Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have signed a peace deal brokered by the US in Washington DC. Pacifica’s Ann Garrison reports.
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The crisis in the trade union movement is growing as workers and unions are under direct attack. One of Trump’s biggest supporters is Teamsters Union President Sean O’Brien, who gave money to the Republican National Committee and invited Trump to the Teamsters headquarters for a press conference attacking immigrants.
Philadelphia Teamster Local 623 Secretary Treasurer Richard Hooker Jr. declared last week that he will be running against O’Brien. He spoke to Pacifica’s Steve Zeltzer.
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On June 26, a national day of protest took place against the Palantir corporation which is owned by billionaire techno-fascist Peter Thiel. Protesters at the Palo Alto headquarters and the New York office charged that the company is profiting from the mass roundup of immigrants and fueling the genocide in Gaza by providing data and information tools to target Palestinians.
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Next, Grayzone Editor Max Blumenthal speaks to Judge Andrew Napolitano on his Judging Freedom podcast on Wednesday, June 25th about the Iranian Israeli American War. Twelve days after Israel’s decapitation strikes targeted Iranian military, intelligence, political leadership and facilities, followed by American B2 bombers dropping 15-ton bunker-buster bombs on Iranian nuclear research and production sites, a tenuous ceasefire is barely holding. Stories emerging from Israel speak of heavy losses to Israeli leadership and command structures. Blumenthal comments on the varying aims of the warring states as well as the potential impacts of the conflict on Israeli society while seeing the war as a potential watershed event for Zionist Israel.
The Grayzone website is thegrayzone.com.
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Music:
Baloji – “Le Jour d’Après / Siku Ya Baadaye” (Indépendance Cha-Cha)
