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• Disaster Capitalism: Puerto Rico Plunged into Darkness After Privatization of Electric Utility

  15 de junio, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  More than 1 million people in Puerto Rico were left in the dark this month after power transmission and distribution for the island was taken over by a private company under a 15-year contract. Much of Puerto Rico lost power after a fire at an electrical substation caused a massive blackout (...)

• NATO Ramps Up Rhetoric Against China & Russia. Is Biden Leading the U.S. into a New Cold War?

  15 de junio, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  China says NATO is adopting a "Cold War mentality" after the military alliance singled out China and Russia for criticism during a summit in Brussels. In its final communiqué, NATO leaders said, "China's stated ambitions and assertive behavior present systemic challenges to the rules-based (...)

• NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Released from Prison as Family Pushes Biden to Pardon Her

  15 de junio, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  Former National Security Agency contractor Reality Leigh Winner was released from prison Monday to serve the rest of her sentence in a halfway house. We get an update from the lawyer handling her commutation and pardon process. Winner was arrested in 2017 under the Espionage Act for leaking (...)

• Headlines for June 15, 2021

  15 de junio, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  China Blasts "Cold War Mentality" as Biden Pushes NATO to Declare China a Security Risk, WHO Says G7 Vaccine Pledge Falls Far Short of What's Needed to End Pandemic, COVID-19 Surges in Unvaccinated African Nations; Chile Locks Down Santiago Despite Vaccinations, Brazilian Indigenous Leaders (...)

• 50 Years After Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg Reveals U.S. Weighed 1958 Nuclear Strike on China over Taiwan

  14 de junio, puesto en línea por webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
  As President Biden meets with leaders of NATO countries, where he is expected to continue stepping up rhetoric against China and Russia ahead of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this Wednesday in Geneva, we speak with famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about (...)

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