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Marked By COVID Calls for Pandemic Remembrance
Advocacy group Marked By COVID is working on plans for a permanent memorial space for pandemic victims.
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“Biden Says There’s No Blockade. Tell That to Yemenis Who Need Medical Care.”
“With a presidential campaign ramping up, Biden has an incentive to emphasize relief and openness in Yemen; the U.S. role in the humanitarian crisis — including rolling out the red carpet for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman last year, and ongoing weapons sales — goes against the president’s claims to embrace human rights as a foreign policy principle.”
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FTX: Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One
What led to FTX’s collapse? Zhao’s announcement drove down the price of FTT and spooked investors. Traders rushed to withdraw from FTX, causing the company to have a $8 billion shortfall. Binance offered a loan to save the company but later pulled out, forcing FTX to file for bankruptcy on Nov. 11. SBF and his co-conspirators’ looting and fraudulent accounting combined with their public financial illiteracy led SBF to rely on Binance for liquidity – which put an unscrupulous competitive rival with the ability to expose FTX’s massive insolvency by selling FTT’s token which Binance received for bailing out FTX.
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Step Aside Joe Campaign Warns that Biden is a “Risky Candidate” to Defeat GOP
RootsAction’s Step Aside Joe campaign said in a statement recently, “We want a Democratic nominee who is progressive and dynamic – and can be a strong candidate against the Republican contender. Biden does not qualify.”
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OSHA Heat Standards
Legislation was introduced in the House and Senate that aims to protect the safety and health of workers exposed to extreme heat.
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Thirst Strike Ends in Texas
Representative Greg Casar held an eight-hour thirst strike on the steps of the Capitol to raise awareness about worker conditions during heat waves.
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“Twin Crises of Israel”
Following the Israeli government’s decision to overhaul the judicial system, Abba Solomon, author of two books on Zionism says, “The Israeli ‘pro-democracy’ movement’s sea of Israeli flags, exclusion of Palestinian flags, and the threat of Israeli Defense Forces reservists — key to continuing IDF raids and attacks on Gaza and West Bank communities — to refuse deployment until the judicial overhaul is scrapped, illustrates that the cause is to return to Zionist rule as usual”
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“Oppenheimer” Omits Information About H-Bomb Testing Just Before Scientist’s Career Was Destroyed
Thomas Reifer, Sociology professor at University of San Diego and a fellow at the Transnational Institute says, “The film ‘Oppenheimer’ raises many important issues, none more urgent than the vast increase in destructive power that came with the making of atomic and then thermonuclear weapons…Unfortunately, the film doesn’t take the time to go into the period of U.S. testing of the H-Bomb, which along with the earlier atomic explosions, spread radioactive waste, and led to the infamous Lucky Dragon incident, about a month and a half before Oppenheimer’s security hearing depicted in the film.”
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Peace Groups to Protest Cluster Munitions at Weapons Factory
Multiple U.S. peace organizations are set to protest on Saturday, July 22 at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in light of the recent sale of cluster munitions to Ukraine. The groups say, “t reveals to the world just how little the U.S. cares for Ukrainian people and their futures and the futures of the Russian people. Corporations reaping bloody profits from cluster bombs are the only beneficiaries of this tragic policy and this war.”
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Congress Declares Support for Israel as It Recognizes Morocco’s Annexation of Western Sahara
Salka Barca, a native Saharawi and coordinator of the feminist human rights group ‘Karama Sahara’ says “The Israeli official recognition of Moroccan ‘annexation’ is not a surprise… The Israelis provide Morocco with ongoing intelligence training, drones, and technology to repress and kill the Saharawis as the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians.” Mubarak Awad, founder of Nonviolence International, is of Palestinian origin and says, “The Palestinians and Saharawis are suffering invasion, occupation and annexation with U.S. support. This must stop.”
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