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How Coca-Cola tried and failed to suppress a boycott over Gaza

August 16, 2024 From elsewhere

The Washington Post reports: When sales of Coca-Cola began to plummet in parts of the Middle East and Asia this summer in response to boycotts of corporations with alleged ties to Israel, the soda company’s franchise in Bangladesh rolled out an expensive advertising campaign featuring a television star known for his roles in South Asian soap operas and reality TV. The actor, Sharaf Ahmed Jibon, played a shopkeeper who assured customers that Coca-Cola was not an Israeli product and underscored…

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Hezbollah footage shows apparent underground rocket launch sites

August 16, 2024 From elsewhere

Reuters reports: The powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese armed group Hezbollah published footage on Friday that appeared to show its fighters driving trucks with rocket launchers through a maze of tunnels to an apparent underground launch site. The footage, 4 minutes and 35 seconds long, is the latest in a series of videos by the group flaunting its purported military capabilities, as it trades fire with the Israeli military in parallel with the Gaza war. The newest video depicts fighters riding motorcycles,…

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Republicans worry as polls in solidly red states look ‘worse than they should’ for Trump

August 15, 2024 From elsewhere

Rolling Stone reports: This month, GOP operatives and others close to Donald Trump have grown increasingly nervous over trends they’ve seen in recent private polling data produced by different Republican organizations and conservative allies. It’s not just the swing-state polling or the national surveys that are causing distress lately. The anxiety-spiking numbers are coming out of Trump strongholds like Ohio and Florida, according to three GOP sources, including two people close to the former president, who have reviewed the private…

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Hidden-camera video shows Project 2025 co-author discussing his secret work preparing for a second Trump term

August 15, 2024 From elsewhere

CNN reports: Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor. Vought, one of the key authors of Project 2025, a right-wing blueprint for a second Trump term, expected the meeting would help his think tank secure a substantial contribution. For nearly two hours, he talked candidly about his behind-the-scenes work to prepare policy for former President Donald Trump, his…

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Shell oil non-profit donated to anti-climate groups behind Project 2025

August 15, 2024 From elsewhere

The Guardian reports: A US foundation associated with the oil company Shell has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to religious right and conservative organizations, many of which deny that climate change is a crisis, tax records reveal. Fourteen of those groups are on the advisory board of Project 2025, a conservative blueprint proposing radical changes to the federal government, including severely limiting the Environment Protection Agency. Shell USA Company Foundation sent $544,010 between 2013 and 2022 to organizations that…

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Palestinian Reverend Munther Isaac to U.S. faith leaders: If you are silent, you approve of genocide

August 15, 2024 From elsewhere

Nearly 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza, according to the official death toll, though the true casualty figure is likely far higher with thousands of the dead unaccounted for. Meanwhile, Israeli forces have raided towns and villages across the occupied West Bank, and settlers under military protection have repeatedly stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in recent days. This all comes as the State Department on Tuesday announced the approval of $20 billion in new arms…

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Biden ‘open’ to sending long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine

August 15, 2024 From elsewhere

Politico reports: The Biden administration is “open” to sending long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine, a move that would give Kyiv’s F-16s greater combat punch as it seeks to gain further momentum in its fight against Russia. The White House’s willingness to give Ukraine the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile comes as Kyiv’s surprisingly successful ground assault deep inside Russia heads into its second week, embarrassing Vladimir Putin and forcing him to redirect troops from the battlefield in Ukraine. No final decision…

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Daniel Levy: U.S. is a member of ‘the axis of Zionist extremism’

August 14, 2024 From elsewhere

The United States, Qatar and Egypt are urging Israel and Hamas to hold a new round of negotiations to finalize a ceasefire deal in Gaza. However, Hamas is urging mediators to enforce the ceasefire terms proposed by President Biden in May that Hamas already agreed to and that Israel rejected. Daniel Levy, president of the U.S./Middle East Project and a former Israeli peace negotiator under Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Yitzhak Rabin, says U.S.-led efforts for a ceasefire are…

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How Ukraine caught Putin’s forces off guard in Kursk — and why

August 14, 2024 From elsewhere

Michael Weiss and James Rushton write: “Russia’s borders do not end anywhere” ran Vladimir Putin’s electoral slogan in January 2024, in seeming justification of a war of conquest in Ukraine meant to be over shortly after it began. But in a surprise turn two and a half years after the full-scale invasion, Ukraine decided to make good on Putin’s loose definition of sovereignty by invading the Kursk region in southern Russia on Aug. 6, in what has become the largest…

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Trump allies fear he’s sabotaging his own campaign

August 14, 2024 From elsewhere

Gabriel Sherman writes: In the hierarchy of Donald Trump’s put-downs, “choker” is one of the worst things he can label someone. Trump deploys the sports-world diss to paint his adversaries as weak-kneed losers who crack under pressure like a jittery golfer missing a two-foot putt. Mitt Romney, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz––all chokers, according to Trump. So it’s ironic how the former president’s allies are describing the way he has blown his once commanding lead in the presidential race. “It’s…

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A Florida referendum is putting Trump in a bind on abortion

August 14, 2024 From elsewhere

Politico reports: Donald Trump still doesn’t have an answer on how he’ll vote on an abortion measure in his home state. And it’s about to become a lot harder for him to avoid it. Four months ago, Trump announced he favored leaving the issue of abortion to the states. Now, state-level referendums on the lightning-rod issue are making ballots across the country — including, on Monday, in the battleground state of Arizona, and on Tuesday in Missouri. And in Florida,…

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Asheville NC forces Trump campaign to pay $82k upfront for small venue so the city doesn’t get stiffed

August 14, 2024 From elsewhere

Newsweek reports: Former President Donald Trump’s campaign was forced to pay more than $82,000 in advance for this week’s rally in Asheville, North Carolina. Trump is set to take the stage at Asheville’s Thomas Wolfe Auditorium on Wednesday after paying $82,247.60 to the city for a “last-minute” rally, according to Blue Ridge Public Radio (BPR). The campaign, struggling to effectively blunt the momentum of Vice President Kamala Harris, reportedly first contacted the city about the rally on August 8. City…

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Project 2025 promises billions of tonnes more carbon pollution, study finds

August 14, 2024 From elsewhere

The Guardian reports: Project 2025 promises billions of tonnes more carbon pollution – study Experts say climate policies contained within rightwing manifesto would wreck US climate targets and cost jobs The impact of Donald Trump enacting the climate policies of the rightwing Project 2025 would result in billions of tonnes of extra carbon pollution, wrecking the US’s climate targets, as well as wiping out clean energy investments and more than a million jobs, a new analysis finds. Should Trump retake…

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This oil tycoon brings in millions for Trump, and may set his agenda

August 13, 2024 From elsewhere

The Washington Post reports: After Donald Trump asked the oil industry to contribute $1 billion to his presidential campaign in April, oil baron Harold Hamm immediately started working the phones. Hamm, the billionaire founder of Continental Resources, called other oil executives and encouraged them to attend fundraisers and open their wallets, according to people with knowledge of the outreach who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private discussions. “We’ve got to do…

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