Links to a report from National Public Radio and to an article from Informed Comment and Book DNA; others are accessible by clicking on their names. (Scroll up for today’s GAZA, IRAN and UKRAINE so far, and down for MEDIA 6-7-26.) — MCM

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Former ’60 Minutes’ correspondent Scott Pelley speaks out after firing. Reported by Michel Martin and David Folkenflik | NPR  Former “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley said CBS’s news leader Bari Weiss shouldn’t be leading the network. Pelley spoke to the New York Times just days after being fired by CBS. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.

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FROM JUNE 3  Top 5 books on Islam during Iran war, by Juan R.I. Cole | Informed Comment / Book DNA  My interest in Islam was kindled when I lived in Eritrea, East Africa, as a teenager, and in my youth fell in love with the mystical Sufi tradition. I went on to live in the Muslim world for over a decade. Click HERE for beginning of article, and HERE for a continuation at Book DNA.

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