Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts

Sunday, March 1, 2026

Promoting genocide is a crime no matter where it happens

 

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Many self-described “Jewish” institutions should be considered crime scenes. They are gathering places for those who ought to be prosecuted under the War Crimes Act and are often places where young Canadians are illegally “induced” into joining a foreign military while flouting genocide statutes and charity law.

A La Presse investigation published Thursday into two private Montreal Jewish schools supporting the Israeli military has sparked an important political and media storm in Quebec. Since October 2023 heavily subsidized private schools Herzliah and Bialik have had at least 14 different visits from active or former Israeli soldiers.

But these schools are but two of a hundred or so self-described Jewish institutions promoting the politics of Zionism that have platformed individuals who should be investigated under Canada’s War Crimes Act and Crimes Against Humanity. That statute begins, “Every person who, either before or after the coming into force of this section, commits outside Canada (a) genocide, (b) a crime against humanity, or (c) a war crime, is guilty of an indictable offence and may be prosecuted for that offence in accordance with section 8.”

Alongside self-described Jewish schools, synagogues, camps and community centres regularly host Israeli soldiers who’ve participated in the holocaust in Gaza. Last month former IOF combat soldier Guy Hochman, a comedian who jokes about committing war crimes in Gaza, performed at the Prosserman Jewish Community Centre in Toronto.  (more...)

Promoting genocide is a crime no matter where it happens


“Small Children Who Knew Nothing of Politics or Wars”

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A scene of devastation in Minab, Iran, as parents waited to know the fate of their young daughters after the bombing of a girls' elementary school killed over 100.

Mohammed Shariatmadar stood outside the wreckage of the Shajareh Tayyiba girls’ elementary school in Minab, in southern Iran on Saturday morning, unable to process what he was seeing. His six year-old daughter, Sara, a second grade student, was among dozens of girls killed when the school was bombed in the first few hours of the war launched by the U.S. and Israel on Iran.

In the immediate aftermath of the strike he remained standing in the shade of a cracked wall, staring at the ground and ignoring the commotion around him. He didn’t approach the building, which had been sealed off, but he didn’t move away either. His hands knotted together, then separated, then knotted again, in a repeated motion. Every time a paramedic emerged or an ambulance moved, he quickly raised his head, then returned to staring at the ground. He asked no one a direct question. He was only waiting for his daughter’s name to be called.

When families were finally directed to a gathering point to receive the bodies of their children, he slowly moved forward. When asked if he needed help, he shook his head silently and waited for his daughter’s body to be brought out.

“I cannot understand how a place where innocent children learn can be bombed like this,” Shariatmadar told Drop Site. “We are talking about small children who knew nothing of politics or wars. And yet they are the ones paying the highest price.”

Some 170 students were inside the building attending morning classes when the missile struck. At least 108 people were killed, according to the public prosecutor’s office in Minab, many of them schoolgirls between seven and 12 years old.  (more...)

“Small Children Who Knew Nothing of Politics or Wars”



Saturday, February 28, 2026

Will War With Iran Bring On the Fall of the House of Epstein?

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Have the witches and warlocks of British Intelligence, and their accomplices in the “Canaanite reconstructionist” cult of Christian Zionism, convinced President Donald Trump that he was “saved” from assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania in order to later launch Armageddon in “the Mideast?“ The unhinged assertion by American ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who stated to journalist Tucker Carlson, that Israel has a Biblically authorized right to invade and subjugate the several nations of the region to establish “Greater Israel,” indicates that, under the cloak of war with Iran, there is something Satanic afoot.

The so-called “negotiations” of the Trump Administration with Iran, were Satanic in the literal sense. Everything that was said to be their intent, was in fact opposite. War was always going to be the outcome. Anything that Iran agreed to, with the exception of complete submission, was said to be “a violation.” Yet, to now refer to the Trump Administration, which not only violated the United States Constitution by launching war without the advice and consent of the Congress, but also rejected the deepest anti-imperial war wishes of his electoral base, as “the Epstein Adminstration,” would completely misidentify what is actually happening. The Democratic Party, fully supportive of Benjamin Netanyahu’s mass murder in Gaza, also supports the war with Iran, but hopes to gain political leverage leading to their taking over the Congress in November, by sacrificing American and Iranian lives to do it. They are also Satanic.

