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U.S., Texas teacher fired for showing Anne Frank graphic novel to eighth-graders (www.theguardian.com)

The school teacher was released after officials with Hamshire-Fannett independent school district said the teacher presented the “inappropriate” book to students. The graphic novel, written by Ari Folman and illustrated by David Polonsky, adapts the diary of 13-year-old Anne Frank, who wrote while hiding in an annexe in...

How Brute Violence Became Egypt’s Answer to Virtually Everything (fpif.org)

In Abdel Fattah alSisi’s Egypt, Telling the Truth Is a Crime. The president’s agencies have controlled, purchased, or coerced all mainstream media in the country, and opposition media in exile is largely partisan. So web platforms like Matsadaash play a valuable role as one of the last remaining voices for independent...

Why healthcare workers are worried about possible changes to masking protocols in hospitals (www.popsci.com)

The CDC says the draft guidelines are not final. Nurses, researchers, and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reduce protection against the coronavirus and other airborne pathogens in hospitals.

Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accuses India's government of involvement in killing of Canadian Sikh leader (www.cbc.ca)

Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar was brazenly shot dead outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C. on June 18. Nijjar, a supporter of a Sikh homeland in the form of an independent Khalistani state, had been branded by the Indian government as a “terrorist” and accused of leading a militant separatist group — something his...

‘Radical reorientation’ needed as half of humanity lacks basic health coverage, warns UN (news.un.org)

"The fact that so many people cannot benefit from affordable, quality, essential health services not only puts their own health at risk, it also puts the stability of communities, societies and economies at risk,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “We urgently need stronger political will, more...

Australian state of Queensland suspends human rights law to lock up children (www.aljazeera.com)

The rate of incarceration for Indigenous children in Queensland is 33 times the rate of non-Indigenous children. Maggie Munn, a Gunggari person and National Director of First Nations justice advocacy group Change the Record, says the move to hold children as young as 10 in adult watch houses was “fundamentally cruel and...

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