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Russian President Vladimir Putin at the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum, Vladivostok, September 5, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin has outwitted the West by his response to Ukraine’s Kursk offensive one month ago, which was widely celebrated as a tipping point in the conflict. The conflict is indeed at a tipping point today, but for an entirely different reason insofar as Russian forces seized the folly of Ukraine’s deployment of its crack brigades and prized Western armour to Kursk Region to reach an unassailable position in the most recent weeks in the battlefields, which opens the door for multiple options going forward.
Robert Daly and Christopher Busby
Dr. Christopher Busby is part a mixed crew of investigative reporters and commentators from Lebanon and some film-makers investigating “Israel’s” use of enriched uranium in strikes on Gaza on Lebanon, and aim to follow up on the strange illnesses that are appearing on the battlefield.
Dr. Robert Daly
Washington is waging an economic world war.
The US government has imposed sanctions on one-third of all countries on Earth, including more than 60% of poor nations, according to a comprehensive report in the Washington Post.
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Pro-Palestinian voices, whether they be activists, journalists or social media influencers are being placed behind bars in the United Kingdom and even being accused of supporting terrorism, because they oppose the actions of the Israeli government towards the Palestinian people.
Seven years after the Grenfell fire that took the lives of 72 people and destroyed 151 homes, the inquiry into the disaster has published its report, exposing ‘systematic dishonesty’ by cladding manufacturers, missed opportunities by successive governments, safety issues being ‘ignored, delayed or disregarded’ by a coalition government focussed on cutting regulation; ‘persistent indifference to fire safety’ by the local authority, and no strategy by the London Fire Brigade. All the deaths were avoidable, the report concludes.
A South Wales activist who is facing charges including stalking, harassment and criminal damage has told Netpol she believes Pontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, now a junior minister in the Ministry of Justice, has weaponised the police and court system to intimidate her.
Thank God Mark Twain, who famously said truth travels slower than lies, never lived to see Twitter [photo credit: Getty Images]It began as do all the best broiguses: with a one-star review in the Telegraph. “This was the ugliest Edinburgh Fringe Festival moment I’ve ever witnessed,” lamented Dominic Cavendish.
By Declan Hayes
The death knell of NATO’s mercenaries in Kursk can be traced, via Hollywood’s Blood Diamond movie, all the way back to Rhodesia’s Bush War, where Rhodesia’s SAS, their Selous Scouts, and their Rhodesian Light Infantry, arguably history’s best and deadliest special forces ever, won all their battles, and, according to themselves at least, killed up to 15,000 insurgents, whilst suffering only 85 KIAs themselves.
The US openly declares that it seeks to maintain a monopoly over shaping the “international order” following the Cold War and America’s emergence from it as the sole superpower.
This policy is not new.
The New York Times in a 1992 article titled, “U.S. Strategy Plan Calls for Insuring No Rivals Develop,” would note that the Pentagon sought to create a world, “dominated by one superpower whose position can be perpetuated by constructive behavior and sufficient military might to deter any nation or group of nations from challenging American primacy.”
I’ve just watched an interview with Sarah Wilkinson on the Crispin Flintoff Show and it was disturbing to say the least. If you’ve read my recent newsletters, or been paying attention to social media, you will be aware Sarah Wilkinson is a pro-Palestinian journalist who was arrested in the UK under section 12 of the Terrorism Act. This is shocking enough, but Sarah has now broken down the treatment she received from police and the absurdity of her bail conditions.
Sarah Wilkinson, a British reporter and human rights activist, was taken into custody by UK police early on Thursday morning due to online posts she made about Palestine and denouncing the Israeli activities in Gaza, which she referred to as genocide.
Today, elections take place in two large provincial states (Lander) in eastern Germany All the opinion polls show that the Eurosceptic, anti-immigrant, Russia-friendly parties of both the extreme right and the new left are ahead. The parties of the current Federal coalition of the Social Democrats, Greens and the so-called Free Democrats are being decimated to the point of non-existence in these states of the former East Germany. The three eastern states combined are home to around 8.5 million people, making up 10 per cent of Germany’s population. But it is not just in these states that the ‘centre’ of German politics is collapsing. The three parties in Chancellor Scholz’s coalition government have seen their combined share of the vote fall from over 50 per cent at the end of 2021, to less than a third today.
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Dr. Munther Isaac delivering his remarks at Riverside Church. [Source: YouTube.com]
On April 4, 1967, from the pulpit of Manhattan’s storied Riverside Church, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered one of his most powerful sermons. Titled “Beyond Vietnam—A Time to Break Silence,” it was the first time King had publicly denounced the Vietnam War. He had long avoided doing so in the past, but finally concluded that his conscience left him “no other choice.” As he explained to the congregation, “a time comes when silence is betrayal.”
Dr. Khaled Alser, a highly respected Palestinian surgeon, is the lead author of The Lancet’s first medical paper to detail cases of trauma among Gazan patients and medical professionals. But he has had little opportunity to mark the occasion: On March 25, the Israel Defense Forces abducted him during a raid on his hospital and he remains in captivity, his whereabouts unconfirmed. Since his abduction, he has been held at Ofer Detention Center. He has also spent at least three months at Sde Teiman, a notorious IDF-run torture camp in the Negev Desert. A Physicians for Human Rights Israel report provided to his colleagues recently includes testimony detailing Dr. Alser’s torture and abuse at the camp, though Alser has been accused of no wrongdoing.
Richard Falk
[Prefatory Note: Modified responses to questions posed by Rodrigo Craveiro, a journalist with the Brazilian newspaper, CORREIO BRAZILIENSE, on 8/29/24, addressing the concerted Israeli military operation, extending the tactics and devastation of its attack on the Gaza Strip since last October, to the occupied West Bank. Again, Washington’s silence is almost as dismaying as Israel blatant disregard of law and standards of decency.]
From the outset of Israel’s response to the October 7 attack, I believed that it was being used as a pretext for ‘ethnic cleansing’ to induce massive departures of the resident Palestinian populations from the three Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), with a long undisclosed priority being systemic expulsion coupled with massive devastation of the West Bank. It should not be forgotten that when the Netanyahu coalition at the start of 2023, that is, months before the Hamas attack, took over occupation and administration of the OPT it was viewed even in Western circles as the ‘most extreme’ in Israel’s history. What made it extreme from Day One were two characteristics: the appointment of Itmar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, leaders of the far right religious Zionist parties in the Netanyahu coalition insistent on an ethnic cleansing agenda, as the chief administrators of Occupied Palestine, and the closely associated greenlighting of West Bank widespread settler violence in West Bank villages while the political leadership in Israel smiled obligingly.
By Hugo Dionísio
The New Dark Age 