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“New Europe” versus “Old Europe” – The end of the illusion and the danger of a war

10:12 03.07.2023

“New Europe” versus “Old Europe” – The end of the illusion and the danger of a war

The war in Ukraine divides Europeans more than unites them, thinks Riva Danielle, observer for ‘Defend Democracy Press’. The boundless and uncritical commitment of their leaders side by side with Ukraine and the "American friend" will be a heavy burden to influence the future of the emerging new military-political empire: …

The Fall of the West

10:11 03.07.2023

The Fall of the West

Although the decline of the west is rapidly becoming more evident to informed observers of current events, the start of that decline is less easy to pinpoint, in part because it seemed less inevitable and more reversable until quite recently. Was the high point the Austro-Hungarian Empire? Victorian England? The …

China: 5-year plan for double-digit expansion of transport networks

10:33 02.07.2023

China: 5-year plan for double-digit expansion of transport networks

China has put together a five-year transportation infrastructure investment plan that would continue heavy spending on highways, high-speed rail and airports after a record-setting 2022. The plan would expand expressways under the central government's purview to 130,000 kilometers by its final year of 2027, up 11% from the end of …

Declassified files expose British role in terror armies

10:31 02.07.2023

Declassified files expose British role in terror armies

Newly declassified British files shed disturbing light on the origins and internal workings of Operation Gladio, a covert NATO plot deploying fascist terror militias across Italy. Have spies in London applied these lessons in Ukraine? – asks ‘The Gray Zone’, which presents new documents on the case. Newly declassified British …

Mexico to tax imports of genetically modified corn

10:30 02.07.2023

Mexico to tax imports of genetically modified corn

Food products expressed on the basis of GMs are very dangerous for human health. In a move aimed at supporting national production and preventing imports of genetically modified (GM) corn, Mexico has imposed a 50 percent tariff on white corn imports. The policy, which will be in force until the …

AI can predict person’s politics by their looks: Attention! If you smile, you are ‘right-wing’?

10:09 01.07.2023

AI can predict person’s politics by their looks: Attention! If you smile, you are ‘right-wing’?

Artificial intelligence algorithms can help predict a person’s political ideology based on their facial characteristics, a study conducted in Denmark found. The tech found right-wing politicians were more likely to have happy facial expressions in photos while people pictured with neutral facial expressions were more likely to identify as left-wing, …

Hunger in the UK shows – this is just the tip of the Iceberg

10:06 01.07.2023

Hunger in the UK shows – this is just the tip of the Iceberg

“Our latest and most in-depth study to date on hunger reveals its causes, impacts and who is affected,” announces ‘The Trussell Trust’. This landmark research is also the first time we’ve been able to dive more deeply into the experience of hunger in the UK, with reports on Scotland, Northern …

Vassily Nebenzia: “The collective West not only steers an unrestrained flow of weapons to the Kiev regime, but also hosts training of AFU and nationalist battalions”

10:05 01.07.2023

Vassily Nebenzia: “The collective West not only steers an unrestrained flow of weapons to the Kiev regime, but also hosts training of AFU and nationalist battalions”

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council briefing on arms deliveries to Ukraine. He said in particular: - Western states keep trying to make the global community forget that the crisis in Ukraine, as well as deliveries of Western weapons to Kiev, started long before the special …

Seymour Hersh: ‘Putin fully backed the army who let Prigo make a fool of himself’

10:46 30.06.2023

Seymour Hersh: ‘Putin fully backed the army who let Prigo make a fool of himself’

The Biden administration had a glorious few days last weekend, notes Seymour Hersh, the famous American investigative journalist and political writer. The ongoing disaster in Ukraine slipped from the headlines to be replaced by the “revolt,” as a New York Times headline put it, of Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the …

British hysterics: ‘A danger for democracy!’ – Germany’s far right scores first local victory

10:45 30.06.2023

British hysterics: ‘A danger for democracy!’ – Germany’s far right scores first local victory

It finally showed up! The FT shows how it is dissatisfied with the results of the popular vote in the local elections in Germany. ‘A danger for democracy’! - it writes anxiously: Annette Scharfenberg, one of thousands of people who voted for the right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in a …

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