IN HEADLINES
(updated around twice a week)
| Headline | Source |
|---|---|
| Biden signed on to Netanyahu’s ‘vision’ of crushing Palestinian hopes - Mainstream voices say the Trump-Biden policy of normalizing relations between Israel and Arab monarchies so as to crush Palestinian hopes is working. At what price? / U.S. | mondoweiss.net |
| Servant of the Corrupt - the connections among Zelensky, oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and Washington, D.C. / U.S., Ukraine | consortiumnews.com |
| UAE and France contract to loot Yemen’s gas resources | english.iswnews.com |
| Turning up heat, U.S. targets Nicaraguan sugar imports / sanctions | apnews.com |
| Russia Moves to Shut Jewish Agency, Fueling Israel Tension | bloomberg.com (archived) |
| Revealed: oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years - Vast sums provide power to ‘buy every politician’ and delay action on climate crisis, says expert / environment | theguardian.com |
| The Forde Report Has Exposed the Rotten Foundations of Keir Starmer’s Leadership / U.K. | jacobin.com |
| The Forde Report’s Villains Now Control the Labour Party / U.K. | tribunemag.co.uk |
| Have Kolomoisky, Rabynovych and Korban been stripped of their Ukrainian citizenship? - An andviser to the Head of the President’s Office, Serhiy Leshchenko, has told it that the report is genuine | kyivpost.com |
| The brutal reality of the U.S.-U.K. ‘special relationship’ | declassifieduk.org |
| Forde Inquiry exposes Labour's biggest problem: Keir Starmer / U.K. | middleeasteye.net |
| Foreign soldiers flocked to Ukraine after Russia invaded. Five months on, the fighting is taking a heavy toll. - Relentless Russian bombings were “the closest thing I’ve ever seen to hell,” a U.S. soldier who served several tours of the Middle East said. | nbcnews.com |
| C.I.A. director admits there’s no ‘Havana syndrome’ / U.S. | kawsachunnews.com |
| The Forde Report Lays Bare the Lie at the Heart of the Media’s War on Corbyn - Reporting by the BBC, Sky News and the Jewish Chronicle was “entirely misleading”. / U.K. | novaramedia.com |
| Israel military admits it uses armed drones against Palestinians | reuters.com (archived) |
| Tiemoue Bakayoko feared for his life as he opens up on police pulling gun on him - Chelsea footballer Tiemoue Bakayoko has slammed the treatment he received from the Italian police as he was held at gunpoint and searched in the streets of Milan earlier this month | dailystar.co.uk |
| Protests and street blockades against soaring prices persist in Panama | reuters.com (archived) |
| C.I.A. director: Putin 'too healthy' - William Burns' comment is a blow to Putin's critics who believed the Russian leader was ill. | politico.com |
| C.I.A. director estimates 15,000 Russians killed in Ukraine war | reuters.com (archived) |
| Stephen King targeted by Russian pranksters posing as Ukrainian president - Right-wing media quickly picked up the story and focused on the part of the conversation when King praised Ukrainian nationalist and Nazi collaborator, Stepan Bandera / U.S. | pressherald.com, twitter.com/StephenKing |
| Biden helps Israel get away with murder / U.S., Palestine | electronicintifada.net |
| Ukraine uses Russian invasion to pass laws wrecking workers’ rights - Zero-hours contracts set to be legalised and 70% of workforce exempted from workplace protections / x! | opendemocracy.net |
| Corruption concerns involving Ukraine are revived as the war with Russia drags on / x! | npr.org |
| U.K. ‘immediately’ supported U.S. over shooting down of Iranian airliner | declassifieduk.org |
| Henry Kissinger warns against ‘endless confrontation’ with China / U.S. | scmp.com |
| Turkish artillery attack on a tourist site in northern Iraq killing 31 Iraqi tourists | english.iswnews.com |
| Australian Roberts-Smith, accused of war crimes in Afghanistan, told ‘deliberate lie’ to conceal killing, court hears | smh.com.au |
| Slovak village votes to keep sign honouring fascist leader | bbc.com |
| Antisemitism issue used as ‘factional weapon’ in Labour, Forde report finds / U.K. | theguardian.com |
