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Canada revises express entry immigration rules, adds military roles Canada introduced new immigration priority categories on Wednesday to bring in skilled workers in fields ranging from research and health care to aviation, and to include certain military recruits.

They will also include highly skilled foreign military applicants recruited by the Canadian Armed Forces, including military doctors, nurses and pilots. #modernlegions #legionnaires

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Russian Army Increasingly Depends on Foreign Fighters Amid Heavy Losses in Ukraine | Ukraine news - #Mezha As reported by Bloomberg The Russian army is increasingly relying on foreign fighters in its war against Ukraine, as front-line losses rise faster than the rate at which new recruits can be brought in...

British Defense Secretary John Gili said that Moscow is increasingly relying on foreign fighters, as its forces suffer significant losses that are hard to replace through recruiting new soldiers.

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FG Warns Nigerians Against Deceptive Recruitment to Fight in Foreign Wars Federal Government alerts Nigerians to deceptive recruitment schemes luring citizens to foreign conflicts via fake job offers. Victims coerced into military contracts, documents seized. Verify offers,...

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DFA warns Filipinos against foreign military recruitment disguised as civilian jobs - Philippine Information Agency MANILA (PIA) — The Department of Foreign Affairs warned against accepting overseas employment offers that may involve recruitment into foreign armed forces, including positions disguised as regular ci...

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EU country considers citizenship incentive for migrant military recruits Ireland is considering fast-track citizenship for foreign nationals who serve in its armed forces, as they struggle to meet recruitment 2028 targets

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DFA warns Filipinos against foreign military recruitment disguised as civilian jobs - Philippine Information Agency MANILA (PIA) — The Department of Foreign Affairs warned against accepting overseas employment offers that may involve recruitment into foreign armed forces, including positions disguised as regular ci...

pia.gov.ph/news/dfa-war...

Moderna chief: Company won’t invest in new late-stage vaccine trials Moderna has already been facing declines in sales after a boom during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Moderna’s CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: ‘You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market.’ Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”

WH: We can't end child hunger in America but we can *absolutely* scrounge up the cash for a 35 ft tall gold statue for a rapacious goblin.

Absolutely fascinating, compellingly written, and deeply researched. @bostonreview.bsky.social

Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is I’ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word “privilege,” to which they react like vampires being fed a …

As an aside to the above note, just today I saw some dudes still seethingly furious about something I wrote in 2012, on how being a straight white dude in the US is the Lowest Difficulty Setting in the game of life. That's longevity in writing for you!

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‘I didn’t know how to shoot’: how African men have been tricked into fighting for Russia Exclusive: Lured by false job adverts, they are unknowingly enlisted on arrival and put in mortal danger

Having looked at more than 300 of these, governments never with this kind of subterfuge when things are going well...

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Isn't this a reoccurring storyline on Murdoch Mysteries?!

Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.

‘I made the biggest mistake’: the young Yemeni men lured into the Russian army with empty promises The offer of thousands of dollars a month was hard to refuse for those living in poverty in a war-torn country. But while some Yemenis have died on the frontline, others are now prisoners of war

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The New History of Fighting Slavery What we learn by tracing rebellions from Africa to the Americas

New historical scholarship traces resistance to slavery from Africa to the Americas. Laurent Dubois on what can be learned from a broader perspective on rebellion:

fate, universe, and all associated parties: i beg you for opportunities to use this as a gif VERY frequently in the coming years

and as a video

An Exceptional Failure of Democratic Accountability: How American Institutions Protected Power While Global Democracies Upheld Justice How Elite Deference Eroded America's Rule of Law, Defying the Global Norm.

The aftermath of Jan 6 is a story of power protecting power and a deep-seated reluctance to holding elites accountable.

America has constructed two justice systems: one offering extraordinary leniency for the elite, the other operating with swift severity for the disadvantaged.

Fun little delivery from @princetonupress.bsky.social. Order your copy today, and ask your library to do the same! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Russia continues systematically recruiting foreign fighters for war, Ukraine says Russia is continuing to systematically recruit foreign nationals for its war against Ukraine, said Oleh Ivashchenko, head of Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service, on Dec. 26.

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BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

More great details for with the @warontherocks.bsky.social version:
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The Cover-Up: Inside the Plot to Conceal Assad’s Crimes

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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

The hidden way the big, bad wolf protects us A new line of research has revealed a surprising finding about how the presence of wolves helps keep people safe.

New research found that wolves in the Midwest and Canada not only keep deer populations in check, but they also alter deer behavior in ways that help prevent car crashes and save human lives.

Russia dismisses recruitment flyers in Tehran as scam The Russian Embassy in Tehran has denied any connection to flyers circulating in the Iranian capital that invited men to enlist in the Russian army for large cash rewards.

Busted ...

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Foreigners recruited by Russia end up in 'Moscow meat grinder' Through a targeted social media campaign, Russia is offering citizenship and money to foreigners who join its fight in Ukraine, but experts say it is a desperate measure.

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4 Russian Soldiers Sentenced to Prison for Killing Texan Who Fought for Moscow

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A unique risk to being a foreign legionnaire for Russia... fratricide...