G7

G7 

United States of America

Canada

France

Germany

Italy

Japan

United Kingdom

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what role for "middle powers"?

INDIA

INDONESIA

AUSTRALIA

ARGENTINA

S. KOREA

BRAZIL

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Rival Powers :

China

Russia

N. Korea

Iran

Israel and Hezbollah trade missile strikes : possibly complicating Iran - U.S. peace signatory announcement/finalization

UPDATE: 10:40 a.m. Sunday 6/14/2026

Israel claims that it hit a HEZBOLLAH

command center with its missile strikes, jet

strafing from the air attacks. . .

sources: IDF / Israel's Netanyahu govt. spokesmen 

Today's attacks

centered around the southern

Beirut, Lebanon

Israel formally accused Hezbollah

of violating a cease-fire

June 14, 2026 [ middle East Time zone ]

During the first months of 1776, this pro-Independence document sold 120,000 copies across 13 colonies (N. America)

 Thomas Paine's

PAMPHLET

Common Sense

published Jan. 10, 1776

became an instant

bestseller :

among the 2.5 million

citizens of the 13 colonies,

Paine's essay - admonition

sold 120,000 copies over

the first three months of

1776!

Thomas Paine (January 1776 writing)

 Statement of Purpose

COMMON SENSE

In the following pages

I offer nothing more than

simple facts,

plain arguments,

and common sense:

and have no other preliminaries

to settle with the reader,

than that one will divest oneself

of prejudice

and Prepossession

and suffer one's reason and 

feelings to determine for oneself:

that THEY will put on

or rather that THEY will not

put off the true character of

human beings / people,

and generously enlarge their

views beyond the present day!

Who said "Independence is my Happiness"?

Author of

The Rights of Man

Thomas Paine / Tom Paine

Independence is my

Happiness, and I view things

as they are, without regard 

to place or person; 

my country is the world, 

and my religion is to do good

[ BTW he was an expatriate who left his native England for the United

Colonies to become an activist - writer - pamphleteer; he was anti-

religion stating at one time : It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty. . . ] 

Famous recognizable political-cultural figures born on June 14

 Che Guevera, b. June 14, 1928 in Argentina

Donald John Trump b. June 14, 1946 to a

Scottish economic immigrant and a German-American

real estate investor

Josiah Henson (former slave - b. 6/14/1789 -

became a famous Canadian entrepreneur - attributed

by author Mrs. Stowe as the "real-life" Uncle Tom of

her world-famous Uncle Tom's Cabin  (1854)

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on this date in 1922 (more than a century ago)

POTUS Warren G. Harding gave the first radio

broadcast of a Presidential address.

Happy 215 th_ anniversary of the birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe (author - abolitionist)

 Harriet (Beecher)

m. Stowe

was born June 14, 1811

- - - more than two centuries

ago