Day: April 1, 2024

As the Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer popularized the story of the Manhattan Project, we were reminded that foreign-born geniuses like Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi played a major part in American innovation. In the context of World War II, America not only welcomed but also recruited immigrants in service of its most important national security missions. Their achievements helped win that war and create the nuclear backbone that underpins U.S. security to this day. But today, the chances that Einstein could win the arbitrary H1-B visa lottery are a mere 11 percent. The Reagan Institute’s 2024 National Security Innovation Base Report
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As we now learn more about one of the worst atrocities in human history, Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital and slaughter of civilians taking refuge there, a thread on some of the US media stenographers who laundered US-Israeli lies about a Hamas “command and… https://t.co/5LM8MbS0hI
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 1, 2024
Al Shifa hospital massacre shall be noticed as one of the most horrific massacres and mass killings in a systematic and organised way by a state in the last 200 years. The videos, testimonies, pictures and scenes are beyond comprehension.
— Abdalhadi Alijla عبد الهادي العجلة (@alijla2021) April 1, 2024
The scenes out of Al Shifa, after Israeli withdrawal, are beyond horrifying & gruesome. Bodies – parts of bodies – scattered under the dirt & rubble. Buildings burnt to a crisp. Nothing left. Our world allowed hospitals to become slaughterhouses in Gaza for crazed butchers.
— Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) April 1, 2024
The Shifa hospital massacre is worse than the 1948 Nakba’s Deir Yassin & Tantoura massacres combined
Over 300 women, children & men slaughtered. Many zip-tied & executed, some flattened by tanks, burned, or hacked into pieces by missiles, skeletal remains & body parts everywhere pic.twitter.com/or3p41nCZL
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) April 1, 2024
