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‘She was like a deer in headlights’: how unskilled radical birthkeepers took hold in Canada
In holistic communities and midwifery deserts, women are turning to the Free Birth Society for information and unlicensed providers
 Medical disinformation is sometimes deadly. In Canada, people are falling for disinformation about "natural" childbirth, which effectively puts recourse to medicine off limits.
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Want to know why Israelis are indifferent about Gaza? Just watch Israeli TV | Roy Schwartz
Some might be partisan, others under external pressure – but too many journalists in Israel have failed to tell the truth about Gaza, says Haaret...
 *Some might be partisan, others under external pressure – but too many journalists in Israel have failed to tell the truth about Gaza.*
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‘Protests had nothing to do with the attacks’: activists condemn premier’s plan to restrict rallies after Bondi shooting
Pro-Palestine activists, some Jewish groups and civil liberty campaigners criticise NSW Labor for ‘eroding our democratic freedoms’
 Australia is planning to respond to the antisemitic shooting by repressing protests and rallies -- those criticizing Israel's atrocities, I suppose. Those atrocities are just as vicious, and far larger, than the antisemitic violence. It is absurd to fight antisemitic violence by protecting bigger atrocities. We must oppose both.
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Serbian president threatens reprisals after plans for Belgrade Trump Tower thwarted
Development abandoned after Serbian minister indicted over $500m project, in setback for Trump family empire
 President Vučić of Serbia, a right-winger corrupted by the bully (and also by Putin), agreed to let him build a "Trump Tower" in a protected area of land. An honest prosecutor investigated and laid charges of corruption, which brought about cancellation of the plan.
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Restore funding for public TV and radio!
Trump’s coordinated campaign to hobble reliable public news will give even greater rise to the right-wing propaganda pushed by Fox News and fring...
 US citizens: call on Congress to restore funds for public media (broadcasting). To phone your congresscritter about this, the main switchboard is +1-202-224-3121. Please spread the word.
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Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’
Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say
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 People and animals in the Arctic suffer the direct effects of continuing global heating.
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Police spied on group set up to expose wrongdoing in Met, inquiry hears
The HCDA, which sought to expose police corruption and violence, was secretly monitored for a decade
 The Hackney Community Defense Association was set up to expose corruption and mistreatment by British thugs. Undercover cops snooped on it for a decade.
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Saudi-backed forces gather on Yemen border as separatists face pressure to pull back
Southern Transitional Council, backed by UAE, told it could face airstrikes after its recent huge territorial gains
 Two rich Arab clients of the US are on the verge of fighting a proxy war in South Yemen against each other. Both proxies are enemies of the Houthis, but also of each other.
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A visual guide to the historical maps and temples at the heart of the Thailand-Cambodia conflict
Border conflict has roots in colonial maps and long-standing ‘sibling rivalry’
 Thais in Siam began conquering a portion of Khmer territory after 1200 a.d. After France made the Khmer into a colony, France took part of that portion from Siam, while Siam retained the rest of it. Thailand (formerly Siam) and Cambodia are now fighting about the border of the part that France added to Cambodia.
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Iran directed arson attacks in Australia and ‘fanned the flames’ of antisemitism, country’s spy chief says
Iranian ambassador expelled from Canberra as Albanese government announces it will list IRGC as terrorist organisation
 The Iranian government organized and set off at least two arson attacks aimed at Jewish activities in Australia. And perhaps more as well. Australia has closed the Iranian embassy, which participated in attacks and in intimidation of Iranian exiles who protested against Iran's government.