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Ben Norton: Why does the United States so strongly support Israel? In this video today, I’m going to be explaining the geopolitical and economic reasons why Israel is such an important part of U.S. foreign policy and Washington’s attempt to dominate not only the region of the Middle East, but really the entire world. For this
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Openly ignored by his incendiary, now ex-Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was left with few options. Retaining her would continue a process of blighting his already precarious prime ministership, suggesting weakness and a distinct lack of authority. Kicking her off the Cabinet front bench would, while reasserting some measure of control, permit her to
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Brazil could extend a line of credit to debt-laden Argentina in mutual trade The presidents of Argentina and Brazil have announced plans to continue working on the development of a mechanism allowing them to avoid using the US dollar in bilateral trade. Crisis-hit Argentina is seeking to rebuild its reserves to cover trade costs and
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While technically no longer under colonial rule, many African nations are still suffering from an unjust economic system that extracts raw materials from the continent, predominantly for the benefit of the developed world, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told RT in an interview on Wednesday. Africans are now undergoing an “awakening” and want to get their due
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The prime minister has fired back after his Canadian counterpart urged the country to adhere to the rules of war in Gaza Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pushed back against his Canadian counterpart, Justin Trudeau, who urged him to exercise maximum restraint in the ongoing ground operation in Gaza. The biggest hospital in the
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has reportedly told Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh that Tehran won’t get directly involved in the militant group’s war with Israel after being surprised by the October 7 attacks that triggered the conflict. Khamenei and Haniyeh discussed the war during a face-to-face meeting earlier this month in Tehran, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing
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PM Netanyahu has responded to President Erdogan’s “terror state” speech Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday rejected criticism from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saying that Türkiye was the real sponsor of terrorism and had no right to lecture anyone. “He calls Israel a terrorist state, but in fact supports the terrorist state of
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The Turkish president has urged Benjamin Netanyahu to reveal whether Israel has nuclear weapons Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has branded Israel a “terror state” that is committing “genocide” in Gaza and claimed the country’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a ‘goner.’ In remarks on Wednesday to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) parliamentary group meeting in Ankara, Erdogan also challenged
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Among the items being provided by Washington are missiles for Apache helicopters and 155mm artillery shells, the media outlet claims The US Department of Defense has allegedly ramped up weapons deliveries to Israel without making any public announcements of the move, Bloomberg has reported. The media outlet claimed that deliveries of artillery shells, which supposedly
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Moscow’s policy is shaped by its confrontation with the West in Ukraine, forcing it to establish closer ties with countries that empathize with Hamas The acute crisis in Palestine came as a surprise to everyone – both those who were directly involved and external players. For years, the long-standing conflict was considered frozen and ‘deadlocked’, and
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Introduction The world is at the crossroads of the most serious crisis in modern history. The US has embarked on a military adventure, “a long war”, which threatens the future of humanity. This “war without borders” is being carried out at the crossroads of the most serious economic crisis in World history, which has been
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Hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of Africans do not have access to a nationality. The status of many others is in doubt or in dispute. Without an official connection to a state, people have neither protection from, nor responsibilities to, the country in which they live. The problem of statelessness is not new. It has
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This brilliant article got my attention and I thought it worthwhile to share. It was midnight, not so long ago, when I woke up, used the toilet and returned to my bed to continue from where I stopped. For almost an hour, I closed my eyes in vain. I could neither induce nor seduce sleep.
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Military-industrial complex, network of individuals and institutions involved in the production of weapons and military technologies. The military-industrial complex in a country typically attempts to marshal political support for continued or increased military spending by the national government. The term military-industrial complex was first used by U.S. Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address
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Narration from Hashim Muhammed Suleiman – Zaria, PhD. Do you eat, at least, three times a day? Is there aroma of cooking still coming out of your house, at least, twice a day? Do you still wear washed and ironed clothes almost everyday? Do you still drive a car while attending to your daily needs?
