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My column in today’s ET with Srishti Chauhan on why the revival of nutrient rich indigenous foods is a far better option than the approach of chemical fortification that seems to have become the default policy strategy in India. We must move beyond an untenable policy mix that first encourages us to subsidise nutrient poor hybrid crops and then spend even more to artificially fortify them.

“Doctors Without Borders is outraged by the REPEATED killings of our staff in Gaza” It is insane that they have to beg Israel to stop KILLING their staff but US weapons keep flowing to attack medical workers.

My second cousin is a non verbal autistic boy. An RSF questioned him and when he didn’t respond he was hit over the head with a gun. His mum screamed that he can’t talk. They didn’t care. They beat him to death. 💔💔💔 و حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل #KeepEyesOnSudan

New: Airlines in the US are now *required* to give you a REFUND for a canceled or significantly delayed flight, automatically. The DOT's "automatic refund provision" went into effect today. Good news for travelers with a month until the holiday rush begins.

Much of the supposedly 'liberal' media is onboard with a second Trump term. Obeying in advance. Rolling over. Support independent journalism: zeteo.com/subscribe

the audacity of deploying this tone to silence indigenous people speaking up against a genocide at a genocide apology to them, and pretending to do it in offense on their behalf

Since Sacha Baron Cohen is making the headlines again, I’d like to remind you of the time he lied to a Palestinian Christian from Bethlehem named Ayman Abu Aita. In the film “Bruno” Sacha falsely labelled Ayman, a mere shop keeper, as a member of Al-Aqsa Martyrs brigade and deliberately mistranslated what Ayman was saying in Arabic to make him look threatening. Sacha had even chosen the location of the interview, and invited Ayman himself, which was in a part of the West Bank under Israeli control. Sacha had also led Ayman to think he was being interviewed for his peace activism. Ayman sued both Sacha and David Letterman for $110 million in damages for libel. The case was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. Sacha has been a racist piece of shit for a long time.

Sudan is silently going through a genocide....what's worse is that they don't barely have any media coverage....RSF terrorizing and killing civilians in the serving imperialist powers (UAE) that's aiding and funding them...Don’t keep silent....Speak up for our sudanese people.

“Why don’t we have a white history month?” You sure you want that?

Many of us focus on Palestinian children—and to a lesser extent Palestinian women—but Palestinian men have been dehumanised like no other group in Palestine. They have been killed, detained, tortured, raped, and treated like terrorists. It's beyond horrifying.

I said this at the vigil, and I'll say it again: I am often asked, are you not scared of being fired? Are you not scared of being deported? And my answer is always, are YOU not scared? Are you NOT scared of being complicit in the Holocaust of our time?

I don’t know who wrote this but yeah

This poem brings back an unpleasant memory of a former newsroom colleague snapping at me “There’s no such thing as Palestine!”, when I had (in their view) the audacity to use the word.

Does anybody else think it's weird that we can't mobilize to stop climate change but within an incredibly short time span we've gone from having never heard of Chat GPT to building nuclear generators in order to feed its rapacious energy needs?

israel is annihilating every man woman and child inside besieged jabaliyah, has repeatedly said that the army now considers any remaining human being there a target. this is an accelerating extermination phase of genocide, and we continue to arm it

Quite the contrary: every cruel measure enacted as red state red meat is a chance for blue states to extend a kindness, and capture even more of the best, brightest and kindest of the nation. 30/

Nothing's more frustrating that watching the GOP smash norms and decency to advance policies that harm millions of Americas, unless it's that, plus Democratic officials stamping their feet and saying, "C'mon guys, *play fair*." 1/

One of the biggest scams in life is ‘being the bigger person’. Some days you have to let people know that you’re madder than them.