Giorno: 5 Agosto 2021

Rashida Tlaib wants to give a pass to people who don’t pay water, electricity or internet bills

Post Content Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib is pushing for legislation that would let people who fail to pay their water, electricity or broadband bills off the hook. “Cancel water, electricity and broadband debt,” the Squad member tweeted Wednesday morning. “#StopTheShutoffs.” She changed her messaging Thursday afternoon – calling for a bailout instead of outright cancellation. […]

Psaki won’t say if Biden admin will require migrants to be vaccinated as it considers mandate for legal travel

Post Content White House press secretary Jen Psaki did not say Thursday whether the Biden administration will require vaccines for migrants coming across the southern border even as she acknowledged that the administration is considering mandating vaccines for foreign travelers entering the United States. Psaki was asked repeatedly about the specifics of the administration’s internal […]

What Yosef Weitz didn’t see while surveying the Palestinian villages he would destroy

Read More I haven’t seen “Blue Box,” Michal Weits’ new documentary about her great-grandfather, Yosef Weitz, who conceived Israel’s population-transfer policy. Nor have I read the article about the film that appeared in Haaretz. My heart bleeds too profusely to read another article about 1948. Nevertheless, a large photograph that accompanied the article prominently disoriented […]

Israeli soldiers, don’t agree to destroy lives, including your own

Read More Soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces, you are fighting civilians. The cameras are rolling, and many see you destroying the lives of thousands of unarmed people. You are patrolling their villages and towns on foot and in armored vehicles with bars on the windows – armed from head to toe, fingers on the […]

Q&A Sessions: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela: ‘How do we repair this brokenness?’

Read More Author and academic Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is the research chair in studies in historical trauma and transformation at Stellenbosch University. As a psychologist at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, she became an authority on remorse and forgiveness. Her book A Human Being Died That Night is her account of her interviews with the former […]

ANC factions united on Zweli Mkhize

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Zuma funder link in Phoenix killings

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Grade inflation forces ministers to pay for extra medical school places

Read More Admissions Grade inflation forces ministers to pay for extra medical school places More students could join medical and dentistry courses in England after exams cancelled and Richard Adams Thu 5 Aug 2021 14.28 EDT Last modified on Thu 5 Aug 2021 15.17 EDT The government has been forced to fund hundreds of extra […]