| In The Multipolar World Iran Will No Longer Fear U.S. Sanctions / Russia | moonofalabama.org |
| Algeria, Israel and the last European settler colony in the Arab world | middleeasteye.net |
| Palestinian-Americans demand U.S. government provide equal protection from Israeli violations | mondoweiss.net |
| A History of Israeli Destruction of the Two State Settlement / Palestine | mintpressnews.com |
| Israel sends veiled threat to attorneys of outlawed Palestinian NGOs | 972mag.com |
| Agribusiness Watch releases report on the corporate funding behind the agribusiness lobby in Brazil / environment, indigenous | deolhonosruralistas.com.br |
| Egypt locks up “terrorists”, but won’t say which terror group they belong to - The number of people behind bars for non-violent opposition is impossible to calculate but must number in the tens of thousands. | economist.com (archived) |
| Mexican president renewed asylum offer for Assange in letter to Biden / U.S. | reuters.com (archived) |
| Putin is already at war with Europe. There is only one way to stop him - Only the military route remains / Russia, Ukraine, U.K., propaganda | theguardian.com |
| The Unification Church’s ties to Japan’s politics - The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has unearthed long-suspected, little-talked-of links between him and a religious group that started in South Korea but has spread its influence around the world. / cult | apnews.com |
| Nancy Pelosi’s husband buys millions in computer-chip stocks before big subsidy vote / U.S., corruption | nypost.com |
| U.S. Occupation Continues To Steal Syrian Oil | syriatimes.sy |
| Evo Morales: U.K. Role in Coup That Ousted Him / Bolivia | consortiumnews.com |
| Biden-Lapid joint declaration takes aim at BDS movement / U.S., Israel, Palestine | mondoweiss.net |
| A sharp global drop in childhood vaccinations during the pandemic threatens the lives of millions of children - Pandemic lockdowns, misinformation campaigns, conflicts, climate crises and other problems diverted resources and contributed to the largest backslide in routine immunization in 30 years. / Covid | nytimes.com (archived) |
| Why the “river to the sea” is the only viable strategy - In honor of Ghassan Kanafani's memory / Israel, Palestine | mondoweiss.net |
| Israeli Forces Keep Killing Americans While U.S. Officials Give Them a Pass / Palestine, Rachel Corrie | theintercept.com |
| Even as it flourishes, Israel faces a growing demographic challenge - No external threat is as dangerous to the Zionist enterprise as Palestinian children. | washingtonpost.com (archived) |
| World Zionist Organization to Invest $8.5 Million of State Funds for West Bank Outpost Legalizations / Israel, Palestine | haaretz.com (archived) |
| China ‘not to blame’ for African debt crisis, it’s the West: study - High-interest loans from private Western lenders account for most of the burden on countries in Africa, U.K.’s Debt Justice charity finds | scmp.com |
| Meet the Ex-CIA Agents Deciding Facebook's Content Policy | mintpressnews.com |
| Former senior U.S. official John Bolton admits to planning attempted foreign coups | reuters.com (archived) |
| The U.K.'s SAS unit repeatedly killed Afghan detainees, BBC finds | bbc.com |
| Mexico president tells U.S.: free Assange or dismantle Statue of Liberty | skwawkbox.org |
| Real debt trap: Sri Lanka owes vast majority to West, not China / U.S., IMF | multipolarista.com |
| Poland asks Ukraine to confront dark past despite common front against Russia / nazis | yahoo.com |
| Classified document reveals IDF ‘firing zones’ built to give land to settlers - In a top-secret meeting held in 1979, revealed here for the first time, then-Agricultural Minister Ariel Sharon explained that firing zones were meant to create 'land reserves' for settlements, as part of his larger plan of establishing 'ethnic borders' between Jews and Palestinians. / Israel | 972mag.com |
