory position of demanding they leave and blocking them from leaving. The only other case of demanding ransoms for people to leave was when …
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the Guardian
Yale historian says west can break Ukraine stalemate with more military aid
Timothy Snyder argues that ‘dropping five more queens on the board’ would allow Ukraine to prevail
 The concept of "stalemate" is based on a presumption that each side's resources are limited. Ukraine can defeat the Putin forces given more supplies.