*Former Yugoslavia countries must face past horrors or risk return to conflict, Council of Europe official says.*

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Comparing the rate of killing of civilians in Gaza with the rate in Bosnia, Syria and Yemen shows that the rate of killing in Gaza, when measured as fraction of population killed per unit time, is on the order of 50 times faster in Gaza.

Being opposed to sexism, I see no significance in whether a person killed was male or female. People have the right to life regardless of sex, and regardless of gender.

I suspect that figures about the number of "children" killed really count the number of minors killed -- which would be much larger, since many minors are adolescents, not children. But if these figures really do count only children, that would place tighter limits on what fraction of those killed could be HAMAS fighters. Some minors will be combatants, but hardly ever will a child be a combatant.

Tories, practicing neoliberalism, have starved many vital state activities. Adding up the shortfalls suggests that around 70 billion UKP per year would be needed to fix things up in a reasonable time.

That doesn't count the cost of decarbonizing. Dependence on fossil fuels was not introduced since Thatcher by Tories, since it already existed, but Britain must nonetheless do its share to fix that.

The easy and natural way to get this money is by taxing the rich. Easy, that is, if the rich can't prevent the state from trying. Any other way would cause real difficulties.

Harvard Law Review solicited and then killed an article arguing that Israel's bombing of Gaza fits the official definition of "genocide". Insiders report that the editors, who are 104 in number, voted to kill the article because they were afraid of likely retaliation against them in their careers otherwise.

Academic freedom includes the freedom to argue for either side of that question. Threats to intimidate scholars for arguing it are an attack on academic freedom, and therefore an attack on the United States and on freedom in it.