| NATO: The Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet - The massive expansion of NATO, not only in Eastern and Central Europe but the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia, presages endless war and a potential nuclear holocaust. | chrishedges.substack.com |
| Land for New U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem Was Owned by Palestinians Before 1948, Files Show / Israel | haaretz.com (archived), middleeasteye.net |
| Georgia State police return home after two-week Israeli training / U.S. | jpost.com |
| How Monsters Who Beat Jews To Death in 1944 Became America’s Favorite “Freedom Fighters” in 1945—with a Little Help from their Friends at C.I.A. / U.S., Germany, Ukraine, nazis | covertactionmagazine.com |
| Largest Presbyterian denomination in U.S. labels Israel an apartheid state / Palestine | forward.com |
| Stop hiding behind the legal excuse': Australia can act to free Julian Assange, Andrew Wilkie says / U.S., U.K. | sbs.com.au |
| Revealed: Dozens of Egyptian Commandos Are Buried Under an Israeli Tourist Attraction | haaretz.com (archived) |
| Rishi Sunak could become U.K.'s PM. Here’s what he doesn’t want you to know | opendemocracy.net |
| Iran, Russia & China to Carry Out Military Drills in Venezuela | orinocotribune.com |
| U.K. Bill Threatens Journalists With Life in Prison | consortiumnews.com |
| Illegal gold mining in Amazon equivalent to half of Brazil’s production / indigenous, environment | mining.com |
| Getting to an Israeli-Saudi Deal on Egypt's Tiran and Sanafir Islands | washingtoninstitute.org |
| E.U. parliament backs labelling gas and nuclear investments as 'green' / environment, sanctions | reuters.com (archived) |
| ‘NYT’ and State Department brazenly collaborate in Israel’s coverup of Abu Akleh killing / U.S., Palestine | mondoweiss.net |
| A 32-year-old Palestinian man from the Gaza Strip was reportedly beaten to death by Israeli soldiers on Monday night, near the Israeli apartheid wall, in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarm | palestinechronicle.com |
| More than 220 shot and killed in U.S. gun violence over July 4 holiday weekend | cbsnews.com |
| Ben & Jerry’s sues parent company to freeze Israel sale / U.S., Israel, Palestine, BDS | electronicintifada.net |
| Communist Party of Ukraine banned and all its assets seized by the state | morningstaronline.co.uk |
| U.S. Accused of “Whitewash” After Clearing Israel of Intentionally Killing Shireen Abu Akleh / Palestine | democracynow.org |
| Your Old Fridge Is Vladimir Putin’s Friend. Dump It! / Russia, Ukraine, U.S. | washingtonpost.com (archived) |
| Entire industries in Germany could collapse due to Russian natural-gas supply cuts: union head / sanctions | businessinsider.com |
| China’s rise pushes Asia-Pacific nations to embrace Nato - North Atlantic alliance to expand co-operation with Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand | ft.com (archived) |
| Germany Labels Journalist 'Criminal' And Seizes Her Bank Accounts For Reporting From Ukraine / Russia, censorship | kanekoa.substack.com |
| Demolitions in India: Rolling out the Israeli model - From Kashmir to Uttar Pradesh, Indian Muslims are being evicted from their homes. | middleeastmonitor.com |
| Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster / U.S., Russia | consortiumnews.com |
| India begins to ban single-use plastics including cups and straws / environment | npr.org |
| Amazon wild west: where drugs, fish and logging are big money but life is cheap / Brazil, environment, indigenous | theguardian.com |
| U.S.-Sri Lanka Draft SOFA Reveals American Plan To Turn Sri Lanka Into Military Colony But Mangala Says ‘No Danger’ | colombotelegraph.com |
| An extensive investigation by Amnesty International has concluded that Russian military forces committed a war crime when they struck the Mariupol drama theatre in Ukraine in March, killing at least dozen people and likely many more. | amnesty.org |
| Tom Friedman normalizes apartheid in the ‘New York Times’ / U.S., Israel, Palestine | mondoweiss.net |
| U.K. government to scrap European law protecting special habitats - Environment secretary George Eustice wants to amend Habitats Directive, which protects Natura 2000 sites | theguardian.com |
