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لفتت صحيفة «نيويورك تايمز» الأميركية الاهتمام في الأيّام الماضية، ولا سيّما على وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي. ففي عددها الصادر يوم الإثنين 25 تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر)، غطّت الغلاف صورة طفل من غزّة مبتور الذراعَين تابعة لمقالة حملت عنوان «النجاة من غزّة». وتراوحت ردود الأفعال بين مؤيّدين ومعترضين. فمن جهة، رحّب كثر بالخطوة لما للصورة من رمزية إنسانية وسياسية من حيث إظهار الدعم الأميركي لهذه الإبادة الجماعية، وعلى صفحات جريدة لطالما اتُّهمت بتحيّزها إلى السردية الصهيونية، ومن جهة أخرى، انتقد بعضهم عدم إشارة المقال في أيّ من أجزائه، إلى «إسرائيل»، ومحاولة تصوير أطفال الشرق الأوسط على أنّهم ضحايا حرب دائمة غير معروفة الأسباب وهذا قدرهم الأبدي. كما أشار أميركيّون إلى أنّ هذا ما فعلته الضرائب التي دفعوها، فيما علّقت مستوطنة صهيونية قائلةً بأنّ هذه الصورة عن كيان الاحتلال ستبقى محفورة في التاريخ.

دمشق | برع الأدب في وصف الحالة الكئيبة التي تسطو على ملاعب كرة القدم بعد نهاية المباراة: عندما تسقط الظلال على الاستاد وهو يفرغ من الحشود، وتشتعل هنا أو هناك على المدرجات الإسمنتية بعض مواقد النيران سريعة الانطفاء، بينما تخبو الأضواء ومعها بقايا الأصوات... ليظل الملعب خاوياً ويرجع المشجّع إلى وحدته، يبتعد، ويتفتت، ويضيع، ويصبح يوم المباراة مثل الرماد بعد موت الكرنفال!لكن في سوريا وتحديداً في ثمانينيات وتسعينيات القرن الماضي، كان صوت عصمت رشيد (1948ـــــــ2024) كفيلاً بصوغ المزاج واستمرار بثّ الحماس، واستطالة حالة الفرح التي ترافق حضور المباراة عندما كان يصدح صوته من كلّ بيت سوري وهو يغني: «دقّوا ع الخشب يا حبايب دقّوا ع الخشب فرحة وزلغوطة يا حبايب للمنتخب» بشرط أن يكون الفريق السوري قد حقق فوزاً. وفكرة الدقّ على الخشب عُرف وتقليد سوري من أجل تجاوز الحسد والعين! حينها، كانت محطّات التلفزيون السوري الرسمي حاضرةً فوراً لبثّ الأغنية الخالدة التي حققت انتشاراً واسعاً ورافقت جمهور كرة القدم على مدار عقود من الزمن، وحفظت كلماتها أجيال متعاقبة تولّعت بمستديرة السحر! أخيراً أغمض صا

سيُحكى الكثير عن النصر والهزيمة. ذاك سيُصدّق المقاومة وآخر سيُصدّق الاحتلال. في خضمّ كُلّ هذا التشتيت والشك واليأس، ستقف كإنسان عادي وتسأل: من أصدّق؟ مَن ربح ومَن خسر؟ هل انتصرنا أم هُزمنا؟ أنت كإنسان ليس لك في العسكر والسياسة... مَن تصدّق؟

* الانهزام: هو الاتجاه الطّوعي نحو الهزيمةفي العادة يستنفر النصر مشاعرَ فرحٍ، تنتفخُ فيه الأنا، يزدهي به المنتصرون، تعبّر الثقة عن نفسها بخُيَلاء، تزدحم الساحات بالمهنئين، تعلو الأصواتُ، تتدفق التصريحات، يكثر الأدعياء، ويتنافس أهل الرأي والفكر وخبراء السياسة والتاريخ في تحليل النصر وأسبابه وأبعاده وفي التنبيه من بعض ما قد يسيء إلى أهدافه و...وفي العادة أيضًا: إنّ النصرَ نجاحٌ في تحقيق الأهداف، أو في منع العدو من إنجاز ما يبتغيه جراء عدوانه. ويكفي تحقّق أحد هذين الأمرين حتى يستشعر الناس مذاق الانتصار.وعليه، ورغم ذلك كله، فإنّ مذاق الانتصار هذا يستشعره أهلُهُ مرًّا هذه الأيام، فضلًا عن الآخرين. ولذلك مجموعة من الأسباب نختصرها بما يلي:أولًا: غياب التناسب بين المناخين الإعلاميين المتعارضين، مناخ الداعمين لخيار المقاومة وجدواه، على الأقل في هذه الحرب العدوانية الصهيونية، وأهل الإعلام في هذا المناخ وطنيون ومحليّون هم خارج بطن الحوت الإعلامي المروّج لجبروت القوى الدولية الحاضنة للعدو الصهيوني والداعمة لأدائه العدواني الوحشي ولكل ما يلزم هذا الأداء من سلاح و

