How Biden Helped Hardliner Raisi Win Iran Election
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-25
It was common knowledge that a U.S. failure to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA) before Iran’s June presidential election would help conservative hard-liners to win the election. Indeed, on Saturday, June 19, the conservative Ebrahim Raisi was elected as the new President of Iran. Raisi has a record of brutally cracking…
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The world says no to the blockade of Cuba
Editor | mronline.org | 2021-06-25
In today’s historic UN General Assembly vote, 184 supported ending the U.S. blockade of Cuba and only the United States and Israel voted against | June 25, 2021 | Newswire…
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Milwaukee: Lindbergh Park renamed Lucille Berrien Park
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-06-25
Fight Back! News is circulating the following statement from the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression after their victory on June 24 in their campaign to rename Lindbergh Park. | On the afternoon of June 24th, the Milwaukee County Board voted unanimously in favor of changing Lindbergh Park to Lucille Berrien Park. | Renaming the park to Lucille Berrien Park was a grassroots demand that residents of the surrounding area communicated with the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (MAARPR). From the beginning of the campaign, we received significant support from County Boar…
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We Can Have the Filibuster or Democracy, But Not Both
Peter Certo | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-25
The American political system is complicated, but fixing it doesn’t have to be. Voters of all stripes broadly agree on the kinds of changes they’d like to see. We need less money in politics. It should be easier to vote — early, in person, or by mail. And voters should be able to pick their…
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Peru at the Brink of Civil War?
Peter Koenig | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-06-25
On 28 July 2021, Peru, with her 33 million inhabitants, celebrates 200 years of Independence. The People of Peru may have chosen this Bicentennial celebration to bring about a drastic change to their foreign and national oligarchy-run country. In a neck-on-neck national election run-off on 6 June 2021, the socialist Pedro Castillo, a humble primary …
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Tuesday 6/29: We Demand Voter Rights Now! Deadline for Democracy Rally in San Jose
Indivisible groups South Bay | indybay.org | 2021-06-25
Intersection of Winchester Blvd. and Stevens Creek Blvd at the San Jose / Santa Clara border (sidewalk intersection of Santana Row shopping center). | Follow all and any COVID guidlines…
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International Criminal Court Closes in on Duterte
Jason Castaneda | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2021-06-25
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Trumpists Have Made Alarming Advances in Their Quest to Control Elections
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-06-25
In state after Republican state around the country, a push is underway to create legal pathways to subvert election results. This effort is buoyed by the fact that well over half of Republican voters believe that Donald Trump is the “true president.” And it will be further bo…
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Teamsters convention votes to organize Amazon
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2021-06-25
WASHINGTON–Calling it “an existential threat” not just to their union but to workers nationally, Teamsters convention delegates voted to spend unspecified sums of money to organize Amazon. That was the biggest, but not the only, news that came out of the four-day virtual conclave in late June, forced onto Zoom by a coronavirus not yet …
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Nicaragua’s Benedict Arnolds: Political Opposition as Organized Crime
Stephen Sefton | globalresearch.ca | 2021-06-25
Ever since they lost badly in the 2011 elections to the Frente Sandinista, Nicaragua’s political opposition has divided into conventional political parties working in the country’s legislature and an extra-parliamentary opposition based in local NGOs. |
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Why does Israel ban Palestinian mothers from accompanying sick children from Gaza seeking treatment in the West Bank?
Middle East Monitor | juancole.com | 2021-06-25
By Eman Abusidu | — ( Middle East Monitor) — The World Health Organisation (WHO) pointed out in its 2020 annual report that, “All patients and patient companions from the Gaza Strip must apply for Israeli permits to exit the Gaza Strip in order to access hospitals in the West Bank, including east Jerusalem, and …
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ALEC Lawmakers Look to Spread Arizona-Style Election Audits to Other States
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-06-25
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) lawmakers are hoping to copy and paste the controversial Arizona “audit” of the 2020 November presidential election just like they do model legislation from the corporate bill mill. | The Arizona audit was engineered by ALEC’s treasurer and second highest ranking board member, Senate President Karen Fann (R), the Center for Media a…
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Chicago: Reactionaries attempt to block community control of police measures
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-06-25
Chicago, IL – On June 23, over 150 people from the movement to stop police crimes and end police impunity rallied outside of Chicago City Hall before the city council meeting. “This should have been a meeting where ECPS would be voted on, where we are turning the people’s ordinance into the law of this city,” Kobi Guillory, co-chair of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR) explained, “but what happened on Friday is that certain alderpersons, acting at the behest of the mayor of this city, blocked our substitute ordinance from being put in, which stopped it from being voted on.”
