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Paraglides, Cultural Safety and Decolonization: Randa Abdel-Fattah on her ban from Adelaide Writers’ Week and the silencing of Palestinians – Mondoweiss
Paraglides, Cultural Safety and Decolonization: Randa Abdel-Fattah on her ban from Adelaide Writers’ Week and the silencing of Palestinians – Mondoweiss
Randah Abdel-Fattah on the AWW incident
But Zionism is not a religious, racial, ethnic, or cultural identity. Has anyone ever heard of Zionist food or Zionist traditional clothing, or Zionist customs? No one is born a Zionist or has Zionist DNA. It is a political doctrine that any member of any culture, religion, race, or ethnic category can subscribe to. To claim Zionism as a religious or ethnic identity is like saying Marxism, Socialism, Communism, or Liberalism are cultural identities.
·mondoweiss.net·
Paraglides, Cultural Safety and Decolonization: Randa Abdel-Fattah on her ban from Adelaide Writers’ Week and the silencing of Palestinians – Mondoweiss
What’s working from home doing to your mental health? We tracked 16,000 Australians to find out
What’s working from home doing to your mental health? We tracked 16,000 Australians to find out
Working from home has become a fixture of Australian work culture, but its effect on mental health is still widely debated. Can working from home boost your mental health? If so, how many days a week are best? Whose wellbeing benefits the most? And is that because there’s no commute? These are among questions we answered in our new study, based on long-term survey data from more than 16,000 Australian workers. We found working from home boosts women’s mental health more than men’s.
·theconversation.com·
What’s working from home doing to your mental health? We tracked 16,000 Australians to find out
‘We gotta act white’: how voice recognition tech fails for Aboriginal English speakers
‘We gotta act white’: how voice recognition tech fails for Aboriginal English speakers
politics of (non-English) languages
They wanted the technology to understand words such as “dardy”, which means cool and is borrowed from the Nyungar language. They spoke of wanting the technology to understand Aboriginal accents, but also cautioned technologists that not all Aboriginal people sound the same. Technology developers must work with Indigenous communities to create technologies that respect and understand their varieties of English. The demand for inclusive technology requires developers to address not only the algorithmic flaws but also experiences of racialised exclusion.
·theconversation.com·
‘We gotta act white’: how voice recognition tech fails for Aboriginal English speakers
Israel’s man inside the CIA betrayed the US, new files show - The Grayzone
Israel’s man inside the CIA betrayed the US, new files show - The Grayzone
interesting observations coming out of the "JFK files"... seems like (elements within) the CIA allowed Irgun Terrorists to escape capture after they bombed British interests in Mandate Palestine (1946)
Freeing Zionist terrorists One of the earliest instances of Angleton’s cooperation with Zionist elements came as Zionist militants embarked on a terrorist campaign to pressure the British colonial authorities to leave Mandate Palestine. In October 1946, three months after they bombed the British administrative headquarters at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, members of the right-wing Irgun militia planted explosives in the British embassy in Rome in a failed bid to assassinate the UK’s ambassador to Italy.  According to Angleton, after the Irgun “blew up the British embassy in Rome” in 1946, the CIA intervened to ensure they escaped Italy without prosecution.
Enabling Israeli theft of US nuclear material, spying on America Angleton’s role in enabling Israel’s wanton theft of nuclear material from an American facility is one of the more shocking episodes in the US-Israeli relationship. The scene of the crime was the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation, or NUMEC, a uranium processing facility in Apollo, Pennsylvania owned by a Zionist financier named David Lowenthal. In 1965, Zalman Shapiro, a fellow Zionist hired by Lowenthal to run the plant, illegally diverted hundreds of kilograms of nuclear fissile material to Israel. Posing as a scientist, the notorious Mossad spy Rafi Eitan visited NUMEC three years later to continue the heist. As Jefferson Morley documented in his biography of Angleton, “The Ghost,” the late CIA counterintelligence chief made sure the CIA looked the other way as Israel constructed its first nuclear weapon out of the stolen fissile material. According to Morley, “Angleton, it is fair to say, thought collaboration with Israel was more important than U.S. non-proliferation policy.”
·thegrayzone.com·
Israel’s man inside the CIA betrayed the US, new files show - The Grayzone