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View from Palestine: Burning of the Quran – a sign of the West’ panic

10:52 16.07.2023

View from Palestine: Burning of the Quran – a sign of the West’ panic

Desecrating, then burning the Holy Quran in Sweden has, once again, raised a political storm of condemnation, but also of justification, if not outright approval, writes Ramzy Baroud, a journalist and the editor of ‘The Palestine Chronicle’. Such acts are protected by law, top Swedish and EU officials have declared. …

Greece 2023: Three more people die while waiting for ambulance

10:52 16.07.2023

Greece 2023: Three more people die while waiting for ambulance

Three more people have died since the weekend, while they were waiting for the ambulance. The one incident took place in Peristeri, suburb of western Athens, while the other two on the islands of Lesvos and Evia, writes Greek press. The tragedies took place as the government tries to ‘recruit’ …

European view: Zelensky “has adopted a guilt-based approach to diplomacy”

10:50 16.07.2023

European view: Zelensky “has adopted a guilt-based approach to diplomacy”

On the first day of NATO summit in Vilnius, there was dismay and disgruntlement. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky launched an angry tirade on social media, calling NATO’s failure to give Ukraine a formal invitation or clear timeline for joining the alliance “absurd.” The outburst took some Western and NATO officials …

Seymour Hersh: A mess in the Biden administration

10:48 16.07.2023

Seymour Hersh: A mess in the Biden administration

Let’s start with a silly fear but one that does signal the Democratic Party’s growing sense of panic about the 2024 Presidential election. It was expressed to me by someone with excellent party credentials: that Trump could be the Republican nominee and will select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his …

Western leaders have effectively embraced Ukrainian nazism

10:57 15.07.2023

Western leaders have effectively embraced Ukrainian nazism

Ukraine has deep roots in Naziism, a relationship Ukraine celebrates to this day, stresses ‘The American Thinker’. During the Holocaust, approximately 800,000 Ukrainian Jews were murdered, many by their fellow countrymen who saw the Nazis as ‘liberators from Soviet oppression’. To this day, with all that is known about Soviet …

Biden blues? Just 31% of American adults 'have confidence' in the US government

10:53 15.07.2023

Biden blues? Just 31% of American adults 'have confidence' in the US government

A new Gallup poll released one day ahead of Independence Day (the 4th July) shows confidence in the U.S. government to be the lowest across all countries in the G7. According to the poll, just 31% of American adults "have confidence" in the U.S. government, down from 56%, the highest …

‘Newsweek’ investigation: The CIA and the Ukrainian case

10:52 15.07.2023

‘Newsweek’ investigation: The CIA and the Ukrainian case

Newsweek has examined in depth the scale and scope of the CIA's activities in Ukraine, especially in light of growing Congressional questions about the extent of U.S. aid and whether President Biden is keeping his pledge not to have "boots on the ground." Neither the CIA nor the White House …

Does Germany want revenge?

10:50 15.07.2023

Does Germany want revenge?

The hypothesis that the Anglo-Saxon axis is pivotal to the proxy war in Ukraine against Russia is only partly true. Germany is actually Ukraine’s second largest arms supplier, after the United States, notes M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador and prominent international observer. Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged a new arms package worth …

Cooperation dialogue with African media held in Moscow

20:28 14.07.2023

Cooperation dialogue with African media held in Moscow

Sputnik International Multimedia Press Center in Moscow hosted a roundtable discussion on Russia-Africa: Media Cooperation and Media Sovereignty. The discussion was attended by Sergei Kochetkov, First Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Rossiya Segodnya International Media Group; Oleg Ozerov, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Head of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum Secretariat; …

View from USA: Let’s be clear, cluster bombs are an escalation

12:03 14.07.2023

View from USA: Let’s be clear, cluster bombs are an escalation

When certain lines are crossed, the nature of other things becomes clearer. Providing cluster bombs to the Ukrainian military is such a rubicon, notes Ron Jacobs, an author of CounterPunch from Vermont. The pretense that the NATO sponsored forces have some kind of moral high ground in their conflict with …

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