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Nina S. Naidu, MD FACS
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mother, plastic & reconstructive surgeon, anokha®
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine."
-Che Guevara
via the exceptional Chris Hedges:
The Machinery of Terror
open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
The Machinery of Terror
The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late.
open.substack.com
January 11, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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Signs of civilizational collapse: a law enforcement officer executed a person on camera, and the entire US government didn't even pretend to be bothered by it
January 9, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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January 10, 2026 at 5:21 AM
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“The really frightening thing about totalitarianism is not that it commits atrocities but that it attacks the concept of objective truth; it claims to control the past as well as the future...”
George Orwell,
‘As I Please’ Tribune, 4 February 1944
January 8, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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One year ago, Israeli forces detained Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya after violently shutting down Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza. He remains imprisoned today.

A few weeks before his detention, he told +972, “I will stay inside my hospital until the last moment.”

www.972mag.com/kamal-adwan-...
‘I will stay inside my hospital until the last moment’
The Israeli army killed his son and arrested his colleagues in Kamal Adwan Hospital, but director Hussam Abu Safiya refuses to abandon his patients.
www.972mag.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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That’s right, Congress. Keep letting him do anything he wants, unchecked. Keep showing the country (and the world) what total feckless pussies you are. Well done.
January 4, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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Denying medical assistance is unacceptable in any circumstances.

Israel’s threat to withhold registration from MSF & other INGOs is a cynical and calculated attempt to prevent organizations from providing services in #Gaza and the #WestBank, #Palestine.

https://ow.ly/XQwE50XR5OE
January 2, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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What will be the most pressing health challenge of 2026?

A new Editorial discusses how conflict and armed violence are major determinants of global health, with far-reaching consequences that extend beyond battlefields: spkl.io/63326AlsFQ
January 2, 2026 at 4:03 PM
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
January 1, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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Palestinian children in Gaza light candles to celebrate the New Year.
January 1, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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December 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Doctors Without Borders banned from Gaza.
Destroy the hospitals, kill hundreds of doctors, and then ban a medical volunteering organisation that has stepped into the vacuum and saved thousands of lives.
Genocide
December 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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“Afghan women themselves demanded legal recognition to capture the brutality they have been forced to endure.”

Sahar Halaimzai explains the importance of recognizing Taliban’s oppression of women as “gender apartheid.”

Read the full piece:
zeteo.com/p/taliban-wo...
December 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been abducted by Israel for 365 days.
December 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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"...the climate is not merely a backdrop to human life, it is embedded in who we are and how we live."

A Comment discusses the complex relationship between climate change, human migration, and health: spkl.io/63328AYPIa
December 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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168 doctors graduate in the ruins of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza
<article data-history-node-id="433118" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/168-doctors-graduate-ruins-al-shifa-hospital-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/168-doctors-graduate-ruins-al-shifa-hospital-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">168 doctors graduate in the ruins of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>168 Palestinian doctors graduated with advanced medical certifications in a ceremony held in the rubble of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.</p> <p>Dubbed the “Humanity Cohort,” the doctors had prepared for their examinations while working in Gaza’s hospitals throughout Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.&nbsp;</p> <p>According to Al Jazeera, some of the graduating doctors had been injured, arrested, or had family members killed.</p> <p>The ceremony also featured empty chairs with photographs of healthcare workers who had been killed during the genocide.</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
December 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
December 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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In 2025, MSF continued to respond to some of the world’s most urgent crises.

This selection of photos from the past year captures both breaking points and moments of resilience among the people we assist and our staff.

View the full photo story: https://ow.ly/cqhA50XNenE
December 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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In it’s genocide in Gaza, Israel destroyed Gaza’s medical infrastructure. As it continues to block medical necessities from entering, doctors in Gaza have begun using solar powered 3D-printers to save fractured bones.
https://ow.ly/ompv50XMxb9
Gaza doctors use 3D tech to save limbs shattered by Israel from amputation
'Palestinian doctors are still creating, still resisting, still saving lives - one printed piece at a time.'
ow.ly
December 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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If the right to free speech does not include the right to oppose an active genocide using strong and unmitigated language, then there is no freedom of speech.

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-youre-n...
If You're Not Free To Oppose A Genocide, Your Society Is Not Free
Reading by Tim Foley:
www.caitlinjohnst.one
December 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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#Sudan El Fasher fell to the Rapid Support Forces on Oct. 26 after months of siege. Noor, Mawahib, Mohammed and Nasr, now refugees in #Chad share the story of their city's destruction.

Watch our documentary, #Sudan El Fasher under siege: https://youtu.be/-nVGeUHQH3g
December 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM