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[ad_1] Recent government-assisted censorship began under Biden but Donald Trump has now unleashed the return of full-blown McCarthyism in which “communism” is again the greatest menace to the U.S., and criticism on Iran and Ukraine must be stifled. Tonite 8 pm EDT. Guests: Patrick Henningsen and Scott Ritter. Host: Joe Lauria. Producer: Cathy Vogan.   Please Donate toCN’s SummerFund Drive! [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. The dollar may appear to be a neutral currency, yet it is in fact a form of imperial power. Disciplining economies, financing war, and forcing the Global South to fund its own subordination. There are moments in history when a system appears so complete that it becomes difficult to imagine its end. When Britannia ‘ruled the waves’, it was thought in large parts of the world that sterling was not merely a currency but the natural language of commerce itself. Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States has spoken of the US…

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[ad_1] Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada The following is from the news roundup during the 23 July livestream. Watch the entire episode here. Israel has carried out massacres on multiple families this week in Gaza, killing Palestinian children, men and women, as the army encroaches on more land and squeezes Palestinians into smaller and smaller areas. On Wednesday, an Israeli drone strike on a tent sheltering displaced people killed a Palestinian and injured several others west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to medical sources. Thirteen Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli attacks on Tuesday, including a…

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[ad_1] Troy Jackson is as close as Maine Democrats can get to nominating a blank slate in the stead of Graham Platner, who withdrew from the Senate race earlier this month amid allegations of sexual assault. Whether that’s good or bad will mostly depend on incumbent GOP senator Susan Collins. Jackson, a logger and local politico, […]Read More…Read Full Article ⟶ [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] By Eman Abu Zayed This article was originally published by Truthout With its waste disposal infrastructure destroyed, Gaza is experiencing a growing health and environmental crisis. Just a few hundred meters from Al-Ma’madani Hospital in the center of Gaza City lies Firas Market, which has turned into a site for heaps of mixed garbage as medical waste accumulates alongside household trash, commercial trash, and rubble remnants. The piles stretch across the market and between buildings, suffocating the city with choking odors and rising dust, right next to passersby and vendors at work. With rising summer temperatures, these heaps…

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