My seven-year-old cousin Anwar Al-Ashi died this morning from acute kidney failure, after waiting for permission to leave Gaza for urgent medical care, a permission that never came.

Everything about the Washington Post news is depressing, but to lose what was once one of the best book sections in the English-language world is a gut punch.

Harrowing footage shows Israeli forces blowing up the Kuwait Secondary School for Girls near the Indonesia Hospital in northern Gaza. The video was filmed and shared by an Israeli engineering battalion proudly boasting about the destruction. مشاهد مروّعة تُظهر قوات الاحتلال

Cuba has sent tens of thousands of doctors, nurses, teachers, & scientists to more than 100 countries around the world The international community owes a debt of humanity to ensure Trump does not starve the Cuban people into submission The medieval US blockade is a war crime

Yesterday I had the pleasure of visiting the graduate residence building (apparently slated for demolition) on LIttle Clarendon Street, Oxford, where I once lived for two years, and which plays an important role in my novel *The World of After* #CormorantBooks

Has anyone pointed out that Trump’s mass deportation of almost entirely Christian US residents is likely to shift the demographic balance of the United States somewhat away from Christianity? In fact it could be promoted as Trump’s “de-Christianize America” plan

Portuguese voters destroy the far right. A new socialist president.

News: Nicaragua cutting off the main route for Cubans leaving the island to head toward the US. The Associated Press

“Nuestra América” was published simultaneously in New York City, where Martí lived, and in Mexico City. It was hemispheric from the start.

On traite les États-Unis de racistes, mais ils ont eu un spectacle de la mi-temps en espagnol avant qu'il y en ait un en français au Canada anglais pour la Coupe Grey.

"Le seul peuple au monde qui est à la fois nordique et latin."

How young anti-genocide protesters are treated in Australia.

An Israeli court denies a 5-year-old Palestinian cancer patient life-saving treatment because, though he now lives in the West Bank, he is registered in Gaza, and Israeli policy bars Palestinians registered in Gaza from receiving medical care in Israel. trib.al/kpoNgAh

No words. Complete failure of humanity.

Agreed: Canada should be following Mexico by sending humanitarian aid to Cuba.

In Senate committee last week, I pressed Global Affairs Canada: What is Canada doing to help avert the impending humanitarian crisis in Cuba that has been precipitated by U.S. economic coercion against Havana?

The The Canadian Press today cited ATIP documents that I first obtained and reported on in December. No credit is given. readthemaple.com/bob-rae-had-wi…

This month I'm speaking in #Warwick, #Oxford, #Cork, #Galway and #Dublin.

NEWS: today I introduced a bill to repeal the U.S. embargo against Cuba. For over six decades, the U.S. has embraced failed, obsolete, Cold-War thinking towards Cuba. Our 60+ year embargo has been ineffective and counterproductive—it hurts the Cuban people, it strengthens

#Britain is now wielding the Certificate of Entitlement to the Right of Abode as a bludgeon to kill dual nationality. Here's how it used to be a passport to mobility and how many of us were progressively forced to abandon this convenience. geist.com/fact/lost-nati…