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Interview - ‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech ( www.theguardian.com )

Vatican holds unprecedented beatification of Polish family of 9 killed for hiding Jews ( www.nbcnews.com )

U.S., Florida Gov. DeSantis says shorter lifespans should protect people from losing Social Security and Medicare protection ( web.archive.org )

"I think it started before COVID and I think it’s continued even here afterwards. I think it’s more than, more than just COVID. I mean, I think that there’s deaths of despair. I think you have (drugs),” DeSantis said. Life expectancy in the U.S. has decreased to 76.4 years in 2023 from 77.28 in 2020, according to Centers...

Saudia Arabia, border guards killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers, rights activists say ( www.hrw.org )

In some instances, Saudi border guards asked migrants what limb to shoot, and then shot them at close range. Saudi border guards also fired explosive weapons at migrants who were attempting to flee back to Yemen.

In Marion County newspaper raid, a grim threat to Kansans’ First Amendment rights ( kansasreflector.com )

Police raided the offices of a local newspaper, the Kansas Reflector, seizing computers & cell phones.

'The goal is to disguise propaganda as independent content.' A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul ( web.archive.org )

From a think tank in Massachusetts to an event space in Manhattan, from a political party in South Africa to news organizations in India and Brazil, investigators tracked hundreds of millions of dollars to groups linked to Mr. Singham that mix progressive advocacy with Chinese government talking points....

How Hollywood appeases China, explained by the Barbie movie ( www.vox.com )

Russian court hands jailed Alexey Navalny new 19-year prison sentence ( www.aljazeera.com )

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been sentenced to 19 more years in jail on extremism charges which he has dismissed as an attempt to silence him....

Trump Charges Should be a Warning to the USA and the UK ( www.youtube.com )

I am not affiliated in any way shape or form to the channel linked. However, I also find the similarities of Trump and Johnson very stark in the way they behaved around inciting populism....

Putin rules out rejoining Black Sea grain deal, despite famine fears ( www.politico.eu )

Hunter Biden guilty plea in doubt over immunity questions ( www.washingtonpost.com )

Even if the legal turmoil that has surrounded Hunter Biden for years is wrapped up, the political battle will continue.

Germantown tap water unsafe to drink after diesel fuel leak, city officials say ( www.actionnews5.com )

Severe thunderstorm on Tuesday caused a diesel leak that made its way into the city water supply.

Outraged family buries hostage killed by IDF, vows to 'shake the country' ( www.usatoday.com )

Unguided ‘dumb bombs’ used in almost half of Israeli strikes on Gaza (Gifted article - no pay wall) ( wapo.st )

China's Xi warns top EU officials not to engage in 'confrontation' ( www.reuters.com )

Danish dockworkers join Swedish strike action against Tesla ( www.reuters.com )

Israel-Gaza live news: IDF resumes strikes as ceasefire with Hamas ends - BBC News ( www.bbc.com )

Israel resumed bombing the Gaza Strip, as the truce ended this morning after failed negotiations....

40 workers have been trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in India for over a week and 3 attempts to drill through the debris have failed so far ( www.insider.com )

Hamas denies refusing fuel from Israel for Al-Shifa Hospital ( www.reuters.com )

Israel-Palestine, lives of one million children ‘hanging by a thread,’ as child health services almost collapse across the Gaza Strip ( www.unicef.org )

The Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital was damaged again yesterday in an attack, including lifesaving equipment, according to reports. Another children’s hospital in the north has stopped operating due to damage and a lack of fuel, and a specialist maternity hospital is in desperate need of fuel to keep functioning....

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