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items: Reframing AI: Human Creativity as Resistance
items: ALPRs: The Surveillance State on Wheels
items: How the U.S. embargo hurts regular Cuban people
items: Data Center Issue Can Empower Rural Areas
items: Enduring a Pregnancy in Gaza
items: The Burning
items: Why the Democrats Lost to Trump
items: New wave of Israeli violence across the West Bank
items: The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 27, 2026
items: Brazilian journalist is assaulted, threatened after alleged public funds embezzlement exposé
items: Republicans’ ‘dumb on crime’ crusade in Washington, DC, is coming to your state next
items: UN News Today 27 July 2026
items: Republicans’ “Dumb-on-Crime” Crusade in DC Is Coming To Your State Next
items: Wildfires are becoming increasingly unmanageable, says "Fire Weather" author
items: Israeli Army & Settlers Are Working Together to "Ethnically Cleanse" West Bank: Mariam Barghouti
items: "Iraq 2.0"?: Rep. Jim McGovern on Iran War, New Red Scare, Israeli War Crimes & Dem Party Divide
items: 60-Year-Old Ukrainian Volunteer Supplies Front Lines Amid Rise Of Unmanned Ground Vehicles #ukraine
items: "Frontlines of a Burning World": Climate Change-Fueled "Megafires" Sweep Europe & North America
items: Mexico World Cup celebration video falsely linked to Delhi CJP protest
items: Did Toqaev Just Challenge Putin On Ukraine? #geopolitics #russia #shorts
items: Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 27, 2026
items: Israeli Army & Settlers Are Working Together to “Ethnically Cleanse” West Bank: Mariam Barghouti
items: “Iraq 2.0”?: Rep. Jim McGovern on Iran War, New Red Scare, Israeli War Crimes & Dem Party Divide
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Reframing AI: Human Creativity as Resistance
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creator: Kiley
date: 2026-07-27T23:17:05Z
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description: On this episode of the Project Censored Show, cohost Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Heidi Lim from AI Resist List to discuss reframing AI, and the possible futures that both buck the current iteration of AI and avoid the binary of anti-tech vs. pro-t...
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ALPRs: The Surveillance State on Wheels
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date: 2026-07-27T22:38:09Z
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description: On this episode of the Project Censored Show, cohost Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Ed from DeFlock. They discuss ALPRs – Automatic License Plate Readers, and the insidious way that they circumvent the 4th amendment – meant to protect aga...
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How the U.S. embargo hurts regular Cuban people
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-27T21:58:35Z
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Data Center Issue Can Empower Rural Areas
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creator: Anthony Pahnke
date: 2026-07-27T20:47:26Z
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description: Grassroots opposition to corporate hyperscale data center expansion has generated a rare moment when members of both parties seem unified with many voters.
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Enduring a Pregnancy in Gaza
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creator: Sojoud Alkhour
date: 2026-07-27T20:20:42Z
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description: The decimation of Gaza’s health care system and other effects of war have left many pregnant people in the enclave suffering and in pain.
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The Burning
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creator: Tariq MaQbool
date: 2026-07-27T19:10:23Z
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description: Prisons in New Jersey and across the country are restricting what incarcerated people read and where their books come from.
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Why the Democrats Lost to Trump
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-07-27T18:55:13Z
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Why the Democrats Lost to Trump
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New wave of Israeli violence across the West Bank
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-27T18:00:55Z
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 27, 2026
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date: 2026-07-27T18:00:00Z
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 27, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Brazilian journalist is assaulted, threatened after alleged public funds embezzlement exposé
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-07-27T17:24:07Z
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description: São Paulo, July 27, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns the reported assault and threatsagainst Brazilian journalist Chico Melo, director of independent media group Integração, at Cruzeiro do Sul, in the northern state of Acre, and calls on authorities to swiftly and comprehensively investigate the attack and bring those responsible to account. Melo, 54, was...
encoded: São Paulo, July 27, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns the reported assault and threatsagainst Brazilian journalist Chico Melo, director of independent media group Integração, at Cruzeiro do Sul, in the northern state of Acre, and calls on authorities to swiftly and comprehensively investigate the attack and bring those responsible to account. Melo, 54, was punched, kicked and wounded in the head by four armed individuals after they broke into his bedroom around 2:30 a.m. on July 22. “They kept asking me, ‘Are you the guy from the radio who talks about politics?’ When I said yes, they replied that I knew why they were there,” said Melo, whose media group covers public interest matters on TV, radio, and a news portal. Before the assailants left, they asked for Melo’s cellphone and a $400 bank transfer. “They tortured me for half an hour, and I really thought that I would die,” said Melo in a video posted the day after the attack. “The violence suffered by Chico Melo at his own home is a dire attack against press freedom and local journalism in Brazil,” said Cristina Zahar, CPJ Latin America program coordinator. “This only happens because the perpetrators feel at ease to do it relying on the impunity in crimes against journalists, which is around 80% globally, according to our data.” Melo said in a phone interview with CPJ that he suspects the incident had political motive after the publication of a series on alleged embezzlement of public funds intended for an agricultural fair in the Juruá region. He and his partner at the radio station, Rogério Wenceslau, also reported in their program that a high-ranking state government official had threatened them with arrest following the publication. The National Federation of Journalists (Fenaj), the main labor and professional organization representing media workers in Brazil, and the local union issued a joint statement repudiating the attack as a “threat to press freedom, the right to information, …

Republicans’ ‘dumb on crime’ crusade in Washington, DC, is coming to your state next
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creator: Mansa Musa
date: 2026-07-27T16:56:07Z
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UN News Today 27 July 2026
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creator: Dianne Penn
date: 2026-07-27T16:23:12Z
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description: Security Council discusses escalating Russian attacks against Ukraine Sudan UNICEF: the more health centres we build, the more children come South Sudan hunger needs are growing among children: UNICEF
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Republicans’ “Dumb-on-Crime” Crusade in DC Is Coming To Your State Next
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creator: The Real News Network
date: 2026-07-27T16:09:06Z
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Wildfires are becoming increasingly unmanageable, says "Fire Weather" author
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-27T15:57:43Z
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Israeli Army & Settlers Are Working Together to "Ethnically Cleanse" West Bank: Mariam Barghouti
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-27T14:35:20Z
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subject: Democracy
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"Iraq 2.0"?: Rep. Jim McGovern on Iran War, New Red Scare, Israeli War Crimes & Dem Party Divide
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-27T14:29:28Z
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60-Year-Old Ukrainian Volunteer Supplies Front Lines Amid Rise Of Unmanned Ground Vehicles #ukraine
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-07-27T14:23:17Z
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"Frontlines of a Burning World": Climate Change-Fueled "Megafires" Sweep Europe & North America
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-27T14:18:22Z
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Mexico World Cup celebration video falsely linked to Delhi CJP protest
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creator: Anindya Hazra
date: 2026-07-27T14:16:30Z
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description: A 17 second long video is viral on social media platforms, showing a woman wearing a head mask, dancing and grooving while sitting on the shoulder of a man amidst a huge crowd also dancing around her with loud music playing in the background. A man from behind removes her mask from behind, and the […]
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Did Toqaev Just Challenge Putin On Ukraine? #geopolitics #russia #shorts
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date: 2026-07-27T14:12:56Z
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 27, 2026
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date: 2026-07-27T13:53:34Z
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Israeli Army & Settlers Are Working Together to “Ethnically Cleanse” West Bank: Mariam Barghouti
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-27T12:49:55Z
subject: Democracy Now!
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description: Israeli settlers torched two mosques over the weekend in a new wave of violence targeting Palestinian towns and villages across the occupied West Bank. Meanwhile, Israeli military forces on Saturday detained over 70 Palestinians in raids acros...
encoded: Israeli settlers torched two mosques over the weekend in a new wave of violence targeting Palestinian towns and villages across the occupied West Bank. Meanwhile, Israeli military forces on Saturday detained over 70 Palestinians in raids across the occupied territory. This follows the killing of at least four Palestinians in the village of Tal on Friday, when Israeli settlers and soldiers opened fire on residents attempting to protect their homes; two Israelis were also killed. Palestinian journalist Mariam Barghouti says the Israeli army and Israeli settlers “should not be seen as separate” as they carry out “a familiar pattern of collective punishment.” She also stresses that anti-Palestinian violence in the occupied West Bank cannot be divorced from Israeli repression in Jerusalem and its genocide in Gaza. “This is a colonial regime that is engaging in crimes against humanity,” says Barghouti. “How those crimes look may differ, but in the end they serve the same purpose, and that is ethnically cleansing Palestinians in order to build this Greater Israel in the region.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Iraq 2.0”?: Rep. Jim McGovern on Iran War, New Red Scare, Israeli War Crimes & Dem Party Divide
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description: We speak with Democratic Congressmember Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, a longtime critic of U.S. foreign policy, in a wide-ranging conversation about Iran, Cuba, ending military funding for Israel and more. Last week, McGovern joined the entir...
encoded: We speak with Democratic Congressmember Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, a longtime critic of U.S. foreign policy, in a wide-ranging conversation about Iran, Cuba, ending military funding for Israel and more. Last week, McGovern joined the entire Democratic caucus and four Republicans to pass a resolution calling on President Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from hostilities against Iran. “It’s just like Iraq,” says McGovern. “We’re getting involved in a quagmire here, an endless war.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Frontlines of a Burning World”: Climate Change-Fueled “Megafires” Sweep Europe & North America
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description: France and Spain are battling catastrophic wildfires that have forced more than 350,000 people to evacuate their homes. The fires began in the southwest of France on Wednesday before spreading to Spain, where they have consumed more than 120,0...
encoded: France and Spain are battling catastrophic wildfires that have forced more than 350,000 people to evacuate their homes. The fires began in the southwest of France on Wednesday before spreading to Spain, where they have consumed more than 120,000 acres in what is now the most destructive fire in Spain’s recent history. Meanwhile, a new heat wave is expected to hit Europe this week, with temperatures soaring above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). Professor Ángel Luis Lara, who fled his home west of Madrid, says he considers his family “very lucky” because they managed to escape to safety. He says the wildfires are not just about extreme weather, but also “decades of neoliberal policies” that have diminished public services and the ability to respond to natural disasters. We also speak with journalist John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather, who says the climate crisis has created conditions that lead to destructive “megafires” like those in Europe, North America and beyond. “These conditions have been slowly building and worsening for decades, basically vindicating, unfortunately, the warnings of climate scientists and firefighters,” says Vaillant. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for July 27, 2026
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description: U.S. Pauses Bombing Iran After Officials Warn Trump About Dwindling Munitions Stockpiles, Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Strike Saudi Oil Sites on the Red Sea Coast, Devastating Wildfires Force More Than 360,000 People to Evacuate in France and Spain, Berlin Police Kill Suspect in Pride Festival Attack, Authorities Probe Stabbing Attacks in New York as Possible Hate Crimes, Three People Killed in Shooting at a Food Festival in Seattle, Israel Kills Two Hamas Security Officials in Gaza, Israeli Settlers Torch Mosques in Violent Attacks on Palestinian Towns and Villages in the Occupied West Bank, ICC Votes to Remove Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan Following Sexual Misconduct Allegations, Indian Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Resigns After a Week of Mass Protests, Trump Teases Another Presidential Run at White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, Paramount Skydance Postpones Merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, Protesters in Houston Demand Justice After the ICE Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Venezuelan Men Wrongfully Sent to CECOT Prison in El Salvador File Lawsuit Against Two U.S. Aviation Firms, Federal Health Officials Announce New Outbreak of Cyclosporiasis, Maine Democrats Select Troy Jackson to Replace Graham Platner as U.S. Senate Candidate
encoded: U.S. Pauses Bombing Iran After Officials Warn Trump About Dwindling Munitions Stockpiles Yemen's Houthi Rebels Strike Saudi Oil Sites on the Red Sea Coast Devastating Wildfires Force More Than 360,000 People to Evacuate in France and Spain Berlin Police Kill Suspect in Pride Festival Attack Authorities Probe Stabbing Attacks in New York as Possible Hate Crimes Three People Killed in Shooting at a Food Festival in Seattle Israel Kills Two Hamas Security Officials in Gaza Israeli Settlers Torch Mosques in Violent Attacks on Palestinian Towns and Villages in the Occupied West Bank ICC Votes to Remove Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan Following Sexual Misconduct Allegations Indian Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Resigns After a Week of Mass Protests Trump Teases Another Presidential Run at White House Correspondents' Association Dinner Paramount Skydance Postpones Merger with Warner Bros. Discovery Protesters in Houston Demand Justice After the ICE Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Venezuelan Men Wrongfully Sent to CECOT Prison in El Salvador File Lawsuit Against Two U.S. Aviation Firms Federal Health Officials Announce New Outbreak of Cyclosporiasis Maine Democrats Select Troy Jackson to Replace Graham Platner as U.S. Senate Candidate This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-07-27 Monday
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description: Headlines for July 27, 2026; “Frontlines of a Burning World”: Climate Change-Fueled “Megafires” Sweep Europe & North America; “Iraq 2.0”?: Rep. Jim McGovern on Iran War, New Red Scare, Israeli War Crimes & Dem Party Divide; Israeli Army & Settlers Are Working Together to “Ethnically Cleanse” West Bank: Mariam Barghouti
encoded: Democracy Now! 2026-07-27 Monday Headlines for July 27, 2026 "Frontlines of a Burning World": Climate Change-Fueled "Megafires" Sweep Europe & North America "Iraq 2.0"?: Rep. Jim McGovern on Iran War, New Red Scare, Israeli War Crimes & Dem Party Divide Israeli Army & Settlers Are Working Together to "Ethnically Cleanse" West Bank: Mariam Barghouti Download this show This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Lim Tean: What is an American signature by Trump actually worth?
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description: COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Wednesday: The United States signs a civil nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia. A “decades-long, multi-billion-dollar partnership,” Washington calls it. Thursday: The President Trump logs onto social media and reneges — unilaterally slapping on a new condition that was never part of the deal he just signed. The condition is that Saudi
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Wednesday: The United States signs a civil nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia. A “decades-long, multi-billion-dollar partnership,” Washington calls it. Thursday: The President Trump logs onto social media and reneges — unilaterally slapping on a new condition that was never part of the deal he just signed. The condition is that Saudi Arabia must sign on to the Abraham Accords and recognise Israel. READ MORE: Is the US-Saudi nuclear deal on, or in limbo? Other Lim Tean articles No phone call to Riyadh first. No consultation. Just a Truth Social post, blindsiding the very partner he’d shaken hands with 24 hours earlier. And here’s the part Washington seems not to grasp: this precondition is dead on arrival. MBS has said it again and again, most recently as an official rejection just weeks ago — no normalisation with Israel without an independent Palestinian state, East Jerusalem as its capital, full stop. The Saudi Foreign Ministry has called it “non-negotiable”. Trump is demanding surrender to a position Riyadh has never once wavered from. Not statecraft This is not statecraft. This is not deterrence. This is a superpower treating a sovereign signature as a rough draft — and then attaching a condition it knows, or should know, will never be met. Ask Kyiv. Ask Tehran. Ask now Riyadh: what is an American signature actually worth? The Legitimacy Principle is simple — power without consistency is not strength, it is liability. A state that cannot honour its own agreements within a day, and cannot read its own partner’s red lines, cannot lead a rules-based order. It can only bully one, until the world stops showing up to sign. Washington is agreement incapable. Trump’s undercutting of the nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia shortly after it was signed by adding the requirement that the Saudis recognize Israel (they won’t) signals everyone including the Iranians that you can’t trust a deal with Trump. https://t.co/8QoDnZdBNF — Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) July 26…

Bangladesh charges journalists Farzana Rupa, Mozammel Babu with crimes against humanity
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description: New Delhi, July 27, 2026—Bangladeshi authorities should immediately drop the charges of crimes against humanity against journalists Farzana Rupa and Mozammel Babu and release them without delay, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. Prosecutors at Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Monday submitted a formal charge sheet naming the two journalists and 39 other...
encoded: New Delhi, July 27, 2026—Bangladeshi authorities should immediately drop the charges of crimes against humanity against journalists Farzana Rupa and Mozammel Babu and release them without delay, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. Prosecutors at Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Monday submitted a formal charge sheet naming the two journalists and 39 other people — including former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina — in a case linked to a May 2013 crackdown on a rally by Islamist group Hefajat-e-Islam at Shapla Chattar, in which 58 people are alleged to have been killed. Rupa, former principal correspondent and presenter at Ekattor TV, and Babu, the channel’s founder and former editor-in-chief, were arrested in the crimes against humanity case on May 14. ICT Chief Prosecutor Md Aminul Islam told the media that Rupa, acting on Babu’s instructions, produced a documentary about the crackdown for Ekattor TV that falsely claimed no one was killed at Shapla Chattar. “Charging journalists Farzana Rupa and Mozammel Babu with crimes against humanity for doing their work is simply unacceptable,” said Kunal Majumder, CPJ’s Asia-Pacific Program Coordinator. “Authorities must drop the charges and break the cycle of partisan political vendettas against the press.” If found guilty, Rupa and Babu could face the death penalty because the tribunal does not have sentencing guidelines for specific offenses. Both journalists have been in custody since August 2024 on separate murder charges connected to the 2024 mass protests. Although the High Court order granted bail in those cases, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court issued a stay and, even if it is lifted, authorities can keep the journalists in prison under the ICT case. Bangladesh’s Ministry of Law and the Office of the Chief Prosecutor did no reply to CPJ’s emailed request for comment. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

DN! Monday, July 27, 2026
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How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery
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description: The post How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Collage by Alex Bandoni. Source images: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. For decades, physicists wrestled with a fundamental mystery of the universe. They wanted to know why certain particles — like the protons in atoms — have mass, while particles of light do not. Whatever the reason was, it was crucial to understanding the origins of planets, galaxies and life itself. The leading theory stated that particles got their mass from interacting with an invisible field, later dubbed the Higgs field, but no one had ever been able to prove it existed. Doing so would require one of the most ambitious international collaborations in scientific history. Starting decades ago, thousands of scientists from dozens of countries worked side by side, even though some of their nations considered one another adversaries. The United States contributed a quarter of the workforce and hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. The investment paid off in 2012, when the team detected the so-called “God particle” or Higgs boson, confirming the half-century-old Higgs field theory. The achievement was so significant that two of the physicists behind the theory won the Nobel Prize. Under a new rule proposed by the Trump administration, American scientists might be forced to watch similar discoveries from the sidelines. The proposal would restrict international collaboration and give political appointees the ability to decide the most important research to fund, and the power to pull the plug at any time, for any reason. As soon as he learned about the proposal, one of the U.S. scientists who took part in the landmark project rushed to file his objection with the federal government. “These experiments take decades to build and require sustained, cooperative international investment,” University of Chicago physics professor David W. Miller wrote in a public comment. “The experiments will continue, without American leadership. … The United States will not just fal…

‘Climate hushing’ has swept the Democratic Party. New polling suggests it’s a mistake.
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description: Climate change might not be a top priority for voters, but keeping quiet about it might backfire.
encoded: A hush has fallen over the Democratic Party — a “climate hush,” to be precise. The phrase captures the push within the party to focus more on the high cost of living and less on the planetary crisis, in hopes of addressing a popular diagnosis of why Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump. Since then, Democratic politicians have been mentioning the subject less on social media and in their press releases. Candidates in this summer’s primaries might have it in their platforms, but it’s the rare candidate who campaigns on it. But a new report pushes back against the idea that talking about climate change could cause Democrats to lose votes. The 2035 Initiative, a climate policy research center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, released polling this month that suggests that emphasizing the issue could increase support for Democratic candidates. The release comes ahead of primaries for key states — including Michigan, Minnesota, and Virginia — that could determine whether Democrats regain control over Congress. “Our data shows pretty firmly that adding climate change to the mix is neutral to helpful from a political perspective,” said Matto Mildenberger, a political science professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who worked on the report. His team conducted two surveys this summer with roughly 3,500 total participants, weighted to represent the U.S. electorate with a mix of voters from across the political spectrum. He said it’s the first empirically rigorous evaluation of the “climate hush” hypothesis. It’s part of a growing pushback to the climate hushing phenomenon, spearheaded by longtime climate advocate Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, and a collection of experts studying political science and public opinion. “This is a sort of a sign of where the conversation has moved, in that you do have this really robust effort to attempt to highlight that climate change is something that Democrats…

BJP members pelting stones during Kolkata CJP protest? Ranchi video falsely viral
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description: A video is viral on social media, depicting a few men atop a fire service truck, pelting some objects at a crowd while police stand nearby. Text written in Bengali, which translates to “Media will now say that those [objects] were tomatoes, not stones”, is superimposed on the viral clip. Many social media users have […]
encoded: A video is viral on social media, depicting a few men atop a fire service truck, pelting some objects at a crowd while police stand nearby. Text written in Bengali, which translates to “Media will now say that those [objects] were tomatoes, not stones”, is superimposed on the viral clip. Many social media users have shared the video — either directly claiming or suggesting that it shows BJP members pelting stones during a CJP protest in Kolkata held on July 24. The video was widely shared after reports came in that at least 14 people had been arrested in connection with the alleged violence against police and journalists during the protest. A user named Suman Sengupta (@sumonseng) shared the clip on X (formerly Twitter) with the caption, “Who are these goons, throwing stones on the students of #Kolkata attending the rally on 24.7.26 for #ResignationofDharmendraPradhan ( which ultimately happened) riding on the vehicles of #FireBrigade of WB Govt? Will the #GodiMedia have so time to identify them?” (Archive) Who are these goons, throwing stones on the students of #Kolkata attending the rally on 24.7.26 for #ResignationofDharmendraPradhan ( which ultimately happened) riding on the vehicles of #FireBrigade of WB Govt? Will the #GodiMedia have so time to identify them? pic.twitter.com/b64ipFoMnw — SS #Andolanjeevi #SaabYaadRakhaJayega (@sumonseng) July 25, 2026 Another user, Aditya Saha (@AdityaSaha12D), also shared the video claiming, ““Climbing onto the West Bengal government’s fire engine, the BJP’s goon squad—cockroach Janata Party supporters—are throwing stones in a Kolkata rally!” The question is, ‘Don’t these people count as jihadis? How did the police allow them to climb onto this vehicle? Why didn’t the police arrest them?’” The post has received over 30,000 views. (Archive) “পশ্চিমবঙ্গ সরকারের অগ্নিনির্বাপক গাড়িতে ওপরে উঠে বিজেপির গুন্ডাবাহিনী ককরোচ জনতা পার্টির সমর্থনে কলকাতার মিছিলে পাথর ছুড়ছে!” প্রশ্ন হলো ‘এরা কি জিহাদির মধ্যে পড়ে না?, পুলিশ কিভাবে এদের …

Musician and producer Rostam on friendship and collaboration
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description: You’ve released your solo albums roughly four to five years apart. Is that a function of your natural creative pacing as a songwriter, or is it more of a function of, you’re also doing a lot of production work for other folks?
encoded: You’ve released your solo albums roughly four to five years apart. Is that a function of your natural creative pacing as a songwriter, or is it more of a function of, you’re also doing a lot of production work for other folks? I have a natural alternating [cadence] between working on my own project and working on projects where I’m an outside producer. I like being able to have those different days, different months, different years when I’m really devoted to only my own project and others when I’m devoted to other people’s projects. I like having those two outlets. They scratch different itches for me. It’s possible there will be long periods of time where I’m only focused on producing outside projects. There might be a decade where I’m only doing that, and there may be a decade where I’m only focused on the Rostam project. I could imagine both those realities coming true. For me, there’s a lot of joy in the open road in front of me and not knowing what lies ahead. I’m interested in your use of the term “outside producer,” because when I hear that, I think of somebody who’s coming in on a song that’s already written and helping to produce it, but you’ve also done work writing and producing whole albums with HAIM and Vagabon. I’m curious if there’s a distinction for you between an outside producer versus an inside producer. If I look back at various records I’ve made throughout my career, they’ve all turned out quite differently or come about differently. And yet, there are strands that seem to be common. I love starting songs with artists from scratch. I’m also happy to make albums with artists where they are the sole starter of every song on the record and our collaboration is about finishing every song together. If I look at something like Modern Vampires [of the City], the third Vampire Weekend album, about half those songs, me and Ezra started in a room together, and about half those songs, Ezra started on his own and we finished them together. If I look at Cla…

Musicians feeble little horse on knowing when it’s right
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description: After you put out Girl with Fish, but before you toured it, you went on hiatus due to the pressure of all the attention, but eventually, you came back. How did you know it was time to put out another album?
encoded: After you put out Girl with Fish, but before you toured it, you went on hiatus due to the pressure of all the attention, but eventually, you came back. How did you know it was time to put out another album? Lydia Slocum (lead vocals, bass): We looked at the computer one day and realized we had six songs we could use, because we thought we couldn’t use them, and then, we realized, “Oh, we basically have an album.” We kept working on it and editing all the songs. Even though some of those first songs were worked on three years ago, a lot of it came to fruition pretty quickly once we decided we were making an album. It just jumped up behind us like, “Oh woah, there’s an album already.” When you said you weren’t sure you could use these songs, what did you mean? What was the uncertainty there? Lydia: We weren’t all on the same page as a band. Our previous member, [founding guitarist] Ryan [Walchonski], was in a different city, and so our thought was that we would all get together and write the next album in person. With the songs me and Seb were working on by ourselves in Pittsburgh, we assumed they couldn’t be feeble little horse songs because it wasn’t the entire band in a room the way we were planning. When Ryan evolved out of the band, we realized, “Oh, these can be feeble little horse songs.” It was almost a matter of Ryan’s blessing of just being like, “You guys, you got it.” He let us go, and we ended up having more songs. How did you learn to operate as feeble little horse without Ryan? With the caveat that it sounds like that was already happening. Sebastian Kinsler (guitar, production, multi-instrumentalist): There were a couple songs we made before that had minimal input from Ryan, so it wasn’t super scary to be like, “Oh my god, how did we do this?” It was something we’ve already done a couple of times before. Lydia: “Freak” and “Heaven,” two very different songs that landed pretty differently, were made in Seb’s kitchen. It was a little scary though, but… S…

PSNA challenges Luxon to reveal NZ’s vote in ICC chief prosecutor case
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description: Asia Pacific Report A leading Palestine solidarity group in New Zealand has challenged Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to explain why his government has not revealed how the country voted at the International Criminal Court over the ouster of ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan after intense Israeli and US lobbying. Khan has been under attack from
encoded: Asia Pacific Report A leading Palestine solidarity group in New Zealand has challenged Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to explain why his government has not revealed how the country voted at the International Criminal Court over the ouster of ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan after intense Israeli and US lobbying. Khan has been under attack from Israel and the US because he successfully filed arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza. Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) spokesperson Rinad Tamimi said Israel and the US had “intensified their lobbying and diplomatic bullying” after an ICC Judicial Panel established to examine the evidence on claims of sexual abuse against Khan declared they were “unanimously of the opinion that the factual findings by OIOS (the ICC evidence collecting body) do not establish misconduct or breach of duty under the relevant legal framework”. READ MORE: Israel accused of ‘buying Pacific votes’ over plan to open Nauru embassy in Jerusalem Former UN oversight chief says ICC prosecutor Karim Khan is ‘victim of massive stitch-up’ ‘Humiliating as a New Zealander’: Helen Clark slams decision to abstain on UN vote How Volker Turk won new UN rights chief term despite US, Israel opposition Other Gaza genocide reports Israel and the US rejected the ICC legal ruling and demanded a vote of all member states of the ICC to remove Khan. That vote was held on Friday and Khan was removed from office. “The key question for Mr Luxon is ‘Did we capitulate to Israel/US pressure, or did we stand up for the ICC’s legal processes?” Tamimi said in a statement. “We are not able to make any judgment on the allegations against Mr Khan, but New Zealand should have voted against his expulsion and insisted a proper judicial process be followed. “Did we?” asked Tamimi. “In October last year, Foreign Minister Winst…

PSNA challenges Luxon to reveal NZ’s vote in ICC chief prosecutor case
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description: Asia Pacific Report A leading Palestine solidarity group in New Zealand has challenged Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to explain why his government has not revealed how the country voted at the International Criminal Court over the ouster of ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan after intense Israeli and US lobbying. Khan has been under attack from
encoded: Asia Pacific Report A leading Palestine solidarity group in New Zealand has challenged Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to explain why his government has not revealed how the country voted at the International Criminal Court over the ouster of ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan after intense Israeli and US lobbying. Khan has been under attack from Israel and the US because he successfully filed arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza. Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) spokesperson Rinad Tamimi said Israel and the US had “intensified their lobbying and diplomatic bullying” after an ICC Judicial Panel established to examine the evidence on claims of sexual abuse against Khan declared they were “unanimously of the opinion that the factual findings by OIOS (the ICC evidence collecting body) do not establish misconduct or breach of duty under the relevant legal framework”. READ MORE: Israel accused of ‘buying Pacific votes’ over plan to open Nauru embassy in Jerusalem Former UN oversight chief says ICC prosecutor Karim Khan is ‘victim of massive stitch-up’ ‘Humiliating as a New Zealander’: Helen Clark slams decision to abstain on UN vote How Volker Turk won new UN rights chief term despite US, Israel opposition Other Gaza genocide reports Israel and the US rejected the ICC legal ruling and demanded a vote of all member states of the ICC to remove Khan. That vote was held on Friday and Khan was removed from office. “The key question for Mr Luxon is ‘Did we capitulate to Israel/US pressure, or did we stand up for the ICC’s legal processes?” Tamimi said in a statement. “We are not able to make any judgment on the allegations against Mr Khan, but New Zealand should have voted against his expulsion and insisted a proper judicial process be followed. “Did we?” asked Tamimi. “In October last year, Foreign Minister Winst…

Eating chicken on Ganga can’t be an offence, no law bars that, says Justice Ujjal Bhuyan
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description: Asserting that there was no law that prohibited eating chicken on the Ganges, Justice Ujjal Bhuyan of the Supreme Court on Saturday, July 25, criticised the arrest of 14 young Muslim men in Varanasi in March this year. While delivering the fourth Justice GP Singh memorial lecture at the National Law Institute University in Bhopal, […]
encoded: Asserting that there was no law that prohibited eating chicken on the Ganges, Justice Ujjal Bhuyan of the Supreme Court on Saturday, July 25, criticised the arrest of 14 young Muslim men in Varanasi in March this year. While delivering the fourth Justice GP Singh memorial lecture at the National Law Institute University in Bhopal, Justice Bhuyan remarked, “I’m sure consuming chicken biryani is not an offence. It can’t be an offence. There’s no law that prohibits the consumption of chicken over the Ganga River.” He expressed his dismay that these young people were arrested for this reason and had to remain in jail for three months, adding, “It took three months for the court to grant them bail.” The relevant party can be heard at the 2:05:45-minute mark in the following video. Addressing the audience, Justice Bhuyan remarked, “It will not be an exaggeration to say that public space for expressing divergent opinion is shrinking in India.” He underscored that the right to express one’s views and to demonstrate peacefully are fundamental freedoms guaranteed to citizens and that “Debate and dissent are the essence of democracy.” He added, “Unfortunately, even normal activities are being criminalised”. [2:03:46] Referring to the environmental protests and student demonstrations, he said, “People who come to voice their anguish over environmental degradation, which is a reality, are chased away as if they are criminals.” [2:04:11] He continued, “Students protesting on campuses are arrested, and they do not get bail for 30 to 40 days. They are suspended, for which they have to go to the court. It takes time. These issues raise serious questions.” [2:04:25] While acknowledging that courts ultimately grant bail in many such cases, Justice Bhuyan questioned whether delayed relief and stringent bail conditions were themselves discouraging democratic participation. “These issues raise serious questions… though the courts are responsive and do grant bail, many a time it is belate…

Tuvalu deploys conservation NGO to arrest Chinese longliner
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date: 2026-07-27T03:27:48Z
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description: By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific Tuvalu has arrested a Chinese tuna longliner, borrowing a vessel from a wellknown conservation charity to do so. On the evening of July 9, Tuvalu Police Force maritime trackers picked up something strange about a vessel they were watching. From there, they boarded the Allankay, a vessel owned by
encoded: By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific Tuvalu has arrested a Chinese tuna longliner, borrowing a vessel from a wellknown conservation charity to do so. On the evening of July 9, Tuvalu Police Force maritime trackers picked up something strange about a vessel they were watching. From there, they boarded the Allankay, a vessel owned by Sea Shepherd Global, and went to investigate. According to Sea Shepherd, police found the crew of the Lu Rong Yuan Yu 13 throwing illegally caught shark fins overboard while stockpiling tuna and keeping essentially no records. READ MORE: Chinese longliner arrested in Tuvalu over suspected illegal fishing Other Sea Shepherd reports Experts say it is a “quite exceptional” kind of arrangement, where developing countries, particularly in Africa, lean on an NGO for law enforcement. But Sea Shepherd says it is a model that has proven successful, and they hope to bring it to the Pacific. Sea Shepherd’s chief campaigns officer Captain Peter Hammarstedt told RNZ Pacific that Tuvalu had come to them with a partnership in mind after their lone patrol boat, the Te Mataili II, was destroyed by cyclones Judy and Kevin in 2023. “When somebody comes into the waters of Tuvalu and fishes illegally, it is a direct assault on the livelihoods of Tuvaluans,” Captain Hammerstedt said. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-131205 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Lu-Rong-Yuan-Yu-SS-680wide.png" alt="Chinese longliner LU RONG YUAN YU 138 arrested by Tuvalu Police" width="680" height="499" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Lu-Rong-Yuan-Yu-SS-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Lu-Rong-Yuan-Yu-SS-680wide-300x220.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Lu-Rong-Yuan-Yu-SS-680wide-80x60.png 80w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Lu-Rong-Yuan-Yu-SS-680wide-572x420.png 572w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw…

Tuvalu deploys conservation NGO to arrest Chinese longliner
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-07-27T03:27:48Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Chinese longliners
subject: Direct action
subject: Illegal fishing
subject: NGO collaboration
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subject: Shark fins
subject: Simon Kofe
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description: By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific Tuvalu has arrested a Chinese tuna longliner, borrowing a vessel from a wellknown conservation charity to do so. On the evening of July 9, Tuvalu Police Force maritime trackers picked up something strange about a vessel they were watching. From there, they boarded the Allankay, a vessel owned by
encoded: By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific Tuvalu has arrested a Chinese tuna longliner, borrowing a vessel from a wellknown conservation charity to do so. On the evening of July 9, Tuvalu Police Force maritime trackers picked up something strange about a vessel they were watching. From there, they boarded the Allankay, a vessel owned by Sea Shepherd Global, and went to investigate. According to Sea Shepherd, police found the crew of the Lu Rong Yuan Yu 13 throwing illegally caught shark fins overboard while stockpiling tuna and keeping essentially no records. READ MORE: Chinese longliner arrested in Tuvalu over suspected illegal fishing Other Sea Shepherd reports Experts say it is a “quite exceptional” kind of arrangement, where developing countries, particularly in Africa, lean on an NGO for law enforcement. But Sea Shepherd says it is a model that has proven successful, and they hope to bring it to the Pacific. Sea Shepherd’s chief campaigns officer Captain Peter Hammarstedt told RNZ Pacific that Tuvalu had come to them with a partnership in mind after their lone patrol boat, the Te Mataili II, was destroyed by cyclones Judy and Kevin in 2023. “When somebody comes into the waters of Tuvalu and fishes illegally, it is a direct assault on the livelihoods of Tuvaluans,” Captain Hammerstedt said. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-131205 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Lu-Rong-Yuan-Yu-SS-680wide.png" alt="Chinese longliner LU RONG YUAN YU 138 arrested by Tuvalu Police" width="680" height="499" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Lu-Rong-Yuan-Yu-SS-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Lu-Rong-Yuan-Yu-SS-680wide-300x220.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Lu-Rong-Yuan-Yu-SS-680wide-80x60.png 80w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Lu-Rong-Yuan-Yu-SS-680wide-572x420.png 572w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw…

Why Did North Korea Build Identical Buildings Near the Border?
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Marco Rubio publishes paranoid activist blacklist
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Democrat pundits praise bigot Laura Loomer as "courageous"
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Ukraine hosts genocidal bigot Laura Loomer
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date: 2026-07-26T21:09:58Z
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ICE vigils honor immigrants; US pauses bombing Iran due to diminished weapons stockpile; Maine Democrat Troy Jackson secures party’s nomination; big win for India’s youth-led “Cockroach” movement
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. ICE vigils across the country to honor immigrants who were killed by ICE or died in its custody. In Chico, California, people held a “v...
encoded: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. ICE vigils across the country to honor immigrants who were killed by ICE or died in its custody. In Chico, California, people held a “vigil for the disappeared” and unrolled a 40 foot long banner with the names of over 2000 people. The US pauses bombing Iran for a second night, as US military advisors say ongoing bombing could drain the already diminished stockpile of US weapons across the entire Middle East. In Maine, former state lawmaker and fifth-generation logger Troy Jackson secures the Democratic nomination for US Senate. He will face Republican Senator Susan Collins in November A big win for India’s youth-led “Cockroach” movement, after the government accepts all of its demands. Hundreds of thousands of young people had occupied central parts of New Delhi and the protests were spreading to a dozen other Indian cities. The post ICE vigils honor immigrants; US pauses bombing Iran due to diminished weapons stockpile; Maine Democrat Troy Jackson secures party’s nomination; big win for India’s youth-led “Cockroach” movement appeared first on KPFA. This content originally appeared on KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News Weekdays and was authored by KPFA.

SIPANINGKAH • live in Jakarta, Indonesia
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-07-26T16:00:06Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes and was authored by Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes.
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Israel’s "Alligator Alcatraz"?
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U.S. mercenary groups conduct drone strikes in Haiti
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Here’s how offshore wind helped New England beat record heat
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creator: Maria Gallucci
date: 2026-07-26T13:00:00Z
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description: The region has added dozens of turbines off the East Coast since last summer. They and other clean energy sources cut the need for oil power amid recent hot weather.
encoded: America’s offshore wind farms have already shown their ability to keep electricity flowing during brutal winter storms. Now, the clean energy resource has proved it can also bolster the grid during major heat waves. Earlier this month, as dangerously hot and humid temperatures settled over the eastern United States, two wind projects near New England consistently delivered hundreds of megawatts to the grid as residents cranked up their air conditioners. The influx of wind reduced utilities’ reliance on dirty, expensive oil-burning peaker plants, which operate only when electricity demand is through the roof, according to the data firm Grid Status. Analysts compared how the regional system performed during the July heat wave and a sweltering stretch in June 2025, before much of the current offshore wind capacity came online. Oil provided nearly 10 percent of the region’s total power supply during peak-demand conditions on July 2, 2026 — that period’s hottest day — down from nearly 15 percent at the highest point on June 24, 2025. That’s a drop of more than a gigawatt in oil-fueled generation between those two days. Part of the decline was due to slightly weaker overall demand during the July 2 peak than during last year’s event. But Grid Status said that stronger generation from the region’s utility-scale offshore wind farms was a key factor. The projects are coming online despite repeated attempts by the Trump administration to block them. Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Big-Beautiful-Bill-RESIZED.jpg" alt="President Donald Trump signs the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law at the White House on July 4, 2025. The bill repealed major portions of the climate-focused Inflation Reduction Act." class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Big-Beautiful-Bill-RESIZED.jpg?quality=75&strip=all 1600w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Big-Beautiful-Bill-RESIZED.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&quality=…

BJP leader, Right-wing handles share clipped video, claim communal agenda behind CJP stir
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creator: Abhishek Kumar
date: 2026-07-26T11:18:18Z
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description: On July 23, when the Cockroach Janta Party(CJP)-led protest in Delhi demanding the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan was at its peak, a five-second video went viral, in which a man could be seen chanting “Nara-e-Takbir” and the crowd responded with “Allah Hu Akbar.” Sharing this clip, several BJP leaders and supporters claimed […]
encoded: On July 23, when the Cockroach Janta Party(CJP)-led protest in Delhi demanding the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan was at its peak, a five-second video went viral, in which a man could be seen chanting “Nara-e-Takbir” and the crowd responded with “Allah Hu Akbar.” Sharing this clip, several BJP leaders and supporters claimed that Islamic slogans were being chanted at the CJP protest at Jantar Mantar, suggesting that the movement had taken a communal turn. BJP leader Tajinder Bagga shared the clip, claiming that “CJP terrorists” had raised Islamic slogans at Jantar Mantar. (Archive link) <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-317614" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-23-184615.jpg" alt="" width="887" height="1059" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-23-184615.jpg 887w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-23-184615-251x300.jpg 251w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-23-184615-858x1024.jpg 858w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-23-184615-768x917.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 887px) 100vw, 887px" /> Nupur J Sharma, editor of Right-wing propaganda website OpIndia, shared the video and said that slogans like “Nara-e-Takbir, Allahu Akbar” were raised at the CJP protest at Jantar Mantar. (Archive link) Naara-e-Taqbeer, Allahu Akbar slogans raised at CJP protest, Jantar Mantar. Tell me how this is a bloody students’ protest. Tell me how this is not Shaheen Bagh 2.0. pic.twitter.com/kKmhEexCyD — Nupur J Sharma (@UnSubtleDesi) July 23, 2026 BJP supporter Raushan Sinha shared the video. “As I said earlier, you think you’re supporting the “students,” but in reality, you’re strengthening the warriors of Ghazwa-e-Hind,” he wrote. (Archive link) <img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-317612" src="https://www.altn…

You Sirs Are the Duplicitous Murderous Failures
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creator: Abby Zimet
date: 2026-07-26T05:09:22Z
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description: More madness from the surreal saga of a nuclear-armed Iran oscillating between "obliterated" and "threatening our families" so we have to obliterate it though we just agreed to help nuclear-arm the brutes behind 9/11 so go figure. Meanwhile, the Penta...
encoded: More madness from the surreal saga of a nuclear-armed Iran oscillating between "obliterated" and "threatening our families" so we have to obliterate it though we just agreed to help nuclear-arm the brutes behind 9/11 so go figure. Meanwhile, the Pentagon pursues a gazillion bucks and testosterone-ripped troops even as a flailing president insists the last dead troops all said "very strongly" to keep fighting right before he odiously covered up their deaths so others would. Head-spinning, soul-killing. To date, "Emperor Commodus of Covfefe's" illegal, disatrous, dim-witted Iran "excursion," a mangling of "incursion" and global clusterfuck with no clear mission, strategy, end goal or clue, has killed over 3,500 Iranians, many of them women and children, wounded over 26,500, and razed much of that country's infrastructure, including fresh water sources. At least 18 U.S. troops have been killed, with up to 500 wounded. A quarter of the world’s oil is held hostage across two vital straits, at least 70% of Americans oppose the war, recession-level prices here loom, and rage, especially among Muslim nations, is palpable, perhaps nudged along by a brilliant Iranian social-media campaign - "ONE VENGEANCE FOR ALL" - that tied America's latest atrocity to those of the past, from Native Americans, "stolen blacks" and Vietnamese villagers to Abu Ghraib, Gaza and Epstein Island. In the bleak wake of eight missed deadlines, 28 empty claims of a "deal," several failed ceasefires and ongoing blather of a mythical "victory" on the horizon, the war is now widely seen as militarily, politically and morally "unwinnable," and even U.S. money, always there for calamitous wars, is running low. Thus did greasy dunk-tank clown and strung-tight "warfighter" zealot Pete Hegseth appear before Congress this week to plead for a profane $67 billion more in emergency funds - part of a $1.15 trillion defense bill, a 44%, $454 billion increase - added to the $37.5 billion he's already squandered in t…

Eugene Doyle: Sex crimes, Karim Khan and the West’s war on the ICC
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date: 2026-07-26T00:40:53Z
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description: COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle In a secret vote on July 24, the member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) voted to remove Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan. This was far more than a vote about the alleged serious misconduct of one powerful man. It represents an unprecedented institutional crisis for both the ICC and the
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle In a secret vote on July 24, the member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) voted to remove Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan. This was far more than a vote about the alleged serious misconduct of one powerful man. It represents an unprecedented institutional crisis for both the ICC and the entire system of international justice on which the Palestinian and other suffering people of the Global South still place hope. The Western governments who led the campaign to oust Khan secured 82 votes, comfortably surpassing the required absolute majority of 63. Thirteen states voted against removal, 15 abstained. READ MORE: ICC prosecutor Karim Khan removed over ‘political’ sex abuse claims The Malaysian lawyer at the heart of the ICC crisis NZ called on to back international law in ICC vote – ‘don’t throw in towel’ Other ICC reports For the reasons outlined below, the vote in all likelihood is a statement of the West’s coercive power rather than a credible determination of Khan’s guilt. Khan’s chief lawyer, Tayab Ali, expressed “regret” that the assembly of member states disregarded concerns about due process by more than 180 rights groups and legal experts. “The decision is unsupported by any lawful or properly reasoned finding that Mr Khan KC committed… — Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) July 25, 2026 On the surface, the member states voted on Khan’s fitness for office given the serious allegations of sexual misconduct levelled against him. Two women charge that Khan used his position of power to sexually pressure them: “Sarah”, a Malaysian lawyer who served as his special assistant at the ICC and alleges he repeatedly subjected her to non-consensual sexual acts, and “Patricia”, who alleges he groped and harassed her as his unpaid intern in 2009, when he was a leading defence lawyer at the court. On the other hand, the vote was the climax of a high-pressure Israeli and Western effort to unseat Khan after he submitted charges against Israe…

Aaron Mate’s new book on Ukraine, out soon
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Follow the Money: Why MAGA is Suddenly Flocking to Ukraine [TEASER]
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
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description: In this week's bonus show, exclusive for our Patreon and Substack subscribers, we take a second look at the sudden death of Lindsey Graham. But first: what's the real story behind Laura Loomer's apology tour of Ukraine? Why is Loomer, a creepy MAGA influencer – more botoxed than Putin – long rumored to be one of Trump's mistresses, suddenly sitting down with President Zelensky and apologizing for spouting Russian disinformation? Follow the money. The Kremlin is broke; Russia is on the verge of collapse. Meanwhile, Ukraine is experiencing a massive tech gold rush thanks to its innovative drone technology. Who's side do the opportunists want to be on? The side at the very start of a disruptive and lucrative tech revolution. Laura Loomer sees dollar signs in Ukraine. The economic advantage has switched sides from Russia to Ukraine – thanks to Ukraine's renowned tech ingenuity, which Gaslit Nation predicted would be their secret weapon. This week's bonus show includes a second look at Lindsey Graham's sudden death after his important and urgent trip to Ukraine, as well as our full salon discussion. Want to hear it all? Join our community of listeners on Patreon.com/Gaslit or GaslitNation.Substack.com – get access to bonus shows, invites to our exclusive events like our Monday salons, and more. Discounted annual memberships are available, and you can give the gift of membership. Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you. See you at Monday's Gaslit Nation Salon Show Notes: A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807202/a-reasonable-guide-for-unreasonable-women-by-andrea-chalupa/ Keystone Kash's Girlfriend Posts Bonkers Claim She's Target of 'Foreign' Op https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/keystone-kash-girlfriend-posts-bonkers-093956129.html Kremlin Says No News on Patel's October Trip to Russia https://www.kyivpost.com/pos…
encoded: In this week's bonus show, exclusive for our Patreon and Substack subscribers, we take a second look at the sudden death of Lindsey Graham. But first: what's the real story behind Laura Loomer's apology tour of Ukraine? Why is Loomer, a creepy MAGA influencer – more botoxed than Putin – long rumored to be one of Trump's mistresses, suddenly sitting down with President Zelensky and apologizing for spouting Russian disinformation? Follow the money. The Kremlin is broke; Russia is on the verge of collapse. Meanwhile, Ukraine is experiencing a massive tech gold rush thanks to its innovative drone technology. Who's side do the opportunists want to be on? The side at the very start of a disruptive and lucrative tech revolution. Laura Loomer sees dollar signs in Ukraine. The economic advantage has switched sides from Russia to Ukraine – thanks to Ukraine's renowned tech ingenuity, which Gaslit Nation predicted would be their secret weapon. This week's bonus show includes a second look at Lindsey Graham's sudden death after his important and urgent trip to Ukraine, as well as our full salon discussion. Want to hear it all? Join our community of listeners on Patreon.com/Gaslit or GaslitNation.Substack.com – get access to bonus shows, invites to our exclusive events like our Monday salons, and more. Discounted annual memberships are available, and you can give the gift of membership. Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you. See you at Monday's Gaslit Nation Salon Show Notes: A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807202/a-reasonable-guide-for-unreasonable-women-by-andrea-chalupa/ Keystone Kash's Girlfriend Posts Bonkers Claim She's Target of 'Foreign' Op https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/keystone-kash-girlfriend-posts-bonkers-093956129.html Kremlin Says No News on Patel's October Trip to Russia https://www.kyivpost.com/pos…

Epstein survivor blasts Trump nominee for ignoring survivors
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India’s “Cockroach” political movement?
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 25, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 25, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Judge Napolitano/ Listener Feedback
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creator: Ralph Nader
date: 2026-07-25T17:18:17Z
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description: Ralph speaks to Judge Andrew Napolitano about two of Ralph’s abiding concerns: the death undercount in Gaza and the impeachment of Donald Trump. Then, Ralph responds to some of your listener feedback.Judge Andrew Napolitano is a former Superior Court J...
encoded: Ralph speaks to Judge Andrew Napolitano about two of Ralph’s abiding concerns: the death undercount in Gaza and the impeachment of Donald Trump. Then, Ralph responds to some of your listener feedback. Judge Andrew Napolitano is a former Superior Court Judge, a syndicated columnist, and host of the Judging Freedom podcast. Judge Napolitano has taught constitutional law and jurisprudence at Delaware Law School and Seton Hall Law School, and he was Fox News’ Senior Judicial Analyst from 1997 to 2021. He is the author of several books on the U.S. Constitution, including Freedom’s Anchor: An Introduction to Natural Law Jurisprudence in American Constitutional History. Amongst the mainstream media, with respect to the Netanyahu regime and what it has been doing, there is no intellectual honesty. The mainstream media in the United States is controlled by the lobby. And the lobby, of course, is the Israeli and American donors who control the media and control the government. Our friend Pat Buchanan famously referred to the Congress as “Israeli-occupied territory”. The same may be said about the mainstream media… Don’t expect intellectual honesty from the mainstream media, because anybody who tries it will be looking for a job. Judge Andrew Napolitano [Donald Trump’s] behavior has simply been tyrannical to the nth degree. Look, he’s been impeached twice—both times for, compared to what he’s done in the second term, a pittance. What he’s done in the second term is absolutely and utterly profound. He has failed to take care that the laws be enforced. He has failed to abide due process. He has failed to protect the right to free speech. He has failed to protect the right to privacy. He has failed to seek Congressional approval before starting wars. He has ordered murders on the high seas. This is a long litany. Judge Andrew Napolitano Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe This content originally appeared on Ralph Nader Radio Hour and…

U.S. vows to dismantle the ICC
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In Michigan, the price of energy is on the ballot and both parties know it
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description: The GOP spent years circling the state as a key 2026 pickup opportunity. But after a lopsided election loss, doubts are creeping in.
encoded: Christine Waugh-Fleischmann, an art teacher who said she spends up to $200 a week on gas driving to see her grandchildren, is a Democratic voter in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District. One of the most competitive seats in the country, it is currently held by Republican Representative Tom Barrett and she believes the seat can be flipped, partly due to the high price of gas. “I do see a lot of people in my conservative neighborhood here who are very upset,” she told Reuters. “It’s gas. It’s grocery prices, it’s health care costs.” The arithmetic of her frustration is easy to trace. After war broke out with Iran in late February, the average price of gas in Michigan jumped roughly 32 percent in three weeks, from $2.99 to $3.95 a gallon. Governor Gretchen Whitmer declared a formal energy emergency to let southeast Michigan stations sell cheaper summer-blend fuel, citing both the war and tariffs. Prices kept climbing anyway — including a 90-cent spike in a single week, among the sharpest in any midterm battleground — briefly topping $4 before coming down in recent months. Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/empty-chairs-congress.jpg" alt="Photo of rows of empty chairs in Congress" class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/empty-chairs-congress.jpg?quality=75&strip=all 1600w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/empty-chairs-congress.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&quality=75&strip=all 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/empty-chairs-congress.jpg?resize=330%2C186&quality=75&strip=all 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/empty-chairs-congress.jpg?resize=768%2C432&quality=75&strip=all 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/empty-chairs-congress.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&quality=75&strip=all 1536w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/empty-chairs-congress.jpg?resize=160%2C90&quality=75&strip=all 160w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/empty-chair…

The ADA: The Boulder and the Hill
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description: The 1990 accessibility law has helped our nation chart a course of progress. Period.
encoded: The 1990 accessibility law has helped our nation chart a course of progress. Period. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Mike Ervin.

Taare Zameen Par: Celebrities break silence, back CJP-led youth uprising
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description: Several celebrities have come out in support of the youth-led protests that have swept Delhi since July 20, condemning the police crackdown on demonstrators and backing the students’ demands for accountability and education reforms. The ‘Sansad Chalo’ march, led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), drew tens of thousands of protesters demanding the resignation of […]
encoded: Several celebrities have come out in support of the youth-led protests that have swept Delhi since July 20, condemning the police crackdown on demonstrators and backing the students’ demands for accountability and education reforms. The ‘Sansad Chalo’ march, led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), drew tens of thousands of protesters demanding the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan and comprehensive reforms to India’s education system. The movement grew out of the NEET-UG paper leak and examination cancellation, which allegedly drove at least 20 students to suicide, and gathered further momentum after climate activist Sonam Wangchuk was forcefully removed while on a 20-day hunger strike in solidarity with the students. The protest, however, was met with an unprecedented police crackdown. Police used lathi-charge, tear gas, pellet guns and shock batons against demonstrators, leaving hundreds injured and hospitalised and drawing global condemnation. ALSO READ: No one fired pellet guns in Delhi The public show of solidarity from actors, filmmakers, musicians and other public figures stands out at a time when India’s entertainment industry has often been criticised for remaining silent during moments of political upheaval and national crises. While many of the country’s biggest celebrities have chosen not to comment, several others have publicly backed the youth protesters—some by joining demonstrations in person and others through messages on social media. Shabana Azmi: ‘The Spark will Turn into a Flame’ Among the most prominent and active supporters was actor Shabana Azmi. Joining the protest on July 19, a day prior to the march, she met CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke and extended support to the students on hunger strike. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Neha (@neowsibora) She lauded the fasting students’ bravery and thanked Wangchuk for his leadership. “The spark which has been lit will not go out. Even if you put these protesters in j…

Israel accused of ‘buying Pacific votes’ over plan to open Nauru embassy in Jerusalem
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description: Asia Pacific Report A New Zealand national solidarity group for Palestine has condemned plans by Nauru to open an embassy in Jerusalem as an “alarming indication” of Israel diplomacy consolidating illegal occupation of Palestinian Territory and “buying Pacific votes” at the United Nations. “Nearly half of the countries with embassies in Jerusalem are from the
encoded: Asia Pacific Report A New Zealand national solidarity group for Palestine has condemned plans by Nauru to open an embassy in Jerusalem as an “alarming indication” of Israel diplomacy consolidating illegal occupation of Palestinian Territory and “buying Pacific votes” at the United Nations. “Nearly half of the countries with embassies in Jerusalem are from the Pacific and this clearly shows the effort and dollars Israel is putting into the region,” said Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) spokesperson Rinad Tamimi. She said in a statement Israel was “unashamedly” using Pacific countries to undermine the international consensus that Israel’s claims over all of Jerusalem were not legally valid. READ MORE: Nauru’s government announces plans for embassy in Israel Pro-Palestinian activists plan protest against ‘Israeli pond’ diplomacy push in Pacific Fiji opens embassy in Jerusalem Let peace govern security – A pastoral message from the Pacific Conference of Churches Other Pacific and Israeli diplomacy reports <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-127292 size-medium" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Rinad-Tamimi-Critic-680wide-300x213.png" alt="PSNA national spokesperson Rinad Tamimi" width="300" height="213" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Rinad-Tamimi-Critic-680wide-300x213.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Rinad-Tamimi-Critic-680wide-100x70.png 100w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Rinad-Tamimi-Critic-680wide-591x420.png 591w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Rinad-Tamimi-Critic-680wide.png 680w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> PSNA national spokesperson Rinad Tamimi . . . “PSNA is speaking out to support indigenous groups in Pacific countries who see Israel as a highly aggressive modern colonial venture.” Image: Sophia Niblock, Critic Te Ārohi Israel and the government of Nauru announced thi…

NZ community newspaper The Akaroa Mail celebrates 150 years
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creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-07-25T09:12:40Z
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description: By Rachel Graham of RNZ Newspapers in New Zealand and around the world are under increasing pressure with many businesses facing restructures, going digital or closing all together but a free newspaper on Banks Peninsula is celebrating its 150th anniversary. The Akaroa Mail was first published on 21 July, 1876, and prints 10,000 paper copies
encoded: By Rachel Graham of RNZ Newspapers in New Zealand and around the world are under increasing pressure with many businesses facing restructures, going digital or closing all together but a free newspaper on Banks Peninsula is celebrating its 150th anniversary. The Akaroa Mail was first published on 21 July, 1876, and prints 10,000 paper copies every fortnight. Owner and editor Michael de Hamel has been running The Akaroa Mail for the last 41 years, having started at a time when the local manual telephone exchange operator would get phone calls to him by ringing the local shops and asking if they had seen him. WATCH: How the Akaroa Mail kept Banks Peninsula’s memory alive for 150 years — Video “In the early days if someone wanted me on the phone and I was walking around Akaroa, someone would dash out of a shop and say, ‘Hey Michael you’re wanted on the phone’,” he said. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-131161 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Akaroa-Mail-1933-AM-300tall.png" alt="How The Akaroa Mail used to look in 1933 . . . " width="300" height="455" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Akaroa-Mail-1933-AM-300tall.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Akaroa-Mail-1933-AM-300tall-198x300.png 198w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Akaroa-Mail-1933-AM-300tall-277x420.png 277w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> How The Akaroa Mail used to look in 1933 . . . Image: The Akaroa Mail De Hamel said he always aimed for stories focused on local issues and events, with the job providing constant surprises. “I found on one occasion a World War Two German aeroplane in someone’s basement here in Akaroa, it was a training glider admittedly, rather than a full aeroplane, but nevertheless there are things that happen which constantly raise the eyebrows,” he said. De Hamel is not the only long-lasting editor, with one of his predecessors…

NZ community newspaper The Akaroa Mail celebrates 150 years
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creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-07-25T09:12:40Z
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description: By Rachel Graham of RNZ Newspapers in New Zealand and around the world are under increasing pressure with many businesses facing restructures, going digital or closing all together but a free newspaper on Banks Peninsula is celebrating its 150th anniversary. The Akaroa Mail was first published on 21 July, 1876, and prints 10,000 paper copies
encoded: By Rachel Graham of RNZ Newspapers in New Zealand and around the world are under increasing pressure with many businesses facing restructures, going digital or closing all together but a free newspaper on Banks Peninsula is celebrating its 150th anniversary. The Akaroa Mail was first published on 21 July, 1876, and prints 10,000 paper copies every fortnight. Owner and editor Michael de Hamel has been running The Akaroa Mail for the last 41 years, having started at a time when the local manual telephone exchange operator would get phone calls to him by ringing the local shops and asking if they had seen him. WATCH: How the Akaroa Mail kept Banks Peninsula’s memory alive for 150 years — Video “In the early days if someone wanted me on the phone and I was walking around Akaroa, someone would dash out of a shop and say, ‘Hey Michael you’re wanted on the phone’,” he said. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-131161 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Akaroa-Mail-1933-AM-300tall.png" alt="How The Akaroa Mail used to look in 1933 . . . " width="300" height="455" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Akaroa-Mail-1933-AM-300tall.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Akaroa-Mail-1933-AM-300tall-198x300.png 198w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Akaroa-Mail-1933-AM-300tall-277x420.png 277w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> How The Akaroa Mail used to look in 1933 . . . Image: The Akaroa Mail De Hamel said he always aimed for stories focused on local issues and events, with the job providing constant surprises. “I found on one occasion a World War Two German aeroplane in someone’s basement here in Akaroa, it was a training glider admittedly, rather than a full aeroplane, but nevertheless there are things that happen which constantly raise the eyebrows,” he said. De Hamel is not the only long-lasting editor, with one of his predecessors…

Iranian Sisters, Aged 20, Tried In High-Profile Case Tied To January Protests
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-07-25T08:35:09Z
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No, Piyush Goyal did not call for hanging ‘cockroaches’; viral video is a deepfake
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creator: Shinjinee Majumder
date: 2026-07-25T07:41:59Z
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description: Amid the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protests and the surrounding uproar over police brutality against student and youth demonstrators, a video of Union Minister Piyush Goyal has gone viral on social media over this past week. In the clip, Goyal can purportedly be heard saying, (translated from Hindi), “I believe that we should hang a […]
encoded: Amid the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protests and the surrounding uproar over police brutality against student and youth demonstrators, a video of Union Minister Piyush Goyal has gone viral on social media over this past week. In the clip, Goyal can purportedly be heard saying, (translated from Hindi), “I believe that we should hang a 2-3 of these ‘cockroaches’ so that this Cockroach Janta Party can understand the reality of our power and the extent till which we can go…” Several X users shared the video criticising Goyal for his alleged remarks. (Archive) कैसी बात कर रहे हैं पीयूष गोयल जी साफ-साफ बोल रहे हैं कि दो-तीन कॉकरोच को लटका देना चाहिए और यह जब अपने दो-तीन कॉकरोच को लटका हुआ देखेंगे तो सारा प्रदर्शन खत्म हो जाएगा. और सीधा-सीधा आप कह रहे कि हमको अपनी ताकत दिखानी पड़ेगी यह कैसी धमकी है? उधर रीलबाजी चल रही और इधर धमकी!… — Puneet Kumar Singh (@puneetsinghlive) July 24, 2026 Another X user @SureshC85120965 also shared the same video, condemning Goyal’s alleged statements. (Archive) “People of this country, listen carefully. This statement by Union Minister Piyush Goyal reflects a hangman’s mindset and intent. Intoxicated by the power they have gained through your votes, BJP leaders have become so arrogant that they now want to display that power against you. The ‘cockroach’ they talk about hanging at a public square could be any one of your children, even the children of their own blind supporters,” reads the tweet (translated from Hindi). देशवासियों सुन लीजिए, केंद्रीय मंत्री पियूष गोयल का जल्लादी पृवत्ति का भाव और मंशा वाला बयान, आपके वोट से सत्ता की ताकत पाकर अहंकारी हो चुके भाजपा नेता आपको ही अपनी ताक़त दिखाना चाहते हैं। चौराहे पर लटकाएं जाना वाला काक्रोच आप में से किसी के भी बच्चे हो सकते हैं– अंधभक्त्तों के… pic.twitter.com/vyYv2IttDG — Raja Tiwari (@SureshC85120965) July 25, 2026 Samajwadi Party leader IP Singh had also shared the video through his X account, in which he strongly condemned Goyal’s alleged remarks, claiming that the latter is “issuing Hit…

