For today, links to an interview from MintPress News, and to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, National Public Radio, and MintPress News, and to commentary from the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM
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FROM JUNE 6 FBI whistleblower exposes Israel’s chokehold on American politics. Mnar Adley of MintPress News talks with former FBI special agent turned whistleblower and peace activist Coleen Rowley about what she sees as fundamental realities underlying U.S. foreign policies. Click HERE for introduction and interview.
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Gaza’s Health Ministry says 274 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raid that rescued 4 hostages, by Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | AP DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — At least 274 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more were wounded in the Israeli raid that rescued four hostages held by Hamas, Gaza’s Health Ministry said today. The military said its forces . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israel pounds central Gaza as Palestinian death toll in hostage rescue raid rises to 274, by Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters CAIRO — Israeli forces pounded central Gaza anew today, a day after killing 274 Palestinians during a hostage rescue raid, and tanks advanced into further areas of Rafah in a bid to seal off part of the southern city, residents and Hamas media said. Palestinians remained in shock over . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM JUNE 8 Israeli forces rescue four hostages in ‘complex’ operation. Reported by Scott Detrow and Kat Lonsdorf | NPR Israeli forces rescued four hostages from Gaza on Saturday, in a “complex special daytime operation,” according to a statement put out by Israeli officials. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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FROM JUNE 8 Former Israeli captive in Gaza says biggest fear was Israeli air strikes, by Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News / Popular Resistance In an interview with Israel’s Haaretz, a former Israeli soldier, 70, who was held captive in the Gaza Strip, said his biggest fear was the IDF planes — “that they would bomb the building we were in.” READ MORE . . .
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FROM JUNE 7 The no-rules international order, by Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental Institute for Social Research / Consortium News The “rules-based international order” has always provided immunity for the United States and its close allies, an immunity whose hypocrisy has increasingly been revealed. It is this double-standard that has provoked the collapse of the U.S.-driven world order. READ MORE . . .