| Israel smeared Palestinian activists, E.U. admits | euobserver.com |
| NATO declares China a security challenge for the first time - NATO lists China as one of its strategic priorities for the next decade, saying Beijing’s policies challenge its ‘interests, security and values’. | aljazeera.com |
| Biden tells Americans angry about high gas prices that they’ll have to pay up ‘as long as it takes’ to defeat Putin in Ukraine / U.S., Russia | fortune.com |
| Nato knew terrorists would gain from toppling Gaddafi - David Cameron kept bombing Colonel Gaddafi’s forces in Libya after the U.K. military realised a banned terrorist group stood to gain from regime change. / E.U., U.S. | declassifieduk.org |
| Ben & Jerry's cancels plan to stop sales in Israel - Last year, Ben & Jerry's announced it would stop sales in east Jerusalem and the West Bank. / U.S., Israel, Palestine, BDS | jpost.com |
| Egypt Destroys Nile Houseboats, Washing Away a Living Lore | nytimes.com (archived) |
| Indigenous Guarani community in Brazil warns of massacre as police force them off ancestral land | morningstaronline.co.uk |
| Why Does Israel Keep Assassinating Iranian Officials? Because It Works. | foreignpolicy.com (archived) |
| India's top cement maker paying for Russian coal in Chinese yuan | reuters.com (archived) |
| G7 and the Desperation Stage of Russian Sanctions | counterpunch.org |
| Propaganda Watch: Paul Mason: The left should lead the case for higher defence spending | newstatesman.com |
| China’s yuan liquidity reserve pool to rival U.S. dollar | asiafundmanagers.com |
| North Korea accuses U.S. of building an ‘Asian Nato’ ahead of security talks - | theguardian.com |
| The unholy alliance: Hindutva and Zionism - The ideologies of Hindutva and Zionism have taken centre stage in India and Israel’s apartheid-based policies. They have a lot in common, probably more so than their supporters would like. | thecradle.co |
| MSPs back making emergency Covid powers permanent / U.K., Scotland | bbc.co.uk |
| Israel is withholding information about U.S.-Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing 6 weeks ago | mondoweiss.net |
| U.K. PM Johnson says inflation is a ‘price worth paying’ to defend Ukrainian freedom / Russia, sanctions | msn.com |
| Sudan accuses Ethiopia of killing 7 soldiers, one civilian - Ethiopia denies Sudan's accusation it executed Sudanese soldiers, civilian | reuters.com (archived) |
| How German guilt is being used to silence Palestinians / Israel | middleeasteye.net |
| The 37 People Killed in Melilla Are Victims of Europe’s Murderous Border Regime / Morocco, Spain, E.U., migrants | jacobin.com |
| COVID-19’s 6th wave begins, with more seriously ill and more deaths / Israel | jpost.com |
| Macron tells Biden that UAE, Saudi can barely raise oil output / France, E.U., U.S. | reuters.com (archived) |
| Is California ready for more Black people to legally carry guns in public? / U.S. | latimes.com |
| China is building a yuan currency reserve to compete with the dollar and prop up other economies facing volatility / U.S. | businessinsider.com |
| Family of Murdered Palestinian Says They Were Arrested for Claiming IDF, Police Were Present During Attack / Israel | haaretz.com (archived) |
| The World Food Programme (WFP) cuts Yemen food rations further due to funding gap, inflation / U.N., Russia, sanctions | reuters.com (archived) |
| Thousands Protest in Madrid Ahead of NATO Summit / Spain | democracynow.org |
| World Bank Chief: We’re at a crisis, countries fall in one by one / U.S., Russia, sanctions | longisland-ny.com, archived |
| Manchester bomber was a U.K. ally / terror, Libya | declassifieduk.org |
| German journalist faces three years prison over reporting from eastern Ukraine / censorship | morningstaronline.co.uk |
| 37 refugees dead, hundreds injured in Spanish-Moroccan police massacre at Melilla border / Spain | wsws.org |
