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[ad_1] By Shireen Akram-Boshar This article was originally published by Truthout Iran’s soccer team is “the most oppressed” of the teams participating in the World Cup, said the team’s head coach. Members of Iran’s national soccer team expressed frustration about their treatment after they were told the team needed to leave Los Angeles immediately after playing their opening World Cup game against New Zealand on Monday night.  After a 2-2 draw in their opening game with New Zealand Monday night, Iran’s team was forced to fly back to Mexico rather than remain in Los Angeles and do a recovery…

[ad_1] Jose Andre, founder of World Kitchen Central. Photo: US State Department. The international community’s approach to conflict resolution has undergone a profound and dangerous structural shift, moving away from the pursuit of political settlements toward the permanent administration of crisis. This transition is vividly apparent in Rafah, where the newly established National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) has begun overseeing a reconstruction process stripped of any path toward genuine sovereignty or political renewal. What is being built instead is a sprawling, technocratic bureaucracy designed to manage human suffering indefinitely, transforming a site of active geopolitical dispossession into…

[ad_1] ScheerPost Staff As Elon Musk crossed the trillion-dollar threshold following SpaceX’s historic public offering, millions of Americans received a very different economic message: their paychecks are buying less. The juxtaposition could hardly be more stark. On the same week that Musk became the first person in history to accumulate a trillion-dollar fortune, new economic data showed inflation-adjusted wages declining and many workers losing ground to rising energy costs and persistent inflation. While Wall Street celebrated a new age of technological wealth, ordinary Americans continued to struggle with housing costs, healthcare expenses, retirement insecurity, and fears that artificial intelligence…

[ad_1] Mitchell Plitnick Mondoweiss According to reports, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United States and Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and formally end the fighting between the two countries was signed on Monday.  It is important to clarify that, regardless of White House statements, this is not a peace deal. It is an agreement to end the standoff in the Strait of Hormuz and a commitment to stop fighting for 60 days while an agreement is reached, hopefully. The negotiation period can be extended if both parties agree. Still, it is a important agreement that indicates a…

[ad_1] Ships in the Strait of Hormuz. (Screengrab from video posted to YouTube.) Let us, if only briefly, give thanks for the peacemakers, whatever their poor qualifications and whatever folly drove them to war in the first place.  On June 15, the secretariat of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council revealed that, based on the agreement reached with the United States, “the war and military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon, will end immediately and as of tonight, and in addition, the naval blockade against Iran will end immediately and completely.”  The Memorandum of Understanding between the states would be officially…

[ad_1] Brad Reed for Common Dreams Monday report in The New York Times revealed what it described as the “alarm” felt by some White House lawyers at proposals made earlier this year by Vice President JD Vance and Trump adviser Stephen Miller as the administration was forced to contend with widespread anger over its anti-immigration agenda. Among other things, the Times reported that Vance pushed for President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would allow for the US military to be deployed on American streets, in an effort to shut down mass protests in Minnesota against federal immigration enforcement operations in the state. A few days after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers fatally shot demonstrator…

[ad_1] A court in Germany has ruled that Google is legally responsible for false information generated by its AI Overviews, treating those summaries as Google’s own words rather than merely search results. The case began after Google’s AI falsely linked two publishing companies to scams and dishonest business practices, even though the cited sources did not make those claims. The court rejected Google’s argument that users should verify AI answers themselves, ruling that the company is responsible because it creates and controls the AI-generated summaries. The decision could have major consequences for Google and other AI companies by making them…

[ad_1] But a couple of years ago, Malinow, a retired pediatrician, helped start a separate group called National Single Payer. The difference between the two groups? PNHP is tightly aligned with the Democratic Party. National Single Payer is not. When we ran an article last week calling out the problem of PNHP and the Democratic Party, we received an email from Malinow. “Thank you for your recent article – Genocide the Non Profit Industrial Complex and the Democratic Party,” Malinow wrote. “It is important to call out organizations which have lacked the moral courage to speak out against the genocide in Gaza.”…

[ad_1] Now you’ve done it. You’ve gone and upset the establishment Economist. The British news magazine recently published (June 4) an op-ed expressing their concerns about “Gen Z socialism”: “A fresh crop of socialists want to remake the economy with price controls, hefty wealth taxes, and a spree of nationalisations.” These allegedly nefarious notions on the part of Generation Z (1997–2012) are clearly considered ideological violations that reek of revolution. However, they are revolutionary only if they benefit the population; the assumption is that the same set of policies that bolster the stupendously wealthy, those whom the Economist apparently believes are the better, more responsible set…

[ad_1] One of the biggest obstacles to peace negotiations with Iran is history. Three quarters of a century of experience with the United States has taught Iran caution, starting with the 1953 betrayal that took out the popular and democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mosaddegh, in a U.S. supported coup. During the current rounds of war and negotiation, American perfidy has repeatedly interrupted talks with missiles. “Due to the experiences of the two previous wars, we have no trust in the opposing side,” said Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Speaker of Iranian Parliament and one of the leaders of the Iran negotiating team.…