Mumbai cop threatens youth protestors of framing them in fake drug cases; shunted after video goes viral
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creator: Shinjinee Majumder
date: 2026-07-25T04:33:01Z
subject: Alt News
subject: Sources
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subject: cases
subject: cop
subject: drug
subject: fake
subject: framing
subject: goes
subject: mumbai
subject: News
subject: Politics
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description: After a viral video of a police driver threatening to “plant powder” on detained protesters was met with outrage online, Mumbai Police on July 23 suspended the man and ordered an inquiry. The incident happened amid the Cockroach Janata Party protests demanding the resignation of Union education minister owing to the paper leaks and irregularities […]
encoded: After a viral video of a police driver threatening to “plant powder” on detained protesters was met with outrage online, Mumbai Police on July 23 suspended the man and ordered an inquiry. The incident happened amid the Cockroach Janata Party protests demanding the resignation of Union education minister owing to the paper leaks and irregularities in NEET. Protests have taken place in several cities, starting from Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, and spreading to Mumbai, Patna, Bangalore, Pune and Kolkata. In the video, shot by protestors sitting inside a police van, the driver is heard saying: “Idhar wapas idhar kidhar mila to mere jaisa bekaar aadmi koi nahin hoga… main direct 50-50 gram powder dalega aapke jeb me phir gaya phir zindagi gaya — no jamin. tumlog ke wajah se humareko takleef hain” (Translation: If I see you around again, there won’t be anyone worse than me. I will plant 50 grams of powder in your pockets, and it will ensure your life gets ruined — no bail. We are in trouble because of you.) Mumbai Congress’ official handle posted the video on X and said, “If this is true, it’s not just an attempt to intimidate students, but a direct attack on democratic rights. Raising one’s voice is not a crime. Students’ questions should be answered with accountability, not threats.” एक वायरल वीडियो में दावा किया गया है कि @MumbaiPolice प्रदर्शन कर रहे छात्रों को धमका रही है कि अगर वे दोबारा प्रदर्शन करने लौटे, तो उन्हें झूठे ड्रग्स के मामले में फँसा दिया जाएगा और पूरी ज़िंदगी जेल में सड़ना पड़ेगा। अगर यह सच है, तो यह सिर्फ़ छात्रों को डराने की कोशिश नहीं,… pic.twitter.com/36KescEmro — Mumbai Congress (@INCMumbai) July 23, 2026 The policeman in question was identified as Pawan Sangle. According to a Hindustan Times report, Sangle is a driver with the Mumbai Police’s Motor Transport (MT) department and is currently posted at Sion police station. He was present at Shivaji Park as part of the team accompanying senior officers during the protests on July 22. Pending the inquiry, …

Fiji’s former chief prosecutor claims govt conspiracy to remove him
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-07-25T03:11:45Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Charges dropped
subject: Christopher Pryde
subject: Conspiracy allegations
subject: Director of Public Prosecutions
subject: FICAC
subject: Judicial Services Commission
subject: Political charges
subject: Sources
subject: witch hunt
subject: ‘witch
subject: Allegations
subject: asia
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subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Featured
subject: ficac
subject: Fiji
subject: fiji’s
subject: former
subject: Global
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subject: Human Rights
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subject: Justice
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subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
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description: By Margot Staunton of RNZ Pacific Fiji’s former chief prosecutor, Christopher Pryde, claims there was a racist, government-led conspiracy to get rid of him. The New Zealand lawyer, who is in Aotearoa, spoke to RNZ Pacific Waves after corruption charges against him in Fiji were dropped this week. Fiji’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC) threw
encoded: By Margot Staunton of RNZ Pacific Fiji’s former chief prosecutor, Christopher Pryde, claims there was a racist, government-led conspiracy to get rid of him. The New Zealand lawyer, who is in Aotearoa, spoke to RNZ Pacific Waves after corruption charges against him in Fiji were dropped this week. Fiji’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC) threw out three charges in the Suva Magistrates Court on Wednesday. READ MORE: Ex-Fiji Prosecutions Office Employee ‘Scared To Leave Australia’ After Leaked Corruption Allegations Other FICAC reports A statement from FICAC said: “The decision was taken because FICAC has been unable to effect service on Mr Pryde in New Zealand, despite attempts to do so.” “The proceedings concerned charges previously filed in relation to nearly NZ$150,000 in payments and reimbursements received during his tenure as Director of Public Prosecutions. Those allegations have not been determined in court,” the statement said. “Under section 49 of the Criminal Procedure, the entry of a nolle prosequi brings the present proceedings to an end but does not prevent subsequent proceedings based on the same facts.” ‘Bitter taste’ Pryde, aged 60, has always maintained he was innocent and said the allegations against him were contractual matters rather than criminal offences. He has previously described the charges as bogus, politically-driven and designed to prevent him from returning to Fiji to prosecute an elite group maligned in last year’s damning Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC head. “I am left with a bitter taste towards the current Fijian government and the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) because I don’t think they have played ball with me. “They made up their mind they wanted to get rid of me and they employed all sorts of tactics in order to do that,” Pryde said. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-103841 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/…

Fiji’s former chief prosecutor claims govt conspiracy to remove him
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-07-25T03:11:45Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Charges dropped
subject: Christopher Pryde
subject: Conspiracy allegations
subject: Director of Public Prosecutions
subject: FICAC
subject: Judicial Services Commission
subject: Political charges
subject: Sources
subject: witch hunt
subject: ‘witch
subject: Allegations
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subject: claims
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subject: Featured
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subject: former
subject: Global
subject: govt?
subject: him
subject: Human Rights
subject: hunt
subject: judicial
subject: Justice
subject: new zealand
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: political
subject: Politics
subject: prosecutions
subject: prosecutor
subject: pryde
subject: public
subject: remove
subject: report
subject: services
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
description: By Margot Staunton of RNZ Pacific Fiji’s former chief prosecutor, Christopher Pryde, claims there was a racist, government-led conspiracy to get rid of him. The New Zealand lawyer, who is in Aotearoa, spoke to RNZ Pacific Waves after corruption charges against him in Fiji were dropped this week. Fiji’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC) threw
encoded: By Margot Staunton of RNZ Pacific Fiji’s former chief prosecutor, Christopher Pryde, claims there was a racist, government-led conspiracy to get rid of him. The New Zealand lawyer, who is in Aotearoa, spoke to RNZ Pacific Waves after corruption charges against him in Fiji were dropped this week. Fiji’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC) threw out three charges in the Suva Magistrates Court on Wednesday. READ MORE: Ex-Fiji Prosecutions Office Employee ‘Scared To Leave Australia’ After Leaked Corruption Allegations Other FICAC reports A statement from FICAC said: “The decision was taken because FICAC has been unable to effect service on Mr Pryde in New Zealand, despite attempts to do so.” “The proceedings concerned charges previously filed in relation to nearly NZ$150,000 in payments and reimbursements received during his tenure as Director of Public Prosecutions. Those allegations have not been determined in court,” the statement said. “Under section 49 of the Criminal Procedure, the entry of a nolle prosequi brings the present proceedings to an end but does not prevent subsequent proceedings based on the same facts.” ‘Bitter taste’ Pryde, aged 60, has always maintained he was innocent and said the allegations against him were contractual matters rather than criminal offences. He has previously described the charges as bogus, politically-driven and designed to prevent him from returning to Fiji to prosecute an elite group maligned in last year’s damning Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC head. “I am left with a bitter taste towards the current Fijian government and the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) because I don’t think they have played ball with me. “They made up their mind they wanted to get rid of me and they employed all sorts of tactics in order to do that,” Pryde said. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-103841 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/…

Caitlin Johnstone: De-normalise Israel
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-07-25T03:00:20Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Caitlin Johnstone
subject: Conflating antizionism
subject: Denormalise Israel
subject: IDF
subject: Israelification
subject: Moral stance
subject: Racist apartheid
subject: Sources
subject: War on Iran
subject: Western conscience
subject: anti-zionism
subject: antizionism
subject: Apartheid
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: Australia
subject: caitlin
subject: Civil Society
subject: commentary
subject: conflating
subject: conscience
subject: denormalise
subject: Discrimination
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Featured
subject: Global
subject: Human Rights
subject: idf
subject: Indigenous
subject: iran
subject: israel
subject: israeli apartheid
subject: israelification
subject: johnstone
subject: Justice
subject: Middle East
subject: military
subject: moral
subject: new zealand
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: palantir
subject: Palestine
subject: Politics
subject: pro-palestine
subject: racist
subject: report
subject: sources
subject: stance
subject: Syndicate
subject: war
subject: western
description: COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Basically we’ve got two choices: we either aggressively denormalise Israel or we watch our society become more and more Israeli. We either collectively reject Israel, or we watch Western militaries fuse inseparably with the IDF. We either turn support for Israel into political campaign poison, or we watch politicians obliterate our
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Basically we’ve got two choices: we either aggressively denormalise Israel or we watch our society become more and more Israeli. We either collectively reject Israel, or we watch Western militaries fuse inseparably with the IDF. We either turn support for Israel into political campaign poison, or we watch politicians obliterate our right to criticise Israel while backing increasingly evil Israeli military agendas. LISTEN: Reading by Tim Foley Other Caitlin Johnstone articles We either ferociously oppose our government’s involvement in Middle Eastern wars, or we watch Israeli leaders grow more and more ecstatic as more and more Western blood and treasure flows into the war machine. We either normalise viewing Israel as a freakish abomination, or we sit passively watching authoritarian Zionist operations like Palantir get inseparably interwoven into every level of western power institutions. We either stand together to oppose Israel for the racist apartheid state that it is, or we watch our Muslim neighbors suffer increasing discrimination and abuse at home while our governments help massacre our Muslim brothers and sisters using high-tech war machinery abroad. The West’s growing collective rejection of Israel is the growth of the Western conscience. The burgeoning pro-Palestine movement. The disgust with the Iran war. Young people’s cultural cringe around all things Israeli. The increasingly unapologetic eye-rolling every time “antisemitism” is used as an excuse to shut down criticism of Israel. These are signs that we are growing morally healthier. That’s a good thing. The more we unite around a red hot “NO” to Israel and Zionism, the harder it will be for those in power to normalise the increasing Israelification of our society. Caitlin Johnstone is an Australian independent journalist and poet. Her articles include The UN Torture Report On Assange Is An Indictment Of Our Entire Society. She publishes a website and Caitlin’s Newslet…

Iranian Ambassador: Why the US blundered so badly – diplomacy and ways forward
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-07-24T23:25:47Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Cultural attacks
subject: Iranian identity
subject: Iranian sovereignty
subject: Language of diplomacy
subject: Reza Nazar Ahari
subject: Sanctions on Iran
subject: Sources
subject: US-Israel attacks
subject: War on Iran
subject: Western strategy
subject: ‘badly
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subject: ambassador
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subject: cultural
subject: Culture
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Diplomacy
subject: Editor's Picks
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subject: Human Rights
subject: Identity
subject: Indigenous
subject: Interview
subject: iran
subject: iranian
subject: Justice
subject: Language
subject: nazar
subject: new zealand
subject: Opinion
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Politics
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subject: ways
subject: western
subject: why
description: INTERVIEW: By Eugene Doyle In this interview with Reza Nazar Ahari, the Iranian Ambassador to Wellington, we discussed the war, the state of diplomacy with the West, issues of sovereignty, defence and the internal politics of Iran. He provided some fascinating analysis into why the Western strategy on Iran has been so disastrously flawed. READ
encoded: INTERVIEW: By Eugene Doyle In this interview with Reza Nazar Ahari, the Iranian Ambassador to Wellington, we discussed the war, the state of diplomacy with the West, issues of sovereignty, defence and the internal politics of Iran. He provided some fascinating analysis into why the Western strategy on Iran has been so disastrously flawed. READ MORE: Trump insists Tehran wants deal; Israeli army, settler attacks in West Bank Other War on Iran reports The US has stated many objectives, many reasons for launching the war. For Iran, what is at stake? The Americans have come to take control of all things in Iran — not just the oil of Iran and the land of Iran, but to take control of Iranians’ own identity, our independence and our way of life. President Trump said once during the war, “a whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again”. In spite of having suffered enormous damage and paid a heavy price, Iran has to defend itself because otherwise there will be no Iran. Especially in the West, the way to eliminate your enemy is not only by hard power, by artillery, by guns. There are many other means: by the media, by demonising, by culturally attacking a country, by imposing sanctions. In the last decades we have been under all of these types of attacks. We are one of the best in the world in knowing how to counter all of these attacks. What we’re seeing from Iran is you are very powerfully standing up for Iranian sovereignty in the face of an astonishing assault. National identity is the main asset of any nation and it should be studied first. When President Trump said, “Iran must unconditionally surrender”, it suggests he has not read the history of this nation. Surrender is the worst thing for us. It’s the same with calling for zero enrichment, giving up our missiles and our allies – they don’t understand the identity of the Iranian people. We fought against Saddam Hussein for 8 years to ensure we did not lose a centimetre of our land. When you don…

330 + Communities Nationwide Gather for Vigils for Lorenzo, Johan and All Lives Taken by ICE
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-07-24T22:15:10Z
subject: Common Dreams
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subject: and
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description: On Saturday, July 25, over 330 communities across the United States will hold vigils, protests, and demonstrations to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Johan Sebastian Guerrero, and many more who have been killed by Immigration and Customs En...
encoded: On Saturday, July 25, over 330 communities across the United States will hold vigils, protests, and demonstrations to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Johan Sebastian Guerrero, and many more who have been killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Neighbors will gather to pay their respects, pray, mourn, and demand ICE OUT! The national movement follows two recent, horrific killings by ICE agents. On July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a beloved father and worker, was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston, Texas, while driving a work van. On July 13, ICE agents killed 26-year-old Johan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, in front of his partner and toddler. There have now been 53 deaths in ICE custody since Trump was inaugurated, 33 deaths in fiscal year 2026 alone. As the death toll grows, communities across the country are taking to the streets to protest and mourn together, demanding that the ICE agents involved in these killings, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and all related agencies under the Trump administration be held accountable. Given the pending confirmation of Todd Blanche as Attorney General, this need for transparency, accountability and public pressure is particularly important now. Find all events here. Organizers and participants are calling for: Immediate Transparency: DHS must immediately release the key witnesses to Lorenzo’s death and halt their deportation proceedings so they can safely participate in any investigation and legal process. Full, Independent Investigations: Investigations must include full transparency and cooperation from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and all other law enforcement agencies. Accountability for any officer found to have committed misconduct or violated the law. ICE Out: All state and local leaders should stop using their resources to support federal immigration enforcement and stop all coordination with ICE. DHS m…

“LEADER JEFFRIES, PRESIDENT TRUMP IS CALLING.”
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creator: matthew
date: 2026-07-24T22:10:05Z
subject: Ralph Nader
subject: Sources
subject: calling
subject: In the Public Interest
subject: jeffries’
subject: leader
subject: nader
subject: president
subject: ralph
subject: sources
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description: By Ralph Nader July 24, 2026 “Leader Jeffries, President Trump is calling.” HJ: “Hello, Mr. President, this is a rare occasion!” DT: “Well, Hakeem, I want to have a confidential talk with you on a secure line. Agreed?” HJ: “Sure, since you made the cal...
encoded: By Ralph Nader July 24, 2026 “Leader Jeffries, President Trump is calling.” HJ: “Hello, Mr. President, this is a rare occasion!” DT: “Well, Hakeem, I want to have a confidential talk with you on a secure line. Agreed?” HJ: “Sure, since you made the call.” DT: “By the way, Hakeem, my Saudi friends tell me… This content originally appeared on Ralph Nader and was authored by matthew.

Reporter hit with skateboard while covering Maine immigration protest
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2026-07-24T21:35:54Z
subject: Equipment Damage
subject: Sources
subject: assault
subject: covering
subject: damage
subject: equipment
subject: hit
subject: Immigration
subject: maine
subject: Protest
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subject: skateboard
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description: Journalist Jon Fetherston was struck in the head with a skateboard by an individual, and his cellphone damaged, at a Biddeford, Maine, immigration enforcement protest on July 13, 2026.Protesters gathered in the Portland-area city after an Immigration a...
encoded: Journalist Jon Fetherston was struck in the head with a skateboard by an individual, and his cellphone damaged, at a Biddeford, Maine, immigration enforcement protest on July 13, 2026. Protesters gathered in the Portland-area city after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Colombian motorist earlier that day, with many expressing anger at ICE actions in the state. Fetherston, a reporter for the Maine Wire — a conservative digital media outlet and project of the nonprofit think tank Maine Policy Institute — told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that he was livestreaming the protest. At one point in the livestream, a woman asks the reporter why he’s there, and he responds that he’s covering the event for the Maine Wire. Someone yells, “It’s not media, it’s propaganda.” Another woman blocks his camera and appears to hit him with a cardboard sign, which he asks her not to do. Then, a man walking with the crowd says, “You’re not a billionaire,” to which the reporter replies, “I don’t think you are either.” The man then asks Fetherston why he’s there, and the reporter asks him the same question. The man says he’s there to protest, then slams Fetherston with a skateboard, knocking his cellphone to the ground. “Get the fuck out of here,” he says. The Maine Wire posted a clip of the incident on the social platform X. “I was struck in the head, and my phone went flying,” Fetherston told the Tracker. “I am fine; just a bump on my head and a headache.” The man continues to engage with Fetherston, asking, “What do you want?” The reporter responds, “I don’t want anything other than for you not to hit me with your skateboard.” Another woman is then seen yelling out of her car window, “Fuck the Maine Wire!” Fetherston said he filed a report with the Biddeford Police Department the next day and asked for charges to be pressed against the individual who hit him. Biddeford police did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether charges had been…

Angela Davis: A Revolutionary Roadmap for Building a Better Future [EXCERPT]
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2026-07-24T21:02:39Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
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This private school had students scrub floors and attack a fellow classmate.
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creator: ProPublica
date: 2026-07-24T20:39:09Z
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description: This content originally appeared on ProPublica and was authored by ProPublica.
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New Report Exposes Credit Card Industry Money and Deceit
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-07-24T20:34:45Z
subject: Common Dreams
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: card
subject: common
subject: credit
subject: deceit
subject: dreams
subject: exposes
subject: Industry
subject: Money
subject: new
subject: report
subject: sources
description: On Thursday, Demand Progress released a new report that exposes how the financial services industry has plowed around $200 million into advocacy efforts that are centered on blocking passage of the Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA), a bipartisan refo...
encoded: On Thursday, Demand Progress released a new report that exposes how the financial services industry has plowed around $200 million into advocacy efforts that are centered on blocking passage of the Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA), a bipartisan reform that would introduce competition into the payment system. Read the Report The report details how these efforts involve not only money spent on lobbying and campaign contributions, but aggressive and deceitful advertising and paid advocacy designed to convey the impression of grassroots support for the current system, which is enormously profitable for Visa, Mastercard and major banks that issue credit cards. “For a combination of misleading claims and sheer financial firepower, Wall Street’s defense of credit cards really is something,” said Carter Dougherty, senior fellow for antimonopoly and finance at Demand Progress. “Visa, Mastercard and the big banks have money on their side but only vacant arguments, so this sort of campaign is the result.” A glaring example of the industry’s astro-turfing is the Small Business Payments Alliance. The group, run by a New York public relations firm, spreads around videos of testimonials against reform from small businesses that have taken money from Visa and Mastercard. The industry has also engaged The Points Guy, a popular credit card website, in fighting change. The report, entitled, “How Wall Street Money Misleads,” includes detailed evidence of how the credit card industry: Pumps money into political campaigns Spends heavily on lobbying in Washington and in states that have sought to pass incremental payment system reforms Uses advertising in select markets Bankrolls different groups and websites to convey widespread support for its position The Credit Card Competition Act aims to introduce competition into the payment system by allowing merchants to route credit card transactions over networks other than Visa or Mastercard. In the Senate, Sens. Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Ro…

Explained: China’s ‘ethnic unity and progress promotion’ law
type: item
creator: Tenzin Dickyi and Nordhey Dolma for RFA Tibetan
date: 2026-07-24T20:33:19Z
subject: Radio Free Asia
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: asia
subject: china’s
subject: ethnic
subject: explained
subject: free
subject: Law
subject: progress’
subject: promotion
subject: radio
subject: sources
subject: Tibet
subject: Unity
description: Could a law passed in China actually reach you, thousands of miles away? Beijing's new law says yes.
encoded: It’s called the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress—China’s newest law under President Xi Jinping, passed on March 12, 2026, and in effect since July 1, 2026. The law contains 65 articles, many of which have raised concerns among Tibetans and rights groups. In this explainer, we focus on four key areas of the law that have drawn the most attention: identity, language, religion, and its reach beyond China’s borders. First, it seeks to reshape how ethnic identity is understood in China. The law calls on Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians, and other ethnic groups to build what it describes as “a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation,” placing a shared national identity at the center of ethnic policy. Second, it changes the legal framework around language. Under Article 15, Mandarin is given priority in education and government affairs. While the law says minority languages are “respected and protected,” it also states that when Mandarin and minority languages are used together, Mandarin should take priority in position and order. Third, it expands state oversight of religion. Article 46 requires religious groups, religious schools, and places of worship to promote a sense of community for the Chinese nation, follow the policy of “Sinicization of religion,” and guide religious activities to adapt to socialist society. Critics say this could further increase state control over religious practices, including Tibetan Buddhism. Fourth, and one of the most internationally scrutinized provisions, is Article 63, which extends the law’s reach beyond China’s borders. It states that anyone living outside China could face legal consequences if Beijing determines their actions undermine “ethnic unity” or create “ethnic division.” Beijing frames all of this as protection and development, equal rights for all ethnic groups, and continued investment in poorer regions. Officials point to new schools, infrastructure, and job programs in places like Tibet and Xinjiang as evi…

CND and Fairford Action Call Emergency Protest at RAF Fairford, Saturday 25 July 2026
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description: CND and Fairford Action have called an emergency protest outside the main gate of RAF Fairford, to take place on Saturday, 25 July.It follows the attack on Iran by a US B-1 bomber stationed at RAF Fairford this week and a statement from Iran’s foreign...
encoded: CND and Fairford Action have called an emergency protest outside the main gate of RAF Fairford, to take place on Saturday, 25 July. It follows the attack on Iran by a US B-1 bomber stationed at RAF Fairford this week and a statement from Iran’s foreign ministry which branded Britain as an ‘accomplice’ to the US’s illegal war. Iran now views British bases like RAF Fairford as legitimate targets. This is the latest escalation in almost two weeks of the US’s bombardment of Iran, which has targeted bridges, energy supplies and other civilian infrastructure. In retaliation, Iran has targeted US bases in the Middle East, including Bahrain, Jordan and Qatar. Rather than condemning the Trump administration for renewing the conflict - which has resulted in even greater casualties and is pushing the global economy even further into crisis - Britain’s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham is continuing the policy of his predecessor Keir Starmer. This support could now also be putting British lives in danger. It risks an even greater escalation in the Middle East and the involvement of the nuclear-armed alliance of NATO—something that Trump has been pushing for. Instead, the British government needs to use its diplomatic efforts to de-escalate the situation. Central to this is withdrawing the use of British bases. CND General Secretary Sophie Bolt said: “New Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, needs to end Trump's use of Fairford and Diego Garcia now. This is dragging Britain directly into Trump's illegal war on Iran. Public opposition to the use of British bases to commit war crimes overseas is growing*. Diplomatic pathways to achieve a peaceful resolution to Iran's nuclear programme have been shown to work. Trump's bombardment is only sabotaging this progress. The government’s ongoing attempt to hide behind spurious arguments that Fairford is being used for ‘defensive’ operations cannot be justified. Actively assisting a country breaching international law is indefensible. Burnham needs …

AFGE Urges Senate to Reject Trump FLRA Nominee Over Racist and Bigoted Past
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description: The American Federation of Government Employees is calling for the U.S. Senate to oppose President Trump's nominee for general counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, Charlton Allen, due to his history of racism, homophobia, and antisemitism...
encoded: The American Federation of Government Employees is calling for the U.S. Senate to oppose President Trump's nominee for general counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, Charlton Allen, due to his history of racism, homophobia, and antisemitism. In June, the news site <a href="https://link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com/ls/click?upn=u001.5xyEJBgu5wyZZWYkONOSUFdh2nNP-2BAMKpmT2MrC7dMt7ViIMqqVTgJzWqxAVuZQ9sB-2FNe84wpfsitoLYrU81rh5RsdEw8fJ4oglCd8UIk5jF1WI-2BUDr49sN-2FpiOHyNXUXakd_uG4mCQLB9tukhJpN14mwsxlVU8FJaLnYeyjVw7PcNdGSPMJd0VFUKC4VarEz3-2FUMLIeYPPfhh-2BkfVCXYy55qdzeHq4kw3NxVQ63H3peejgXfjlOozE2WAFMkWk6nhfeCqnE0kfbNAT52SvJt8UxtEV73PH9Py1wUZAxs3-2BF0UuOQhTQ9j-2BLEFJpotQZiYBJmp-2BPDiY1q7yn1kXiHpr7xXgKeOBgpJlEusTqd2u7-2FBzBhlgL4wsQ1K2JGxkrD65dfC2wOfgHab-2FY9HymJn31fO-2B5x0FeY7gWynRs2Ct9lmQykrkXCdKKWnSR2hDx36s8ElXrivd6YN-2FJNyZrVo6qzTFdOp1Pa18NxdQvdTp4dicf8yhwlvfXJv7st0um0LY2AZ30N9ZCXxXwmwVYeAkL0wA-3D-3D" rel="noopener noreferrer" >NOTUS reported on Charlton Allen’s record of racist and bigoted conduct and rhetoric, both as an individual and through his role founding and serving as publisher of the Carolina Review while he was a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Under Allen’s leadership, the Carolina Review ran covers depicting Black people as monkeys and a Jewish student leader as the devil, among dozens of other instances of hate-filled articles and opinion pieces. During his confirmation hearing, Allen failed either to apologize or to denounce his record at the Carolina Review. AFGE National President Everett Kelley called his record “<a href="https://link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com/ls/click?upn=u001.5xyEJBgu5wyZZWYkONOSUCj78QAVTC3Nn5bLxIPgG0Z7kw0JLJg8cVGquXHvVcfr15bykzLIhY0O5cLl6AN-2FINiSZv-2BpTEVzkxR7Y0-2BQGzAly-2F4RS4Vnmadis5h-2F4jScmdwSxwg9RiucqsKdQjWDIeuHNd5Z34vQCyVx5bYNgtzKJ9KNmHMIPUDqLAAzuVGVmRh9TXKtkAsGSHzGeCt1TdVDznrEv0XvmOMAcqw7pXB2Ieo0UX3UI9ewagGDtm79tpU5ajS-2Bpt9C2rG7zg6m8w-3D-3DviCd_uG4mCQLB9tukhJpN14mwsxlVU8FJaLnYeyjVw7PcNdG…

Heat Waves Show Climate Change Is Here
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creator: Natasha Benjamin
date: 2026-07-24T20:18:56Z
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subject: the
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description: I went to Paris for an escape and ended up in an inferno.
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CPJ, partners urge White House Correspondents’ Association to publicly defend press freedom at correspondents’ dinner
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date: 2026-07-24T19:39:22Z
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subject: dinner
subject: Freedom
subject: house
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subject: partners
subject: press
subject: press freedom
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subject: urge
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subject: white
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Society of Professional Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Press Photographers Association, and other organizations in a joint message urging the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) to reaffirm its commitment to the First Amendment at its rescheduled correspondents’ dinner on...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Society of Professional Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Press Photographers Association, and other organizations in a joint message urging the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) to reaffirm its commitment to the First Amendment at its rescheduled correspondents’ dinner on Friday. Since the April dinner was postponed, the Trump administration has intensified its attacks on journalists through the use of subpoenas targeting reporters, threats against broadcasters, restrictions on Pentagon press access, plans to shorten visas for foreign journalists, and public attacks on individual reporters. The message calls on the WHCA to “condemn the Trump administration’s actions from the podium and pledge to fight all attempts by his administration to undermine this core pillar of a functioning democracy.” Read the full message here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.

‘School Choice’ Does Not Provide Better Education for All Families
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creator: Carol Burris
date: 2026-07-24T19:27:11Z
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subject: sources
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description: Voucher and charter school programs are taking funds that could make our public schools stronger.
encoded: Voucher and charter school programs are taking funds that could make our public schools stronger. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Carol Burris.

Which Democrat Runs in 2028?
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date: 2026-07-24T19:14:47Z
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subject: vice
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description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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Ro Khanna reveals new names From Epstein Files: But who is still being protected?
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description: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.
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The Real News (TRNN)
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date: 2026-07-24T19:11:29Z
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description: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.
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Press freedom groups warn ‘no newsroom in America is safe’ after House GOP subpoenas left-wing outlet
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Living Between Hope and Grief Amid Gaza’s Missing Persons Crisis
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creator: Hassan Herzallah
date: 2026-07-24T18:56:00Z
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subject: The Progressive
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subject: Living
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subject: progressive
subject: sources
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description: What happens to the living when the dead are never found?
encoded: What happens to the living when the dead are never found? This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Hassan Herzallah.

Trump says Saudi Arabia must recognize Israel to close nuclear deal
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-24T18:42:26Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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UN News Today 24 July 2026
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creator: Jolina Dong
date: 2026-07-24T18:31:09Z
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subject: UN News
subject: 2026
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subject: News
subject: podcastsun
subject: sources
subject: today
description: Sudan: Women and girls face impossible choice over waterUN rights chief Türk calls for protection for thousands of stranded seafarers Burundi: Food aid for Congolese refugees is at risk, WFP warns
encoded: Sudan: Women and girls face impossible choice over waterUN rights chief Türk calls for protection for thousands of stranded seafarers Burundi: Food aid for Congolese refugees is at risk, WFP warns This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Jolina Dong.

Amid deadly temperatures, GOP advances bill to ban federal heat protections for workers
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creator: Jake Johnson
date: 2026-07-24T18:27:26Z
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subject: ban
subject: bill
subject: climate change
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subject: gop
subject: heat
subject: Labor
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subject: Politics
subject: protections
subject: reprint
subject: sources
subject: temperatures
subject: Workers
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Minneapolis’s Immigration Defense Networks Build Toward Defending Its Elections
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creator: Cara Letofsky
date: 2026-07-24T18:27:24Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: build
subject: defending
subject: defense
subject: Elections
subject: Immigration
subject: it’s
subject: minneapolis’s
subject: networks
subject: progressive
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: toward
description: A key organization in training legal observers during Operation Metro Surge starts democracy defense trainings as the next priority in protecting our communities.
encoded: A key organization in training legal observers during Operation Metro Surge starts democracy defense trainings as the next priority in protecting our communities. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Cara Letofsky.

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 24, 2026
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creator: KPFA
date: 2026-07-24T18:00:00Z
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subject: News
subject: pacifica
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subject: weekdays
description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 24, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Wartime Pentagon goes two-plus months without media briefing
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2026-07-24T17:13:41Z
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subject: goes
subject: incident
subject: Media
subject: months’
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subject: pentagon
subject: sources
subject: twoplus
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description: The Pentagon hasn’t held a news conference for 2 1/2 months, leaving renewed airstrikes with Iran and recent deaths of U.S. service members unexplained by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a CNN analysis reported on July 20, 2026.“The public deserves tra...
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Debasification – The Grayzone live
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Abdul El-Sayed believes a new Democratic Party is possible
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Is a New Democratic Party Possible? w/ Abdul El-Sayed
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US & Israel Militaries To Merge?
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Sébastien Tellier | Live at ‪@arteconcert Festival 2020
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"Farmers of the Sea": PBS Film Profiles Puerto Rican Fishermen on the "Frontlines of Climate Change"
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Puerto Rico Marks 10 Years of "Colonial" PROMESA Control as GOP Targets Birthright Citizenship
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"Cockroach Democracy": Arundhati Roy on India’s Youth-Led Protest Movement, Modi’s Crumbling Support
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China’s Ethnic Unity Law: What It Means for Tibetans and Uyghurs
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"America First or Israel First?" Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy on Saudi Nuke Deal, Iran & More
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 24, 2026
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Ken Paxton Touts His Efforts to Fight Voter Fraud. His Senate Opponent Is Now Accusing Him of Committing It.
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description: The post Ken Paxton Touts His Efforts to Fight Voter Fraud. His Senate Opponent Is Now Accusing Him of Committing It. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Texas state Rep. James Talarico is challenging Attorney General Ken Paxton in a U.S. Senate race. Sergio Flores for The Texas Tribune The Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas is trying to turn a key talking point of his Republican opponent against him — alleging Attorney General Ken Paxton is guilty of the same type of voter fraud he has spent years trying to eliminate. “As our state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton has gone on a voter fraud witch hunt,” state Rep. James Talarico, who is challenging Paxton in the race to replace U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, said during a campaign event in Houston. “Turns out, he was committing voter fraud the whole time, voting illegally in six elections in a row from the wrong address.” Talarico’s comments come after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed that Paxton moved out of the home he shared with his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, in 2024 but continued to vote using that address, including during the March Republican primary in which he beat Cornyn. Three election experts told the news organizations that Paxton may have broken state law. Last week, the Collin County Democratic Party filed a complaint with the Texas secretary of state, urging that office to investigate Paxton for election fraud. Paxton has repeatedly declined to answer the newsrooms’ questions about his voter registration and residency. On Tuesday, he held a rare news conference to tout the endorsement of nearly two dozen sheriffs and attacked Talarico as soft on crime. Talarico denied the charge at his own news conference Wednesday, saying he’d voted for billions of dollars in law enforcement funding as a member of the Legislature. When a Dallas Morning News political writer asked Paxton why he voted in Collin County, the attorney general shook his head as a campaign aide interceded. “We’re just going to answer questions on law enforcement today,” the aide said. Paxton’s office and campaign did not respond to similar questions on Thursday from ProPublic…

“Farmers of the Sea”: PBS Film Profiles Puerto Rican Fishermen on the “Frontlines of Climate Change”
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description: Filmmaker Juan Carlos Dávila’s new film for PBS, Farmers of the Sea, documents climate change’s threats to the fishing industry and food security in Vieques, Puerto Rico. For islands in the Caribbean, explains Dávila, “we are...
encoded: Filmmaker Juan Carlos Dávila’s new film for PBS, Farmers of the Sea, documents climate change’s threats to the fishing industry and food security in Vieques, Puerto Rico. For islands in the Caribbean, explains Dávila, “we are situated geographically in one of the frontlines of climate change. [We’re] not only facing stronger hurricanes now, [but] we could face food shortages, especially the islands that depend so much on the food that comes from the sea.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Report from San Juan: New Bill Targets Citizenship Rights As Puerto Rico Marks 10 Years of PROMESA
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description: After failing to overturn birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court, Republican legislators are turning to new tactics to disenfranchise people born on U.S. soil. Their latest targets are those born to noncitizen or permanent resident parent...
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“Cockroach Democracy”: Arundhati Roy on India’s Youth-Led Protest Movement & Modi’s Collapsing Support
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description: A youth-led protest movement in India is demanding an end to the country’s status quo. Sparked by the leak of national exam questions, tens of thousands of young people have taken to the streets. They are protesting under the banner of t...
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“America First or Israel First?” Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy on Saudi Nuclear Deal, Iran & More
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description: The status of a newly signed U.S.-Saudi nuclear deal is in question after President Trump made the surprise announcement that the deal is off unless Saudi Arabia normalizes relations with Israel. The deal paves the way for Saudi civil nuclear ...
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“God Forgives, Brothers Don’t”: Author Jasper Craven on Hegseth, Militarism & Toxic Masculinity
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description: Author Jasper Craven talks about his new book, God Forgives, Brothers Don’t: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood. In the book, Craven examines how the military has come to define American masculinity and how it often fosters its most toxic traits.
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Headlines for July 24, 2026
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description: U.S. Bombs Iran for 13th Night as Pentagon “Lowers” Iran War Death Toll from 18 to 14, House Approves Another War Powers Resolution Seeking to Rein In Trump’s Attacks, Iran War Sends Diesel Prices Soaring, Costing U.S. Farmers Additional $1.4 Billion, FAO: Millions Face Prolonged Hunger as Iran War Drives Up Food Prices, Four Palestinians and One Israeli Are Killed as Dozens of Settlers Attack West Bank Town, WaPo: Trump Administration Is Considering Strikes on Mali, Trump Administration Cites Anti-Slavery Law to Impose Tariffs of Up to 12.5% on Trading Partners, DA Promises Criminal Probe as ICE Refuses to Name Officer Who Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Minnesota Man Who Murdered Democratic Lawmaker and Husband Gets Two Life Sentences, DOJ Drops Subpoenas Against New York Times Reporters After Grilling by Federal Judge, New York City Landlords Sue Mamdani Administration to Reverse Rent Freeze, Brooklyn Protesters Target Crye Precision, Supplier of Tactical Gear to ICE and Israel
encoded: U.S. Bombs Iran for 13th Night as Pentagon "Lowers" Iran War Death Toll from 18 to 14 House Approves Another War Powers Resolution Seeking to Rein In Trump's Attacks Iran War Sends Diesel Prices Soaring, Costing U.S. Farmers Additional $1.4 Billion FAO: Millions Face Prolonged Hunger as Iran War Drives Up Food Prices Four Palestinians and One Israeli Are Killed as Dozens of Settlers Attack West Bank Town WaPo: Trump Administration Is Considering Strikes on Mali Trump Administration Cites Anti-Slavery Law to Impose Tariffs of Up to 12.5% on Trading Partners DA Promises Criminal Probe as ICE Refuses to Name Officer Who Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Minnesota Man Who Murdered Democratic Lawmaker and Husband Gets Two Life Sentences DOJ Drops Subpoenas Against New York Times Reporters After Grilling by Federal Judge New York City Landlords Sue Mamdani Administration to Reverse Rent Freeze Brooklyn Protesters Target Crye Precision, Supplier of Tactical Gear to ICE and Israel This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-07-24 Friday
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Massive Wildberries Fire Following Ukrainian Strike #breakingnews #shorts
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DN! Friday, July 24, 2026
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Trump’s National Killer Police Force⏐The Intercept Briefing
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How Videos Helped Me Uncover Abuse at an Arkansas Private School
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description: The post How Videos Helped Me Uncover Abuse at an Arkansas Private School appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Mary “Tracy” Morrison, moments before she hits a student with a plastic object similar to a pipe. The still is from a video that reporter Jennifer Smith Richards obtained as part of a ProPublica investigation into child mistreatment at Morrison’s school. Obtained by ProPublica. Faces blurred in original video. Vignette added by ProPublica to spotlight Morrison. The Delta Institute for the Developing Brain was set back off a country road in a white colonial house — such an atypical location that I first drove right by it, unsure that it was a school. I turned around, went to the door, introduced myself as a reporter and asked for a tour. I knew a student had been assaulted in this Arkansas school a year earlier because of some news reports based on a detective’s description. Once inside, I noted the preteens tucked into hammock chairs or sitting on the floor. I noted the cameras mounted in the foyer and classrooms, a reminder that, in order to fully understand what had happened, I’d need to see the video that had captured the assault. But since this happened at the Delta Institute, a private school, I didn’t have access to the types of public records — incident reports, emails and video — that might have existed at a public school. The only reason we knew that something awful had happened here was that law enforcement got involved. I would have to keep reporting for weeks until the criminal case was closed. Then I could start pursuing the video evidence. I had come to Northeast Arkansas, just outside of Jonesboro, to report on private schools that have been opening in response to state legislatures increasingly setting aside public money for parents to spend on private education. Our reporting shows that more public money doesn’t necessarily translate to more transparency. In most of the states that ProPublica studied, private schools operate with little oversight. Unlike public schools, where everything from test scores to school lunches and staff credentials is reg…

As climate lawsuits advance, the oil industry enters ‘panic mode’
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creator: Kate Yoder
date: 2026-07-24T08:45:00Z
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description: Oil companies face new legal challenges, such as a recent suit for wrongful death, and older cases that are creeping toward trial.
encoded: Could the oil industry be held responsible for fueling the extreme heat that led to a woman’s death? That’s the question at the heart of a novel lawsuit in Washington state. Misti Leon’s mother died from overheating during the hottest day in state history in June 2021, when temperatures climbed to 108 degrees Fahrenheit. Scientists said the unusual heat dome that descended on the Pacific Northwest would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change. So last year, Leon sued Exxon Mobil, BP, Chevron, Shell, and other oil majors for wrongful death, alleging that they had known for decades that fossil fuel emissions would lead to destructive consequences, but deceived the public about it, delaying action that could have prevented her mother’s death. An estimated 1,200 people in the region perished from the heat during that simmering week in June. Earlier this month, a King County judge ruled against the oil companies’ motions to dismiss Leon’s lawsuit, allowing it to proceed toward trial. The ruling was a signal that this kind of case has merit, said Mike Meno, the communications director at the Center for Climate Integrity, a nonprofit supporting climate accountability cases. “It’s the latest type of legal liability that the oil companies are absolutely terrified of and are going to fight like hell to try to escape,” he said. More than a decade after investigations found that Exxon Mobil had known about the dangers of global warming since the 1970s but publicly downplayed the threat, lawsuits against oil companies have proliferated. There are nearly 40 of these cases pending across the country, according to Margaret Barry, who manages a climate litigation database at Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center. After years of delay tactics from the oil industry, at least five of these lawsuits — from Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, and Honolulu — have proceeded to the discovery stage, in which both sides try to uncover evidence to bolste…

Indigenous leaders give the UN a roadmap for protecting their peoples
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date: 2026-07-24T08:30:00Z
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description: A new 12-point plan calls for stronger protections for Indigenous rights, lands, and voices as climate change, conflict, and other threats intensify.
encoded: This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. Indigenous communities around the world face mounting, and colliding, impacts from climate change, violence, rising threats from artificial intelligence, and many other crises. Their leaders are demanding that the world take action, and they’ve given the United Nations a 12-point plan for what they say it must do. Simply put, their proposal calls on the U.N. and governments around the world to take sweeping and rapid action to protect Indigenous land, rights, and lives. “Our communities — our women, our children, our families — they have a right to action and that’s what we’re not seeing globally,” said Cora McGuire-Cyrette, who is a member of the Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek and spoke on behalf of the Ontario Native Women’s Association. “We’re looking for action.” Last week, the seven Indigenous members of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, or EMRIP, finalized the proposal it will present to the U.N. Human Rights Council. But even as the recommendations generated hope for change, the financial crisis facing EMRIP cast a shadow over the proceedings. Many delegates expressed concerns about the future of the forum, and other hard-won international platforms for Indigenous voices. Given the scale of threats Indigenous peoples face, these forums are more important than ever, said Sheryl Lightfoot, who is Anishinaabe and serves as EMRIP’s North America region expert. “There’s clearly no shortage of work,” she said. The breadth of the 12 recommendations reflects that urgency, calling for stronger protections for Indigenous cultures and rights and a greater voice in global affairs. One recommendation sought greater protections for remote Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation or initial contact. Others stressed the need to preserve Indigenous languages and data sovereignty. Delegates also argued that the legal standing of Indigenous peoples must be strengthened by …

"No More Elections" in Nicaragua
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Russia’s Aerial Assault Intensifies Over Kramatorsk | Ukraine Fights Back
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Herbalist and author Rachelle Robinett on rebalancing how you work and live
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description: Who is your current best friend, plant-wise? Is it different from the plant you reach for first thing in the morning? Is it a hot new crush that’s grabbed your eye and piqued your interest? Is it unique to where you’re currently at in Costa Rica?
encoded: Who is your current best friend, plant-wise? Is it different from the plant you reach for first thing in the morning? Is it a hot new crush that’s grabbed your eye and piqued your interest? Is it unique to where you’re currently at in Costa Rica? My current best friend… who are you? God, I have a really good crew so it’s hard to choose. I’m looking at them now. My longest-term relationship, close relationship, is with nettle. That’s a plant I grew up with in the Pacific Northwest that I learned first as a weed and something that was an inconvenience. Then later I learned it was a beautiful food, and then [even] later I learned it was an herb. That was definitely a moment that was eye-opening to me–when I say herb, I mean medicine–and it is for so many people when they encounter herbalism for the first time [when], all of a sudden, [we] see so much of what surrounds us in a new light. I also love the concept of nettle being both a poison and a cure, and the idea of a pharmakon. That is why my company was named Pharmakon Supernatural. It was supernatural. Then when I trademarked it, I actually became Pharmakon Supernatural. I think I write about that in the book at some point maybe toward the end. Or maybe in the beginning, I’m not sure. Now, my relationship with herbalism and with the natural world is so, so much richer even than when I was practicing as an herbalist. Now that I live in Costa Rica, I’m in essentially constant contact with the elements and I consider that to be herbalism. Not all of that is engagement with plants, but it’s engagement with dirt, and the sea, and the air, and the sun every single day, in all senses of the word. We’re covered in it. We’re looking at it. That’s not a single best friend, but it definitely, at this point, appears to be the love of my life from a natural relationship perspective. When I first encountered this place, I fell in love with this place like it was a person. It was so hard–meaning heavy hitting, intense, physical, …

Herbalist and author Rachelle Robinette on rebalancing how you work and live
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encoded: Who is your current best friend, plant-wise? Is it different from the plant you reach for first thing in the morning? Is it a hot new crush that’s grabbed your eye and piqued your interest? Is it unique to where you’re currently at in Costa Rica? My current best friend… who are you? God, I have a really good crew so it’s hard to choose. I’m looking at them now. My longest-term relationship, close relationship, is with nettle. That’s a plant I grew up with in the Pacific Northwest that I learned first as a weed and something that was an inconvenience. Then later I learned it was a beautiful food, and then [even] later I learned it was an herb. That was definitely a moment that was eye-opening to me–when I say herb, I mean medicine–and it is for so many people when they encounter herbalism for the first time [when], all of a sudden, [we] see so much of what surrounds us in a new light. I also love the concept of nettle being both a poison and a cure, and the idea of a pharmakon. That is why my company was named Pharmakon Supernatural. It was supernatural. Then when I trademarked it, I actually became Pharmakon Supernatural. I think I write about that in the book at some point maybe toward the end. Or maybe in the beginning, I’m not sure. Now, my relationship with herbalism and with the natural world is so, so much richer even than when I was practicing as an herbalist. Now that I live in Costa Rica, I’m in essentially constant contact with the elements and I consider that to be herbalism. Not all of that is engagement with plants, but it’s engagement with dirt, and the sea, and the air, and the sun every single day, in all senses of the word. We’re covered in it. We’re looking at it. That’s not a single best friend, but it definitely, at this point, appears to be the love of my life from a natural relationship perspective. When I first encountered this place, I fell in love with this place like it was a person. It was so hard–meaning heavy hitting, intense, physical, …

Palestine Forum of NZ condemns ‘provocative’ Israeli assault on Al-Aqsa Mosque, demands govt action
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description: Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Forum of New Zealand has condemned the latest Israeli assault on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, where thousands of illegal Israeli settlers stormed one of Islam’s holiest sites in a “deliberate act of provocation and religious aggression”. The settlers were escorted by heavily armed occupation forces and
encoded: Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Forum of New Zealand has condemned the latest Israeli assault on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, where thousands of illegal Israeli settlers stormed one of Islam’s holiest sites in a “deliberate act of provocation and religious aggression”. The settlers were escorted by heavily armed occupation forces and led by the extremist Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. “New Zealand must not remain silent,” said the Palestine Forum in a statement today. READ MORE: Arab and Muslim countries condemn Israeli storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque Eight Muslim countries condemn mass Israeli raid on Al-Aqsa Other Al-Aqsa reports Eight Arab and Muslim-majority countries — Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and the United Arab Emirates — have strongly condemned the storming of the mosque compound by far-right groups and thousands of settlers. The Palestine Forum said these actions were “neither isolated incidents nor spontaneous events”. “They form part of a long-standing Israeli policy aimed at asserting control over occupied East Jerusalem, erasing Palestinian identity, and fundamentally altering the historic and legal status quo of Al-Aqsa Mosque,” the statement said. The repeated military raids, restrictions on Palestinian worshippers, and intimidation of Islamic religious authorities constituted grave violations of international law, international humanitarian law, and the fundamental right to freedom of religion. “The Palestine Forum of New Zealand is deeply alarmed by the continued silence and inaction of much of the international community,” the statement said. ‘Every failure fuels instability’ “Every failure to hold Israel accountable emboldens further violations, fuels instability, and undermines the very international legal order that democratic nations claim to uphold.” New Zealand had long presented itself as a principled defender of international law and human rights. That commitment n…

Philippine journalist Marchel Espina charged with unjust vexation over opinion article
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description: Bangkok, July 24, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists on Friday called on the Iglesia Ni Cristo religious group to drop its criminal complaint of unjust vexation against journalist Marchel Espina over an opinion piece published by a community news site. On July 17, Espina, former editor-in-chief of the local SunStar Cebu, voluntarily surrendered to the...
encoded: Bangkok, July 24, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists on Friday called on the Iglesia Ni Cristo religious group to drop its criminal complaint of unjust vexation against journalist Marchel Espina over an opinion piece published by a community news site. On July 17, Espina, former editor-in-chief of the local SunStar Cebu, voluntarily surrendered to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group–Negros Island Region Field Unit in Bacolod City and posted bail of 6,000 Philippine pesos ($105) at the Regional Trial Court, according to multiple news reports. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" height="671" width="1024" src="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Marchel-Espina.png?w=900" alt="" class="wp-image-603792" style="width:371px;height:auto" srcset="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Marchel-Espina.png 1039w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Marchel-Espina.png?resize=300,197 300w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Marchel-Espina.png?resize=768,503 768w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Marchel-Espina.png?resize=1024,671 1024w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Marchel-Espina.png?resize=570,374 570w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Marchel-Espina.png?resize=652,427 652w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Marchel-Espina.png?resize=760,498 760w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Marchel-Espina.png?resize=367,241 367w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> Marchel Espina has been charged with unjust vexation for publishing an opinion piece while editor-in-chief of the local SunStar Cebu (Photo: Courtesy of Altermidya) A Batangas City court had on July 13 issued a warrant for the arrest of Espina and four others over the article, titled “Demonic Church Meddling in Politics,” contributed to SunStar Cebu in December 2024 while she was in charge of the news outlet, the reports said. The complainant, Pedro Fajot Castillo, a district supervising minister at Iglesia Ni Cristo,…

New Zealanders warned not to transit through MidEast as Trump threatens further strikes
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description: RNZ The government is again warning New Zealanders not to transit through the Middle East as US President Donald Trump threatens further military strikes on Iran. The US President said on Wednesday said the United States would bomb Iranian civil infrastructure every time Tehran fires at ships in the Hormuz Strait. A Safe Travel advisory
encoded: RNZ The government is again warning New Zealanders not to transit through the Middle East as US President Donald Trump threatens further military strikes on Iran. The US President said on Wednesday said the United States would bomb Iranian civil infrastructure every time Tehran fires at ships in the Hormuz Strait. A Safe Travel advisory issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFAT) said it advised against all non-essential transit travel through the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. READ MORE: Trump weighs ‘massive attack’ as Iran’s FM blasts ‘mindless aggression’ Other War on Iran reports “The security situation in the Middle East remains highly volatile and travellers could be stranded with little warning and few options. “Given this, we advise New Zealanders not to transit the Middle East, including through Dubai or Doha, unless their travel is absolutely essential and there are no other flight routes available through Asia or North America.” The agency said those who decided travelling through the region was necessary should keep transit times to a minimum and be prepared for flight cancellations, delays, and airspace closures. It also advised New Zealanders in Iran to leave as soon as possible, if it was safe to do so. Limited flights A limited number of flights are still operating from Khomeini International Airport in Tehran but airspace closures could occur at any time, it said. Land routes out of Iran via Turkey and Armenia are still viable and have been successfully used by other New Zealanders to leave the country. Anyone who could not leave Iran should follow the advice of local authorities and move to or remain in a safe place and ensure they have essential supplies such as food, water, torches, batteries or power banks and any medications. The advisory said there were a number of steps people should take if they were at risk of drone or missile attacks: Know how advance warnings are communicated in the area Follow all local authority instructions Iden…

New Zealanders warned not to transit through MidEast as Trump threatens further strikes
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description: RNZ The government is again warning New Zealanders not to transit through the Middle East as US President Donald Trump threatens further military strikes on Iran. The US President said on Wednesday said the United States would bomb Iranian civil infrastructure every time Tehran fires at ships in the Hormuz Strait. A Safe Travel advisory
encoded: RNZ The government is again warning New Zealanders not to transit through the Middle East as US President Donald Trump threatens further military strikes on Iran. The US President said on Wednesday said the United States would bomb Iranian civil infrastructure every time Tehran fires at ships in the Hormuz Strait. A Safe Travel advisory issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFAT) said it advised against all non-essential transit travel through the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. READ MORE: Trump weighs ‘massive attack’ as Iran’s FM blasts ‘mindless aggression’ Other War on Iran reports “The security situation in the Middle East remains highly volatile and travellers could be stranded with little warning and few options. “Given this, we advise New Zealanders not to transit the Middle East, including through Dubai or Doha, unless their travel is absolutely essential and there are no other flight routes available through Asia or North America.” The agency said those who decided travelling through the region was necessary should keep transit times to a minimum and be prepared for flight cancellations, delays, and airspace closures. It also advised New Zealanders in Iran to leave as soon as possible, if it was safe to do so. Limited flights A limited number of flights are still operating from Khomeini International Airport in Tehran but airspace closures could occur at any time, it said. Land routes out of Iran via Turkey and Armenia are still viable and have been successfully used by other New Zealanders to leave the country. Anyone who could not leave Iran should follow the advice of local authorities and move to or remain in a safe place and ensure they have essential supplies such as food, water, torches, batteries or power banks and any medications. The advisory said there were a number of steps people should take if they were at risk of drone or missile attacks: Know how advance warnings are communicated in the area Follow all local authority instructions Iden…

Lim Tean: Iran’s Ghalibaf warns US war equation is clear – ‘either all or none’
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description: COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean “If we can’t sell oil, we will make sure you can’t too.” That is the message Iran’s parliamentary Speaker has just sent to the entire Gulf — and to US President Donald Trump. The Speaker, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, has delivered the starkest ultimatum of this war. Responding to Trump’s threat to
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean “If we can’t sell oil, we will make sure you can’t too.” That is the message Iran’s parliamentary Speaker has just sent to the entire Gulf — and to US President Donald Trump. The Speaker, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf, has delivered the starkest ultimatum of this war. Responding to Trump’s threat to destroy one Iranian bridge or power plant for every ship attacked in the Strait of Hormuz, Ghalibaf didn’t blink. He went further. READ MORE: Trump weighs ‘massive attack’ as Iran’s FM blasts ‘mindless aggression’ The illegal US war on Iran – and now the economic consequences shock Other Lim Tean articles “The equation of this war is clear: either all or none. In a region where we do not sell oil, no one will sell oil. If our security is not ensured, no infrastructure will be safe,” he said. “The security of the Strait lies in the absence of American forces. The situation of the Strait will not return to pre-war conditions.” Read that carefully. This is not a threat to close Hormuz. It is something more sophisticated — and more dangerous. Iran is saying it will hold the entire Gulf’s oil exports hostage to its own. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar — all of them — become collateral in a dispute that is not theirs. The Strait of Hormuz carries 20 to 21 million barrels a day — a fifth of global oil consumption. Bab el-Mandeb carries another 6 to 9 million. Between them, roughly a third of the world’s seaborne oil now sits under the shadow of a single Iranian sentence. “They wanted to punish Iran. Punished themselves with triple-digit oil instead. 10/10 strategy,” Iran’s chief negotiator and parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in a post on X. Live updates: https://t.co/kGUykdVSBy pic.twitter.com/73aiqzxNcu — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) July 23, 2026 Surged past $100 a barrel Brent has already responded — surging past $100 a barrel, a six-week high. This is the Legitimacy Principle playing out in real time. When the dominant naval power …

Aung San Suu Kyi’s Son on Her Dog Taichito and the Wait to See Her
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Protests in Italy over police killing
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date: 2026-07-24T01:18:22Z
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In Big Win, Appeals Court Affirms Release of Georgetown Peace Scholar Detained by ICE for His Speech
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date: 2026-07-24T00:20:31Z
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description: The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals today rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to re-detain Georgetown scholar Dr. Badar Khan Suri and affirmed a lower court order that required the government to release him on bail as his case proceeded. The c...
encoded: The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals today rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to re-detain Georgetown scholar Dr. Badar Khan Suri and affirmed a lower court order that required the government to release him on bail as his case proceeded. The court also rejected the government’s request to move the case from Virginia to Texas. “[In] our view,” the court wrote, “denying judicial review of detention claims like Suri’s misreads Congress’ statutes and undermines the protections guaranteed all persons on American soil by the writ of habeas corpus.” The court later expanded: “[An] unbroken line of caselaw also accords with common sense: if a noncitizen is challenging their detention pending removal, then waiting for their removal proceedings does them no good. They have already been detained, allegedly in violation of the Constitution. This ‘absurd’ reading of the INA would make such detention claims ‘effectively unreviewable,’ and the Supreme Court has repeatedly refused to embrace it.” In March 2025, ICE arrested and detained Dr. Suri, a lawful visa holder from India whose wife is a U.S. citizen, outside his Virginia home in retaliation for his associations and speech in support of Palestinian rights. Dr. Suri was detained for nearly six weeks over a thousand miles away from his wife and children at an infamous private detention center in Texas known for its human rights abuses. A federal judge ordered his release from detention in May 2025 while his case continued in federal court. “Today reaffirms my faith that an independent judiciary remains the truest guardian of liberty, due process, and the rule of law. I am profoundly grateful to the judges who upheld these constitutional principles and gave my case the careful, deliberate consideration it deserved,” said Dr. Badar Khan Suri. “I remain, as ever, committed to the pursuit of justice through lawful and peaceful means. We should remember that a democracy without an accessible writ of habeas corpus is a democr…

Palestinian activist’s deportation case is "textbook censorship" by the Trump admin
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Vanuatu govt blasts chiefs’ demand to replace first female MSG head with a man
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date: 2026-07-23T22:33:03Z
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subject: council
subject: Culture
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subject: Democracy
subject: Development
subject: Featured
subject: female
subject: first
subject: gender
subject: Gender empowerment
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subject: Global
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subject: Human Rights
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subject: MSG
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description: RNZ Pacific reporters Vanuatu’s government has issued a stinging rebuke to the country’s customary leaders who have reportedly called for revoking the appointment of the first woman to lead the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Secretariat. Dr Anna Naupa, a Pacific politics expert and ni-Vanuatu woman, was appointed MSG Secretariat Director-General last month, with Vanuatu Prime
encoded: RNZ Pacific reporters Vanuatu’s government has issued a stinging rebuke to the country’s customary leaders who have reportedly called for revoking the appointment of the first woman to lead the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Secretariat. Dr Anna Naupa, a Pacific politics expert and ni-Vanuatu woman, was appointed MSG Secretariat Director-General last month, with Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat describing her as “one of the nation’s top minds”. “Vanuatu believes the success of the MSG under Dr Naupa’s leadership will depend on never losing sight of that founding spirit — solidarity, justice, and self-determination for our peoples,” Napat said. READ MORE: Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre blasts ‘misogynistic attack’ over MSG leadership Malvatumauri demands revocation of Dr Naupa’s MSG DG appointment by July 30 However, the Malvatumauri National Council of Chiefs, which is a constitutionally mandated body, has reportedly “issued an ultimatum” to Napat, “demanding the immediate revocation of Dr Anna Naupa’s appointment,” according to the Vanuatu Daily Post. The traditional leaders want a man to head the organisation “to align with customary traditions”, according to the front page of Thursday’s edition of the newspaper. “The council warned that if the government fails to rescind the appointment by 30 July 2026, traditional leaders across the country will initiate customary actions to challenge the decision,” the report said. In a statement on Thursday, the Vanuatu government called the council’s stance “regressive, divisive, and an embarrassment”. Based on merit The government said Naupa’s appointment was based on merit and she was selected after “a rigorous, independent MSG panel process involving all MSG member countries”, adding it fully backed Naupa’s appointment. “By dragging the entire nation into this stance, the Malvatumauri has done a disservice to Vanuatu. “At a time when Vanuatu is being recognised internationally for leadership on climate justice, and on reg…

250 Organizations Urge Senate: Put Americans’ Health Before Chemical Industry Profits
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date: 2026-07-23T22:01:21Z
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description: Today, 250 organizations and groups from across the country urge leaders of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to reject industry-led efforts to weaken the Toxic Substances Control Act, America’s primary chemical safety law, and enc...
encoded: Today, 250 organizations and groups from across the country urge leaders of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to reject industry-led efforts to weaken the Toxic Substances Control Act, America’s primary chemical safety law, and encourage Congress to hear from the people, workers, and communities whose health would be most affected. In the letter sent to EPW Committee Chair Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and to Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), organizations representing public health professionals, scientists, consumer advocates, environmental justice leaders, community organizations, environmental advocates, and impacted communities wrote that Congress has not yet publicly heard testimony in hearings from the people who would bear the greatest consequences of weakening the law. Those voices include veterans, workers, families, and frontline communities facing cancer, Parkinson's disease, and other illnesses linked to toxic chemical exposures, as well as states on the front lines of managing contamination, cleanup, and rising health costs. “Strong chemical safety reviews protect families from hazardous chemicals before they reach the market,” said Melanie Benesh, vice president of government affairs at the Environmental Working Group. “Weakening TSCA doesn't cut red tape. It makes it easier for toxic chemicals to end up in our homes, our drinking water, and our bodies,” Benesh said. The letter also highlights TSCA’s broad public health benefits since Congress overwhelmingly voted to modernize the law in 2016, including actions to address toxic chemicals such as asbestos, methylene chloride, trichloroethylene, perchloroethylene, carbon tetrachloride and other harmful substances found in homes, schools, workplaces, consumer products, drinking water and communities across the country. “We urge the Committee to ensure that any proposed legislation to revise TSCA receives full and careful review and input from all interested parties,” the letter s…

ISA Hands Contract Extension to TMC Despite Support for Unlawful Deep Sea Mining, Proving Need for Immediate Moratorium
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description: Greenpeace International strongly condemns the International Seabed Authority (ISA) Council’s decision to extend The Metals Company subsidiary Nauru Ocean Resources Inc’s (NORI) exploration contract, even though NORI has been supporting the pursuit of...
encoded: Greenpeace International strongly condemns the International Seabed Authority (ISA) Council’s decision to extend The Metals Company subsidiary Nauru Ocean Resources Inc’s (NORI) exploration contract, even though NORI has been supporting the pursuit of unlawful deep sea mining via US unilateralism.[1] It is public that NORI will be making payments to the government of Naoero (Nauru) if The Metals Company USA engages in unilateral mining.[2] Attention in the remaining days of the ISA Council now turns to the next steps in the global inquiry into companies supporting unilateral mining. Louisa Casson, campaigner at Greenpeace International, said: “Granting an extension sets a dangerous precedent for both the deep sea and the rule of law. This decision risks showing that companies can use aggressive lawsuits to avoid consequences. It also calls into serious question the regulator’s ability to enforce basic compliance under its existing rules and makes the case for an immediate moratorium on deep sea mining more urgent than ever.” Last Saturday, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) explicitly refused to suspend the ongoing inquiry into potential non-compliance by contractors, after TMC’s subsidiaries sued the ISA. Instead, the ITLOS decision focused on ensuring the inquiry follows due process.[3][4][5] Greenpeace International now demands that governments at the ISA Council establish a clear and robust timeline for concluding the inquiry, to enable governments to act if non-compliance is confirmed. Through these ITLOS legal proceedings, NORI and Tonga Offshore Mining Limited (TOML), another wholly owned The Metals Company subsidiary, have identified themselves as “requiring specific attention to possible non‑compliance” in the inquiry process. Louisa Casson added: “The political responsibility now falls squarely on governments to step up their game to set a clear direction that unlawful deep sea mining will not be tolerated, and fend off a corporate g…

FDA Should Ban Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertisements
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date: 2026-07-23T21:35:48Z
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description: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should ban direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of prescription drugs, Public Citizen said today in a petition filed with the agency. Banning DTC ads would align U.S. policy with international best practices...
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[Ray Raphael, Howard Zinn] A People’s History of the American Revolution
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date: 2026-07-23T21:00:55Z
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description: On July 4th, 1776, fifty-six men in Philadelphia signed the Declaration of Independence. Today, the day is marked by store sales, fireworks, and parades. The much-revered Founding Fathers were mostly wealthy merchants and large land and slave owners. O...
encoded: On July 4th, 1776, fifty-six men in Philadelphia signed the Declaration of Independence. Today, the day is marked by store sales, fireworks, and parades. The much-revered Founding Fathers were mostly wealthy merchants and large land and slave owners. One of them was John Adams, who was not so well off. He predicted: “The History of our Revolution will be one continued Lye from one end to the other.” Adams was prescient. Legends have become facts. The traditional accounts of the Revolution are about a handful of brave white men who declared independence from Britain. In the telling, many were left out. Women, for example, played vital roles by raising families, farming, running businesses, making uniforms for the soldiers, cooking and feeding the troops, and even taking up arms and fighting. A people’s history ensures their inclusion. This content originally appeared on AlternativeRadio and was authored by info@alternativeradio.org.