Both the Republican and Democratic Parties are part snd parcel of the “Epstein Class.” The people of the United States have now been shown enough through the Epstein-Maxwell files to know the depraved nature of the War Party. Are we no better than the subjects of imperial Rome who, corrupted by the decadence of their contemporary “Epstein elite,” not only tolerated, but celebrated Rome’s end-of-civilization antics? As the majority of the world know, the 500 years of colonial rule are over. These wars are the hysterical reactions of a dying Anglo-American imperial system to that fact. On Monday, Executive Intelligence Review will host and Emergency forum, “Epstein and the Bottomless Depravity of the “Elites” —Urgent Need for a Cultural Renaissance!” In this 250th year of the birth of America, the higher culture that the American Revolution was a product of, must become the basis for an instantaneous reversal of our slide into thermonuclear war, and for the fall of the Epstein Class.



Sunday, February 22, 2026

Olympics, USSC re: Tariffs, John Risley, Guest Dave Moore on AI for Ports

 

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This week, we take a few minutes to lament the gold medal hockey game loss to the US, before discussing the stories of the week. This week saw the US Supreme Court strike down the tariff's that had been imposed by President Trump, as Adam had predicted after hearing the arguments before that Court. Also, we learned this week that the Tumbler Ridge school shooter was banned from Open AI for their postings on that platform, a school trustee in BC was fined $750,000 for comments about gender identity in the curriculum, and the Surrey Police have been denied in their request to delay their takeover of the RCMP in that region.

Guest Dave Moore, a retired RCMP investigator, takes us inside the struggle for law enforcement to tackle the issue of securing our ports, and has a suggestion for how that may be done, taking after the example of Rotterdam.




What 'Jeffrey Epstein' means about Harvard and America’s imperial elite

 

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The Jeffrey Epstein scandal exposes not just individual corruption, but a deeply entrenched Harvard-centered elite network shaping American imperial power.

The torrent of disclosures regarding Jeffrey Epstein is difficult to process, much less respond to, because of their content and their scope. Repeated emails from and to Epstein on subjects like Jews’ superiority to “goyim” and the desirability of colonial wars for plunder offend the eye as well as even the battered assumption of human decency.

The presence in the emails of outsized public figures ranging from Noam Chomsky and Stephen K. Bannon to Lawrence Summers and Howard Lutnick shock because of their scope: the sheer number of prominent people who appear to have, temporarily or not, nullified their ideologies or their marriages or their images to spend time in Epstein’s circle. The analyst Thomas Karat has suggested, based on carefully parsing the timing and the discrepancies of the files’ release, that immobilizing the reader from a considered response may in fact be the release’s point. The Scottish constitutionalist and activist Sara Salyers made a version of Karat’s argument when she spoke about “the overwhelming feeling” of “hav[ing] woken up on an alternate, dystopian, universe” where “the scale of the insane evil…is so huge that it’s impossible to see how to begin putting anything right.”

Helpful responses to that question of “how to begin putting anything right” came from the British whistleblower Halima Khan, who said on X that Epstein “was involved in too much to be the work of one person”; that “Epstein is a project and the man we know is just the face and the fall guy”; and, in a subsequent tweet, that “we may not be explicit victims of Epstein but we are all implicit victims of Epstein.” These notions of broader networks of perpetrators and victims strike a chord. They are first of all demonstrably accurate, as shown by the investigative journalist Whitney Webb, who has written definitive books on Epstein’s connections to a network of “transgenerational organized crime interests…and major factions within both American and Israeli intelligence.” They are also deeply suggestive about the real “moral” of the Epstein story which powerful players may want obscured: how institutions that America uses to justify its global prerogatives have been corrupted by Epstein’s Jewish Zionist networks and their allies.

The clearest case of this corruption is also the heart of Epstein’s activity, “connecting” different “worlds” which formed the basis for his “success.” Namely, Harvard University: America’s beacon of education to the world since the 1630s; created by graduates of Oxford and Cambridge; and the seeder of America’s leadership class. Investigating Epstein’s role at Harvard and the players who made it possible shows that Epstein’s story isn’t confined to financial or intelligence networks, which many people reasonably consider intrinsically corrupt. It extends to an educational network which he and his backers have systematically corrupted in the name of power, profit, pleasure, and social control.  (more...)

What 'Jeffrey Epstein' means about Harvard and America’s imperial elite


Sunday, February 15, 2026

Canadian physics professor steps back from job over Epstein questions

 

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Epstein files place Perimeter Institute's Lee Smolin and other prominent Canadians under scrutiny

A highly regarded theoretical physicist is stepping away from the Ontario institute he helped found, after his ties to the late American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were revealed in recently released files.

