"The decision by Saudi Arabia, once a key financial and political backer of Lebanon, underlines Riyadh’s efforts to help stabilise the fragile state at a critical period as the authorities struggle to rein in Hizbollah and Israel launches daily strikes on the country."
Israel has carried on with its offensive, launching a wave of strikes on southern Lebanon and has issued more forced displacement orders for suburbs in Tyre.
Al Jazeera’s Obaida Hitto reports on the strikes he witnessed in and around Tyre.
came faster than i expected
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"Iran will consider all of Elon Musk’s companies in the Middle East as military targets as it retaliates against the U.S., Iranian state media outlet Fars reported Thursday."
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Add eldercare, also disproportionately performed by women.
"Israel and the United States have long known, and tolerated, that each was spying on the other. But an intensified Israeli effort to learn about U.S. positions in talks with Iran has crossed a line, according to some American officials."
Good interview w/CIP's Matt Duss:
I do think that the Biden admin’s Gaza policy was beyond just a policy dispute. It was a policy of supporting genocide. I think part of restoring accountability is making clear that the senior officials who carried out that policy should not work in government again
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"As much as Egypt is keen on seeing the Syrian state continue to transcend HTS capture, the second Egyptian state official says that formalizing diplomatic relations will largely depend on “the extent of the cake that Egypt would be getting in the reconstruction.”
The elimination of shared governance at universities is directly connected to the consolidation of power and degradation of democratic institutions that we’re seeing at the national level
Iran will consider all of Elon Musk's companies in the Middle East as military targets as it retaliates against the U.S., Iranian state media reported.
'The career ladder in academia is of particular interest as it is a “greedy” occupation due to its lack of substitutability among workers, long hours with increasing returns to productivity, and the importance of establishing and maintaining personal contacts.'
Academia is a "greedy" occupation.
glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity
