Nuclear energy has no place in a green Scotland ( greens.scot )
Nuclear power leaves a long and toxic legacy....
Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors ( blog.ucsusa.org )
A realistic understanding of their costs and risks is critical....
Google layoffs: A timeline of the company's job cuts and restructuring into 2024 ( www.businessinsider.com )
Google layoffs in 2023 affected about 6% of the company's global workforce, or about 12,000 people, starting in January....
Ocalan calls for Kurdish action on Isis ( morningstaronline.co.uk )
The imprisoned PKK leader has urged for resistance against Isis militants in Syria....
Israeli Reporter Amira Hass on Palestine & the Role of Journalism to Fight “Normalization of Evil” ( www.democracynow.org )
Our guest is the Haaretz correspondent Amira Hass, the only Israeli Jewish journalist to have spent 30 years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank. She is the recipient of the 2024 Columbia Journalism Award, and on Wednesday she addressed the graduating class of the Columbia Journalism School in New York City. Hass...
Elections opportunity for Kurdish-Turkish de-escalation – US think tank (May 8th, 2023) ( rojavainformationcenter.org )
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The upcoming Turkish elections on May 14, especially if they yield an opposition victory, will be “a rare opportunity” for the US to broker a Turkish-Kurdish peace, argues a new report by the New Lines Institute, a Washington-based think tank....
Rare Footage of Extremely Deep-Sea Squid ( www.infoterkiniviral.com )
Nearly 1 km below the surface of the ocean, cameras catch a scary deep-sea squid.
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Too good to be true: the greenwashers’ box of tricks ( www.ft.com )
Companies are becoming ever craftier in their efforts to pose as more climate-friendly than they are...
American Airlines is Issuing 'Poverty Verification Letters' For New-Hire Flight Attendants Because Their Wages Are So Low ( www.paddleyourownkanoo.com )
‘You could be looking at the last surviving works by Gaza’s artists’ ( www.972mag.com )
An exhibition in the West Bank attempts both to capture and counteract the erasure of Palestinian life and culture in Gaza, even as its artists are killed....
Israel kills more than 500 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7 ( www.aljazeera.com )
That toll is more than three times the number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank in 2022....
Google has an idea to prevent phone scams, but it'll mean allowing its AI to listen in on your calls ( www.businessinsider.com )
Google promised to keep data from the phone calls private.
'Irate male' assaulted Newfoundland officers with block of cheese, police say ( www.ctvnews.ca )
...The RNC did not say if the officers were injured or what kind of cheese was used.
Tom Waits - "Road To Peace" (2006, alternative folk rock) ( yewtu.be )
Tom Waits is not afraid of going dark places with his song writing, but it hardly gets darker than this....
Under the surface - The hidden crisis in Europe's groundwater ( europeanwaters.eu )
Altogether, 14 journalists from seven countries analysed the most up-to-date EU figures and created an interactive map of Europe’s aquifers. The conclusion is that our water is disappearing and what remains is facing near-irreversible pollution. Over 15% of the aquifers mapped are in poor condition — dangerously...
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Never Ended ( jacobin.com )
Israel was founded with the Nakba, a series of atrocities that ethnically cleansed Palestinians from their homeland. Today we are witnessing Israel engage in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza on an even larger, more violent scale....
Brazil’s Lula government ousts Petrobras chief after dispute over dividends ( www.ft.com )
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Belgium university to quit project with Israeli institutions ( www.newarab.com )
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel said it would pull out of an AI project it was working on in collaboration with Israeli institutions, amid the Gaza war....
Pro-Palestinian hunger strike at Princeton University marks 1 week ( newjersey.news12.com )
It comes after 13 students were arrested for trespassing late last month during a protest....
Sam Bankman-Fried Believes He Was Set Up to Be the Fail Guy ( www.observers.com )
Rep. Rashida Tlaib: Arrest Netanyahu for 'crimes against humanity' - UPI.com ( www.upi.com )
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., says Israel is about to commit "crimes against humanity" and on Tuesday urged the International Criminal Court to arrest Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
UNRWA to close East Jerusalem headquarters after arson attack by ‘Israeli extremists’ | CNN ( edition.cnn.com )
In a statement on social platform X, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said the arson attack was the latest in a series of threats, harassment and violent incidents perpetrated by Israelis against the agency’s staff over the past two months....
Did Stanford just prototype the future of AR glasses? ( www.theverge.com )
A research team at Stanford is developing a new AI-assisted holographic imaging technology it claims is thinner, lighter, and higher quality than anything its researchers have seen....
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Udi Raz: Berlin stepping up repression of pro-Palestine Jews ( www.newarab.com )
The German government and establishment are stepping up the repression of pro-Palestine Jews including Israelis, but it's all about anti-Arab/Muslim racism by proxy, says Udi Raz, a Jewish activist who spoke to The New Arab in Berlin....