AOC: US-Israeli military integration measure “existential threat” to democracy
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UN News Today 23 July 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
date: 2026-07-23T19:19:51Z
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subject: News
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description: Strait of Hormuz crisis: 6,000 seafarers still trapped, warns IMO chiefGlobal trade growth driven by higher energy prices not volumes: UNCTADWHO launches bid to tackle global drowning scourge
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Salah Sarsour on ICE detention
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-23T19:01:46Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Marc Steiner: A life standing for free speech | Ep. 8
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date: 2026-07-23T18:37:14Z
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subject: battle
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subject: for
subject: free
subject: free speech
subject: History
subject: life
subject: marc
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subject: podcast
subject: Politics
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description: <img width="1024" height="770" src="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IMG_0448.jpeg?fit=1024%2C770&ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Marc Steiner stands in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, on the anniversary of the March on Washington on Aug. 23, 2023. Photo by Maximillian Alvarez." data-attachment-id="345294" data-permalink="https://therealnews.com/marc-steiner-a-life-standing-for-free-speech-ep-8/img_0448" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IMG_0448.jpeg?fit=1079%2C811&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1079,811" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","alt":""}" data-image-title="IMG_0448" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" Marc Steiner stands in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, on the anniversary of the March on Washington on Aug. 23, 2023. Photo by Maximillian Alvarez. " data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IMG_0448.jpeg?fit=780%2C587&ssl=1"> From civil rights activism to community organizing, from theater and education to radio, Marc has been standing for free speech since the late 1950s. Today, we talk with Marc about his extraordinary life and the fight for free speech. This is episode 8 of the Battle for Free Speech Podcast.
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 23, 2026
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creator: KPFA
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subject: News
subject: pacifica
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subject: weekdays
description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 23, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Mamdani urges government to arrest Netanyahu in NYC visit
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creator: Amnesty International
date: 2026-07-23T17:49:02Z
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subject: urges
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description: This content originally appeared on Amnesty International and was authored by Amnesty International.
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How Trump Drives Political Media
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-07-23T17:27:10Z
subject: Sources
subject: Vice News
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subject: Media
subject: News
subject: political
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subject: trump
subject: vice
description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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International Rescue Committee: Who We Are
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creator: International Rescue Committee
date: 2026-07-23T17:12:41Z
subject: International Rescue Committee
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subject: committee
subject: International
subject: Rescue
subject: sources
subject: who
description: This content originally appeared on International Rescue Committee and was authored by International Rescue Committee.
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Why Gaza is "the future of genocide"
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-23T16:59:42Z
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subject: Democracy
subject: future
subject: gaza
subject: Genocide
subject: now
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: why
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House Subpoena of BreakThrough News Threatens Press Freedom
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description: In a direct attack on the First Amendment, the House Ways and Means Committee has subpoenaed independent news outlet BreakThrough News, demanding internal records under the guise of investigating foreign influence in the tax-exempt nonprofit sector.Th...
encoded: In a direct attack on the First Amendment, the House Ways and Means Committee has subpoenaed independent news outlet BreakThrough News, demanding internal records under the guise of investigating foreign influence in the tax-exempt nonprofit sector. The committee, chaired by Rep. Jason Smith, is seeking BreakThrough News’ financial records, internal communications, and more. Lawmakers claim the probe focuses on tax compliance. But abusing congressional subpoena power to target a news outlet whose coverage a committee chair doesn’t like undermines core press freedom guarantees. The following can be attributed to Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Chief of Advocacy Seth Stern: “Congress shouldn’t be using a tax investigation as a pretext to dig through a newsroom’s internal communications or financial records. Freedom of the press applies to all journalists, regardless of whether politicians like their editorial slant or their politics. “Allowing a congressional committee to harass an independent newsroom with a broad subpoena sets an awful precedent. If lawmakers can abuse tax oversight to single out outlets whose reporting offends them today, no newsroom in America is safe from government intimidation tomorrow.” FPF strongly urges the House Ways and Means Committee to withdraw its subpoena against BreakThrough News and stop using congressional oversight as a tool to retaliate against independent media. This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

Is This the End of Democracy?: Tim Miller on Trump, Media & America | Shane Smith Has Questions
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Whose AI? Whose Opposition?
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description: Andy Lee Roth Opposition to local AI data centers is bipartisan, according to a March 2026 Gallup poll, which found that majorities of Democrats (75 percent) and Republicans (63 percent) would oppose construction of an AI data center where they live. O...
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Trump’s Formula for Forever Wars
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As Mamdani Calls on Trump to Arrest Netanyahu, Genocide Scholar Decries Israel’s Ongoing Impunity
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"Enough Is Enough": Mohsen Mahdawi Says New Deportation Threat Seeks to Silence Palestine Activism
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Meet Milwaukee Muslim Leader Salah Sarsour. ICE Detained Him for 80 Days
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 23, 2026
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Stopped at the Border: The "Disposable" Spies
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The secret to a better grid? Electric vehicles.
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description: Despite fearmongering that EVs will crash the grid, an emerging technology will help them support it by providing backup power.
encoded: You can’t tell when you’re passing one on the highway, but an electric vehicle may well have a superpower. It charges by plugging into the electric grid, of course, but it might also be able to send energy back into it. For a growing number of EVs, this vehicle-to-grid technology, or V2G, creates a revenue stream for drivers, who utilities pay to tap into their batteries when demand on the grid spikes. Utilities across the country are pursuing pilot projects for the tech, figuring out how to coordinate hundreds, thousands, and eventually millions of EVs. To that end, today a coalition of companies — Eversource, National Grid, EnergyHub, Sunrun, and the Mobility House — is launching an early test of the technology in Massachusetts so utility customers can give it a try. Lessons learned here and elsewhere could drive the technique into the mainstream, making the grid more reliable, and electricity cheaper, even if you don’t own an EV. “It’s great to have Massachusetts stepping into the lead here and doing this because these learnings are what’s going to allow this technology to scale,” said Chip Silverman, director of grid services at Sunrun, a solar and battery company. In the new system, participants hook into an existing program called ConnectedSolutions, which allows homes to run off their residential batteries, among other things. Then when there’s a “demand response” event, like during a heat wave, EV batteries can help the grid keep up. Participants are compensated for this, just like some homeowners who provide energy from their solar panels. “It’s really kind of a small number of hours per year that you’re discharging the battery,” said Russell Vare, vice president of vehicle-grid integration at the Mobility House North America, a provider of charging infrastructure. “It’s not necessarily like a daily discharge. It’s just during those peak times the events are called.” Utilities like V2G because they’re dealing with escalating, overlapping challenges. For one…

As Mamdani Calls on Trump to Arrest Netanyahu, Genocide Scholar Decries Israel’s Ongoing Impunity
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description: Israeli American Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov says Israel’s assault on Gaza predicts “the future of genocide,” with the perpetrator not only enjoying impunity for crimes against humanity but also profiting from the death and...
encoded: Israeli American Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov says Israel’s assault on Gaza predicts “the future of genocide,” with the perpetrator not only enjoying impunity for crimes against humanity but also profiting from the death and destruction. He says Israeli leaders will almost certainly escape accountability because international allies, including the United States and many European states, have failed to uphold international law. “The denial of what Israel has done is ubiquitous because there is no [accountability] mechanism that kicks into place,” he says. “If you don’t bring people to account, you’re sliding back into what the international community tried to prevent after 1945.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Enough Is Enough”: Mohsen Mahdawi Says New Deportation Threat Seeks to Silence Palestine Activism
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description: Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi, whose arrest by masked and hooded ICE agents when he arrived for his naturalization interview to become a U.S. citizen made national headlines last year, is facing a new deportation threat after a three-jud...
encoded: Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi, whose arrest by masked and hooded ICE agents when he arrived for his naturalization interview to become a U.S. citizen made national headlines last year, is facing a new deportation threat after a three-judge panel overturned a lower court ruling that had freed him from ICE custody. Mahdawi was involved in pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University, where he was a student, demanding an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. He says he is being targeted solely for his advocacy. “Enough is enough,” Mahdawi says. “Palestinian people deserve to have safety, freedom and equal rights between the river and the sea, and this government is trying to silence me.” “That is just textbook censorship, and the First Amendment doesn’t allow it,” adds ACLU attorney Nathan Freed Wessler, a member of Mahdawi’s legal team. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Meet Milwaukee Muslim Leader Salah Sarsour. ICE Detained Him for 80 Days
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description: We speak with Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian community leader in Wisconsin, president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and a legal permanent resident of the United States for over 30 years. He faces possible deportation after being arrested i...
encoded: We speak with Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian community leader in Wisconsin, president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and a legal permanent resident of the United States for over 30 years. He faces possible deportation after being arrested in March and detained in an ICE jail for 80 days. The Department of Homeland Security claims Sarsour was arrested for lying on his 1993 green card application about a conviction in Israeli military courts when he was a teenager in the occupied West Bank, but Sarsour’s lawyers say he is being targeted by the federal government over his advocacy for Palestinian human rights. Although a judge ordered Sarsour’s release from detention in June, he still faces deportation proceedings set to resume next week. “In ICE detention,” says Sarsour, “it brought to me these bad memories from my childhood, when I was under the Israeli military occupation and Israeli military rules in Palestine.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for July 23, 2026
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description: House GOP Approves $73B in New Pentagon Funding, $10B for Voting Restrictions, U.S. Strikes Southern Iran, Iraq Border Crossing on 12th Straight Night of Attacks, Nonproliferation Experts Warn U.S. Deal Could Lead to Nuclear-Armed Saudi Arabia, Judge Sets June 2027 Trial Date for Abducted Venezuelan Leaders Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, Witnesses Say ICE Agents Rammed Their Van Before Fatally Shooting Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Mexican Tourist Who Died Fleeing ICE Agents Was Visiting Florida on Vacation, Lawmakers Press ICE Officials on Training and Vehicle Stops After Killings of Immigrants, Police in Madison, Wisconsin, Fatally Shoot Black Man, Sparking Protests, Protests Erupt After Death of Moroccan-Born Man in Police Custody in Italy, GOP-Led House Ways and Means Committee Subpoenas BreakThrough News, NYC Mayor Mamdani Says He Does Not Have the Authority to Arrest Netanyahu
encoded: House GOP Approves $73B in New Pentagon Funding, $10B for Voting Restrictions U.S. Strikes Southern Iran, Iraq Border Crossing on 12th Straight Night of Attacks Nonproliferation Experts Warn U.S. Deal Could Lead to Nuclear-Armed Saudi Arabia Judge Sets June 2027 Trial Date for Abducted Venezuelan Leaders Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores Witnesses Say ICE Agents Rammed Their Van Before Fatally Shooting Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Mexican Tourist Who Died Fleeing ICE Agents Was Visiting Florida on Vacation Lawmakers Press ICE Officials on Training and Vehicle Stops After Killings of Immigrants Police in Madison, Wisconsin, Fatally Shoot Black Man, Sparking Protests Protests Erupt After Death of Moroccan-Born Man in Police Custody in Italy GOP-Led House Ways and Means Committee Subpoenas BreakThrough News NYC Mayor Mamdani Says He Does Not Have the Authority to Arrest Netanyahu This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-07-23 Thursday
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No one fired pellet guns in Delhi
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description: Someone owes 25-year-old Irshad Mansoori an explanation. He lies in a hospital bed with a pellet lodged near a blood vessel in his neck even after undergoing a surgery on July 21. Someone should also explain to 19-year-old Sahil Lochab, recovering from a surgery on July 22, how he received a grievous eye injury and […]
encoded: Someone owes 25-year-old Irshad Mansoori an explanation. He lies in a hospital bed with a pellet lodged near a blood vessel in his neck even after undergoing a surgery on July 21. Someone should also explain to 19-year-old Sahil Lochab, recovering from a surgery on July 22, how he received a grievous eye injury and multiple pellet wounds across his body. Delhi Police has repeatedly insisted that it did not use pellet guns during the July 20 march. No other security agency has acknowledged deploying them either. Over the past two days, Alt News met both young men, spoke to their families and friends, and traced a chain of evidence that raises a simple question: If no pellet guns were fired, how did they end up in hospital with pellet injuries? The July 20 Mayhem in Delhi On July 20, thousands gathered at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar after the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) called a march to Parliament over the alleged NEET paper leak and irregularities in examinations conducted by the National Testing Agency. The march followed a month-long sit-in protest and Sonam Wangchuk’s hunger strike. As protesters attempted to march towards Parliament, Delhi Police erected barricades while personnel from the Rapid Action Force (RAF) and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were deployed in large numbers. Police used lathi-charge and tear gas as the situation escalated. By evening, CJP spokesperson Saurav Das alleged on X that some protesters had been hit by pellet guns. Delhi Police rejected the allegation, stating that it does not possess such weapons. Alt News began investigating the claim the following day. Irshad Mansoori at Lady Hardinge Hospital On July 21, acting on a tip-off, Alt News reached Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC), where Irshad Mansoori was undergoing treatment. We met his friend outside the hospital, who said he was Mansoori’s only support at the hospital. Mansoori, 25, is originally from Jabalpur and works at a private company in Gurugram. The friend told us that…

Lavrov dodges Ukraine question with ‘nice hairstyle’ comment #russia #news #shorts
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DN! Thursday, July 23, 2026
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MAZEN KERBAJ • live in Beirut, Lebanon
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5 Raw Quotes From America’s Largest Raw-Milk Dairy Owner
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encoded: From left: Mark McAfee is interviewed by ProPublica audio producer Gabrielle Berbey and reporter Annie Waldman at Raw Farm in Fresno, California. Sarahbeth Maney for ProPublica I never thought I’d spend six months of my life investigating raw milk. But I did. In early June, ProPublica published a story I reported that features Mark McAfee, who runs America’s largest raw-milk dairy. The story came about after months of reporting on how the Trump administration’s policies were reshaping federal health agencies. My colleagues and I spoke with dozens of civil servants, many of whom described a climate of fear in which routine science had suddenly become politicized. One notable example they shared with me was raw milk, which most scientists and health experts agree has no significant, proven nutritional benefits over its pasteurized counterpart and subjects its consumers to over 100 times the risk of foodborne illness. But under the leadership of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., current and former government workers told me, the federal approach to raw milk was shifting to align with his priorities. In his new role, Kennedy said he was “advocating” for it and celebrated the release of a federal report to Make America Healthy Again with a toast of raw-milk shooters in the White House. McAfee, who counts Kennedy as a customer, has advocated for raw dairy for more than two decades. But only in recent years has raw milk, which once drew a fringe crowd, been thrust into the mainstream. More than 10 million Americans now drink it; national weekly sales rose by 65% from 2023 to 2024 alone. McAfee’s farm is pulling in about $30 million a year. It has also attracted significant scrutiny: Federal and state regulators have linked his business to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that had left hundreds of people ill. Raw milk’s success had confounded me: How had it gained such a foothold in this country, despite regular outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli? Speaking wit…

How war in Myanmar is driving a deadly rare earth mining boom
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description: Decades of conflict have left Myanmar vulnerable to a secretive industry that is polluting communities and endangering workers.
encoded: When Min left the hot, dusty plains of central Myanmar for its mountainous eastern border with China earlier this year, he had few options. A 2021 military coup had devastated the formal economy of the Southeast Asian country, and jobs were scarce. Min’s native Sagaing Region was at the epicenter of an armed uprising, making it a target of airstrikes and other retaliatory attacks. And the military introduced mandatory conscription in 2024, accelerating the exodus of young people from areas under its control. As many of his peers fled Myanmar, Min paid a broker 2,000 Chinese yuan ($290) to arrange jobs for him and his younger brother at a rare earth mining site in an autonomous region controlled by a powerful ethnic army. Assigned to build roads, Min and his brother each earned around 3,000 yuan ($430) a month. It was far more than they could earn in most industries, but the work came with risks. They were digging on steep slopes and Min’s brother had little experience operating heavy machinery. Weeks after arriving, Min’s brother died in a landslide. Min’s account of the incident could not be independently verified, but local media have documented at least five fatal landslides at rare earth mining sites in Myanmar in recent years, in one case burying more than a dozen workers. His family held religious rites without his brother’s body, which could not be transported. Min did not go home either. “Despite the risks, I continue working,” he said. “There are not many other job options.” (Editor’s note: Like other workers interviewed, Min has been given a pseudonym.) <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HKN7680_A-rare-earth-mining-site-near-the-town-of-Hpare-in-territory-controlled-by-the-Kachin-Independence-Organization-near-the-border-wit-China.-Taken-in-January-2026-anonymous.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HKN7680_A-rare-earth-mining-site-near…

The deadly experiment that could save the American elm
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description: Researchers in Vermont infected 5,300 American elms with a lethal dose of Dutch elm disease. Those that survive could help them build the most genetically diverse, disease-resistant population yet.
encoded: After more than a decade of nurturing, it had come time to infect this 28-acre grove of American elms with a disease that would almost certainly kill them. Dressed in hunter-green muck boots, grey pants, and a brown Nature Conservancy T-shirt, Gus Goodwin knelt down to give the first tree its shot. Using a bamboo stake marked at 12 inches as a gauge, he measured that far off the ground, held his drill at a slight downward angle, and pulled the trigger. “We need to create a wound,” Goodwin, the conservancy’s director of science and technology advancement in Vermont, said as the tool began to whir. He bore an inch-deep hole into the tree, the bit sending shavings spiraling out behind it. Putting the drill aside, he took a blue pipette from his tool box and injected 2 teaspoons of a clear solution containing roughly 100,000 spores of the fungus that causes Dutch elm disease. “That’s it,” he said. “Pretty simple.” One by one, row by row, the plan was to stick nearly all of the 5,300 or so elms at the sprawling site in southern Vermont, save the few that received a squirt of water as a control. In the coming weeks, most of the trees would doubtlessly succumb to the pathogen that has already killed tens of millions of their ancestors and made Ulmus americana an endangered species. The ones that live, however, could help save the species. <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/elms-feat.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/elms-feat.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/elms-feat.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/elms-feat.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/elms-feat.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/elms-feat.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1536 1536w, https://grist.org/wp-c…

The year climate change came for the Tour de France
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description: Record heat, wildfire threats, and an unprecedented stage modification highlighted the growing challenge global warming poses to endurance sports.
encoded: Tadej Pogačar is expected to ride to victory on the Champs-Élysées in Paris when the Tour de France ends Sunday. While his commanding performance has left little doubt about the outcome, the journey to the finale has been remarkable for another reason: climate change. The grueling 23-day trek through France has seen a barrage of emissions-driven extremes, from wildfires to blistering heat. It was so dry at one point that organizers banned TV crews from a French pastime, smoking. Pogačar even suggested that the race, which has almost always spanned late June and early July, no longer occur during the summer. “If I had the power,” he said, “I would change all the calendar and not race in July and August in hot places.” The trouble started earlier this month when wildfires threatened the Pyrénées-Orientales region during the third stage, as each day’s race is called. Organizers considered cancelling it, but decided it would continue. Still, they limited the caravan that typically follows it to essential vehicles. They also asked fans, a fixture along every route, to stay away from the last 27 miles of the day’s 121-mile race. “We invite the public not to come to the edge of the race or to the finish site,” race director Christian Prudhomme told France TV. “With exceptional fires, exceptional measures on the Tour, the first thing is the protection of the people.” The more persistent problem has been a record-breaking European heatwave. According to ProCyclingStats.com, the first two weeks of the Tour brought the highest average temperature of the past two decades: 90 degrees Fahrenheit, compared to 79 degrees in 2022. “I’ve never seen weather conditions this hot every single day,” said XDS-Astana Team sports director Yvon Ledanois. “It isn’t a case of having one extremely hot day and then returning to normal conditions the next.” Enduring such heat for one race would be rough, but each of the 21 stages is effectively a race of its own. Competitors ride an average of abo…

The illegal US war on Iran – and now the economic consequences shock
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subject: Asia Report
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subject: consequences
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description: ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean America’s entire emergency oil reserve now covers 16 days. Sixteen. The world spent 40 years building a shock absorber for exactly this war — and burned it down in five months. What comes next isn’t just a higher petrol price. It’s a bill mailed to every fragile economy on earth, at
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean America’s entire emergency oil reserve now covers 16 days. Sixteen. The world spent 40 years building a shock absorber for exactly this war — and burned it down in five months. What comes next isn’t just a higher petrol price. It’s a bill mailed to every fragile economy on earth, at the worst possible moment to receive one. READ MORE: US bombs Iran as IRGC and Houthis claim attacks on ships in Hormuz, Red Sea Lim Tean: You cannot bomb a strait open – Hormuz, Chabahar and the coming battle for Bab el-Mandeb Other Lim Tean articles The economic consequences of war In 1919, Keynes wrote his famous polemic — The Economic Consequences of the Peace — a warning that the true cost of the Treaty of Versailles would not be paid at the signing table, but for years afterward, by economies nobody had bothered to examine while the ink dried. The world was so consumed by the drama of the settlement that it missed the mechanism that would define the following decade. We are making the same mistake now, in reverse. Everyone is watching the war. Almost no one is watching the buffer. The numbers that matter Since February, the world has been drawing down oil reserves it spent four decades accumulating. International Energy Agency (IEA) member states held 4.1 billion barrels in strategic reserves in 2004. By 2026, that figure has fallen to 1.8 billion. The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve — 414 million barrels at the war’s outset — had fallen to roughly 316–320 million by mid-July, its lowest level since 1983. American crude inventories overall, reserve included, are at their lowest since 1984. Put that in terms people can actually feel: at America’s total daily consumption of just over 20 million barrels a day, today’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve alone covers barely 16 days. Sixteen days. That is the entire emergency margin behind the world’s largest economy — before commercial stockpiles and ordinary imports, which normally do the heavy lifting, have to carry the …

The illegal US war on Iran – and now the economic consequences shock
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-07-23T08:01:25Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Bab el-Mandeb Strait
subject: Global markets
subject: International energy agency
subject: Marine war risk
subject: Oil emergency buffer
subject: Oil subsidy
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subject: Sources
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subject: gulf
subject: iea
subject: illegal
subject: Innovation
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subject: iran
subject: marine
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subject: petroleum
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description: ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean America’s entire emergency oil reserve now covers 16 days. Sixteen. The world spent 40 years building a shock absorber for exactly this war — and burned it down in five months. What comes next isn’t just a higher petrol price. It’s a bill mailed to every fragile economy on earth, at
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean America’s entire emergency oil reserve now covers 16 days. Sixteen. The world spent 40 years building a shock absorber for exactly this war — and burned it down in five months. What comes next isn’t just a higher petrol price. It’s a bill mailed to every fragile economy on earth, at the worst possible moment to receive one. READ MORE: US bombs Iran as IRGC and Houthis claim attacks on ships in Hormuz, Red Sea Lim Tean: You cannot bomb a strait open – Hormuz, Chabahar and the coming battle for Bab el-Mandeb Other Lim Tean articles The economic consequences of war In 1919, Keynes wrote his famous polemic — The Economic Consequences of the Peace — a warning that the true cost of the Treaty of Versailles would not be paid at the signing table, but for years afterward, by economies nobody had bothered to examine while the ink dried. The world was so consumed by the drama of the settlement that it missed the mechanism that would define the following decade. We are making the same mistake now, in reverse. Everyone is watching the war. Almost no one is watching the buffer. The numbers that matter Since February, the world has been drawing down oil reserves it spent four decades accumulating. International Energy Agency (IEA) member states held 4.1 billion barrels in strategic reserves in 2004. By 2026, that figure has fallen to 1.8 billion. The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve — 414 million barrels at the war’s outset — had fallen to roughly 316–320 million by mid-July, its lowest level since 1983. American crude inventories overall, reserve included, are at their lowest since 1984. Put that in terms people can actually feel: at America’s total daily consumption of just over 20 million barrels a day, today’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve alone covers barely 16 days. Sixteen days. That is the entire emergency margin behind the world’s largest economy — before commercial stockpiles and ordinary imports, which normally do the heavy lifting, have to carry the …

Without stronger government action, Brazil’s low deforestation in the Amazon is unlikely to last
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creator: Frida Garza
date: 2026-07-23T08:00:00Z
subject: Food and Agriculture
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description: Researchers say that the rainforest is at risk of losing the equivalent of about 2 million soccer fields over the next 10 years.
encoded: A recent report from Brazil’s national space agency showed that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is the lowest it’s been in a decade. The news made headlines and was lauded as an example of the progress President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had made toward his promise of eliminating illegal deforestation there by 2030. Since taking office in 2023, Lula’s administration has ramped up environmental policies aimed at making the country’s beef industry more transparent, such as increasing policing and remote monitoring of forest lands. But some of that progress is at risk of being undone, say environmental experts. In January, a number of agrifood groups left a voluntary trade agreement known as the Amazon Soy Moratorium, which had been highly effective at curbing deforestation for the sake of cultivating soybeans. The pact prohibited members from buying soy grown on lands deforested after July 2008. When the moratorium fell apart earlier this year, researchers and advocates expected it to usher in a rise in deforestation for soy cultivation. Now, thanks to a group of scientists working in both the U.S. and Brazil, we have an initial expectation of how much deforestation is likely to occur in the coming years. In a new paper published last week in Science, researchers say that the Amazon forest is at risk of losing 1.4 million hectares — or the equivalent of about 2 million soccer fields — to deforestation over the next 10 years. Before the moratorium was in place, soy cultivation was one of the main drivers of deforestation in the Amazon; for example, in Mato Grosso, Brazil’s leading soy producing state, a quarter of soy production from 2001 to 2005 came from clearing forested lands. After a widespread public campaign led by Greenpeace, public and private sector actors working in the Amazon forest came together to create the soy moratorium. “People generally followed it,” said Lisa Rausch, one of the authors of the Science paper. “There weren’t many violations of it…

Actor, writer, and streamer Felicia Day on having something to prove
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description: I listened to a bunch of your interviews to prepare for this, and re-watched a little bit of pioneering web series The Guild.
encoded: I listened to a bunch of your interviews to prepare for this, and re-watched a little bit of pioneering web series The Guild. Oh my god. You did so much homework, my man. I also am from Texas. Where are you from? The Hill Country, outside of Austin. It’s so pretty there… I’ve been there many times. I used to play weddings a lot when I was in college in Texas, and we would go out to the Hill Country all the time. I played a couple funerals, memorial services. Very weird, but very cool. In an interview you did, someone said “Austin’s great,” and you gave the exact answer that I give: Austin actually kind of sucks now, since all of the tech companies have moved there. I will say the tech companies made it real poopy. I mean, I love the food, but I certainly would not want to live there. There’s nothing appealing about it. Barring the weather—which is just awful, awful, awful weather—the vibes aren’t there anymore. It’s sad, because the reason I do what I do is because of the indie film scene that was there in the late ’90s. I was at the very tail end of it, but I kind of still caught the wave of Richard Linklater and Richard Rodriguez, that sort of vibe where it’s like, “Hey, we’re outsiders making cool stuff.” I really do believe that that’s the heart of what I love to do. That’s why I do what I do, because I still believe in the independent spirit. And that’s what Austin embodied. Sadly, it is not there anymore, and that’s okay. It’s other places, and I will find them when I travel. I hear it’s Boise, Idaho. That’s what I hear. Felicia, you are literally the queen of the geeks. That all started with The Guild. That show was one of the first times where we all just kind of acknowledged that being a geek is something that’s true for so many people. What was the inspiration behind The Guild? There was my personal journey, and then there was the decision to put it on the internet. They’re actually intertwined. I was a gamer since I was seven years old, and it’s because m…

Artist and filmmaker Glenn Kaino on starting with belief
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creator: Reina Bonta
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description: As a multidisciplinary artist who spends a lot of time in imagined spaces, what draws you to documentary, which is so deeply rooted in reality?
encoded: As a multidisciplinary artist who spends a lot of time in imagined spaces, what draws you to documentary, which is so deeply rooted in reality? I don’t consider myself a documentarian, so to speak. For me, all of my projects begin without form as ideas in search of form. I have always thought that art is the space for which we can attack and begin to understand some of the most difficult questions in the world. I think of art as a space of inquiry, a space of slippage and imagination, a generous space that is not bound by conventional business logic. A good return on investment in making art is: did you imagine a better world? In the space of art making and protected presentation where you’re not bound by the market in different ways, you get to think deeply and rigorously about very challenging issues. When I say “artwork,” for me, it’s a body of work. I rarely have ever said the word “piece.” I’ve never made an art piece. My artworks are corpuses. They’re large bodies of activity of different forms and conversations. Sometimes, when we in the studio come up with an important idea that needs a bigger audience, I think about the best ways to bring those ideas to the public. Filmmaking happens to be a very powerful art form of the moment in regards to how media channels work. In that respect, documentary filmmaking is an instrument in the array of tools that I use to express my ideas. Do you ever feel the urge to escape to a certain art form when one particular form is occupying too much creative energy? My practice spans conventional art making, sculpture, ephemeral, performance–you name it–in technology and media. But I always say that technology projects are usually “hurry, hurry, hurry,” media projects are “hurry up and wait,” and art world projects are “wait, wait, wait.” There’s an emotional currency that I always try to stagger in those works. People say, “It’s almost like you have three or four careers.” I do. I just layer them. I respect mastery and I respec…

Saige England: Capitalism. Colonialism. Why the DP World money trail leads to destruction.
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date: 2026-07-23T03:24:30Z
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description: Last week a packed meeting in Lyttleton denounced the takeover attempt by DP World of the Lyttleton Port. This is a local, regional, national, and international issue as Saige England explains the implications in her second article about the issue. COMMENTARY: By Saige England Auckland rejected DP World. Environmental campaigners and campaigners for protecting assets,
encoded: Last week a packed meeting in Lyttleton denounced the takeover attempt by DP World of the Lyttleton Port. This is a local, regional, national, and international issue as Saige England explains the implications in her second article about the issue. COMMENTARY: By Saige England Auckland rejected DP World. Environmental campaigners and campaigners for protecting assets, and campaigners for workers rights, believe Christchurch needs to do the same. This updated commentary on an important local, regional, national and international issue, includes environmental campaigner, Sara Campbell’s full speech. It also gives more background to the company toying with the port of Lyttleton. READ MORE: A tale of power being taken from the people and handed to predator companies — Saige England DP World back story: From ports to proxy armies – tracing the UAE’s regional footprint in Sudan, Yemen and the Horn ‘He is one of us’: Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged conversations with Emirati billionaire Epstein flipped Israel’s Gaza-tested biometric scanners into Nigeria ports deal for UAE Dubai-based DP World replaces chief named in Epstein files Sultan took peep at Auckland Ports Back in 2009 (a year after Jeffrey Epstein was convicted — when he was still mates with the convicted sexual abuser and human trafficker), DP World’s head Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem was nosying around the port of Auckland. A few years later, the former DP World Group chairman and CEO, Sultan Bin Sulayem, and by then, convicted sex offender Epstein, got down to some buddy boy business with the Zionist state of Israel. “I am in Berlin with the Israeli defence minister, I have told him about you and Sheik Mohamed,” Bin Sulayem wrote to Epstein in March 2012. “He would like to meet you both.” And in another email Epstein told Sultan bin Sulayem (DP World chairman and chief executive up until February this year) that he “loved the torture videos”. Parasitic corporations Corporations like this are parasites. These shar…

Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre blasts ‘misogynistic attack’ over MSG leadership
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-07-23T03:00:35Z
subject: Anna Naupa
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description: Asia Pacific Report The Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre has strongly condemned a reported “ultimatum” from the Malvatumauri National Council of Chiefs demanding that the appointment of a woman as Secretary-General of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) be revoked. The Vanuatu Daily Post reports that the council has warned that if the government fails to rescind
encoded: Asia Pacific Report The Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre has strongly condemned a reported “ultimatum” from the Malvatumauri National Council of Chiefs demanding that the appointment of a woman as Secretary-General of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) be revoked. The Vanuatu Daily Post reports that the council has warned that if the government fails to rescind the appointment by 30 July 2026, traditional leaders across the country will initiate customary action to challenge the decision. “This is a clear misogynistic attack on women’s leadership,” the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre said today in a statement. READ MORE: Malvatumauri demands revocation of Dr Naupa’s MSG DG appointment by July 30 Dr Anna Naupa‘s appointment is path-breaking for women and girls in Vanuatu and the region, marking the first time a ni-Vanuatu and a Pacific woman has been appointed to lead the MSG Secretariat,” the statement said. “Her appointment represents an important milestone for women’s leadership and participation in regional decision-making across Melanesia and the Pacific. “We support the statement by the Office of the Prime Minister in Vanuatu,” which pointed out that the Vanuatu government had nothing to do with the appointment as the MSG has its own recruitment process. “Women’s leadership across the Pacific is not up for negotiation,” added the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre. CEDAW signatory Vanuatu is a signatory to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The country also has a National Gender Equality Policy 2020-2030. According to the Daily Post, the controversy stems from the recent appointment of Dr Naupa, who is currently based in Australia for six months, while MSG Acting DG Ilan Kiloe oversees daily operations in Port Vila. A formal letter of concern was addressed to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on 6 January 2026, in which then acting president of the Malvatumauri National Council of Chiefs, Chief George Bumseng, outlined four k…

Aung San Suu Kyi’s son warns ASEAN against legitimizing Myanmar military government
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date: 2026-07-22T23:25:21Z
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Nauru’s government announces plans for embassy in Israel
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date: 2026-07-22T22:59:44Z
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description: By Christina Persico of RNZ Pacific Nauru’s government has announced plans to set up an embassy in Israel. The government said Cabinet had endorsed the deployment of a scoping mission to Israel, to assess the diplomatic, operational, and logistical requirements to establish the embassy. “A diplomatic presence in Israel will serve as an essential platform
encoded: By Christina Persico of RNZ Pacific Nauru’s government has announced plans to set up an embassy in Israel. The government said Cabinet had endorsed the deployment of a scoping mission to Israel, to assess the diplomatic, operational, and logistical requirements to establish the embassy. “A diplomatic presence in Israel will serve as an essential platform for advancing [Nauru’s] foreign policy priorities, promoting sustainable development, and deepening bilateral engagement with one of the region’s key partners,” the government said in a statement on Wednesday. READ MORE: Pro-Palestinian activists plan protest against ‘Israeli pond’ diplomacy push in Pacific Fiji opens embassy in Jerusalem Let peace govern security – A pastoral message from the Pacific Conference of Churches Other Pacific and Israeli diplomacy reports “The creation of an embassy in Israel represents a significant milestone in [Nauru’s] diplomatic outreach and underscores the nation’s dedication to expanding its global partnerships in support of national development and strategic cooperation.” The statement did not specify which city the embassy would be established in, but Israel’s foreign minister Gideon Saar said it would be in Jerusalem. In a translated social media post shared by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saar said the Nauruan embassy was expected to be the 10th embassy in Jerusalem, and the fifth since he took office, coming after he also reached an agreement with Colombia’s incoming foreign minister on a similar move. Fiji and Papua New Guinea are among several countries which have diplomatic missions in Jerusalem rather than Tel Aviv, which is controversial due to the sensitive nature of a territorial dispute between Israelis and Palestinians, who both claim Jerusalem as their capital. Fiji embassy in Jerusalem Fiji opened its embassy in Jerusalem in September 2025. Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka said earlier last year that establishing an embassy was “not a blanket endorsemen…

Morena Baccarin: Venezuela needs our support
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creator: International Rescue Committee
date: 2026-07-22T21:02:44Z
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Max Blumenthal reports back from Iran at DC’s Busboys and Poets
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‘Quantum entanglement’: Love song asserts China’s South China Sea claims
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creator: Taejun Kang for RFA
date: 2026-07-22T20:38:57Z
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description: Experts say music video aims to humanize China’s coast guard while reflecting Beijing’s stance in the disputed sea.
encoded: The video opens with an aerial shot of a lone China Coast Guard ship at sea on a calm day, as soft, whimsical music carries us into China’s latest propaganda song. “Azure sky, crystal sea, chasing gulls, blazing sun, patrolling the South China Sea, guarding endless loneliness, endless vastness, and guarding this sea, this peace and harmony.” The lyrics of the first verse introduce the setting – this is a song about an enlisted member of the coast guard stationed on the disputed sea, thinking longingly about someone he loves back home. In later verses, he asks her what color the clouds are where she is, what perfume she’s wearing, and if she’s drinking coffee or tea, because he’d like a taste too. The song, “I Miss You on the South China Sea,” is Beijing’s latest attempt to use popular culture to shape international perceptions of one of Asia’s most contentious maritime disputes, analysts told Radio Free Asia. The music video was released this month by Chinese state media to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the 2016 international arbitral tribunal ruling that rejected the legal basis of Beijing’s sweeping claims over most of the disputed waters. Though the video has been released in both Mandarin and English — with the latter seemingly intended to appeal to an international audience — the analysts questioned whether this campaign is likely to resonate beyond viewers and listeners already sympathetic to China. “China’s state media spends little time actually thinking about how the message will be received elsewhere,” Ed Moon, an independent cross-Strait analyst and founder of intelligence site Strait Signal, told RFA. “Its major focus is on ensuring that the overall message correctly aligns with the official narrative.” At one point, the singer uses a quantum physics term romantically, telling his beloved that he would cross time and space to prove with her “what quantum entanglement is.” But despite the apparent awkwardness of the English lyrics, the song attemp…

Loving sports in an age of authoritarians: A conversation with Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff
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Forensic Architecture report reconstructs Minab school strike
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US retreats from bases – Max on Judging Freedom
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Exclusive: Kim Aris warns ASEAN against legitimizing Myanmar military government
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description: Aung San Suu Kyi’s son demands proof of mother’s life, urging world leaders to prioritize rights over diplomacy.
encoded: Read RFA coverage of this story in Burmese In the months following the 2021 Myanmar military coup, ASEAN banned the junta from attending its annual summit. Earlier this year, junta chief Min Aung Hlaing oversaw staged, multi-phased elections which resulted in his being named President in April. On July 12-13, ASEAN foreign ministers held their first direct, in-person informal meeting with Myanmar’s foreign minister in Bangkok. Kim Aris, son of Aung San Suu Kyi, spoke to RFA on July 20 about ASEAN’s recent engagement with Myanmar, and about his mother who, according to the military-backed government, was transferred from prison to house arrest in April. The interview has been edited for length: RFA: ASEAN recently met with Myanmar’s foreign minister who told them that Aung San Suu Kyi is in good health even though she’s still being detained. He also referred to her as “a sister,” telling them that the military authorities would take care of her. What were your reactions to those remarks? Kim Aris: I was shocked. If that’s how they treat their sister, I don’t want to know how they treat other people. They still have not allowed me to have any contact with her, and have been denied her basic human rights. And while they say they’re looking after her, they’re not providing any evidence to support that fact. And they’re saying that no one’s allowed to talk to her or see her until after she has finished serving her sentence. So she would be over 100 years old by that point. I don’t know where she’s been held or how she is. And she’s over 81 years old now with ongoing health problems. And the fact that she’s been held in probably very bad conditions in a prison in Naypyidaw for the last five years. That makes me extremely concerned. RFA: Have you heard any updates about your mother recently? Kim Aris: No, nothing. The last I heard was when there was some news saying that she had been moved to house arrest. But again, there was no evidence to support that. This undated phot…

Intruder enters ‘Today’ show studio, shouts racial slur at anchor
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description: NBC News anchor Craig Melvin was harassed by a man who shouted a racial slur at him after entering an unauthorized area near the “Today” show studio in New York, New York, on July 16, 2026.The man, Andrew Truelove, who has a criminal history and severa...
encoded: NBC News anchor Craig Melvin was harassed by a man who shouted a racial slur at him after entering an unauthorized area near the “Today” show studio in New York, New York, on July 16, 2026. The man, Andrew Truelove, who has a criminal history and several cases pending in New York, was arrested after the incident, according to NBC News. Truelove told police he was looking for weather anchor Al Roker, WABC-TV reported. But the suspect approached Melvin instead, who then alerted security, according to a “Today” show statement. In its statement, the show said no one was hurt during the encounter, and that it would cooperate with law enforcement. “NBC and TODAY take the safety and security of our employees, talent, staff and guests extremely seriously,” the statement said. “We are reviewing the incident and our security protocols and remain committed to providing a safe and secure environment for everyone who works at and visits our studios.” Hey everyone. I’ve heard from so many of you over the last few hours. I’m doing just fine. Thanks for reaching out. I’m looking forward to seeing you tomorrow morning on @TODAYshow. Statement from NBC News' TODAY: There was a security incident this morning at the TODAY show… — Craig Melvin (@craigmelvin) July 16, 2026 During a broadcast on July 17, Melvin said the man was apprehended quickly, and that he was fine. “We are just very happy that everyone is safe,” he said. Truelove is charged with burglary as a hate crime and menacing as a hate crime. This content originally appeared on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database and was authored by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database.

How Israel has used sexualized violence as a weapon of settler colonialism from 1948 to today
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description: This story originally appeared in Mondoweiss on July 21, 2026. It is shared here with permission. In December 2023, former State Department official, Josh Paul told CNN anchor, Christiane Amanpour that during his tenure in the foreign service, he...
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Why Sean Penn Skipped the Oscars for Ukraine
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description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 22, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 22, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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UN News Today 22 July 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
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description: Nicaragua: UN rights chief Türk deplores new clampdown on political freedomsPitfalls of critical minerals extraction in spotlight at Security CouncilAfghanistan: flash flooding creates new challenges for vulnerable families: OCHA
encoded: Nicaragua: UN rights chief Türk deplores new clampdown on political freedomsPitfalls of critical minerals extraction in spotlight at Security CouncilAfghanistan: flash flooding creates new challenges for vulnerable families: OCHA This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

Don’t Say Israel: Analyzing and Combating Censorship and Propaganda
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creator: Kiley
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description: On this episode of the Project Censored Show, co-host Mickey Huff speaks with media scholar Robin Andersen about her latest book, The Complicit Lens: US Media’s Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza. They discuss the distortions in Western media covera...
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Don’t Say Israel: Analyzing and Combating Censorship and Propaganda
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description: On this episode of the Project Censored Show, co-host Mickey Huff speaks with media scholar Robin Andersen about her latest book, The Complicit Lens: US Media’s Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza. They discuss the distortions in Western media covera...
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Press Freedom Under Pressure: Media, Academia, and Gaza
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creator: Kiley
date: 2026-07-22T16:46:15Z
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description: On this episode of the Project Censored show, co-host Mickey Huff talks with media scholar Bill Yousman about press censorship, establishment propaganda, and attacks on academic freedom around issues pertaining to the war on Gaza. Yousman recently edit...
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Andrew Tate faces new rape and sex trafficking charges
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date: 2026-07-22T16:17:35Z
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Based on viral fake letter, Republic, News 18 claim Jamaat-e-Islami support to CJP
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description: A news bulletin from media outlet Republic on July 21 claimed that Bangladeshi Islamist political party, Jamaat-e-Islami, had openly expressed support for the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on July 20, further linking it to an alleged “anti-India toolkit”. “Was this a coordinated effort by this anti-India toolkit..?” asks the reporter […]
encoded: A news bulletin from media outlet Republic on July 21 claimed that Bangladeshi Islamist political party, Jamaat-e-Islami, had openly expressed support for the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on July 20, further linking it to an alleged “anti-India toolkit”. “Was this a coordinated effort by this anti-India toolkit..?” asks the reporter in the bulletin, referring to the youth-led protests, alleging that the same “toolkit” was employed during Shaheen Bagh, Red Fort, and other protests. Additionally, the anchor claims that CJP “goons” and “hooligans” attacked police personnel, resulting in injuries to several “innocent” officers. #CJPGoons Exposed | Bangladesh’s Jamaat-E-Islami openly backs CJP Protests Tune in to watch the #latest updates: https://t.co/qvBEwD05Rz#CJPProtest #CJP #JantarMantar #ParliamentChalo #NEETProtest #StonePelting #PoliceAttack #DelhiProtest #StudentMovement #RepublicTV… pic.twitter.com/cj0LHjHkpb — Republic (@republic) July 21, 2026 The bulletin cites an alleged “letter” or a “formal note” from the Jamaat-e-Islami supporting the students protesting in India. An image purportedly showing the “letter” dated July 21, 2026, allegedly issued by the Jamaat-e-Islami, claiming their support for the student movement in India, has been widely circulated on social media. Media outlet New18 published an article with the viral image of the letter titled ‘Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami Sent ‘Support Letter’ To Delhi Protesters? Exclusive From Intel Sources’. “Agencies are verifying the authenticity of the letter, but officials underline that any involvement of foreign political or ideological groups warrants close scrutiny,” read the strapline of the report. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-317423 size-full" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/WhatsApp-Image-2026-07-22-at-6.14.42-PM.jpeg" alt="" width="1080" height="932" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/0…

Trump Says Images of Bombed Iran School Could Be "AI" But Study Confirms U.S. Killed 140+ in Strike
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"Empire of Abuse": MAGA Influencers Andrew & Tristan Tate Arrested on Rape & Sex Trafficking Charges
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 22, 2026
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Trump wants to deny healthcare to impoverished cancer patients. Welcome to the great American cruelty regime.
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CPJ, partners demand release of Egyptian cartoonist Ashraf Omar on arrest anniversary
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-07-22T14:44:34Z
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
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subject: Legal Action
subject: Media Worker
subject: Sources
subject: action
subject: Anniversary
subject: arrest
subject: ashraf
subject: cartoonist
subject: committee
subject: cpj
subject: demand’
subject: egyptian
subject: imprisoned
subject: Journalists
subject: legal
subject: Media
subject: omar
subject: partners
subject: protect
subject: release
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined partner organizations on Wednesday to mark Ashraf Omar’s second arrest anniversary by calling for his immediate release. In the letter, the signatories voice concern over the significant time that has passed since the Al-Manassa cartoonist was arrested in his home on July 22, 2024 and their refusal to accept...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined partner organizations on Wednesday to mark Ashraf Omar’s second arrest anniversary by calling for his immediate release. In the letter, the signatories voice concern over the significant time that has passed since the Al-Manassa cartoonist was arrested in his home on July 22, 2024 and their refusal to accept Omar’s arbitrary detention, while awaiting a trial that “exploits anti-terrorism legislations for repressive purposes.” On November 15, 2025, the State Security Prosecution referred the case to the Cairo Criminal Court, charging Omar with “financing terrorism for the benefit of a terrorist group” and “participation in a terrorist group.” The trial, which had been scheduled to begin before the Cairo Criminal Court first on May 10, 2026, and then on July 13, has since been postponed to October 12. Egypt remains one of the world’s leading jailers of journalists, with 18 currently behind bars. Read the full letter here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Huda Asfour performs at Democracy Now!
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-22T13:59:53Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Mob vandalizing SUV: Bihar video falsely viral as Muslim CJP protestor torching BJP leader’s car
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creator: Prantik Ali
date: 2026-07-22T13:25:54Z
subject: Alt News
subject: Sources
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subject: bihar
subject: bjp
subject: car
subject: cjp
subject: falsely
subject: leaders
subject: mob
subject: muslim
subject: News
subject: Politics
subject: protestor
subject: sources
subject: suv
subject: torching
subject: vandalizing
subject: Video
subject: viral
description: A video, around 37 seconds in length, is viral on social media, showing a Muslim man trying to set fire to a black SUV. It is being shared as showing a Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protestor setting ablaze a car of a BJP worker in broad daylight. In the video, policemen can be spotted negotiating […]
encoded: A video, around 37 seconds in length, is viral on social media, showing a Muslim man trying to set fire to a black SUV. It is being shared as showing a Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protestor setting ablaze a car of a BJP worker in broad daylight. In the video, policemen can be spotted negotiating with the visibly enraged Muslim man. X user Wokeflix (@wokeflix) shared the clip on July 21 with the caption, “CJP’s Abdul torching a BJP workers car in broad daylight”. At the time of this article being written, the post has managed to attain more than 80,000 views, and over 2,000 reshares. (Archive) CJP’s Abdul torching a BJP workers car in broad daylight. Police standing there watching helplessly. pic.twitter.com/oBwtYgnvxi — Wokeflix (@wokeflix) July 21, 2026 Another X user, @AstroCounselKK, shared the clip with a similar claim. “This is the reality of this protest… CJP’s Mulla torching a BJP workers car in broad daylight,” they wrote. (Archive) This is the reality of this protest .. CJP’s Mulla torching a BJP workers car in broad daylight. Police standing there watching helplessly.. How peaceful this protest is .. pic.twitter.com/UmaNY9Vhxb — AstroCounselKK (@AstroCounselKK) July 21, 2026 Zee News posted the video on its YouTube channel on July 21 — but did not mention any context to it — leaving it on the audience to come to their own conclusions. The caption simply stated, in Hindi, that a Maulana (Muslim religious leader) had been spotted setting fire to the car of a BJP worker. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-317365" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot_12.jpg" alt="" width="1533" height="789" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot_12.jpg 1533w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot_12-300x154.jpg 300w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot_12-1024x527.jpg 1024w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Scre…

Ukraine Strikes Russia’s Largest Online Retailer Wildberries Again #shorts #news
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-07-22T12:58:35Z
subject: Radio Free Europe/RL
subject: Sources
subject: #shorts
subject: again
subject: europerl
subject: free
subject: largest
subject: News
subject: online
subject: radio
subject: retailer
subject: russia’s
subject: sources
subject: Strikes
subject: Ukraine
subject: wildberries
description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Trump Says Images of Bombed Iran School Could Be “AI” But Study Confirms U.S. Killed 140+ in Strike
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-22T12:47:20Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: 140
subject: 8220ai8221
subject: bombed
subject: but
subject: confirms
subject: could
subject: Democracy
subject: Images
subject: iran
subject: killed
subject: now
subject: says
subject: school
subject: sources
subject: strike
subject: Study
subject: trump
description: On February 28, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, missiles landed on Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in the Iranian city of Minab, in a civilian area near the Strait of Hormuz. At least 121 schoolchildren were killed along with 2...
encoded: On February 28, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, missiles landed on Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in the Iranian city of Minab, in a civilian area near the Strait of Hormuz. At least 121 schoolchildren were killed along with 26 teachers. Forensic Architecture and Sky News analyzed the attack, finding that the neighborhood was bombed a second time while families and rescuers were still on the ground. The Trump administration has repeatedly refused to take responsibility for the school strike, with President Trump even suggesting that images of the destruction were AI-generated. “There were images and videos available from the time of the strikes,” says Samaneh Moafi, assistant director of research at Forensic Architecture. “A second wave of strikes hit, and it’s in these ones that we do see the profile of a Tomahawk. And the only party within the war that has this missile is the U.S.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Unlimited Money for Bombs”: Democrats Slam Hegseth for Seeking $67B for Iran War
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-22T12:42:28Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: 67b
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subject: bombs8221
subject: Democracy
subject: democrats
subject: for
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subject: iran
subject: Money
subject: now
subject: seeking
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subject: sources
subject: war
description: The U.S. is continuing to strike Iran for an 11th straight day. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday revealed the cost of the war on Iran has soared to over $37 billion during an appearance before the Senate Appropriations Committee. Howe...
encoded: The U.S. is continuing to strike Iran for an 11th straight day. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday revealed the cost of the war on Iran has soared to over $37 billion during an appearance before the Senate Appropriations Committee. However, independent estimates and media reports based on internal leaks suggest the true figure is much higher. Hegseth is now seeking $80 billion more from Congress, including $67 billion for the war on Iran. “You’re requesting billions of dollars in supplemental funding for a war that you said would last for weeks and that the president has no plan or ability to end,” said Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, during the hearing. “You are asking for unlimited money for bombs when people can’t feed their families.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Empire of Abuse”: MAGA Influencers Andrew & Tristan Tate Arrested on Rape & Sex Trafficking Charges
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-22T12:17:48Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: 8220empire
subject: abuse8221
subject: andrew
subject: Arrested
subject: charges
subject: Democracy
subject: influencers
subject: maga
subject: now
subject: rape
subject: Sex
subject: sources
subject: tate
subject: trafficking?
subject: tristan
description: Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami after British authorities issued new rape and sex trafficking charges against them. The brothers, dual British-U.S. citizens, are prominent in the far-right, hypermasculine online community k...
encoded: Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami after British authorities issued new rape and sex trafficking charges against them. The brothers, dual British-U.S. citizens, are prominent in the far-right, hypermasculine online community known as the “manosphere.” They previously lived in Romania, where in 2023 prosecutors filed a criminal indictment against them for human trafficking, while Andrew faces a rape charge. Despite the charges, they were freed from travel restrictions in Romania early last year after White House officials reportedly took an interest in their case. “Andrew Tate has become a really important political force for the MAGA movement,” explains Heidi Blake, a reporter for The New Yorker. Despite the Tate brothers’ popularity with prominent figures in the U.S. right wing, including Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk, Blake says the fact that the extradition request has been greenlit by the State Department suggests the Trump administration won’t be protecting the Tates. Blake’s recent investigation, “Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse,” documents the Tate brothers’ systematic exploitation of women over the past decade. “What I was hearing from women I spoke to was an incredibly similar description of the way Andrew Tate would assault them, by choking them either 'til they passed out or ’til they couldn't breathe, raping them,” says Blake. “Often they describe being beaten over the head, as well, during these assaults.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for July 22, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-22T12:00:00Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: 2026
subject: Democracy
subject: for
subject: headlines
subject: july
subject: now
subject: sources
description: Defense Secretary Hegseth Testifies U.S. War on Iran Has Cost $37.5 Billion, Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Warn Shipping Companies Against Using Saudi Arabian Ports, Israeli Military Builds Giant Barrier Separating the Portion of the Gaza Strip It Controls, Three Villages in Southern Lebanon Begin to Implement Phased Withdrawal of Israeli Forces, Appeals Court Overturns Decision to Release Palestinian Rights Activist Mohsen Mahdawi, Trump Administration Arrests Record Number of Immigrants in June, Federal Judge Prohibits DHS from Deporting Key Witness in Fatal Shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin from Revoking Work Permits of Immigrants with Temporary Protected Status, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Ends Requirement for Employers to Collect Demographic Data, Police Detain Congress Party Leader Rahul Gandhi as Student-Led Anti-Gov’t Protests Continue in India, Trump Admin Pauses More Than $1 Billion in Medicaid Funding to California and Minnesota, Cyclosporiasis Outbreak Sickens Thousands of People in the U.S., French Lawmakers Pass Bill Banning Social Media for Children Under 15, Njoki Njehû, Pan-African Feminist Educator and Advocate, Dies at 60
encoded: Defense Secretary Hegseth Testifies U.S. War on Iran Has Cost $37.5 Billion Yemen's Houthi Rebels Warn Shipping Companies Against Using Saudi Arabian Ports Israeli Military Builds Giant Barrier Separating the Portion of the Gaza Strip It Controls Three Villages in Southern Lebanon Begin to Implement Phased Withdrawal of Israeli Forces Appeals Court Overturns Decision to Release Palestinian Rights Activist Mohsen Mahdawi Trump Administration Arrests Record Number of Immigrants in June Federal Judge Prohibits DHS from Deporting Key Witness in Fatal Shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin from Revoking Work Permits of Immigrants with Temporary Protected Status Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Ends Requirement for Employers to Collect Demographic Data Police Detain Congress Party Leader Rahul Gandhi as Student-Led Anti-Gov't Protests Continue in India Trump Admin Pauses More Than $1 Billion in Medicaid Funding to California and Minnesota Cyclosporiasis Outbreak Sickens Thousands of People in the U.S. French Lawmakers Pass Bill Banning Social Media for Children Under 15 Njoki Njehû, Pan-African Feminist Educator and Advocate, Dies at 60 This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-07-22 Wednesday
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-22T12:00:00Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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description: Democracy Now! Wednesday, July 22, 2026
encoded: Democracy Now! Wednesday, July 22, 2026 This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Old video from Mumbai falsely circulated as Naseeruddin Shah joining Jantar Mantar stir
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creator: Amarabati Bhattacharyya
date: 2026-07-22T11:17:57Z
subject: Alt News
subject: Sources
subject: alt
subject: circulated
subject: falsely
subject: from
subject: jantar
subject: joining
subject: mantar,
subject: mumbai
subject: naseeruddin
subject: News
subject: old
subject: Politics
subject: Shah
subject: sources
subject: stir
subject: Video
description: On July 20, the day the CJP-led ‘Sansad Chalo’ protest-march saw clashes between youth protesters and security personnel in Delhi, News18 published a report at 10 pm titled, ‘Naseeruddin Shah Reaches Jantar Mantar With Sons Imaad, Vivaan Amid CJP Protest’. The report was based on a viral clip being circulated on social media showing Naseeruddin […]
encoded: On July 20, the day the CJP-led ‘Sansad Chalo’ protest-march saw clashes between youth protesters and security personnel in Delhi, News18 published a report at 10 pm titled, ‘Naseeruddin Shah Reaches Jantar Mantar With Sons Imaad, Vivaan Amid CJP Protest’. The report was based on a viral clip being circulated on social media showing Naseeruddin Shah, standing in the midst of a crowd along with his son Vivaan Shah. It was claimed that the footage showed Shah and his sons at the Jantar Mantar protest. (Archive) <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-317352" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Copy-of-NEW-Alt-News-Long-Story-Carousel-34-765x1024.jpg" alt="" width="765" height="1024" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Copy-of-NEW-Alt-News-Long-Story-Carousel-34-765x1024.jpg 765w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Copy-of-NEW-Alt-News-Long-Story-Carousel-34-224x300.jpg 224w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Copy-of-NEW-Alt-News-Long-Story-Carousel-34-768x1028.jpg 768w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Copy-of-NEW-Alt-News-Long-Story-Carousel-34.jpg 1009w" sizes="(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px" /> The viral video was shared on Instagram by user @badlaw.news on the same day with the same claim. The video garnered over 1 million likes and was shared over 56,000 times. The caption, translated from Hindi, read, “Naseeruddin Shah and his sons, Imaad and Vivaan, reached Jantar Mantar, and thoughtfully looked at the crowd and chaos.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by BADLAW NEWS (@badlaw.news) The same clip was amplified by user @LakhanmeenaIND on X. The post said “Amidst the ongoing student movement at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, Naseeruddin Shah arrived with his sons Imad and Vivan Shah…” [Archive] दिल्ली के जंतर-मंतर पर चल रहे छात्र आंदोलन के बीच नसीरुद्दीन शाह अपने बेटों इमाद और विवान शाह के साथ पहुंचे। उन्होंने कोई सार्वजनिक बयान नहीं…

Media avoids Israel’s sadism like a crocodile-infested moat
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-07-22T11:09:35Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Crocodiles
subject: Forced disappearances
subject: Gaza Freedom Flotilla
subject: Gideon Levy
subject: Haaretz
subject: Israeli gulags
subject: Israeli prisons
subject: Itamar Ben-Gvir
subject: Ketziot prison
subject: Marwan Barghouti
subject: Occupied Palestine
subject: Palestinian Prisoners
subject: Sources
subject: West Bank pogroms
subject: Analysis
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: avoids
subject: bank
subject: barbarity:
subject: barghouti:
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subject: Crime
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subject: Decolonisation
subject: disappearances
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: environment
subject: Featured
subject: flotilla
subject: forced
subject: Freedom
subject: gaza
subject: gideon
subject: Global
subject: gulags:
subject: haaretz
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: israel’s
subject: israeli
subject: itamar
subject: Justice
subject: ketziot
subject: levy
subject: like
subject: marwan
subject: Media
subject: military
subject: moat
subject: new zealand
subject: occupied
subject: Opinion
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Palestine
subject: palestinian
subject: pogroms
subject: Political Correctness
subject: Politics
subject: prison
subject: Prisoners
subject: Prisons
subject: report
subject: sadism
subject: Security
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
subject: west
description: COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose Israel’s Environment Ministry has removed the protected status of Nile crocodiles to allow them to be used in a moat guarding the country’s largest detainment camp, a move requested by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. The story has been widely covered by Israel’s English-language press, alternative media worldwide, and news sites
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose Israel’s Environment Ministry has removed the protected status of Nile crocodiles to allow them to be used in a moat guarding the country’s largest detainment camp, a move requested by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. The story has been widely covered by Israel’s English-language press, alternative media worldwide, and news sites in non-English-speaking countries. But, in the Anglosphere, there is a virtual news blackout. READ MORE: Israel strips crocodiles of protected status to pave way for crocodile-infested moat — Democracy Now! Israel plans ‘alligator Alcatraz’ for Palestinian prisoners Other Israeli prison reports Searching within New Zealand and Australian internet domains yields nothing. In the UK, only The Telegraph has reported the story; the BBC and The Guardian do not deem it newsworthy. In the US, the only report I have seen was by the progressive independent outlet Democracy Now! It feels nigh on impossible that a similar event in Putin’s Russia, Iran, or any number of dictatorships would go unreported by the BBC, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Age, The New Zealand Herald, or the English-language newswires. Democracy Now’s headline — ”Israel strips crocodiles of protected status to pave way for crocodile-infested moat“ — is about as clickbaity as hard news gets. Barbarism as state policy Veteran Israeli journalist Gideon Levy wrote in Haaretz: “National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is taking Israel to the next stage in its development: barbarism as a legal and explicit state policy.” “Sadism is no longer just for deviants; it is the new political correctness,” he continued. “After years in which barbarity and sadism toward Palestinians were hidden as something shameful and repressed — and mainly as the exception to the rule — Ben-Gvir is moving them to centre stage to great applause from some of the crowd and silence from the rest.” A relative in Israel messaged me asking whether I had seen the crocodil…

DN! Wednesday, July 22, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now! for Broadcasters - HD MP4
date: 2026-07-22T09:45:45Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: 2026
subject: Democracy
subject: july
subject: now
subject: sources
subject: wednesday
description: Wednesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD
encoded: Wednesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! for Broadcasters - HD MP4 and was authored by Democracy Now! for Broadcasters - HD MP4.