Lee Smolin, an American Canadian professor of physics and philosophy, has "agreed to pause his working relationship" with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ont., according to an email on Thursday from Perimeter's executive director, Marcela Carena. 

Smolin was a founding faculty member of the independent research centre, which is known around the world for pioneering work in quantum theory and got much of its initial funding from BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis. 

Smolin was working at the Perimeter Institute part time and also has academic appointments at the University of Waterloo and University of Toronto. 

His correspondence with Epstein was part of more than three million new pages of files released by the U.S. Department of Justice on Jan. 30. 

Nothing CBC News has seen suggests Smolin did anything illegal or participated in any of Epstein's illicit activities, and appearing in the files is not an indication in itself of any wrongdoing. However, questions have emerged after the documents revealed his relationship with the financier continued for years after Epstein's conviction for sex offences.

The files show that Smolin continued to correspond with Epstein, and the two made repeated efforts to talk by phone and meet up, until at least 2013 — five years after the latter pleaded guilty in Florida to state charges of soliciting prostitution from a minor and another criminal count. The paper trail appears to contradict Smolin's own account of his relationship with Epstein.  (more...)

Canadian physics professor steps back from job over Epstein questions


Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Former engineering professor went on leave to serve in IDF after October 7, 2023

 

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Visiting professor Shahar Kvatinsky continued teaching until July 2025

In 2023, Shahar Kvatinsky, a former visiting professor in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, left the University of Toronto to serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Kvatinsky, the Dean of the Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, continued teaching at U of T until August 2025.

Kvatinsky began his appointment as visiting professor in July 2023, but appears to have left the university to serve in the IDF sometime after October 7, 2023.

In a Facebook post from November 2023, Kvatinsky is seen wearing military gear in front of building ruins. The post’s caption reads, “We have been fighting for six weeks. […] Six weeks away from family, with my new-old family in Golani.” 

The Golani Brigade is one of the IDF’s five infantry brigades.

According to his CV, Kvatsinky served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the IDF from 1999–2004. However, the CV, which was updated in July 2025 — the same month Kvatinsky left U of T — says that he “is currently in the reserve forces.” The caption of the Facebook post continues, “I’ve been traveling around the world for exactly 43 years, almost 25 years as a soldier, both regular and reserve.”

In November 2024, Kvatinsky shared a photo of himself and other military personnel meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The caption indicated that he’d met with Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant two months prior. 

After serving in the IDF, Kvatinsky returned to the university in fall 2024 to teach ECE552: Computer Architecture. He shared a photo of himself outside the People’s Circle for Palestine in May 2024, wearing a t-shirt embossed with the symbol of the Golani Brigade. 

It is unclear whether U of T formally allowed Kvatinsky to take a leave of absence to go to Israel. A spokesperson for the university wrote to The Varsity that they were unable to disclose this information “due to privacy constraints imposed by law.”  (more...)

Former engineering professor went on leave to serve in IDF after October 7, 2023


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Sunday, February 1, 2026

The Threat of Fascism Today: 'Rohatyn as Satan'

 

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This week, we feature Lyndon LaRouche's July, 2006 Washington, D.C. webcast detailing the political and economic threat of fascism in our world then, and today. LaRouche identified the hard core fascist banking/financier networks behind Hitler and Mussolini in the 1930s that were never prosecuted and dismantled after World War II. This same "beastman" crowd, typified more recently by Synarchist Felix Rohatyn,  is again attempting to plunge our planet into a new dark age of war and genocide. As he frequently did, LaRouche insisted that only by mobilizing the inherent goodness innate in every human individual at the highest level, could this threat be met and defeated.



Friday, January 23, 2026

Perfidious Albion - The City Of London And The "Special Relationship" With The US

 

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Garland Nixon and Harley Schlanger connect all the perfidious dots




Headline Geopolitics with Host José Niño: David Miller

 

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In this Headline Geopolitics episode, José Niño is joined by David Miller, investigative researcher and host of Palestine Declassified. Miller recounts how he was fired from the University of Bristol over anti-Zionist views, then won in court, setting a potential legal precedent protecting political dissent in the UK.

The conversation explores Miller’s concept of Pax Judaica, the limits of traditional Israel-lobby analysis, and how influence operates through media, intelligence, finance, and academia. We also examine the UAE–Israel alliance, Zionist power projection in Africa and Latin America, and the intensifying crackdown on Palestine advocacy across the West.