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Defending the Shame of Apartheid
Kenn Orphan | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-25
It was to be expected. Following the worldwide exposure of an active campaign of ethnic cleansing in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem’s and Israel’s murderous 11 day campaign raining death and destruction on the captive population of Gaza, the apologists for Israel went into full on damage control. Anyone who decried these…
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Day two of Teamster convention votes out ‘2/3 rule’
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-06-25
Washington DC – The International Brotherhood of Teamsters 30th Convention entered its second day, June 24. Congratulatory videos were shown for outgoing General Secretary Treasurer Ken Hall, as well as videos from labor leaders such as SEIU leader Mary Kay Henry. | Today began the first series of contentious votes between rival factions vying for leadership in this year’s international election. The O’Brien-Zuckerman Teamsters United Slate, a coalition slate that includes longstanding leaders and rank-and-file activists who want to bring back increased union militancy and rank-and-file involvement to t…
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UN General Assembly Once More Announces US Blockade of Cuba
W. T. Whitney | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-25
The United Nations General Assembly on June 23 overwhelmingly approved a Cuban resolution condemning the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial blockade of Cuba, in place for 60 years, The Assembly has done precisely that every year since 1992, except for 2020, when the vote was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The vote this time…
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Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for the Defense of Organized Crime in Nicaragua
Stephen Sefton | globalresearch.ca | 2021-06-25
@crg_globalresearch. Recent remarks by …
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A Political Solution Is the Only Way: Crisis Escalates in Ethiopia Amid War, Famine & Elections
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-06-25
An Ethiopian military bombing of a marketplace in the Tigray region killed at least 64 people in one of the deadliest attacks since government forces invaded the region last November. The bombing came just a day after Ethiopians voted in national and regional elections, but polls could not open in some areas due to ongoing fighting. The country is still waiting for results that will determine if the ruling coalition, led by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, stays in power. Thousands of people have been killed, and an estimated 2 million people have been displaced, since Ahmed ordered the Ethiopian military to…
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Under Pandemic, United Nations Votes to Condemn Cruel and Illegal U.S. Blockade of Cuba–But There Is a Twist
Chris Agee | globalresearch.ca | 2021-06-25
@crg_globalresearch. 184 Countries Vote …
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Labour bans Israel sanctions debate
Asa Winstanley | electronicintifada.net | 2021-06-25
Official alleges that demand for weapons embargo could cause “anti-Semitic behavior.”
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Between the minutes at KPFA’s board mtg. of May 15th
Daniel Borgstrà∂m | indybay.org | 2021-06-25
A look at the New Day supporters who are the majority faction at KPFA, their GM who gives a report but takes no questions, the treasurer’s story regarding the unpaid property taxes, the LSB vote on the proposed New Day bylaws, and an update on the ongoing lawsuit which began last December with an attempt to put Pacifica into receivership..
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Susan Collins Sums Up Her Scorching Cynicism With a States’ Rights Defense of Voter Suppression
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2021-06-25
Susan Collins Sums Up Her Scorching Cynicism With a States’ Rights Defense of Voter Suppression…
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Biden’s $2.3 Trillion Infrastructure Capitulation. Stripped Down to $579 Billion
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2021-06-25
@crg_globalresearch. For weeks I’ve …
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State of Matter
Missy Comley Beattie | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-25
About a week ago, Rep Ronny Jackson sent a letter, cosigned by 13 fellow Republicans, to President Biden, urging Biden to undergo cognitive testing. He wrote: The American people should have absolute confidence in their President. They deserve to know that he or she can perform the duties of Head of State and Commander in Chief. They…
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Bombing Afghanistan After the Troops are Gone
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-25
If the military officials who talk to the press get their way, the U.S. war in Afghanistan will never end. This became execrably clear on June 9, when the New York Times published an article quoting anonymous Pentagon dignitaries informing us that after the U.S. leaves Afghanistan, it may continue to bomb the country, if it doesn’t like how things go. You read that right. President Biden says the war will end. The geniuses in the Pentagon say no it won’t, we’ll keep bombing.
