(2024-05-07). Student Resistance To Gaza Genocide Spurs Crisis For Democrats. popularresistance.org The defiant student protests erupting across American universities over U.S. support for Israel's assault on Gaza represent something far beyond a cyclical wave of campus activism. These scenes symbolize a profound political crisis that has laid bare the fractures within the Democratic Party and its faltering grip on a disaffected younger generation. As the Biden administration persists in providing military aid and diplomatic imprimatur for Israel's bombardment of the densely populated Palestinian territory, the human suffering in Gaza has become a tragic staging ground for global outrage.
(2024-05-07). Democratic Party enlists Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to cover up Biden's war crimes. wsws.org A lengthy New York Times essay has acknowledged that DSA representative Ocasio-Cortez is now the lynchpin in the Democratic Party's strategy to block growing opposition to imperialist war and genocide in Gaza and channel it behind Biden's reelection campaign.
(2024-05-07). Australian PM Albanese backs Zionist witch hunt against anti-genocide protesters. wsws.org At a meeting with Rabbinical Councils leaders, Albanese aligned himself with a vitriolic campaign by Zionist organisations and the right-wing corporate media to slander and shut down campus protests.
(2024-05-07). CNN Paints Peace Protests As Hate Rallies As They Are Suppressed. popularresistance.org As peace activists occupied common spaces on campuses across the country, some in corporate media very clearly took sides, portraying student protesters as violent, hateful and/or stupid. CNN offered some of the most striking of these characterizations.
(2024-05-07). Noam Chomsky: A Middle East Peace That Could Happen (But Won't). scheerpost.com 
(2024-05-07). The "bad flu" called covid came and went before the end of 2019. expose-news.com The 2020 covid pandemic was a pandemic of iatrogenic harm instigated by governments and aided by corporate media. Covid, in so far as it is in any way distinct, came and did …
(2024-05-07). Do We Need More People? counterpunch.org This is a line endlessly repeated in the media. Somehow, we face a terrible risk if people decide to have fewer kids. While this is the accepted wisdom in elite circles, there is remarkably little basis in reality for this view. The latest piece pressing this line was a column in the Washington Post by
(2024-05-07). No books burned this time in Berlin despite ominous parallels. peoplesworld.org 
BERLIN — It was May10 in Germany's terrible year, 1933. Hitler had been in power for hardly three months, when students and staff emptied the university libraries of forbidden books and threw them, an estimated 20,000 books by over a hundred authors, into the flames of a giant bonfire. Most authors were German — Jewish, …
(2024-05-07). No books burned this time in Berlin despite ominous parallels. peoplesworld.org BERLIN — It was May10 in Germany's terrible year, 1933. Hitler had been in power for hardly three months, when students and staff emptied the university libraries of forbidden books and threw them, an estimated 20,000 books by over a hundred authors, into the flames of a giant bonfire. Most authors were German — Jewish, …
(2024-05-07). Programme to bridge gap between research, public policymaking. sanews.gov.za Programme to bridge gap between research, public policymaking | In a move aimed to enhance collaboration between academia and government, the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) have launched the pilot phase of its DSI-NRF Policy Placement Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme. | This initiative is designed to bridge the gap between research and public policymaking, thus addressing societal challenges through evidence-based approaches. | NRF Business Advancement Group Executive, Dr Thandi Mgwebi, said the pilot phase will focus on postdoctoral research fellows and e…