Hungary’s initial media reforms are promising but lasting safeguards still needed
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-07-22T09:36:42Z
subject: Audiovisual Media Services Directive
subject: Censored
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: European Media Freedom Act
subject: Foreign Agents Law
subject: General Data Protection Regulation
subject: Harassed
subject: Legal Action
subject: Media Capture
subject: SLAPP
subject: Sources
subject: Spyware
subject: ACT
subject: action
subject: agents
subject: are
subject: audiovisual
subject: but
subject: capture
subject: censored
subject: committee
subject: Data
subject: directive
subject: european
subject: european commission
subject: european union
subject: foreign
subject: Freedom
subject: General
subject: harassed
subject: hungary’s
subject: initial
subject: Journalists
subject: lasting
subject: Law
subject: legal
subject: Media
subject: needed
subject: promising
subject: protect
subject: protection
subject: reforms
subject: Regulation
subject: safeguards
subject: services
subject: slapp
subject: sources
subject: spyware
subject: still
subject: Surveillance
description: Hungary’s new government has taken promising first steps to restore press freedom after years of state capture under former prime minister Viktor Orbán, but authorities must now move beyond quick fixes to deliver transparent, durable reforms that ensure the media is protected from any and all political interference. After his Tisza party won a landslide...
encoded: Hungary’s new government has taken promising first steps to restore press freedom after years of state capture under former prime minister Viktor Orbán, but authorities must now move beyond quick fixes to deliver transparent, durable reforms that ensure the media is protected from any and all political interference. After his Tisza party won a landslide victory in April elections, Péter Magyar’s government pledged to restore democratic norms, the rule of law, and media freedom following Orbán’s creation of one of the most sophisticated systems of media capture ever seen in the European Union. “Hungary has a historic opportunity not only to repair the damage of the past 16 years, but to build a pluralistic media system that serves the public and cannot be politically captured again. If Péter Magyar’s government succeeds, it could make Hungary a role model for other countries in Europe and beyond seeking to restore freedom of the press. But if the reforms do not go deep enough, or one party’s control is simply replaced by another’s, the opportunity will be squandered,” said Attila Mong, CPJ’s Europe representative. Magyar’s team have already taken steps to dismantle some of the Orbán-era measures that targeted journalists and placed public service media under political control, addressing several of CPJ’s pre-election recommendations. The new government must now move beyond symbolic steps and institutional quick fixes to deliver durable reforms that align with European Union standards to permanently protect media from all political interference. This process must be transparent and inclusive, with participation from journalists, professional organizations, and civil society. “Hungary is moving in the right direction but it is too early to declare victory. The government must deliver reforms that are effective, comprehensive and legally sound to create rules and institutions strong enough to protect the press from any and every future government,” said Mong. What has c…

How the Government’s Obligation to Keep Foreign Workers Safe Collided With Its Efforts to Keep Farms Afloat
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creator: Max Blau
date: 2026-07-22T09:00:00Z
subject: ProPublica
subject: Sources
subject: afloat
subject: collided
subject: efforts
subject: farms
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encoded: A laborer picks tomatoes on one of the few farms that participates in a voluntary initiative to protect workers from exploitation. Audra Melton for ProPublica It’s been nearly two years since I started reporting on abuses of foreign farmworkers in Georgia. Some of the workers I tracked down had come to the U.S. legally through the H-2A visa program and were harmed and exploited by labor contractors — despite protections that were supposed to be guaranteed by the federal government. During those two years, I’ve thought a lot about how the government’s obligation to keep foreign workers safe has collided with another priority: to help U.S. farmers stay in business. Farmers have long pushed for fewer H-2A regulations. That’s in part because of the skyrocketing costs of the program, which sets minimum hourly wages and requires that farmers pay for workers’ housing and transportation. As one Georgia farmer wrote last year in a letter to the U.S. Department of Labor, “It has felt like every policy that pertained to the H2A program was made focusing solely on the benefit of the migrant worker.” All of that brings to mind a freezing cold weekend in January 2025, early on in my reporting, when I showed up at a farmers’ conference in Savannah, Georgia. What the farmers sought at that gathering — and what happened in the months that followed — exemplifies the tension between keeping workers safe and keeping farms solvent. Read more <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="459" height="306" src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/h2a-supply-chain_promo-larger-4.jpg?w=459&h=306&crop=1" class="attachment-propublica-story-promo size-propublica-story-promo wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/h2a-supply-chain_promo-larger-4.jpg 3000w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/h2a-supply-chain_promo-larger-4.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/h2a-supply-chain_…

Most Utahns want to protect their national monuments. Trump had other plans.
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description: Utah's Republican politicians and the Trump administration said shrinking Bears Ears was what locals really wanted.
encoded: A majority of Utah’s residents opposed shrinking Bears Ears National Monument before President Donald Trump drastically slashed its size last week, according to multiple polls conducted over the past few years. Those findings contrast with statements from Utah’s political leaders who argued that the cuts reflected what Utahns want. President Donald Trump signed two executive orders shrinking Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments by roughly 90 percent each. He announced the change flanked by members of Utah’s congressional delegation and Governor Spencer Cox, all of them Republicans. Trump’s proclamation said the move “will better align the use of these public lands with the public interest,” citing the region’s deposits of critical minerals such as copper, nickel, and uranium, among others. On Monday, hundreds gathered outside the Governor’s Mansion in Salt Lake City to protest the cuts, part of efforts organized by the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance across the state to pressure lawmakers. The two monuments, which totaled about 3.3 million acres in southern Utah before Trump’s executive orders, were created by Democratic presidents despite protests from Utah’s elected Republican leaders. During the signing ceremony in the Oval Office, Utah Representative Celeste Maloy, a Republican, said that supporters of shrinking the monuments included “the locals who are worried about losing multiple uses on these federal lands,” and said that Trump was “listening to the people of Utah” in reducing the size of both monuments. “It was very unfair to the people of Utah,” Trump said, “and now fairness has been brought back.” But separate polls conducted before Trump shrank the monuments show that most Utahns and residents of other Mountain West states favored keeping their existing designations. “It is very contradictive of our findings,” said Michaelann Nelson, a professor of environmental rhetoric at the Utah State University campus in Price. “They’re kin…

What’s Behind India’s Student-Led Protests?
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Musician Charlotte Day Wilson on finding greatness
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description: You said in an interview that your advice to young musicians would be to study the greats. I’m curious, how do you define greatness?
encoded: You said in an interview that your advice to young musicians would be to study the greats. I’m curious, how do you define greatness? In terms of music, I would say just music that stands the test of time. When it came out, it was good. Five years later, it’s still good. How do you define greatness outside of music, like in your personal life or outside of the work sphere? Greatness, how do I define greatness outside of work? I don’t know if I would use the word greatness, but I think I personally aspire to just live a balanced life and have healthy relationships. If you can achieve that, it is actually a very big feat. It’s really hard to have all of the baskets in your life filled all at the same time. So when you say balance, are you talking about work-life balance? What are some of those baskets that you want to keep full? Yeah. I think having a healthy, romantic relationship, one that is very fulfilling. Based on my experience, that’s probably something that a lot of folks resonate with. Then, just having a healthy community, a strong community, being involved in the community that you live in. Knowing and helping your neighbors and being a supportive friend, being someone that people can actually rely on. Something that happens with musicians a lot of the time—or go-getters, high achievers, or people who are in the public—is they kind of start to seem unreachable to their community. That’s something that I’ve always tried to reject. I try to make sure that people know, “If I’m your neighbor, I will go over to your house and help you with whatever it is you need. If you’re my best friend and you need me to go shovel off your car, I will be there.” You know what I mean? I might not always be in town, but you should always feel comfortable to try me. You kind of got your start from an internship at the music label, Arts & Crafts. At the time, you were also working shifts as a janitor on the side to earn cash. So I’m curious, what kept you motivated and believing i…

Sara Duterte impeachment trial – Matibag says no hitman yet, but NBI has persons of interest
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description: By Dwight de Leon in Manila Philippines National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director Melvin Matibag says the agency is still in the process of investigating the identity of the alleged hitman whom Vice-President Sara Duterte hired to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Taking the witness stand of the impeachment court yesterday, Matibag said the NBI
encoded: By Dwight de Leon in Manila Philippines National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director Melvin Matibag says the agency is still in the process of investigating the identity of the alleged hitman whom Vice-President Sara Duterte hired to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Taking the witness stand of the impeachment court yesterday, Matibag said the NBI had “persons of interest” who could help lead them to the actual assassin whom the Vice-President allegedly spoke with. Duterte first said during her infamous virtual press conference on November 23, 2024, that she had reached out to an assassin to kill Marcos, First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos, and former speaker Martin Romualdez, if something bad were to happen to her. READ MORE: Special Rappler coverage of the Sara Duterte impeachment trial Other impeachment reports “I cannot disclose the identity of our persons of interest because… this is a continuing and open investigation,” Matibag said. “Our investigation will be compromised, and it will endanger our informants on the ground who can provide human intel.” <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="moz-reader-block-img" src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/VzldwuHEwSg/sddefault.jpg" alt="Lead prosecutor Jinky Luistro " width="640" height="480" data-srcset="https://img.youtube.com/vi/VzldwuHEwSg/default.jpg 120w, https://img.youtube.com/vi/VzldwuHEwSg/mqdefault.jpg 320w, https://img.youtube.com/vi/VzldwuHEwSg/hqdefault.jpg 480w, https://img.youtube.com/vi/VzldwuHEwSg/sddefault.jpg 640w" data-sizes="" data-src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/VzldwuHEwSg/sddefault.jpg" /> Lead prosecutor Jinky Luistro conducted the direct examination of Matibag. Image: Rappler Lead prosecutor Jinky Luistro conducted the direct examination of Matibag, who said that the agency was treating Duterte’s statement not as a threat, but as a “plan” to kill the chief executive. The prosecution’s line of questioning led Matibag to link Duterte’s November 2024 statement with two other statements re…

Sara Duterte impeachment trial – Matibag says no hitman yet, but NBI has persons of interest
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description: By Dwight de Leon in Manila Philippines National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director Melvin Matibag says the agency is still in the process of investigating the identity of the alleged hitman whom Vice-President Sara Duterte hired to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Taking the witness stand of the impeachment court yesterday, Matibag said the NBI
encoded: By Dwight de Leon in Manila Philippines National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director Melvin Matibag says the agency is still in the process of investigating the identity of the alleged hitman whom Vice-President Sara Duterte hired to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Taking the witness stand of the impeachment court yesterday, Matibag said the NBI had “persons of interest” who could help lead them to the actual assassin whom the Vice-President allegedly spoke with. Duterte first said during her infamous virtual press conference on November 23, 2024, that she had reached out to an assassin to kill Marcos, First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos, and former speaker Martin Romualdez, if something bad were to happen to her. READ MORE: Special Rappler coverage of the Sara Duterte impeachment trial Other impeachment reports “I cannot disclose the identity of our persons of interest because… this is a continuing and open investigation,” Matibag said. “Our investigation will be compromised, and it will endanger our informants on the ground who can provide human intel.” <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="moz-reader-block-img" src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/VzldwuHEwSg/sddefault.jpg" alt="Lead prosecutor Jinky Luistro " width="640" height="480" data-srcset="https://img.youtube.com/vi/VzldwuHEwSg/default.jpg 120w, https://img.youtube.com/vi/VzldwuHEwSg/mqdefault.jpg 320w, https://img.youtube.com/vi/VzldwuHEwSg/hqdefault.jpg 480w, https://img.youtube.com/vi/VzldwuHEwSg/sddefault.jpg 640w" data-sizes="" data-src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/VzldwuHEwSg/sddefault.jpg" /> Lead prosecutor Jinky Luistro conducted the direct examination of Matibag. Image: Rappler Lead prosecutor Jinky Luistro conducted the direct examination of Matibag, who said that the agency was treating Duterte’s statement not as a threat, but as a “plan” to kill the chief executive. The prosecution’s line of questioning led Matibag to link Duterte’s November 2024 statement with two other statements re…

Why the Trump administration is running scared of the global criminal court in The Hague
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-07-22T05:56:43Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
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description: BP Daily The strongest sign that the International Criminal Court (ICC) still has teeth is that the most powerful administration in the world is trying to pull them out. Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared this week that the Trump administration would use “all the tools at our government’s disposal” to “dismantle” the ICC, calling
encoded: BP Daily The strongest sign that the International Criminal Court (ICC) still has teeth is that the most powerful administration in the world is trying to pull them out. Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared this week that the Trump administration would use “all the tools at our government’s disposal” to “dismantle” the ICC, calling it a body run by “smug globalists” and “hostile Third World governments” whose investigations into US officials would mean “the death of the US as a sovereign and independent nation”. Analysts and legal observers say the real motivation may have less to do with protecting American soldiers and more to do with protecting the people currently in power. READ MORE: Trump administration vows to ‘disable’ International Criminal Court NZ called on to back international law in ICC vote – ‘don’t throw in towel’ Mamdani: Netanyahu is a war criminal, but New York cannot arrest him Other ICC reports The ICC, based in The Hague in the Netherlands, was established in 2002 to prosecute war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity. The US has never ratified the Rome Statute, meaning the court does not have automatic jurisdiction over American officials. Congress reinforced that position the same year by passing the American Service-Members’ Protection Act, which prohibits cooperation with ICC investigations and authorises the president to use military force to free any American detained by the court — a provision widely known as the “Hague Invasion Act”. What has shifted is the scale of potential exposure. Trump launched a war against Iran that legal scholars describe as illegal under international law. A missile strike on the first day of the war on February 28 killed more than 100 children at a school in Minab in the southeastern Iran, with a preliminary military investigation concluding the US was likely responsible. Mamdani: Netanyahu is a war criminal, but New York cannot arrest him https://t.co/8rHXkij1xH via @AJEnglish — David Robie (@Davi…

Why the Trump administration is running scared of the global criminal court in The Hague
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-07-22T05:56:43Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
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description: BP Daily The strongest sign that the International Criminal Court (ICC) still has teeth is that the most powerful administration in the world is trying to pull them out. Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared this week that the Trump administration would use “all the tools at our government’s disposal” to “dismantle” the ICC, calling
encoded: BP Daily The strongest sign that the International Criminal Court (ICC) still has teeth is that the most powerful administration in the world is trying to pull them out. Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared this week that the Trump administration would use “all the tools at our government’s disposal” to “dismantle” the ICC, calling it a body run by “smug globalists” and “hostile Third World governments” whose investigations into US officials would mean “the death of the US as a sovereign and independent nation”. Analysts and legal observers say the real motivation may have less to do with protecting American soldiers and more to do with protecting the people currently in power. READ MORE: Trump administration vows to ‘disable’ International Criminal Court NZ called on to back international law in ICC vote – ‘don’t throw in towel’ Mamdani: Netanyahu is a war criminal, but New York cannot arrest him Other ICC reports The ICC, based in The Hague in the Netherlands, was established in 2002 to prosecute war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity. The US has never ratified the Rome Statute, meaning the court does not have automatic jurisdiction over American officials. Congress reinforced that position the same year by passing the American Service-Members’ Protection Act, which prohibits cooperation with ICC investigations and authorises the president to use military force to free any American detained by the court — a provision widely known as the “Hague Invasion Act”. What has shifted is the scale of potential exposure. Trump launched a war against Iran that legal scholars describe as illegal under international law. A missile strike on the first day of the war on February 28 killed more than 100 children at a school in Minab in the southeastern Iran, with a preliminary military investigation concluding the US was likely responsible. Mamdani: Netanyahu is a war criminal, but New York cannot arrest him https://t.co/8rHXkij1xH via @AJEnglish — David Robie (@Davi…

Trump’s Secret Weapon to Steal the Midterms? A Frat Boy FBI Director in Moscow
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2026-07-22T03:11:00Z
subject: Gaslit Nation
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description: Sending FBI Director Kash Patel to Moscow right before the Midterms is like sending a coked-up frat boy into a whorehouse in hell, and the FSB will eat him alive. As Trump pushes the SAVE Act to disenfranchise millions, is he calling in Russian reinforcements to steal Congress? Can we overcome a gutted Voting Rights Act, MAGA poll taxes, and Russian cyber warfare and disinformation brainrotting? Yes. By treating our vote as sacred and doing the unglamorous, powerful grassroots work that wins elections–and ensured Zohran Mamdani defeated Andrew Cuomo not once, but twice. We deserve nice things–but we must work for them. That's how progress gets made. Our heroes who came before us felt demoralized and tired, too. Andrea's new book, A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire, shares some of their stories and insights. We can put an end to Trump and Putin's dreams of turning America into a Russian-style oligarchy by remembering our power. On this week's show, we're joined by comedian and activist Pete Dominick of the Stand Up with Pete Dominick podcast. We break down the Epstein files, media intimidation, and the growing resistance to authoritarianism. In our bonus show, available exclusively for our Patreon and Substack supporters, we name names of who in the media enabled Trump's rise, and Pete shares what it was like trolling Trump to his face on The Apprentice. We refuse to let them steal our future and our children's futures. Come discuss this and more at the Gaslit Nation Salon this Monday at 4pm ET. We could not produce this independent journalism or build this resilience community without you. Join us, get access to the Salons, and hear Part II of our interview with Pete Dominick by subscribing at Patreon.com/Gaslit or GaslitNation.Substack.com today. EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION: Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit and GaslitNation.Substa…
encoded: Sending FBI Director Kash Patel to Moscow right before the Midterms is like sending a coked-up frat boy into a whorehouse in hell, and the FSB will eat him alive. As Trump pushes the SAVE Act to disenfranchise millions, is he calling in Russian reinforcements to steal Congress? Can we overcome a gutted Voting Rights Act, MAGA poll taxes, and Russian cyber warfare and disinformation brainrotting? Yes. By treating our vote as sacred and doing the unglamorous, powerful grassroots work that wins elections–and ensured Zohran Mamdani defeated Andrew Cuomo not once, but twice. We deserve nice things–but we must work for them. That's how progress gets made. Our heroes who came before us felt demoralized and tired, too. Andrea's new book, A Reasonable Guide for Unreasonable Women: 20 Steps to Find Your Purpose and Power in a World on Fire, shares some of their stories and insights. We can put an end to Trump and Putin's dreams of turning America into a Russian-style oligarchy by remembering our power. On this week's show, we're joined by comedian and activist Pete Dominick of the Stand Up with Pete Dominick podcast. We break down the Epstein files, media intimidation, and the growing resistance to authoritarianism. In our bonus show, available exclusively for our Patreon and Substack supporters, we name names of who in the media enabled Trump's rise, and Pete shares what it was like trolling Trump to his face on The Apprentice. We refuse to let them steal our future and our children's futures. Come discuss this and more at the Gaslit Nation Salon this Monday at 4pm ET. We could not produce this independent journalism or build this resilience community without you. Join us, get access to the Salons, and hear Part II of our interview with Pete Dominick by subscribing at Patreon.com/Gaslit or GaslitNation.Substack.com today. EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION: Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit and GaslitNation.Substa…

Fiji universities criticised for ‘great shame’ of ignoring coup impacts
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-07-22T01:46:04Z
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description: By Anish Chand in Suva Fiji’s universities have been criticised for failing to study the long-term effects of the country’s repeated political upheavals on the public service and governance, with the Fiji Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing that a major gap in research has left important national lessons undocumented. Academic Professor Vijay Naidu told the
encoded: By Anish Chand in Suva Fiji’s universities have been criticised for failing to study the long-term effects of the country’s repeated political upheavals on the public service and governance, with the Fiji Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing that a major gap in research has left important national lessons undocumented. Academic Professor Vijay Naidu told the commission it was “a great shame” that higher education institutions had not examined how cycles of political instability had affected the quality and performance of Fiji’s public sector. “It’s a great shame that the universities in Fiji have failed to look at the impacts of these cycles of political instability on the nature, the quality and the function of the public sector.” READ MORE: Fiji Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings Fiji coup reports Dr Naidu drew particular attention to the University of the South Pacific, saying its once-prominent governance programme had disappeared despite the country’s history of political crises. “The governance programme was a flagship programme of the university in the early 2000s … Well, the governance programme is gone. It’s finished.” He questioned what that said about the role of universities in serving Fiji and the wider Pacific. “What does it tell you about universities serving Fiji and the region when governance is such an important issue?” Strengthening democracy Dr Naidu said strengthening democratic institutions required sustained effort and could not be achieved overnight. “The general democratic institutions and the checks and balances associated with them, together with a supportive democratic culture, have to be built incrementally.” He warned that every military coup had reversed progress made in democratic governance and institution building. Fiji has suffered four coups — two in 1987, and also in 2000 and 2006. “The analogy of switching the light on and off doesn’t work. Democracy doesn’t work that way. Each time we have had a military coup, …

27 missing, including 11 children, after two boats capsize off Papua New Guinea
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-07-22T00:21:29Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
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description: RNZ Pacific reporters Concern is mounting for up to 27 people missing at sea in Papua New Guinea’s Islands region. Bad weather has hampered the search for the crew on at least two boats who were registered as missing on Saturday. The incident involved several staff of the East New Britain Provincial Health Authority and
encoded: RNZ Pacific reporters Concern is mounting for up to 27 people missing at sea in Papua New Guinea’s Islands region. Bad weather has hampered the search for the crew on at least two boats who were registered as missing on Saturday. The incident involved several staff of the East New Britain Provincial Health Authority and their families and friends — totalling 27 people including 11 children. READ MORE: An NBC update on the 27 missing at sea in PNG They were reportedly voyaging on two boats from Pangpang Island in the Duke of York group to Kokopo, the capital of East New Britain, a journey of around 20 km. The East New Britain Provincial Disaster Committee said that on Saturday afternoon, the capsised vessels were reported, and a search was immediately initiated. It said that on Saturday night, two survivors, who were described as skippers, were reported to have gone ashore on the mainland at Baii Village, Kombiu, which is north of where their journey to Kokopo would have taken them. Police reportedly retrieved the pair and took them to Kokopo Police Station, where they were kept and interviewed as part of the ongoing response. NBC reports update The national broadcaster NBC reported on the update given by the chairman of East New Britain’s Disaster Committee, Levi Mano, before a concerned crowd in windy conditions in Kokopo. He said a number of agencies have been involved in the search, including police, a helicopter courtesy of National Government through the National Disaster Office and Maritime Safety Authority, and numerous local sea vessels. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-130935" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Levi-Mano-NBC-680wide.png" alt="The chairman of East New Britain's Disaster Committee, Levi Mano," width="680" height="416" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Levi-Mano-NBC-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Levi-Mano-NBC-…

27 missing, including 11 children, after two boats capsize off Papua New Guinea
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-07-22T00:21:29Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: East New Britain
subject: East New Britain Provincial Disaster Committee
subject: Kokopo
subject: Levi Mano
subject: National Disaster Office and Maritime Safety Authority
subject: Search and Rescue
subject: Sources
subject: after
subject: and
subject: asia
subject: authority
subject: boats
subject: britain
subject: capsize
subject: children
subject: committee
subject: disaster
subject: Disasters
subject: east
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Featured
subject: Global
subject: guinea
subject: including
subject: kokopo
subject: levi
subject: mano
subject: maritime
subject: missing
subject: national
subject: new
subject: off
subject: office
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Papua
subject: Papua New Guinea
subject: Police
subject: provincial
subject: report
subject: Rescue
subject: RNZ Pacific
subject: safety
subject: search
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
subject: two
description: RNZ Pacific reporters Concern is mounting for up to 27 people missing at sea in Papua New Guinea’s Islands region. Bad weather has hampered the search for the crew on at least two boats who were registered as missing on Saturday. The incident involved several staff of the East New Britain Provincial Health Authority and
encoded: RNZ Pacific reporters Concern is mounting for up to 27 people missing at sea in Papua New Guinea’s Islands region. Bad weather has hampered the search for the crew on at least two boats who were registered as missing on Saturday. The incident involved several staff of the East New Britain Provincial Health Authority and their families and friends — totalling 27 people including 11 children. READ MORE: An NBC update on the 27 missing at sea in PNG They were reportedly voyaging on two boats from Pangpang Island in the Duke of York group to Kokopo, the capital of East New Britain, a journey of around 20 km. The East New Britain Provincial Disaster Committee said that on Saturday afternoon, the capsised vessels were reported, and a search was immediately initiated. It said that on Saturday night, two survivors, who were described as skippers, were reported to have gone ashore on the mainland at Baii Village, Kombiu, which is north of where their journey to Kokopo would have taken them. Police reportedly retrieved the pair and took them to Kokopo Police Station, where they were kept and interviewed as part of the ongoing response. NBC reports update The national broadcaster NBC reported on the update given by the chairman of East New Britain’s Disaster Committee, Levi Mano, before a concerned crowd in windy conditions in Kokopo. He said a number of agencies have been involved in the search, including police, a helicopter courtesy of National Government through the National Disaster Office and Maritime Safety Authority, and numerous local sea vessels. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-130935" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Levi-Mano-NBC-680wide.png" alt="The chairman of East New Britain's Disaster Committee, Levi Mano," width="680" height="416" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Levi-Mano-NBC-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Levi-Mano-NBC-…

The Housing Crisis You’re Not Hearing About
type: item
creator: Todd Swanstrom
date: 2026-07-21T22:45:58Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: about
subject: crisis
subject: hearing
subject: housing
subject: not
subject: progressive
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: you’re
description: Availability and quality are two sides of the same coin.
encoded: Availability and quality are two sides of the same coin. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Todd Swanstrom.

‘Nurses Are Fighters, and We Aren’t Going Anywhere’
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creator: Mike Kuhlenbeck
date: 2026-07-21T22:29:15Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: and
subject: anywhere
subject: are
subject: aren’t
subject: fighters
subject: going
subject: nurses
subject: progressive
subject: sources
subject: the
description: UnityPoint Health executives refuse to certify Iowa nurses’ union election.
encoded: UnityPoint Health executives refuse to certify Iowa nurses’ union election. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Mike Kuhlenbeck.

Congress Should Reject Bill That Would Block a Federal Workplace Heat Standard
type: item
creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-07-21T22:08:59Z
subject: Common Dreams
subject: Sources
subject: bill
subject: block
subject: common
subject: congress
subject: dreams
subject: federal
subject: heat
subject: reject
subject: should
subject: sources
subject: standard
subject: that
subject: Workplace
subject: would
description: The U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce should reject the Heat Workforce Standards Act (H.R. 6123), scheduled to be marked up today, 65 groups said in a letter sent to the committee. The bill would prohibit the Secretary of Labor from fina...
encoded: The U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce should reject the Heat Workforce Standards Act (H.R. 6123), scheduled to be marked up today, 65 groups said in a <a href="https://u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.gqh-2BaxUzlo7XKIuSly0rCxXwZR0L9lem-2B5XpAYqIXzOd2n2rdN-2FJaUK4JGOPr4dBjDyqJ-2FIMvtlbdPlP3Xt0GiMMDcdB3wZJ6xmhbWIM9ZBe2QEnR3xool5n20wrHrn7qc3obuZzpXPQA0pCi0mdKQ-3D-3DeLyB_ciJuXYfraQrmEXzxHGEcWNeiZKy7tdzQawxB4GG8-2FLPyhKWA4iiF6MSH6OJ2-2BUNtBAHsM9WPS35FVKJVmFTjW3m2IwgUo3u6HhitOgrMHtKgCE9epr3PLoQ3Dbn013y3yC1cFtnjC-2FTdWc1Lkz3Ur9Rf4-2FwfnRqPHDaCFded8nI2zw68jAORpGNLy8jtvw83zZMdyr7goNnU2I2rs0fdG0toTuvien3jVo0B2y1MzL2dcMBPTByNQtpE7jFKFme00z9oJeCL4qca8fMyY6xIUmMaqeSmckTLWRL-2BIyxxCD5XVe8va8h-2B75wNpjkzBE0i6e2-2FjY1oIP5NMQBQt96qCQ-3D-3D" rel="noopener noreferrer" >letter sent to the committee. The bill would prohibit the Secretary of Labor from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing a federal heat injury and illness prevention standard, or any substantially similar measure. “Workers have no control over extreme heat, and many are unable to refuse hazardous assignments without jeopardizing their livelihoods,” the letter reads. “Congress should not respond to an escalating occupational hazard by permanently removing the Department of Labor's authority to address it.” In the wake of a nationwide heat dome that sent workers to emergency rooms across the country just three weeks ago, the committees should reject any legislation that would permanently prohibit federal workplace heat protections. Data from the Centers for Disease Control’s Heat and Health Tracker show that emergency department visits for heat-related illness rose sharply across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic during the first week of July. Postal carriers, delivery drivers, warehouse workers, and manufacturing employees were hospitalized, and in some tragic cases, lost their lives. Heat-related deaths in the U.S. have more than doubled since 1999, and extreme heat now claims more lives each year tha…

Court Decision to Allow Nuclear Regulator to Ignore Climate Impacts on Future Reactor Operations Does Not Serve Public Safety
type: item
creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-07-21T22:07:05Z
subject: Common Dreams
subject: Sources
subject: allow
subject: Climate
subject: common
subject: court
subject: decision
subject: does
subject: dreams
subject: future
subject: ignore
subject: impacts
subject: not
subject: Nuclear
subject: operations
subject: public
subject: reactor
subject: regulator
subject: safety
subject: serve
subject: sources
description: A unanimous decision by three US Court Of Appeals judges in the District Of Columbia to deny an appeal based on the risks of climate change on nuclear reactor safety is a shocking disregard for the ever worsening weather conditions that could put reac...
encoded: A unanimous <a href="https://link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com/ls/click?upn=u001.mTcia2tSc0fgkoFiBa7nhHzZvpl0c6zmcA0MM4-2F-2FAcdpO5bucrO6drHgUMBSZXBoa_RE_ciJuXYfraQrmEXzxHGEcWNeiZKy7tdzQawxB4GG8-2FLPZ7CvygO9jxiRAMn5pClU-2BRhx-2FNz9SrZzHSvQAFQ4YWhITAUgtjorC9UllGdXvvWwaXLXYbdL-2FgjKj3plzgS-2BamCvXIq79-2BhORu8ne1xQgKdRgnXnRhlQn6yAVsiDktx-2Fy6PmAwQMXxEYPdjDqI1zL1doLupGHEA1VaTwOc6ZOnd0JOHvlcfQq5w-2BUg0UZ9XmPtAgnCnpU0L7e-2F745DM5AyI4Wj7vB4tZdklb77Nn8SnLPgzFrr-2FZs1nND0pIUIC5egB3Bp8SICM6hVJl-2BuCiUG8PjfMVoavztVzNYYJOahESZBZpt9ms2YQXqvxrKAl2jVeU6rdix00gZD1txP4RP" rel="noopener noreferrer" >decision by three US Court Of Appeals judges in the District Of Columbia to deny an appeal based on the risks of climate change on nuclear reactor safety is a shocking disregard for the ever worsening weather conditions that could put reactor communities at grave risk, said Beyond Nuclear today, one of the groups that brought the appeal. The petition denied by the court was brought by Beyond Nuclear and the Sierra Club, against the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), et al. The NRC is federally mandated to protect public safety. The NEI is the lobbying arm and trade group representing the nuclear power industry. The petitioners argued that the NRC and industry did not adequately consider how aging components and climate change would affect the risk of severe accidents involving reactor-core damage. Of greatest concern is the extension of operating the licenses of the country’s already aging nuclear power plants well beyond the initial 40-year licensing period and the NRC’s refusal to view the more extreme conditions caused by climate change as risk factors to future safe operation. “We are stunned by the court’s decision, which let the NRC get away with the generalized claim that large conservatisms in their accident risk analyses can cover the unique and site-specific effects of climate change,” said attorney Diane Curran, who argued the case on…

Ahead of Expected Record Profits, Make Polluters Pay Campaign Says Big Oil Is Cashing In On War Again
type: item
creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-07-21T22:01:58Z
subject: Common Dreams
subject: Sources
subject: again
subject: ahead
subject: big
subject: campaign
subject: cashing
subject: common
subject: dreams
subject: expected
subject: make
subject: oil
subject: pay
subject: polluters
subject: profits
subject: record
subject: says
subject: sources
subject: war
description: Oil majors are set to report second quarter earnings later this month that analysts expect to be the highest since 2022, when Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent crude prices soaring. Exxon Mobil is projected to report roughly $15.7 billion in adjusted ...
encoded: Oil majors are set to report second quarter earnings later this month that analysts expect to be the highest since 2022, when Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent crude prices soaring. Exxon Mobil is projected to report roughly $15.7 billion in adjusted earnings, and Chevron nearly $10 billion, both close to triple what they posted the previous quarter. A United Nations Development Programme policy brief released June 29th found the fallout from the conflict is still spreading well beyond the pump, pushing global fossil fuel subsidies past $1 trillion this year and threatening to push tens of millions more people into poverty as governments burn through fiscal buffers trying to keep energy affordable. As scientists grow more confident than ever that fossil fuel pollution is fueling extreme weather, Congress is moving to shield Big Oil from the fallout by blaming Canada instead. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) introduced legislation yesterday targeting Canada over wildfire smoke drifting into U.S. cities that would freeze assets, revoke visas, and declare the Canadian ambassador "persona non grata" until the smoke clears. Against this backdrop, the Make Polluters Pay campaign released the following statement. Statement from Cassidy DiPaola, Communications Director for the Make Polluters Pay campaign: "Once again, war is proving very good for the oil business. While higher energy prices push millions of people closer to poverty and force governments to spend more than $1 trillion cushioning the blow, Exxon, Chevron and Shell are preparing to report their biggest profits in years. And when the consequences of fossil fuel dependence reach American communities, some lawmakers would rather find a new scapegoat than confront the industry at the center of the crisis. Sanctioning Canada over wildfire smoke will not change the hotter, drier conditions that decades of fossil fuel pollution have helped create. Congress does not have to accept a system where the public absorbs the risk…

Editor questioned by officials at Virginia airport; phone seized and searched
type: item
creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2026-07-21T21:02:01Z
subject: Border Stop
subject: Sources
subject: airport
subject: and
subject: border
subject: editor
subject: officials
subject: phone
subject: questioned
subject: searched;
subject: seized
subject: sources
subject: stop
subject: virginia
description: Journalist Max Blumenthal was stopped, questioned and had his cellphones seized and searched by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia after returning from a reporting trip to Iran on July 10, 2...
encoded: Journalist Max Blumenthal was stopped, questioned and had his cellphones seized and searched by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia after returning from a reporting trip to Iran on July 10, 2026. Blumenthal had traveled to Iran on a press visa to cover the funeral of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for The Grayzone, the online news outlet he edits and founded in 2015. While there, he covered official press events alongside reporters from other U.S. news organizations. He also reported on the aftermath of the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, and interviewed government officials and residents for a series of videos and articles. Blumenthal told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that the boarding pass for his connecting flight from Istanbul, Turkey, to Dulles was flagged for secondary screening before he arrived in the United States. When he landed, CBP officers escorted him to a secondary inspection room, where he waited about 30 minutes before being questioned, according to a federal lawsuit filed later against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. The @adc has filed a lawsuit on my behalf against DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin over the seizure of my phones upon my return from reporting in Iran It is clear to me I was targeted because of my journalism - for exposing US-Israeli atrocities and expressing views that upset the… pic.twitter.com/3wg1CsXQQJ — Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) July 16, 2026 Officers searched Blumenthal’s carry-on bags and asked whether he felt threatened while reporting in Iran, whether he had been compensated for interviews he conducted there, how he paid for his travel and whether he planned to return to Iran. After about 10 minutes of questioning, officers accompanied Blumenthal to baggage claim, where they also searched his checked luggage, according to the federal complaint. They then told him they needed to examine his two cellphones to look for ev…

New bridge between North Korea and China could open soon – 12 years after completion
type: item
creator: Noh Jung Min for RFA
date: 2026-07-21T20:41:21Z
subject: Radio Free Asia
subject: Sources
subject: after
subject: and
subject: asia
subject: between
subject: bridge
subject: China
subject: completion
subject: could
subject: free
subject: korea
subject: new
subject: north
subject: open
subject: radio
subject: soon,
subject: sources
subject: years
description: Satellite imagery shows significant progress on the bridge that experts say will transform Sino-North Korean trade.
encoded: North Korea is close to completing a long-delayed new bridge to China, satellite imagery analyzed by Radio Free Asia shows. Experts said that once the new bridge connecting Dandong in China with Sinuiju in North Korea is complete, trade volume will more than double, relieving pressure on the aging Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge – the only other connection between the two cities – considered the main artery between the two countries. Pyongyang and Beijing completed the structure of the New Yalu River Bridge in 2014, with the Chinese government footing the bill, but since then it has remained unopened because the two sides could not come to an agreement on financing construction on infrastructure facilities on North Korea’s end. But construction resumed in January 2025 after Chinese firms agreed to invest, and if all goes according to plan, the new bridge could go into service as early as autumn, Bruce Songhak Chung, a senior researcher at the Seoul-based Korea Institute for Security Strategy, told RFA. “Chinese traders involved in cross-border commerce said discussions on an opening ceremony could be held once construction on the North Korean side is completed,” Park Jongchol, a professor at Gyeongsang National University in South Korea said. “On the Chinese side, there were a few predicted dates being discussed — such as October 3, the date the two countries established diplomatic relations — though these have not been confirmed by either Beijing or Pyongyang.” Even if that prediction ends up being incorrect, Chung said he expects the bridge to open this year based on his assessment of the imagery. <img src="https://www.rfa.org/resizer/v2/NPEGM26HBVD2XEBMHBNRSWYKEM.png?auth=4a42a18ebb46a8441c66f96a65bd3043955f8997bf66ee809fdfd0c8450fdfdf&smart=true&width=1500" alt="Satellite imagery shows rapid progress at North Korea's customs complex connected to the New Yalu River Bridge, with most major buildings now structurally complete, though key infrastructure work remains u…

NY Times reporters’ phone, text records secretly targeted in DOJ subpoenas
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2026-07-21T20:00:44Z
subject: Sources
subject: Subpoena / Legal Order
subject: doj
subject: legal
subject: order
subject: phone
subject: records
subject: reporters:
subject: secretly
subject: sources
subject: subpoena
subject: subpoenas
subject: targeted
subject: Text
subject: times
description: Phone records for multiple New York Times reporters were targeted in secretive subpoenas issued by the Department of Justice starting on July 10, 2026, as part of a rushed investigation to identify the sources leaking information to the newspaper.The j...
encoded: Phone records for multiple New York Times reporters were targeted in secretive subpoenas issued by the Department of Justice starting on July 10, 2026, as part of a rushed investigation to identify the sources leaking information to the newspaper. The journalists had reported on July 8 and July 9 that, after taking his new Qatari-donated Air Force One on its maiden voyage to Turkey for a NATO meeting, Trump reverted to the former plane at the urging of the Secret Service because of safety concerns, including that it lacked the same defensive countermeasures. On July 10, FBI Director Kash Patel was tapped to oversee a leak investigation into the Times’ reporting and, in a major departure from precedent, he ran the inquiry from the White House, establishing a “war room” with Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles. That evening, FBI agents served grand jury testimony subpoenas to reporters Julian E. Barnes, Eric Lipton and Eric Schmitt at their homes. According to a letter written by an attorney for the Times, the Justice Department also attempted but failed to serve similar subpoenas to journalists Adam Goldman and Tyler Pager. A week later, the DOJ revealed that it had also issued multiple subpoenas to phone service providers seeking call and text records for accounts believed to be associated with the five journalists. At least three of the numbers belonged to family members of the journalists, the newspaper reported. In a letter to U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, attorneys for the Times wrote that while the department served “some” of the subpoenas July 10, additional requests were sent on July 14 and July 16. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker was unable to confirm the precise number of subpoenas issued or which journalists were targeted in each. At least two of the subpoenas also sought records dating back to Jan. 1, but it was not immediately clear which. According to the DOJ, the last two subpoenas were issued after it was determined that the provider that had be…

NY Times reporters’ phone records sought in secret DOJ subpoenas
type: item
creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2026-07-21T20:00:11Z
subject: Sources
subject: Subpoena / Legal Order
subject: doj
subject: legal
subject: order
subject: phone
subject: records
subject: reporters:
subject: secret,
subject: sought
subject: sources
subject: subpoena
subject: subpoenas
subject: times
description: Phone records for multiple New York Times reporters were targeted in secretive subpoenas issued by the Department of Justice starting on July 10, 2026, as part of a rushed investigation to identify the sources leaking information to the newspaper.The j...
encoded: Phone records for multiple New York Times reporters were targeted in secretive subpoenas issued by the Department of Justice starting on July 10, 2026, as part of a rushed investigation to identify the sources leaking information to the newspaper. The journalists had reported on July 8 and July 9 that, after taking his new Qatari-donated Air Force One on its maiden voyage to Turkey for a NATO meeting, Trump reverted to the former plane at the urging of the Secret Service because of safety concerns, including that it lacked the same defensive countermeasures. On July 10, FBI Director Kash Patel was tapped to oversee a leak investigation into the Times’ reporting and, in a major departure from precedent, he ran the inquiry from the White House, establishing a “war room” with Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles. That evening, FBI agents served grand jury testimony subpoenas to reporters Julian E. Barnes, Eric Lipton and Eric Schmitt at their homes. According to a letter written by an attorney for the Times, the Justice Department also attempted but failed to serve similar subpoenas to journalists Adam Goldman and Tyler Pager. A week later, the DOJ revealed that it had also issued multiple subpoenas to phone service providers seeking call and text records for accounts believed to be associated with the five journalists. At least three of the numbers belonged to family members of the journalists, the newspaper reported. In a letter to U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, attorneys for the Times wrote that while the department served “some” of the subpoenas July 10, additional requests were sent on July 14 and July 16. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker was unable to confirm the precise number of subpoenas issued or which journalists were targeted in each. At least two of the subpoenas also sought records dating back to Jan. 1, but it was not immediately clear which. According to the DOJ, the last two subpoenas were issued after it was determined that the provider that had be…

NY Times reporters’ phone, text records sought by DOJ in secret subpoenas
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2026-07-21T19:58:20Z
subject: Sources
subject: Subpoena / Legal Order
subject: doj
subject: legal
subject: order
subject: phone
subject: records
subject: reporters:
subject: secret,
subject: sought
subject: sources
subject: subpoena
subject: subpoenas
subject: Text
subject: times
description: Phone records for multiple New York Times reporters were targeted in secretive subpoenas issued by the Department of Justice starting on July 10, 2026, as part of a rushed investigation to identify the sources leaking information to the newspaper.The j...
encoded: Phone records for multiple New York Times reporters were targeted in secretive subpoenas issued by the Department of Justice starting on July 10, 2026, as part of a rushed investigation to identify the sources leaking information to the newspaper. The journalists had reported on July 8 and July 9 that, after taking his new Qatari-donated Air Force One on its maiden voyage to Turkey for a NATO meeting, Trump reverted to the former plane at the urging of the Secret Service because of safety concerns, including that it lacked the same defensive countermeasures. On July 10, FBI Director Kash Patel was tapped to oversee a leak investigation into the Times’ reporting and, in a major departure from precedent, he ran the inquiry from the White House, establishing a “war room” with Trump’s chief of staff Susie Wiles. That evening, FBI agents served grand jury testimony subpoenas to reporters Julian E. Barnes, Eric Lipton and Eric Schmitt at their homes. According to a letter written by an attorney for the Times, the Justice Department also attempted but failed to serve similar subpoenas to journalists Adam Goldman and Tyler Pager. A week later, the DOJ revealed that it had also issued multiple subpoenas to phone service providers seeking call and text records for accounts believed to be associated with the five journalists. At least three of the numbers belonged to family members of the journalists, the newspaper reported. In a letter to U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, attorneys for the Times wrote that while the department served “some” of the subpoenas July 10, additional requests were sent on July 14 and July 16. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker was unable to confirm the precise number of subpoenas issued or which journalists were targeted in each. At least two of the subpoenas also sought records dating back to Jan. 1, but it was not immediately clear which. According to the DOJ, the last two subpoenas were issued after it was determined that the provider that had be…

Cuban journalist threatened, interrogated by state security over newsletter
type: item
creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-07-21T19:46:59Z
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Sources
subject: committee
subject: cuban
subject: interrogated
subject: journalist
subject: Journalists
subject: newsletter
subject: over
subject: protect
subject: Security
subject: sources
subject: State
subject: threatened
description: Miami, July 21—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) calls on the Cuban government to end its harassment of journalist Austin Llerandi of Amanecer Habanero, a non-state media newsletter. Llerandi told CPJ that state security agents came looking for him at his father’s house on July 13 in Havana, demonstrating invasive knowledge of his personal life...
encoded: Miami, July 21—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) calls on the Cuban government to end its harassment of journalist Austin Llerandi of Amanecer Habanero, a non-state media newsletter. Llerandi told CPJ that state security agents came looking for him at his father’s house on July 13 in Havana, demonstrating invasive knowledge of his personal life and his wife’s high-risk pregnancy. During a subsequent two-hour interrogation at the Marianao police station the next day, Llerandi, 36, said officers brandished a thick file with his name on it and alleged he had committed crimes against state security. According to Llerandi, the agents demanded that he cease distributing news or face imprisonment. “Journalist Austin Llerandi’s harassment by state security agents reflects Cuba’s continued campaign to intimidate journalists and suppress critical reporting,” said Jose Zamora, CPJ’s regional director for the Américas. “Authorities must end these threats and allow journalists to do their work without fear of reprisal or imprisonment.” Llerandi said the interrogation did not appear to be related to any specific article published in Amanecer Habanero but rather directed at the newsletter’s overall content, which covers life in Cuba amid declining state infrastructure and repression of dissent. Amanecer Habanero is one of several media outlets belonging to the Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and the Press (ICLEP), a Cuban exile media group which has received funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a non-profit foundation that manages U.S. government-funded democracy and press freedom programs around the world. ICLEP has been publishing newsletters since 2012. Cuba’s penal code considers it a crime to defy “socialist law” or work as a journalist outside of state-controlled media. These laws violate the Cuban constitution which recognizes freedom of press as well as freedom of thought and expression, while also establishing the people’s “right to …

NY Times reporters’ phone, text records targeted in secret DOJ subpoenas
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2026-07-21T19:27:09Z
subject: Sources
subject: Subpoena / Legal Order
subject: doj
subject: legal
subject: order
subject: phone
subject: records
subject: reporters:
subject: secret,
subject: sources
subject: subpoena
subject: subpoenas
subject: targeted
subject: Text
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description: Phone records for multiple New York Times reporters were targeted in secretive subpoenas issued by the Department of Justice starting on July 10, 2026, as part of a rushed investigation to identify the sources leaking information to the newspaper.The j...
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As Trump threatens invasion, admin releases report vilifying Cuba and the left
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description: This article was originally published by Truthout on July 20, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. The State Department has released a report that labels Cuba as the “ideological capital” of left-wing polit...
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UN News Today 21 July 2026
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description: DR Congo: Ebola outbreak continues to expand, WHO sees signs of stabilizationGaza: Children, women and men continue to be killed by Israeli militaryUkraine: Condemnation for long-range attacks on residential buildings
encoded: DR Congo: Ebola outbreak continues to expand, WHO sees signs of stabilizationGaza: Children, women and men continue to be killed by Israeli militaryUkraine: Condemnation for long-range attacks on residential buildings This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

Susie Wiles intimidates leakers, press as White House chief of staff
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description: As White House chief of staff and Donald Trump’s closest aide, Susie Wiles has supported the president in taking steps to intimidate leakers and members of the news media. We’re documenting her efforts in this regularly updated report.Read about how Tr...
encoded: As White House chief of staff and Donald Trump’s closest aide, Susie Wiles has supported the president in taking steps to intimidate leakers and members of the news media. We’re documenting her efforts in this regularly updated report. Read about how Trump’s appointees and allies in Congress are striving to chill reporting, revoke funding, censor critical coverage and more here. This article was first published on July 21, 2026. July 10, 2026 | Wiles asks for White House staffers’ phones in leak investigation July 10, 2026 | Wiles asks for White House staffers’ phones in leak investigation Susie Wiles — President Donald Trump’s chief of staff and his closest aide — orchestrated an expansive leak investigation at the White House alongside FBI Director Kash Patel on July 10, 2026. The pair sought to identify the source behind The New York Times’ recent reporting that, after taking his new Qatari-donated Air Force One on its maiden voyage to Turkey for a NATO meeting, Trump reverted to the former plane at the urging of the Secret Service. Subsequent reporting revealed that the new plane was not outfitted with the same defensive countermeasures. Patel was tapped to oversee a leak investigation into the Times’ coverage, the newspaper reported, and in a major departure from precedent, he ran his July 10 inquiry from the White House. CNN reported that Patel and Wiles established a “war room” next to her office in the West Wing and directly oversaw the investigation, which included asking officials from various agencies who had traveled with Trump or had a role in his trip to turn over their cellphones for review. Later that day, a U.S. attorney issued multiple subpoenas targeting the Times: three were issued to the Times reporters behind the articles, demanding they appear to testify about their confidential sources. At least two others were issued to a phone provider seeking subscriber information and usage reports for accounts connected to the journalists. Additional thi…

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 21, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 21, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Can Mamdani arrest Netanyahu?
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date: 2026-07-21T17:38:23Z
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Want less prison violence? Make prison phone calls free.
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Baton-with-nails videos indeed from July 20 protests. Delhi Police, PIB’s ‘fact check’ incorrect
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description: After participants from the July 20 march in Delhi put up videos on social media saying that police were carrying batons with nails fixed on them during the crackdown on protesters, Delhi police called the claims misleading and false. Two videos surfaced on social media showing such batons and protesters confronting police officers about their […]
encoded: After participants from the July 20 march in Delhi put up videos on social media saying that police were carrying batons with nails fixed on them during the crackdown on protesters, Delhi police called the claims misleading and false. Two videos surfaced on social media showing such batons and protesters confronting police officers about their use. Delhi Police asserted that the videos of baton with nails were not related to the July 20 protest. One such video was posted by a user named Ashwini Soni (@Ramraajya). पुलिस पर आरोप है कि लाठी में कील फिक्स करके लाये थे। क्या करना चाहते थे ? इंसान थे या हैवान ?#cjp #cjpprotect #jantarmantar pic.twitter.com/cDlklxC3sg — अश्विनी सोनी (@Ramraajya) July 21, 2026 As these videos gained traction online, Delhi Police responded with a purported fact check. Replying to a post by Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair, they said that the videos were unrelated to the protests of June 20. FAKE NEWS ALERT The videos circulating on social media alleging that police used batons fitted with nails during yesterday’s protest are false and misleading. These videos are not related to yesterday’s protest. Citizens are advised not to spread unverified information and to… — Delhi Police (@DelhiPolice) July 21, 2026 The Press Information Bureau (PIB) of the Union government, too, put out a fact check quoting the Delhi Police post. Social media posts are circulating a video claiming that batons fitted with nails were used against protesters in Delhi.#PIBFactCheck: This claim is #Fake. Always rely on official sources for verified information. Stay alert, and report suspicious content related… pic.twitter.com/1Ls1X5OlXK — PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) July 21, 2026 DD News shared the PIB fact check. Right-wing propaganda outlet OpIndia published a ‘fact-check’ article echoing Delhi Police’s claim. Fact Check We found that Instagram user @ansh.visuals_ had posted a video on July 20 of youth protestors confronting police officers over the use of batons…

India Cockroach Party protests
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description: This content originally appeared on Amnesty International and was authored by Amnesty International.
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Philippe Bolopion: US Attacks on the ICC
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Flock Cameras: ACLU Raises Alarm About Nationwide Surveillance Database
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date: 2026-07-21T14:33:36Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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What Spain’s Victory Means: Jules Boykoff on the World Cup, FIFA, Trump, "Collectivity" & More
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date: 2026-07-21T14:28:53Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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As the U.S. Commits War Crimes in Iran, Trump Admin Vows to Dismantle International Criminal Court
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-21T14:23:44Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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CPJ, partners call for investigation into the killing of Yemeni journalist Mohammed Aydah
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists, together with the Yemeni Media Freedom Observatory and the National Organization of Yemeni Reporters, sent a letter on Tuesday to members of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen calling for a swift, independent, and professional investigation into the killing of journalist Mohammed Aydah. CPJ and its partners urged Council Chairman...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists, together with the Yemeni Media Freedom Observatory and the National Organization of Yemeni Reporters, sent a letter on Tuesday to members of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen calling for a swift, independent, and professional investigation into the killing of journalist Mohammed Aydah. CPJ and its partners urged Council Chairman Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi, and Deputy Chairman Salem al-Khanbashi to reveal the full truth behind the killing of Aydah. The letter further urged Yemeni authorities to provide regular public updates on the investigation’s findings. It also called for all individuals involved in the crime to be brought to justice, emphasizing that accountability must extend beyond the direct perpetrators to those who planned or ordered the killing. Aydah, a correspondent for Saudi Arabia-owned channels Al-Arabiya and Al-Hadath, was killed on June 25, 2026, when an explosive device planted under the driver’s seat detonated in his vehicle in the city of Mukalla, in Yemen’s eastern Hadramout governorate. Read the full statement in English and Arabic. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Abuses Increase as Ecuador and US Partnership Deepens
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description: This content originally appeared on Human Rights Watch and was authored by Human Rights Watch.
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 21, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-21T13:53:15Z
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“A Company That Trades Privacy for Profit”: ACLU on Flock’s Growing Nationwide Surveillance Network
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date: 2026-07-21T12:48:17Z
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description: The tech company Flock, makers of traffic cameras that automatically record and log car license plates for law enforcement agencies, is facing increasing scrutiny over accusations that its vast, AI-sorted database has created a new, nationwide...
encoded: The tech company Flock, makers of traffic cameras that automatically record and log car license plates for law enforcement agencies, is facing increasing scrutiny over accusations that its vast, AI-sorted database has created a new, nationwide mass surveillance system. With few regulations or oversight on its use, Flock’s data can be sold to third parties or shared with federal agencies such as ICE, says the ACLU’s Chad Marlow, who works on efforts to regulate and cancel Flock’s contracts with local law enforcement. Because Flock’s indiscriminate system records information on all cars and drivers that pass its cameras, “we have a company working to record the comings and goings of every single person in the country,” in what Marlow calls “a very un-American take on privacy.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

What Spain’s Victory Means: Jules Boykoff on the World Cup, FIFA, Trump, “Collectivity” & More
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-21T12:33:33Z
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description: The 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup has concluded, with Spain defeating Argentina to claim the coveted title. Spain’s national team players accepted the championship trophy at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium alongside FIFA President G...
encoded: The 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup has concluded, with Spain defeating Argentina to claim the coveted title. Spain’s national team players accepted the championship trophy at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium alongside FIFA President Gianni Infantino and his close ally, United States President Donald Trump. Former professional soccer player Jules Boykoff, now a scholar who studies the political dimensions of the sport, joins us to discuss the various controversies that swirled around this year’s tournament, held in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. this past month. “While many of us were engrossed in this World Cup, Immigration and Customs Enforcement ramped up its violent deportation machine,” says Boykoff. “And so, the World Cup helped Trump advance his agenda. It deflected attention from a lot of people away from his brutal immigration program, and it sets him up well to do the same in Los Angeles in 2028 when the United States hosts the Summer Olympics.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

CPJ, SCM submit report to UN ahead of Syria human rights review
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date: 2026-07-21T12:30:53Z
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists, together with the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), has submitted a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council documenting persistent threats to press freedom in Syria, ahead of the country’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The UPR, a UN mechanism that reviews each member state’s human...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists, together with the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), has submitted a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council documenting persistent threats to press freedom in Syria, ahead of the country’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The UPR, a UN mechanism that reviews each member state’s human rights record every 4½ years, assesses progress made since the previous review cycle and issues recommendations on how governments can better meet their human rights obligations. The joint report finds that, despite notable improvements following the December 2024 fall of the Assad regime — including constitutional guarantees for freedom of expression and the press, greater freedom of movement for journalists, and the abolition of Syria’s counter-terrorism courts — serious threats to press freedom persist under the transitional authorities and other armed actors operating in Syria. It documents the killings of journalists, physical attacks, harassment, and intimidation by Israeli, Turkish and Turkish-backed, and Russian forces, arbitrary and incommunicado detention and enforced disappearances, censorship, and restrictions on media access and accreditation, alongside the continued risk that unrepealed counter-terrorism and cybercrime laws may be used to criminalize journalism. The submission also highlights the near-total absence of effective investigations and accountability for attacks against journalists. It calls on the transitional Syrian authorities to investigate the killings of and attacks on journalists, release those held arbitrarily, clarify the fate and legal status of detained and missing media workers, repeal provisions that criminalize journalistic expression, and adopt a new media law in consultation with journalists and civil society. CPJ and SCM’s joint UPR submission on Syria is available in English here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ St…

As the U.S. Commits War Crimes in Iran, Trump Admin Vows to Dismantle Int’l Criminal Court: Reed Brody
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date: 2026-07-21T12:13:30Z
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description: As the Trump administration carries out its campaign against the International Criminal Court, imposing wide-reaching sanctions on judges, prosecutors and groups who have accused Israel of war crimes in front of the international tribunal, we&...
encoded: As the Trump administration carries out its campaign against the International Criminal Court, imposing wide-reaching sanctions on judges, prosecutors and groups who have accused Israel of war crimes in front of the international tribunal, we’re joined by veteran war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody. Brody says that the U.S. government’s rejection of the ICC’s jurisdiction is not about “American sovereignty,” as the Trump administration claims, but about “impunity,” for both U.S. allies, like Israel, and the U.S. itself. “Marco Rubio knows that bombing Iran without Security Council authorization constitutes aggression under the U.N. Charter,” says Brody. “This is an insurance policy against accountability for crimes that the Trump administration is committing in plain sight.” Brody also responds to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s statements that his office may attempt to carry out the ICC arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu when the Israeli prime minister attends the United Nations General Assembly later this year, and to the recent announcement by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega that his country will no longer hold elections, further entrenching the onetime revolutionary’s authoritarian rule. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for July 21, 2026
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description: Yemen’s Houthis Declare Naval Blockade of Saudi Arabia, Opening New Front in Mideast War, U.S. Bombs Iran for 10th Consecutive Night, Israeli Drone Strike Kills Family of 6 in Gaza City, Khalil al-Hayya, Who Survived Israeli Assassination Attempts, Selected as New Hamas Leader, Judge Halts Paramount Skydance’s $110 Billion Takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, Trump Administration Sought Phone Records of New York Times Reporters and Their Families, State Department Alleges Cuba Infiltrated U.S. Politics Through Left-Wing Groups, Justice Department Activates Alien Terrorist Removal Court for First Time Ever, Open Letter by 120 Prisoners Alleges Human Rights Abuses at Arizona’s Eloy Detention Center, Former Army Vet Arrested After Setting Fire Near Manhattan ICE Office, Trump Announces 50% Tariff on Imports from Canada, Death Toll from Ebola Outbreak in the DRC Surges to 930, More Than 500 Rohingya Refugees Feared Dead After Boats Capsize Off the Coast of Burma, Youth-Led Protesters Rally Against Modi’s Right-Wing Government, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Declares His Nation Will No Longer Hold Elections
encoded: Yemen's Houthis Declare Naval Blockade of Saudi Arabia, Opening New Front in Mideast War U.S. Bombs Iran for 10th Consecutive Night Israeli Drone Strike Kills Family of 6 in Gaza City Khalil al-Hayya, Who Survived Israeli Assassination Attempts, Selected as New Hamas Leader Judge Halts Paramount Skydance's $110 Billion Takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Trump Administration Sought Phone Records of New York Times Reporters and Their Families State Department Alleges Cuba Infiltrated U.S. Politics Through Left-Wing Groups Justice Department Activates Alien Terrorist Removal Court for First Time Ever Open Letter by 120 Prisoners Alleges Human Rights Abuses at Arizona's Eloy Detention Center Former Army Vet Arrested After Setting Fire Near Manhattan ICE Office Trump Announces 50% Tariff on Imports from Canada Death Toll from Ebola Outbreak in the DRC Surges to 930 More Than 500 Rohingya Refugees Feared Dead After Boats Capsize Off the Coast of Burma Youth-Led Protesters Rally Against Modi's Right-Wing Government Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Declares His Nation Will No Longer Hold Elections This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-07-21 Tuesday
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The Dual-Strait Siege – how Iran and the Houthis just closed the trap
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description: COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Ten nights of bombing. Zero endgame. And now a second chokepoint just slammed shut. This is what happens when you resume a war without a strategy. Tuesday brought the clearest proof yet that what we are watching in the Gulf is not a series of isolated flare-ups, but a coordinated strategic
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Ten nights of bombing. Zero endgame. And now a second chokepoint just slammed shut. This is what happens when you resume a war without a strategy. Tuesday brought the clearest proof yet that what we are watching in the Gulf is not a series of isolated flare-ups, but a coordinated strategic encirclement — one I have been calling the “security belt” thesis since Iran’s Quds Force commander first used that exact phrase in June. READ MORE: Iran attacks Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan; says 2 tankers in Hormuz ablaze Lim Tean: You cannot bomb a strait open – Hormuz, Chabahar and the coming battle for Bab el-Mandeb Other War on Iran reports What happened today? Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps struck US radar and air-defence installations across the Gulf, claiming the destruction of a missile-defence radar and an F-15 sheltered in Jordan, and hitting Amazon’s data infrastructure in Bahrain. Senior Hamas official Khaled Meshaal has congratulated Khalil al-Hayya on being named as the head of Hamas’s political bureau. LIVE updates https://t.co/LRy6Ugekjx — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) July 21, 2026 This is now the 10th consecutive night of US strikes on Iran, launched at the direction of President Donald Trump, with CENTCOM confirming further attacks on Iranian air defence, radar, missile and drone sites. But the more consequential news is at sea. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Navy intercepted and stopped two tankers in the Strait of Hormuz it labelled “non-compliant” — language that should alarm every shipowner and P&I underwriter reading this. Iran is no longer simply harassing traffic through Hormuz. It is asserting a compliance and inspection regime over the strait — a direct challenge to the transit passage rights guaranteed under UNCLOS. Hormuz is now estimated at roughly 89 percent interdiction under Iranian naval enforcement. And now, the second door has closed Yemen’s Houthis announced on Monday a full maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia through the Ba…

