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Top Videos:

• 🏖️  The IPCC's New "CODE RED" Climate Report: Second Thought (16:26)

• 🏖️  Afeni and Compton Jay: Electoral Politics Inefficient? Comm. Organizing, Disingenuous Candidates: Franc Analysis (1:03:37)

• 🏖️  Is Facebook's Smart City The Return Of The Company Town?: Naomi Karavani, Redacted Tonight (9:37)

• 🏖️  LIVE: Americans DEMAND Medicare for All and These Activists are Leading the Fight w/ Shareef Snugs, Lisa Theobald & Laura Fielding: Jenn Dize, Status Coup News (3:27:49)

• 🏖️  WHAT THE LEFT?...ELECTIONS, ACTIVISM & PODCASTS w/ Rob Buechner, Jay Befaunt & Steve Grumbine: Sabby Sabs (1:46:41)

Top Headlines:

• 🏖️  How The Taliban Surge Exposed Pentagon’s Lies: Jonathan Cook, Middle East Eye via Popular Resistance

  Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye

  "The war industries will carry on regardless, growing and prospering as though their defeat at the hands of the Taliban signifies nothing at all" - @Jonathan_K_Cook ow.ly/ZlzP30rRthP

• 🏖️  Gang Bangers With Badges…: Elias Cepeda, Deconstructing Consent

  Elias Cepeda @EliasCepeda

  What does war propaganda & Larry David screaming at Alan Dershowitz on an island for rich people have in common? Liberal Outrage & Expertise in a Time of Propaganda: eliascepeda.substack.com/p/liberal-outr…

  

• 🏖️  Defense contractors spent big in Afghanistan before the U.S. left and the Taliban took control: OpenSecrets

  OpenSecrets.org @OpenSecretsDC

  The Department of Defense issued nearly $1 billion dollars in contracts to 17 companies related to work in Afghanistan that was set to continue past the May 1 withdrawal date.

  

  crp.orgDefense contractors spent big in Afghanistan before the U.S. left and the Taliban took controlMajor defense companies spent tens of millions lobbying on defense issues in the months leading up to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

• 🏖️  'No Contracts, No Snacks': Nabisco Workers on Strike Across US: Brett Wilkins, CommonDreams

  Common Dreams @commondreams

  "If Nabisco can rake in billions of dollars in corporate profits, they can afford to treat their workers with dignity and respect," says @SenSanders.

  

  cdreams.news‘No Contracts, No Snacks’: Nabisco Workers on Strike Across US“If Nabisco can rake in billions of dollars in corporate profits, they can afford to treat their workers with dignity and respect.”

• 🏖️  First-of-its-kind study measures fracking’s impact on nearby surface water quality: Bridget Reed Morawski, EcoWatch via NationOfChange

  NationofChange @NationofChange

  “Our work provides the first large-sample evidence showing that hydraulic fracturing is related to the quality of nearby surface waters for several U.S. shales.”

  

  nationofchange.orgFirst-of-its-kind study measures fracking’s impact on nearby surface water quality - NationofChange“Our work provides the first large-sample evidence showing that hydraulic fracturing is related to the quality of nearby surface waters for several U.S. shales.”

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