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Biden’s European Tour: “The United States is Back” and the Limits of Nostalgia
Daniel Warner | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-25
Joe Biden opened his first foreign trip as president by announcing that the “United States is back.” What the president didn’t clarify was back where. The obvious answer is that the United States is returning to working with its allies. Biden’s meetings with the G-7, NATO and European Union leaders confirmed this. After President Donald…
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Infrastructure deal: ‘Concrete’ projects in, ‘human infrastructure’ not yet
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2021-06-25
WASHINGTON–The eight-year $1.2 trillion “compromise” infrastructure deal Democratic President Joe Biden reached with a bipartisan group of lawmakers can be summed up in some simple phrases: “Concrete” projects, rebuilding the nation’s crumbling roads, inadequate airports, creaky mass transit, aging subways, collapsing bridges–the latest of them just miles from the White House–and replacing lead-lined water pipes …
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Historic Child Tax Credit starts in July–up to $300 per child monthly
Marilyn Bechtel | peoplesworld.org | 2021-06-25
OAKLAND, Calif.–A new, historic provision of the American Rescue Plan will take effect next month, that could lift more than five million children across the U.S. out of poverty and cut child poverty in this country in half. But for that to happen, word must reach the eligible families. To further that objective, the Biden …
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Laura Carlsen on Biden’s Central America Policy, Greg LeRoy on Texas Corporate Subsidies
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting | fair.org | 2021-06-25
Protest in Union Square, New York (cc photo: Jim Naureckas) | This week on CounterSpin: “Biden Administration Ousts Trump’s Border Patrol Chief,” announced the June 24 New York Times, explaining in the subhed that Rodney Scott “had become known for his support of President Donald J. Trump’s signature border wall, and had resisted a Biden initiative to stop using the phrase ‘illegal alien.”‘ Ergo, we are to understand, his “forcing out” by the White House–suggesting a meaningful departure from the immigration po…
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Biden insiste en el bloqueo y embargo a Cuba
Mirko C. Trudeau | globalizacion.ca | 2021-06-25
Abrumador rechazo mundial en la ONU a la política de Estados Unidos contra Cuba. Estados Unidos quedó aislado, por vigésima novena vez, ante el repudio casi universal a su política contra Cuba: esta vez 184 de los 193 integrantes de…
globalizacion.ca/biden-insiste-en-el-blo…
Roaming Charges: Lost in Biden’s Triangle
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-25
When Bill Clinton and Dick Morris perfected triangulation politics, the strategy was to work with the GOP to strangle progressive policies and advance a neoliberal agenda. Biden’s strategy takes this one step further and relies on Democrats to play the role of the 90s GOP politicians, many of whom were to the left of Sinema and Manchin.
