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Hawaiian independence party resists US war drive against China
Friends of Socialist China
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August 8, 2025
The following is an interview by People’s Dispatch with Kawenaʻulaokalā Kapahua, of the Hawaiian independence party Hui Aloha ʻĀina (Hawaiian Patriotic League). Kawena spoke to People’s Dispatch ahead of the People’s Summit for Korea, which took...
US Air Force cancels plan to host Singapore fighters on Guam
Stars and Stripes - Washington D.C
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An F-15 Eagle fighter from Kadena Air Base, Japan, takes off from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, during the Cope North exercise Feb. 19, 2020. (Seth Robson/Stars and Stripes) The Department of the Air Force has scrapped a plan to base a dozen...
Nations divided over global plastic pollution treaty with days to deadline
The Manila Times
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August 11, 2025
GENEVA — Countries remained at loggerheads Monday over how to tackle plastic pollution, with only four days left to craft a landmark global treaty on reining in the ever-growing scourge. While plastic has transformed modern life, plastic pollution...
Four days left to square the circle on global plastic pollution treaty
Leader Publications - Missouri
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Countries remained at loggerheads Monday over how to tackle plastic pollution, with only four days left to craft a landmark global treaty on reining in the ever-growing scourge. While plastic has transformed modern life, plastic pollution poses an...
Who’s who at the plastics treaty talks, from delegates to lobbyists
Grist Magazine
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August 8, 2025
As delegates from around the world have negotiated a global plastics treaty over five sessions since 2022, alliances have emerged among nations, across civil society, and throughout the private sector. Some countries have banded together in...
Farmers restore breadfruit’s role in Pacific Islands food systems
The Pacific Island Times
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August 10, 2025
Across the Pacific Islands, breadfruit is more than a food staple—it’s a vessel of heritage, knowledge and climate resilience. Once regarded as a traditional crop from the past, it is now taking on new relevance as farmers, scientists and...
LETTER: Why knowing CHamoru history still matters
Pacific Daily News
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Many of us from Guam know the broad strokes: the flags that flew, the bombs that fell, the stories our grandparents told, and the Liberation Day parades each July. But what about way before all that? Long before we were first colonized by Spain in...
Massive and unwieldy, Pacific SIDS concerned over ballooning plastics treaty text
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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August 10, 2025
As a scorching heatwave sweeps across Geneva, tensions inside the United Nations’ Palais des Nations are also rising. Delegates from Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have raised concerns over the swelling size and complexity of the...
OSU's Destination Medicine aims to heal the world
Newark Advocate - Ohio
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Annchien de Wal de Bruijn and Chris de Wal marked their fifth wedding anniversary in 2019 in a hospital room half a world away from their home in the Netherlands. De Bruijn was still bandaged and exhausted from a second surgery to treat a brain...
Backdoor deal? Yap-US military agreement criticized as a sellout
The Pacific Island Times
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August 8, 2025
Yap International Airport/Photo courtesy of YIA The U.S. military and the Yap leadership are forging ahead with infrastructure projects proposed for the island state based on a revised agreement that was signed behind closed doors, according to...
On 80th anniversary of Hiroshima, new questions arise about ‘the Bomb’
People's World
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August 6, 2025
Japanese journalist Yoshito Matsushige took five photos in Hiroshima on the day of the atomic bombing, Aug. 6, 1945; they are the only photographic evidence from the city on that day. This image of a group of junior high school children, taken...
The nuclear road not taken—and its consequences 80 years after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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August 5, 2025
August 5, 2025 It all started in 1939, when Albert Einstein signed a letter, drafted by Leo Szilard, to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning that Nazi Germany might develop “extremely powerful bombs of a new type” and urging him to act to...
Kolacky Days celebrates Czech heritage in Minnesota
St. Cloud Times - Minnesota
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The Franke family bakes 1,600 to 1,800 dozen kolacky for Montgomery's annual Kolacky Days festival. Montgomery, Minnesota, has a strong Czech heritage, reflected in the festival and the town's history. Kolacky Days is part of a wider tradition of...
Ancient rice discovery reshapes understanding of earliest Pacific voyagers
The Guam Daily Post
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Groundbreaking archaeological research has confirmed that Guam’s earliest inhabitants carried domesticated rice across 2,300 kilometers of open ocean 3,500 years ago. The finding offers the first direct evidence of rice cultivation in Remote...
The Spending Plan Settlement Act of 2025 Method Harmful Cuts for Older Grownups
Savannah Herald - Georgia
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August 7, 2025
On July 4, the President authorized right into legislation the 2025 Budget Negotiation Act (H.R. 1 , previously called the “One Huge Sensational Cost Act.” The legislation consists of the biggest cuts in history to Medicaid and the Supplemental...
Billy Roberts’ crazy leaflet
Marshall Islands Journal
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August 7, 2025
Journal 8/9/1982 P1 Senator Imada Kabua criticizes Kwaj treatment Senator Imada Kabua on August 6 blasted the government of the Marshalls for not recognizing the duly elected Kwajalein Atoll Corporation leaders and accused the government of trying...
Rolex boutique, two other luxury brand stores on Guam to close shop
The Pacific Island Times
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August 8, 2025
The Rolex boutique at the Dusit Place in Tumon will close its business on Dec. 31, 2025. Photo by Mar-Vic Cagurangan/Pacific Island Times Caronel Inc., the exclusive retailer of Rolex and other name-brand wristwatches on Guam, will close its three...
OPINION Bevacqua: Biba Prugråman Sinipok 2025
Pacific Daily News
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Last month, the fourth year of I Prugråman Sinipok or the adult CHamoru language and culture immersion program, took place. It’s organized by a group of volunteers and sponsored in part by the Guam Museum. Since this program first started in 2022,...
New Migration Provisions in the Landmark ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’
The Tablet - New York
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August 6, 2025
President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” contains at least 30 provisions related to migration, including funding for border security enhancements and other measures. (Photo: OSV News/Leah Millis, via Reuters) On July 17, the United...
After federal guidelines shift, JCCC restricts access to English classes for some immigrants
The Beacon - Missouri
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August 7, 2025
There are a lot of reasons Yenifer is working on learning English. There are the big ones, like communicating with a brother-in-law who doesn’t speak Spanish, improving her career prospects or one day helping her community with interpretation....