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Serbian President Vučić asks NATO: Who gave the alliance the right to kill Serbs in 1999?

12:05 27.03.2023

Serbian President Vučić asks NATO: Who gave the alliance the right to kill Serbs in 1999?

Consequences of NATO's "humanitarian intervention" in Yugoslavia in 1999: - The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia is an illegal military aggression carried out WITHOUT the sanctions of the UN Security Council. - The total number of civilian deaths is over 1,700, of which 400 are children. More than 10 thousand people …

AUKUS: The war drive against China

12:04 27.03.2023

AUKUS: The war drive against China

The hawkish disposition of media outlets in a number of countries in shrieking for war is becoming palpable, writes Binoy Kampmark, a Commonwealth scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge, he also lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. The Fairfax press in Australia gave a less than admirable example of this in …

West sends depleted uranium weapons to Ukraine: MEP to Warmongers – “You Make Me Sick!”

12:03 27.03.2023

West sends depleted uranium weapons to Ukraine: MEP to Warmongers – “You Make Me Sick!”

Those who have been following events in Ukraine will know of the bloodshed and destruction taking place in that country, especially if they go beyond mainstream media reports. It was a wholly avoidable conflict that was largely engineered in Washington by a clique of neoconservatives who have been responsible for …

There is optimism that Syria stands to gain out of Saudi-Iranian rapprochement

11:21 27.03.2023

There is optimism that Syria stands to gain out of Saudi-Iranian rapprochement

The circumstances surrounding the flare-up in Syria between the US occupation forces and pro-Iranian militia groups remain murky. President Biden claims that the US is reacting, but there are signs that it is likely being proactive to create new facts on the ground, notes M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador and prominent …

FT: Is France on the road to a Sixth Republic?

11:17 27.03.2023

FT: Is France on the road to a Sixth Republic?

France was in turmoil even before Emmanuel Macron’s unilateral decision last week to raise the minimum general retirement age from 62 to 64, after he couldn’t get it voted through parliament. French anger transcends pensions and Macron’s high-handedness, notes “The Financial Times”. There’s a generalised, long-term rage against the state …

India should take the Russia-China summit in its stride

11:17 27.03.2023

India should take the Russia-China summit in its stride

The prospects of a joint communiqué emerging from the G 20 summit in September in India are becoming dim, notes Kanwal Sibal, a former Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, Ambassador to Turkey, Egypt, France and Russia. The G20 meeting of the Finance Ministers/Central Bank Governors as well that …

Putin: “I must say that certainly Russia has something to respond”

16:11 26.03.2023

Putin: “I must say that certainly Russia has something to respond”

Weapons sent to Ukraine by the West pose a threat to Russia, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin on the Rossiya-24 news channel on Saturday, informs TASS. "Of course, there are threats. When arms are being sent to the country we have a conflict with, …

Seymour Hersh: “The cover-up”

10:48 26.03.2023

Seymour Hersh: “The cover-up”

This is a new comment of American journalist Seymour Hersh: “It’s been six weeks since I published areport, based on anonymous sourcing, naming President Joe Biden as the official who ordered the mysterious destruction last September of Nord Stream 2, a new $11-billion pipeline that was scheduled to double the …

Confrontation between US and Chinese ships in South China Sea

10:47 26.03.2023

Confrontation between US and Chinese ships in South China Sea

A US Navy destroyer sailed near the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea and sparked yet another confrontation between the US and China for the second day in a row, informs London’s ‘The Independent’. The first confrontation occurred when the USS Milius guided-missile destroyer sailed near the group …

Friends will be friends: They want to be friends with rats in France

10:46 26.03.2023

Friends will be friends: They want to be friends with rats in France

Rats are everywhere in Paris and Marseille, they make their way into every nook and cranny. In recent years, there have been more and more rats, French TV channel TF1 said. According to scientists, there are about six million of them in Paris. Marseille is also "in the danger zone". …

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