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“Better Than Trump” Isn’t Good Enough. End Deportation Now
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-06-25
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden went to great lengths to establish the dramatic differences between himself and Donald Trump on immigration. Biden was very clear: He would reunite separated families, resettle 125,000 refugees and put privately run immigration detention centers firmly in the past. | Six months into his administration, immigration organizers are feeling whiplash. | The White House followed through on its promise of a 100-day deportation moratorium, but quickly abandoned the goals of its own executi…
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Biden Administration Mulling Overturn Decision To Recognize Golan Heights As Israeli Territory
Anonymous007 | southfront.org | 2021-06-25
Click to see full-size image | The Biden Administration is mulling whether to retract the recognition of occupied Golan Heights as part of Israeli territory. | The Washington Free Beacon cited an unnamed US State Department spokesman who said that the new administration was considering overturning former US President Donald Trump’s decision. | The State Department of…
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Headlines for June 25, 2021
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-06-25
Biden and Senators Reach Compromise Infrastructure Bill That Excludes Climate and Jobs Programs, Biden Administration Backs Permits for Enbridge Line 3 Tar Sands Pipeline, Climate Crisis Driving Record-High Temperatures in Pacific Northwest, Federal Fire Agency Warns Historic Drought Is Increasing Demand for Firefighters, “Half-Measures and Broken Promises”: European Parliament Commits to Climate Neutrality by 2050, Climate Crisis Pushes 1 Million People in Madagascar to “Edge of Starvation”, 751 Unmarked Graves Found at Former Residential School for Indigenous Children in Saskatchewan, U.S. Bans Solar Panel Part…
www.democracynow.org/2021/6/25/headlines
Afghan President Ghani Visits White House as His Government Nears Collapse
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-06-25
The Taliban have continued seizing districts in Afghanistan ahead of the U.S. military pullout set for September 11, now holding twice as much territory as they did two months ago. According to a Wall Street Journal report, U.S. intelligence agencies believe the government of Afghanistan could collapse within six months of the U.S. withdrawal. The Biden administration is reportedly planning to keep 650 troops in Afghanistan after the September 11 deadline, and the U.S. is also looking for nearby military bases for future aerial bombings and other operations. Afghan American scholar Zaher Wahab says Afghan Preside…
www.democracynow.org/2021/6/25/afghanist…
Nine Points of Difference: A Response to Noam Chomsky on American Fascism
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-25
It was nice to see the nation’s leading left intellectual Noam Chomsky recently concede that the F-word, fascism, has at least some applicability — as in “neoliberal proto-fascism” — to the Trumpo-Republifascist Party. For more than four years, he’s been part of a chorus of academics who have been resistant to the notion that the…
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Nonviolent Protest Over Voting Rights Ends With Arrests In DC
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-06-25
Activists with the national Poor People’s Campaign were arrested Wednesday after blocking a street in front of the Hart Senate building in Washington, D.C. to demand passage of the For the People Act, a popular voting rights expansion bill that Republicans successfully filibustered just 24 hours earlier. | After rallying in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, hundreds of low-wage workers, faith leaders, and advocates–including residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, and several other states–marched to the nearby Senate building to demand meetings with Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Republican Mino…
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Supreme Court limits California Union Recruiting In Favor Of Property Rights
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-06-25
In a blow to labor, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated a decades-old California rule inspired by César Chávez that allowed union organizers to meet with farmworkers at their place of work. Commercial growers applauded the conservative court’s ruling to uphold property rights while union representatives vowed not to be deterred. | Two agricultural producers filed suit after organizers with the United Farm Workers sought to access their property to speak with farmworkers. The plaintiffs in Cedar Point Nursery v Hassid, Cedar Point Nursery and Fowler Packing Company, argued the California regulation requiring them t…
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Trumka: High Court ruling threatens farm workers’ right to organize
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2021-06-25
WASHINGTON–The U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling–on party lines–threatening farm workers’ right to organize in Californian fields, is bad for the workers, says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. But it could have been worse, he adds. That’s because what the right-wingers who joined the case at the High Court really wanted was to get the justices to …
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules Child Slavery Is Fine As Long As Its Not On U.S. Soil
Anonymous007 | southfront.org | 2021-06-25
Click to see full-size image | On June 24th, a US Supreme Court ruled in favor of corporate giants Nestlé USA and Cargill, which were sued more than a decade ago by six men who say the two companies were complicit in child trafficking and profited when the men were enslaved on cocoa farms as children. | The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 against the plaintiffs, saying they had not proven the…
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Over 30,000 US Veterans of Post-9/11 Wars Have Killed Themselves Since 2001