Thursday, January 22, 2026

Unions and students seek Columbia University board reforms after Trump deal

 

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Activists want a board of trustees that is more transparent and representative of the students and faculty

Students and Columbia University's chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) launched a campaign on Tuesday to reform the institution’s most powerful governing body, the board of trustees.

The decision comes after more than two years of what they say is disenfranchisement over the way Columbia's board of trustees has handled several issues, including permitting the police to target the student body multiple times while they were protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza and capitulating to the Trump administration’s demands over alleged violations of federal anti-discrimination laws.

While the encampments inspired other students at campuses across the country to protest, pro-Palestine students at Columbia paid a heavy price. Hundreds of students were arrested, dozens suspended, and several targeted for deportation. Activists say those actions have had a chilling effect on free speech on campus.

Michael Thaddeus, a mathematics professor and vice-president of Columbia's chapter of AAUP, told Middle East Eye that the idea to reform the board arose last summer, following the maelstrom and Columbia's agreement to a $220m settlement with the Trump administration for alleged violations of federal anti-discrimination laws. 

AAUP had discussions with students, alumni, and community members, and a strategy to reform the board came up repeatedly.

Thaddeus said, “There are many things that we’re deeply, deeply unhappy about. One of them is the decision to call the police in response to the encampments, the occupation of Hamilton Hall and the demonstration in Butler Library in May of 2025.

“We're deeply unhappy with the decision to negotiate with the federal government rather than fighting their demands the way Harvard did. Columbia more or less acquiesced to those demands and made unprecedented concessions to the government on matters of hiring, curriculum, discipline and admissions. That was a deeply misguided decision," he added.  (more...)

Unions and students seek Columbia University board reforms after Trump deal


A warning about civil liberties on Canadian university campuses

 

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Increasing repression against pro-Palestine students is happening now—we must stop it

Canadian universities are rapidly becoming sites of repression rather than debate. Across the country, students protesting Israel’s assault on Gaza are facing suspensions, bans, police violence, and sweeping restrictions on speech and assembly—often imposed before any investigation has taken place. What is unfolding on campuses is not a series of isolated incidents, but a coordinated erosion of civil liberties that demands immediate public attention.

These patterns are readily visible in how universities have responded to pro-Palestinian students and organizers. McMaster University suspended a student group, Students for Palestinian Human Rights, for disrupting a board meeting, then banned three students from campus activities prior to their investigation concerning a pro-Palestine protest. At the University of British Columbia, the RCMP and campus security guards destroyed a sukkah erected by pro-Palestinian Jewish students, who sat praying in the rain.

This climate has also resulted in physical violence against students. At York University, one student was violently assaulted by a member of an extremist Zionist vigilante group. At two events involving Toronto Metropolitan University students, security guards used physical violence against protesters. In another, students were assaulted by an Israeli soldier who was hosted by a student group off-campus. This incident was followed by police arrests of five of the assaulted students.

This backlash has unfolded quietly but persistently. A recent article in Briarpatch surveyed protest policies at 17 universities with pro-Palestinian encampments. It found that nearly all campuses “either introduced or reinforced restrictions on the type or location of campus protests.” Many policies were so vague as to make these restrictions completely arbitrary. Other examples include Western University, which tried to implement a “no demo without permission” policy that was repealed. At the University of Toronto, “affixing signs, posters, or flyers (including the use of chalk, marker, paint, and projections) outside designated areas” has been designated as a form of vandalism. Most recently, faculty and students at Carleton University have been vigorously opposing an “Institutional Impartiality Policy” that bans departments and student groups from making public statements on political or social issues.  (more...)

A warning about civil liberties on Canadian university campuses


Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Israel uses permit warfare to cripple Christian schools, erase Palestinian presence in al-Quds

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Israel has barred more than 230 Christian teachers from al-Quds, triggering school closures and exposing a systematic campaign to undermine Christian and Palestinian presence in the city.

Christian schools in al-Quds launched a week-long strike after Israel blocked more than 230 Christian teachers from the occupied West Bank from entering al-Quds to teach, the US-based Palestine Chronicle news website reported on Tuesday.

Since Israel built the apartheid wall around al-Quds in 2002, Palestinians from the occupied West Bank have been barred from entering the city without special permits granted only to limited categories and for short periods.

More than 230 teachers from Bethlehem, many of whom worked in al-Quds long before the wall, are now forced to obtain these permits.

