Evidence shows US was expanding military base in Israel’s Negev Desert two months before Gaza war
Although President Joe Biden and the White House insist that there are no plans to send US troops to Israel amid its war on Hamas, a secret US military presence in Israel already exists. And the government contracts and budget documents show it is evidently growing.
Why I despise disciplining knowledge: It oversimplifies the world by destroying its complexity
Disciplining knowledge stifles the emergence of alternative knowledge production cultures or systems, thereby denying the learning enterprise from cultivating alternative scholarship and alternative analysts, let alone genuine team scientists.
Gaza receives largest aid shipment as deaths top 8,000 and Israel widens military offensive
Israel has allowed only a trickle of aid to enter. On Sunday, 33 trucks carrying water, food and medicine entered the only border crossing from Egypt, a spokesperson at the Rafah crossing, Wael Abo Omar, said.
Merchants of death: How Pfizer hid nearly 80 per cent of Covid vaccine trial deaths from regulators
79 per cent of relevant deaths were not recorded in time to be included in Pfizer’s regulatory paperwork. By not including relevant subject deaths in the case report, Pfizer obscured cardiac adverse event signals, allowing the EUA to proceed unchallenged.
Israeli airstrikes kill over 8,000 in Gaza; thousands break into food warehouses
The bombardment over the weekend – described by Gaza residents as the most intense of the war – knocked out most communications in the territory late Friday, largely cutting off the besieged enclave’s 2.3 million people from the world. Communications were restored to much of Gaza early Sunday.
Israel says ground campaign against Hamas is ‘second stage’ of annihilation of the militant group in Gaza
Western countries have generally backed what they say is Israel’s right to self-defence. But there has been a mounting international outcry over the toll from the bombing and growing calls for a “humanitarian pause” to allow aid to reach Gaza civilians and ease the humanitarian crisis.
Israel launches second phase of attacks in Gaza but families of 230 hostages in Hamas’ hands are worried
Anxiety over Hamas’ hostages reached a fever pitch on Saturday, as Israel intensified its air campaign and sent troops into Gaza with heavy firepower. Crowds protested outside Israel’s Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv, demanding that Netanyahu and other officials address the fate of their loved ones.
From country music to pop music icon: Transition of Taylor Swift’s 2014 nostalgia to 2023 reality
Taylor Swift’s reimagined 1989 is here, the album that ushered in the first Peak Swift era – revisited at the height of her massive pop culture dominance. Released in 2014 and named for her birth year, the original “1989” signified a sonic rebirth. Swift had shed the Nashville country roots...
Take-it-leave-it: Somalia’s ‘IDP economy’ thrives by ruthless clan networks imposing tax on aid
People displaced to Mogadishu, the capital, predominantly come from within the Digil and Mirifle clan family, the Somali Bantu community, and other smaller minority communities – all of whom are structurally marginalised in Somalia.
Why African universities need interdisciplinary, crossdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary movement
Africa and Uganda must join the genuine knowledge integration movement. If not we shall fall by the wayside of the movement and have no influence on the mushrooming revolution in higher education. We shall continue to entrench archaic academic programmes and produce graduates we do not need in this World Wide Web dominated millennium.
