Daily Archives: June 29, 2024

2024-06-29: News Headlines

Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. (2024-06-29). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 265: Gazans Face 'Catastrophic' Food Insecurity. popularresistance.org Israel's war minister Yoav Gallant said at the conclusion of his top-level meetings in Washington that Israel does not want an all-out war with Lebanon and that it prefers the diplomatic route for a solution. However, he added that Israel can't accept the presence of Hezbollah's units at its northern border. | Israel's Channel 12 reported that the Biden administration was angry over Netanyahu's public remarks about the U.S.'s withholding of the delivery of arms to Israel. According to reports, the White House told Israel that the delivery of arms would not be completed even after the end of Israel's operations in…

Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. (2024-06-29). Ansar Allah Are Not Working with Al-Shabaab. popularresistance.org On October 19, 2023, Yemen's Ansar Allah began launching missiles and armed drones at Israel, demanding an end to its war and blockade on the Gaza Strip. More significantly, they began seizing and launching aerial attacks against dozens of merchant and naval vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden that were carrying cargo to and from Israel. | In Arabic, Ansar Allah means "Supporters of God." It is a Shia Islamist political and military nationalist organization that emerged in Yemen in the 1990s. The group is commonly but disrespectfully referred to as "the Houthis," a term which has a derogatory tribalist co…

newarab (2024-06-29). Women in Gaza bear brunt of war amid food insecurity. newarab.com Women in The report from UN Women states at least 557,000 women in Gaza are currently food insecure. | According to the report, many women, particularly mothers, often prioritise feeding others and go without food in order to do this. | The report found that women in the devastated territory are…

newarab (2024-06-29). Egyptian detainee handed over by Kuwait dies in prison. newarab.com An Samir Younis, 67, was handed over to Egypt by Kuwait around five years ago, the report states. | Younis, a former university professor at Egypt's Helwan University had been working in Kuwait for over 25 years. | He was wanted, and later convicted by the E…

Eric Toussaint (2024-06-29). The World Bank and IMF have set their sights on East Timor, a state officially born in May 2002. cadtm.org In July 2024, the World Bank and the IMF will be 80 years old. 80 years of financial neo-colonialism and the imposition of austerity policies in the name of debt repayment. 80 years is enough! The Bretton Woods institutions must be abolished and replaced by democratic institutions serving an ecological, feminist and anti-racist bifurcation. To mark these 80 years, we are republishing a series of articles every Wednesday until July, looking in detail at the history and damage caused by these (…) | – | / |

National Homelessness Law Center (2024-06-29). National Homelessness Law Center Condemns Supreme Court Decision. indybay.org National Homelessness Law Center Condemns Supreme Court Decision, Demands Real Solutions to Homelessness…

Strike Debt Bay Area (2024-06-29). Saturday 7/27: Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: The Path to a Livable Future. indybay.org Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead (2024-06-29). The Telegraph claims Brexit has been a success, but its readers disagree. leftfootforward.org June 23 marked eight years since the referendum, which saw Britain narrowly vote in favour to leave the European Union. To observe the milestone, the pro-Brexit newspapers came out in force, dedicated op-eds and columns to apparent Brexit benefits. | A Telegraph View piece entitled 'Brexit is working' argued that the vote to leave was the right decision eight years ago and is the right decision now. The article offers little in terms of why it was the right decision, other than the trade deals that have been signed with Australia and New Zealand, which, according to the report, "would not have been possible wh…

Natalia Marques (2024-06-29). Two candidates, one war against migrants. peoplesdispatch.org Following the first debate between the presidential nominees from each major party, working people across the United States have been recovering from the dismay of watching two senile politicians with dismal approval ratings spar on national television. | Top Democrats

WSWS (2024-06-29). The Biden-Trump debate and the crisis of the American political system. wsws.org Even by the standards of American "political culture," Thursday night's presidential debate between US President Joseph Biden and former President Donald Trump was a spectacle of degradation, reaction and stupidity.

WSWS (2024-06-29). Strikers at multi-billion-dollar Cargill's Guelph plant forced to resort to food banks. wsws.org Since the strike began, there have been over 100 new clients requiring food support—almost triple the monthly average. Poverty levels in the area, according to the last census, showed that 11 per cent of people living in Guelph were low-income families.

María Candela (2024-06-29). °Pobre pueblo norteamericano! radiohc.cu El pasado jueves se produjo el esperado primer debate presidencial, entre los virtuales candidatos demócrata y republicano: el presidente, Joe Biden, que aspira a la reelección y el expresidente, Donald Trump, que intenta regresar a la Casa Blanca, ambos sin ser elegidos por las Convenciones de ambos partidos.

2024-06-29 21:41:29 | 21:41 EST | tr | 14 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0