| Vladimir Putin ally warns London ‘will be bombed first’ if World War 3 breaks out - ‘It’s crystal clear that the threat to the world comes from the Anglo-Saxons,’ Andrey Gurulyov said / Russia, U.K. | independent.co.uk (archived) |
| U.K. quietly drops ‘human rights’ and ‘rule of law’ from list of goals in Gulf trade deal | independent.co.uk (archived) |
| Mental health workers demand Israel release prisoner Ahmad Manasra / Palestine | mondoweiss.net |
| Kenya's Ogiek win another landmark victory in African Court / indigenous | reliefweb.int |
| East Africa must reject its colonial model of conserving wildlife - ‘Fortress’ game reserves displaced the Maasai but ignore the pastoralists’ role in maintaining wildlife and biodiversity / indigenous | theguardian.com |
| Halting Ukraine war ‘only chance’ to avoid economic crisis, Hungary tells E.U. - Budapest urges partners in bloc to rethink approach and promote ceasefire to avoid recession / Russia | ft.com (archived) |
| Billions Keep Flowing to Afghanistan, State Dept. Blocks Audit to Disclose Where Money is Going / U.S. | judicialwatch.org |
| No more E.U. sanctions on Russia needed, negotiations better option, says Hungary / Ukraine | reuters.com (archived) |
| Save Africa from conservationists / environment, indigenous | mg.co.za |
| A new era for Colombia? Country elects first ever left-wing president - Colombia’s shift to the left: A new ‘pink tide’ in Latin America? | france24.com, aljazeera.com |
| Ukraine bans the country’s largest opposition party, Viktor Medvedchuk's pro-Russian Opposition Platform—For Life party. | wsws.org |
| Palestinians call out PayPal for discrimination / Israel, U.S. | al-monitor.com |
| Russia’s ruble hit its strongest level in 7 years despite massive sanctions. | cnbc.com |
| Texas nuclear scientist John Spor rescued from Mariupol, Ukraine / U.S., Russia | cbsnews.com |
| Israeli settlers stab 27-year-old Palestinian man to death | mondoweiss.net |
| Belarus presents Iraq with evidence of mass killings of refugees by Poland | thecradle.co |
| Only 4 of 55 African leaders attend Zelensky call, showing neutrality on Ukraine and Russia - France and Germany pressured African Union leaders for months to join a brief Zoom call with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky. 51 of 55 African heads of state (93%) boycotted the meeting | multipolarista.com |
| U.K. Labour frontbenchers who joined rail strike pickets pressed to apologise - MPs who defied Keir Starmer’s order to stay away from striking RMT workers may be disciplined for attendance | theguardian.com |
| Captured Briton Aiden Aslin who fought in Ukraine told his execution will go ahead - The British fighter told 'time is running out' as his family say the U.K. has not tried to negotiate his release with Russia | telegraph.co.uk (archived) |
| Germany's Goethe-Institut scales down event after mass cancellations following Palestinian Mohammed El-Kurd's exclusion / Israel | english.alaraby.co.uk |
| Eyewitnesses: Settler stabbed Palestinian to death as Israeli forces looked on - Ali Hasan Harb was stabbed while settlers tried to erect a tent on his family's land in the occupied West Bank, eyewitnesses say. | 972mag.com |
| Pacifism is the wrong response to the war in Ukraine / U.K., Russia | theguardian.com |
| No 10 to set out sweeping plans to override power of human rights court - Proposal to replace Human Rights Act with bill of rights is effort to make government ‘untouchable’, say critics / U.K. | theguardian.com |
| France's court confirms ban on 'burkinis' in city's swimming pools | cnn.com |
| U.S. Occupation Troops Steal Wheat from Syria to Send to Iraq | marktaliano.net |
| Mexico president will ask Biden to look into WikiLeaks' Assange case / U.S. | reuters.com (archived) |
| British security state collaborator Paul Mason’s war on ‘rogue academics’ exposed / U.K., censorship | thegrayzone.com |
| U.K.'s “Watchdog” Journalists Unmasked as Lap Dogs for the Security State / censorship | mintpressnews.com |
| Germany’s Greens embrace coal / Russia, Ukaraine, sanctions | unherd.com |
