When a white Texas middle school teacher told his students in November 2022 that he was “ethnocentric” and thought his race was “superior,” he attempted to explain his position by arguing that he was hardly the only person who held such a view. “Let me finish …” the teacher is seen telling his students on a now-viral video as they began to push back against his remarks. “I think everybody thinks that; they’re just not honest about it.” Texas teacher tells his students he is racist. The teacher in question has since been fired. His termination is hardly surprising given…
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“Who controls the past controls the future,” George Orwell famously wrote in “1984.” In addition to attempting to annex Ukraine by military means, Vladimir Putin is trying to control the past by seizing priceless pieces of Ukraine’s artistic heritage. The book “Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation’s Cultural Heritage” has been quickly written as a corrective to Putin’s version of history, in which Ukraine has been nothing more than a part of Russia. It is a bid to shape the future by claiming the past, in a survey stretching from prehistoric times to the current year. Introduced by the novelist Andrey…
Following an investigation that Al Jazeera said uncovered new evidence regarding the fatal shooting of Palestinian-America journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May, the international news network said Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit against Israeli military forces at the International Criminal Court.”The claim by the Israeli authorities that Shireen was killed by mistake in an exchange of fire is completely unfounded.””Al Jazeera’s legal team has conducted a full and detailed investigation into the case and unearthed new evidence based on several eyewitness accounts, the examination of multiple items of video footage, and forensic evidence pertaining to the case,” said…
SAN DIEGO — The biggest news of the Major League Baseball offseason broke shortly after 5 a.m. at the Winter Meetings on Wednesday morning, when word circulated that 2022 American League MVP Aaron Judge would remain a New York Yankee.7The homegrown New York star agreed to a nine-year deal that will pay him $360 million, according to multiple reports. The San Francisco Giants, Judge’s hometown team, had long been in pursuit of the Yankees star, who has secured the third-largest total contract guarantee ever and will make more in average annual value than any position player in history. The deal…
BERLIN — German officials say they expect more people to be detained in connection with an alleged far-right plan to topple the government that saw 25 people rounded up Wednesday, including a self-styled prince, a retired paratrooper and a judge.The plot was allegedly hatched by people linked to the so-called Reich Citizens movement, which rejects Germany’s postwar constitution and the legitimacy of the government.Georg Meier, the top security official in Thuringia state, told public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk on Thursday that he expects a second wave of people being detained as authorities review evidence.Meier accused the far-right Alternative for Germany party of…
There have been enough COVID infections in the UK since March 2020 for every person to have been infected between 1.3 and two times, according to mathematical modelling. Of course, some people will have had COVID more than twice, and some won’t have had it at all. But COVID is not a “one and done” disease, and any ideas of eliminating it are now unrealistic. There is however an increasingly pervasive narrative which suggests we shouldn’t bother to mitigate against COVID, apart from through vaccination, because infection (and reinfection) is supposedly inevitable – and even useful for topping up immunity.…
The development came amid ongoing nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of Jina Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old from Iran’s Kurdistan region was arrested by Iran’s so-called “morality police” on 13 September for not wearing her hijab properly. According to OHCHR, thousands have been detained throughout the country for joining peaceful protests. Unholy charges “At least six people connected to the protests have been sentenced to death on charges of ‘moharebeh’, or ‘waging war against God’, or ‘efsad-e fel-arz’, or ‘corruption on earth’, said spokesperson Jeremy Laurence. “A growing number of people, including Iranian celebrities and sportswomen and men…
As other cities experiment with fare-free transit, some MTA board members are calling on elected officials to come up with new funding sources that would allow the financially strapped agency to let New Yorkers ride buses for free.The push comes as the Council of the District of Columbia voted last week to do away with Metrobus fares in Washington starting in July, and as Boston last year tapped into $8 million in federal pandemic relief money to eliminate fares on three Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus routes through at least 2024.While MTA officials have warned that higher-than-expected fare hikes may…
Migrant rights advocates welcomed the Biden administration’s Monday extension of legal protections for more than 100,000 Haitian migrants fleeing civil unrest, as well as economic and environmental crises, in their homeland.”This move will protect thousands of Haitians already in the U.S. and ensure they have work authorization to live with dignity in their new communities.”U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday redesignated Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and extended the designation through August 3, 2024.”We are providing much-needed humanitarian relief to Haitian nationals already present in the United States,” Mayorkas said in a statement. “The conditions in Haiti,…
Tom Brady, who managed to find a new way to win Monday night, now faces someone for whom he might have a great deal of empathy, someone who is an even longer shot to have an NFL career than he was, in Sunday’s battle of NFC South and NFC West division leaders.The San Francisco 49ers were considered a rising Super Bowl contender until Jimmy Garoppolo suffered a broken foot last week. Now rookie Brock Purdy, the Iowa State quarterback who had the distinction of being Mr. Irrelevant — the last player taken in this year’s NFL draft — will take…