NZ called on to back international law in ICC vote – ‘don’t throw in towel’
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description: Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) wrote to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today urging the New Zealand government to vote against the removal of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan. Instead, said PSNA, Luxon should insist that proper judicial process be followed regarding allegations made against him. “This is
encoded: Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) wrote to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today urging the New Zealand government to vote against the removal of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan. Instead, said PSNA, Luxon should insist that proper judicial process be followed regarding allegations made against him. “This is a pivotal moment for the International Criminal Court and New Zealand must stand up for our values and our support for international law,” PSNA spokesperson Rinad Tamimi said in a statement. READ MORE: Former UN oversight chief says ICC prosecutor Karim Khan is ‘victim of massive stitch-up’ Why ICC prosecutor Karim Khan was suspended — and what could happen next Other ICC arrest warrant reports “We are not making any judgement on the allegations against Mr Khan, but New Zealand must insist a proper judicial process be followed.” Middle East Eye reports that a former United Nations investigations chief has accused the ICC’s executive body of subjecting Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan to a “stitch-up” in their decision to suspend him from office over misconduct allegations. Ben Swanson, a former UN assistant secretary-general and deputy head of the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), has previously served as director of the OIOS Investigations Division. Over the past year, he has submitted four expert’s opinions commissioned by Khan’s legal team criticising the investigation. Doubt over justice Swanson wrote: “I am of the opinion that the Prosecutor is the victim of a massive ‘stitch-up’ and given what has happened since the release of the Panel’s Report I doubt whether justice will be done or seen to be done.” The president of the ICC’s oversight body, the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), Finnish diplomat Paivi Kaukoranta, wrote to member states last week to confirm that no retaliation allegations made against Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan had been established by members of the executiv…

DN! Tuesday, July 21, 2026
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My Maddening Quest to Find Out if Blueberries Come From Farms Where Workers Were Harmed
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description: The post My Maddening Quest to Find Out if Blueberries Come From Farms Where Workers Were Harmed appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Illustration by Andrew B. Myers for ProPublica Over the past year, I’ve reported at length about crimes against farmworkers who have come to the U.S. legally from Mexico and Central America. I haven’t stopped thinking about how they suffered. Their wages were stolen, guns were pointed in their faces, and one woman I met was held captive, raped and nearly killed. As I wrote those stories, there was something else I couldn’t stop thinking about — something I keep thinking about: Whenever I go to the grocery store, I have no easy way of knowing if the fruits and vegetables I put in my cart are part of the problem I’ve documented. Footage from labor contractor Javier Sanchez Mendoza in 2018 on a blueberry farm. Mendoza was charged in a federal indictment and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to engage in forced labor. via Facebook I eat a lot of blueberries, which happen to be the fruit grown most in the state where I live, Georgia, and the state where I tracked these abuses. During the long drives back and forth between my home in Atlanta and my reporting trips in the rural South, I had a lot of time to consider how little we know about the farms that feed us. Max Blau/ProPublica I struggled with the disconnect between the problems on America’s farms and the limited awareness of those problems in most American households. I felt that disconnect in my own kitchen, every time I reached for the berries in my fridge. I wanted to know: With enough digging, would it be possible to determine if the blueberries I’m buying come from farms with a record of mistreating workers? Federal regulators don’t require blueberry brands to disclose on their packaging any information about the individual farms they buy from. So I had to spend time — a lot of time — trying to figure that out. I started by looking at labels on the blueberry pints in my grocery stores. I snapped photos. I researched the brands. I read government records. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" js-autosizes height="752…

Cambodia jails journalist Luot Sophal for 2 years over report on soldiers’ water shortages
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description: Bangkok, July 21, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the two-year prison sentence given to Cambodian journalist Luot Sophal on incitement charges and calls for his immediate and unconditional release. Sophal, a reporter with the independent local news site Srotop Yuvakvey, was convicted on July 14 by the Oddar Meanchey Provincial Court on charges of...
encoded: Bangkok, July 21, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the two-year prison sentence given to Cambodian journalist Luot Sophal on incitement charges and calls for his immediate and unconditional release. Sophal, a reporter with the independent local news site Srotop Yuvakvey, was convicted on July 14 by the Oddar Meanchey Provincial Court on charges of demoralizing the armed forces and incitement to commit a felony, according to multiple news reports. The charges stemmed from his reporting on an alleged water shortage faced by frontline soldiers during border hostilities with Thailand. His lawyer, Em Chantha, said he would discuss with Sophal whether to appeal the ruling, according to the reports. “Luot Sophal’s conviction is an outrage and should be reversed without delay,” said Shawn Crispin, CPJ’s senior Southeast Asia representative. “Cambodia must stop conflating public interest news reporting with criminal activity and stop jailing journalists for their coverage of the country’s conflict with Thailand.” Sophal was arrested after publishing a video on his personal Facebook page on February 7 discussing the alleged water shortage and including a photograph of government leaders. While in custody, authorities ordered him to delete the post and apologize in a video. Cambodian authorities have cracked down hard on reporters who have critically covered the country’s border conflict with Thailand since deadly fighting flared last year. Reporters Pheap Phara and Phon Sopheap are each serving 14-year prison sentences for treason over their conflict-related reporting. CPJ and partners submitted a joint letter Friday to Prime Minister Hun Manet calling for the journalists’ release through amnesty. Cambodia’s Ministry of Information did not immediately respond to CPJ’s emailed request for comment on Sophal’s conviction. Cambodia is among Asia’s worst jailers of journalists, with at least six reporters held behind bars, according to CPJ’s data. This content or…

Why the Iran war hasn’t caused a global oil crisis — yet
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description: The world has found ways to adapt without crude from the Strait of Hormuz. Experts say that won’t last.
encoded: When the Strait of Hormuz first closed at the start of the 2026 Iran war, the world braced for the “largest energy crisis in history.” Before the conflict began, almost 20 percent of the world’s traded oil passed through the narrow waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Iran’s blockade of the strait effectively erased 15 million barrels per day from circulation overnight. Many experts and commentators predicted that the supply gap would have catastrophic consequences. Australia expected fuel rationing, the European airline industry warned of mass flight cancellations, and Goldman Sachs predicted widespread oil shortages. The International Monetary Fund warned of a potential global recession, and some traders worried that oil prices could hit $200 a barrel. But a little over four months into the war, little of that has come to pass. Timeline How the oil market has handled the Iran war February 28 The United States and Israel launch a joint military operation against Iran. March Iran retaliates and announces that it has closed the Strait of Hormuz. Benchmark oil prices rise above $100 a barrel. The International Energy Agency announces a coordinated strategic reserve release of around 400 million barrels from more than 30 countries, including the United States. Governments across Asia introduce energy-saving measures such as remote work mandates and restrictions on who can drive. April The United States and other countries increase domestic crude production and exports, filling the gap created by the closure of the strait. May Brent crude rises toward around $120 a barrel, its highest level on the year, as traders fear a prolonged supply disruption. June On June 17, the United States and Iran sign a ceasefire agreement. Commercial shipping resumes through the Strait of Hormuz, and benchmark oil prices fall back to about $70 per barrel. July The ceasefire breaks down. The U.S. announces a new blockade of Iranian oil and Iran announces new transit requi…

Fiji finalising diaspora policy to ensure citizens abroad ‘keep coming back’
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description: By Iliesa Tora of RNZ Pacific Fiji’s government is working on a “Diaspora Policy” focused on ensuring Fijians around the globe play a key role in the country’s economic development. The country’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade Sakiasi Ditoka has just been to New Zealand, where he met with investors and the Fijian
encoded: By Iliesa Tora of RNZ Pacific Fiji’s government is working on a “Diaspora Policy” focused on ensuring Fijians around the globe play a key role in the country’s economic development. The country’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade Sakiasi Ditoka has just been to New Zealand, where he met with investors and the Fijian business diaspora. Ditoka told RNZ Pacific the increasing interest from the diaspora across New Zealand, Australia, the United States and Europe is positive for the island nation. READ MORE: Diaspora policy to strengthen ties with Fijians overseas – Qereqeretabua He said every effort is being made to ensure that interests are safeguarded and served for the mutual benefit of Fiji and her diaspora investors. He also confirmed a diaspora policy is being finalised and will be sent to Cabinet for approval soon. “It’s [diaspora policy] vital. It’s very important for Fiji that we engage with our diaspora. In fact, as we speak, the diaspora policy is being finalised. It’s going through the the final processes of being passed through Cabinet,” he told RNZ Pacific in Auckland on Saturday. The policy is going through the development sub-committee level, which means that senior officials are now having a look at it before it is escalated to Cabinet for sign-off. Wide-ranging policy He said the policy is wide-ranging, but the central theme is “the diaspora community is very, very important to Fiji”. Ditoka said the levels of investment members of the Fijian diaspora are putting back into the country keep increasing and help propel its economy. It includes overseas remittances, with an ever-increasing number of Fijians moving overseas for work, including sports contracts, the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme in New Zealand and the PALM Scheme in Australia. The Fijian diaspora serves as the second-largest foreign exchange earner for Fiji’s economy. Personal remittances sent by the diaspora officially surpassed the $1 billion threshold between Jan…

French Polynesia objects to an American seabed mining plan made without its input
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description: French Polynesia says it was "approached, but not consulted" about a Bay Area startup's plan to explore seabed mining near its marine preserve.
encoded: The government of French Polynesia plans to challenge an American startup’s proposal to explore the waters just beyond its maritime borders for seabed mining. “We were approached, but we were not consulted,” Moetai Brotherson, the territory’s president, told Grist. “We are not remaining passive while industrial activities are proposed immediately next to ecosystems that French Polynesia has chosen to protect.” As Grist reported last week, a Bay Area investor wants the Trump administration’s approval to explore seabed mining in international waters entirely surrounded by the maritime borders of the Cook Islands, Kiribati, and French Polynesia. The company, American Deep Sea Minerals, has a permit application pending before U.S. regulators and hopes to extract minerals essential to the production of batteries and military technologies. It is one of at least a dozen applications under consideration as President Trump races to make the United States a leader in critical mineral mining. Negotiators from dozens of countries are meeting this month in Jamaica at the headquarters of the International Seabed Authority, where they are debating the minutiae of a regulatory framework that’s been in progress for more than a decade. Last year, the Trump administration invited companies to apply for permits to mine the high seas directly through the U.S. rather than wait for the adoption of those rules. That has prompted global outrage from countries who say it flouts international law. “The deep seabed belongs to no single country and no corporation; it belongs to all of us,” Letitia Carvalho, the secretary-general of the regulatory body, said in Jamaica last week. “If we lose sight of this, we risk repeating on the ocean floor the same injustices and destruction we still strive to remedy on land.” French Polynesia doesn’t have a seat at the authority because it remains a French territory whose Indigenous people haven’t been granted political self-determination. And until recently…

As climate change threatens their lands, Indigenous nations demand more power at the UN
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description: From the Arctic to the Pacific, Indigenous advocates say their voices are too often ignored.
encoded: This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. The Arctic is warming four times faster than other regions, a trend that disproportionately harms the Indigenous Sámi people — particularly their access to vital traditional resources like reindeer and salmon, which are used for food, clothing, weapons, and more. As northern temperatures rise, snow is melting and refreezing at an accelerating rate. That forms ice, preventing reindeer from reaching the lichen below and dramatically increasing starvation rates. “Those impacts in nature are severe for our culture and livelihoods,” said Tuomas Aslak Juuso, vice president of the Sámediggi, or Sámi Parliament, of Finland. “So survival of reindeer and then survival of our livelihoods [and] cultures is then questioned.” Last week, the impacts of climate change and colonialism were among the key issues raised by the hundreds of Indigenous people gathered in Geneva. They’d come from around the world to discuss these mounting threats at the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, or EMRIP. They agreed that a multitude of crises will only grow worse unless they are given greater say in international negotiations and decision-making. That’s why in addition to pushing specific policy recommendations on conflict, AI, and other key issues, Indigenous delegates continued their decades-long demand for better representation at the U.N. “What we are trying to do is to get some implementation resources for us to adapt to the climate change. With Finland, for example, we don’t have any adaptation resources on how to adapt to these situations,” Juuso said. “To be able to bring these issues forward to the global discussion, we would have to have the opportunity to participate.” Member states are granted access to U.N. gatherings, where they can easily express views, determine policies, and outline their progress implementing international commitments required by the United Nations Declaration on the …

Artist Sara Cwynar on flowing through it
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description: This is such a weird way to start an interview, but I know you were a professional figure skater when you were a teen. I also figure skated, and wanted to know if you are at all superstitious? I’m asking because I definitely felt like landing anything was completely out of my hands.
encoded: This is such a weird way to start an interview, but I know you were a professional figure skater when you were a teen. I also figure skated, and wanted to know if you are at all superstitious? I’m asking because I definitely felt like landing anything was completely out of my hands. I don’t think I’ve ever talked to anyone about this, but yeah, I would be like, “If I step on the crack in the sidewalk, I won’t land my double axle.” Really classic OCD things. And I realized later that it’s so outside of your control that all you can do is try to wrest some control—unless you’re supremely talented and always land your jumps, which I was not. Have those superstitions trickled into your art practice at all? I’ve tried to let go of that because it never worked for figure skating. I do have a lot of rituals that I need to do, which is maybe another version of that. My studio is always a mess, but it’s a very specific, organized kind of mess. And before I start doing anything, I have to sit for half an hour. I also like to work at night when no one is going to email or bug me. Sarah Cwynar, Baby Blue Benzo installation view, 2024. Photo: Chase Barnes. You tend to collect images, whether it’s archiving physical objects of finding them through Google searches. Do you feel a sense of urgency around that practice? Do you think about how AI might impact this kind of work? I feel like there’s going to be more of a premium on the real, especially the more we see things that are fake, so I’m not that worried about the type of imagery [that I source] going away. I think the format and how those images come to us will be different, and that could actually be good for me. So much of my work is about going back to the idea of luck or accidents or superstition, about looking for one thing and finding something else. It’s about the things that searching through an archive surfaces and buries, both metaphorically and literally. A lot of the content of my work is about which images make it…

And Brush Therein: The Losingest Loser At Work or Play
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description: In "almost Shakespearean grotesquery," our cringe Buffoon-In-Chief thrust himself into the World Cup final only to be unceremoniously booed, snubbed and cropped out of team photos. Then he again assailed Canada for smoke from their wildfires, though o...
encoded: In "almost Shakespearean grotesquery," our cringe Buffoon-In-Chief thrust himself into the World Cup final only to be unceremoniously booed, snubbed and cropped out of team photos. Then he again assailed Canada for smoke from their wildfires, though ours are much worse and they've often helped us with them. Still, our ever-gracious northern neighbor launched a new initiative to dutifully sweep the Rockies, vacuum the forests, hand-rake pine needles. Its acronym: F.U.C.K.O.F.F. The headlines for Trump's Sunday gatecrash of another major sports event that really, really didn't want him there tells the vainglorious, mortifying tale: "Most Universally Hated President In History Mercilessly Booed," "Crowd Boos, Player Snub and Failed Photobomb: Trump's Big World Cup Day Out," and "Confused Old Fuckwit Imagines He's Won the World Cup." The Guardian also wins a Snark of the Year Award for the caption to its photo of FIFA's Infantino deep in conversation with a clueless Trump, both men standing under a blizzard of confetti, after he literally had to drag him off-stage: "Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump he is not part of the Spanish team." Some of the over 82,000 fans at New Jersey's Met-Life Stadium, where Spain trounced a listless, chaotic, often-thuggish Argentina 1-0, had earlier made their feelings clear when video briefly showed Trump ensconced in his glass-encased VIP digs and scattered boos rang out. By the time he finally lumbered stoop-shouldered onto the field at the end, it sounded like all 82,000-plus had reconsidered before joining in to jeer. Trailing behind him, looking like hostages trying to keep a safe distance to not catch any cooties, were Mexico's and Canada's leaders, the tournament's alleged, far-less-despised hosts. Illogically, thanks to Infantino's long, gross obsequiousness, Trump got to hand out awards. And he did, though not without drama: Several players hesitated, recoiled or refused to shake his hand. Then it was time to ha…

Max Blumenthal schools Piers Morgan on journalistic objectivity and Iran
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Want Less Prison Violence? Make Prison Phone Calls Free
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Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in Palestine’s West Bank
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date: 2026-07-21T02:00:55Z
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description: Pacific Media Watch New Zealand journalist and video story teller Cole Martin has given a heartfelt and challenging personal account of what it is like living in Palestine under siege. At a recent public kōrero hosted by the Whānau Community Centre and Hub in Auckland’s Mt Roskill, he described the challenges and highlights of several
encoded: Pacific Media Watch New Zealand journalist and video story teller Cole Martin has given a heartfelt and challenging personal account of what it is like living in Palestine under siege. At a recent public kōrero hosted by the Whānau Community Centre and Hub in Auckland’s Mt Roskill, he described the challenges and highlights of several extended visits to Palestine bearing witness as a Christian — the most recent trip for six months last year. Since returning to Aotearoa New Zealand he has been giving kōrero at public meetings and church groups, talking to news media, and exhibiting collections of his photographic evidence. READ MORE: Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’ — Pacific Media Watch Other Talanoa TV reports He spoke to hosts Nik Naidu and David Robie of the Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN) for Talanoa TV’s Community Lens programme. “I’ve been to Palestine a number of times over the last few years, mostly recently I was living there for six months in 2025,” he says. “I first got became aware of what was happening and got involved when I travelled there in 2019 and I kind of saw the tip of the iceberg of how bad things were. “And I was really shocked and when I came back to Aotearoa and hearing some of the narratives going on and the ignorance of what was happening on the ground — particularly narratives within my own Christian faith community. “People were making the assumption that the modern state of Israel was a continuation of the ancient land of the Israelites, and a lot of other harmful narratives that go with that.” Journalist Cole Martin on Palestine Video: Talanoa TV Sky TV Channel 83 Face TV : Community Lens Show Episode 05 – Palestine with Cole Martin, Rotuman Language Week 2026 Hula Fit, Kite Festival — as seen on TV Community Lens is a programme “celebrating local events in our communities and conversations with leaders and residents” It is a TV show that highlights what’s happening in our local comm…

Did Fiji and Australia start the Pacific NATO?
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Peter Thiel’s Dialog conference in Ireland shut down by grassroots action
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Rep. Al Green on fighting the "common enemy" of racism
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BJP leaders share old video from Patna claiming CJP protestors pelted stones at newly launched hydrogen train
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creator: Shinjinee Majumder
date: 2026-07-20T19:14:01Z
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description: As thousands of youth supporters of Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) marched towards the Parliament on July 20 demanding the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and clashed with Delhi Police, a video surfaced on social media where people can be seen pelting stones at a train inside a rail station. X User Janardan Mishra […]
encoded: As thousands of youth supporters of Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) marched towards the Parliament on July 20 demanding the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and clashed with Delhi Police, a video surfaced on social media where people can be seen pelting stones at a train inside a rail station. X User Janardan Mishra (@JanardanMis) shared the video and claimed that ‘cockroaches’ had pelted stones at a hydrogen train on their way to Jantar Mantar. “Hey, if you want to protest against the government, go ahead, but don’t damage the country’s property”, he said in his post. BJP Rajya Sabha member and former chairperson of the National Commission for Women, Rekha Sharma, amplified the post and wrote, “They are not students they are payed goons of anti indian forces in garb of CJP and it’s supporting political parties.” (Archive) They are not students they are payed goons of anti indian forces in garb of CJP and it’s supporting political parties . The foundry needs to know who is funding them and from which country the money is coming? https://t.co/mZQIyb45cO — Rekha Sharma (@sharmarekha) July 20, 2026 BJP national spokesperson and Rajya Sabha member Sudhanshu Trivedi, too, made the same claim while sharing the video on Instagram. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dr Sudhanshu Trivedi (@drsudhanshutrivedibjp) Prominent Right-wing influencer account @MeghUpdates shared the same video with the same claim. “Such acts of hooliganism must be dealt with STRICT ACTION”, they wrote. (Archive) <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-317297" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-20-233705.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="972" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-20-233705.jpg 800w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-20-233705-247x300.jpg 247w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screensho…

How Sean Penn Met A Serial Killer in L.A. County Jail
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-07-20T18:51:54Z
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Sierra Club Condemns Congressional Effort to Attack California’s Waivers Protecting Clean Air
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-07-20T18:35:19Z
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description: Today, House Republican Representative Harriet Hageman introduced legislation under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to revoke California's Clean Air Act waiver allowing the state to enforce stronger than federal greenhouse gas standards for vehicle...
encoded: Today, House Republican Representative Harriet Hageman <a href="https://cisionone-email.sierraclub.org/c/eJw0j82y2yAMhZ_G3iljMH9ZsLgbv8YdASKm10CKXPf1O8mkS32a75w5ydtolAkzeWGd0lYKq-bdYxIuhkxa6MUabVOULmqM91WZkJOaizeoybicMa1afouVYlrEXQiBk1q4JPopv6FiOWgw6GhCVjq7CPYZ_l6312M-_H6eT57Wr0luk9x2fFDFdtv7H6bbo1-T3CqlgpPcnoOYYdBByMST3AY94SNA7RcxnDRqaXgSRDxK7qMVZNjLL4w_pT2g4Vl6wwOoFubSGwOf2BKOxPO7538-lOTf4PsDpvVrlcsq3Dw8tjToNTL2Wvv7qHzr4zHzOYjqSw4URMrhDiKYBZS2DlzCFaJWi8pSGRnTfHn5LwAA___E-n6m" rel="noopener noreferrer" >introduced legislation under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to revoke California's Clean Air Act waiver allowing the state to enforce stronger than federal greenhouse gas standards for vehicles. This legislation targets policy that is already fully phased in, which means cars impacted by it are already on the road. The move is the latest attempt by congressional Republicans and the Trump administration to dismantle longstanding clean air protections and undermine states' ability to protect residents from dangerous vehicle pollution. In response to the bill introduction, Sierra Club Climate Policy Director Patrick Drupp released the following statement: "Congressional Republicans and the Trump administration are once again putting Big Oil's profits ahead of Americans' health and wallets. California's Clean Air Act waivers have delivered cleaner air, driven innovation, and saved drivers money for decades. "American families are facing rising costs and worsening climate impacts, and Republicans in Congress are wasting time attacking states’ rights to cleaner air to satisfy Trump’s anti-clean car obsession. "Nullifying California’s clean vehicle waivers will not make cars more affordable. Sierra Club will continue fighting to defend these lifesaving protections and states' rights to protect the air their residents breathe." This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

Illegal seizure – Max live on Judging Freedom
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-07-20T18:33:31Z
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 20, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 20, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Hundreds of Vigils Planned for Lorenzo, Johan, and All Lives Taken by ICE
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-07-20T17:45:30Z
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description: On Saturday, July 25, over 135 communities (and counting) across the United States will hold vigils, protests, and demonstrations to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Johan Sebastian Guerrero, and many more who have been killed by Immigration...
encoded: On Saturday, July 25, over 135 communities (and counting) across the United States will hold vigils, protests, and demonstrations to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Johan Sebastian Guerrero, and many more who have been killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Neighbors will gather to pay their respects, pray, mourn, and demand ICE OUT! Find all events here. On the streets and across the agency’s more than 200 abuse-ridden detention facilities, ICE is making communities less safe. Communities are demanding that the ICE agents involved in these killings, Department of Homeland Security Sec. Markwayne Mullin, the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and all related agencies under the Trump administration are held accountable. We demand: Immediate Transparency: DHS must immediately release the key witnesses to Lorenzo’s death and halt their deportation proceedings so they can safely participate in any investigation and legal process. Full, Independent Investigations: We demand a transparent investigation into these killings that includes cooperation from all law enforcement agencies and accountability for any officer found to have committed misconduct. ICE Out!: We call on all state and local leaders to end the use of state resources to support federal immigration enforcement and remove ICE from our streets. DHS must remove all ICE agents from the streets and all cities and states must stop all coordination with ICE. On July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston while driving a work van with his crew. Only a week later,on July 13, ICE fatally shot 26-year-old Johan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine while his wife and toddler were forced to witness his murder. Both men were beloved members of their communities, killed on their way to work, leaving their families broken. Since then, two more individuals in Florida and in Georgia have been killed by ICE’s chaotic and violent o…

Iran strikes at massive U.S. military footprint in Middle East
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-20T17:00:35Z
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KINO SOUSA • IN-SATU [solo]
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-07-20T17:00:06Z
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Zambian journalist detained for audio leak under cyber laws weeks before elections
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-07-20T16:52:06Z
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subject: EARTH Television - Zambia
subject: Free Press Initiative
subject: Legal Action
subject: MacPherson Mukuka
subject: Sources
subject: Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation
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description: Lusaka, July 20, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Zambian authorities to immediately release journalist MacPherson Mukuka after four days in detention and not to criminalize journalism carried out in the public interest. Mukuka, a journalist with state-owned Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC), has been detained at Kabwata Police Station in the capital Lusaka...
encoded: Lusaka, July 20, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Zambian authorities to immediately release journalist MacPherson Mukuka after four days in detention and not to criminalize journalism carried out in the public interest. Mukuka, a journalist with state-owned Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC), has been detained at Kabwata Police Station in the capital Lusaka since July 17 in connection with an alleged violation of Section 10 of Zambia’s 2025 Cyber Crimes Act, which prohibits recording a private conversation without prior notice, according to the journalist’s lawyer Simon Mulenga Mwila, who spoke to CPJ, and a police statement, reviewed by CPJ. Mukuka is accused of publishing the secret audio recording on the EARTH Television – Zambia Facebook page, which reports on climate issues. The 30-minute recording is described on the page as involving public servants in a Presidential Campaign Team committee discussing how they will work with polling station staff to “help people vote for their master.” CPJ was unable to verify the authenticity of the recording. If found guilty, Mukuka could be imprisoned for up to two years, be fined up to 200,000 penalty units (US$4,450), or both. “The detention of a journalist under the Cyber Crimes Act for publishing material that appears to be of significant public interest is deeply troubling, particularly with Zambia’s upcoming elections on August 13,” said CPJ Africa Director Angela Quintal. “The public has a right to know about matters that may affect the integrity of the vote. MacPherson Mukuka should be released immediately and any charges that criminalize his legitimate journalistic work should be dropped.” Mukuka’s detention comes as Zambia awaits a court judgment on October 20 on a petition filed by the Law Association of Zambia and the nonprofit Chapter One Foundation challenging the constitutionality of several provisions of the Cyber Security Act and Cyber Crimes Act. CPJ has provided technical …

20 July 2026 UN News Today
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creator: Daniel Johnson
date: 2026-07-20T15:39:55Z
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description: Protecting Haiti’s children is crucial for its democratic future, Security Council hearsMiddle East war once again leaves civilians fearing for their lives: WHOMoon exploration must be more sustainable, insists UNEP
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Houston mourns Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, killed by ICE
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-20T15:02:05Z
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subject: mourns
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Nearly 1,000 Wildfires in Canada Continue to Burn as Trump & Carney Double Down on Fossil Fuels
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-20T15:00:48Z
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Texas Rep. Al Green Accuses Trump Admin of Attempting to Cover Up ICE Killings
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-20T14:57:05Z
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"Justice for Lorenzo": Houston Community Demands Accountability After ICE Killing of Mexican Father
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U.S. Escalates War on Iran, Targeting Civilian Infrastructure as 3 U.S. Soldiers Are Killed
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She Sang And Now Faces 74 Lashes. Iran Sentences Another Female Musician
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 20, 2026
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Sports journalist Luca Esposito killed in Italy
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description: Berlin, July 20, 2026—Italian authorities must conduct a swift and thorough investigation into the killing of sports journalist Luca Esposito, whose charred body was found on a farm in southern Italy on Sunday, and determine whether his death was linked to his journalism, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. Firefighters found 53-year-old Esposito’s charred body...
encoded: Berlin, July 20, 2026—Italian authorities must conduct a swift and thorough investigation into the killing of sports journalist Luca Esposito, whose charred body was found on a farm in southern Italy on Sunday, and determine whether his death was linked to his journalism, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. Firefighters found 53-year-old Esposito’s charred body on July 19 while extinguishing a fire on farmland in Eboli, in the southern province of Salerno. Police found shell casings at the scene, and investigators believe Esposito was shot before his body was set on fire. The Salerno Public Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the case as a suspected homicide. Investigators are examining both Esposito’s personal and professional contacts. Italian media reported that a connection to Esposito’s journalism was not the main line of inquiry, although investigators had not excluded this possibility. “We are deeply shocked by the brutal killing of Italian sports journalist Luca Esposito,” said Attila Mong, CPJ’s Europe representative. “Italian authorities must act quickly and transparently to establish the full circumstances and determine whether this terrible event is linked to Luca Esposito’s journalism.” Esposito, whose legal first name was Luigi, was editor-in-chief of the local football news site ⁠TuttoSalernitana.com. He also contributed to the Salerno daily ⁠La Città di Salerno, appeared as a football commentator on ⁠Otto Channel, a regional TV channel, and wrote commentary for ⁠TuttoC.com, a news site covering Italy’s Serie C football league. CPJ emailed the Salerno Public Prosecutor’s Office for comment but did not immediately receive a response. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Sports journalist Luca Esposito killed in Italy
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description: Berlin, July 20, 2026—Italian authorities must conduct a swift and thorough investigation into the killing of sports journalist Luca Esposito, whose charred body was found on a farm in southern Italy on Sunday, and determine whether his death was linked to his journalism, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. Firefighters found 53-year-old Esposito’s charred body...
encoded: Berlin, July 20, 2026—Italian authorities must conduct a swift and thorough investigation into the killing of sports journalist Luca Esposito, whose charred body was found on a farm in southern Italy on Sunday, and determine whether his death was linked to his journalism, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. Firefighters found 53-year-old Esposito’s charred body on July 19 while extinguishing a fire on farmland in Eboli, in the southern province of Salerno. Police found shell casings at the scene, and investigators believe Esposito was shot before his body was set on fire. The Salerno Public Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the case as a suspected homicide. Investigators are examining both Esposito’s personal and professional contacts. Italian media reported that a connection to Esposito’s journalism was not the main line of inquiry, although investigators had not excluded this possibility. “We are deeply shocked by the brutal killing of Italian sports journalist Luca Esposito,” said Attila Mong, CPJ’s Europe representative. “Italian authorities must act quickly and transparently to establish the full circumstances and determine whether this terrible event is linked to Luca Esposito’s journalism.” Esposito, whose legal first name was Luigi, was editor-in-chief of the local football news site ⁠TuttoSalernitana.com. He also contributed to the Salerno daily ⁠La Città di Salerno, appeared as a football commentator on ⁠Otto Channel, a regional TV channel, and wrote commentary for ⁠TuttoC.com, a news site covering Italy’s Serie C football league. CPJ emailed the Salerno Public Prosecutor’s Office for comment but did not immediately receive a response. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

CPJ submits joint report to UN ahead of Sudan human rights review
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists, together with the Sudanese Journalists’ Syndicate (SJS), has submitted a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council documenting the devastating collapse of press freedom in Sudan, ahead of the country’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The UPR, a UN mechanism that reviews each member state’s human rights record every 4½...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists, together with the Sudanese Journalists’ Syndicate (SJS), has submitted a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council documenting the devastating collapse of press freedom in Sudan, ahead of the country’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The UPR, a UN mechanism that reviews each member state’s human rights record every 4½ years, assesses progress made since the previous review cycle and issues recommendations on how governments can better meet their human rights obligations. The joint report finds that Sudan has failed to implement the vast majority of recommendations related to freedom of expression and the protection of journalists accepted during its previous UPR. It documents widespread violations committed since the outbreak of war in April 2023, including the killings of journalists, arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture, sexual violence against female journalists, information blackouts, and the systematic use of legal measures to criminalize reporting in Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)-controlled areas, alongside widespread abuses by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The submission also highlights the near-total impunity for crimes against journalists and calls on all parties to protect members of the press, investigate attacks, release arbitrarily detained journalists, end the misuse of laws against the press, and guarantee safe and independent reporting throughout the conflict. CPJ and SJS’s UPR submission on Sudan is available in English here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Nearly 1,000 Wildfires in Canada Continue to Burn as Trump & Carney Double Down on Fossil Fuels
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description: Millions of people across North America have experienced hazardous air pollution this month as nearly a thousand active wildfires continue to rage in Canada. In addition to releasing hazardous chemicals and smoke darkening skies across the con...
encoded: Millions of people across North America have experienced hazardous air pollution this month as nearly a thousand active wildfires continue to rage in Canada. In addition to releasing hazardous chemicals and smoke darkening skies across the continent, the fires in Canada have also disproportionately impacted Indigenous communities, forcing thousands to evacuate their homes. Republican politicians have been loath to acknowledge the role of the climate crisis in making extreme weather events like this more frequent and intense, instead blaming Canadian officials for poor forest management. President Donald Trump has even threatened to impose new tariffs on Canada over the record levels of hazardous air. Independent Canadian journalist Rachel Gilmore says that while Trump’s comments are “extremely offensive” to people in the country, Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney’s policies — while acknowledging the science — also do little to mitigate the climate crisis as he approves new oil pipelines that would operate for decades. “He’s not exactly taking the climate action that we need here in Canada,” Gilmore says of Carney. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Texas Rep. Al Green Accuses Trump Admin of Attempting to Cover Up ICE Killings
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description: As calls mount for accountability over the ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, we speak with Democratic Congressmember Al Green, who represents Texas’s 9th Congressional District. He demands an independent investigation int...
encoded: As calls mount for accountability over the ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, we speak with Democratic Congressmember Al Green, who represents Texas’s 9th Congressional District. He demands an independent investigation into the shooting to stop “an attempt to cover up” the killing by the Trump administration. Democratic lawmakers led by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus will hold a public hearing in Houston on Friday to gather testimony from community members about Salgado Araujo’s killing. Green, one of the longest-serving Black members in Congress, highlights the importance of solidarity between different communities facing oppression. “Invidious discrimination is the common enemy for Latinos and African Americans, and we have to confront this common enemy together,” says Green. “We cannot allow people to segregate us.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Massive Drone Barrage Hits Moscow Oil Infrastructure #moscow #droneattack #shorts
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“Justice for Lorenzo”: Houston Community Demands Accountability After ICE Killing of Mexican Father
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description: Houston community members continue to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the 52-year-old Mexican father who was shot and killed by an ICE agent July 7. He had lived in the United States for nearly 35 years and had three U.S. citizen ch...
encoded: Houston community members continue to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the 52-year-old Mexican father who was shot and killed by an ICE agent July 7. He had lived in the United States for nearly 35 years and had three U.S. citizen children. The ICE agents involved in his killing have not been identified, and it’s unclear whether they remain on active duty. For more on the community response, we get a report from Democracy Now! producers on the ground in Houston. To many people in the city’s immigrant communities, Salgado Araujo was “Houston’s dad,” representative of their own families and not a dangerous criminal as the government has tried to portray him. “He looks just like all of our parents. He has the same story, the same American dream,” a resident named Sonia told Democracy Now! “We are demanding justice for Lorenzo, but it’s not just that,” a mourner said at a rally. “These terrorists coming from the government, it’s not just in Houston, it’s not just in Texas, it’s not just in the United States. It’s terrorism all over the world.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

U.S. Escalates War on Iran, Targeting Civilian Infrastructure as 3 U.S. Soldiers Are Killed
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description: The United States is expanding its attacks on Iran after three U.S. soldiers were killed over the weekend, the first U.S. fatalities in the conflict since March. Two U.S. service members were killed in an Iranian attack on a base in Jordan, an...
encoded: The United States is expanding its attacks on Iran after three U.S. soldiers were killed over the weekend, the first U.S. fatalities in the conflict since March. Two U.S. service members were killed in an Iranian attack on a base in Jordan, and a third soldier was killed in northern Iraq during a “controlled detonation” of a downed Iranian drone. The United States has now bombed Iran for nine consecutive nights, and Iran has retaliated by striking U.S. allies across the Persian Gulf. The war, which has led to the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, has squeezed global supplies of oil and gas. “The United States has considerable violence at its disposal, but it has limited political capacity to dictate terms,” says Toby Jones, associate professor of Middle East history at Rutgers University. Jones says that while the United States has tried to “inflict pain” on Iranian civilians in order to weaken the government, “it’s hard to say that it’s working.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for July 20, 2026
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description: U.S. Continues Strikes Against Iran After Three U.S. Service Members Killed, Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill Several Palestinians Over the Weekend, Dozens of Israeli Settlers Storm Palestinian Village in Occupied West Bank, Israel Strips Crocodiles of Protected Status to Pave Way for Crocodile-Infested Moat, Russia Launches Heavy Ballistic Missile Attack on Kyiv, Killing Six People, Colorado Prison Guard Faces Multiple Charges After Shooting Protesters Outside ICE Jail, ICE Agent Responsible for Fatal Shooting of Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero Once Told Court of Head Injury, “Manosphere” Influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate Arrested, Face U.K. Rape and Sex Assault Charges, Andy Burnham Succeeds Keir Starmer as U.K. Prime Minister, Trump Threatens Canada with Tariffs as Millions Suffer from Hazardous Wildfire Smoke, Troy Jackson Emerges as Front-Runner to Replace Platner as Democrat in Maine Senate Race, NYC Mayor Mamdani Seeks to Arrest Israel’s Netanyahu: “He’s a War Criminal”
encoded: U.S. Continues Strikes Against Iran After Three U.S. Service Members Killed Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill Several Palestinians Over the Weekend Dozens of Israeli Settlers Storm Palestinian Village in Occupied West Bank Israel Strips Crocodiles of Protected Status to Pave Way for Crocodile-Infested Moat Russia Launches Heavy Ballistic Missile Attack on Kyiv, Killing Six People Colorado Prison Guard Faces Multiple Charges After Shooting Protesters Outside ICE Jail ICE Agent Responsible for Fatal Shooting of Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero Once Told Court of Head Injury "Manosphere" Influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate Arrested, Face U.K. Rape and Sex Assault Charges Andy Burnham Succeeds Keir Starmer as U.K. Prime Minister Trump Threatens Canada with Tariffs as Millions Suffer from Hazardous Wildfire Smoke Troy Jackson Emerges as Front-Runner to Replace Platner as Democrat in Maine Senate Race NYC Mayor Mamdani Seeks to Arrest Israel's Netanyahu: "He's a War Criminal" This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-07-20 Monday
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[full uncut conversation] Celebrating the Legacy of Disability Activist Alice Wong
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Children in This Church Were Sexually Abused. Then They Began Abusing Other Kids. Some Continued as Adults.
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encoded: Growing up in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church, Lynn and Katherine — ProPublica is using only their middles names to protect their identities — said they were victims of sexual abuse from family members who may also have been abused. Now adults, the two women worry they played a part in perpetuating the cycle of abuse. Jenn Ackerman and ProPublica For two sisters raised in a family of 11 children that moved back and forth between Washington state and South Dakota, danger didn’t come from outsiders like they’d been warned by their church. It came from their brothers in the next bedroom. Lynn said she was still in diapers when her abuse began. Two older sisters told her how they caught one of their brothers touching her. The sisters told their mother, but Lynn said her parents did nothing; the abuse continued until he was 16 and she was 10. Years later, Lynn’s sisters offered a devastating explanation for their brother’s behavior: They believed he had been sexually abused, though by a neighbor. Read More <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="459" height="306" src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/08-10OALC111325_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?w=459&h=306&crop=1" class="attachment-propublica-story-promo size-propublica-story-promo wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/08-10OALC111325_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg 3000w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/08-10OALC111325_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/08-10OALC111325_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/08-10OALC111325_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_q…

DN! Monday, July 20, 2026
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Lim Tean: You cannot bomb a strait open – Hormuz, Chabahar and the coming battle for Bab el-Mandeb
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On This Nearly Deserted Alaska Island, You Pay to Keep Hundreds of Empty Buildings Wired for Internet
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description: The post On This Nearly Deserted Alaska Island, You Pay to Keep Hundreds of Empty Buildings Wired for Internet appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Very few homes in Adak, Alaska, are occupied, yet many, like these in the town’s Sandy Cove neighborhood, are the subject of federal subsidies that provide outdated internet service. Marc Lester/ADN On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, sits an abandoned house on an abandoned Navy base. There is no furniture, and the wind blows through broken windows. The last people to live here moved away long ago. Yet a bright orange pipe with a black fiber-optic cable inside runs from the outer wall down into the surrounding soil. The cable was installed to connect the home to the internet after the base closed. It costs more than $340,000 per year to provide this building and hundreds of others — all but a few of them empty — with internet access no one says they use. The money being wasted is yours. It comes from a fee added to nearly every American’s phone bill as part of a Federal Communications Commission subsidy program intended to bring fast, affordable internet to remote towns. We’re Investigating Alaska Internet Companies. We Need Your Help. Alaskans pay the most for phone and internet but get the slowest service. Please fill out our quick survey to share how much it costs you to get online and what you think of the service. Share Your Experience Reporting this year by the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica has found that the multibillion-dollar Universal Service Fund pays for what often amounts to slow internet access for customers who actually no longer use it. The FCC keeps the money flowing to telecom companies regardless of their owners’ track records. It kept paying a Fairbanks company to provide internet service while its owner served federal prison time for tax evasion. The government kept paying Alaska’s largest telecom, GCI, even after it signed a settlement for alleged fraud related to the subsidy. (The settlement said it was neither an admission of guilt by GCI nor a concession by the Justice Department that the claims were not …

Rising seas magnify the dangers of Coastal Georgia’s industrial past
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description: The state’s first Superfund research center is looking into how climate change is resurfacing industrial pollution.
encoded: This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station. Just across the road from the waterfront in Brunswick, Semona Holmes lives in a house surrounded by fruit trees, potted flowers, a fish pond, and — when it rains or the tide is extra high — floodwater. “If you can imagine this entire area here completely flooded,” she explained on her front porch on a recent afternoon. “The flooding would be — we would have like a river on our street.” The floodwater has reached to her knees at times. Once, after a hurricane, her neighbor canoed down the block. Improvements to the stormwater system have helped a bit in recent years. But Holmes’s concerns go beyond the inconvenience of an occasionally flooded street. She lives about half a mile from a former pesticide plant, which is now a toxic Superfund site — one of thousands of contaminated former industrial sites identified by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Holmes is worried about what the floodwaters contain. “Everything from that chemical plant has flowed into our community,” she said. Scientists want to get a better handle on what, exactly, has flowed into this community’s air, soil, water, and people. Researchers from six institutions will soon launch Georgia’s first Superfund research center, with $15 million from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Over five years, the team of scientists from Emory University, the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Morehouse School of Medicine, Spelman College, and Texas Tech University will look at Glynn County’s four toxic Superfund sites, including the one near Holmes. The work has two main goals, according to Emory public health professor Noah Scovronick. “One is to understand the health effects of past chemical exposures, and the other is to try and reduce people’s future exposures,” he said. To do that, they’ll study links between the toxic substances at the former industrial sites and possible heal…

Writer Annakeara Stinson on learning to find clarity in your work
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description: How long did it take you to write Nerve Damage and how long did it take you to edit it?
encoded: How long did it take you to write Nerve Damage and how long did it take you to edit it? I had been working on a different book for a while, like a few years, but it just didn’t feel like it was coming together. One day mom was like, “How about you try something else?” I was very offended when she said that, then started working on Nerve Damage the next day. The first draft took me about nine months, which is not a wild amount of time for a book––it came out relatively easily. I finished the first full draft at Art Farm in Nebraska, then promptly threw up. I took another year to do the second full draft. That’s when I started looking for agents. I did edits with my agent, Eloy. After Maris got it at Knopf, we really went through with a fine-tooth comb. We did probably three or four full edits, but it was mostly line level stuff, deepening characters, or needing to rework certain elements of a scene. The main structure remained. They bought the book in early 2024 and it just came out in mid-2026, so we had a pretty long runway. Maris is so artful and so smart, such an awake reader. By the end of the editing process it was stuff like…”you’re using the word ‘just’ too much,” and there was a pass for the word “just.” Had to justify each just. It sounds like you had the structure figured out before the manuscript landed with your agent and then editor. Did you use any craft books, wisdom from your MFA, or did you just intuitively know how to structure the novel? It had more to do with being a reader and a movie watcher. I’m less interested in plot than I am in voice and emotional questions. But I also know that plot is an important element to keep someone engaged. I wanted the plot in Nerve Damage to be simple, I wanted Clarice’s journey to be driven by her emotional weather and a relatively contained emotional question. I wanted those to drive the action. When we switched timelines into the past, that was just the retelling of what was motivating the journey in the prese…

CPJ, partners call on Thailand not to deport detained journalist Bai Zhaodong to China
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists has joined 58 other press freedom and civil society organizations in calling on Thailand to halt the forcible return of detained Chinese journalist Bai Zhaodong to China. Bai, a former reporter with Caijing magazine and an investigative journalist for over 25 years, has been held in immigration detention in Thailand since January...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists has joined 58 other press freedom and civil society organizations in calling on Thailand to halt the forcible return of detained Chinese journalist Bai Zhaodong to China. Bai, a former reporter with Caijing magazine and an investigative journalist for over 25 years, has been held in immigration detention in Thailand since January 26, 2026. The letter says he faces “a grave, foreseeable, personal, and real risk of political persecution, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture, and other serious human rights violations” if deported to China. In September 2024, Yulin City’s Security Bureau issued a warrant for his arrest on charges of “extortion” after his reporting exposed an alleged corruption and financial fraud network involving local government and Chinese Communist Party officials. Bai has faced sustained harassment for his investigative reporting on official corruption and fraud, including surveillance, intimidation, interrogation and detention, according to the joint letter. It calls on the Thai government to “halt any deportation or forcible return” of Bai to China and to facilitate his “safe transfer to a third country willing to provide him with international protection.” Read the full letter here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Fiji joins global Israel allies network, security plan slammed as ‘shameful’
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date: 2026-07-20T04:12:34Z
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description: Asia Pacific Report Fiji has become the 65th country to establish an “Israel Allies” parliamentary caucus, joining a global network of lawmakers aimed at strengthening political and diplomatic ties with Israel, reports FBC News. The announcement was made by Israel Allies Foundation president Josh Reinstein, who said the newly launched Fiji-Israel Allies Caucus marked another
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Fiji has become the 65th country to establish an “Israel Allies” parliamentary caucus, joining a global network of lawmakers aimed at strengthening political and diplomatic ties with Israel, reports FBC News. The announcement was made by Israel Allies Foundation president Josh Reinstein, who said the newly launched Fiji-Israel Allies Caucus marked another milestone in the country’s growing relationship with Israel. Speaking alongside Deputy Prime Minister and caucus chair Viliame Gavoka, Reinstein said the Israel Allies Foundation coordinated the activities of pro-Israel caucuses in parliaments and legislatures around the world. READ MORE: Fiji and Israel sign cybersecurity pact ‘We don’t want Israel in our country’, says Shamima Ali Other Israel in Pacific reports “This is the 65th caucus to be launched. We’re active on six continents. We have 65 caucuses in 65 countries with over 1600 legislators.” He said the foundation promoted what it described as “faith-based diplomacy”, encouraging legislators to translate their biblical support for Israel into political engagement. Reinstein praised Fiji for what he described as its strong support for Israel, particularly following the country’s decision to establish an embassy in Jerusalem. According to Reinstein, Fiji’s entry into the international network strengthened links between the country’s parliamentarians and legislators from dozens of other nations. Platform for cooperation He said the parliamentary caucus would provide a platform for cooperation between lawmakers while reinforcing diplomatic and economic ties between Fiji and Israel. Reinstein also thanked Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and Deputy Prime Minister Gavoka for supporting the establishment of the caucus, describing Fiji’s actions as demonstrating “courage” and “moral clarity.” The Fiji-Israel Allies Caucus was officially launched last week, with Gavoka serving as its inaugural chair. Meanwhile, Pacific Media Watch reports civil soc…

Fiji joins global Israel allies network, security plan slammed as ‘shameful’
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date: 2026-07-20T04:12:34Z
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description: Asia Pacific Report Fiji has become the 65th country to establish an “Israel Allies” parliamentary caucus, joining a global network of lawmakers aimed at strengthening political and diplomatic ties with Israel, reports FBC News. The announcement was made by Israel Allies Foundation president Josh Reinstein, who said the newly launched Fiji-Israel Allies Caucus marked another
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Fiji has become the 65th country to establish an “Israel Allies” parliamentary caucus, joining a global network of lawmakers aimed at strengthening political and diplomatic ties with Israel, reports FBC News. The announcement was made by Israel Allies Foundation president Josh Reinstein, who said the newly launched Fiji-Israel Allies Caucus marked another milestone in the country’s growing relationship with Israel. Speaking alongside Deputy Prime Minister and caucus chair Viliame Gavoka, Reinstein said the Israel Allies Foundation coordinated the activities of pro-Israel caucuses in parliaments and legislatures around the world. READ MORE: Fiji and Israel sign cybersecurity pact ‘We don’t want Israel in our country’, says Shamima Ali Other Israel in Pacific reports “This is the 65th caucus to be launched. We’re active on six continents. We have 65 caucuses in 65 countries with over 1600 legislators.” He said the foundation promoted what it described as “faith-based diplomacy”, encouraging legislators to translate their biblical support for Israel into political engagement. Reinstein praised Fiji for what he described as its strong support for Israel, particularly following the country’s decision to establish an embassy in Jerusalem. According to Reinstein, Fiji’s entry into the international network strengthened links between the country’s parliamentarians and legislators from dozens of other nations. Platform for cooperation He said the parliamentary caucus would provide a platform for cooperation between lawmakers while reinforcing diplomatic and economic ties between Fiji and Israel. Reinstein also thanked Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and Deputy Prime Minister Gavoka for supporting the establishment of the caucus, describing Fiji’s actions as demonstrating “courage” and “moral clarity.” The Fiji-Israel Allies Caucus was officially launched last week, with Gavoka serving as its inaugural chair. Meanwhile, Pacific Media Watch reports civil soc…

The US and Iran "fighting for final, ultimate victory" – top Iranian analyst
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creator: The Grayzone
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The man behind Iran’s Lego videos speaks
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Instant Rice from North Korea
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Fiji police arrest man over alleged social media threat to ‘burn Suva’
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-07-20T02:00:20Z
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description: RNZ Pacific reporters Fiji police say a man in his 50s has been taken into custody after he “allegedly issued a threat on social media” to remove the country’s 2013 Constitution or “burn the nation’s capital”. In a statement on Monday, police added that investigations were continuing. “The suspect in his 50s was questioned by
encoded: RNZ Pacific reporters Fiji police say a man in his 50s has been taken into custody after he “allegedly issued a threat on social media” to remove the country’s 2013 Constitution or “burn the nation’s capital”. In a statement on Monday, police added that investigations were continuing. “The suspect in his 50s was questioned by investigators from the Cybercrime Division at the Criminal Investigations Department Headquarters on Sunday 19 July 2026, and remains in custody,” the statement read. READ MORE: Man in custody for alleged social media threat to burn Suva and remove Constitution This comes as the Fiji government’s dual and parallel constitutional review and truth and reconciliation processes are underway. Fijian social media users have been warned that “inciteful posts or the practice of sharing such posts” can result in them being prosecuted under Fiji’s criminal laws for offences such as urging political violence, criminal intimidation and malicious acts. “While respecting one’s freedom of expression and speech, it must be practised with responsibility, as abuse and the breach of the law will not be condoned,” police said in an earlier statement on the issue on Sunday. This story was first published on This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

All Blacks shine at Eden Park while Fiji, Samoa and Tonga suffer on the road
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description: RUGBY: By Iliesa Tora of RNZ Pacific All Blacks captain Ardie Savea jetted out to Samoa on Sunday morning, hours after leading his team to a 40-21 win over Ireland at Eden Park. The former Rongotai College First XV captain and head boy touched down at Faleolo International Airport less than 24 hours after ensuring
encoded: RUGBY: By Iliesa Tora of RNZ Pacific All Blacks captain Ardie Savea jetted out to Samoa on Sunday morning, hours after leading his team to a 40-21 win over Ireland at Eden Park. The former Rongotai College First XV captain and head boy touched down at Faleolo International Airport less than 24 hours after ensuring the All Blacks’ record at Eden Park remained intact. The All Blacks have lost at the ground since 1994. Savea and his wife, Saskia, are in Samoa with their three children and will travel on to Fiji before returning to rejoin the All Blacks squad for the upcoming tour of South Africa. READ MORE: Nations Championship Team of the Week: Samoa Observer reported the family was met by Krista Liu of local car rental company Lulu, where they had arranged a vehicle for their stay. They were accompanied by Savea’s parents. Savea is originally from Suimu village. The tough looseman is part of the new All Blacks management and leadership team, that has now recorded a clean sheet in their first Test series of 2026. Having created history in New Zealand because of their Pasifika heritage, head coach Dave Rennie and his team won three out of three in the first leg of the Nations Championship. Cook Islander Rennie, whose mother is from the Cook Islands, is the first with Pasifika heritage to be head coach of the All Blacks. He has Fa’alogo Tana Umaga, who is of Samoan origin and the first Pasifika to be captain of the premier New Zealand side, as one of his assistants. Savea is part of the 12 players in the current squad who have Pasifika heritage as well. The side have recorded wins over France, Italy and Ireland in their first three home matches. While there were some questions around how the side performed against both France and Italy, Rennie believes Saturday night’s win over Ireland in front of more than 48,000 fans in Auckland showed promise of what the team can do moving forward. Although it was a was a tense start to the match, with both teams having periods on at…

No, Sunita Williams did not visit CJP protest site at Jantar Mantar
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creator: Alt News Staff
date: 2026-07-19T18:21:13Z
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description: A video going viral on social media shows former NASA astronaut Sunita Williams walking through a crowd, guided by police personnel. Users claim the visuals show her arriving at Jantar Mantar to express solidarity with Sonam Wangchuk, who has been on a hunger strike for 22 days, demanding Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation. An […]
encoded: A video going viral on social media shows former NASA astronaut Sunita Williams walking through a crowd, guided by police personnel. Users claim the visuals show her arriving at Jantar Mantar to express solidarity with Sonam Wangchuk, who has been on a hunger strike for 22 days, demanding Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation. An X user named @Coacroach_party posted the video on X and received over 300,000 views. (Archive) ma’m sunita william at jantar mantar Our real hero , our pride जय सविंधान जय भीम #sonamwangchukedutionminister #SonamWangchuk pic.twitter.com/1nPeVNQLl3 — Cockroach Janta Party (@Coacroach_party) July 19, 2026 The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), which began as a satirical online movement but quickly evolved into a nationwide youth protest, is demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and sweeping reforms to India’s examination system. The group seeks accountability for the 2026 NEET-UG paper leak and other alleged examination irregularities, which they say drove several students to suicide. The movement gathered significant momentum after education reformer Sonam Wangchuk joined it with an indefinite hunger strike on June 28, drawing support from several celebrities and public figures. Several others shared the viral video on social media platforms with the same claim. Click to view slideshow. Fact Check To begin with, we performed a keyword search on Google to check if there were any media reports on Sunita Williams’ visit to Jantar Mantar. We did not find any. Then, we broke the viral video into its keyframes and ran a reverse image search using those. This led us to an Instagram video from January 23, 2026 posted collaboratively by users yoxidon_entertainments and anees_pzid. This is the same video that has now gone viral. The caption of the Instagram post has hashtags like “#Calicut” and “#klf”. This indicates the video is from the Kerala Literature Festival. It is worth noting that in the video,…

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 19, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 19, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Two US soldiers dead in Jordan – Trump’s ego has restarted a war he cannot win
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date: 2026-07-19T13:20:00Z
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description: COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Two American service members are dead. Another is missing. Four more were medically evacuated after Iranian ballistic missiles and drones struck a US base in Jordan on Friday night. The American death toll in this war now stands at 16, with more than 430 wounded. And none of it needed to
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Two American service members are dead. Another is missing. Four more were medically evacuated after Iranian ballistic missiles and drones struck a US base in Jordan on Friday night. The American death toll in this war now stands at 16, with more than 430 wounded. And none of it needed to happen. READ MORE: US hits Iran nuclear site; Kuwait desalination plant on fire after attack US launches new Iran strikes after two soldiers killed: What’s the latest? Other War on Iran reports The off-ramp Trump threw away Five weeks ago, Donald Trump had in his hands something no American president has held since 1979: a signed memorandum of understanding with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Islamabad Memorandum, mediated by Pakistan, gave him everything he claimed to want — a cessation of hostilities, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and a 60-day window to negotiate a comprehensive settlement. “Ships of the World, start your engines,” he crowed on social media. “Let the oil flow!” President Trump: The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. Congratulations to all! I hereby fully authorize the toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and, simultaneously herewith, authorize the immediate removal of the United States Naval blockade. Ships… pic.twitter.com/hhZnbVm5tg — World Source News (@Worldsource24) June 14, 2026 He could have walked away a peacemaker. He could have claimed — with some justification — that he had achieved his military objectives and brought Iran to the table. History hands few leaders such a clean exit from a war of their own making. Instead, the criticisms got to him. The commentators who called the MOU a “capitulation”. The hawks who said he had let Tehran off the hook. The whispers that he had blinked. A more disciplined statesman would have ignored the noise and banked the win. Trump could not. His ego demanded vindication, and so — seizing on alleged violations that both sides traded in equal measure — he dec…

Trump again shrinks Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments
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creator: Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News
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description: Two executive orders signed Monday afternoon slashed the size of the Utah national monuments revered by tribes and public lands advocates. Grazing, mining, and drilling interests wanted them opened to extraction.
encoded: Monday morning, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments stretched across over 3 million acres of public lands in southern Utah, protecting some of the country’s most remote landscapes and scores of archaeological sites sacred to local tribes. By that evening, President Donald Trump had cut the monuments to just 302,600 acres. While the two executive orders gutting the monuments and their protections repeat an action from the first Trump administration that was reversed by President Joe Biden, Monday’s reductions go far further than before. In December 2017, Trump signed proclamations to reduce Bears Ears National Monument from 1.3 million acres to roughly 228,000 acres, an 85 percent reduction, while Grand Staircase-Escalante was cut nearly in half, from 1.9 million acres to about 1 million. Monday’s executive orders cut the monuments to less than a quarter of what was left after the previous shrinking of the monuments. Flanked by Utah Republicans, Trump said in signing the executive orders that new restrictions made it virtually impossible to hunt, fish, or even walk on the monuments, which is not true. Both are accessible to visitors, including for hunting and fishing. <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GrandStaircaseBearsEarsUtah750px.png?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GrandStaircaseBearsEarsUtah750px.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GrandStaircaseBearsEarsUtah750px.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=160&h=90&crop=1 160w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GrandStaircaseBearsEarsUtah750px.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=640&h=640&crop=1 640w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GrandStaircaseBearsEarsUtah750px.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=96&h=96&crop=1 96w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GrandStaircaseBearsEarsUtah750px.png?quality=75&strip=all&w=150 150w, h…

Russia Hits Kyiv In Massive Missile And Drone Attack #kyiv #attack #shorts
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-07-19T11:32:23Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Sonam Wangchuk solidarity protest turns violent in Santiniketan, students on hunger strike allege assault by ABVP
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creator: Amarabati Bhattacharyya
date: 2026-07-19T03:15:36Z
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description: A group of students of Visva Bharati university in Santiniketan on Saturday alleged that several members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) attacked them while they were observing a 24-hour-long hunger strike and protest in solidarity with Sonam Wangchuk. The protest was not limited to Visva-Bharati students but was open to students and supporters […]
encoded: A group of students of Visva Bharati university in Santiniketan on Saturday alleged that several members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) attacked them while they were observing a 24-hour-long hunger strike and protest in solidarity with Sonam Wangchuk. The protest was not limited to Visva-Bharati students but was open to students and supporters of the cause from across Santiniketan. According to the organisers, nearly 40 people participated in the demonstration. The peaceful protest, which began at 10 am opposite the university’s Central Library, was disrupted around noon. The situation turned violent when around 30 individuals, whom the protesters identified as ABVP members, allegedly clashed with the demonstrators, assaulted some of them, and tore apart their banners. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-317208 size-large" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/VB-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" width="1024" height="768" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/VB-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/VB-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/VB-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/VB-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/VB.jpeg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> The sit-in protest was held near the Visva Bharati Central Library “This was a simple students’ protest in solidarity with Sonam Wangchuk’s hunger strike in Delhi demanding justice for the students who were victims of the NEET-UG paper leak. There were no political affiliations or party banners,” Sanjana Dutta, one of the demonstrators, told Alt News. “It was a sit-in protest on the side of the road with only placards and musical instruments. We were demonstrating by singing songs, reciting poems, and raising slogans regarding Wangchuk’s deteriorating health condition and the government apathy.” Desc…

Beyond the spotlight: Three PhD scholars, 21 days without food, and a government that remains unmoved
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creator: Abhishek Kumar
date: 2026-07-19T03:12:29Z
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description: By the time Delhi Police removed Sonam Wangchuk from Jantar Mantar and admitted him to Safdarjung Hospital on the morning of July 18, the spotlight had already been fixed on his deteriorating health. But a few metres away from the main stage, three lesser-known faces remained where they had been for three weeks — still […]
encoded: By the time Delhi Police removed Sonam Wangchuk from Jantar Mantar and admitted him to Safdarjung Hospital on the morning of July 18, the spotlight had already been fixed on his deteriorating health. But a few metres away from the main stage, three lesser-known faces remained where they had been for three weeks — still refusing food, still waiting for the government to respond. Neha, Manish and Ameen, all PhD scholars associated with the All India Students’ Association (AISA), have now spent 21 days on an indefinite hunger strike demanding accountability over the alleged irregularities in the NEET examination. While Wangchuk’s removal briefly drew national attention, the protest site is sustained by dozens of others — some fasting for over two weeks, others joining for shorter periods in solidarity. When Alt News visited Jantar Mantar on July 17, three posters hanging beside the main stage displayed the names and photographs of the students, alongside daily medical updates recording their blood pressure, blood sugar, ketone levels and weight loss since the hunger strike began. The three students were too weak to speak. Instead, Shahid, an AISA member pursuing a master’s degree in sociology at Jamia Millia Islamia, spoke on their behalf. He introduced Manish as a PhD scholar at Allahabad University from Uttar Pradesh, Neha as a PhD researcher at Jawaharlal Nehru University from Uttarakhand, and Ameen as a PhD scholar at Ambedkar University from Punjab. “These are brilliant researchers from some of India’s finest institutions,” Shahid said. “Yet they are sitting here because those in power no longer believe accountability is their responsibility.” ‘Their Bodies have Entered Starvation Mode’ According to Shahid, doctors monitoring the protesters have warned that all three are now in “starvation mode”. “The most worrying condition is Neha’s,” he said, claiming her blood glucose remained critically low. Manish has lost more than 10 kilograms, while doctors have cautioned…

