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Remembering Palestinian hero Dalal al-Mughrabi

nternational Women's Day (March 8) is a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. This day also marks a call for action for accelerating women's equality. Coincidentally, in March 2022, the PA officially renamed March "the month of leader Dalal al-Mughrabi" in honor of her heroic act and sacrifice.
 
Who is Dalal al-Mughrabi (1959-1978)?
 
According to Institute for Palestine Studies, Dalal al-Mughrabi was born on December 29, 1959 in Sabra refugee camp near Beirut to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother. Her family resided in the camp with 11 other siblings. Dalal became a legend after she led a group of 12 fighters in one of the most talked about attacks against Israeli forces decades ago. Her mission was to take hostages and demand the release of Palestinian freedom fighters held in Israeli prisons.
 
In this week, 47 years ago, Dalal al-Mughrabi fell in the line of duty with eight other fighters during an operation she led on the highway between Haifa and Tel Aviv.

Meep-Meep, Democrats

America’s Corporatist Project: The Good, the Bad, and Prospects

Man outside holding a sign about what Americans fear

Many prominent and otherwise admired people in this country live off fear. They promote it widely in official communiqués and through a compliant media. Sometimes the fears have a basis in reality, sometimes not. Even when they are real, those involved exaggerate them for public consumption. These practices have gone on for so long now that fear has come to dominate the public square. And this has been done and continues to be done because frightened people yearn for guidance and protection and will yield personal decision making, prerogatives, and power to elites and experts who claim to have answers for their anxieties. Accordingly, elites in government, business, and intellectual circles have for decades gathered around a range of issues to frighten the public enough to allow these elite elements to jointly wield power.

Christie Brinkley: Don’t let the US resume nuclear weapon tests that ended decades ago

The United States and other nuclear powers are now moving closer to resuming nuclear weapons tests, decades after testing ended. This highly disturbing trend must be halted.

Since the atomic age, 2,056 nuclear weapons have been detonated, 528 of them above the ground. The United States and Soviet Union accounted for about 85% of these tests. The explosive power of atmospheric tests equaled 29,000 Hiroshima bombs. Airborne radioactive fallout circled the globe, re-entered the environment through precipitation, and entered human bodies through food and water.

Cold War bomb testing was part of a massive increase in the number of nuclear weapons, which peaked at more than 60,000. Kansas City plays a major part in their production, with the Kansas City National Security Campus manufacturing more than 80% of the non-nuclear components that go into our country’s stockpile.

After nuclear war as barely avoided during the Cuban missile crisis, public pressure convinced leaders to ban all above-ground tests in 1963 — a treaty that has never been violated.

Everybody Knows covers more women-led groups

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Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan talk about women-led and all-women music groups from the rock era and some other genres including Heart, the Runaways, Sweet Honey and the Rock, TLC and more!

Listen live at 11pm Friday, March 7 and 14 streaming at wgrn.org or on the radio at 91.9FM
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Monday at 2pm streaming March 10 and 17 at wcrsfm.org or on the radio at 92.7 or 98.3FM

Archived on Mixcloud here

Stand Up for Science 2025 rally

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Friday, March 7, 12noon-3pm
Ohio Statehouse

Who should join: Anyone who wants to support science in a peaceful (but hopefully loud) way.

Where to go: We will be outside in the West Plaza of the Ohio Statehouse. This is the exterior area facing S. High Street. Look for the statue of William McKinley to know you are on the correct side of the building.

What to wear: It’s Ohio in March so watch the weather. With the weather in mind, we encourage people to wear their science stuff. Lab coats, safety goggles, or whatever neat science gear you might have that is safe in an exterior public gathering (so maybe leave the glass beakers back in the lab).

Signs: We love signs! Please do not mount signs on hard/wooden sticks though. They create a safety hazard in large crowds. Cardboard supports (like wrapping paper tubes) can be a good, safer substitute.

Bonus idea: active scientists, you can turn an old conference poster into a sign! Just use the back side to write/draw your message in support of science.

Letter to Europe from an American

It’s with a very heavy heart that I watch Europe imitate the militarism of the United States, moving massive resources from human and environmental needs to weapons, celebrating proposals from good liberal civic groups to steal money from Russia and dump it into more weapons, cutting deals to have the ingredients for more weapons dug out of your soil by a distant empire that routinely spits on your head, moving nuclear weapons around and across borders like toys, discarding the rule of law and a vision of a survivable future.

Saying Goodbye to Benjamin Netanyahu Is Long Overdue

President Donald Trump’s address to Congress and the nation on Tuesday night was remarkably devoid of any mention of why the United States continues to both enable and be complicit in the Ukrainian conflict with Russia as well as with the war crimes that are being committed by the state of Israel against nearly all its neighbors on a daily basis. The most recent abomination committed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his band of thugs is the cutting off of food, medicine and temporary housing to the Gazans who were bold enough to return to their ruined homes due to a ceasefire negotiated successfully by US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff in January. Now that Netanyahu has decided to come up with some false assertions to break the agreement, allowing him to continue his extermination of the Palestinian people, Trump as peace maker seems to have disappeared without a trace even though the US was in a sense a guarantor of the phased disengagement.

International Law at a Crossroads: Can Gaza Spark a Global Reckoning?

International law is fighting for relevance. The outcome of this fight is likely to change the entire global political dynamics, which were shaped by World War II and sustained through the selective interpretation of the law by dominant countries.

 In principle, international law should have always been relevant, if not paramount, in governing the relationships between all countries, large and small, to resolve conflicts before they turn into outright wars. It should also have worked to prevent a return to an era of exploitation that allowed Western colonialism to practically enslave the global south for hundreds of years.

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