Julia Conley | globalresearch.ca | 2021-06-25
@crg_globalresearch. New research released …
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Henry Kissinger’s Famous Diplomacy Achieved Nothing
Paul Ryder | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-25
Henry Kissinger, President Richard Nixon’s National Security Adviser and Secretary of State, has spent most of his life collecting honors. He carried home the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, and many other prizes, awards, and medals. He has been…
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Civil War in Afghanistan Will Threaten Afghanistan, China and Pakistan
Vijay Prashad | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-25
The United States, which has prosecuted a war against Afghanistan since October 2001, has promised to withdraw its combat troops by September 11, 2021. This war has failed to attain any of the gains that were promised after 20 years of fighting: neither has it resulted in the actual fragmentation of terrorist groups nor has it led to the destruction of the Taliban. The great suffering and great waste of social wealth caused due to the war will finally end with the Taliban’s return to power, and with terrorist groups, which are entrenched in parts of Central Asia, seizing this prospect to make a full return to Afg…
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Nicaragua, July 4, 1986: Field Notes From a “Secret” War
James Phillips | counterpunch.org | 2021-06-25
Most of the following is taken from my field journal, written while I was in Nicaragua (1985-87) as part of the Witness for Peace longterm team documenting the Contra War. Unfortunately, my government’s intervention in Nicaragua did not end with the Contra War. Today, the U.S. continues its efforts to remove the current Nicaraguan government…
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The Colescott Chronicles Part 2: Expanding Black representation, critiquing consumerism and colonialism
Dennis Broe | peoplesworld.org | 2021-06-25
Robert Colescott’s satire of Americana George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware has now become the centerpiece of L.A.’s new Lucas Museum of American Art. Colescott’s best known work, though, only begins to touch on his four major themes and concerns. These are: expanding Black representation in art while calling attention to the way the culture …
peoplesworld.org/article/the-colescott-c…
Guided Missiles, Misguided Policies, and Changing Direction Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love WWIII
David Swanson | warisacrime.org | 2021-06-25
By David Swanson, Remarks for Peace and Justice Works, June 24, 2021 Thank you for inviting me. I’d like to speak briefly and spend a good deal of time on Q&A. I’d like to start by considering this question: If it’s true that madness is more common in societies than individuals, and if the society … Continue reading “Guided Missiles, Misguided Policies, and Changing Direction Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love WWIII”
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Disappearance of socialism is a premise of US policy towards Cuba
Staff | en.cubadebate.cu | 2021-06-25
The United States’ policy against Cuba is based on the axiom that Cuba’s socialist system must disappear or be modified, Cuban academic Santiago Pérez pointed out the eve at the International Security Conference. In the event that concluded this Thursday in Moscow, the researcher considered that for the White House, the existence and the example of the island questions its hegemony in the Americas and over the world. ‘Although Cuba does not represent a military threat to the national security of the United States, it is a political and ideological challenge,’ he warned.
en.cubadebate.cu/news/2021/06/25/disappe…
Talk World Radio: Michael Messner: Unconventional Combat
David Swanson | warisacrime.org | 2021-06-25
Talk World Radio is recorded as audio and video on Riverside.fm. Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube. This week on Talk World Radio, U.S. military veterans. Our guest, Michael Messner is professor of sociology and gender studies at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from … Continue reading “Talk World Radio: Michael Messner: Unconventional Combat”
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Russian Warplanes Made ‘Warning Pass’ Over Daraa City As Former Syrian Rebels Refuse To Hand Over Arms
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-06-25
On June 25, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces made a “warning pass” over the southern Syrian city of Daraa…
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Germany Axis Alert Puzzle
Relative of Seth | indybay.org | 2021-06-25
Since Sig Sauer was spotted in India more information about the Axis appear in Internet which analyses who were involved inside SS at 2nd World War. I just quoted some “random” rare puzzle pieces to inform…
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Consumer Health: Blood donation — you can make a difference
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2021-06-25
The World Blood Donor Day campaign, observed Monday, June 14, is an effort by the World Health Organization intended to recognize the critical contribution of blood donors and raise global awareness about the need for safe blood and blood products for transfusion, year-round. The role of young people in ensuring a safe blood supply is …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/co…
New dad: Tips to help manage stress
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2021-06-25
Becoming a new dad can bring joy — and stress. Find out how to deal with the difficulties of parenthood and develop a rewarding relationship with your newborn. This article is written by Mayo Clinic Staff. _____________________________________________________________ Becoming a new dad can be an exciting and overwhelming experience. But you can take steps to prepare …
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Dividing the World Into Opposing Camps Is the Road to Armageddon
Michael T. Klare, The Nation | thenation.com | 2021-06-25
Dividing the World Into Opposing Camps Is the Road to Armageddon…