بعد ساعات على سريان وقف إطلاق النار عند الرابعة فجر أمس، أقرّ مجلس الوزراء «الصيغة الإجرائية» للاتفاق، بعدَ اجتماع للحكومة صباحاً، أعلن الرئيس نجيب ميقاتي بعده «التزام الحكومة اللبنانيّة تنفيذ قرار مجلس الأمن الرقم 1701 بمُندرجاته كافّة، ولا سيّما ما يتعلّق بتعزيز انتشار الجيش والقوى الأمنية كافة في منطقة جنوب الليطاني، وفقاً للترتيبات المُرفقة ربطاً، والتي صدرت ببيان مشترك عن الولايات المُتحدة وفرنسا، بعد أن أخذ المجلس علماً بها ووافق على مضمونها، واستناداً إلى خطة عمليات تضعها قيادة الجيش وترفعها وفقاً للأصول إلى مجلس الوزراء للموافقة عليها قبل المُباشرة بتنفيذها». وأكّد ميقاتي التمسك بسيادة لبنان على كل أراضيه براً وبحراً وجواً، مشدّداً على «المرجعية الأمنية للجيش في الجنوب، ما يُسقط الحجج التي يرتكز عليها العدو».(هيثم الموسوي)وكانَ الوزراء تلقّوا دعوة إلى جلسة من دون جدول أعمال، لكنهم لم يكونوا يع

There’s been a 1,000% surge in local silver trades over the past year. But what goes up fast can also fall – as we’ve just seen.

Haitian community members, advocates and elected officials are mobilizing nationwide to extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS), warning that its termination would devastate families and communities in the U.S. and an already fragile Haiti. The post Haitian community, advocates race to push for TPS extension before Tuesday deadline appeared first on The Haitian Times.

The nation’s capital will host an autorace through its streets this summer, President Donald Trump said Friday. The IndyCar race, which Trump compared to the Indianapolis 500, will take place Aug. 23, with preliminary events such as practice sessions occurring for two days before, Trump said during an Oval Office announcement.  It will be free […]

The Office of Health Strategy approved a $13 million deal for the University of Connecticut Health Center to purchase Waterbury Hospital.

Le Monde Gourmand Miel Bébé, es uno de esos aromas que envuelven, reconfortan y dejan huella sin resultar empalagosos.

While movies seem to be faltering of late, San Diego theater is still going strong. Here are seven shows that might be worth your while, from drama to comedy to musical.

Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox. As hundreds of Denver students and teachers marched around the Colorado Capitol Friday in a crowd the length of several city blocks, two words dominated the protest. They were written in marker on signs, printed on T-shirts and flags, and shouted through bullhorns. “F--- ICE!” A construction worker in a neon vest stood in the back of a flatbed truck on Denver’s 16th Street Mall, filming on his phone. When the chant died down, he hollered, “Don’t get quiet now!” “F--- ICE!” the students shouted again with renewed vigor, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some Denver Public Schools students and 1,136 of the district’s approximately 5,000 teachers didn’t go to school Friday, a district spokesperson said, on a day of nationwide protests against the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement actions. The “National Shutdown” was sparked by an immigration crackdown in Minnesota, where federal agents have made thousands of arrests and shot and killed two people. More than 1,000 Denver teachers called out of work on Friday, with some joining students to protest recent actions by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. Two metro area school districts — Aurora Public Schools and the Commerce City-based Adams 14 — canceled school Friday due to staff absences. Denver schools were open, but the start of classes was delayed by two hours at a half-dozen schools. The district also canceled preschool classes and center-based programs for students with disabilities. Jay Morin, a math teacher at East High School, didn’t go to work Friday. But his wife did. She teaches at an elementary school that serves a lot of immigrant students, he said. “Her job, and what she can do, is to be a comfort for those kids and for their families,” Morin said, marching alongside his teenage son. “All of our teachers care about our kids, especially our most vulnerable families, and we’re all going to show up in our own ways. But make no mistake about it — we’re all going to show up.” Isa, a senior at East High, said he was protesting because his family is from Central America. Chalkbeat is not using students’ last names to protect their privacy. “I felt so affected seeing my own people being taken away,” Isa said. He said his family’s struggles and hard work allowed him to stay in school, and he felt called “to use my privilege to speak out for the people that can’t speak out.” Enzo and Haleakala, eighth graders from DSST: Montview middle school, marched while wearing matching anti-ICE T-shirts that Haleakala’s mother made. “Recently, they’ve been taking … Native people, and it’s technically our land,” said Haleakala, who is Taos Pueblo and Lakota. “America was built off of immigrants. And also it’s very unfair how they’re killing everybody even though they’re U.S. citizens. In all reality, ICE agents don’t need to take this violence to our streets, to our homes. People shouldn’t live in fear.” Friday's protest featured hand-lettered signs and chants of "This is what democracy looks like!" Students and teachers held handmade signs with slogans including, “Your Borders Don’t Trump Human Rights,” “Colorado (heart) Minnesota,” and “Deport Melania Trump.” A dog wore a sandwich board-style poster that read, “Better Trained Than Most ICE Agents.” Office workers whizzed by on downtown Denver’s ubiquitous electric scooters and shouted their encouragement. Police officers blocked the route. When a few of the students gave two motorcycle officers a friendly wave, the officers nodded back. Kristen Hodel marched with her son Noah, a sophomore at George Washington High. “I’m just 54 and on board and crying my heart out,” Hodel said as the high schoolers all around her chanted, “This is what democracy looks like!” “I’m here because I love my school,” Noah said. “GW is my home. And we have a huge immigrant population. … I’m here because immigrants make America great.” An East High chemistry teacher in a red Denver Classroom Teachers Association T-shirt walked with a colleague toward the back of the protest. The teacher said they didn’t want to give their name because of how East High has already been targeted by the Trump administration, which investigated the school’s all-gender restroom and concluded that it violates federal law. Just as the teacher began to talk about why they called out of work, a man sitting near a bus stop yelled, “F--- all the immigrants! Get them out of here!” “That,” the teacher’s colleague said. “That is why we’re out here.” Melanie Asmar is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Colorado. Contact Melanie at masmar@chalkbeat.org.