How Iran’s elite Lego team reverse engineered US propaganda
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-07-18T22:53:51Z
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description: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 18, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 18, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Hemp: The New Green Revolution
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creator: Ralph Nader
date: 2026-07-18T17:32:40Z
subject: Ralph Nader
subject: Sources
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subject: hemp
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subject: Revolution
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description: Ralph welcomes back his old running mate, Native American activist, Winona LaDuke, who has devoted her life to advocating for Indigenous control of their homelands, natural resources, and cultural practices to talk about her latest incarnation: hemp fa...
encoded: Ralph welcomes back his old running mate, Native American activist, Winona LaDuke, who has devoted her life to advocating for Indigenous control of their homelands, natural resources, and cultural practices to talk about her latest incarnation: hemp farmer. Then, we’ll speak to Hal Weitzman, from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, about how Elon Musk’s feud with Delaware may transform corporate America. Plus, we tick off Robert Reich’s ten policy prescriptions the Democratic Party should fight for to beat the GOP in the upcoming midterms. Winona LaDuke is an activist, economist, and author, who has devoted her life to advocating for Indigenous control of their homelands, natural resources, and cultural practices. She is also a two-time vice-presidential candidate with Ralph Nader. Ms. LaDuke lives and works on the White Earth Ojibwe reservation in northern Minnesota, where she runs Winona’s Hemp & Heritage Farm. She is also a member of the Indigenous Hemp & Cannabis Farmer’s Cooperative. I’m looking first at seed sovereignty. We’re growing [European hemp] varieties and then we’re growing these feral hemp varieties. They’re called feral varieties (which of course, that’s something that I love) which means that when they eradicated hemp in the 1930s with the Marijuana Prohibition Act—well, they missed some spots. And those guys kept growing. And so 80 years of being illegal—isn’t that great? Something that’s illegal for 80 years is still with us, rocking out. And so I figure if you grew illegally for 80 years, you are really a tough hemp plant…And so we are growing out these hemp varieties and built a cooperative because we want to own the seeds and we want to own the technology (the value-added processing), and we want to use this hemp as a part of our future as tribes. Winona LaDuke My grandsons are farming. I don’t know who else can say their grandchildren are farming—let me know. My grandchildren are farming. They’re running the horses. They’re …

Mahmoud Khalil sues over "conspiracy" to silence Palestinian activism
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-18T14:19:57Z
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subject: Democracy
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Ukrainian Drone Attacks Plunge Russia Into Energy Crisis #warinukraine #shorts
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-07-18T14:05:16Z
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subject: Energy
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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New York governor orders first statewide data center moratorium
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creator: Alex Brown, Stateline
date: 2026-07-18T13:00:00Z
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description: Data centers have drawn vocal opposition at local public meetings and in state capitols across the U.S.
encoded: New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, issued an executive order Tuesday that puts a moratorium on the construction of large-scale data centers. The pause, which will last up to a year, is the nation’s first statewide ban on data centers, which have drawn increasing concern from lawmakers and citizens based on their impact on electricity prices and the energy grid. “As data center development threatens to hike up utility bills, deplete our natural resources, and create uncertainty for New Yorkers, it’s my responsibility to take action and lead,” Hochul said in a statement. Technology companies have invested billions of dollars to build data centers all across the country, driven in part by the computing demands from artificial intelligence. In her executive order, Hochul directed the state Department of Public Service to issue no new permits for large-scale data centers for a year. During that period, the agency will conduct an environmental analysis on the impacts of data centers, along with a proceeding to “require data centers to either pay more for their energy or supply their own.” New York lawmakers passed a more extensive data center moratorium last month, but Hochul has not said whether she will sign the bill. Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Data-Center-protest-Las-Vegas.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" alt="Photo of people protesting in a crowded hallway, with one sign reading "Don't be a fossil fool"" class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Data-Center-protest-Las-Vegas.jpg?quality=75&strip=all 1600w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Data-Center-protest-Las-Vegas.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&quality=75&strip=all 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Data-Center-protest-Las-Vegas.jpg?resize=330%2C186&quality=75&strip=all 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Data-Center-protest-Las-Vegas.jpg?resize=768%2C432&quality=75&strip=all 768w, https://grist.o…

‘They brought me here to kill me’ – NZ media slammed over ignoring plea
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date: 2026-07-18T07:35:34Z
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description: Pacific Media Watch “This is the last time you’ll see me… they brought me here to kill me.” These chilling words by detained and tortured Palestinian paediatrician Dr Hussam Abu Safiya were cited by an Amnesty International advocate today at a rally denouncing the failure of New Zealand media to highlight his plight. Dr Abu
encoded: Pacific Media Watch “This is the last time you’ll see me… they brought me here to kill me.” These chilling words by detained and tortured Palestinian paediatrician Dr Hussam Abu Safiya were cited by an Amnesty International advocate today at a rally denouncing the failure of New Zealand media to highlight his plight. Dr Abu Safiya, a paediatrician and the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, told his lawyer this while on a visit earlier this month, explained Amnesty International’s people power manager Margaret Taylor. Amnesty international is one of the many global human rights watchdogs and medical organisations that have been campaigning and demanding the release of the paediatrician and former director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, destroyed by Israeli forces. READ MORE: Israel has stepped up its persecution of Dr Abu Safiya Gaza genocide – how many UN findings will the West ignore? ‘The essence of childhood has been destroyed’ Speaking to pro-Palestinian activists and supporters in the 145th consecutive week of protests since the genocidal Israeli attacks were unleashed on the besieged Gaza enclave, Taylor described Dr Safiya’s plight. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-130790 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dr-Abu-Safiya-On-X-500wide-.png" alt="The frail Dr Hussam Abu Safiya" width="500" height="506" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dr-Abu-Safiya-On-X-500wide-.png 500w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dr-Abu-Safiya-On-X-500wide--296x300.png 296w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Dr-Abu-Safiya-On-X-500wide--415x420.png 415w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /> The frail Dr Hussam Abu Safiya . . . as he appeared last month after 18 months of jail and brutal treatment by Israeli jailors. Image: X/@HussamAbuSafiya Taylor said lawyer Nasser Odeh had stated that since Dr Abu Safiya’s transfer to the notorious underground detent…

Baruipur rape-murder accused Ananda Sardar was CPI(M)’s polling agent? No, fake document viral
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creator: Anindya Hazra
date: 2026-07-18T04:21:20Z
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description: A screenshot of an alleged Facebook post is being widely shared on social media with the claim that Ananda (Anondo) Sardar, one of the accused arrested in the alleged rape and murder of a minor in West Bengal’s Baruipur, had served as a CPI(M) polling agent during the 2026 assembly elections. The minor girl’s body […]
encoded: A screenshot of an alleged Facebook post is being widely shared on social media with the claim that Ananda (Anondo) Sardar, one of the accused arrested in the alleged rape and murder of a minor in West Bengal’s Baruipur, had served as a CPI(M) polling agent during the 2026 assembly elections. The minor girl’s body was recovered from a pond in Surjyapur village on July 5, after she had gone missing a day earlier. Her family and local residents alleged that the police failed to act promptly despite a missing complaint. Protests over the alleged police inaction escalated into violence, during which one person was allegedly lynched by a mob. Police later <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/rs-10000-deal-before-baruipur-rape-murder-cops-say-prime-accused-prabhas-mondal-lured-sold-12-year-old-to-co-accused-killed-in-encounter/articleshow/132263449.cms#:~:text=Mondal%27s%20statements%20also%20led%20to%20the%20arrests%20of%20Anand%20Sardar%20and%20Dibakar%20Sardar%2C%20while%20Kabir%20Molla%20was%20arrested%20on%20Tuesday%20after%20his%20name%20surfaced%20during%20the%20investigation." rel="noopener">arrested four people in connection with the rape and murder, including Ananda Sardar. Soon after, some social media users began claiming that Sardar had been a polling agent for CPI(M)’s Baruipur Paschim candidate, MD Lahek Ali, during the 2026 assembly elections. The claim was initially circulated by individual Facebook users before being amplified by the Facebook page The Bengal Owl, which shared a screenshot purportedly showing a Facebook post made by Sardar on April 29, the second phase of elections in Bengal. The ‘post’ contains a form purportedly filled up by Sardar. Though the header of the document is not visible, it appears to be a filled up Form 10 or an appointment letter for a polling agent. The screenshot was further shared by various other social media users, helping it go viral. Click to view slideshow. Bengal BJP MLA Sajal Ghosh, while spea…

How a Man Once Ordered to Pay Libel Damages Helped Launch an Investigation Into Islamic Private Schools
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creator: Lexi Churchill
date: 2026-07-18T03:10:00Z
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description: The post How a Man Once Ordered to Pay Libel Damages Helped Launch an Investigation Into Islamic Private Schools appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: <img src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/20260716-Rios-IslamicSchools-005_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?w=1149" alt="A two-story, light-beige Brighter Horizons Academy building features a curved front entryway and a distinct orange roofline decorated with a zigzag pattern. On the green lawn in front of the school, a digital sign announces “Friday Prayer in the BHA GYM 1:30 PM.”"> Brighter Horizons Academy is one of nearly 50 Texas-based Islamic and Chinese schools that were investigated by the state comptroller’s office. Desiree Rios for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune Nearly a decade ago, a British court ordered a man named Sam Westrop to pay the equivalent of more than $173,000 in libel damages after he published an article on his website calling the founder of a London-based Islamic TV channel a “convicted terrorist.” Westrop eventually admitted the underlying evidence for the claim was not reliable, according to court filings, and corrected the story on his website. “There simply was no evidence to support the allegation of terrorism,” the judge in the case wrote. Years after that ruling, Westrop made similar claims about a group of Islamic private schools in Texas that had applied to the state’s new voucher program. He alleged the school leaders had connections to Islamic extremist or terrorist groups, such as Hamas. Westrop shared his research as early as last fall with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, which oversees the voucher program that awards eligible families taxpayer dollars for private education or homeschooling. In December, acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock asked the state’s top lawyer if the agency could exclude from the voucher program an unnamed number of schools with supposed ties to the Chinese Communist government or that had hosted events for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil-rights group. A month later, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxto…

The Worse Outlaw Trump Becomes, The Less the Democrats Move to Initiate Impeachment
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creator: matthew
date: 2026-07-18T00:17:35Z
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description: By Ralph Nader July 17, 2026 The chronic prevaricator and delusionist, Donald J. Trump, knows the worse his outlaw actions and mouth are, the less likely the Democrats in Congress are to impeach him. The Democratic leaders, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Sc...
encoded: By Ralph Nader July 17, 2026 The chronic prevaricator and delusionist, Donald J. Trump, knows the worse his outlaw actions and mouth are, the less likely the Democrats in Congress are to impeach him. The Democratic leaders, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, like Trump, oppose impeachment drives but for different reasons. With Trump the coming… This content originally appeared on Ralph Nader and was authored by matthew.

Saige England: A tale of power being taken from the people and handed to predator companies
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-07-18T00:05:21Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: DP World
subject: Foreign monopolies
subject: Gerard Loader
subject: Local democracy
subject: Lyttelton Port
subject: Maritime Union of New Zealand
subject: New Zealanders for A Democratic Economy
subject: Port takeover
subject: Predator companies
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description: COMMENTARY: By Saige England Last night I attended a packed meeting in Lyttleton against the takeover attempt by DP World of the Lyttleton Port. This is a local, regional, national, and international issue. The meeting was organised by New Zealanders for A Democratic Economy. It was chaired by John Minto, a long time campaigner for
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Saige England Last night I attended a packed meeting in Lyttleton against the takeover attempt by DP World of the Lyttleton Port. This is a local, regional, national, and international issue. The meeting was organised by New Zealanders for A Democratic Economy. It was chaired by John Minto, a long time campaigner for human rights. Think evil predator company with a track record in taking over international ports — sackings, enviro hazards and links to Epstein… and you have DP World in a nutshell. READ MORE: Dubai-based DP World replaces chief named in Epstein files Top Canadian pension fund halts deals with UAE firm over Epstein ties Other DP World reports I have researched the history of DP World and it is corrupt — good at keeping the corruption out of sight — but that’s the way with these tax-evading companies. Who pays for their profits? The people, the taxpayers through rate-hikes and workers, through redundancies. DP World loves replacing people with AI. Predator companies like this start on the port and move into other areas because ports are a gateway to transport and other industries. This is a local, regional, national and international issue about power and control. It is about power being taken out of the hands of people and placed in the hands of predator companies. Workers made redundant Last night heard from workers who have been made redundant water side. Men who cared about community. We heard from Gerard Loader, secretary at the Lyttelton Branch of the Maritime Union of New Zealand and who is also the national vice-president of the union. Loader presented as a union official, and also as a boy who grew up, married, had children and works in Lyttleton. He recalled the days when Lyttelton was a hive of activity, a harbour full of ships, trucks, trains, seafarers and “wharfies”. He gave relevant background to the development of the takeover. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-130752" src="https://asiapa…

Caitlin Johnstone: They’re launching a new COINTELPRO for the 21st century
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-07-18T00:00:31Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Caitlin Johnstone
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subject: Gaza genocide
subject: Geostrategic ambitions
subject: Israeli atrocities
subject: NSPM-7
subject: Sources
subject: Western empire
subject: "Regime Change"
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subject: Analysis
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subject: Atrocities
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subject: COINTELPRO
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subject: Democracy
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subject: Genocide
subject: geostrategic
subject: Global
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subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
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subject: J. Edgar Hoover
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description: COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The Trump administration has announced a renewed crusade against “far-left terrorism,” which sounds okay if you don’t know that the word “terrorism” only ever means “behavior which goes against the agendas of the Western empire.” The United States has for example placed sanctions on UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for calling
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The Trump administration has announced a renewed crusade against “far-left terrorism,” which sounds okay if you don’t know that the word “terrorism” only ever means “behavior which goes against the agendas of the Western empire.” The United States has for example placed sanctions on UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for calling attention to Israeli atrocities in Gaza, justifying the move by claiming the human rights expert has “expressed support for terrorism”. In the UK, police have been arresting people on terrorism charges just for holding signs which say “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”. LISTEN: A reading by Tim Foley READ MORE: US wants to globalise fight against far-left terrorism US urges global crackdown on ‘far-left terrorism’ – NZ says focus on behaviour rather than labels The designation has nothing to do with actual acts of terrorism as the average Westerner conceives of that notion. In 2024, the US government removed its $10 million bounty on former Al Qaeda leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (AKA Abu Mohammad al-Jolani) because he facilitated Washington’s regime change agendas in Syria, where he is now the sitting president. You can literally be a leader in the most notorious terrorist network on earth and still see that designation disappear into thin air as soon as you start assisting the geostrategic ambitions of the empire. The US has signalled that it will refocus its so-called counterterrorism efforts on repressing leftwing groups. In a speech to officials from more than 60 countries on Thursday, secretary of state Marco Rubio said “far-left terror” had been overlooked for too long. It comes as… pic.twitter.com/hXQ5PZRfX7 — Novara Media (@novaramedia) July 17, 2026 The White House announced on Thursday that it has launched “an unprecedented global offensive against the transnational threat of Radical Left terrorism,” under which “far-left extremism will be treated with the same seriousness and ferocity t…

Survivors’ Justice Needs More Than Just Laws
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creator: Devin A. Giordano
date: 2026-07-17T22:15:38Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
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subject: Justice
subject: laws
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subject: needs
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description: Old notions are still preventing victims from getting a second chance.
encoded: Old notions are still preventing victims from getting a second chance. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Devin A. Giordano.

Helping Workers Beat the Heat
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creator: Eleanor J. Bader
date: 2026-07-17T21:58:14Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: beat
subject: heat
subject: helping
subject: progressive
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: Workers
description: Mamdani’s initiative jumpstarts an essential discussion about the need to address a potentially deadly problem.
encoded: Mamdani’s initiative jumpstarts an essential discussion about the need to address a potentially deadly problem. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Eleanor J. Bader.

Trump Officials Want to Use Human Rights Aid to Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe
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creator: Anna Maria Barry-Jester
date: 2026-07-17T21:45:00Z
subject: ProPublica
subject: Sources
subject: advocate
subject: africans
subject: aid
subject: and
subject: causes
subject: Europe
subject: for
subject: human
subject: officials
subject: propublica
subject: rights
subject: rightwing
subject: sources
subject: south
subject: trump
subject: trump administration
subject: use
subject: want
subject: white
description: The post Trump Officials Want to Use Human Rights Aid to Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Collage by Alex Bandoni/ProPublica. Source image: Roberto Schmidt/Stringer/Getty Images. For decades, the U.S. Department of State gave money to groups protecting free speech, human rights and persecuted minorities in poor and authoritarian countries. To decide what to fund, staffers with deep expertise typically pored over reams of information on abuses under the most repressive regimes and held an open competition to fund groups to work in those countries. This year, Trump administration officials presented State Department workers with their own list of organizations that should be funded. To the shock of many staffers and lawmakers, they proposed at least a dozen grants that would bypass the normal open bidding process. They also sought to give taxpayer dollars to groups aligned with conservative and anti-immigration movements in Europe as well as advocates for white South Africans, according to interviews and documents reviewed by ProPublica. Among the organizations appointees have considered funding in recent months are a British free-speech organization that has fought against bans on “gay conversion therapy” and an Afrikaner group run by a controversial figure who has called for self-governance of the white ethnic minority within South Africa. This type of giving would mark a stark departure from the traditional aid that helped torture victims and documented rapes, political violence and other abuses in some of the most oppressive countries in the world, according to more than a dozen former State Department employees. One new program with $4.9 million of competitive funding available to groups to develop “civilizational self-confidence in Europe” is slated for “research, conferences, cultural engagements, and support for civil society” in wealthy democracies. The call for proposals says recipients should “not attempt to reform the legislative processes,” but experts and lawmakers have expressed concern that the U.S. is seeking to influence politics in allie…

In Wildfire Planning, Apartment Renters Are Overlooked
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creator: Elyse Hauser
date: 2026-07-17T21:37:08Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: ‘overlooked’
subject: apartment
subject: are
subject: planning
subject: progressive
subject: renters
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: wildfire
description: As wildfires reach more populated areas, preparation efforts focused on single-family housing aren’t enough.
encoded: As wildfires reach more populated areas, preparation efforts focused on single-family housing aren’t enough. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Elyse Hauser.

Out-of-control Canadian wildfires prompt calls for ‘Nuremberg trials for big oil’
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creator: Olivia Rosane
date: 2026-07-17T21:13:09Z
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subject: Reprint
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subject: calls
subject: Canada
subject: canadian
subject: climate change
subject: climate crisis
subject: for
subject: nuremberg
subject: oil
subject: outofcontrol
subject: prompt
subject: reprint
subject: sources
subject: trials?
subject: wildfires
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Making Sanctuary Real in New York City
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2026-07-17T21:03:17Z
subject: Sources
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subject: making
subject: new
subject: real
subject: sanctuary
subject: sources
subject: york
description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.

Thousands flee as First Nations bear the brunt of Canada’s wildfires
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creator: Miles Morrisseau
date: 2026-07-17T20:48:10Z
subject: Grist
subject: Indigenous Affairs
subject: Sources
subject: affairs
subject: bear
subject: brunt
subject: canada’s
subject: first
subject: flee
subject: Indigenous
subject: nations
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: thousands
subject: wildfires
description: Residents of one First Nations community went door to door warning neighbors before fleeing by boat. More than 900 fires continue burning across Canada.
encoded: More than 900 wildfires are burning throughout Canada, with devastating impacts for First Nations. Thirteen Nations remain under evacuation orders that have forced 2,182 people from their homes. The Namaygoosisagagun (Collins) First Nation watched one blaze largely destroy its entire community in less than an hour, forcing them to flee by boat. Residents reported having only minutes to gather their belongings before homes were overtaken by the flames on Wednesday, and Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Linda Debassige said in a statement that all community members have been accounted for pending a full assessment. “It is with heartfelt sadness that I share that our member First Nation, Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, has been devastated by an unexpected and fast-moving wildfire that advanced toward and through the community, causing extensive damage and destruction to homes and community buildings,” Debassige said in the statement. Of the 903 fires burning as of Friday, 750 remained out of control and 43 had started within the prior 24 hours. The effect has been greatest in Ontario, where seven First Nations have fled the 193 fires now burning there. According to the Chiefs of Ontario, several communities were cleared under mandatory orders issued by their leadership with support from the Ontario Provincial Police. In addition to Namaygoosisagagun, Whitesand First Nation, Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek, and Animbiigoo Zaagi’igan Anishinaabek are among those impacted by those orders. Dozens of non-Indigenous communities throughout the province have been ordered to evacuate as well. The Namaygoosisagagun (Collins) First Nation is about 125 miles north of Thunder Bay and inaccessible by road. Debassige told The Canadian Press that residents did not receive advance warning from provincial or national officials, nor did they receive any evacuation support. It’s been reported that community members went ​door to door warning their neighbors, and more than two dozen peop…

Mexican journalist Josué Martínez shot dead in Puebla, fourth killed in over a month
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-07-17T20:22:55Z
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subject: Josué Martínez Contreras
subject: Killed
subject: Murdered
subject: Sources
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description: Mexico City, July 17, 2026—Mexican authorities must swiftly and credibly investigate the killing of 39-year-old Josué Martínez Contreras, who is the fourth Mexican journalist to be killed in the country in just over a month, said the Committee to Protect Journalists on Friday. Martínez, the founder and general director of the Facebook-based news site Noticias...
encoded: Mexico City, July 17, 2026—Mexican authorities must swiftly and credibly investigate the killing of 39-year-old Josué Martínez Contreras, who is the fourth Mexican journalist to be killed in the country in just over a month, said the Committee to Protect Journalists on Friday. Martínez, the founder and general director of the Facebook-based news site Noticias San Martín Texmelucan, was shot dead near his residence around 8 a.m. on Thursday by unidentified motorcyclists in the town of San Martín Texmelucan, in the central Mexican state of Puebla, according to news reports and a brief statement released by the Puebla state prosecutor’s office. Reports noted that the office is investigating Martínez’s killing and that the journalist was with his 13-year-old son during the attack. “The brutal killing of Josué Martínez, in front of his child and in broad daylight, is the fourth such deadly attack on a Mexican journalist in just over four weeks in what is rapidly becoming one of the deadliest years in recent memory for the Mexican press,” said Jan-Albert Hootsen, CPJ’s Mexico representative. “Time and time again Mexican authorities show their unwillingness to make the country safer for reporters by allowing these attacks to occur in almost complete impunity.” Martínez’s killing follows the deaths of Mexican journalists Luis Ángel López, killed in Veracruz state on June 11, Roxana Guzmán, abducted June 2 in Veracruz and whose remains were identified on July 3, and Alex Serna, who was abducted in Guerrero state on June 20 and whose remains were found on July 3. Martínez covered local news in Texmelucan, a town 45 miles east of Mexico City. He was also the founder of CRE-ARTE, an artistic and charitable foundation, had recently obtained a law degree and worked as a Physical Education teacher at a local public school. On November 20, 2025, Martínez posted a short video on his personal Facebook page, in which he alleged that local government officials were illegally extracting…

Calls mount to boycott The Odyssey
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-17T20:01:31Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: Boycott
subject: calls
subject: Democracy
subject: mount
subject: now
subject: odyssey
subject: sources
subject: the
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

‘All Arabs are threatened’: Israel’s expansion won’t stop in Lebanon
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creator: Ross Domoney and Nadia Péridot
date: 2026-07-17T18:39:45Z
subject: Politics and Movements: International
subject: Politics and Movements: US
subject: Sources
subject: video
subject: all
subject: and
subject: arabs
subject: are
subject: expansion
subject: International
subject: israel
subject: israel’s
subject: lebanon
subject: movements
subject: Palestine
subject: Politics
subject: sources
subject: stop
subject: Syria
subject: threatened
subject: Video
subject: won’t
subject: yemen
description: <img width="1024" height="576" src="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/TRNN-Still-Shatila-Refugee-Camp-Lebanon.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Still image of Amal Ahmed al-Akar, a displaced Palestinian resident of Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon, putting her hands over her eyes in the middle of a deserted street. Still image from TRNN documentary Report “‘All Arabs Are Threatened’: Israel’s Expansion Won’t Stop in Lebanon” (July 2026). Credit: TRNN/Shadowgraph Media." data-attachment-id="345162" data-permalink="https://therealnews.com/all-arabs-are-threatened-israels-expansion-wont-stop-in-lebanon/trnn-still-shatila-refugee-camp-lebanon" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/TRNN-Still-Shatila-Refugee-Camp-Lebanon.jpg?fit=2320%2C1304&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2320,1304" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}" data-image-title="TRNN Still &#8211; Shatila Refugee Camp &#8211; Lebanon" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" Still image of Amal Ahmed al-Akar, a displaced Palestinian resident of Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon, putting her hands over her eyes in the middle of a deserted street. Still image from TRNN documentary Report “‘All Arabs Are Threatened’: Israel’s Expansion Won’t Stop in Lebanon” (July 2026). Credit: TRNN/Shadowgraph Media. " data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/TRNN-Still-Shatila-Refugee-Camp-Lebanon.jpg?fit=780%2C439&ssl=1"> “Israel aims to establish a greater Jewish state from the Euphrates to the Nile. All Arabs are threatened, not only Palestinians. Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Jordan—all are threatened.”
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‘All Arabs are threatened’: Israel’s expansion won’t stop in Lebanon
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creator: Ross Domoney and Nadia Péridot
date: 2026-07-17T18:39:45Z
subject: Politics and Movements: International
subject: Politics and Movements: US
subject: Sources
subject: video
subject: all
subject: and
subject: arabs
subject: are
subject: expansion
subject: International
subject: israel
subject: israel’s
subject: lebanon
subject: movements
subject: Palestine
subject: Politics
subject: sources
subject: stop
subject: Syria
subject: threatened
subject: Video
subject: won’t
subject: yemen
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Long Island Audit confronted a powerful police union. They made him pay for it.
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creator: Taya Graham and Stephen Janis
date: 2026-07-17T18:38:08Z
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subject: Sources
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subject: Accountability
subject: and
subject: Audit
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subject: for
subject: him
subject: island
subject: long
subject: made
subject: pay
subject: Police
subject: Police Accountability
subject: Policing
subject: powerful
subject: Prisons
subject: report
subject: sources
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subject: union
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How Sean Penn Met the World’s Most Wanted Man
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‘All Arabs Are Threatened’: Israel’s Expansion Won’t Stop in Lebanon
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Trump admin to crack down on leftist groups
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 17, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 17, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Funeral held in Houston for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
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Trump’s Economic Chaos Continues to Batter Working Families’ Budgets
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description: This week, the Federal Reserve released its July 2026 Beige Book, offering a snapshot of economic conditions across all 12 Federal Reserve Districts. The report shows that the economic fallout from the conflict in the Middle East continues to spread t...
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How Tibetan American Youth Are Preparing to Fight for Tibet
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Christopher Nolan’s "The Odyssey" Faces Boycott Calls over Filming in Occupied Western Sahara
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UN News Today 17 July 2026
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description: Sudan alert: El Obeid’s displaced arrivals outstripping capacity: WFPUN human rights chief Volker Türk appeals for calm in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir DR Congo Ebola outbreak: 60 per cent of deaths happening in community, warns IOM
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"Disrupt, Identify, Defund, Debank, Arrest & Prosecute": Trump Admin Threatens Leftist Groups
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Wildfire smoke threatens the World Cup final. FIFA still doesn’t have a plan.
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description: There’s no way to close off the open-air stadium where stars Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal are slated to square off.
encoded: The biggest game in soccer is set for Sunday, when Argentina and Spain will meet in the World Cup final, held just outside of New York City. There’s just one problem — wildfire smoke now threatens the match and FIFA, the sport’s governing body, doesn’t appear to have any plan in place to protect player or fan health. Wildfire smoke blowing from Canada has blanketed large swaths of the Midwest and East Coast in recent days, impacting more than a dozen states, with some of the worst-hit cities facing air quality in ranges considered hazardous. New Yorkers are among those who have been watching their air turn orange and hazy this week. On Thursday, the state issued an alert as the air quality index climbed to “unhealthy” and “very unhealthy” levels. “Avoid spending time outdoors, if possible,” officials advised. As of Friday morning, air quality near the stadium remained in the unhealthy range, and while forecast to improve to “’moderate”’ by Sunday’s kick off, smoke patterns could still change. If concerns continue during the finals, there’s no way to close off the open-air stadium where stars Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal are slated to square off. That means fans and players would almost certainly be exposed to smoke, which could lead to symptoms such as a burning throat, coughing, or headache, among others. This can be particularly dangerous for sensitive groups, including children, older individuals, and people with respiratory conditions such as asthma. Players have also practiced outdoors during air quality events in the lead up to the game — the Spanish team held a practice Thursday in New Jersey. “These are high-level athletes who are moving a lot of air through their lungs,” Dr. Courtney Howard, an emergency room physician and Global Climate and Health Alliance official told the Associated Press. “They shouldn’t be practicing outside if the air quality levels are at hazardous sort of ranges for wildfire-related air pollution.” World Cup organizer FIFA does not…

The Grayzone exposes U.S. massacre in Eastern Tehran
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Report from Houston: Family of ICE Shooting Victim Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Holds Public Viewing
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Trump’s Election Integrity Speech Lays Groundwork for Midterm Interference: Ari Berman
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Denise Oliver-Vélez, Pioneering Young Lord & Black Panther, Dies at 78
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 17, 2026
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More Russian ‘Shadow Fleet’ Tankers Hit, Ukraine Says #shorts
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Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” Faces Boycott Calls over Filming in Occupied Western Sahara
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description: Hollywood’s blockbuster adaptation of the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey premieres around the world today amid growing calls for a boycott. Human rights campaigners are criticizing director Christopher Nolan over his decision to film par...
encoded: Hollywood’s blockbuster adaptation of the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey premieres around the world today amid growing calls for a boycott. Human rights campaigners are criticizing director Christopher Nolan over his decision to film part of the film in Western Sahara, a vast territory in northwestern Africa that Morocco has occupied for the past half-century. “This occupying force is practicing cultural genocide against the Sahrawi people, ethnic cleansing,” says María Carrión, the executive director of the Western Sahara International Film Festival. “By staying silent for one year and then using this footage, Nolan has basically become an accomplice to Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara.” Abidin Mohamed Hamudi, a Sahrawi filmmaker speaking to Democracy Now! from Algeria, says he cannot return to his home in Western Sahara, but Nolan “can just go there and film and be complicit in the occupation of my homeland.” He calls it “a metaphor of how the Western world uses human rights, democracy narratives whenever they want, and then ignore it in other parts of the world.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Disrupt, Identify, Defund, Debank, Arrest & Prosecute”: Trump Admin Threatens Leftist Groups
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description: Secretary of State Marco Rubio and top White House adviser Stephen Miller are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations. The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit “on the resurgence of political terrorism,” wh...
encoded: Secretary of State Marco Rubio and top White House adviser Stephen Miller are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations. The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit “on the resurgence of political terrorism,” where Miller described the left as “enemies of civilization” and described efforts to “disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.” Rubio announced the U.S. would soon designate more left-wing groups as terrorist organizations. Also on Thursday, the State Department announced new visa restrictions targeting what it calls “members of Far-Left Terrorist and other aligned groups.” “They’re putting political groups in the United States and abroad on the same footing as groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS,” says independent journalist Ken Klippenstein, who has been closely following the Trump administration’s designation of left-wing activism as terrorism. “This effort to designate left-wing groups as foreign terrorists using these broad terms like 'antifa' will allow them to go after people who are not committing violence but who are simply engaging in the political process,” adds former FBI special agent Mike German. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Report from Houston: Family of ICE Shooting Victim Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Holds Public Viewing
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description: Hundreds of community members gathered in Houston on Thursday evening for a public viewing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the 52-year-old Mexican man shot and killed by an ICE agent on July 7. His sons stood by their father’s casket for hour...
encoded: Hundreds of community members gathered in Houston on Thursday evening for a public viewing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the 52-year-old Mexican man shot and killed by an ICE agent on July 7. His sons stood by their father’s casket for hours greeting mourners who wore blue, Salgado Araujo’s favorite color. A mariachi band played, and several altars adorned the chapel: One table held Salgado Araujo’s construction tools and hard hats, while another displayed two of his Mexico soccer jerseys. Photos and videos of some of the family’s most joyful moments were projected in the background. Democracy Now!’s María Inés Taracena spoke to some of the attendees outside of the funeral home. “Looking back at history, it brought back memories of Emmett Till, when his mom also let the community grieve with them,” said Cesar Espinosa, a local immigrant rights activist. “She wanted to show the world what they had done to her son, and I think today, this family also wanted to show the world what they had done to them.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Trump’s Election Integrity Speech Lays Groundwork for Midterm Interference: Ari Berman
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description: In a primetime address on Thursday, President Trump accused China of meddling in U.S. elections in his latest effort to spread doubt about the U.S. voting system ahead of the midterm elections in November. Trump announced he was declassifying ...
encoded: In a primetime address on Thursday, President Trump accused China of meddling in U.S. elections in his latest effort to spread doubt about the U.S. voting system ahead of the midterm elections in November. Trump announced he was declassifying documents that show what he called “shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure,” but offered no evidence that China or any other country directly interfered with recent elections. “If Trump was trying to build … a smoking gun case that the 2020 election was stolen, he failed miserably,” says Ari Berman, the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones. “I am still very concerned that this speech is intended to lay the groundwork for the administration to interfere in the midterms.” Berman argues that U.S. elections are “secure” and that results are “audited extensively at the state level” and reviewed at the federal level. He says the 2020 election, which Trump lost to Joe Biden, was “found to be the most secure in American history.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Denise Oliver-Vélez, Pioneering Young Lord & Black Panther, Dies at 78
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description: Lifelong activist, organizer and educator Denise Oliver-Vélez has died at the age of 78. She was a central figure in the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s and was the first woman elected to the Young Lords Central Committee, a radi...
encoded: Lifelong activist, organizer and educator Denise Oliver-Vélez has died at the age of 78. She was a central figure in the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s and was the first woman elected to the Young Lords Central Committee, a radical Puerto Rican human rights group modeled on the Black Panther Party, which Oliver-Vélez was also a member of. She later became the first Black female program director in public radio and taught at SUNY New Paltz. As a founding member of the Young Lords, Democracy Now!'s Juan González worked alongside Oliver-Vélez. “She helped develop many of [the Young Lords'] Serve the People programs and helped to shape and write some of the key literature we produced back then,” says González, adding that “Denise was never afraid to speak her mind, to challenge authority and to tell her comrades what they needed to hear — not what they wanted to hear — and she always did it with love and kindness.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Helado Tropical”: Helado Negro & Reyna Tropical Discuss Collaboration & Perform at DN! Studio
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description: Helado Tropical is the new collaborative album by Roberto Carlos Lange, better known by his stage name Helado Negro, and Fabi Reyna, who fronts the band Reyna Tropical.
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Palestinian Oud Player Huda Asfour in Performance & Conversation
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description: Born in Lebanon to a family of musicians, Huda Asfour grew up in Tunis, before moving to Gaza at 14 where she joined the National Conservatory of Music, and then lived in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, where she studied under Khaled Jubran at the Edward Said Music Conservatory. She now divides her time between New York and Egypt. Her latest project is “Naqous.”
encoded: Palestinian musician Huda Asfour recently visited the Democracy Now! studio in New York to discuss her art and perform. Born in Lebanon to a family of musicians, Asfour grew up in Tunis, before moving to Gaza at 14 where she joined the National Conservatory of Music, and then lived in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, where she studied under Khaled Jubran at the Edward Said Music Conservatory. She now divides her time between New York and Egypt. Asfour’s instrument of choice is the oud, a traditional Middle Eastern stringed instrument. Her latest project is Naqous. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for July 17, 2026
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description: Iran Claims Eight People Killed as U.S. Bombards Civilian Infrastructure, Wildfires Cause Dense Smoke and Hazardous Air Quality in More Than 20 States, Trump Accuses China of Interfering in 2020 Election, Without Providing Evidence, Trump’s Teleprompter Operator Reportedly Earned Over $100K Betting on Presidential Speeches, “Truth Social” Plans to Sell Priority Access to Trump’s Posts, Iranian Official Claims Kushner and Witkoff Sought to Exploit Negotiations for Personal Gain, ICE Agent Who Fatally Shot Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero Identified as David Brouillette, Rights Groups Demand Probe of ICE Violently Attempting Arrest of Elderly Man in Nevada, So-Called Border Czar Tom Homan Warns ICE Critics That “Bloodshed” Will Continue, U.S. Tightens Visa Rules for Foreign Students, Journalists and Cultural Exchange Visitors, Denise Oliver-Vélez, Lifelong Activist, Organizer and Educator, Dies at Age 78
encoded: Iran Claims Eight People Killed as U.S. Bombards Civilian Infrastructure Wildfires Cause Dense Smoke and Hazardous Air Quality in More Than 20 States Trump Accuses China of Interfering in 2020 Election, Without Providing Evidence Trump's Teleprompter Operator Reportedly Earned Over $100K Betting on Presidential Speeches "Truth Social" Plans to Sell Priority Access to Trump's Posts Iranian Official Claims Kushner and Witkoff Sought to Exploit Negotiations for Personal Gain ICE Agent Who Fatally Shot Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero Identified as David Brouillette Rights Groups Demand Probe of ICE Violently Attempting Arrest of Elderly Man in Nevada So-Called Border Czar Tom Homan Warns ICE Critics That "Bloodshed" Will Continue U.S. Tightens Visa Rules for Foreign Students, Journalists and Cultural Exchange Visitors Denise Oliver-Vélez, Lifelong Activist, Organizer and Educator, Dies at Age 78 This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-07-17 Friday
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Ministry defends $200,000 funding for documentary about Fijian politician
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description: By Russell Palmer of RNZ The government says it had no influence over $200,000 in funding for a documentary ahead of Fiji’s election about a Fijian cabinet minister facing down a scandal. The Ministry of Pacific Peoples funded the film Algorithm of Shame: In the Village, Everybody Knows was released in May, and tackles the
encoded: By Russell Palmer of RNZ The government says it had no influence over $200,000 in funding for a documentary ahead of Fiji’s election about a Fijian cabinet minister facing down a scandal. The Ministry of Pacific Peoples funded the film Algorithm of Shame: In the Village, Everybody Knows was released in May, and tackles the impacts of social media in closely connected communities. Marketing describes it as a “powerful Pacific-led documentary set in Fiji that exposes the devastating impact of online shaming in the age of social media, where algorithms reward outrage, humiliation, and exposure without care or accountability”. READ MORE: Algorithm of Shame, Fijian documentary focuses on the effects of social media from a Pacific lens Other cyberbullying reports The film focuses on two people: trans woman Rhonda who lost her friend to online abuse, and Fijian politician Lynda Tabuya. The film’s release just ahead of the Fijian election — set for sometime between August and February, with no firm date yet confirmed — could be seen as softening the image of Tabuya ahead of her potential re-election. Given the New Zealand taxpayer funding, it is vulnerable to accusations of political interference by another government. However, the film’s executive producer Tuki Laumea told RNZ the New Zealand government had “no editorial control over this documentary”. “It is incorrect to say this film is about Minister Lynda Tabuya. Minister Tabuya appears in approximately 15 percent of the film,” he told RNZ. ‘Highly topical issue’ “The film is about the highly topical issue of social media harm in Pacific communities, including its impact on young people, its links to suicide and several other serious issues related to online harm.” “This film was shown three times on Mai TV in Fiji in May and early June. It was not made widely available online and is currently unavailable to view anywhere in the world, including Fiji and New Zealand. No wide public release date has been set.” Tabuya, t…

Ministry defends $200,000 funding for documentary about Fijian politician
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description: By Russell Palmer of RNZ The government says it had no influence over $200,000 in funding for a documentary ahead of Fiji’s election about a Fijian cabinet minister facing down a scandal. The Ministry of Pacific Peoples funded the film Algorithm of Shame: In the Village, Everybody Knows was released in May, and tackles the
encoded: By Russell Palmer of RNZ The government says it had no influence over $200,000 in funding for a documentary ahead of Fiji’s election about a Fijian cabinet minister facing down a scandal. The Ministry of Pacific Peoples funded the film Algorithm of Shame: In the Village, Everybody Knows was released in May, and tackles the impacts of social media in closely connected communities. Marketing describes it as a “powerful Pacific-led documentary set in Fiji that exposes the devastating impact of online shaming in the age of social media, where algorithms reward outrage, humiliation, and exposure without care or accountability”. READ MORE: Algorithm of Shame, Fijian documentary focuses on the effects of social media from a Pacific lens Other cyberbullying reports The film focuses on two people: trans woman Rhonda who lost her friend to online abuse, and Fijian politician Lynda Tabuya. The film’s release just ahead of the Fijian election — set for sometime between August and February, with no firm date yet confirmed — could be seen as softening the image of Tabuya ahead of her potential re-election. Given the New Zealand taxpayer funding, it is vulnerable to accusations of political interference by another government. However, the film’s executive producer Tuki Laumea told RNZ the New Zealand government had “no editorial control over this documentary”. “It is incorrect to say this film is about Minister Lynda Tabuya. Minister Tabuya appears in approximately 15 percent of the film,” he told RNZ. ‘Highly topical issue’ “The film is about the highly topical issue of social media harm in Pacific communities, including its impact on young people, its links to suicide and several other serious issues related to online harm.” “This film was shown three times on Mai TV in Fiji in May and early June. It was not made widely available online and is currently unavailable to view anywhere in the world, including Fiji and New Zealand. No wide public release date has been set.” Tabuya, t…

Trump’s Formula for Forever Wars ⏐The Intercept Briefing
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How a Paid Expert Reversed His View of a Notoriously Flawed Prosecution in the Rape of a Bestselling Author
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encoded: Bennett Gershman in 2015 Andrew Sullivan/The New York Times/Redux The upstate New York city of Syracuse seems at odds with itself when it comes to a notorious miscarriage of justice. Nearly five years ago, the district attorney of Onondaga County, William Fitzpatrick, stood up in court and excoriated his county’s decision decades earlier to prosecute Anthony Broadwater for the rape of author Alice Sebold. With the DA’s support, the conviction was thrown out. Today, the same county government and that of its main city, Syracuse, continue to fight a lawsuit filed by Broadwater that seeks financial damages for the years he lost behind bars. The conflicts, it seems, aren’t simply between criminal authorities, who view Broadwater as a wronged man, and civil authorities, who defend the original prosecution. A key expert for the city and county seems to be experiencing an internal conflict of his own — or, at minimum, a dramatic change in opinion. Syracuse’s paid expert, a veteran Pace University law professor named Bennett Gershman, filed a report in the civil suit in December 2025 asserting that the city’s prosecutors “did not engage in misconduct” in the Broadwater case. But a little over a year before that, Gershman told meme that prosecutors had “manufactured a case” against Broadwater, calling it “the most heinous kind of prosecutorial misconduct — when the prosecutor is creating guilt.” He went on to say, “‘Misconduct’ is kind of glib in this case. … It’s so much worse than plain misconduct. This is tyranny.” In an interview for this article, Gershman said he changed his mind after delving deeper into the case. “The facts,” he said, are more “complex” and “nuanced” than how he initially understood them. Lawyers on both sides of the Broadwater litigation declined to comment for this article. Certainly, lawyers retain paid experts of every stripe for all sorts of actions. But it’s rare to see an expert take a position in court after expressing a different one to a rep…

DN! Friday, July 17, 2026
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CPJ, partners call on Cambodian PM to seek release of journalists Phon Sopheap and Pheap Pheara
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 15 other press freedom and civil society organizations on Friday in calling on Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet to recommend an amnesty for imprisoned journalists Phon Sopheap and Pheap Phara, both of whom are serving 14-year sentences on espionage charges. The journalists were convicted on December 17, 2025, of...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 15 other press freedom and civil society organizations on Friday in calling on Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet to recommend an amnesty for imprisoned journalists Phon Sopheap and Pheap Phara, both of whom are serving 14-year sentences on espionage charges. The journalists were convicted on December 17, 2025, of supplying a foreign state with information judged as prejudicial to national defense, in connection with a photograph they posted of a Buddhist temple showing landmines in the background in a border area with Thailand during recent armed hostilities. The letter says their convictions, which were upheld on appeal in March, represent “one of the most serious actions” taken against Cambodian journalists and “raise significant concerns about freedom of expression, press freedom, and the use of national security laws against members of the media.” Under Cambodian law, the prime minister holds exclusive authority to submit requests for royal amnesties to the country’s king. Such clemency, the letter says, “would enable [Phon Sopheap and Pheap Pheara] to regain their liberty, reunite with their families and young children, and resume their professional work as journalists.” Read the full letter here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Why did energy-saving tips disappear from the Energy Department website?
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description: As the country sizzled through heat waves, the government removed some of its most actionable advice about how to conserve energy.
encoded: If you wanted to save some money by learning how to check your home for air leaks, poor insulation, and power-hungry lightbulbs, the Department of Energy’s website was ready to help. And if you needed an expert, the site guided you to another page for help lining up a professional energy assessment, a well-established first step to cut utility bills and curb pollution at the same time. That is, until this summer, when both of those resources vanished from the agency’s site, each now redirecting to “Page not found.” They were taken down by July 3, around the same time that the Department of Energy deleted more than 1,600 pages from the Energy Saver section of its site, gutting a resource for people looking to conserve energy and lower bills. “I can’t remember another time that, with DOE specifically, we’ve seen an entire domain go down the way that [it] has been reported on now,” said Izzy Pacenza, who monitors government websites for the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative. Over a 30-day span this summer, as swaths of the country suffered under heat waves, more than 300 of the webpages had received 160,000 page views, according to an analysis from The Guardian. The news coverage of the missing websites has focused on the disappearance of one recommendation in particular. Ahead of a heat wave that roasted New York City with 100-degree temperatures earlier this month, Mayor Zohran Mamdani asked businesses and residents to set their AC to 78 degrees to conserve energy, drawing the ire of Republicans who mocked the restrictions as “socialism.” Internet sleuths were quick to notice that similar guidance had vanished from the Department of Energy’s website, which used to direct people to keep their thermostat between 75 and 78 degrees. The timing suggested that the agency might have removed the pages as a rebuke to Mamdani’s advice. The purge looked suspiciously timed for another reason: On July 2, the Energy Department announced a proposed rule to make it harder…

Line 5 tunnel in Michigan clears major permitting hurdle, in blow to opposition
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description: Despite "adverse" impacts on ecological and tribal resources, state regulators said it's better than an oil spill in the Great Lakes.
encoded: Michigan regulatory officials on Wednesday issued several key permits for the construction of a tunnel to replace an aging section of the Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac, the waterways that straddle the state’s Upper and Lower peninsulas. Officials said that the necessity of the project in preventing an oil spill in the Great Lakes outweighed other public interests. The controversial plan by Enbridge Energy would replace a dual segment of the crude oil and natural gas liquids pipeline that runs through the environmentally sensitive straits, with one buried beneath the lakebed between lakes Michigan and Huron. For more than 73 years, Line 5 has transported oil and natural gas liquids 645 miles from Superior, Wisconsin, to Sarnia, Ontario. The Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, or EGLE, approved a construction permit on lake bottomlands “following comprehensive review.” The agency said in a news release that the permit requires Enbridge to minimize damage to surrounding wetlands. Despite acknowledging that construction would “adversely impact” rare plants and animals in the area, the state Department of Natural Resources still issued a permit to Enbridge. By state law, the permit also requires the company to “lessen impacts” with measures such as collecting seeds for later restoration or only clearing trees in the winter to protect bats. Enbridge spokesperson Ryan Duffy said the permits are “an important step forward” for the project that will “ensure the uninterrupted flow of energy that supports Michigan and the region.” Products from Line 5 are used in Canada and Michigan for propane or at oil refineries. Enbridge is currently reviewing the permits “to assess any impacts to tunnel construction,” Duffy said. Line 5 opponents slammed the decisions by state regulators. “The bigger picture is that there should be no destruction, no wetlands destruction, there should be no forest destruction for a project that is not needed,” said David Holtz…

Biden’s climate law is dead. The energy transition might not be.
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description: A year after Trump repealed the Inflation Reduction Act, the outlook for climate action is dark. But there are silver linings.
encoded: The Inflation Reduction Act, which became law in 2022, was the first and largest climate bill in the history of the United States. It was also the cornerstone of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda. The bill offered billions of dollars in tax credits for companies that built solar and wind farms or electric-vehicle battery factories, and to consumers who purchased electric cars and heat pumps. These incentives led developers to build enough solar and wind to power millions of homes and spurred the construction of hundreds of new factories, helping trigger a surge of new American manufacturing investment for the first time in decades. The law lasted less than three years. Last July, President Donald Trump signed what he called the “Big Beautiful Bill,” a sweeping tax reform that repealed almost all the main subsidies of the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA. Even though around two dozen Republicans in Congress said they wanted to preserve clean energy incentives, almost all of them voted to pass the law. In signing the bill, Trump said it would end what he called the “Green New Scam.” A year after the repeal, the outlook for the climate is mixed. Most significantly, the IRA’s path toward sharply lowering emissions has been derailed. The IRA would have led the U.S. to cut its carbon emissions 50 percent from peak levels by 2035, but that goal is now out of reach. A series of studies have found that the repeal puts the U.S. back on track for the 30 percent reduction it was on track to achieve even before the IRA, and that emissions will likely remain more or less flat through the end of the decade. The repeal has also succeeded in slowing the clean energy buildout. Manufacturers and energy developers have scrapped dozens of solar farms and battery plants. But the transition has not come to a complete halt. Most solar and wind projects that relied on Biden-era tax credits are still moving forward because they can make a profit even without subsidies. The electricity sec…

Russian Fuel Shortages Trigger Fights And Public Anger #shorts #russia
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‘Intolerable pressure’ – inside the Israel lobby campaign to coerce regulators on antisemitism
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We Have Been There Before: The US-Iran MOU and the Algiers Accords
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description: The Algiers Accords were signed at a time when Iran had the upper hand in dealing with the US. After many attempts at diplomacy failed to release the US personnel, the Carter administration launched “Operation Eagle Claw,” a covert military operation on April 24, 1980, aimed at rescuing its personnel in Tehran. The operation turned into a fiasco when severe weather in the Iranian desert city of Tabas and mechanical failures caused Jimmy Carter to abort the operation. Eight US service representatives died, one transport plane and one helicopter were destroyed in a collision, and five additional helicopters were either abandoned or captured by Iranian forces. Then, after 444 days of Iran not blinking and holding the Americans, a frustrated and desperate US president signed the Algiers Accords, having, of course, no intention of abiding by them. More The post We Have Been There Before: The US-Iran MOU and the Algiers Accords appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: DoD photo by: PH2 DON KORALEWSKI Date Shot: 27 Jan 1981 “The United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran’s internal affairs.” “Iran and the United States … will immediately select a mutually agreeable central bank … to act … as depositary of the escrow and security funds.” “Commencing upon completion of the requisite escrow arrangements with the Central Bank, the United States will bring about the transfer to the Central Bank of all gold bullion which is owned by Iran.” “Commencing with the adherence by Iran and the United States to this declaration… the United States will arrange… for the transfer to Iran of all Iranian properties which are located in the United States and abroad.” “If any dispute arises between the parties as to whether the United States has fulfilled any obligation … Iran may submit the dispute to binding arbitration by the tribunal established by, and in accordance with the provisions of, the claims settlement agreement.” If you think the above declarations are related to the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between Iran and the US on June 17, 2026, think again. These are some of the provisions of the Algiers Accords, an agreement that the Carter administration signed with Iran on January 19, 1981, promising many things to Iran in exchange for the Islamic Republic releasing American embassy personnel (or “hostages,” as the US government referred to them) held in Iran. As I have explained elsewhere, even though Iran released the detainees, the US never kept its part of the bargain. Just think of the first article above, i.e., that the US will not intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran’s internal affairs again. Now, think of thousands of sanctions that the US has levied on Iran or Iranians in the past 45 years, all the assassinations that the US has, directly or indirectly, carried out in …

The Long War on Bears Ears and Grand Staircase
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description: In southern Utah, two crown-jewel landscapes have been the subject of a political tug-of-war spanning the past 25 years. On one end of the rope, Tribes, conservation groups, and the recreating public have sought – and gotten – expanded protections for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. Pulling the other end, the livestock industry, mining corporations, and Big Oil have joined forces with anti-regulation local governments to push to maximize the lands available for extractive use and minimize the protections. This week, the Trump administration sided with the industrial interests and anti-environmental local governments to slash the two National Monuments by 90 percent, pulling the figurative rope back over to the side of exploitation. More The post The Long War on Bears Ears and Grand Staircase appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: How decades of attacks on Utah’s national monuments culminated in Trump’s latest attempt to erase them. Valley of the Gods. Photo: Erik Molvar. In southern Utah, two crown-jewel landscapes have been the subject of a political tug-of-war spanning the past 25 years. On one end of the rope, Tribes, conservation groups, and the recreating public have sought – and gotten – expanded protections for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. Pulling the other end, the livestock industry, mining corporations, and Big Oil have joined forces with anti-regulation local governments to push to maximize the lands available for extractive use and minimize the protections. This week, the Trump administration sided with the industrial interests and anti-environmental local governments to slash the two National Monuments by 90 percent, pulling the figurative rope back over to the side of exploitation. The lands of southern Utah were wrested from the stewardship of multiple Indigenous tribes by EuroAmerican colonization, starting with Father Escalante in 1776. The modern battle over these lands started in 1996, when President Bill Clinton signed a proclamation establishing Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, recognizing “a geologic treasure of clearly exposed stratigraphy and structures.” “The monument,” Clinton proclaimed, “contains significant portions of a vast geologic stairway, named the Grand Staircase by pioneering geologist Clarence Dutton, which rises 5,500 feet to the rim of Bryce Canyon in an unbroken sequence of great cliffs and plateaus.” It contains paleontological features like fossils and dinosaur trackways, and cultural sites including Indigenous sites, Mormon pioneer sites, and the Old Paria townsite (a movie set, it turns out). The new Monument spanned 1.7 million acres of public land that are the traditional homelands of the Paiute, Hopi, Ute Mountain Ute, Navajo, and Zuni peoples. Tower Cave site. Photo: Erik Molvar. A local history reco…

In eastern DRC, journalists face death, arson threats for reporting on war
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description: Government-allied Wazalendo militiamen have threatened to kill or capture one reporter and to burn down another’s radio station because of unfavorable coverage, as frontlines shift under diplomatic pressure for peace in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Rwanda-backed M23 and Congo River Alliance (AFC) rebels — who made unprecedented territorial gains in early 2025...
encoded: Government-allied Wazalendo militiamen have threatened to kill or capture one reporter and to burn down another’s radio station because of unfavorable coverage, as frontlines shift under diplomatic pressure for peace in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Rwanda-backed M23 and Congo River Alliance (AFC) rebels — who made unprecedented territorial gains in early 2025 — withdrew from several parts of South Kivu province in May, after the United States sanctioned DRC’s former President Joseph Kabila and the Rwandan army. The U.S. alleged that Kabila and neighboring Rwanda were supporting the rebel alliance in violation of December’s faltering peace agreement to end the decades-old conflict — a move Rwanda condemned as one-sided. For journalists on the ground, the shifting frontlines have increased the risks they face reporting on intense clashes and drone strikes in civilian areas. None of the myriad warring parties are comfortable with the press reporting freely on their activities. Many journalists have fled eastern DRC, while those who remain face threats from both sides. ‘Keep publishing your stories and you’ll be killed’ Radio Tuungane’s Anne Nanduhura told CPJ she was threatened three times in June over her reporting on the government’s attacks and blockade of South Kivu’s Minembwe commune, a current hotspot and home to the Banyamulenge ethnic minority. The strategic highland area was captured in 2025 by the Twirwaneho, a Banyamulenge armed group allied with the M23/ AFC. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="886" height="894" src="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-16-at-7.02.17-pm.png?w=886" alt="Radio Tuungane’s Anne Nanduhura." class="wp-image-602452" style="aspect-ratio:0.9910512977366075;width:390px;height:auto" srcset="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-16-at-7.02.17-pm.png 886w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-16-at-7.02.17-pm.png?resize=150,150 150w,…

No Path Forward, No Way Back, Imperial Decline Edition
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description: When American politicians state that terrorism is a threat, what they need is a mirror and an introductory economics textbook to understand that there are many different ways to destroy a nation. From NAFTA to financialization to crypto grifts, the US has been led from one economic catastrophe to another by people claiming to know what they are doing. While you and I know that AI isn’t going to cause 50% – 60% of the jobs in the US to disappear, what astonishes is that this is considered an acceptable outcome by Donald Trump and the US Congress. More The post No Path Forward, No Way Back, Imperial Decline Edition appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair When American politicians state that terrorism is a threat, what they need is a mirror and an introductory economics textbook to understand that there are many different ways to destroy a nation. From NAFTA to financialization to crypto grifts, the US has been led from one economic catastrophe to another by people claiming to know what they are doing. While you and I know that AI isn’t going to cause 50% – 60% of the jobs in the US to disappear, what astonishes is that this is considered an acceptable outcome by Donald Trump and the US Congress. For context, the US unemployment rate at the worst point in the Great Depression was 25%. This led to mass protests, a dramatic rise in the fortunes of organized labor, the White House being surrounded by former soldiers wanting to be paid, and WWII. Most governments begin worry about political instability when unemployment rises to 10%. That Trump and Congress heard the 50% – 60% unemployment projection and still thought AI a brilliant idea is testament to an absence of political accountability. There is something deeply broken in US politics. Graph: surprise, the class war is real. Illustrated is that capital’s share of national income (GDP) has been rising for five decades as labor’s share has been falling. Oligarchs own the capital stock. Labor owns labor. When payments to capital rise, oligarchs benefit. When payments to labor fall, labor loses. As the graph illustrates, labor has been losing in the US for fifty years. Source: economycharts. Fifty percent unemployment would instantly overwhelm state unemployment insurance systems. These systems divide their perpetually underfunded pools between the number of people eligible to collect, meaning that no one would receive enough in insurance payouts to survive. Every town, city and state affected would be in full-on economic collapse within a few months. Car loans, student loans and mortgages would no longer be paid. The US would be in ful…

Vampire Planet: What the Story of China’s and Australia’s Solar Success Gets Wrong
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description: In the first quarter of 2026, China’s emissions grew by 2%, largely due to wasted wind and solar energy. That said, even if China has made alleged gains in fossil fuel emissions, it’s still far from certain whether the country’s economy can continue to grow (at a rate of 4%) and also meet the meager goals set out by the Paris Climate Agreement. Its renewables are keeping up with growth (at least last year), but they aren't replacing existing fossil fuels in any meaningful way. More The post Vampire Planet: What the Story of China’s and Australia’s Solar Success Gets Wrong appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Alexander Mils. Typically, I kick this column off with troubling news, but let’s begin with a positive for a change. Australia’s solar is booming. A total of 40% of residential homes are equipped with rooftop solar, by far the highest rate in the world. Rooftop generation is the way to go, and accounts for 14% of the country’s total electricity generation. That’s obviously a very good thing, made possible by federal rebate programs and local incentives. The US could learn a lot from how Australia has pulled it off. California was on a similar track with its rooftop solar, but as I interrogate in Bad Energy, Gov. Gavin Newsom, at the behest of the big utilities and corporate donors, gutted the state’s program. While Australia’s solar bonanza is welcome news and is changing the way the country produces electricity, it’s not the whole story. Australia remains the world’s largest coal exporter, shipping 70% of its coal to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and India. It’s also the third-largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter, with 80% of its LNG shipped to Asian markets. Its solar boom doesn’t offset its massive contributions to climate change. When we talk about ending our use of fossil fuels, as Australia appears to be doing, at least on the surface, we are forced to reckon with the hard truth: Australia’s vast resources continue to power global capitalism, at the expense of the environment. Its rooftop solar surge may be helping, but not by much. The country remains a major consumer of fossil fuels. Its coal power emissions are the highest in the “developed world.” Australia is ranked 13th globally in per capita emissions. It’s the 14th-largest emitter overall and the 2nd-largest, only behind Russia, in fossil fuel exports. So when we cheer on Australia’s growth in solar (as Bill McKibben did on Ezra Klein’s podcast last week), let’s get serious. There’s a hell of a lot of work to be done, and solar alone ain’t gonna fix the underlying problem. As long as eco…

Platner’s Critics Kept Attacking the Messenger While Ignoring His Message
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description: I appended the following paragraph to the incomplete ending of this article. It speaks for itself: I stopped working on this piece at this point when news of the rape allegation broke and Platner suspended his campaign. There’s an abundance of reporting and commentary on this allegation available on the internet, and I will More The post Platner’s Critics Kept Attacking the Messenger While Ignoring His Message appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: m Spiess – CC BY 3.0 I appended the following paragraph to the incomplete ending of this article. It speaks for itself: I stopped working on this piece at this point when news of the rape allegation broke and Platner suspended his campaign. There’s an abundance of reporting and commentary on this allegation available on the internet, and I will not go into its merits here; my own opinion is that this was the ‘kill shot.’ At that stage, this was still work in progress and – if you have a chance to read it – should be read as such. In places, it was not even ready for polishing, the sequencing and transitions needing attention to more clearly link the diverse themes I was addressing. That said, there is still I believe much of value in this effort, not least is bringing Graham Platner’s ptsd more centrally into the conversation; it was an area in which, on close observation, I felt the campaign had ignored to its detriment, an argument for another occasion. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. +++ Graham Platner, 41, typically identified as a combat veteran and oyster farmer, is the Maine Democratic Party candidate who hopes to unseat Republican Senator Susan Collins in the midterm elections this November. Platner has been diagnosed with combat-related ptsd (post-traumatic stress disorder). In “The Broken Veteran Excuse” (The Atlantic, June 14, 2026), Mike Nelson accuses Platner and his “surrogates” of exploiting that diagnosis to cover “a decade-long trail of questionable behavior,” to include having once had his chest inked with a Totenkopf, the ‘death head’ – skull and crossbones in the vernacular – adopted as a symbol by Nazi SS units during World War Two. Nelson, like so many other pundits and commentators who’ve piled on Platner about his “trail of questionable behavior,” puts a special emp…