| Western Move to Choke Russia’s Oil Exports Boomerangs, for Now - With China and India buying the Russian oil shunned by the West in an effort to force an end to the Ukraine invasion, Moscow is earning more now than it did before the war. / U.S., E.U., sanctions | nytimes.com (archived) |
| The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter Is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents / U.S. | mintpressnews.com |
| Ukraine restricts Russian books and music in latest step of ‘derussification’ - New laws also increase quotas on Ukrainian-language speech and music on television and radio | theguardian.com |
| E.U. split over fertiliser plants in poorer nations as food crisis bites - The European Union is divided on how to help poorer nations fight a growing food crisis and address shortages of fertilisers caused by the Russia-Ukraine war, with some fearing a plan to invest in plants in Africa would clash with EU green goals. | reuters.com (archived) |
| Ukraine war: Russia becomes China's biggest oil supplier | bbc.com |
| Ukraine asked for more weapons to fight Russia, so Miami police are hosting a gun buyback scheme / U.S. | abc.net.au |
| Syrian Wheat Crops Smuggled to Iraq by U.S. Military Trucks | tasnimnews.com |
| Ukraine to restrict Russian books, music in latest cultural break from Moscow | reuters.com (archived) |
| Report: Israel’s Ariel Sharon was directly involved in Sabra, Shatila Massacre / Palestine | parstoday.com |
| Pfizer reportedly sponsored Miami yacht party for failed Colombian presidential contender Rodolfo Hernández / Covid, U.S. | thegrayzone.com |
| Ukraine's Rada banned Russian music and the import of books from Russia / censorship | rbc.ua |
| More than 200 Amhara killed in Ethiopia in alleged ethnic attack in the country's Oromia region, witnesses say | cbsnews.com |
| Propaganda Watch: "Network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified" - Campaign disseminating disinformation sent thousands of tweets, often targeting the White Helmets / U.K., censorship | theguardian.com |
| Putin’s stagflation revenge: Everyone said his war would destroy Russia’s economy but he’s killing America’s too / U.S., sanctions | yahoo.com |
| Australia: If we fail to prosecute war crimes, the law is a ‘dead letter,’ says inquiry judge / Afghanistan | theage.com |
| They Should Be In Jail': How The Guardian and New York Times 'Set Up' Julian Assange / U.S., U.K. | kitklarenberg.substack.com |
| This Is Our Land, And We Won't Leave': The Maasai Under Attack In The Name Of Conservation - The pastoral Maasais of northern Tanzania's Lolindo division under the Ngorongoro district are under attack in the name of conservation. / indigenous | outlookindia.com |
| Global Shortages Are Pushing Food Producers Back Toward Palm Oil / environment | bloomberg.com (archived) |
| Julian Assange can be extradited, says U.K. home secretary Priti Patel | bbc.com |
| Saudi energy minister hails Russia ties during surprise visit to St Petersburg / sanctions | thecradle.co |
| U.K. has approved Assange’s extradition: war criminals and murderers, rejoice - Priti Patel’s decision to hand over the WikiLeaks co-founder shows the price of investigative journalism anywhere the U.S. holds sway | theguardian.com |
| With scant options in Ukraine, U.S. and allies prepare for long war with Russia - "the administration is willing to countenance even a global recession and mounting hunger" / x! | washingtonpost.com (archived) |
| OSCE Reports Reveal Ukraine Started Shelling The Donbas Nine Days Before Russia's 'Special Military Operation' - The Biden Administration, U.S. political officials, and the corporate media are lying the American public into World War III | kanekoa.substack.com |
| Propaganda Watch: "U.S. Restraint Has Created an Unstable and Dangerous World" / Russia, China | foreignpolicy.com (archived) |
| Land grabs and conservation propaganda / indigenous, environment, Africa | africasacountry.com |
| Russian Escalations in Syria Risk Direct Conflict With U.S., Military Officials Warn - Recent Russian airstrikes and other operations in Syria raise alarms amid high tensions over Ukraine | wsj.com (archived) |