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(The Center Square) – U.S. Senate Republicans failed to halt over $5 billion in funding for refugees, with 20 GOP senators joining every Senate Democrat to continue providing costly taxpayer benefits to refugees. U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., introduced the End Welfare for Non-Citizens Act to end taxpayer benefits for refugees, asylees and illegal immigrants earlier this week. In an impassioned plea on the Senate floor Friday afternoon, Paul argued that the U.S. shouldn’t be “the world’s sugar daddy.” “Many refugees are good people, frankly, some of the best Americans just got here, but our welcome mat should not be a welfare check. Anyone who sponsors immigrants or refugees should be responsible for their welfare,” the senator argued before the vote. As previously reported by The Center Square, nearly $6 billion in continual funding for refugees is poised to be approved. Funding for the refugee program skyrocketed under the Biden administration as part of the Refugee and Entrant Assistant programs. The funding rose from less than $2 billion in fiscal year 2021, the last year of President Donald Trump’s first term, to nearly $9 billion the next fiscal year – the first year of former President Joe Biden’s administration. Despite the government admitting many of the refugees were unvetted, taxpayers are poised to remain on the hook for billions of dollars, as many of these refugees continue to qualify for over a dozen taxpayer-funded benefits. The benefits refugees are eligible to receive include: Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Women, Infants and Children (WIC), HUD Public Housing and Section 8 housing vouchers, emergency Medicaid, Affordable Care Act health plans and subsidies, full-scope Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), federal student aid and Pell grants, REAL ID, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act services, refugee resettlement programs through the Office of Refugee Resettlement and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), according to the National Immigration Law Center. For those who didn’t qualify for SSI or TANF, refugees were eligible for up to 12 months of Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) through the ORR. In addition, many refugees qualified for employment assistance through Refugee Support Services, which included: childcare, transportation, “employability services,” job training and preparation, job search assistance, placement and retention, English language training, translation and interpreter services and case management, according to the Administration for Children and Families Office of Refugee Resettlement. The ORR also noted that “some clients may be eligible for specialized programs such as health services, technical assistance for small business start-ups and financial savings.” Many refugees also qualified for “immigration-related legal assistance” to assist them “on their pathway to obtaining a permanent status.” Congressionally appropriated spending on refugee and migrant assistance programs rose sharply under the Biden administration, totaling roughly $30 billion over those four years. In particular, lawmakers significantly increased appropriations for the Refugee and Entrant Assistance programs – housed in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – which provide benefits to eligible refugees. In fiscal year 2021, the last year of Trump’s first term, Congress appropriated $1.91 billion for REA programs. That number shot up to $8.92 billion the following year, coinciding with the influx of Afghan refugees and record-high border crossings. Total federal assistance for refugee programs in fiscal year 2023, however, reached $10 billion, as an OpenTheBooks investigation highlighted. “With a national debt exceeding $38 trillion, Washington should not be running a welfare system on autopilot,” according to a release from Paul's office. “The End Welfare for Non-Citizens Act puts America First by stopping taxpayer dollars from being siphoned into benefits for non-citizens. If we want a sustainable safety net and responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars, this bill is a must-pass.” Among his first acts upon his second inauguration in January 2025, Trump suspended the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, saying “it would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.”

Nearly six years after it approved permits for the Donlin Gold mine, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is launching a new study of a possible large waste spill at the site. The agency is working on a supplement to its environmental impact statement to comply with a federal court order that found the original […]