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  • Unhoused Why?

    Unhoused why? It’s always about the land

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 18, 2025 by Terri Frick (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted Jul 02, 2025)

    Homelessness isn’t policy failure—it’s policy.

  • Xi Jinping met with the Ali Khamenei / Wikimedia commons / CC BY 4.0

    The New Silk Road and the threat to American domination

    Originally published: Counterfire on June 27, 2025 by Kevin Crane (more by Counterfire)  | (Posted Jul 02, 2025)

    The little-reported opening of a major rail link between China and Iran may upend the strategic calculations behind U.S. imperial policy in the Middle East, argues Kevin Crane.

  • Syria U.S.

    Behind the invasions of Iraq, Libya, Syria, Gaza, Lebanon, and now Iran

    Originally published: RUPE (Research Unit for Political Economy) India on June 26, 2025 by RUPE India Staff (more by RUPE (Research Unit for Political Economy) India) (Posted Jul 02, 2025)

    It is just six months into Trump’s presidency, and he has waged direct military assaults on two countries, Yemen and Iran. Many of Trump’s supporters were surprised by this, for he had campaigned on a platform of ending U.S. involvement in foreign wars.

  • Helvetia protects Thomas Röper and Alina Lipp

    Switzerland draws lines and does not collaborate in the persecution of journalists

    Originally published: Sonar21 on June 27, 2025 by Peter Haenseler (more by Sonar21) (Posted Jul 02, 2025)

    The Swiss rule of law is awakening. After accepting all EU sanctions against Russia up to now, Switzerland is drawing a line for the first time and refuses to prosecute journalists – bravo!

  • A 2010 advertisement for Blender, a concept store, created by advertising agency Rafineri

    The everyday horror of modern sexism

    Originally published: Red Flag on June 26, 2025 by Anneke Demanuele (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted Jun 30, 2025)

    Women are conditioned to accept sexism, but they are also able to rebel against it in the right circumstances.

  • Demonstrators hold up signs opposing President Donald Trump and his attack on birthright citizenship outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 27, 2025. (Photo: Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images)

    By limiting nationwide injunctions, Supreme Court declares ‘open season on all our rights’

    Originally published: Common Dreams on June 27, 2025 by Jessica Corbett (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted Jun 30, 2025)

    In a ruling that stems from the president’s birthright citizenship order, the “conservative supermajority just took away lower courts’ single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration’s lawless excesses.”

  • Petting Nuclear Bomb. (Photo: Imagen/Google)

    The day a nuclear Iran was born

    Originally published: Amwaj.Media on June 26, 2025 by Enrique Mora (more by Amwaj.Media) (Posted Jun 30, 2025)

    The U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear program marks a point of no return. Trump has permanently altered the foundations upon which the non-proliferation architecture regarding Iran was built.

  • Crussade 20 months in, 77 years and counting. (Photo: Al Mayadeen / Batoul Chamas)

    Which hedge fund owns this sea?

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on June 25, 2025 by Taylor Miller (more by Al Mayadeen)  | (Posted Jun 30, 2025)

    In Gaza, starvation is weaponized, aid is corrupted, and humanitarianism is hijacked by profiteers and war criminals posing as saviors, as Taylor Miller exposes in this searing indictment of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and its genocidal complicity.

  • Paul Sweezy

    Harvard. Renewal of Faculty Instructorship. Case of Paul Sweezy, 1940

    Originally published: Economics in the Rear View Mirror on October 26, 2024 by Irwin Collier (more by Economics in the Rear View Mirror) (Posted Jun 28, 2025)

    The following records come from the President’s Office at Harvard University involving the terms of the reappointment of Paul Sweezy at the rank of Faculty Instructor in the Harvard economics department.

  • The Grim Arithmetic of 377, 000 Missing Palestinians

    The grim arithmetic of 377, 000 missing Palestinians

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on June 26, 2025 by Maximilian (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Jun 28, 2025)

    A recent report by Yaakov Garb of Ben-Gurion University presents an data-driven analysis of the new “aid distribution” compounds in Gaza.

  • Kerala

    Kerala: Setting a quiet counter-narrative to growth orthodoxy

    Originally published: NewsClicks.in on June 27, 2025 by Yadul Krishna (more by NewsClicks.in)  | (Posted Jun 28, 2025)

    The southern state spends nearly 60% of its revenue budget on education, health, pensions, food subsidies and rural development.

  • Anna Nusslock had crocheted two rainbow hats, sweaters, and blankets for the twins she was expecting when her water broke at fifteen weeks.

    The original abortion bans

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on June 24, 2025 by Amy Littlefield (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 27, 2025)

    Catholic hospitals have denied lifesaving care to pregnant patients since long before Dobbs—and their presence is expanding.

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    Cuckoo for Cuomo: Ex-Governor’s name dominated coverage of NYC Mayoral race

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 25, 2025 by Kendra Pierre-Louis (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted Jun 27, 2025)

    A FAIR analysis of media coverage of the top six Democratic candidates (based on polling through the end of May) found that Cuomo’s name appeared in headlines seven times more often than Zohran Mamdani, who for months had been in second place in opinion polls, and nine times more often than Brad Lander, who typically came in No. 3 in the polls (as he did in first-round voting).

  • And Island All To Myself 1 by Jorge Stark is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 / Flickr

    Resistance works

    Originally published: TomDispatch on June 17, 2025 by David Vine (more by TomDispatch) (Posted Jun 27, 2025)

    How Small Groups Took on Great Powers and Won a Victory for Decolonization, Africa, Indigenous Peoples, and More.

  • Surveillance

    The United surveillance States of America

    Originally published: Countercurrents on June 24, 2025 by Rebecca Gordon (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Jun 26, 2025)

    The advent of cellular technology has made it so much easier to track where any of us have been, simply by triangulating the locations of the cell towers our phones have pinged along the way.

  • Grocery (Photo: Bruce Dupree)

    Is it time for a public option for groceries?

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on June 23, 2025 by Glenn Daigon (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 26, 2025)

    In communities where access to fresh food is scarce, public grocery stores can provide crucial resources at lower prices.

  • A person holds the flag of Ecuador as people protest against deportations in New York City, on 10 June 2025 (Adam Gray/Getty Images via AFP)

    U.S. Supreme Court allows deportation of migrants to third countries

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on June 24, 2025 by Middle East Eye Staff (more by Middle East Eye)  | (Posted Jun 26, 2025)

    Court ruling means migrants can now be deported without the opportunity to contest their destinations.

  • (Photo credit: Yousef Zaanoun /Activestills)

    UN officials accuse Israel of ‘weaponizing’ aid in Gaza as GHF massacres continue

    Originally published: The Cradle on June 24, 2025 by The Cradle News Desk (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Jun 26, 2025)

    Aid sites operating under a U.S.-backed model are now scenes of repeated massacres, with no pause even amid regional war escalations.

  • [Source: the-sun.com]

    Trump reverses trend away from the death penalty

    Originally published: CovertAction Magazine on June 19, 2025 by John Kiriakou (more by CovertAction Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 25, 2025)

    If you were wondering about changes in the use of the death penalty at either the state or federal level since Donald Trump reassumed the presidency, well, wonder no more.

  • A march in support of farmworkers detained by ICE in Burlington, Vermont, April 2025. (Photo: Migrant Justice)

    Farmers protest unjust immigration system

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on June 20, 2025 by Anthony Pahnke (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 25, 2025)

    If the President and his allies were serious about improving lives, they would back bills that reform our immigration system and protect the farm economy.

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