Folks, today is the one year anniversary of this newsletter. Yes, one year ago today, the first edition was released. It was a much different newsletter at the time. I only did it twice a week and had a far more limited number of stories in each edition. Hopefully, this is just the first of many anniversaries.

Featured News

New Means: The Center does not exist

rabble: Stonewalling voices at risk: Human rights obligations at Canadian embassies dead on arrival

teleSUR: Ethiopia Launches Historic One-Day Drive to Plant 700 Million Trees

The Guardian: Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity – report

Truthout: US Activist Chris Smalls Released From Israeli Prison After Beating by Officers

Canada & USA

Canadian political news:

• Canada-U.S. trade negotiations 'may not conclude' by Aug. 1, Carney says

• Ford says 35% increase on tariffs concerning, reiterates calls for 50% tariff on U.S. steel, aluminum

• Trump says Canada’s Palestinian move is new trade deal stumbling block

Other Canada news:

• B.C. Wildfires: Lytton First Nation orders wildfire evacuation | Blaze east of Harrison Lake now 'wildfire of note' | Evacuations underway in Peachland |

• BC's backing of Cedar LNG courts financial liability

• Canadian aid pallets part of Gaza airdrop after Israel loosens restrictions

• Hamilton judge reprimanded, ordered to apologize to Peter Khill after giving wrong manslaughter sentence

• Hamilton taxpayers on the hook for full cyberattack bill

• Oil spill on the St. Marys River, Algoma health unit reports

US news:

• Boise Cascade workers strike in Billings

• Federal government rescinds Oregon’s offshore wind energy area

• Georgia detainee with prosthetic legs who objected to flooded cell sent to solitary

• Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theorist Who Likened BLM to Terrorists to Lead Counterterrorism Center

• Microsoft officially tops $4 trillion in market cap, joining Nvidia in exclusive club

• Pentagon pulls back more National Guard troops and leaves behind 250 in Los Angeles

• Tennessee death row inmate can be executed without deactivating implanted defibrillator, court rules

• Texas Court of Criminal Appeals pushes death row inmate’s case back to trial court

• The Deep Ties and Deeper Pockets of Minnesota’s Far-Right

• UAW reaches tentative agreement with major parts supplier following weeks of stalled talks

World News

Palestinian genocide and other Israeli and US aggressions in West Asia:

• More than 70 aid seekers killed as starvation worsens in Gaza

• Operation 'Gideon’s Chariots' nears end, IOF pulling back

• US State Department sanctions Palestinian Authority for ‘undermining peace’

Other world news:

• 12,000 workers protest as German auto supplier ZF plans massive job cuts

• Ecuador and US Sign Controversial Security Agreement Amid Rising Social Unrest

• Four Times Rejected: Stateless Lotshampa Refugees Appeal to Nepal’s Supreme Court

• Government pushes back on claims FBI's new office in Wellington to counter China

• Heavy rainfall in Beijing leaves 44 dead, 9 missing

• Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity – report

• Portugal to Begin Consultations on Recognizing the Palestinian State

• Russia kills six in drone, missile strikes on Ukraine’s Kyiv: Zelenskyy

• Seoul sees 22 tropical nights, most ever recorded in July

• Slovenia bans import, export, transit of Israeli arms over war on Gaza

• Somaliland courts US with military base, mineral deals for recognition

• Trump extends Mexico’s 25% tariffs for 90 days as talks continue

• Water crisis deepens in Puerto Rico

What I’m Reading

• Argentinian Feminists, Retirees, Unions Unite Against Milei

• Eight Prisons in Virginia Lack AC in 108-Degree Heat. I Am Stuck in One of Them.

• Israel Apologists Think "No No, We're Starving SICK Kids!" Is A Winning Argument

• It’s time to rethink Canada’s approach to U.S. trade negotiations

• National Disasters Don’t Discriminate. But Does Recovery?