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Global decline in freedom of expression over last decade, wa...
Modern Ghana
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According to monitoring organisation Article 19, more than two-thirds of the world's population has less freedom of expression than a decade ago. RFI spoke with the NGO's senior director David Diaz-Jogeix about the results of its report. More than...
Here’s a list of all the countries the US has bombed since World War II
The London Economic
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June 23, 2025
Iran has vowed severe consequences following after the US bombed a number of its nuclear sites. The targeting of the nuclear sites marks a major escalation between Washington and Iran, which came after a week of hostilities between Israel and...
What is the worldwide caution alert? See travel advisories for US
Treasure Coast Palm - Florida
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Following U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, tensions escalate between the two nations and their allies. The U.S. State Department issued a worldwide cautionary advisory for U.S. citizens abroad. President Trump's travel ban remains in...
Elisabet Avalos: Dear Latino Voter — Get involved
West Central Tribune - Minnesota
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June 20, 2025
I get it. Voting can sometimes feel like we are choosing between the lesser of two evils, if we decide to vote at all. Even though Latinos voted in record numbers in 2024, millions of eligible Latino voters sat out an election whose outcome...
From reformers to rulers: Why today’s revolutionaries become tomorrow’s tyrants — Khoo Ying Hooi
Malay Mail
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June 22, 2025
JUNE 22 — It is one of the most tragic paradoxes in political history: yesterday’s reformists become today’s authoritarians. From liberation leaders turned autocrats to anti-corruption crusaders accused of graft, the world has witnessed the slow...
Why Washington Targets Iran and Venezuela
Dissident Voice
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June 20, 2025
by Roger D. Harris / June 20th, 2025 Venezuela and Iran hold the largest and third-largest petroleum reserves in the world, respectively. Both have also been targeted for regime change by Washington. The two commonalities are not unrelated. Of...
The Chris Hedges Report: ‘Journalists & Their Shadows’
Consortium News
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June 19, 2025
“Loyal to the orthodoxies imposed by employers” — Patrick Lawrence discusses the deterioration of journalism, the concern of his latest book. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble. Journalist...
In No Hurry To Evacuate Its Citizens, the Cuban Regime Invents Made-Up Iranian Victories
14ymedio
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June 20, 2025
The distressed messages of a Holguín journalist trapped in Tehran reflect another reality. Jaime Yoan Batista Peña works as a contributor to HispanTV, the Iranian state channel in Spanish. / HispanTV/caption 14ymedio, Havana, 18 June 2025 — Last...
Why Washington Targets Iran and Venezuela: Empire, Energy, and Ideology
Pressenza
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June 20, 2025
Venezuela and Iran hold the largest and third-largest petroleum reserves in the world, respectively. Both have also been targeted for regime change by Washington. The two commonalities are not unrelated. By Roger D. Harris Of course, the world’s...
The immigration crackdown is full of economic contradictions
Newsday - New York
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Like it or not, parts of the U.S. economy depend on undocumented and other low-wage immigrant workers. The system has evolved to assume they would always be here, especially in areas such as agriculture, hospitality and construction. You can’t...
How a Book Can Change a Graduate’s Life
The Atlantic
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June 20, 2025
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. For many people in their early 20s, graduating from college is both a significant milestone—perhaps the most important of their young...
On the Expansion of Executive Power: Addendum II
Cato Institute - Washington D.C.
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June 21, 2025
Robert A. Levy In earlier posts—February 25, 2025, and May 20, 2025—I examined proposals by President Donald Trump to enlarge his powers and those of the executive branch. Since then, the president has plowed ahead, issuing a barrage of new...
Letters: Trains wake us nightly | Power outages ongoing | A rebuttal | CityServe expo success | Calling class of 1975
Pleasanton Weekly - California
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June 21, 2025
Trains wake us nightly The reader who stated that, “Everybody that bought a house in that area knew the railroad was there, and their houses were cheaper for that reason” is incorrect. We used to have two RR lines running through town, the...
‘Workers are hard to find’: Florida weighs up cost of Trump deportations
The Times
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Jeb Shafer was at his construction company office near Miami when he got a call — immigration enforcement agents had shown up at his worksite and were making arrests.He rushed over to find that two of the three labourers working on the site had...
Donate & Get a Copy of the Book on Bob Parry
Consortium News
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June 21, 2025
Get a paperback copy of American Dispatches: A Robert Parry Reader as a thank you for a contribution to Consortium News‘ 2025 Spring Fund Drive during CN‘s 30th Anniversary. American Dispatches: A Robert Parry Reader is a compilation of the...
‘Returning is not an option’: Trump’s immigration pressure increases anguish of Venezuelan migrants caught in an economic storm
El País
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June 20, 2025
A feeling of precariousness and fear has gripped Venezuelan migrants. Countries that once welcomed them, like the United States, are now doing everything possible to send them back home, where signs of a new economic crisis are mounting....
Trump is propelling the US into authoritarianism
The Guardian
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June 19, 2025
It reads like a checklist of milestones on the road to autocracy. A succession of opposition politicians, including Alex Padilla, a US senator, are handcuffed and arrested by heavy-handed law enforcement for little more than questioning authority...
America: The Great Experiment
St. Thomas Source
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June 19, 2025
America is not just a country, but a dynamic new frontier, a unique cultural, political, social, and psychological experiment. Unlike any other, this experiment redefines ancient land as a new nation. The United States operates with a distinctive...
Maurice Rollins Youth Leadership Award winners: Youth volunteers leading by example
Intelligencer
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June 20, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links Opinion Column Brenda Snider jpg, BI The Maurice Rollins Youth Leadership award was established in 2002 to recognize Maurice Rollins and to celebrate exemplary youth in our community for their commitment to leadership and...
Gainesville students, residents split on Trump's birthright order ahead of Supreme Court decision
WUFT - Florida
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June 19, 2025
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship — the 157-year-old constitutional right granting citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil — has ignited legal battles at the Supreme Court and increased anxiety among...