Israel’s Crimes Against Humanity in the Americas
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description: There might never even have been an Israel without arms shipments from the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua to the Zionist paramilitary Haganah in 1939 during the British Mandate over Palestine. Nine years after that helping hand was extended, the Haganah, with assistance from the Irgun and Lehi, erased Palestine from the map, building the state of Israel literally on top of where Palestine had been while recruiting Nazis from Europe to help the fledgling Jewish state build up enough weapons. Not long after that, Israel took charge of assisting bloody repression in Latin America. More The post Israel’s Crimes Against Humanity in the Americas appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Gloriosa victoria, mural by Diego Rivera “They will try to tell us that democracy, international law, human rights, and human dignity exist and are alive and well; that the genocide against the Palestinian people was merely an aberration, an exception within the global democratic oasis . . . – Mexican journalist Sasi Alejandre “Latin America has experienced the same tactics of state terrorism that Palestine faces at the hands of regimes armed, trained and advised by Israel.” –Jack McGrath, Washington Report On Middle East Affairs There might never even have been an Israel without arms shipments from the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua to the Zionist paramilitary Haganah in 1939 during the British Mandate over Palestine. Nine years after that helping hand was extended, the Haganah, with assistance from the Irgun and Lehi, erased Palestine from the map, building the state of Israel literally on top of where Palestine had been while recruiting Nazis from Europe to help the fledgling Jewish state build up enough weapons. Not long after that, Israel took charge of assisting bloody repression in Latin America. Israel actually trained the army of Castillo Armas that overthrew Guatemalan democracy in 1954, later shoring up repression across the entire Southern Cone by providing the same training and arms to the military dictatorships of Chile, Argentina, and Paraguay. It also financed Colombian paramilitaries and developed the tactics and weapons used in Mexico’s “Dirty War,” which included forced disappearances, torture, and extrajudicial killings, carried out against student protesters, political dissidents and campesinos. The Central America connection was established early on. Israel started sending automatic weapons, tanks, and military planes to the Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua in the 1950s, later increasing its support when the dictatorship faced an ultimately successful popular revolution in the 1970s. Israel was Nicaragua’s sole source of arms after Jimmy Carter be…

No Country on Earth Fully Respects Workers’ Rights, and it’s Getting Worse
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description: Class warfare continues to be waged incessantly. And that war’s offensives continue to be more intense. In just the past year, the world’s working people have seen more attacks on the rights of free speech and assembly, more attacks on civil liberties, more arrests and imprisonments, more refusals to engage in collective bargaining with unions More The post No Country on Earth Fully Respects Workers’ Rights, and it’s Getting Worse appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Fauzan. Class warfare continues to be waged incessantly. And that war’s offensives continue to be more intense. In just the past year, the world’s working people have seen more attacks on the rights of free speech and assembly, more attacks on civil liberties, more arrests and imprisonments, more refusals to engage in collective bargaining with unions and more technology used to monitor, discipline and silence workers. None of this is new, but it is getting worse. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has issued its 2026 Global Rights Index report, and as has been the case in past years, the annual report makes for grim reading. Once again, no country on Earth fully protects workers’ rights. In past years, there were only nine countries that met the qualifications for the best category, “sporadic violations of rights,” defined as where “Violations against workers are not absent but do not occur on a regular basis.” That was the case for the 2023 and 2022 reports. This year? Only eight countries were found to be merely “sporadic violations of rights.” Those countries are Austria, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and Uruguay, with Uruguay newly promoted to this level from a year ago. Before we dip into the details, the larger picture is alarming. And the advanced capitalist countries, you won’t be surprised to know, are no exceptions. “In Europe and the Americas, workers’ rights are suffering an alarming decline. Both regions registered their worst average country rating since the Index began in 2014, and the increasing influence of the far right is putting workers and unions at risk in countries such as Argentina and France – two out of four countries to be downgraded in 2026,” the ITUC said in its report. Nor are the reasons behind these developments a mystery. “This year’s results reinforce the ITUC’s view that we are witnessing a global erosion of democratic principles – a ‘billionaire coup against democracy’ – funded by the…

Social Security is a Problem of Income Distribution, Not Demographics
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description: The rich almost completely control debate in this country. There is no better proof of this fact than the current debate over the future of Social Security. This has been conveniently framed as a problem of demographics. You know, too many people living long into retirement and not enough kids entering the workforce. That sounds More The post Social Security is a Problem of Income Distribution, Not Demographics appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: US Government – Public Domain The rich almost completely control debate in this country. There is no better proof of this fact than the current debate over the future of Social Security. This has been conveniently framed as a problem of demographics. You know, too many people living long into retirement and not enough kids entering the workforce. That sounds compelling, as long as we don’t try to think about it too much. First, we knew this basic story long ago. On the life expectancy side, we’re actually doing somewhat worse (better from the standpoint of the program’s finances) than was expected in 1982, the last time there was a major reform to the program. The projections from that year showed men living on average 16.6 years after they turned 65. We are beating that some in the current projections at 18.2 years. But the story for women looks considerably worse than was projected in 1982: 20.7 years now compared to a projection of 22.6 years in 1982. So, we can’t say the problem is people are living longer than expected. The fertility rate has fallen behind projections, and that has made the financing of the program worse. But the big story is that wage growth has fallen far behind the pace projected in 1982. The projection in 1982 was that real wages (the gap between wage growth and prices) would grow 1.8 percent annually for the indefinite future. And this wage growth was assumed to be for the workforce as a whole; there was no anticipation that there would be substantial changes in the wage distribution. Inequality Matters Big Time for the Finances of Social Security If real wages had grown as projected, they would have increased by more than 120 percent between 1982 and the present. Instead, median wages have risen by just over 30 percent. A big part of this story is that productivity growth has been weaker than was projected. But an even larger part is that there has been a huge upward redistribution of income over this period. If wages h…

Waiting for the Lead Pipe
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description: “I’m not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare—or, if not, it’s some equally brainy lad—who says that it’s always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping,” wrote P. More The post Waiting for the Lead Pipe appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by semen zhuravlev “I’m not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare—or, if not, it’s some equally brainy lad—who says that it’s always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping,” wrote P. G. Wodehouse in Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest. There seems to be a great deal of pessimism about these days. You can almost picture banks of dark cloud trailing people as they walk to the bus stop or stand motionless on the escalator down to the Tube. Somewhere along the way, expecting the worst has become a regular state of mind. An American friend recently asked whether I thought the Russians might now expand their attacks to include NATO factories producing drones and other weapons for Ukraine. “And if so,” he asked, “what would NATO’s response be? And what do you think the American response would be?” I hedged my bets. It would depend, I replied. Was the strike deliberate? Which country had been hit? How extensive was the damage? “So would NATO declare war?” “Not necessarily,” I said, as if I knew. NATO has spent years trying to avoid direct conflict with Russia. Any response would depend on the circumstances. Washington, too, would almost certainly coordinate closely with its allies while trying to avoid escalation. What struck me afterwards was not the exchange itself, but the interesting assumption behind it. The questions seemed to begin from the premise that the most dangerous outcome was also the most probable. That seems increasingly common. The same instinct—assume the worst, then treat it as inevitable—showed up a few days later, this time closer to home. Another friend, a Brit this time, wrote saying, “You are living through a societal collapse and don’t want to write anything about it?!” He has had the blues about Britain for some time now. “Do you realise how hungry Americans are to read about this macabre situati…

Shocking Revelations Out of West Antarctica
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description: It’s mid-winter but a large area of West Antarctica that should be frozen solid is not frozen. What’s up? Antarctica is the coldest spot on the planet where the average winter temperature is -34.4°C (-30°F), but it does vary by region. For example, inland locations like the South Pole average around -60°C (-76°F), while coastal More The post Shocking Revelations Out of West Antarctica appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Cassie Matias. It’s mid-winter but a large area of West Antarctica that should be frozen solid is not frozen. What’s up? Antarctica is the coldest spot on the planet where the average winter temperature is -34.4°C (-30°F), but it does vary by region. For example, inland locations like the South Pole average around -60°C (-76°F), while coastal areas such as the Antarctic Peninsula range between -12°C and -20°C (10°F to -4°F). The area recently experienced a winter heatwave, but that has passed. Winter heatwaves happen on occasion, but the ice always, always, always refreezes for as long as anybody can remember. But satellite photos d/d July 12, 2026, by the University of Colorado Boulder’s Snow and Ice Data Center show a large portion of West Antarctica 150,000 square miles that’s typically frozen this time of year shockingly ice free! Something is wrong. Scientists Identify Thin Vulnerability of West Antarctica Of even more concern than failure of refreezing in the dead of winter, the following headline appears in Space Daily d/d June 20, 2026 and serves as a shocking backdrop to the recent news: Scientists say the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Could Collapse With Very Little Additional Warming and the Four Metres of Sea Level Rise that Would Follow Cannot be Stopped Once it Begins. “A modelling study published in Communications Earth & Environment in June 2025 found that West Antarctic Ice Sheet could begin an irreversible collapse at ocean temperatures between zero and 0.25°C above current levels — meaning the threshold may have already been reached,” Ibid. Still, nobody really knows for sure how soon or how far sea levels will rise, but the direction is known. It’s up! That was then. Today, parts of the West Antarctic ice sheet don’t refreeze. Hmm. Civilization is currently living through break-neck climate change. It’s reflected in erratic climate system behavior. The entire global system has gone bonkers, unpredictable, ecosystems threatened everywhere. As …

Row Vikings Row: Norwegians Pull Together
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description: Norway stunned football royalty Brazil in the World Cup. Instead of dancing, posing or pounding their chests, every player sat down on the pitch and rowed in synchrony with their fans in the stands. “The Vikings took in their sails, put out their oars and rowed ashore before battle. So it fits perfectly with the More The post Row Vikings Row: Norwegians Pull Together appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: MichaelEmilio – CC BY 4.0 Norway stunned football royalty Brazil in the World Cup. Instead of dancing, posing or pounding their chests, every player sat down on the pitch and rowed in synchrony with their fans in the stands. “The Vikings took in their sails, put out their oars and rowed ashore before battle. So it fits perfectly with the national team—we’re going into battle,” said Ole Frøystad, “Mr. Row, Row” who invented the gesture. The nation of 5.6 million used the Viking gesture of rowing together to celebrate in what seemed the perfect image. “Everyone is rowing in the same direction to carry their team to the ultimate destination – victory,” declared an official FIFA explanation. What makes a nation celebrate victory without showing off—or respond to defeat by rowing together instead of sulking? “I think that the whole nation is rowing together, and with that, I mean that we are having a great party here and in Oslo and in all the other big and small cities all the way through Norway,” the Norwegian coach said after the victory over Brazil. The habit of rowing together begins young. At my granddaughter’s primary school, there was a “friendship bench” in the playground. A child with no one to play with sits there. Other children know they are expected to walk over and invite the child into the game. No teacher gives an order. The institution itself nudges children toward inclusion. The friendship bench is a small institution that teaches children to think about someone other than themselves. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund applies the same principle to a nation: it asks today’s voters to think about tomorrow’s citizens. The sovereign wealth fund is the national equivalent of a friendship bench—an example of ethical action across generations. Long considered the gold standard of sovereign funds, the fund was established as the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) after Norway discovered large offshore oil and gas reserves in the North Sea in…

Roaming Charges: When Farce Repeats Itself
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description: “History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.” – Jean Baudrillard, The Agony of Power Put yourself behind the wheel of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero’s white Kia. You’re 25-years-old. You’ve been living in the United States for three years. You’ve played by the rules, as you understand them. You More The post Roaming Charges: When Farce Repeats Itself appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: “History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.” – Jean Baudrillard, The Agony of Power Put yourself behind the wheel of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero’s white Kia. You’re 25-years-old. You’ve been living in the United States for three years. You’ve played by the rules, as you understand them. You haven’t made trouble for anyone. You haven’t broken the law. You’ve tried to settle in. You came to Maine from Colombia looking for a safer and fuller life for yourself, for your wife and your infant daughter, the girl you called your “little princess.” You didn’t come to Maine to deal drugs, join a gang, rape or rob anyone or leech off the system. You came to work and make a new home for your family. You applied for and received a permit to work legally in the United States more than a year ago. The permit was authorized by the Trump-run government. Your love for animals led you to get a job cleaning a veterinary clinic each morning. It wasn’t your dream job, but it was a good start for a good cause. It wasn’t enough to get by on, so you got a second job delivering groceries and food in the afternoon and early evening in your white Kia. You were doing okay. Your daughter had just turned three. You and your wife, Karo, had made a new life for yourselves. The transition was a challenge, but you did it. You and Karo were learning the language. Getting a good feel for the way of the land and the way things were supposed to work here. You were trying to fit in. You were starting to feel at home. You felt safe here in coastal Maine. You’d heard about ICE. You’d seen the shootings and arrests and protests. But somehow here in Biddeford, you felt far removed from the terrors visited upon immigrants in Minneapolis, Los Angeles and Chicago. This was a quiet city. You and your neighbors cared about each other. You felt safe; you felt secure. You grew up as a middle-class kid in Bucaramanga, Colombia. A big city in the mountains. Colombia had …

While the World Cup Plays On, Palestine Refuses to Die
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description: In memory of Mohammed al-Wahidi and the countless aid workers murdered by the genocidal Israeli Occupation Forces. As billions tune in to the 2026 FIFA World Cup, co-hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico, the beautiful game has once again exposed the ugly truth of global power. While FIFA and its corporate sponsors desperately More The post While the World Cup Plays On, Palestine Refuses to Die appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: Creative Commons of Gaza In memory of Mohammed al-Wahidi and the countless aid workers murdered by the genocidal Israeli Occupation Forces. As billions tune in to the 2026 FIFA World Cup, co-hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico, the beautiful game has once again exposed the ugly truth of global power. While FIFA and its corporate sponsors desperately try to keep the spectacle “apolitical,” fans, players, coaches, and public figures have turned stadiums and streets into platforms of defiance. Palestinian flags wave, “Free Palestine” echoes through the stands, and Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza remains impossible to ignore. The message from the terraces is unmistakable: sport cannot be separated from politics when children are being slaughtered and entire families erased. Spain has distinguished itself as one of the strongest European voices for Palestine. The country has imposed sanctions on Israel and broken diplomatic ties in response to the genocide in Gaza. This principled stance has made the Spanish team a clear favorite among Palestinian supporters as they face Argentina in the final of the 2026 World Cup. Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem created one of the tournament’s defining images when a Palestinian supporter handed him a flag during Spain’s match against France. Bardem held it high, declaring “Existence is resistance,” “Free Palestine,” and “Spain stands with Palestine.” Spain’s teenage superstar Lamine Yamal added to the symbolism. The Barcelona phenom previously went viral for waving a Palestinian flag during his club’s La Liga victory parade. Other Spanish players have also expressed solidarity with Palestine and opposition to the genocide. In response, Israeli officials — including the defense minister — launched a vicious smear campaign against the 18-year-old Yamal, accusing him of “inciting hatred” and trying to turn global opinion against Israel. The spectacle of a powerful state bullying a teenage football prodig…

Colombia: A Fractured Society Under U.S. Influence
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description: While President Donald Trump celebrated the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington July 4th with a megalomaniacal speech, Iván Cepeda, Colombian senator and candidate for the ruling Historic Pact candidate, warned that he would not recognize the victory of far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella unless he renounces his U.S. citizenship, withdraws his campaign More The post Colombia: A Fractured Society Under U.S. Influence appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: Abelardo de la Espriella – CC0 While President Donald Trump celebrated the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington July 4th with a megalomaniacal speech, Iván Cepeda, Colombian senator and candidate for the ruling Historic Pact candidate, warned that he would not recognize the victory of far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella unless he renounces his U.S. citizenship, withdraws his campaign promise to extradite and prosecute President Gustavo Petro, and commits to preserving key social reforms implemented by the Historic Pact government. Speaking to a rally in Cali, Cepeda also launched a new initiative to win upcoming governor, mayor, state assembly, and city council races in the October 2027 elections. De la Espriella countered by accusing Petro of planning “a coup d´etat” and vowing to defend the results of the election with force, if necessary. He has announced plans to implement a set of measures to militarize the country kowtowing to Washington’s interests, and in stark contrast to current President Gustavo Petro’s commitment to dialogue. It’s no coincidence that the president-elect decided not to hold the presidential inauguration ceremony in Bolívar Square or at the National Capitol, but rather at a military base, in his own words, to pay tribute to “the true heroes of the nation: police officers and soldiers.” The Constitution requires Congress approve the unusual request to move the civil ceremony to a military base, but clearly “El Tigre,” as he is known, has chosen to begin his term surrounded by tanks and troops. The high level of confrontation between the political forces that faced off in the June 21 election places the country in a state of tension that could lead to social upheaval. From Acknowledging Victory to Peaceful Civil Disobedience Iván Cepeda’s declaration in Cali that he will not recognize Abelardo de la Espriella as president of the Republic unless he complies represents a major change in stance. Ceped…

You Can’t See the Wound, But It Harms
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description: The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. –Proverbs 12:18 There’s such a thing as the crime of bodily harm. It’s recognised in law because history has shown that, in any well-functioning society, protection of bodily integrity should be a legal right. It’s obvious. Going round breaking More The post You Can’t See the Wound, But It Harms appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by K. Mitch Hodge The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. –Proverbs 12:18 There’s such a thing as the crime of bodily harm. It’s recognised in law because history has shown that, in any well-functioning society, protection of bodily integrity should be a legal right. It’s obvious. Going round breaking people’s arms or slashing faces, disabling or disfiguring them in any way, is extremely antisocial. If someone breaks my arm, stabs me, or beats me up, the violence is visible as blood, bruises, scars, and deformity which are recognised in forensic reports and condemned in criminal charges. There’s another kind of violence that doesn’t cut you or break your bones but it can destroy your life. This kind attacks with words, humiliation, systematic harassment, orchestrated defamation, permanent exposure, online bullying, and routine fabrication of an invented hateful person, the public enemy, and therefore someone who deserves to be killed. While such harassment can cause physical injury or death, in this case it’s more intent on gradually undermining a person’s self-confidence, willingness to speak out, and ability to keep existing as a subject in public space. My name for this kind of violence is “subjective injury”, and I’d say it’s a counterpart to evident bodily injury. This wound is no mere metaphor and it’s not imaginary suffering either. Neuroscientists have shown that pain caused by harassment and (especially public) humiliation, and vicious defamatory lies activates brain circuits that are partly shared by those caused by physical pain and especially torture, which is defined in international human rights treaties (to which Brazil is a signatory) as a crime against humanity. The psychology of trauma shows that persistent campaigns of harassment can trigger or worsen conditions of anxiety, depression, and traumatic stress. I’m living proof that this field of human knowledge knows what it’s talking about. I wa…

When ICE Kills, “Trust Us” Is Not Evidence
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description: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo should not be reduced to the language of an immigration press release. Not to “illegal alien.” Not to “target.” Not to “vehicle threat.” Not to a bureaucratic sentence explaining why an armed federal officer fired into a work van on a Houston street. Before the labels harden, the question is simple: why More The post When ICE Kills, “Trust Us” Is Not Evidence appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image Source: Gianluca Costantini – CC BY-SA 4.0 Lorenzo Salgado Araujo should not be reduced to the language of an immigration press release. Not to “illegal alien.” Not to “target.” Not to “vehicle threat.” Not to a bureaucratic sentence explaining why an armed federal officer fired into a work van on a Houston street. Before the labels harden, the question is simple: why did a civil immigration stop in Houston end with a man dead? On Tuesday morning, July 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Salgado Araujo during what federal officials described as a targeted enforcement operation in Houston’s East End. According to The Texas Tribune, Salgado Araujo had picked up workers, including his brother, when agents in unmarked vehicles stopped his vehicle in a predominantly Latino neighborhood. The Department of Homeland Security says Salgado Araujo ignored commands, rammed an ICE vehicle and tried to run over the agent who shot him. The officer fired in self-defense, the agency says. Maybe ICE’s account will ultimately be supported by evidence. Maybe it will not. But that is the point. When the government kills someone in an immigration operation, the public cannot be asked to accept the government’s first press statement as the final word. The burden now belongs to the government. Not to a grieving family. Not to local residents. Not to immigrant-rights advocates. The government fired the shot. The government must produce the evidence. Salgado Araujo’s family tells a very different story. His son Ronaldo Salgado said his father had lived in Houston for more than 35 years, worked construction, was seeking legal status, and may have feared that people in unmarked vehicles were trying to steal the tools he used to make a living. According to the Associated Press, Salgado Araujo had no criminal record, was a homebuilder, and was driving a work crew when he was killed. That context matters. This did not happen at a remote border crossing. It happene…

Cyprus: A Green Line Bike Ride
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description: I realize that the time to visit Cyprus is high summer, when the coastline is transformed into a nonstop beach party, but I was there in February hoping both to find a touch of winter sun and to ride a bicycle on both si [ . . . ] The post Cyprus: A Green Line Bike Ride appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Up against the Green Line on Cyprus. Photo by Matthew Stevenson. I realize that the time to visit Cyprus is high summer, when the coastline is transformed into a nonstop beach party, but I was there in February hoping both to find a touch of winter sun and to ride a bicycle on both sides of the Green Line—yet another European dividing line (this one between Greek and Turkish Cypriots) that was drawn up in 1963 but only became a hard border in summer 1974. My flight from Skopje landed in Larnaca on the southern coast around 11 p.m. In weighing options for my flights, I had thought of flying directly to Nicosia, but Ercan International Airport is located in the Turkish sector and with it as my entry point I didn’t think I would be granted access into the Greek sector, otherwise the Republic of Cyprus. Only Turkey recognizes the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, although as Brendan O’Malley and Ian Craig argue in The Cyprus Conspiracy: “The Cyprus crisis was no failure of American diplomacy, but a deliberate Cold War plot to divide the island and save the top secret spying and defence facilities from the twin threats of a communist takeover or British withdrawal.” For my first two nights on the island, I had reserved a small Larnaca hotel that was several blocks from the main beach. I didn’t quite think that I would be swimming there in February, but I still warmed to the idea of seaside meals, as when I had left my home in Switzerland it was encased in its trademark winter fog. At the luggage carousels I asked several taxi drivers about the cost of a ride into Larnaca, about four miles from the airport. I got two quotes: one of €30 and the other of €40, which got me thinking that maybe the island was divided to bail out the taxi industry. I might have paid €30 just to be headed to bed, except that both offers came with contemptuous taxi-driver snarls, which sent me in the direction of a €1.25 city bus. I cannot say that the bus driver was more cheerful than the hac…

Courage or Complicity: Which Vets on the Ballot Are Defending VA Care?
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description: In this crucial mid-term election year, men and women who served in the military are wooing voters by presenting themselves as tougher, more effective foes of MAGA incumbents and even long-serving Democrats. In Massachusetts, a 50-year old former Marine captain, whose career has inspired other vets to run for office, is playing the vet (and More The post Courage or Complicity: Which Vets on the Ballot Are Defending VA Care? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: Beyond My Ken – CC BY-SA 4.0 In this crucial mid-term election year, men and women who served in the military are wooing voters by presenting themselves as tougher, more effective foes of MAGA incumbents and even long-serving Democrats. In Massachusetts, a 50-year old former Marine captain, whose career has inspired other vets to run for office, is playing the vet (and youth) card in his September 1 primary challenge to nearly 80-year -old Senator Ed Markey. “We can’t just have people who seem like tired old Democrats,” says U.S. Representative Seth Moulton, who is giving up his House seat to challenge Markey. To illustrate his point, Moulton recently did some rhetorical muscle-flexing in May, when a fellow post 9/11 combat vet—DOD Secretary Pete Hegseth— told a Congressional hearing in May that the U.S. war on Iran was “an astounding military success.” Across the country, other anti-MAGA “service candidates” have questioned billions in new Pentagon spending on another Middle Eastern war—and criticized a simultaneous Trump assault on domestic social programs, immigrants and labor, civil liberties and voting rights, and environmental protection. Unfortunately, not every Democrat who served in the military is equally vocal about saving the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from a failed bi-partisan experiment with privatization that began a decade ago, under the Obama Administration. During Trump’s second presidency, not only is public provision of healthcare for nine million former service members at risk; so are the good union jobs for 100,000 veterans employed by the (VA) as their caregivers. Where politicians stand on the issue often reflects their own class background, rank in the military, and material circumstances after they return to civilian life. Undermined by Outsourcing As reported for years by CounterPunch, the direct care capacity of the VA has been seriously undermined by out-sourcing to the private healthcare industry. Most Democr…

“Anything to Win – Anything”: Ten Trump Threats to the Midterm Elections
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description: All the signals are flashing red. On the square, the @GOP would take a beating this fall, largely because of Trump’s unpopularity. So he’s setting up Plan B–do whatever you need to do to win. Anything. Anyone who says ‘Well, he wouldn’t do THAT’ hasn’t paid attention.” – David Axelrod, July 11, 2026 I’m no fan of More The post “Anything to Win – Anything”: Ten Trump Threats to the Midterm Elections appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: Office of Speaker Mike Johnson – Public Domain All the signals are flashing red. On the square, the @GOP would take a beating this fall, largely because of Trump’s unpopularity. So he’s setting up Plan B–do whatever you need to do to win. Anything. Anyone who says ‘Well, he wouldn’t do THAT’ hasn’t paid attention.” – David Axelrod, July 11, 2026 I’m no fan of the former top Obama strategist David Axelrod, his party (the dismal capitalist-imperialist Democrats), or US bourgeois electoral politics more broadly, God knows, but Axelrod ain’t wrong here. Anything indeed. We should be long past “Trump wouldn’t do that” by now, no? News flash: the putschist Trump’s fascist regime and party are working relentlessly and in numerous ways to rig if not cancel the 2026 mid-term elections as part of their enduring coup against previously normative bourgeois democracy. Below I discuss eight interrelated ways in which this fascist attack on what’s left of “free and fair elections” in the United States has been unfolding and two ways in which the coup will likely continue to develop under Trump47. I suggest going through this list and perhaps adding to it or revising it before listening to the deranged and depraved wannabe dictator Trump speak to the nation on “election integrity” tomorrow night, when he is scheduled to make extreme claims of “foreign interference” in US elections (more on this at the end of this essay) past and present. +1. The Trump campaign to nationalize the elections – to place them under the control of the federal fascist Trump regime in defiance of the US Constitution, which strictly assigns the management of elections to the states. Last January, the unconstitutionally re-elected January 6 instigator and insurrectionist Donald “Take Down the Metal Detectors” Trump chillingly told the New York Times that he regretted not ordering the National Guard to seize voting machines in swing states after his 2020 election loss. As part of this assau…

The Not-So-Secret Israeli Strategy: This is the Real Gaza Plan
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description: Here is the bottom line: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of leaving Gaza, either before Israel’s general elections—likely to be held in October—or after. Conceding an inch from the roughly 70 percent of the territory his army currently occupies in Gaza will be considered a weakness by the majority of Israeli voters More The post The Not-So-Secret Israeli Strategy: This is the Real Gaza Plan appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: https://www.afintl.com/202510018284 – Public Domain Here is the bottom line: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of leaving Gaza, either before Israel’s general elections—likely to be held in October—or after. Conceding an inch from the roughly 70 percent of the territory his army currently occupies in Gaza will be considered a weakness by the majority of Israeli voters and would result in an open revolt within his extremist coalition. He has made his intentions clear time and again. Recent statements by Israel’s political leadership have only reinforced that reality, with officials insisting that Israel must maintain indefinite military dominance over the Strip and explicitly rejecting any framework that requires a full withdrawal of troops. To Netanyahu, the military footprint in Gaza is a permanent fixture, not a temporary bargaining chip. Some may argue that Netanyahu’s statements are merely political fodder aimed at prolonging his career and avoiding the disastrous outcomes awaiting him—in terms of state investigations and court trials—should he be ejected from power. However, his extremist policies throughout his entire career at the helm of Israeli politics say otherwise. There has never been a period in Netanyahu’s history in which he showed a genuine willingness to compromise or engage in an authentic political process with the Palestinians. This reduces the point of the Washington-led Board of Peace and its subsequent administrative bodies to near irrelevance. These entities—including the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) and a multinational International Stabilization Force (ISF)—were supposedly assembled with the sole aim of managing a transitional phase, delivering humanitarian aid, and deploying a peacekeeping buffer to facilitate a gradual Israeli military withdrawal. It seems that two separate, irreconcilable tracks are taking shape. One is the Israeli track of continued war, entrenched…

The Invisible Weapon: Sanctions, Overcompliance, and the Human Cost
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description: The fear of Unilateral Coercive Measures (UCMs), or sanctions, is not unfounded. For example: since 2018, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions against Iran’s use of cryptocurrencies; the decentralized nature of the blockchain no longer offers any immunity. Any exchange or virtual asset service provider with any connection to the United More The post The Invisible Weapon: Sanctions, Overcompliance, and the Human Cost appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: The fear of Unilateral Coercive Measures (UCMs), or sanctions, is not unfounded. For example: since 2018, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions against Iran’s use of cryptocurrencies; the decentralized nature of the blockchain no longer offers any immunity. Any exchange or virtual asset service provider with any connection to the United States—whether by being incorporated there, having U.S. customers, or processing transactions in dollars—is required to block transactions, verify IP addresses, and report frozen assets, under threat of multimillion-dollar fines and exclusion from the dollar-based financial system; the same happened with the Petro in the Venezuelan case. The result is a self-perpetuating regime: Washington does not need to directly sanction an actor for that actor to become isolated. It is enough for third parties, out of caution, to decide not to take any risks—this is known as overcompliance. What the Numbers Say: The Human Cost For years, the argument that sanctions are ‘surgical’ or ‘targeted’—striking governments without harming populations—has been difficult to refute with hard data. That changed with a study by the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington: a comparative panel analysis of sanctions and mortality by age group, using data from 170 countries between 1971 and 2021, which presents compelling findings: sanctions raise mortality rates across all age groups, not just among specific vulnerable populations; mortality among children under one year of age increases by 21 percent as a result of the collapse of health care, nutrition, and access to medicines; the longer the blockade lasts, the higher the mortality rate, which debunks the idea that the impact is a ‘temporary shock’ that societies eventually absorb; specific vulnerabilities in maternal health and the burden of care expose them disproportionately to the effects of the blockade. Finally: the unilateral measures imposed by Washington pr…

Impeachment or Prison?
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description: “This was about staying out of prison.” – Haberman and Swan (Regime Change) as to why Trump ran in 2024 Whether we impeach or imprison (or both) Donald J. Trump would be a first step if we are to return to a struggling path of an electoral, Constitutional, democratic order we recognized on this 250th July More The post Impeachment or Prison? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States – CC BY 2.0 “This was about staying out of prison.” – Haberman and Swan (Regime Change) as to why Trump ran in 2024 Whether we impeach or imprison (or both) Donald J. Trump would be a first step if we are to return to a struggling path of an electoral, Constitutional, democratic order we recognized on this 250th July 4th. Trump’s presidencies have taken us to a place where trust in our elections, a bedrock necessity, a peaceful transfer of power, respect for a Constitutional due process and judicial verdicts rendered, respect for First Amendment freedom of the press rights, and observance of the co-equal powers of executive, legislative and judicial branches of government are mockingly ignored and violated at will. Trump’s struggle is to get those who would get him before they get him. And meanwhile line his own pockets. The boldness in him that some admire goes no deeper than this. He has been on trial and been found guilty by unanimous jury of 34 felony counts. This had all led to a second go at turning the country and the world upside down. He’s taken us down the rabbit hole where half of us can’t distinguish bullshit and lies from verifiable assertions and the other half remain stunned or apoplectic. The man’s presence is absolutely confounding in a Mephistophelian way. Also confounding is the historical path to where we are now. I mean the struggle to American Exceptionalism. Were we struggling close to coming apart before Trump or after? Trump sold a story of American carnage that only he could remedy. There was carnage. By 2016, the top 1% had as much wealth as the bottom 90%. That Trump would readjust that carnage to the greater immiseration of the 90% not enough voters foresaw. Stunned or already at the Kool-Aid. In Gore Vidal’s view, the United States of Amnesia has been more of a militarized republic than a 5thCentury BCE Athenian “rule by the people.” The country has been protecti…

Expand Yellowstone National Park
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description: For several years, I have advocated for expanding Yellowstone National Park to create a Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem National Park. There are many reasons to expand Yellowstone’s boundaries to include much of the surrounding national forest and other public lands that make up the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has global significance. Yellowstone is More The post Expand Yellowstone National Park appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Tower Falls, Yellowstone. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. For several years, I have advocated for expanding Yellowstone National Park to create a Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem National Park. There are many reasons to expand Yellowstone’s boundaries to include much of the surrounding national forest and other public lands that make up the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has global significance. Yellowstone is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, recognized for its ecological diversity, conservation efforts and significant geological features. If Yellowstone and the surrounding lands are to survive as a functioning ecosystem, we must recognize that the entire region is under multiple stressors. Climate change is the greatest long-term threat. Climate change may make it impossible for many of the ecosystem’s plant and animal species to continue inhabiting the area. Growing recreational use can harm and disturb sensitive wildlife. Mining, logging and livestock grazing all affect ecosystem function. Enlarging the National Park Service’s administration of the ecosystem would eliminate ongoing threats from mining, logging and livestock grazing, since all are prohibited in national parks. Finally, growing population growth in the region brings its own challenges. So why expand Yellowstone to create a Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem National Park? First, consolidating the majority of public lands in the ecosystem under a single agency will improve efficiency and effectiveness. In particular, the mission and general goal of the National Park Service management is to preserve ecosystem function by minimizing human impacts. Compared to other state and federal agencies, the Park Service has a natural tendency to protect biodiversity and ecological integrity. Creation of a Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem National Park would provide greater protection for predators, as trapping and hunting are prohibited within park units. Expansion would allow bison to expand their …

Recalling the Most Fateful Day in Human Existence
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description: The threshold crossed at Alamogordo Today is the 81st anniversary of the most fateful day in the 300,000 years of our human species existence. We have always fought each other. On July 16, 1945, the prospect we could fight ourselves nearly to extinction came into view. On that date, the first atomic weapon was exploded More The post Recalling the Most Fateful Day in Human Existence appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: The Ivy Mike test of the first hydrogen bomb took place Nov. 1, 1952 in the South Pacific. Far more devastating than the atomic bombs that preceded it, the race to the hydrogen bomb was triggered by another event that took place this day 81 years ago, July 16, 1945, when the first atomic weapon was tested at Alamogordo, New Mexico. That set off a logic of power that would place humanity’s future at risk, a danger only increasing in our world today. The threshold crossed at Alamogordo Today is the 81st anniversary of the most fateful day in the 300,000 years of our human species existence. We have always fought each other. On July 16, 1945, the prospect we could fight ourselves nearly to extinction came into view. On that date, the first atomic weapon was exploded at Alamogordo, New Mexico. The culmination of the Manhattan Project, the Trinity test opened the nuclear age that was to be announced to the world 3 weeks later with the detonation over Hiroshima. I have said it before. I’ll say it again. This is the day the world should have changed, when humanity crossed a threshold to an entirely new situation. For the first time, we could wipe ourselves out, or nearly. Instead the world moved on to build mass numbers of nuclear weapons, first atomic, then thermonuclear, made possible by implosion of hydrogen with atomic weapons. We have learned since that <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=nuclear+winter+with+100+hiroshima+bombs+study&client=safari&hs=8lGq&sca_esv=350cd25fdf1e2243&channel=mac_bm&sxsrf=APpeQnuEflM48sGzrDlgH2VAhHWDz1AOTA%3A1784217790200&source=hp&ei=vgBZav7rCZHJ0PEPr-up6Qg&iflsig=ABILxe8AAAAAalkOzm16SWdV0353-Jp7aZm6O0VDTiaG&ved=0ahUKEwj-wtacydeVAxWRJDQIHa91Ko0Q4dUDCC4&uact=5&oq=nuclear+winter+with+100+hiroshima+bombs+study&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6Ii1udWNsZWFyIHdpbnRlciB3aXRoIDEwMCBoaXJvc2hpbWEgYm9tYnMgc3R1ZHkyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABSOJxUABY3W1wA3gAkAEAmAGVAqABsySqAQYzNi43LjO4AQPIAQD4AQGYAjGgArUrwgIEECMYJ8ICCxAAGIAEGIoFGJECwgIKEAAYgAQYigUYQ8IC…

Robin Hood in Reverse: How the Pentagon Makes Us Poorer
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description: In an era of high prices for fuel, food, and housing, an extra $4,000 could make a life-saving difference for many families. But instead, that’s what the average household had to shell out for the Pentagon last year. That’s right: The average U.S. taxpayer in 2025 had over $4,000 taken out of their paychecks to More The post Robin Hood in Reverse: How the Pentagon Makes Us Poorer appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In an era of high prices for fuel, food, and housing, an extra $4,000 could make a life-saving difference for many families. But instead, that’s what the average household had to shell out for the Pentagon last year. That’s right: The average U.S. taxpayer in 2025 had over $4,000 taken out of their paychecks to fund the Pentagon, according to the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. In the coming years, that amount is set to rise as Congress considers a $1.5 trillion war budget for 2027. For the growing number of working poor in the United States, that money can mean the difference between making rent or falling behind, or between being able to afford an emergency trip to the doctor or going without care. Money directed to the Pentagon represents nothing but betrayal for many Americans. A large majority oppose our wars, especially the latest conflict in Iran. And roughly <a role="link" href="https://codepink-org.qmailroute.net/x/d?c=52119345&l=2c2f6ffd-66d7-461d-806d-b54b93c75087&r=325d67c9-40dd-48ad-8f0a-643e71cb2249" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://codepink-org.qmailroute.net/x/d?c%3D52119345%26l%3D2c2f6ffd-66d7-461d-806d-b54b93c75087%26r%3D325d67c9-40dd-48ad-8f0a-643e71cb2249&source=gmail&ust=1784331734101000&usg=AOvVaw36KreXWgkgjuruEC6aj4V_">half of the Pentagon’s budget flows to for-profit contractors, fueling the billionaire (and now even trillionaire) class. Take SpaceX, one of many companies built on government contracts funded by taxpayer dollars. Elon Musk’s company would not exist without U.S. taxpayers. As early Tesla investor Ross Gerber put it, “There would not be (Tesla and SpaceX) if it weren’t for the government.” Early investments and contracts from the U.S. government helped propel SpaceX to success, while continued awards from the Pentagon provided the stable revenue that made the government one of Musk’s largest customers. The company is now v…

ICE Killings are Acts of Terrorism
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creator: Mitchell Zimmerman
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description: In less than one week, ICE agents killed twice. Neither victim was the man they were looking for. And each time their excuses made no sense. But the killings served a purpose: terrorizing immigrant communities, in pursuit of Trump’s white nationalist agenda. On July 7 in Houston, masked ICE agents who did not identify themselves More The post ICE Killings are Acts of Terrorism appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In less than one week, ICE agents killed twice. Neither victim was the man they were looking for. And each time their excuses made no sense. But the killings served a purpose: terrorizing immigrant communities, in pursuit of Trump’s white nationalist agenda. On July 7 in Houston, masked ICE agents who did not identify themselves stopped and shot to death Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52 year old Mexican national and father of three. Araujo had lived in the United States for 35 years and had applied to obtain legal status. He was on his way to work in construction. Using its by-now familiar excuse, Homeland Security officials claimed that Araujo rammed an ICE vehicle and tried to run down ICE agents by “weaponizing” his van. The claim was disputed by witnesses, is inconsistent with the video evidence, and makes no sense. Araujo had no criminal record. Why would this law-abiding, middle-aged family man ram an ICE vehicle and try to kill ICE agents? Six days later, in Biddeford, Maine, ICE killed again. This time they killed Johan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian man who was authorized to work in the United States. Again, ICE claimed that Guerrero tried to run down the ICE agent. Again, no evidence supported the excuse. Twelve hours later Homeland Security abandoned the “weaponized” vehicle claim and tried another story: The ICE agent, “fearing for public safety,” shot Guerrero because he “attempted to flee the scene.” Under Homeland Security’s account, an unmarked ICE vehicle driven by an unknown masked man attempts to stop a vehicle, the driver (who was not their intended target) tries to escape, and the agent fires. They claim, essentially, that failing to stop (if that actually even happened) amounts to “fleeing the scene” — and requires deadly force. Johan Sebastian Guerrero was working legally at two jobs, as a cleaner and a food delivery driver. He had a wife and a three-year-old daughter. Who can claim he was so dangerou…

The Repulsiveness of Neera Tanden
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description: It’s hard for me to write about Neera Tanden. Primarily because I cannot stand her smug face, her grating voice, or her haughty demeanor. Still, I’ll try to put those physical prejudices aside and focus solely on Neera in her professional capacity as a perpetually employed defender of the Democratic Party’s corporate-driven status quo. For More The post The Repulsiveness of Neera Tanden appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: US Department of Labor – Public Domain It’s hard for me to write about Neera Tanden. Primarily because I cannot stand her smug face, her grating voice, or her haughty demeanor. Still, I’ll try to put those physical prejudices aside and focus solely on Neera in her professional capacity as a perpetually employed defender of the Democratic Party’s corporate-driven status quo. For it is there, on both a moral and ethical level, where Neera Tanden is a singularly repulsive human being. What does Neera Tanden stand for? As President and CEO of the Center for American Progress, Neera stands for money. She makes her money placating those who have it while pretending she cares about those who don’t. Her soul is not simply monetized, it’s tattooed with a dollar sign. When crafting a policy proposal on food or housing or medicine, all that matters for Neera is how wealthy donors will react to it. The rest of us, she cons. Yet, in appreciation of her singular political focus, we are blithely expected to shut up and cope harder – thanking the Democratic Party at the ballot box for remaining loyal to unfettered capitalism as we shoplift a pill cutter and a package of ground beef. Neera’s bottom line is, of course, encased in jargon. Neera will spew tactics and strategy. She will bray about the common sense intersectionality of oligarch and worker. Of the beneficial synergy between profit and dignity. Of a Democratic Party where anyone can have access to a meaningful life or, at minimum, know someone who does. If you read those sentences carefully, you’ll see they intend nothing. There’s a simple reason for that. Neera, at her core, intends nothing… apart from the check clearing and you not knowing from whom she banked it. Don’t misunderstand. I am not writing from the perspective of a rival consultant envious of Tanden’s client list. What’s more, I am not seeking to make a name for myself by burning bridges within the Democratic Party. There is no element of t…

The Price of Solidarity: How Israel Weaponized European Footvolley and the Institutions that Looked Away
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description: My phone buzzed. It was my girlfriend. ‘Get out of there,’ she said. Her voice was shaking. I was in Graz, Austria, at a European footvolley tournament. I had come to compete. I was leaving for my safety. Hours earlier, a four-time European champion with over 25,000 Instagram followers had posted a story asking his More The post The Price of Solidarity: How Israel Weaponized European Footvolley and the Institutions that Looked Away appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: Thomas Noack — www.foot-volley.de – CC BY-SA 3.0 My phone buzzed. It was my girlfriend. ‘Get out of there,’ she said. Her voice was shaking. I was in Graz, Austria, at a European footvolley tournament. I had come to compete. I was leaving for my safety. Hours earlier, a four-time European champion with over 25,000 Instagram followers had posted a story asking his fans what should be done with me. The responses came in fast. One stood out: ‘Post a picture, and we’ll take care of him.’ After our match, the same Israeli player thanked his followers for their ‘creative tips’ on things to do with me ‘outside the court.’ I bought a ticket home that night. I am the Swedish and Nordic footvolley champion of 2025. I am also, apparently, a legitimate target. My crime was standing in solidarity with Palestine. In the ecosystem of European footvolley, that is enough to make you prey. What happened to me in Graz is nothing compared to what my Greek colleague, Ioannis Tsiouris, has endured since July 2025. Yiannis is a national team player. His threats include: ‘We will murder you like the children in Gaza.’ Rape threats against his family. A message in Hebrew promising to ‘give you a Holocaust.’ A death threat against his unborn child. Let that settle. A threat to murder a Greek athlete ‘like the children in Gaza,’ delivered with the confidence of someone who sees genocide not as a tragedy but as a template. A promise to ‘give you a Holocaust,’ issued in Hebrew by supporters of a state that claims to exist as a guarantee against exactly that. The cruelty is the point. The irony is lost on them. I filed police reports. Sweden. Austria. The evidence is documented, timestamped, translated. This month, Dagens Nyheter, Sweden’s newspaper of record, published a major investigation that went viral. The facts are not in dispute. What is in dispute is whether anyone with authority in this sport gives a damn. I contacted 31 organizations. Athlete welfare bodies. Anti-di…

Shouting Ourselves Alive (Again)
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description: Roberto Saviano begins his book Shout It Out! 28 Portraits for a Committed World with a quote from writer Ray Bradbury. “The Universe has shouted itself alive.” Saviano quotes from Bradbury’s short story “Long After Midnight.” “We are one of the shouts.” He spends the rest of this text writing about people who did shout More The post Shouting Ourselves Alive (Again) appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Cover art for the book Shout It Out! 28 Portraits for a Committed World by Roberto Saviano – Fair Use Roberto Saviano begins his book Shout It Out! 28 Portraits for a Committed World with a quote from writer Ray Bradbury. “The Universe has shouted itself alive.” Saviano quotes from Bradbury’s short story “Long After Midnight.” “We are one of the shouts.” He spends the rest of this text writing about people who did shout out, some in the name of freedom and humanity, others as examples of the dangers of keeping quiet. These vignettes, beautifully translated from the original Italian, share an understanding that freedom is an essential part of the human experience. Essential to that freedom is debate, argument, confrontation and essential to those is language. Saviano, who wrote a book about the Camorra crime family in Italy titled Gomorrah that was turned into an award-winning film, begins this text with a contemplation on Hypatia, a female astronomer, philosopher and mathematician who lived in the fourth and fifth centuries in Alexandria, which was then part of the Roman Empire. Hypatia was a teacher and taught pagans and those Christians interested in learning. Rumored to have interfered in a dispute between the Roman prefect Orestes and the Bishop of Alexandria Cyril, she was killed by a mob of Christians. Bringing the tale into the current period, Saviano compares the intolerance of the Christians with that of the Taliban. He ends his discussion with a call that is repeated and modified throughout the book: “Shout out…. In this case it’s a call to shout “out when they force you into the banality of simplification.” In another chapter, it might be a call to insist that denouncing is not slandering your country! Yet another demands that you shout out that you don’t want to be turned into an armed militant of any war. Saviano’s contemplations include the story of a Chechen girl who was raped by drunken Russian soldiers and the Russian journalist who told her story a…

Interview With a Palestinian Doctor in Cuba
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description: This interview was conducted on June 11, 2026 in la Habana, Cuba The Israeli genocide of Gaza, southern Lebanon and increasingly the West Bank all continue unabated– and thanks to the Orwellian “Board of Peace” created by Donald Trump to prevent UN and international law involvement, this has allowed the complicit western media to move More The post Interview With a Palestinian Doctor in Cuba appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: This interview was conducted on June 11, 2026 in la Habana, Cuba The Israeli genocide of Gaza, southern Lebanon and increasingly the West Bank all continue unabated– and thanks to the Orwellian “Board of Peace” created by Donald Trump to prevent UN and international law involvement, this has allowed the complicit western media to move daily attacks on Arab civilians off their front pages, and to reduce their editorial pages to attempting to label human rights defenders “antisemites” for questioning the impunity of the Zionist state. In the past few days, the remaining stories still being told about the ongoing Gazan genocide have seen the revival of calls to release Dr Hussam Abu Safia– 52 year old director of care of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza. Never formally charged with a single thing, he was abducted by the IDF after multiple attacks on the civilian infrastructure of the hospital more than 18 months ago as I write this. His story– he has had seemingly daily beatings and tortures, such that on the last visit to see him, his own lawyer had a hard time recognizing him in person (the source for that statement is Physicians for human rights Israel). [1] He isn’t alone in that treatment– not even from his own hospital, where multiple other health workers were abducted and labeled “unlawful combatants,” a term Israeli authorities use on health workers they hold without charge for indefinite levels of time. Israel’s deliberate targeting of health infrastructure inside Gaza is not at all new– From the early months of the genocide, attacks on the Al-Shifa Hospital in November of 2023 produced widespread outcry, as targeting of medical facilities is strictly forbidden in International Law, and in those days western governments and western media still made a pretense of upholding human rights. In the years since, it is now so common place to have attacks on medical workers that they don’t even rate being reported, and “double tap” attacks– where civilians are bombed, firs…

Good People Are Systemic Racism’s Most Reliable Accomplices
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description: Personal Decency Is Not Structural Opposition Systemic racism does not survive despite good people. It survives through them. Personal decency allows people who participate in racial hierarchy to mistake their innocence for opposition. They believe that because they are kind, inclusive, morally aware and offended by obvious bigotry, they cannot be part of the machinery More The post Good People Are Systemic Racism’s Most Reliable Accomplices appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Personal Decency Is Not Structural Opposition Systemic racism does not survive despite good people. It survives through them. Personal decency allows people who participate in racial hierarchy to mistake their innocence for opposition. They believe that because they are kind, inclusive, morally aware and offended by obvious bigotry, they cannot be part of the machinery producing racial inequality. That belief is not merely comforting. It is useful to the system. It turns racism into a problem of bad hearts and bad actors and leaves respectable institutions, neutral rules and decent administrators beyond suspicion. The question of whether people oppose racism in their hearts is irrelevant to systemic racism. A system does not need everyone inside it to be hateful. It does not even need most people to consciously intend harm. It needs rules, incentives, authority, habits and distributions of power that reproduce hierarchy while appearing legitimate. The things that do this rarely announce themselves as racism. They arrive disguised as merit, professionalism, civility, neutrality, excellence, fiscal responsibility, parental rights, institutional stability and public safety. Racism needs only enough decent people to keep trusting the system’s definitions of fairness. That is why the assault on racial equity has been so effective. It does not usually ask people to defend racial hierarchy openly. It asks them to defend fairness, standards, excellence, colorblindness, equal treatment, legal compliance and order. The most successful attack on equity does not describe itself as an attack at all. It arrives as neutrality restored. It gives good people a principled vocabulary for retreat and allows institutions to dismantle corrective efforts while congratulating themselves for opposing discrimination. A school can celebrate diversity while relying on admissions metrics that favor wealth and inherited advantage. A profession can lament its lack of representation while protecti…

A Dream Deferred, but Still Alive
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description: On March 1, 1945, only six weeks before his death, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered an address to Congress that pointed toward a sweeping transformation of international relations. With the Axis powers tottering toward defeat in World War II, Roosevelt reported that the recently concluded Yalta conference of Allied leaders had agreed upon “a More The post A Dream Deferred, but Still Alive appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: On March 1, 1945, only six weeks before his death, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered an address to Congress that pointed toward a sweeping transformation of international relations. With the Axis powers tottering toward defeat in World War II, Roosevelt reported that the recently concluded Yalta conference of Allied leaders had agreed upon “a common ground for peace.” It would “spell the end of the system of unilateral action, the exclusive alliances, the spheres of influence, the balances of power, and all the other expedients that have been tried for centuries―and have always failed.” These approaches would be replaced by “a universal organization,” a “permanent structure of peace upon which we can begin to build . . . that better world in which our children and grandchildren . . . must live, and can live.” As a follow-up, delegates from 50 nations met in San Francisco from April 25 to June 26, 1945 and drafted the United Nations Charter. Although the Charter affirmed “faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small” and promised to promote “justice,” “social progress,” and “better standards of life in larger freedom,” its first proclaimed goal (and top priority) was “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” In subsequent decades, the United Nations did an effective job of encouraging human rights and social progress. The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which Eleanor Roosevelt occupied a pivotal role in drafting and promoting, represented a substantial advance in social, cultural, and economic rights. In addition, the United Nations played an essential part in the widespread decolonization process in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, in promoting economic development and public health in impoverished nations, and in developing international agreements to address environmental issues. Ironically, however, when it came to preve…

No Means No
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description: Nobody likes to talk about rape, but it seems morally absurd not to considering that it seems to be everywhere you look; from frat row to death row, from the Vatican to Nickelodeon, from ICE to the IDF, from Trump to Platner and back to Trump again. I know that my own abuse has rendered More The post No Means No appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Nobody likes to talk about rape, but it seems morally absurd not to considering that it seems to be everywhere you look; from frat row to death row, from the Vatican to Nickelodeon, from ICE to the IDF, from Trump to Platner and back to Trump again. I know that my own abuse has rendered me a bit hypervigilant, but you don’t have to have CPTSD to know which way the wind blows, and you’d have to be dangerously anesthetized from the neck up not to recognize that anyone and everyone with any modicum of power seems to be copping a feel and most of them are getting away with it. Speaking as an anarchist, I strongly believe that it is precisely that power which is the defining factor here and it’s a factor that most mainstream feminists conveniently ignore as they aim high for the glass ceiling. American capitalism is and has always been a colonialist enterprise built on a foundation of conquest, and sexual violence has been at the cornerstone of military conquest going back to the Golden Horde. So, it should come as little surprise that rape was the favored tool of the western civilizers who built the Pax-American leviathan, from the sainted Catholic Conquistadors who turned the “New World” into a chattel brothel by sexually trafficking the women and children of every tribal nation they “discovered” to our blessed Founding Fathers who used the routine defilement of their own slaves to keep their plantations in line. Today, this fine tradition of predatorial manifest destiny continues perhaps most brazenly with our client state of Israel’s conspiracy to remake the Middle East in their own decidedly European image while their American masters continue to hemorrhage international influence with levels of unhinged debauchery that put Caligula to shame. In the shadow of the Epstein Files, a series of leaks have been unleashed from inside Israel’s Sde Telman Military Base, transformed into the nation’s largest prison camp during the latest stage of Gaza’s final solution, exposi…

Chinese police arrest Uyghur sisters and mother in Urumqi for sending goods to Turkey
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description: Their eldest sister, who had been receiving the goods, said they were arrested for “supporting terrorists.”
encoded: Read RFA coverage of this story in Uyghur Chinese authorities in Xinjiang’s regional capital Urumqi on July 4 arrested two Uyghur sisters and their mother for sending goods to their eldest sister in Turkey, and a third sister was arrested a week later, the eldest told Radio Free Asia. Guzelnur Kamil said her family had been shipping ordinary household goods, including clothing, footwear, hats, daily necessities, seasonings, and packaged food items to support her business in Turkey. “They were simply miscellaneous everyday items,” she told RFA. “My mother said, ‘Even if we cannot send you cash, let us send you goods so you can do business, my child, and provide for your children,’” she said. Guzelnur, who moved to Turkey in 2016, said the shipments were assembled by her sister, Guljennet Kamil, who from 2018-2020 was detained in an internment camp. Guljennet also suffers from partial paralysis following an accident and was helped by her sister with a share of the profits from her business. However, according to Guzelnur, the police used this communication as a pretext to target the family. Investigation Guzelnur said the police interrogation of her family began on July 1, and explained that her mother, Bahargul Tohti, along with her sisters Guljennet and Gulzeper Hekim, were interrogated several times. Police used Guljennet’s shipping of goods to Turkey as a pretext, alleging suspicion of “supporting terrorists,” she said, adding that her mother and sisters were ordered to lead police to the exact shops where they purchased the goods and the logistics companies they used to ship them. “On the 4th, they spoke very politely, asking my mother to come to the police station at 9:00 AM,” she said. “After taking her in, they also brought in my sisters. They took their blood samples and photographed them from the front, back, and sides. After that, they just took them away without saying a word.” Turkey is one of 26 countries that China considers “sensitive,” along with prim…

Fighting for Democracy 5 Years After the Coup in Myanmar
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Has the Pacific’s Ocean of Peace concept been hijacked?
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description: ANALYSIS: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific As geopolitical tensions increase in the Pacific region and numerous security alliances are rapidly forged, questions are being raised over whether the Ocean of Peace concept is being hijacked. The Ocean of Peace Declaration was made last year by members of the Pacific Islands Forum, recognising the role
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific As geopolitical tensions increase in the Pacific region and numerous security alliances are rapidly forged, questions are being raised over whether the Ocean of Peace concept is being hijacked. The Ocean of Peace Declaration was made last year by members of the Pacific Islands Forum, recognising the role of civil society in peacebuilding. However, the emphasis of the initiative seems to have quickly shifted. READ MORE: Jeremy Rose: The nuclear-free Pacific and hypersonic hypocrisy Other Ocean of Peace reports Australia and Fiji take the lead Australia last week signed the Vuvale Union and Ocean of Peace Alliance treaties with Fiji, the latest in a series of regional pacts Canberra has forged with Pacific Islands countries. “The Vuvale Union and the Ocean of Peace Alliance have a really strong regional component,” Australia’s High Commissioner in Suva, Peter Roberts said in a post on X. He said the new treaties underlined Fiji’s position as a regional leader. “I think we’ve all seen during this fuel crisis how important Fiji is as a hub. And we’ve seen on security matters how important Fiji is as a regional leader, including through Prime Minister Rabuka’s vision for the Ocean of Peace.” According to Roberts, the treaties empower Australia and Fiji to support the Pacific region in efforts against security threats such as transnational crime, cyber crime and illegal fishing. “Including in this Fiji and Australia supporting the establishment of the Ocean of Peace Centre, in close cooperation with the Pacific islands Forum. So you’ll see Australia and Fiji standing together in support of the stability and prosperity of the region.” Value for money The Vuvale Union is backed by around A$1 billion in funding for Fiji by Australia over a decade, while Australia is also funding the Ocean of Peace Centre to the tune of around A$22 million. Geopolitical commentator Dr Connor Graham from the Lowy Institute said Australia sees great val…

It’s the ABC’s job to be accurate and fair, not to chase the dangerous fallacy of ‘balance’
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Testosterone for soldiers: Gender-affirming care?
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Long Island Audit confronted a powerful police union. They made him pay for it.
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Ignore Trump’s Speech. Watch the Gaslit Nation Salon Instead [TEASER]
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description: Instead of watching Trump's speech tonight, watch Monday's Gaslit Nation Salon on July 14 - Bastille Day! Here's an excerpt. You can watch the full recording by joining our community of listeners on Patreon.com/Gaslit or GaslitNation.Substack.com. We had a lively discussion of Lindsey Graham's sudden death, how Russians see themselves as meat for the meatgrinder, and more. Trump's North Korean propaganda speech tonight is meant to strongarm Republicans into passing the Trad Wife Act -- (a.k.a. the Save Act), suppressing the votes of millions of people, especially married women who will be forced to show their birth certificates to vote if they changed their last names for marriage. It would also of course target anyone who changed their names, including trans people. It's bad all around, so bad that even many Republicans can't bring themselves to support it. They know the ripple effect will be a last straw for the powder keg that is the United States during this time of political violence in a slow-moving Civil War. Join our community of listeners and get bonus shows, ad free listening, group chats with other listeners, ways to shape the show, invites to exclusive events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, and more! Discounted annual memberships are available. Become a Democracy Defender at Patreon.com/Gaslit or GaslitNation.Substack.com
encoded: Instead of watching Trump's speech tonight, watch Monday's Gaslit Nation Salon on July 14 - Bastille Day! Here's an excerpt. You can watch the full recording by joining our community of listeners on Patreon.com/Gaslit or GaslitNation.Substack.com. We had a lively discussion of Lindsey Graham's sudden death, how Russians see themselves as meat for the meatgrinder, and more. Trump's North Korean propaganda speech tonight is meant to strongarm Republicans into passing the Trad Wife Act -- (a.k.a. the Save Act), suppressing the votes of millions of people, especially married women who will be forced to show their birth certificates to vote if they changed their last names for marriage. It would also of course target anyone who changed their names, including trans people. It's bad all around, so bad that even many Republicans can't bring themselves to support it. They know the ripple effect will be a last straw for the powder keg that is the United States during this time of political violence in a slow-moving Civil War. Join our community of listeners and get bonus shows, ad free listening, group chats with other listeners, ways to shape the show, invites to exclusive events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, and more! Discounted annual memberships are available. Become a Democracy Defender at Patreon.com/Gaslit or GaslitNation.Substack.com This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.

How Trump Cracks Down On The Left
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Texas Democrats Ask for Investigation Into Ken Paxton After Our Reporting Found He May Have Violated Election Law
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description: The post Texas Democrats Ask for Investigation Into Ken Paxton After Our Reporting Found He May Have Violated Election Law appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Sipa USA Dallas-area Democrats are demanding that Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton be investigated for illegal voting after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed that he has repeatedly voted while registered at an address where he appears to no longer live. In a complaint filed Tuesday, the Collin County Democratic Party asked the Texas secretary of state to investigate whether Paxton committed election fraud by voting in the May primary runoff. Paxton beat longtime incumbent John Cornyn in that race, securing the Republican Party’s nomination for U.S. Senate. Read More <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="459" height="306" src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ProPublica-KenPaxtonVoterReg-2x3-red-blue-1-copy_maxHeight_3000_maxWidth_3000.jpg?w=459&h=306&crop=1" class="attachment-propublica-story-promo size-propublica-story-promo wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ProPublica-KenPaxtonVoterReg-2x3-red-blue-1-copy_maxHeight_3000_maxWidth_3000.jpg 3000w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ProPublica-KenPaxtonVoterReg-2x3-red-blue-1-copy_maxHeight_3000_maxWidth_3000.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ProPublica-KenPaxtonVoterReg-2x3-red-blue-1-copy_maxHeight_3000_maxWidth_3000.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ProPublica-KenPaxtonVoterReg-2x3-red-blue-1-copy_maxHeight_3000_maxWidth_3000.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ProPublica-KenPaxtonVoterReg-2x3-red-blue-1-copy_maxHeight_3000_maxWidth_3000.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ProPublica-KenPaxtonVoterReg-2x3-red-blue-1-copy_maxHeight_3000_maxWidth_3000.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ProPublica-KenPaxtonVoterReg-2x3-red-…

[Karim Khan] The International Criminal Court
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description: The International Criminal Court, the ICC, is based in The Hague, Netherlands. Established in 2002 under the Rome Statute, the ICC is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the crimes of genocide...
encoded: The International Criminal Court, the ICC, is based in The Hague, Netherlands. Established in 2002 under the Rome Statute, the ICC is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. The ICC is intended to complement, not replace, national judicial systems. It can exercise its jurisdiction only when national courts are unwilling or unable to prosecute criminals. The Court has brought charges against high-profile international leaders and in some cases has imprisoned them. Countries that are not parties to the ICC and do not recognize its jurisdiction include China, India, Russia, Israel and the United States. Recorded at the Oxford Union. This content originally appeared on AlternativeRadio and was authored by info@alternativeradio.org.

