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Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC: “Maybe, it presages a new era, in which trans-continental infrastructure will become a target for operations aimed at weakening other states”

11:22 22.02.2023

Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC: “Maybe, it presages a new era, in which trans-continental infrastructure will become a target for operations aimed at weakening other states”

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council briefing on threats to international peace and security (sabotage of Nord Stream gas pipeline). Main points: - Today we have gathered here for a very remarkable meeting. It is somewhat assonant with the previous meeting regarding the act of sabotage …

“For the last time I raise a glass in memory of Europe”

9:57 22.02.2023

“For the last time I raise a glass in memory of Europe”

A single peaceful space, social democracy, the protection of languages – this is what Europe looked like at the end of the 90s, when the USSR collapsed. But today, another reality has won, writes columnist Benoît Duteurtre on the ‘Marianne’ website. America played an important role in this. “…I raise …

U.S. tells Ukraine it won’t send long-range missiles because it has ‘few to spare’

9:57 22.02.2023

U.S. tells Ukraine it won’t send long-range missiles because it has ‘few to spare’

US lacks missile weapons? The Biden administration has given its Ukrainian counterparts another reason for not sending them much-wanted long-range missiles: The U.S. is concerned it wouldn’t have enough for itself. POLITICO talks about it with surprise. Of course, war, as the Chinese say, is ‘the way of deception’. Nevertheless …

FT: Russia’s growing trade in arms, oil and African politics

9:56 22.02.2023

FT: Russia’s growing trade in arms, oil and African politics

At the inaugural Russia-Africa summit in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in 2019, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin promised to double trade with African states within five years as he sought to win new friends with offers of nuclear power plants and fighter jets. Russian trade with Africa in 2021, …

Ohio tragedy: “We nuked a town with chemicals”

10:43 21.02.2023

Ohio tragedy: “We nuked a town with chemicals”

At nearly 9’oclock on the night of February 3rd, a Norfolk Southern freight train jumped the tracks as it was passing through the eastern Ohio town of East Palestine. More than 50 of the train’s 141 cars tumbled off the rails into a smoking jumble. Like most freight trains these …

Dubai Summit: Elon Musk against the idea of World Government

10:42 21.02.2023

Dubai Summit: Elon Musk against the idea of World Government

The World Government Summit in Dubai has held under the theme of "Shaping Future Governments". The Summit will bring thought leaders, global experts and decision makers from around the globe to share and contribute to the development of tools, policies, and models that are essential in shaping future governments. Heads …

Unbelievable: UK Child asylum seekers detained as ‘adults’ and in USA a senator states: “Some food is made from aborted fetuses”

10:41 21.02.2023

Unbelievable: UK Child asylum seekers detained as ‘adults’ and in USA a senator states: “Some food is made from aborted fetuses”

The UK Home Office is routinely changing the dates of birth of unaccompanied child asylum seekers to classify them as adults, according to experts who say the practice is now happening on a “horrifying scale”, writes ‘The Guardian’. As a result, many children are being wrongly sent to the notorious …

The burning desire of the Anglo-Saxons – to destroy Russia – is a failed attempt

12:09 20.02.2023

The burning desire of the Anglo-Saxons – to destroy Russia – is a failed attempt

Conventional wisdom in the West is that this war with Ukraine is destroying Russia but in some ways Russia maybe better prepared for this than the West. The current Ukrainian conflict is the epilogue of the four centuries-old West-centric era as it formalises the power shift to the world’s East …

The Ukraine crises in the light of the UN Charter

12:08 20.02.2023

The Ukraine crises in the light of the UN Charter

The war in Ukraine did not start on 24 February 2022, but already in February 2014. The civilian population of the Donbas has endured continued shelling from Ukrainian forces since 2014, notwithstanding the Minsk Agreements. These attacks on Lugansk and Donetsk significantly increased in January-February 2022, as reported by the …

Seymour Hersh about terrorism on Nord Stream Pipelines: “It’s one of the dumbest things the American government has done in years”

9:47 19.02.2023

Seymour Hersh about terrorism on Nord Stream Pipelines: “It’s one of the dumbest things the American government has done in years”

Reporter Seymour Hersh (photo) on Democracy Now. An emission “How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline” with his big revelations: - I’m just writing about inside baseball stuff. It’s the normal things you do. They set up in (White House) a committee to think of options. Russia was clearly …

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