Al-Quds is home to 15 Christian schools educating over 12,000 students, which are among the oldest and most respected institutions in the city.

The restrictive move highlights a broader pattern of Israeli obstruction of education in the occupied territories, including denying new classrooms, raiding schools, arresting and searching students and teachers, shutting schools under various pretexts, and banning renovations.  (more...)

Saturday, January 17, 2026

Christian schools in Jerusalem suspend classes to protest at Israeli restrictions

 

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Israel imposed restrictions on work permits for teachers from West Bank, leading to disruption for thousands of students

Christian schools in Jerusalem have announced escalating protest measures, including a suspension of classes and a mass strike, in rejection of what they consider arbitrary Israeli policies that have disrupted the work of hundreds of teachers.

These steps come after Israel imposed restrictions on work permits for teachers from the West Bank, leading to disruptions in the education sector.

The denial of permits has deprived schools of essential teaching staff, directly impacting thousands of students in Jerusalem.

More than 12,000 students are educated in 15 Christian schools in Jerusalem. These schools employ 820 teachers and staff, including 235 who hold West Bank ID cards issued by the Palestinian Authority. They reach their workplaces with "entry permits to Israel", which are renewed at the beginning of each academic term.

At the start of the new school term, the Israeli Civil Administration refused to renew the permits of some teachers and placed others under review, while issuing third-category permits only for certain days of the week.  (more...)

Christian schools in Jerusalem suspend classes to protest at Israeli restrictions


BP's 'toxic influence' on UK STEM education faces scrutiny

 

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BP's influence over UK STEM education through its sponsorship of the Science Museum’s teacher training academy comes under attack, raising concerns over fossil fuel industry ties and greenwashing in educational spaces.

BP is facing renewed criticism over its influence on science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) education in the United Kingdom, following revelations about its longstanding partnership with the Science Museum Group.

Documents obtained through freedom of information requests show that the oil and gas giant funded a key research project, Enterprising Science, which led to the launch of the Science Museum Group Academy, a training program for teachers and educators.

Since its creation, the academy has run more than 500 courses, reaching over 5,000 teachers across the UK.

Campaigners argue that the documents reveal the extent of BP’s involvement in the project. The original contract for Enterprising Science reportedly included a clause stating that no major decisions could be approved unless backed by BP’s representative.

Chris Garrard, co-director of Culture Unstained, a group advocating for ethical sponsorship in the arts and education, said, "BP’s toxic influence over young people’s learning is calculated and insidious. We wouldn’t allow tobacco companies to be involved in crafting educational content, so why should a fossil fuel company with a record of ignoring climate science play such a central role?"  (more...)

BP's 'toxic influence' on UK STEM education faces scrutiny

Related:

Activists hail end of 27-year BP sponsorship deal with British Museum



Friday, January 16, 2026

Minneapolis vs ICE w/ Indigenous Protector Movement

 

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Join us live for a conversation between TRN Podcast host Nick Estes and the Indigenous Protector Movement on what's happening in Minneapolis.



Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Phœnicians Among Us

 

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Peter Duke interviews Mrs. Heritage History — and examines how ancient maritime powers shaped modern systems of control. Mrs. Heritage History recounts her journey from a Silicon Valley engineer to a homeschooling mother and historian who built Heritage-History.com, a digital library of public-domain history books written before 1923. She describes her discovery that older texts carried narrative clarity and moral vision missing from modern education, inspiring her to collect and digitize works by authors such as Jacob Abbott and Charles Coffin for homeschoolers seeking primary historical storytelling.

Mrs. Heritage History’s historical focus turned toward civilizations preceding Greece and Rome. She describes the Phoenicians as the transmitters of writing, shipbuilding, and metallurgy who linked the ancient Mediterranean through trade from Tyre and Sidon to Carthage and Spain. She argues that their commercial and religious systems persisted after the fall of their ports, forming an invisible maritime hierarchy that resurfaced through later empires. Her research proposes that the Phoenicians established the first global trade network and embedded their influence within the noble families of Europe through intermarriage and economic alliances.

In the nineteenth century, she found repeated signs of continuity between ancient Phoenician symbology and the Freemasonic orders that dominated British and continental politics. She describes the Freemasons as a “meta secret society,” coordinating smaller guilds and chivalric fraternities, mirroring ancient command structures. When she observed the prevalence of Freemasonry among leaders of the French Revolution and British Empire, she concluded that secret societies had functioned as instruments of a modern thalassocracy—rule by sea power and finance. Her Catholic perspective sharpened her concern that the Church’s own historians had avoided exposing these connections.

