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2022-08-01: News Headlines

Margaret Kimberley (2022-08-01). Celebrating Revolution in Nicaragua. orinocotribune.com By Margaret Kimberly — Jul 20, 2022 | Genuine peoples holidays are hard to come by in the US But in Nicaragua the ongoing revolutionary process is widely celebrated. | Holidays in the United States celebrate awful events such as the settler colonists declaring independence from Britain so that they might take indigenous lands and protect slavery. There is also Thanksgiving, the commemoration of genocide turned into a day when Americans should think grateful thoughts before spending more than they can afford in order to celebrate Christmas. Christmas is ostensibly a religious holiday but is rarely treated as…

_____ (2022-08-01). Nicaragua… "Still, It Moves…" popularresistance.org At his Senate confirmation hearing, Rodriguez openly declared his intention to attack Nicaragua's economy and institutions. Among other things he declared that he would work to exclude the country from the Central American Free Trade Agreement. He also promised to seek to isolate Nicaragua internationally so as to obtain the release of criminals the US government paid via its non profit network to overthrow Nicaragua's government in 2018 and to try disrupting the country's national elections in 2021. He even declared that as ambassador he would contest the development of Nicaragua's sovereign relations with China…

____ (2022-07-31). US, Oman FMs discuss JCPOA, Ukraine war, Yemen. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 31 (MNA) — Foreign Ministry of Oman announced on Saturday that Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Bin Hamad Bin Hamood Al Busaidi held a phone call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss JCPOA, Ukraine war and ceasefire in Yemen.

_____ (2022-07-31). New Migrant Caravan Heads to the U.S. popularresistance.org On Monday, about 3,700 Central American migrants left the border state of Chiapas for the United States. According to reports from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the caravan is made up of people from countries including Venezuela, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Ecuador, Cuba, Panama, and also from Asia. | Members of this new caravan reported that this mobilization is taking place after two weeks of unsuccessful waiting for a response from authorities of the National Migration Institute (NMI) for the issuance of temporary permits to travel through the territory and thus alleviate some of th…

_____ (2022-07-31). New Migrant Caravan Heads To The US. popularresistance.org On Monday, about 3,700 Central American migrants left the border state of Chiapas for the United States. According to reports from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the caravan is made up of people from countries including Venezuela, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Ecuador, Cuba, Panama, and also from Asia. | Members of this new caravan reported that this mobilization is taking place after two weeks of unsuccessful waiting for a response from authorities of the National Migration Institute (NMI) for the issuance of temporary permits to travel through the territory and thus alleviate some of th…

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