Public Citizen Once Again Calls Upon the CFTC to Enforce Insider Trading Laws on the Prediction Markets
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description: Today, multiple news outlets reported that President Trump’s teleprompter operator has been placing profitable bets on Kalshi regarding the content of Trump’s forthcoming speeches. Public Citizen has repeatedly appealed to the Commodity Futures Tradin...
encoded: Today, multiple news outlets reported that President Trump’s teleprompter operator has been placing profitable bets on Kalshi regarding the content of Trump’s forthcoming speeches. Public Citizen has repeatedly appealed to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees the prediction markets, to investigate and enforce the laws against insider trading. On March 5, 2026, Public Citizen filed an insider trading complaint with the CFTC following highly suspicious trades on the timing and developments of the American invasion of Iran. On April 30, 2026, Public Citizen and Better Markets urged the CFTC to conduct rulemaking on prediction markets trading activity. Craig Holman, Ph.D., government affairs lobbyist with Public Citizen issued the following statement: “Betting on political events on the prediction markets has become highly profitable for a small handful of anonymous bettors. Ever since the American invasion of Venezuela and Iran, a few people have been placing very large bets moments before the events take place, and scoring millions in profits. The timing and accuracy of these bets strongly suggest insider trading, probably by a few individuals in the know within the Trump administration. “News just broke that Trump’s teleprompter operator has been placing such bets on the content of Trump’s upcoming speeches. This is further evidence of illegal insider trading on the prediction markets – an industry that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has let operate like the Wild West. “Public Citizen again calls on the CFTC to wake up and do its job of overseeing the prediction market industry and enforcing the insider trading laws.” This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

Israel is Killing Gaza’s Most Famous Doctor
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New Landmark National Academies Report Affirms the Science Behind Holding Polluters Accountable for the Climate Crisis
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description: The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) today published an authoritative report, Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and Their Impacts, that validates the science connecting individual weather disasters and th...
encoded: The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) today published an authoritative report, Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and Their Impacts, that validates the science connecting individual weather disasters and their lethal societal impacts directly to human-caused fossil fuel pollution. In response, Stephanie Brancaforte, climate accountability campaign director with Public Citizen’s Climate Program, issued the following statement: “For decades, Big Oil knowingly poisoned our atmosphere and deceived the public about the impacts of burning fossil fuels —all the while lining executives’ pockets as communities continue to suffer from extreme heat, floods and fires. “The science is clear: the extreme heat killing thousands of people in the northern hemisphere this summer is neither an unpredictable event nor an accident—it is the result of corporate crime. With the backing of the National Academies, survivors of climate catastrophes now have strong evidence to pursue justice against fossil fuel polluters to pay for the devastation they have unleashed.” This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s brother faces deportation
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"I just need some place where I can lay my head" 🎶🎧
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 16, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – July 16, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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The Aral Sea isn’t just an ecological nightmare – it’s a carbon bomb
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description: Most of this inland sea is a dry lakebed the size of Ireland, and it has already released 748 million metric tons of CO2. But scientists say there's still time to reverse course.
encoded: The Aral Sea sits between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and was once the fourth-largest inland body of water on Earth. For the past 60 years, though, humans have bled it nearly dry irrigating cotton crops, leaving behind a salty plain the size of Ireland. Its loss has long been seen as an ecological and humanitarian problem, but new research shows that it has also been a significant driver of climate change. The Aral Sea is technically a lake. But when nearly any body of water is full and works as it should, organic matter collects on the bottom, where it remains trapped, often for centuries or millennia. “They accumulate carbon in the sediment,” explained Rafael Marcé, a research scientist at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Blanes, Spain and the lead author of the study, which was published today in the journal Science. “They are carbon sinks.” If the water dries up, however, stored carbon is released, turning sinks into sources. It’s something that Marcé has seen in smaller lakes he’s studied, but even he was surprised by what his team found during its 2022 expedition to Central Asia. “We didn’t go to the Aral Sea blind. We had some previous evidence,” he said. “We had no idea about the potential magnitude.” The Aral Sea has left behind a timeline of sorts. The edges dried out decades back, while some areas were wet until just a few years ago. Marcé and his colleagues collected samples along this gradation. The technique allowed them to reconstruct how much carbon the lake had emitted as it evaporated. The figure is staggering. Between 1960 and 2022, they found, the Aral Sea had pumped a remarkable 748 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That’s three times the annual emissions of Spain. “At the beginning it goes pretty fast, then it slowly decays,” said Marcé, noting that about half of the carbon dioxide is released in the first 15 years after a section of the lake is exposed. The paper also found that nearly a fifth of emissions came from wi…

North Korean buildings near DMZ could be rocket infrastructure, experts say
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description: Satellite images show 21 newly built drive-through buildings likely designed to shelter launch vehicles.
encoded: North Korea has constructed at least 21 identical drive-through structures near its border with South Korea that could potentially aid in the operation of truck-based missile or rocket weapons systems, satellite imagery analyzed by Radio Free Asia suggests. The buildings, each roughly 52 meters (171 feet) long, began to appear in satellite imagery between 2023 and early 2025 at small North Korean Army bases south of Kaesong, just a few kilometers north of the Demilitarized Zone, or DMZ, and only 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Seoul, the capital of South Korea. Their number, design and location suggest they could serve as maintenance and storage facilities for transporter erector launchers, or TELs, or multiple launch rocket systems, or MLRS, two types of weapons systems that can quickly launch guided missiles or rockets against targets across South Korea, experts told RFA. TELs are used in situations where precisely hitting one target is the goal, whereas MLRS is used to attack many targets over a broad area. <img src="https://www.rfa.org/resizer/v2/FP65RT2BOZAFXLCUO3URTI4RNY.jpg?auth=ee6ce0dc23f9ee3d55d2567abdf8eceb9ca9c744a8d82a1d5e48d6d8e4fd1162&smart=true&width=1500" alt="This picture taken on May 26, 2026 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 27, 2026 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspecting tests of a newly-developed lightweight multi-purpose missile launching system and a multiple tactical cruise missile weapon system conducted by the Missile Administration and the Academy of Defense Sciences at an undisclosed location in North Korea." height="1890" width="1500"/> This picture taken on May 26, 2026 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 27, 2026 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspecting tests of a newly-developed lightweight multi-purpose missile launching system and a multiple tactical cruise missile weapon system conducted by the Missile Administration and the A…

Sean Penn on Why Ukraine Matters
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Landmark Science Report Confirms Big Oil’s Fingerprints on Extreme Weather, as Industry Races for Legal Shield
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description: The National Academies of Sciences released a report today that puts the full weight of the country's most respected scientific institution behind extreme weather attribution science, affirming that the field can reliably connect specific disasters to...
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UN News Today 16 July 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
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description: 500 feared dead in shipwreck off Myanmar coast: IOM, UNHCRHelping South Sudan’s child soldiers rebuild their lives -UNICEF UNDP supports Gaza farmers struggle to rebuild livelihoods
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Israel is killing Gaza’s most famous doctor. Time is running out to save him.
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Sean Penn on Zelenskyy, El Chapo and Seeing the World Up Close | Shane Smith Has Questions
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CPJ condemns Trump Administration rule restricting international correspondents access to the United States
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description: Washington, D.C., July 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns the Trump administration’s decision to impose new visa restrictions on international correspondents, abandoning a decades-old policy enabling foreign journalists to report from the United States without fear that their visa status could be weaponized against them. “Under these restrictions, the Trump administration has moved...
encoded: Washington, D.C., July 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns the Trump administration’s decision to impose new visa restrictions on international correspondents, abandoning a decades-old policy enabling foreign journalists to report from the United States without fear that their visa status could be weaponized against them. “Under these restrictions, the Trump administration has moved to—yet again—deny access based on its individual policing of a journalist’s reporting,” said Jose Zamora, CPJ’s regional director for the Americas. “This is the latest escalation CPJ has documented following a pattern of deeply concerning press freedom violations from this administration. It is the behavior of a backsliding democracy, not the international vanguard of free speech.” A public inspection version of the final rule was made available on July 16. The final rule is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on July 17, and will go into effect 60 days after the final rule is published. These changes will impact thousands of foreign journalists and their families who are in the United States through the nonimmigrant “I visa” for foreign media representatives. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), there were 37, 330 admissions in the I visa category in fiscal year 2024. The changes would limit foreign reporters’ entry into the U.S. to up to 240 days, or 90 days for Chinese nationals, with new additional restrictions for the initial application review as well as renewal applications. This new rule replaces the open-ended “duration of status” framework that has governed the I visa since 1985. DHS proposed these changes in 2025 as part of a broader rule eliminating the “duration of status” framework for foreign students (F visa), exchange visitors (J visa), and foreign media representatives (I visa). CPJ along with partner organizations submitted a public comment urging the Trump administration to drop the proposed changes. CPJ urg…

‘Strategic entrapment’: Dennis Kucinich on disastrous US-Israeli military merger
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Media education, regulation, and organizing against Big Tech in Europe | Ep. 7
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China is pressuring Thai authorities to turn over Chinese dissidents
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New National Academy of Sciences Climate Attribution Report Underscores How Climate Change Fuels Extreme Weather
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description: The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released a report today synthesizing decades of climate attribution research that underscores how heat-trapping emissions from burning fossil fuels makes different types of extreme weather more likely and/or seve...
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Iran’s New Nuclear Threat? #geopolitics #iran #shorts
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date: 2026-07-16T15:00:16Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Earthjustice Sues to Block Trump’s Move to Gut Endangered Species Act
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date: 2026-07-16T14:39:59Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Photographer hit with pepper spray by Proud Boy at LA rally
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date: 2026-07-16T14:37:01Z
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description: Independent photographer Christopher Almaraz was hit with chemical irritant by a right-wing extremist while documenting a political protest in downtown Los Angeles, California, on July 10, 2026.Almaraz went to City Hall to photograph a news conference ...
encoded: Independent photographer Christopher Almaraz was hit with chemical irritant by a right-wing extremist while documenting a political protest in downtown Los Angeles, California, on July 10, 2026. Almaraz went to City Hall to photograph a news conference organized by far-right political activists, two of whom were among the Jan. 6, 2021, defendants pardoned by President Donald Trump. The event, which centered on Spencer Pratt’s failed campaign for mayor of LA and allegations of voter fraud after he lost in the primary, drew counterprotesters. During the protest, one of the organizers was punched and knocked to the ground. Almaraz said another organizer, a member of the far-right Proud Boys, then began pepper-spraying people in the crowd and turned toward him. Almaraz, who publishes his work on social media and Substack, and is working on a documentary project, said he gestured to his clothing to identify himself as a member of the press. According to Almaraz, the Proud Boy warned him not to move behind him. Almaraz, who said he often works close to the action to capture photographs, continued documenting the scene. When the man warned him again, Almaraz told him not to tell him what to do. “And right when I said that, he Maced me,” Almaraz told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. Almaraz said the man continued pepper-spraying people nearby. At that point, he said, he tried to stop him. “I know what I was doing at that point was no longer acting as a member of the press,” Almaraz said. “I just wanted to stop him from macing people and incapacitate him as fast as possible.” During the ensuing struggle, Almaraz said he was struck in the head with a pepper-spray can, which fractured his skull and required three stitches. Also at the protest that day, the same individual punched another photographer in the face. Both photographers said they filed police reports following the incidents. This content originally appeared on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database and was au…

Photographer struck by Proud Boy at LA rally
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description: Independent photographer Jonny Morales was punched in the face by a right-wing extremist while documenting a political protest in downtown Los Angeles, California, on July 10, 2026.Morales went to City Hall to photograph a news conference organized by ...
encoded: Independent photographer Jonny Morales was punched in the face by a right-wing extremist while documenting a political protest in downtown Los Angeles, California, on July 10, 2026. Morales went to City Hall to photograph a news conference organized by far-right political activists, two of whom were among the Jan. 6, 2021, defendants pardoned by President Donald Trump. The event, which centered on Spencer Pratt’s failed campaign for mayor of LA and allegations of voter fraud after he lost in the primary, drew counterprotesters. When Morales arrived, one of the organizers had been punched, and clashes were breaking out between individuals at the rally and others gathered outside the news conference. “I felt it was important to document,” Morales said. Morales said he was photographing the scene when another organizer, a member of the far-right Proud Boys, struck a woman, who stumbled backward, dazed, and fell into Morales. The man then aimed his fists at Morales. “He started swinging toward me like a lunatic; it’s just disgusting violence, basically,” Morales said. View post on Instagram In a video posted to Instagram, a shirtless man can be seen punching Morales, who is wearing a jean jacket and holding a camera. The journalist then falls to the ground. Morales, who was not wearing press credentials at the time, said he confronted the individual, telling him that he had just attacked a member of the press. According to Morales, the man responded by accusing him of being a counterprotester. Later, the individual allowed Morales to photograph him. Morales said the same man had also punched him at an earlier protest in June. He and another photojournalist, whom the individual also pepper-sprayed on July 10, have filed a police report. After the assault, Morales said he experienced jaw pain and headaches. At first, he did not believe he had been targeted because he was focused on photographing the event. After reviewing videos of the incident, however, he said he believ…

A "Forever War" in Iran? Ali Vaez on Escalating War, U.S. "Diplomatic Malpractice"
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-16T14:35:46Z
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Victor Salgado Araujo Saw ICE Kill His Brother in Texas — He Is Now Detained, Faces Deportation
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Todd Blanche Is "Not Fit" to Be AG, from Epstein Files to Trump’s $1.8B Slush Fund: Rep. Jayapal
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date: 2026-07-16T14:25:57Z
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 16, 2026
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Earthjustice Sues to Block Trump’s Move to Gut Endangered Species Act
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description: The Trump administration has introduced a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act, a bedrock of successful U.S. wildlife conservation for more than 50 years, dramatically weakening its power to protect natural habitats and opening vul...
encoded: The Trump administration has introduced a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act, a bedrock of successful U.S. wildlife conservation for more than 50 years, dramatically weakening its power to protect natural habitats and opening vulnerable lands to real estate development, oil drilling and other extractive industries. A coalition of conservation groups is suing the Trump administration over the rule change. They are represented by the environmental law group Earthjustice and senior attorney Ben Levitan, who calls this latest Trump administration attack on the environment “a total repudiation of the premise that endangered species need places to have shelter, to have food, to raise their young.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

A “Forever War” in Iran? Ali Vaez on Escalating War, U.S. “Diplomatic Malpractice”
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-16T12:42:59Z
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description: Has the United States launched a forever war on Iran? As the Trump administration renews its attacks on Iran, killing at least 35 civilians over the course of five days, political analyst Ali Vaez warns that the U.S. is inciting potentially ne...
encoded: Has the United States launched a forever war on Iran? As the Trump administration renews its attacks on Iran, killing at least 35 civilians over the course of five days, political analyst Ali Vaez warns that the U.S. is inciting potentially never-ending “cycles of violence” with its manipulations of the diplomatic process. The U.S.’s unilateral renunciation of the “memorandum of understanding” as a “pretext for another round of war” has further eroded trust between the countries, says Vaez. “There is really no military solution,” he concludes. “The best solution is for both sides to agree to return to the MOU and to respect its terms.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

CPJ, partners publish report documenting dangerous spiral of violence against journalists in Serbia
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists and partner organizations on Thursday published a report documenting rising attacks, threats, police violence, and smear campaigns against journalists in Serbia, as well as persistent impunity for those responsible. Based on an international fact-finding mission to Belgrade in March 2026, the report also examines legal and digital threats to the...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists and partner organizations on Thursday published a report documenting rising attacks, threats, police violence, and smear campaigns against journalists in Serbia, as well as persistent impunity for those responsible. Based on an international fact-finding mission to Belgrade in March 2026, the report also examines legal and digital threats to the press and increasing political control over the media landscape. CPJ and its partners called on Serbian authorities to investigate attacks, hold perpetrators accountable, end inflammatory rhetoric against journalists, and ensure police protect members of the press. Read the full report here. Read the press release here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.

Victor Salgado Araujo Saw ICE Agent Kill His Brother in Texas. He Is Now Detained, Faces Deportation
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-16T12:31:58Z
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description: After ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas, last week, they quickly arrested three witnesses: the other men that the 52-year-old father of three was driving to work. The three men, including Salgado Araujo’...
encoded: After ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas, last week, they quickly arrested three witnesses: the other men that the 52-year-old father of three was driving to work. The three men, including Salgado Araujo’s younger brother Victor, are now being detained by ICE and threatened with deportation. “There is a Trump militia roaming our streets, our towns, our cities, killing people regardless of immigration status with absolutely no accountability. … They are either not getting training or getting training to shoot directly at people, to murder people, in the streets,” says Congressmember Pramila Jayapal, explaining that the three incarcerated witnesses must be protected from deportation for at least as long as they can provide information for the investigations on Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s killing. Victor Salgado Araujo “wants to be accessible as a witness, and it’s really hard for him to do that when he’s [being detained] 45 minutes away from Houston,” says his attorney Ruby Powers. “Being able to be in the United States freely, to be able to give that testimony is what we’re asking for.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

We Are Sending a Message to Netanyahu: Rep. Jayapal on 100+ Dems Voting to Cut Israeli Military Aid
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-07-16T12:26:22Z
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description: As we continue our conversation with Congressmember Pramila Jayapal, we turn to recent developments involving the United States military. On Wednesday, Jayapal was one of over half of all House Democrats to vote in favor eliminating over $3 bi...
encoded: As we continue our conversation with Congressmember Pramila Jayapal, we turn to recent developments involving the United States military. On Wednesday, Jayapal was one of over half of all House Democrats to vote in favor eliminating over $3 billion in military aid to Israel. Although the proposed amendment was ultimately shot down, the final tally with over 100 members voting yes is still a “sea change” in U.S. political support for Israel, says Jayapal. Following Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, “it is the horror of what has unfolded that has finally allowed us to confront the fact that we should not be using taxpayer dollars to send to Israel to perpetrate this kind of violence.” Jayapal also responds to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new order mandating testosterone testing and offering testosterone replacement therapy for servicemembers aged 30 and over. “Providing testosterone is actually gender affirming care,” Jayapal remarks. Last year, Hegseth ordered a halt to all gender-affirming medical procedures for military servicemembers and banned openly trans people from service. These actions are “intrusive behavior,” says Jayapal, “where the government is getting involved in prescribing what medication you do or don’t take, without your consent.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Todd Blanche Is “Not Fit” to Be AG, from Epstein Files to Trump’s $1.8B Slush Fund: Rep. Jayapal
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description: Confirmation hearings are underway for President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, his personal attorney Todd Blanche. Blanche is mired in a number of controversies, most notably his mishandling of the administration’s r...
encoded: Confirmation hearings are underway for President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, his personal attorney Todd Blanche. Blanche is mired in a number of controversies, most notably his mishandling of the administration’s release of the Epstein files while serving as deputy attorney general under Pam Bondi. Washington state Representative Pramila Jayapal, who is co-sponsoring a bill to allow Epstein survivors whose identifying information was improperly publicized by the Department of Justice to sue the federal government for damages, says “Todd Blanche was responsible” for the breach. “He really wanted to discourage anyone else from coming forward with more information. … It’s [a] big reason why he shouldn’t be the attorney general.” Jayapal also discusses the Department of Justice’s surveillance of herself and other legislators who viewed Epstein-related documents and Blanche’s longstanding personal and professional connections with Trump. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Ukrainians Protest After Defence Minister Sacked #shorts
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Headlines for July 16, 2026
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description: U.S. Strikes Iran for Fifth Consecutive Day Targeting Tehran, Israeli Forces Kill Four People in Gaza, Including 6-Year-Old Girl, Israel’s Security Cabinet Approves Nearly Half a Billion Dollars for New Settlements in Occupied West Bank, Half of All Democrats on Capitol Hill Support Measure Slashing Military Funding to Israel, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche Grilled During Senate Confirmation Hearing, Trump’s Nominee for Director of National Intelligence Refuses to Say Whether Biden Won 2020 Election, New York Times Files Motion to Quash Subpoenas of Its Journalists, Hegseth Announces Plans to Screen Testosterone Levels of Service Members Over the Age of 30, 45-Year-Old Venezuelan Immigrant Dies in ICE Custody in Georgia, 100 Million People in North America Face Air Quality Alerts, Pro-Palestinian Activists Demand Release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya from Israeli Custody
encoded: U.S. Strikes Iran for Fifth Consecutive Day Targeting Tehran Israeli Forces Kill Four People in Gaza, Including 6-Year-Old Girl Israel's Security Cabinet Approves Nearly Half a Billion Dollars for New Settlements in Occupied West Bank Half of All Democrats on Capitol Hill Support Measure Slashing Military Funding to Israel Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche Grilled During Senate Confirmation Hearing Trump's Nominee for Director of National Intelligence Refuses to Say Whether Biden Won 2020 Election New York Times Files Motion to Quash Subpoenas of Its Journalists Hegseth Announces Plans to Screen Testosterone Levels of Service Members Over the Age of 30 45-Year-Old Venezuelan Immigrant Dies in ICE Custody in Georgia 100 Million People in North America Face Air Quality Alerts Pro-Palestinian Activists Demand Release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya from Israeli Custody This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-07-16 Thursday
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U.S. strikes Iran for fifth consecutive day
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Data centers are booming. Indigenous leaders want help protecting their lands.
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description: Indigenous leaders warn the U.N. that the rapid growth of artificial intelligence data centers threatens their rights.
encoded: This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. AI is the transformative technology of our time, with the potential to reshape our world on a global scale. And yet, underpinning its potential is the need for so-called hyperscale data centers that require vast amounts of land, energy, and water. As tech companies and governments continue to develop this infrastructure at a huge scale, Indigenous peoples around the world are responding to this threat in different ways. They are raising concerns about mounting pressure on water resources and inadequate consultation, but in some cases embracing projects for their economic benefits. The rapid expansion of this massive digital infrastructure has Indigenous leaders, governments and experts calling on those developing them to comply with the principle of free, prior, and informed consent while exploring whether this infrastructure can be established in ways that advance Indigenous rights and priorities. During a panel discussion on the second day of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, or EMRIP, Indigenous delegates said that while there must be policies to ensure that AI does not harvest Indigenous knowledge without consent, protections for Indigenous lands and waters are equally important. “AI is resource-intensive and requires vast amounts of energy. In Sápmi, we already see how large data centers put [immense] pressure on our territories,” said Maren Storslett, who is a member of the Sámi Parliament in Norway. “This forces a conversation about priorities and limits and we need to be at the table on these discussions.” According to the International Energy Agency, conventional data centers, which store thousands of computer machines and other equipment to power everyday digital life like cloud storage, may draw around 10 to 25 megawatts of power per year. But a hyperscale, AI-focused data center, of the likes being built by or for transnational companies such as Google an…

CPJ, partners call on Indonesian president to reopen investigation into journalist’s murder
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists and five other civil society organizations on Thursday called on Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto to order police to reopen the investigation into the murder of journalist Rico Sempurna Pasaribu and his family, with a focus on the alleged involvement of a soldier named Corporal Herman Bukit. The joint letter was...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists and five other civil society organizations on Thursday called on Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto to order police to reopen the investigation into the murder of journalist Rico Sempurna Pasaribu and his family, with a focus on the alleged involvement of a soldier named Corporal Herman Bukit. The joint letter was sent following publication of an investigation last month by CPJ and Free Press Unlimited that uncovered major flaws in the murder case and revealed substantial evidence that Bukit should be thoroughly investigated and face justice accordingly for his alleged role in the murder. Pasaribu, a journalist with news site Tribrata TV, was killed with his wife, son, and grandson in an arson attack in Kabanjahe, North Sumatra, on June 27, 2024. Before the arson, the 47-year-old received threats and demands he take down a series of stories he wrote about an illegal gambling operation allegedly run by Bukit, a soldier with the Army’s 125th battalion stationed in the town. In the letter, the groups recommended that Bukit should be tried in civilian court for his alleged involvement; that prosecution of the case should be conducted in accordance with the appropriate sections of the Indonesian Press Law, which guarantees protection for journalists; and that Prabowo should ensure a more transparent and impartial justice system to end impunity. The letter was also sent to the chief of the Indonesian National Police, the commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces, and Commission 1 of the Indonesian House of Representatives. Read the full letter here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

No, PM Modi did not say India was world’s largest beef producer
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description: A video clip of Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the Indian diaspora in Auckland, New Zealand, is being widely shared on social media. It is claimed that during his speech, Modi stated that “India is the largest producer of beef in the world.” On July 11, 2026, Narendra Modi addressed Indians living in New Zealand […]
encoded: A video clip of Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the Indian diaspora in Auckland, New Zealand, is being widely shared on social media. It is claimed that during his speech, Modi stated that “India is the largest producer of beef in the world.” On July 11, 2026, Narendra Modi addressed Indians living in New Zealand in a community event held at Spark Arena in Auckland. An X user, Karbari Ansari (@karbari_ansari), shared the purported video and wrote that PM Modi had proudly proclaimed that India was the world’s largest beef producer. (Archive) Narendra Modi ji Garv se Bata rahe hain ki Aaj duniya Ka Bharat Desh Sabse bada beef Producers hain.. Agar beef Production par garv kiya ja sakta hai to Phir isi mudde Par nafrat Phaila kar begunah logon ka khoon kyun bahaya gaya? pic.twitter.com/HlSwSUPkxr — Karbari Ansari (@karbari_ansari) July 13, 2026 Several other users, such as Adv Ananda Das, (Archive), Shree Ram Reddy (Archive) and Congress leader from Uttar Pradesh Deepak Singh (Archive) shared the same video helping it go viral. Some of them later deleted the posts. Click to view slideshow. Fact Check Alt News carefully analysed the audio, even slowing it down to 0.75x speed for clarity. It is evident that PM Modi stated, “Today, India is the world’s second largest wheat producer.” He did not mention the word “beef” anywhere in the speech. For clarity, the video clip is provided below at 0.75x speed. The full video can be viewed here. The wheat remark can be heard at the 32.35-minute mark. The Press Information Bureau released a transcript of the PM’s speech. It contains the remark about wheat production. There is no mention of beef. To sum up, the claim that PM Modi said in Auckland that India was the world’s second largest beef producer is false. This content originally appeared on Alt News and was authored by Ankita Mahalanobish.

DHS Plans “All-Out War” on Immigration Scammers as Fraud Complaints Double
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description: The post DHS Plans “All-Out War” on Immigration Scammers as Fraud Complaints Double appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Bloomberg/Getty Images The Department of Homeland Security is investigating a sophisticated network of scammers who target people caught in immigration proceedings, bilking them of their savings and causing some to be deported, following a ProPublica report that complaints of such fraud doubled under the second administration of President Donald Trump. Homeland Security Investigations, the subagency known for tracking international crimes such as human trafficking, has asked about specific cases detailed in the story, including the tale of a woman who, fearful of Trump’s nationwide immigration sweeps, enlisted someone she thought would help her keep her legal status. After the scammers got her money and caused her to miss a court date, she was deported to Nicaragua. Read More Fear and Opportunity: Immigration Scams Surged as Trump’s Sweeps Lured Desperate People to Eager Defrauders That was one of thousands of cases in which scammers lured their marks through social media posts and sent them through fake court hearings and other official-looking steps, charging large sums along the way. Now, the federal government is ramping up its efforts to track the scams, according to sources involved in the investigation. A DHS statement said the agency was “declaring an all-out war” on the scammers. “Immigration scammers contribute to a lawless environment, undermining our immigration system and posing risks to national security and public safety,” the statement said. DHS is looking for URLs, WhatsApp numbers and identifying information on the payment app Zelle that might trace back to scammers, said sources knowledgeable about the inquiry. The department’s investigation is ramping up as such scams skyrocket. ProPublica analyzed Federal Trade Commission data and found that victims and advocates reported at least $94.4 million was stolen over five years. The more than 6,200 complaints included everything from fake Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents demanding personal de…

DN! Thursday, July 16, 2026
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Hong Kong arrests 2 journalists in latest sedition case targeting independent bookstores
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description: New York, July 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Hong Kong authorities to immediately release freelance journalists and booksellers Sum Wan-wah and Mandy Lau and end their escalating crackdown on independent publishing in the city, following the second such incident in less than a month. On July 15, Hong Kong police said its...
encoded: New York, July 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Hong Kong authorities to immediately release freelance journalists and booksellers Sum Wan-wah and Mandy Lau and end their escalating crackdown on independent publishing in the city, following the second such incident in less than a month. On July 15, Hong Kong police said its National Security Department arrested two men and three women after raiding two bookstores in Mong Kok district. The five are suspected of violating the city’s Safeguarding National Security Ordinance for displaying items with “seditious intent” and selling publications with “seditious content.” Among those arrested were Sum and Lau, who co-founded the Have a Nice Stay bookstore with three other journalists in 2022 after losing their jobs amid Hong Kong’s worsening press freedom climate, according to sources familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. Have A Nice Stay’s owners include former reporters from the now-shuttered news outlet Stand News, according to Pulse HK News. One of the bookstore’s missions, its website says, is to promote journalism and literary reportage. In 2023, the bookstore also launched the online magazine Leave Blank to “reclaim the identity of being journalists.” “Using national security legislation to go after another bookstore run by journalists is an attack on press freedom and independent publishing in the city,” said CPJ Asia-Pacific Director Beh Lih Yi. “Hong Kong authorities must release journalists Sum Wan-wah and Mandy Lau and stop persecuting independent publishers.” Police have accused the five of selling and displaying publications that incited hatred against the Hong Kong government, the judiciary, and law enforcement agencies. Officers seized books during the operation and all five remain in detention pending investigation, police said. Among the seized books was “Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China,” by Na…

How to Research Private Schools Like an Investigative Reporter
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description: The post How to Research Private Schools Like an Investigative Reporter appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Illustration by Millie von Platen for ProPublica If you’re considering sending a child to private school, you’ve likely seen some glossy photos and lofty mission statements. But marketing brochures and admissions websites rarely tell you the bad stuff — like a principal with a concerning history, lawsuits filed by families, or financial instability that could shutter a school in the middle of the school year. Parents have told us they assume authorities conduct safety and quality checks of private schools like they would for public ones. Our reporting shows that is often not the case. Many states take a hands-off approach, essentially leaving it to you to figure out if a school has problems. Advocates for systems that send public money to private schools have said the best accountability check on private schools is that families can leave if they are dissatisfied. What’s ProPublica? ProPublica is a nonprofit news organization. We write stories in the public interest, including about education. Our stories have spurred reform and real-world changes for students. All of our stories are rigorously fact-checked, nonpartisan and free to read. What do you know about private schools? I’m Mollie Simon, a research reporter at ProPublica. We find information through news reports, public records requests, tips from experts and readers, and sometimes through pure elbow grease. For example, we took the time to compare lists of certified teachers who had been disciplined to lists of private school operators in eight states, to check for examples of people moving from public schools to private schools after being accused of wrongdoing. This is why our team at ProPublica — a nonprofit newsroom focused on investigative journalism in the public interest — has spent months digging into the expanding private school landscape. We’ve used data, public records, court cases and countless interviews to investigate hundreds of schools, and we’ve uncovered some with serious issues. These incl…

Public Money Is Fueling an Explosion of Private Schools. States Often Don’t Care How They’re Run.
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description: The post Public Money Is Fueling an Explosion of Private Schools. States Often Don’t Care How They’re Run. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. Source images: Paul Sableman via Flickr A decade ago, the state of Florida stripped a teacher of her license for sexual abuse of a 16-year-old boy. Last year, she opened a private school there with ease. Her name and photo were on her new school’s website and details of her case were easy to find with an online search. The state also knew that a transplanted Midwesterner had been fired from her Cincinnati charter school, following felony charges related to misuse of public funds, and had been banned from teaching or running schools in Ohio. Yet Florida did not stop her from starting a private school and collecting public money. As private schools proliferate in Florida and across the country, fueled by taxpayer dollars, states are choosing not to closely regulate who is operating them or to oversee student safety and achievement, a ProPublica investigation found. The backgrounds of school founders and employees often simply don’t matter. In Arizona, for example, “state law prohibits our department from a role overseeing private schools,” a spokesperson for the state Department of Education told ProPublica. In 2024, Arizona’s top education official lauded Mike Tyson, the heavyweight boxer who served time in prison for rape, for his involvement in launching a private school that bore his name, calling Tyson “a champion of education.” Some states, including Arizona, cannot say how many private schools exist or where they operate despite spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on voucher-style programs. The federal government also does not keep a comprehensive accounting. Help ProPublica Report on Education Have you had trouble finding a school or using a voucher-style program? Do you have concerns about schools — public or private — in your area? Help us understand how families across the country are navigating their school options. Share Your Experience ProPublica analyzed data from 13 states of varying sizes that …

EU-Tunisia Deal: Success or Suffering?
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Why Russia Can’t Stop Ukraine’s Deep-Strike Drones #ukraine
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Filmmaker Jalena Keane-Lee on the power of responsible storytelling
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date: 2026-07-16T07:00:00Z
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description: Looking back to your childhood, is there a memory or a feeling you had that now feels like a blueprint for the kind of filmmaker you’ve become?
encoded: Looking back to your childhood, is there a memory or a feeling you had that now feels like a blueprint for the kind of filmmaker you’ve become? I do think that my childhood and particularly my relationship with my mom and community have shaped my work. I was raised by a single mother in the Bay Area, in California. I also have a younger sister and my grandma was around a lot, so I was raised in this all-female household. My mom worked at an arts education center in Richmond and she didn’t have childcare for me, so I would take all the different classes at the art center. I did drumming, and Son Jarocho, and West African dance, and that taught me how to communicate. It taught me how to laugh, dance, and speak with different types of people with different cultural backgrounds. My mom also took me to a lot of protests. My introduction to art was intertwined with activism. I grew up creating art at protests with my mom and the art’s messages being around collective freedom and liberation. So that mother-daughter relationship shows up a lot in my work, as well as the feeling of freedom when you’re in community, of communal love. The English language doesn’t do a very good job at describing it. But I’ve experienced that feeling while dancing or chanting or being on the frontline together, where you and your community have a shared purpose and feel aligned. How do those early seeds of lineage and ancestry show up most prominently in your work now? For many years, I was working on Standing Above the Clouds, which was a short film first, and then became a feature-length documentary. A big motivating factor of my work is exploring families and lineage–the things that get passed down, and the things that get lost. Making Standing Above the Clouds and working with the kiaʻi, or the protectors of Mauna Kea, taught me so much about lineage and culture. Before that project, I had this idea that cultural inheritance might be some sort of ancient text or oral history that’s delivere…

Filmmaker Jalena Keane-Lee on the power of responsible storytelling
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description: Looking back to your childhood, is there a memory or a feeling you had that now feels like a blueprint for the kind of filmmaker you’ve become?
encoded: Looking back to your childhood, is there a memory or a feeling you had that now feels like a blueprint for the kind of filmmaker you’ve become? I do think that my childhood and particularly my relationship with my mom and community have shaped my work. I was raised by a single mother in the Bay Area, in California. I also have a younger sister and my grandma was around a lot, so I was raised in this all-female household. My mom worked at an arts education center in Richmond and she didn’t have childcare for me, so I would take all the different classes at the art center. I did drumming, and Son Jarocho, and West African dance, and that taught me how to communicate. It taught me how to laugh, dance, and speak with different types of people with different cultural backgrounds. My mom also took me to a lot of protests. My introduction to art was intertwined with activism. I grew up creating art at protests with my mom and the art’s messages being around collective freedom and liberation. So that mother-daughter relationship shows up a lot in my work, as well as the feeling of freedom when you’re in community, of communal love. The English language doesn’t do a very good job at describing it. But I’ve experienced that feeling while dancing or chanting or being on the frontline together, where you and your community have a shared purpose and feel aligned. How do those early seeds of lineage and ancestry show up most prominently in your work now? For many years, I was working on Standing Above the Clouds, which was a short film first, and then became a feature-length documentary. A big motivating factor of my work is exploring families and lineage–the things that get passed down, and the things that get lost. Making Standing Above the Clouds and working with the kiaʻi, or the protectors of Mauna Kea, taught me so much about lineage and culture. Before that project, I had this idea that cultural inheritance might be some sort of ancient text or oral history that’s delivere…

‘Race was used as a weapon’ – Fiji coup frontman urged to reveal backers
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description: By Margot Staunton of RNZ Pacific Mahendra Chaudhry — a former Fiji prime minister removed from power and held hostage during the 2000 coup — wants George Speight to name those behind the racist takeover. The 84-year-old Labour Party leader, who became Fiji’s first prime minister of Indian heritage in 1999, made the comment after
encoded: By Margot Staunton of RNZ Pacific Mahendra Chaudhry — a former Fiji prime minister removed from power and held hostage during the 2000 coup — wants George Speight to name those behind the racist takeover. The 84-year-old Labour Party leader, who became Fiji’s first prime minister of Indian heritage in 1999, made the comment after Speight — the coup frontman — appeared before the Constitutional Review Commission last week. Speight emerged into the political limelight in a formal suit and glasses, after spending 24 years in a maximum security jail for treason. The ex-convict has called on the perpetrators of the country’s past political upheavals to own up, saying “if you want redemption, you have to confess”. READ MORE: Former coup leader re-enters Fiji political debate with challenge to immunity and national identity Fiji will remain unstable while Indigenous people are economically sidelined, says ex-coup convict Other Fiji coup reports However, Chaudhry told RNZ Pacific it is up to Speight to name the co-conspirators involved in the failed takeover. “He has the answers, he knows, because he’s always been regarded as the frontman. There were people who were behind him but they remain unidentified to this day,” Chaudhry said. “He has himself said that those who were associated with him are roaming around freely.” Need for closure The veteran politician said many Fijians still want to know who the masterminds were behind the coup. “He [Speight] can help bring about closure to the whole episode because it still remains open, people don’t said know really who was behind the coup,” he said. “Only he and [Josefa] Nata know, but they are hesitant, they are reluctant to name them.” <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-29527" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/speightnata72-USP-Journalism-680wide.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="505" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/speightnata72-USP-Jou…

The New Counterculture
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description: Trump and his followers promised a right-wing counterculture that challenged long-held norms and taken-for-granted assumptions about governance. They offered a Gonzo Governance agenda to upend principles, entrenchments, knowledge, perspectives, and facts that govern the modern world. The Trump Administration’s policies, executive actions, and legislative proposals are contrary to fundamental principles of everyday life grounded in cultural and practical logics of physical science, religion, social science and history. I note a few examples. More The post The New Counterculture appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: SVG by Notwist. Symbol first illustrated by Thomas W. Benton on a 1970 poster – Public Domain America’s counterculture has been flipped by the Trump Administration’s Gonzo Governance. In 1970, Charles Reich argued —first in a New Yorker article and then a book—that The Greening of America was taking place: The New Yorker article began There is a revolution underway. It is not like revolutions of the past. It has originated with the individual and with culture, and if it succeeds it will change the political structure only as its final act. It will not require violence to succeed, and it cannot be successfully resisted by violence. It is now spreading with amazing rapidity, and already our laws, institutions, and social structures are changing in consequence. Its ultimate creation could be a higher reason, a more human community, and a new and liberated individual. This is the revolution of the new generation. Writing in a transitional time of anti-war protests, ‘hippies,’ and the student revolt, Reich argued that young people were guided by Consciousness 3—“seeking restoration of the non-material elements of man’s existence, the elements like the natural environment and the spiritual that were passed by in the rush of material development.” This orientation supplanted the individualism and dominance of the consumerism, corporatism, and government control of Consciousness 1 and 2. The future, he argued, would stress more freedom, fewer economic restraints, and forbearance of a personal rather than a corporate-directed American Dream. For Wright and his readers this implied support for progressive ideas and policies supported by social science thinking regarding racial, ethnic, and gender inclusion, concern with government intrusion (e.g., the military draft and Vietnam War), environmental degradation (e.g., “earth day, ” global warming ) many of these preferences were already being realized, and were, to varying degrees, adopted over the next 50 ye…

Largest Gathering of Service Members for Anti-War Protest Since Vietnam
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description: On July 4, the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, more than 500 veterans and military families gathered in the birthplace of the nation to reject what they called the Trump administration’s fascist vision for the country’s future (including domestic troop deployments and endless war). The coalition—About Face, 50501 Vets, Veterans For More The post Largest Gathering of Service Members for Anti-War Protest Since Vietnam appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Center on Conscience and War. On July 4, the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, more than 500 veterans and military families gathered in the birthplace of the nation to reject what they called the Trump administration’s fascist vision for the country’s future (including domestic troop deployments and endless war). The coalition—About Face, 50501 Vets, Veterans For Peace, Common Defense, Military Families Speak Out, Fayetteville Resistance Coalition, and CCW—marched under the banner Freedom Over Fascism. Among them in the streets of Philadelphia were at least a dozen currently-serving members of the U.S. military, part of the “Service Members’ Anti-War Contingent” organized by the Center on Conscience and War. Several others signed up to attend, but were not granted adequate leave to travel from their units. Most of them are in the process of filing as conscientious objectors. They marched behind banners reading “Service Members Say No To War” and “Conscience Takes Courage.” Consisting of officers and enlisted from the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines, they constituted the largest gathering of currently-serving military personnel for an anti-war protest since the Vietnam War. In the Mirror of History During Vietnam, many thousands of service members became active participants in the anti-war struggle. What started as a tiny handful of dissenters in 1966, by summer of 1971 had grown to what the Pentagon estimated as half of all enlisted soldiers defecting to the anti-war movement. This historic rebellion compelled the US government to abandon the draft and avoid using it again. But the draft was not the sole reason service members refused to kill. Throughout the so-called War On Terror thousands of service members, who had willingly volunteered for the military, filed as conscientious objectors; many after seeing the reality of war first hand. Others came home to join anti-war protests. Over 1,000 who had fought in Iraq joined Iraq Veter…

Several Truths at Once
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description: Ask what ordinary Iranians think about the recent escalation and you’ll find little reliable information. Even a young Iranian in London may lower their voice and glance around. The difficulty is that many Iranians appear to hold several truths at once: they oppose the Islamic Republic, fear foreign military intervention, resent sanctions, and long for More The post Several Truths at Once appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: Tasnim News Agency – CC BY 4.0 Ask what ordinary Iranians think about the recent escalation and you’ll find little reliable information. Even a young Iranian in London may lower their voice and glance around. The difficulty is that many Iranians appear to hold several truths at once: they oppose the Islamic Republic, fear foreign military intervention, resent sanctions, and long for ordinary lives. These positions are not contradictory. Outside Iran, they are often treated as though they are. Whether Tehran closes not just one but two of the world’s most important maritime choke points is, for many ordinary Iranians, beside the point. Their own world has been narrowing for years. Whether Iran really is working on a plan to assassinate Donald Trump, as Israel has alleged, is also of no immediate concern to most ordinary Iranians. Whether a Chinese spy ship tails the USS Abraham Lincoln near Iran or not will mean little to most ordinary Iranians. Researchers and journalists warn that even restricted social media has now become a battlefield, with coordinated propaganda, automated accounts, AI-generated images, fabricated videos, verbal lies, and impersonation campaigns making it impossible to know what is really going on there. Yet beneath the fog, one refrain remains. “It’s the people who are paying the price—whether our people or theirs.” Reuters has recorded versions of this refrain again and again whenever it has been able to report from the country. As one mother, returning to her home despite the danger, told the news organisation, “Even if there’s another attack, I’d rather die in my own home.” Years of sanctions may have fostered a sense of resignation reminiscent of Iranian poet and filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad’s quiet lament: “I feel sad for the little garden.” Imagine endless years of sanctions, soaring inflation, economic uncertainty, and recurring military crises. Imagine the accompanying tyrannies of silence, torture, and the enduring …

Has Palestine Already Won the World Cup?
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description: The Palestinian national soccer team isn’t playing in this year’s World Cup. But despite a national and global crackdown on pro-Palestinian protest and speech, the games have witnessed an outpouring of support for Palestinians. Fans, players, and coaches from the likes of Egypt, Scotland, Brazil, South Korea, Morocco, Mexico, Turkey, Norway, Senegal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, More The post Has Palestine Already Won the World Cup? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: Standardwhale – CC BY-SA 4.0 The Palestinian national soccer team isn’t playing in this year’s World Cup. But despite a national and global crackdown on pro-Palestinian protest and speech, the games have witnessed an outpouring of support for Palestinians. Fans, players, and coaches from the likes of Egypt, Scotland, Brazil, South Korea, Morocco, Mexico, Turkey, Norway, Senegal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Algeria, Spain, and perhaps all 48 countries playing have publicly shown support for Palestinian lives and their struggle for freedom and a return to lands taken since 1948. This comes after nearly three years in which the world has watched the Israeli government respond to October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel, which killed around 1,200, with a war that has killed more than 73,000, mostly civilians, and is widely considered a genocide by international experts. Games have featured Palestinian flags held aloft in stadiums and by players and coaches on the fields. Chants of “Free Palestine” have come from the stands and the streets surrounding games. People have attended games wearing the Palestinian national team jersey. Others have flown banners reading “Kick Israel Out of FIFA” and “Red Card Israel.” (FIFA is the infamously corrupt international organization that runs the tournament; a red card is given to soccer players ejected and banned from games for foul play.) The support shown for Palestinians has been especially inspiring at a World Cup that, like others, has been tainted by more signs of corruption. Most recently, President Donald Trump called FIFA’s president to overturn a red-card ban for a U.S. player so that he could participate in what turned out to be a lopsided loss for Team America. The FIFA president also awarded Trump a meaningless “peace prize” not long before the United States joined Israel in an illegal and historically unpopular war in Iran. Expressions of solidarity at soccer games don’t change anything on their own. Durin…

Remembering Artists From Another Time: Botero
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description: Truthful Fictions There are three lines drawn in the sand. The wind blows, the lines scatter in the wind. Nature observes the fragile agreement. What will time remember? Maybe the transience of time and space. “Will the [ . . . ] The post Remembering Artists From Another Time: Botero appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Truthful Fictions There are three lines drawn in the sand. The wind blows, the lines scatter in the wind. Nature observes the fragile agreement. What will time remember? Maybe the transience of time and space. “Will the wind remember The names it has blown in the past?” — Jimi Hendrix I merely urged my camera to explore the celluloid possibilities. I needed the adventure. I needed to cross boundaries in time and space. I needed to know what might be seen if I ventured across the dare. There is a purpose I imagine every day. If I cross over the line, a new discovery will be ahead. I saw the great cannon in Jacques Offenbach’s operetta, “A Trip to the Moon,” an adaptation of Jules Verne’s “From Earth to the Moon”. In one morning witnessed nature’s ethereally hallucinogenic stark skyline, a whiteness of naked swans caressing Earth’s contours. I stood with photographer Edward Curtis and director John Ford. The movie, The Searchers, played in my mind. John Wayne’s Ethan Edwards crossed the open plains of Monument Valley. I spun the ideas, as if they were in my mind, multicolored crinkled cellophane. I rotated my eyes, raised multiple cameras, and fired a single shutter speed as if into a Rubik’s Cube of all three imagined stories. I know the visual highlights were inviting me to seek what the other side had to offer. The necessary beauty of living. Fernando Botero, the Colombian artist, posed for me. The first time, he was like my Melville’s whale. There was always a whale of particular proportions in my scopes. I have met Botero in five or seven cities. In each city, he greeted me as if I was the most important person in the room. When he extended his hand in friendship, I easily in mind recalled his friendship with Willem de Kooning: Botero described that moment as two artists from separate worlds with one idea in common. Art. The success he built was celebrated by many. The man, the artist in my presence, never walked with airs. It was his pleasure to take me by the h…

Homeowners Insurance: A Big Item Missing From the Consumer Price Index
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description: Since 1983, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has used a rental equivalence measure for owner-occupied housing. This is supposed to measure the rent that could be charged if the home was rented. We can think of this as what the homeowner is paying to themselves. It might seem a strange idea, but the prior method More The post Homeowners Insurance: A Big Item Missing From the Consumer Price Index appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Jen Theodore Since 1983, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has used a rental equivalence measure for owner-occupied housing. This is supposed to measure the rent that could be charged if the home was rented. We can think of this as what the homeowner is paying to themselves. It might seem a strange idea, but the prior method — measuring the increase in house prices as part of the CPI — effectively implied that homeowners were worse off if the price of their house rose by 20 percent. The logic of the rental equivalence measure is to treat owner-occupied housing as a consumption good rather than an investment good. In keeping with this approach, the CPI excludes the cost of homeowners insurance. The logic is that the insurance is bought to protect the value of an investment good. It only includes renters’ insurance and the small portion of homeowners insurance that covers personal possessions, not the value of the structure. As a result, the weight of this insurance in the CPI is 0.29 percent, a bit less than for household cleaning products. For the nearly two-thirds of households who are homeowners, insurance is a far larger and growing share of their spending. In 2016, the average cost of a homeowners insurance policy was $1,186. This had risen to $2,490 by 2026. This is an increase of 110 percent, compared to an increase in the overall CPI of 37.4 percent over this period. The 2026 figure would be equal to a bit less than 3.0 percent of the median household income of $83,730. This is an imperfect comparison, since the median income for homeowners is higher than the overall median. Also, the average cost of an insurance policy will be higher than the median. But the point is that for homeowners, insurance is a far higher share of their spending than is counted in the CPI, and it has been growing considerably more rapidly than the overall inflation rate. We can’t blame consumers if they don’t view this expense the way economists would like them to. This first a…

While the Political Circus Distracts Us, Flock Builds the Digital Police State
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description: While Americans remain transfixed by the political circus—cheering for their preferred party, jeering at the opposition, obsessing over every manufactured outrage and waiting for the next spectacle—the Surveillance State continues its steady march forward. The government is watching. It watches where you go, whom you meet, where you worship, what medical offices you visit, what political More The post While the Political Circus Distracts Us, Flock Builds the Digital Police State appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: Julian Focareta – Provided by Flock Safety – CC BY-SA 4.0 While Americans remain transfixed by the political circus—cheering for their preferred party, jeering at the opposition, obsessing over every manufactured outrage and waiting for the next spectacle—the Surveillance State continues its steady march forward. The <a href="https://www.aclum.org/publications/ai-powered-surveillance-is-turning-the-united-states-into-a-digital-police-state-now-is-the-time-to-stop-it/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.aclum.org/publications/ai-powered-surveillance-is-turning-the-united-states-into-a-digital-police-state-now-is-the-time-to-stop-it/&source=gmail&ust=1784036749215000&usg=AOvVaw2NqnsTK5v-k3Z6fBnrobu-">government is watching. It watches where you go, whom you meet, where you worship, what medical offices you visit, what political rallies you attend, what protests you join, what books you read, what websites you visit and what causes you support. It watches through your phone, your car, your doorbell, your appliances, your purchases, your social media accounts and the cameras positioned along the roads you travel every day. This is how freedom dies in the digital police state: not always through dramatic declarations of martial law or soldiers stationed on every street corner, but through the gradual construction of a technological dragnet—an electronic concentration camp—so pervasive that privacy becomes impossible and anonymity becomes suspicious. Enter Flock Safety, a private surveillance technology company whose automated license plate readers have spread throughout thousands of American communities. These cameras, which do much more than photograph license plates, represent the next evolution of the government’s public-private surveillance partnership. They document the time and location of every passing vehicle and record identifying characteristics such as its make, model, color, damage, roof racks, bumper stickers an…

Rivalries and Anxieties: Reviving the Hejaz Railway
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
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description: History is not so much past as vigorously present, often a scab to be irritated in fitful anger, or a romantic affectation to be cherished. When it comes to controlling trade and establishing new routes, this is particularly apt. The Hejaz Railway project, seemingly long past, is now being dusted down. In a June 9 memorandum of understanding More The post Rivalries and Anxieties: Reviving the Hejaz Railway appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Workers laying track for the Hejaz railway near Tabuk in 1906 – Public Domain History is not so much past as vigorously present, often a scab to be irritated in fitful anger, or a romantic affectation to be cherished. When it comes to controlling trade and establishing new routes, this is particularly apt. The Hejaz Railway project, seemingly long past, is now being dusted down. In a June 9 memorandum of understanding signed between Türkiye and Saudi Arabia, a railway line is envisaged between the two countries that will traverse Jordan and Syria and create a strategic logistics artery linking the Gulf states to Europe. According to a media release from the Saudi Press Agency, the agreement will focus “on enhancing cooperation on railway standards, technologies, and related innovations, while facilitating the exchange of expertise and knowledge on best practices in the design, operation and maintenance of railway projects.” There is much in the way of everything railway related – engineering, expertise, maintenance, innovations – but the historical, and strategic potency of the agreement is unmistakable. As former advisor to the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Salem Al-Yami, wistfully notes, this new project draws inspiration from the Ottoman-era railway built in 1900, covering 1,300 kilometres from Damascus to Medina. The MoU between Ankara and Riyadh also came several months after the transport ministries of Türkiye, Syria and Jordan had reached a separate agreement envisaging a technical roadmap lasting five years intended to revivify the transportation infrastructure of the three states. For Israel, this has more than tickled a nerve. Rather than seeing it as a healthy instance of regional competition on matters relating to transport and trade, a reinvigorated Hejaz railway is seen as threatening to the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC). Launched in September 2023, the IMEC, unsurprisingly, positions Israel as the central transit hub linking t…

Donald Trump: End of the “American Century”?
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description: What will be Donald Trump’s legacy? Obviously, there’s two-plus years left in his second – and, hopefully – last term in office. But who knows, he might declare a “national emergency” and attempt an “FDR” and go for a third term. Nevertheless, even without a crystal ball, his legacy looks pretty bleak. Never-ending revelations about Trump’s use More The post Donald Trump: End of the “American Century”? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain What will be Donald Trump’s legacy? Obviously, there’s two-plus years left in his second – and, hopefully – last term in office. But who knows, he might declare a “national emergency” and attempt an “FDR” and go for a third term. Nevertheless, even without a crystal ball, his legacy looks pretty bleak. Never-ending revelations about Trump’s use of his position — and the federal government — for self-aggrandizement is offending many of his staunchest supporters; his interventional into the World Cup decisions makes his power evermore petty. Add to these Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu suckering him into a doomed war with Iran; his failed tariff policies; his over-zealous targeting of immigrants; and rising inflation that is hurting working Americans while his super-rich backers get richer. However, Trump’s long-term legacy may be the president who ended the “American Century.” Henry Luce, founder of Time (1923) and Fortune (1929), opened his legendary 1941 article, “The American Century,” with these words: “We Americans are unhappy. We are not happy about America. We are not happy about ourselves in relation to America. …” Going further, Luce offered a grand concept of a new America: … our vision of America as a world power includes a passionate devotion to great American ideals … a love of freedom, a feeling for the equality of opportunity, a tradition of self-reliance and independence and also of cooperation … we are the inheritors of great traditions of Western civilization – above all Justice, the love of Truth, the ideal of charity. … It now becomes our time to be the powerhouse from which the ideals spread throughout the world and do their mysterious work of lifting the life of mankind from the level of the beasts to what the Psalmist call a little lower than the angels. This vision linked the rise of America’s international hegemony to the engine of domestic economic prosperity that would both fuel the nation’s gl…

The God in the Machine Comes With an Owner
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description: Science fiction gets graded on its predictions, which is a mistake. We ask whether the flying cars showed up, whether the robots took over, whether anyone colonized Mars, and when the answer is no we file the genre under entertainment and move on. But prediction was never the point. The good stuff asks the questions More The post The God in the Machine Comes With an Owner appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Photo by Logan Voss Science fiction gets graded on its predictions, which is a mistake. We ask whether the flying cars showed up, whether the robots took over, whether anyone colonized Mars, and when the answer is no we file the genre under entertainment and move on. But prediction was never the point. The good stuff asks the questions a culture cannot yet ask in plain speech, and it asks them years before the boardrooms and the legislatures catch up. Three films from the last few decades did exactly that with artificial intelligence, and watching them now, in the middle of the machine-learning gold rush, is like reading a diary you did not know you were keeping. Take them in order and they tell a single story about how our idea of intelligence has changed. Terminator 2: Judgment Day gave us intelligence as hunter. Ex Machina gave us intelligence as deceiver. Transcendence gave us intelligence as god. Surveillance, then persuasion, then something close to apotheosis. The films did not plan this arc together, but placed end to end they map the territory we now live in with an accuracy that ought to make us uneasy. The hunter When James Cameron’s T-1000 hit screens in 1991, everyone talked about the liquid metal. The thing could pour itself through a barred door, take the shape of a linoleum floor, absorb a shotgun blast and reassemble its face while walking. Robert Patrick played it with a cop’s flat patience, and the effects were genuinely new. What nobody talked about, because the vocabulary did not exist yet, was that the T-1000’s real weapon was not its body. It was information. The machine hunts by knowing. It interviews witnesses, wears the faces of people its target trusts, reads a room, and updates its guess about where the boy will run next. Each encounter hands it another clue, and the clues compound. In 1991 this looked like fantasy. The internet was a rumor, cell phones were bricks, and the notion that billions of people would voluntarily generate a minut…

What Kind of Revolution?
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description: The American Revolution was undoubtedly revolutionary, but what exactly does this imply about our world today? To be sure, the Declaration of Independence articulated a universal idealism that helped establish the modern era and put a major nail in the coffin of the ancient regime. Applying Locke’s defense of the Glorious Revolution (e.g., the establishment of More The post What Kind of Revolution? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull – Public Domain The American Revolution was undoubtedly revolutionary, but what exactly does this imply about our world today? To be sure, the Declaration of Independence articulated a universal idealism that helped establish the modern era and put a major nail in the coffin of the ancient regime. Applying Locke’s defense of the Glorious Revolution (e.g., the establishment of government based on consent with the threat of withdrawal, natural rights, and the invocation of universal — male and otherwise exclusionary — liberty and equality), 1776 was revolutionary insofar as it would have been unthinkable, and likely considered blasphemous, for someone like Jefferson to assert in the Middle Ages that he was the equal of a king. More concretely, after 1776 revolutionary ideas were exported, often via French officers who had aided the Revolution, back to Europe where they ultimately helped produce the French Revolution, which in turn helped inspire among other events the Haitian Revolution, the Revolutions of 1848, and the Egyptian and Ottoman reforms, which is not to mention the numerous U.S. reform movements that succeeded in part by calling the Declaration’s various bluffs. How then are we to make sense of a revolution that invoked universal Enlightenment ideals yet whose foundational document excludes the majority of humanity and was authored by a slaveholder? The prevailing narrative is that the Declaration and the Constitution, in particular its Bill of Rights, planted seeds of universal equality and liberty whose growth was simply a matter of time and struggle. However, this is bad history, retroactive thinking that projects an imagined version of the present back onto the past. The historic reality is that slavery dramatically expanded, and became far more brutal, after the ratification of the Constitution and was only abolished due to a four-year civil war — that is, in spite rather than because of the Constitution. …

Don’t Let Darby Bite the Dust: Stop the Sheep Creek Asbestos Mine
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creator: Larry Campbell
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description: Let’s learn from Libby, where, tragically, over 400 people have already died and thousands have been sickened from asbestos lung disease caused by microscopic fibers in mining dust from the mineral tremolite that was naturally mixed in with the vermiculite ore as well as the wall rock matrix that got mined. At the Darby Sheep More The post Don’t Let Darby Bite the Dust: Stop the Sheep Creek Asbestos Mine appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Toxic dust from the vermiculite mine in Libby, Montana. (Screen capture from Libby, Montana–Working the Mine. POV, PBS) Let’s learn from Libby, where, tragically, over 400 people have already died and thousands have been sickened from asbestos lung disease caused by microscopic fibers in mining dust from the mineral tremolite that was naturally mixed in with the vermiculite ore as well as the wall rock matrix that got mined. At the Darby Sheep Creek mine, actinolite, closely related to tremolite, also occurs in the ore as well as the wall rock. Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology reports that Sheep Creek mine actinolite “forms masses of radiating fibers surrounding other crystals.” Geologists at Montana Tech report that actinolite is one of the most common matrix minerals and the veinlets that cut across the host rock are “actinolite-rich”. US Critical Materials, the Sheep Creek mining company, has submitted a plan to the Bitterroot National Forest. https://www.fs.usda.gov/r01/bitterroot/projects/65203 They identify four sites to drill or mine. All four sites contain actinolite. Site #2 has a sample that showed 9.4% actinolite. Much more sampling and analysis need to be done to determine if and how much asbestos occurs at various dust emission points and then arrive at a valid independent human health risk analysis. The BNF has done that before. Late in the game, after the Final permitting EIS had been released for Hamilton’s Skalkaho vermiculite mine, the BNF decided to take a look before leaping at the threat of possible actinolite asbestos. It was a groundswell of impassioned public demand that finally brought action. The mining company dropped the permitting right at the finish line when a health risk analysis was required. The Roadside Geology of Montana says, “Several early attempts to mine vermiculite in the Skalkaho intrusion went poorly. While at one time that seemed unfortunate, now it’s clear that we narrowly escaped having another major environmental dis…

On the American Myth: Thanks, James Baldwin
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creator: Kary Love
date: 2026-07-16T05:02:56Z
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description: Reading James Baldwin’s 1964 weighty but buoyant tome, “Nothing Personal,” struck like lightning as he shredded the myths that blind. Buoyant because it is replete with lightning strikes illuminating the coarse world created by myths, or lies; buoyant because it lights the way forward, in a scant 60 pages, to a human world. In particular More The post On the American Myth: Thanks, James Baldwin appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Image by Europena. Reading James Baldwin’s 1964 weighty but buoyant tome, “Nothing Personal,” struck like lightning as he shredded the myths that blind. Buoyant because it is replete with lightning strikes illuminating the coarse world created by myths, or lies; buoyant because it lights the way forward, in a scant 60 pages, to a human world. In particular Baldwin reveals the lie at the base of the American Myth promoted by those who benefit to the harm of those who provide the fodder: “It is, of course, in the very nature of a myth that those who are its victims and, at the same time, its perpetrators, should, by virtue of these two facts, be rendered unable to examine the myth, or even to suspect, much less recognize, that it is a myth which controls and blasts their lives. One sees this, it seems to me, in great and grim relief, in the situation of the poor white in the Deep South. The poor white was enslaved almost from the instant he arrived on these shores, and he is still enslaved by a brutal and cynical oligarchy. The utility of the poor white was to make slavery both profitable and safe and, therefore, the germ of white supremacy which he brought with him from Europe was made hideously to flourish in the American air. Two world wars and a world-wide depression. have failed to reveal to this poor man that he has far more in common with the ex-slaves whom he fears than he has with the masters who oppress them both for profit.” Divide and conquer: let the poor white believe he is better than the poor black, just like the house n____r believed he was better than the field n____r, and the division of those who ought share the same vision is exploited against their unified strength by the oligarchs who exploit all the poor. The poor white adopts the myth, or lie, of his superiority to maintain an illusion that his life is better and therefore he should go with the flow so as not to lose his privileged position. Reparations for slavery exploits this division. The …