Her turning point came in 2016, when the release of the Podesta emails through WikiLeaks led her to connect contemporary elite behavior with the ritual conditioning she associated with ancient Phoenicia. She interpreted historical accounts of child sacrifice and sexual exploitation as systems of psychological control designed to ensure loyalty within a cult hierarchy. The recognition, she says, forced her to reinterpret three millennia of history as the unbroken story of a hidden maritime order that merged religion, commerce, and mind control.

During the interview, Duke displays maps of Bronze Age trade routes and later Mediterranean empires. Mrs. Heritage History explains that Phoenician cities functioned less as a single nation than as nodes in a network—each port autonomous yet bound by shared cult practices and trade monopolies. She defines Phoenicianism as both economic and initiatory: a culture of merchants who preserved secret knowledge from an earlier age. The discussion turns to her belief that the pre-Socratic philosophers inherited this knowledge, including principles of energy, geometry, and the body’s electrical field.

Mrs. Heritage History recounts an email from a self-identified Phoenician descendant objecting to her description of ancient depravity. She regards the criticism as evidence of active sensitivity surrounding the topic, emphasizing that her Heritage History summaries remain suitable for young readers while her deeper research addresses hidden continuities of power.

In closing, she and Duke trace a lineage from Phoenicia through Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, the British Empire, and the Anglo-American financial world. They define this sequence as a persistent maritime command structure linking trade, secrecy, and governance. Mrs. Heritage History concludes that the Phoenicians did not disappear—they transformed their cult and commerce into the enduring infrastructure of Western civilization.



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Monday, January 12, 2026

Boycotts ‘shake the foundations’ of Israeli academia: Report

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Academics describe scientific research as ‘a central engine of economic growth’ for Israel, cautioning that weakening universities could jeopardize long-term economic recovery

The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities warned in its annual report, covered by Haaretz on 4 January, that sustained government cuts to academic research funding, combined with the global backlash of the genocide in Gaza, risk having “far-reaching consequences” for Israel's science sector.

The Academy report notes that the world’s boycott of Israeli academia in response to Tel Aviv's war crimes in Gaza has shaken “the foundations of scientific cooperation” and undermined the ability of young researchers to establish themselves.

The report also states that public investment in research and development at Israeli universities has been steadily shrinking for over a decade, even as most OECD countries have increased spending.

Over the 2014–2023 period, spending on academic research in Israel dropped by roughly four percent, while the OECD spending average rose by nearly 20 percent.

This decline has pushed Israeli researchers, particularly early-career academics, to rely heavily on foreign grants, as the academy notes that around 93 percent of Israel’s R&D spending is directed to the business sector, leaving just about 5.5 percent for academia – one of the lowest ratios in the OECD.

The dependence on foreign funding has collided with a widening international boycott of Israeli academic institutions following the genocide in Gaza.  (more...)

Boycotts ‘shake the foundations’ of Israeli academia: Report



Saturday, January 3, 2026

Russia offers world-class engineering and technical education

 

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Russia is the homeland of great inventions and scientific breakthroughs. It was here that the first satellite was launched, the first humans ventured into space, and the first artificial heart was developed.

If you want to change the world – start your studies in Russia!

At Russian engineering and technical universities, future professionals assemble microchips and build satellites, study living cells, and advance biotechnologies that will, in turn, improve medicine, industry, and other strategically important fields.

Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU) is one of the country’s leading technical universities and research centers. It has developed a world-renowned engineering tradition. Its alumni include Sergey Korolev, the chief designer of the Soviet space program; aircraft designers Andrey Tupolev and Pavel Sukhoi; test cosmonaut Sergey Korsakov; and hundreds of other pioneers. Today, the famous “Baumanka” features a modern campus, high-tech laboratories, and engineering clusters where students create world-class projects.

Another hub of technological excellence is the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), founded by Nobel laureates. The university was created to train a research elite and has been involved in space and nuclear programs from its earliest years. MIPT represents science at the intersection of multiple disciplines: physics, mathematics, bioengineering, and computational technologies.

Russian technical universities welcome students from around the world and offer programs in both Russian and English. Modern laboratories, academic support, and preparatory courses create the conditions for rapid development and active participation in real scientific projects.  (more...)

Russia offers world-class engineering and technical education




Friday, January 2, 2026