| "Minsk deal was used to buy time" - Petro Poroshenko has admitted that the 2015 ceasefire in Donbass, which he negotiated with Russia, France and Germany as president of Ukraine, was merely a distraction intended to buy time for Kiev to rebuild its military. | thepressunited.com |
| Dmytro Kuleba: "How Ukraine Will Win" - Kyiv’s Theory of Victory / Russia | foreignaffairs.com (archived) |
| ‘Marching towards starvation’: U.N. warns of hell on earth if Ukraine war goes on / Russia | theguardian.com |
| India is becoming a Hindu-fascist enterprise - The practice of bulldozing Muslim homes and businesses for purely punitive reasons is proof that India is ‘transitioning pretty brazenly into a criminal Hindu fascist enterprise’, says author Arundhati Roy. / x! | aljazeera.com |
| Made in America, fired in the West Bank: The bullet that killed Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh - The bullet is known for its ability to pierce through armour / U.S., Israel, Palestine | independent.co.uk (archived) |
| Amnesty International U.K. is ‘colonialist and institutionally racist’, damning inquiry concludes / NGOs | independent.co.uk (archived) |
| Slain Palestinian Journalist Funeral Probe: Israel Police Misconduct found, but Cops Off the Hook - The decision not to punish any police commanders overseeing Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral was actually made in advance of the investigation into the officers' attacks on mourners at the slain journalist's procession, sources tell Haaretz | haaretz.com (archived) |
| Revealed: Australia’s secret propaganda unit - Britain assisted Australia in setting up a team modelled on the U.K.’s notorious Information Research Department to run influence operations in the Asia-Pacific in the 1970s, recently declassified files reveal. | declassifieduk.org |
| Jeremy Corbyn unites with direct action group Just Stop Oil - Former Labour leader’s Peace and Justice Project to be part of new climate and social justice movement / U.K. | theguardian.com |
| Fury as Amnesty says critics of ‘Israel apartheid’ report ‘weaponise antisemitism’ / Palestine, NGOs | thejc.com |
| The Parliament of Catalonia Recognizes that Israel is Guilty of Apartheid / Palestine | bdsmovement.net |
| Turkey Deports Thousands to Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan / migrants | voanews.com |
| Israel seeks U.S. partnership in Iron Beam laser defense system | worldisraelnews.com |
| In Ukraine War, Global Arms Market Emerges as a New Front - Weapons brokers and government officials say Russia is intimidating sellers and outbidding Kyiv to block access to weapons | wsj.com (archived) |
| Indigenous Land Defenders Detained in Guatemala and Ecuador | culturalsurvival.org |
| E.U., Israel and Egypt sign deal to boost East Med gas exports to Europe / sanctions | reuters.com |
| Biden officials worry their Russia sanctions were so powerful they also brought economic suffering to the U.S., report says | businessinsider.com |
| Police won’t release findings of internal probe into conduct at Abu Akleh funeral - Commissioner admits one can’t ‘remain indifferent’ to scenes of cops striking pallbearers, but faults ‘rioters’ for disturbing procession / Israel, Palestine | timesofisrael.com |
| Nicaragua’s Ortega strains U.S. relations by expanding military ties with Russia - President Daniel Ortega welcomes more Russian military personnel and equipment to be stationed throughout Nicaragua | english.elpais.com |
| Putin Is Losing the War. Don't Be Fooled by What Happened in Severodonetsk / Russia, Ukraine | newsweek.com |
| Pope Francis: Nato may have provoked Russian invasion of Ukraine (but I’m not pro-Putin) - The pontiff insists there are ‘no good guys and bad guys’ in the conflict | telegraph.co.uk (archived), archived |
| ‘Where is Liz Truss?’: sister of activist held in Cairo jail urges U.K. to act - Sanaa Seif says UK government is not standing up for her brother Alaa Abd El Fattah, on hunger strike and facing death | theguardian.com |
