SNAP CUTS LEAVE STATES AND COUNTIES FACING SPIRALING HUNGER CRISIS
-Food banks are struggling to fill the gap in Arizona.
-Where more than half of recipients lost federal assistance. 
-One year after President Donald Trump signed legislation that slashed federal health care and food assistance to pay for tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy, officials on the front lines of the nation’s affordability crisis say the costs to state and local governments of filling holes left by Congress in the safety net are unsustainable. Demand for food assistance is rising as children and the elderly go hungry and millions struggle to afford the rising prices, leaving state and local governments in a tight fiscal squeeze.
-At the Flagstaff Family Food Center, the central food bank in Flagstaff, Arizona, president and CEO Ethan Amos said the number of people coming in for hot meals has nearly doubled over the past year, and the demand for take-home groceries continues to rise.
SEE: SNAP Cuts Leave ...

THE WHITE HELMETS INVADE VENEZUELA
-On June 27th, a plane ferrying a “specialized” team of “highly trained search and rescue specialists” flew into Venezuela from Damascus. Dispatched at putative Syrian leader Ahmad al-Sharaa’s direct order, the 15-strong group is assisting disaster efforts launched by Caracas in response to devastating twin earthquakes. Among them are members of the notorious White Helmets. A bogus humanitarian group constructed by MI6, they played a central role in Britain’s protracted coup of Bashar Assad. Are the White Helmets similarly in Venezuela to assist regime change?
SEE: The White Helmets Invade Venezuela - PopularResistance.Org
-PHOTO: The White Helmets depart from Damascus.