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Benjamin Wallace-Wells | Bernie Sanders Imagines a New Progressive Approach to Foreign Policy 

Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker
Wallace-Wells writes: "In the thirty months since Sanders's 2016 campaign ended, in the petulance and ideological strife of the Democratic National Convention, he has become a more reliable partisan, just as progressivism has moved his way."
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Attorney General William Barr. (p

Robert Mueller's Russia Report Is Coming Soon. Here's What You Need to Know
Philip Ewing, NPR
Ewing writes: "Special counsel Robert Mueller's report is expected to arrive this week. Whether it wafts in like a feather or falls to Earth like an asteroid, here's what you need to know."
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Mitch McConnell. (photo: M. Scott Mahaskey/POLITICO)

Trump Gets Revenge on the 'Most Liberal Court,' Helped by McConnell's Dirty Tricks
Jay Michaelson, The Daily Beast
Michaelson writes: "The GOP changed the rules to polarize the federal bench, but that will come back to haunt Republicans."
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The Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren greets striking Stop & Shop workers while also bringing coffee and donuts on Friday in Somerville, Massachusetts. (photo: Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

Stop and Shop Hit by Strike as 31,000 Workers Walk Off Job
Sarah Betancourt, Guardian UK
Betancourt writes: "More than 31,000 employees of the grocery chain Stop & Shop walked off the job across New England last week, after the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) and management reached an impasse in negotiations."
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In response to the college's failure to acknowledge anti-blackness in relation to Public Safety’s confrontation of McNab, students organized a protest at Barnard Gates hours following the release of the first statement. (photo: Arielle Shternfeld/Columbia Spectator)

A Black College Student Went Looking for Free Food. He Ended Up Pinned Down by Campus Police.
Katie Mettler, The Washington Post





Mettler writes: "The incident, filmed by two witnesses, inspired a weekend of unrest on the New York City campuses, where administrators have released statements and held listening sessions and students have called attention to what some consider a chronic problem within the public safety department."
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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel (L) accuses U.S. for destroying Cuba-U.S. relationship. (photo: Reuters)

Cuba Blames 'Imperialist' Trump for Worsening US-Cuba Ties
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel accused the United States President Donald Trump’s administration Saturday of dragging relations with the United States to their worst level in decades and called on Cubans to strengthen the country’s defenses and economy."
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Polar bears in Arctic Russia are losing their sea-ice habitat. (photo: All Canada Photos/Alamy)

David Attenborough Gave the Natural World a Voice. Now He’s Talking About Climate Change Like Never Before.
Brady Dennis, The Washington Post
Dennis writes: "In recent years, Attenborough increasingly has used his spellbinding whisper of a voice not only to describe the courtship rituals of birds of paradise or the mass migration of millions of Christmas Island red crabs, but also to repeatedly sound the alarm about climate change."
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CounterCurrents: People In Greece Say No To creditors: Democracy With Dignity Wins, “Islam” As A Conduit For Western Terrorism,

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If you think the content of this news letter is critical for the dignified living and survival of humanity and other species on earth, please forward it to your friends and spread the word. It's time for humanity to come together as one family! You can subscribe to our news letter herehttp://www.countercurrents.org/subscribe.htm. You can also follow us on twitter,http://twitter.com/countercurrents and on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/countercurrents

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People In Greece Say No To creditors: Democracy With Dignity Wins 
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury060715.htm

With their decisive voice – No to cruel creditors – the people in Greece have stood for democracy with dignity. It’s a victory for people; it’s a victory for democracy; it’s a victory for dignity. It’s a victory in people’s political fight against the brutal bankers who were bleeding Greece white. It’s a verdict against austerity, poverty, loot of public property. It’s historic


Ukrainian Govt. Acknowledges Some Of Its Leaders Are Nazis 
By Eric Zuesse

http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse060715.htm

On July 3rd, the Ukrainian newspaper Vesti headlined “The Ministry of Justice Acknowledges UNA-UNSO Collaborated with Nazis,” and reported that, “Ukraine's Ministry of Justice has officially recognized that the members of the Ukrainian nationalist organization UNA-UNSO fought on the side of Nazi Germany during the Great Patriotic War.” It went on to note that, “On Ma22 of last year, the State Registration Service renamed the party of UNA-UNSO as the Right Sector Party, which is led by Dmitriy Yarosh.”