| Xi Jinping announces plans to allow China's military to undertake 'armed forces operations' abroad | abc.net.au |
| Greece overturns decision to confiscate Iranian oil tanker - Athens ordered the release of the ship and its cargo on 14 June, despite sustained U.S. efforts to block the release | thecradle.co |
| Indian authorities demolish homes of Muslim protesters after riots triggered by remarks about prophet Muhammad - just like Israel destroys Palestinian property / video x! | independent.co.uk |
| Gaza: Israel’s ‘Open-Air Prison’ at 15 - Israel, Egypt Movement Restrictions Wreak Havoc on Palestinian Lives | hrw.org |
| Pope says war in Ukraine has no 'good guys and bad guys' / Russia | thetablet.co.uk |
| Pope Francis praises ‘brave’ Ukrainians and decries the ‘cruelty’ of Russian troops, but says the situation is not black and white and that the war was “perhaps somehow either provoked or not prevented”. NATO was “barking at the gates of Russia” | aljazeera.com |
| Corporate ‘Self-Sanctioning’ of Russia Has U.S. Fearing Economic Blowback - Officials seek to clarify guidance so there aren’t unintended impacts on inflation, supply chains | bloomberg.com (archived) |
| CONAIE condemns wrongful arrest of Indigenous leader Leonidas Iza by Ecuadorian security forces - Iza’s arrest came after the first day of an indefinite national strike, called by CONAIE among other Indigenous and peasant organizations against the neoliberal economic policies of President Guillermo Lasso’s government, was a success | peoplesdispatch.org |
| India: Home of Muslim man linked to Prophet Mohammed comment riots bulldozed by authorities - A spokesperson for the ruling BJP says the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh ordered the demolition of the homes of anyone accused of involvement in the riots. Qatar and the UAE are among countries lodging diplomatic protests about the comments by senior BJP figures. / x! | news.sky.com |
| Australian Labor government stonewalls demands to free Assange | wsws.org |
| Leaked emails expose Paul Mason’s collusion with senior British intelligence agent - In leaked emails, celebrity journalist Paul Mason plots extensively with Andy Pryce of the U.K. Foreign Office Counter Disinformation and Media Development unit. | thegrayzone.com |
| U.K.: Rwanda refugee flight is a 'shameful abandonment' of human rights responsibilities | amnesty.org.uk |
| At least 10 dead, 42 injured as wave of weekend mass shootings in U.S. continues | yahoo.com |
| "Top Gun: Maverick" is Military Propaganda. Official Documents Prove It / U.S. | mintpressnews.com |
| Steven Myers: How to Stop the War in Ukraine / Russia, U.S. | stevenmyers.com |
| U.S. Quietly Urges Russia Fertilizer Deals to Unlock Grain Trade / sanctions | bloomberg.com (archived) |
| Iran Suspects Israel Killed Two Scientists With Poison - If Iran’s suspicions about the deaths are confirmed, these would be the latest killings in a shadow war that is reaching new intensity as Iran moves closer to nuclear weapons capability. | nytimes.com (archived) |
| Tanzania: Thousands of Maasai flee into the bush after dozens shot and detained following evictions for trophy hunting and conservation / indigenous | survivalinternational.org |
| U.S. Official Admits Russian Energy Sales Outpacing Pre-War Levels / sanctions | libertarianinstitute.org |
| China Surpasses U.S. in the Eyes of Young Africans, Survey Shows - China provides affordable goods, invests in infrastructure | bloomberg.com (archived) |
| U.S. president confirms deployment of troops in Yemen - Biden’s letter to Congress reaffirms continued US support for the Saudi-led coalition | thecradle.co |
| The U.S. is still importing Russian oil despite the ban, report says / sanctions | fastcompany.com |
| Brookings president resigns after being accused of secretly lobbying for Qatar - Federal authorities said retired four-star general John Allen used his work email in efforts to influence U.S. policy on behalf of Doha. | responsiblestatecraft.org |
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