Claudia Sheinbaum claims sweeping mandate to become Mexico’s first female president

Claudia Sheinbaum claims sweeping mandate to become Mexico’s first female president

Claudia Sheinbaum is Mexico’s 1st female PresidentClimate scientist, feminist, leftist & pro-Palestinian JewShe has a PHD & shared a Nobel prize Her Republican US neighbours will not attend her inauguration – who cares? Congratulations MexicoCongratulations President Claudia pic.twitter.com/MVT62XkleA — nazir afzal (@nazirafzal) June 2, 2024 Reuters reports: Claudia Sheinbaum, a Nobel Prize-winning climate scientist, will become Mexico’s first female president after winning a landslide election victory and promising to continue the work of her mentor and outgoing leader Andres Manuel…

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Gideon Levy: Israel has achieved nothing with war on Gaza

Gideon Levy: Israel has achieved nothing with war on Gaza

  Given a choice between war and getting all its hostages back, Israel has opted for more war, argues Israeli journalist Gideon Levy. Levy tells host Steve Clemons that Israeli politicians may abandon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but even if he was replaced, Israel would continue its war on Gaza and occupation of the Palestinian people as a whole. “Radical change” in Israeli attitude and U.S. support is needed for any improvement in the situation, says Levy. After Oct. 7,…

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Bernie Sanders says will boycott ‘war criminal’ Netanyahu’s Congress speech

Bernie Sanders says will boycott ‘war criminal’ Netanyahu’s Congress speech

The New Arab reports: US Senator Bernie Sanders has said he will not attend a congressional speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was sent an official invite by the body on Friday. In a statement published to X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday, Sanders said that the congressional invitation was “a sad day for our country”. Sanders’ statement also included a list of things that Israel has no right to do in its war on Gaza following Hamas‘ 7…

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‘No way out without bloodshed’: The right believe the U.S. is under threat and are mobilizing

‘No way out without bloodshed’: The right believe the U.S. is under threat and are mobilizing

The Observer reports: The posts are ominous. “Pick a side, or YOU are next,” wrote conservative talkshow host Dan Bongino on the Truth Social media platform in the aftermath of former president Donald Trump’s 34 felony convictions. The replies were even more so. “Dan, seriously now,” one user wrote in response to Bongino. “I see no way out of all this mess without bloodshed. When you can rig an election, then weaponize the government and the courts against a former…

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Exposed: Max Blumenthal’s Grayzone appears to have financial ties to the Russian and Iranian governments

Exposed: Max Blumenthal’s Grayzone appears to have financial ties to the Russian and Iranian governments

The Washington Post reports: Recently unearthed documents reveal that leaders of an online news site aimed at Americans have received money from both Russian and Iranian government media outlets, showing how widening geopolitical alliances are making it harder to identify and trace foreign influence operations. Hacked emails and other documents from the Iranian government-funded Press TV show payments of thousands of dollars to a writer who is now a Washington-based editor for Grayzone, whose founder regularly appears on Russian television…

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Russian legal foundation linked to Kremlin activities in Europe

Russian legal foundation linked to Kremlin activities in Europe

The Guardian reports: Leaked internal documents have exposed the activities of a Russian state-backed legal defence foundation that European intelligence agencies and analysts say is in fact a Kremlin influence operation active in 48 countries across Europe and around the world. Internal documents from the Fund for Support and Protection of the Rights of Compatriots Living Abroad (Pravfond) indicate that the foundation finances propaganda websites targeted at Europeans, helped pay for the legal defence of the convicted arms trafficker Viktor…

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Can mathematicians help to solve social-justice problems?

Can mathematicians help to solve social-justice problems?

Rachel Crowell writes: When Carrie Diaz Eaton trained as a mathematician, they didn’t expect their career to involve social-justice research. Growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, Diaz Eaton first saw social justice in action when their father, who’s from Peru, helped other Spanish-speaking immigrants to settle in the United States. But it would be decades before Diaz Eaton would forge a professional path to use their mathematical expertise to study social-justice issues. Eventually, after years of moving around for education…

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Babies in the womb exposed to two languages hear speech differently when born

Babies in the womb exposed to two languages hear speech differently when born

PsyPost reports: Researchers have shown for the first time that newborns of monolingual mothers respond differently to playback of a carefully selected sound stimulus than newborns of bilingual mothers. The findings suggest that bilingual newborns are sensitive to a wider range of acoustic variation of speech, at the cost of being less selectively tuned in to any single language. These results underscore the importance of prenatal exposure for learning about speech. It’s well established that babies in the womb hear…

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Talking about Zionism

Talking about Zionism

  In the coverage of Israel-Palestine in the Western media, an ideology that is central to the story – Zionism – rarely gets discussed. Instead, we hear a debate about whether opposition to it – anti-Zionism – is anti-Semitic. The Listening Post’s Daniel Turi reports on Zionism, the confusion that surrounds it, and what it tells us about the world’s longest-running occupation. Contributors: Bernard Avishai – Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Sherene Seikaly – Associate Professor of History, University…

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Gaza: The war on hospitals

Gaza: The war on hospitals

  Israel is attacking Gaza’s hospitals in violation of international law, but is it part of a pattern going back to 1948? Hospitals are supposed to be immune from attack in times of war but Israel has repeatedly bombed and shelled them since October 7, 2023. This film looks at Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s hospitals in the context of its historical expansion at the expense of the Palestinian population, going back to 1948. The Israeli army cut off water, power,…

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Samuel Alito’s king complex is warping reality on and off the bench

Samuel Alito’s king complex is warping reality on and off the bench

Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern: Dahlia Lithwick: I think the merits can get lost when we talk about the flags. But there is a substantive problem that we’re starting to pick up on, and that is Justice Alito, in recent weeks, making very real and serious errors in his opinions. They’re actually prompting corrections from sources that he cites, who say, “No, my work reflects the opposite of what you’re claiming.” I’d love for you to unpack that. Mark…

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Vermont becomes first state to enact law requiring oil companies pay for damage from climate change

Vermont becomes first state to enact law requiring oil companies pay for damage from climate change

The Associated Press reports: Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather. Republican Gov. Phil Scott allowed the bill to become law without his signature late Thursday, saying he is very concerned about the costs and outcome of the small state taking on “Big Oil” alone in what will likely…

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2023 set record for U.S. heat deaths, killing in areas that used to handle the heat

2023 set record for U.S. heat deaths, killing in areas that used to handle the heat

The Associated Press reports: David Hom suffered from diabetes and felt nauseated before he went out to hang his laundry in 108-degree weather, another day in Arizona’s record-smashing, unrelenting July heat wave. His family found the 73-year-old lying on the ground, his lower body burned. Hom died at the hospital, his core body temperature at 107 degrees. The death certificates of more than 2,300 people who died in the United States last summer mention the effects of excessive heat, the…

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Pollution paradox: How cleaning up smog drives global warming

Pollution paradox: How cleaning up smog drives global warming

Fred Pearce writes: They call it “The Blob.” A vast expanse of ocean stretching from Alaska to California periodically warms by up to 4 degrees Celsius (7 degrees F), decimating fish stocks, starving seabirds, creating blooms of toxic algae, preventing salmon returns to rivers, displacing sea lions, and forcing whales into shipping lanes to find food. The Blob first formed in 2013 and spread across an area of the northeast Pacific the size of Canada. It lasted for three years…

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