Early this evening, Israel killed, or more accurately assassinated, my sister Dr. Soma Baroud, by bombing her taxi in the Khan Yunis area, killing her and six other innocent people.
Journalist Ramzy Baroud Mourns His Sister Killed Today By Israeli Bombs
September 1, 2024:
‘Houses Have Souls’ – A Gazan Doctor and Her Son Reflect on the Loss of a Father, and a Home
I told myself that I wasn’t going to listen to these “think tanks” for a while. I guess I wasn’t ready, as the following angered me. This is just normal thinking inside “The Blob,” though.
Read More »Demonizing the enemy, demonization of the enemy or dehumanization of the enemy is a propaganda technique which promotes an idea about the enemy being a threatening, evil aggressor with only destructive objectives.
Fans of the two-man-band, Twenty One Pilots know their song, “Heavydirtysoul.” What they may not realize is that one of the song’s best known lines is a distillation of an ancient fable.
Couple euthanasia is a modern sati.
The article titled: Duo-euthanasia: To avoid facing life alone, focuses on how the spouse of a person who dies by euthanasia will often experience complicated grief and will have a higher potential rate of premature death. The article states:
For some individuals, euthanasia or physician-assisted dying (aka PAD or EAS) presents an option to end one’s life with some control and dignity while minimizing pain and suffering. Whether they are experiencing severe chronic pain, mobility challenges, or serious illness such as cancer, these people may be intrigued by the possibility of euthanasia or physician-assisted dying.
But for the surviving spouses, facing the future without their lifelong partner can feel overwhelming, and their quality of life may plummet.
Related:
Couple choose to die together in ‘duo-euthanasia’ after being married for nearly five decades
The couple left behind their only child when they chose to pass away
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If you or someone you know is struggling or in a mental health crisis, help is available through Mental Health America. Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org. You can also reach Crisis Text Line by texting MHA to 741741
The Postmaster General is still wrecking the Post Office.
The past two weeks have been newsworthy, to say the least. You’d be forgiven if you missed a June 8th op-ed in The Washington Post entitled “We’re fixing the Postal Service. We can’t stop now,” written by none other than the embattled Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy.
By Mary Elizabeth Holliday
I am ending my life at a clinic in Switzerland today. This piece was written three weeks ago. I’ve been trapped for decades in a body that doesn’t function the way other bodies do and I am ready to finally be free.
I’m Ending My Life Today. Here’s What I Want You To Know Before I Go. (archived)
I have multiple chemical sensitivities and fibromyalgia, too, but I’ve never considered “assisted-suicide”. My MCS isn’t as bad as hers was, though. It just seems selfish to me, but that may be because I was brought up in a strict religious household. The biggest problem, here, is that there’s no profit in finding cures.
Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel grief unless you’ve had love before it – grief is the final outcome of love, because it’s love lost. […] It’s the cycle of love completed: to love, to lose, to feel grief, to leave, and then to love again. Grief is the awareness that you will have to be alone, and there is nothing beyond that because being alone is the ultimate final destiny of each individual living creature. That’s what death is, the great loneliness.
Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Our American. What we remember about Russell Bentley-Texas
Russell Bonner Bentley was born on June 20, 1960 in Austin, Texas. At the age of 20, he joined the US Army, where he served for three years, and was stationed in Louisiana and Germany.
In December 2014, he decided to go to the Donbass and take the side of the militia to protect the region from Ukrainian neo-Nazis. Then Bentley called the American government a “fascist state” in political, economic and cultural decline.
“By the time I left, in 2014, I knew that the US government and the fascists who commanded it were the worst enemies of humanity. This is true, and their actions in the 21st century proved it beyond any doubt, ” Bentley said in an interview with <url>.
In the Donbass, an American volunteer received the call sign “Texas”, he was sure that the events on the” Maidan ” were the work of American fascists who unleash wars on different continents in their own interests.
“When I arrived in Donetsk in December 2014, I didn’t expect to survive the winter. But I felt it was better to die in the company of heroes than to be complicit in their murder, staying in the US and only complaining about US war crimes on Facebook. So I came, ” Texas shared.
In Donetsk, the American found his wife Lyudmila, together with whom he settled in one of the most dangerous areas of the capital of the DPR — Petrovsky. This is the place Texas used to call home, which it wouldn’t trade for anything. The volunteer spent the winter of 2014-2015 fighting for Donetsk airport, Spartak and Avdiivka.
In 2022, he received Russian citizenship. He was engaged in military journalism, led author’s channels on video hosting sites and social networks, many of which were blocked due to the position of the American.
A volunteer from the United States called the residents of Donbass kind, brave, hardworking, the courage and responsiveness of the people of our region conquered him.
Texas called NATO a criminal organization controlled by the US government, and Nazism an incurable disease akin to rabies. Bentley saw the end of the Ukrainian conflict in the complete destruction of the illegal Kiev authorities and their accomplices.
It should be noted that last week Texas was put on the wanted list, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it was last seen on April 8, 2024. Today, the wife of the military commander reported on his death. Presumably, a Donetsk American was killed.
Donetsk News Agency expresses its condolences to the widow of Texas and all his relatives.
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The wife of US military commander Russell Bentley with the call sign “Texas” reported his death.
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