“Islam” As A Conduit For Western Terrorism 
By Ghali Hassan

http://www.countercurrents.org/hassan060715.htm

Terrorism is an instrument used by powerful Western governments to justify violent aggression and geopolitical domination. If the U.S. and U.S. allies really want to defeat terrorism, including ISIS terrorists in Iraq and Syria, they would stop arming and financing the terrorists and stop participating in terrorism


David Attenborough Desperately Needs To Catch Up On Pope Francis 
By Lionel Anet

http://www.countercurrents.org/anet060715.htm

We need factual information almost immediately, that’s generally available to enable an interconnected change to be in time to avoid the high possibility of billions of deaths. It’s a matter of the wealthy few to realise their defencelessness in the face of global warming and associated danger, and that money may even be a liability for them. Presently we tend to see those people as our enemies, but if we are to influence the wealthy ones, which is the first step to our survival, we must see them like everyone, as potential friends for our survival


Jamaica’s First World Heritage Listing 
By Marianne de Nazareth

http://www.countercurrents.org/nazareth060715.htm

The Blue and John Crow Mountains has become Jamaica’s first World Heritage site with immediate effect, following advice from IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, responsible for evaluating the site’s natural values. Extensions of South Africa’s Cape Floral Region Protected Areas and Viet Nam’s Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park were also approved by the World Heritage Committee, as recommended by IUCN. The announcements were made at the UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting taking place in Bonn, Germany


A Far Fethched Feminst Demand 
By Sushmita Verma

http://www.countercurrents.org/verma060715.htm

Women do not live in their vaginas and hence feeding into the mass rhetoric of sexual violence being graver than other forms of violence that women endure, we, as feminists contradict our own arguments. While demanding law reforms we need to prioritise civil remedies like shelter homes, healthcare, counseling which provide an alternative strutcture to the women. Strong campaigns to salvage the DV Act from impending dilution would be a parallel step. Only then can we demand other amendements within the act itself. Moreover, the bigger question that we need to answer would be, whether the normalization of domestic violence is okay with us while we raise a certain kind of violence to the pedestal ?

This, that, American Racism & Bigotry, Global Warming, TPP leaks

350.org

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This weekend His Holiness the Dalai Lama affirmed his support for Pope Francis' call for climate action, and called for a 2 year timeframe to plan a transition off of fossil fuels.

This is getting serious:

The Hill· 

U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority amounts to roughly $400 million a year.

GOP lawmaker: Obama must 'immediately' cut aid to the Palestinians

Rep. Ros-Lehtinen said the Palestinian Authority violated the terms of a funding law.

HILL.CM

msnbc

 

"Those flags came in after Brown v. Board of Education. This is not about heritage, this is about resistance to civil rights."

-Ken Burns, Filmmaker behind "The Civil War" series

Ken Burns: Flag issue is not about heritage

Burns joins Morning Joe to discuss the series and the recent calls for the removal of the Confederate flag from government locations across the South.

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TPP: 

A key section of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement has been leaked to the public. The New York Times has a major story on the contents of the leaked chapter, and it's as bad as many of us feared.

Now we know why the corporations and the Obama administration want the TPP, a huge "trade" agreement being negotiated between the United States and 11 other countries, kept secret from the public until it's too late to stop it.

The section of the TPP that has leaked is the "Investment" chapter that includes investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses. WikiLeaks has the text and analysis, and the Times has the story, in "Trans-Pacific Partnership Seen as Door for Foreign Suits Against U.S.":

An ambitious 12-nation trade accord pushed by President Obama would allow foreign corporations to sue the United States government for actions that undermine their investment "expectations" and hurt their business, according to a classified document.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership -- a cornerstone of Mr. Obama's remaining economic agenda -- would grant broad powers to multinational companies operating in North America, South America and Asia. Under the accord, still under negotiation but nearing completion, companies and investors would be empowered to challenge regulations, rules, government actions and court rulings -- federal, state or local -- before tribunals organized under the World Bank or the United Nations.

The WikiLeaks analysis explains that this lets firms "sue" governments to obtain taxpayer compensation for loss of "expected future profits."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/now-we-know-why-huge-tpp_b_6956540.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000015

HuffPost Business

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It's as bad as we feared.

Now We Know Why Huge TPP Trade Deal Is Kept Secret From the Public

A key section of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement has been leaked to the public.

HUFF.TO

Congressional Democrats Introduce Ambitious New Bill to Restore the Voting Rights Act

Two years ago, the Supreme Court gutted the VRA. Senator Patrick Leahy and Congressman John Lewis have a plan to fix that.

BILLMOYERS.COM

http://www.takepart.com/video/2015/06/29/obama-interview-david-attenborough?cmpid=ait-fb

An Inconvenient Truth

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David Attenborough makes the case for how childlike wonder for the natural world can help stop ‪#‎ClimateChange‬—and Barack Obama agrees. What an amazing conversation.

When the Voice of Planet Earth Comes to the White House, You Listen

President Barack Obama sits down with famed naturalist David Attenborough to talk conservation and climate change.

TAKEPART.COM

POLITICO 

The gathering is just over one month after Dylann Roof allegedly entered an historic church in Charleston and shot to death nine African Americans during a Bible study meeting.

KKK chapter to hold rally on South Carolina Statehouse grounds

The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan’s Pelham, North Carolina, chapter have reserved the Statehouse Grounds in South Carolina for a rally next month....

POLITI.CO|BY ADAM B. LERNER

WHAT TOOK THEM SO LONG? 

PoliticusUSA shared a link.

You’re Fired: NBC Finally Dumps Donald Trump

Public pressure finally became too much for NBC as the network finally did the right thing and dumped Donald Trump from The Apprentice and won't televise the beauty pageants that he owns.

POLITICUSUSA.COM

White Supremacists Lie and Get Caught! The EXPENSIVE F-35 JOKE! RSN: David Attenborough: Leaders Are in Denial About Climate Change

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Jim Hightower | A Curse, a Blessing, and a Good Food Movement

Jim Hightower, Jim Hightower's Blog
Hightower writes: "Butz had risen to prominence in the world of agriculture by devoting himself to the corporate takeover of the global food economy. He openly promoted the preeminence of middleman food manufacturers over family farmers."
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Elizabeth Kolbert | Postscript: Mario Cuomo (1932-2015)
Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker
Kolbert writes: "Mario Cuomo, who died today at the age of eighty-two, believed deeply in the power of words."
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Alibi for Congressman Who Spoke to White Supremacist Group Falls Apart
Judd Legum, ThinkProgress
Legum writes: "Congressman Steve Scalise apologized earlier this week for speaking to a group of white supremacists in 2002."
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$1.5 Trillion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Can't Fire Its Own Gun Until 2019
Dave Majumdar, The Daily Beast
Majumdar writes: "America's $400 billion Joint Strike Fighter, or F-35, is slated to join fighter squadrons next year - but missing software will render its 25mm cannon useless."
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GOP Activists Form Super PAC to Elect DA Who Refused to Indict Eric Garner's Killer
Carl Campanile, New York Post
Campanile writes: "Taking nothing for granted to keep Rep. Michael Grimm's seat in Republican hands, activists have set up a super PAC to elect Staten Island DA Dan Donovan - the prosecutor in the controversial Eric Garner case."
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David Attenborough: Leaders Are in Denial About Climate Change
Tom Bawden, The Independent
Bawden writes: "Sir David Attenborough is calling on global leaders to step-up their actions to curb climate change, saying that they are in denial about the dangers it poses despite the overwhelming evidence about its risks."
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