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Senators Samuel Anyanwu and Athan Achonu, governorship candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party in the November 11 Imo governorship election, respectively, have pointed fingers at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies for perpetuating a severely flawed election in the state. In a joint press conference held in Owerri
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The Western media is suddenly teeming with signs of fatigue and even …. diplomacy? “I don’t think that [the war] is a stalemate,” Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky told NBC News’ Meet the Press on Sunday. “They thought they would checkmate us, but,” he insisted, “this didn’t happen.” According to recent interviews, his military leadership disagrees. His political inner
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On October 7, Israel was attacked by Hamas, an armed Palestinian resistance group inside Gaza. The group killed 1,405 people, and kidnapped over 200 in Israel. Hamas was a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, a global terrorist organization which is outlawed in many countries, but not in the US, UK or Germany. US President Donald Trump said that
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Israel is a plan that has been brewing and preparing for more than hundred years. Some people would even go back to the Old Testament where the term “The Chosen People” was coined. The Plan Israel is an Anglo-American Colonial project. Netanyahu is just the latest “executioner” of the Plan. Zionists feel they are “the Chosen People”.
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The U.S. led War on the People of Palestine and the Middle East is a Criminal Undertaking Intro We stand in Solidarity with Palestine. But we must recognize that the United States Military and Intelligence apparatus is firmly behind Israel’s genocide directed against the People of Palestine. . And this must be part of the solidarity campaign, namely to Reveal the Truth regarding
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Israeli Plans to Control The Ben Gurion Canal Linking the Eastern Mediterranean to the Gulf of Aqaba
10 November 2023 Incisive and carefully documented geopolitical analysis by Richard Medhurst pertaining to the building of the Ben Gurion Canal linking the Eastern Mediterranean to the Gulf of Aqaba. Watch the video below. The Ben Gurion Canal Project was initially a “secret” (classified) U.S. project formulated in 1963 by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LLNG, a strategic think tank on
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A young lawyer colleague of mine at The Abuja School of Social and Political Thoughts (TAS) called me in despair a few days ago during the night. In a One-Chance robbery, his sister had been taken hostage. I called up two top contacts in the police to pass the concern. One answered. Luckily, the young
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Governorship is both a sacred trust and a formidable burden. In an ideal scenario, a governor serves as a trusted servant to the state, guided by moral rectitude. Unfortunately, in pseudo-democratic settings, the challenge arises, especially when democracy leans towards the rule of the mob. In an ideal environment, a governor is a servant to
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Machiavellian political leaders are characterized by negative effects on citizens and their states. Understanding Machiavellianism is crucial to addressing its impact objectively. Machiavellianism, a personality trait defined by cunningness, manipulation, and a drive for power and prestige, was outlined by Machiavelli in the 16th century. Leaders scoring high on Machiavellianism employ strategies to gain political
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Machiavelli’s influential treatise on wielding power has sparked ongoing debate due to its advocacy of ruthless methods. Exploring Machiavellian traits in politicians becomes crucial, particularly with elections approaching. Machiavelli’s teachings encompass diverse aspects, notably emphasizing the importance of military strategy for rulers. Even during peacetime, he urged leaders to study history, geography, and the lay
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23 March 2022 On Monday, 21 March, AP reported that “Zelenskyy said that Kyiv will be ready to discuss the status of Crimea and the eastern Donbas region held by Russian-backed separatists after a cease-fire and steps toward providing security guarantees.” This milestone is the very first time that Zelensky has said that there might be circumstances
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8 November 2023 Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on November 6 the cancellation of the Ukrainian elections. His cancellation of the elections comes as more and more Western commentators highlight Zelensky’s dictatorial tendencies, which are again on display after cancelling the elections under the guise of needing to concentrate on the war with Russia, a conflict Ukraine
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7 November 2023 To Karim A. A. Khan, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, We, Israelis Against Apartheid, a group of Israeli Jews for decolonization, representing more than 1,500 concerned citizens, call on the ICC to take accelerated action against the escalating Israeli war crimes, and genocide of the Palestinian people. For the safety and future in the region, all elements of
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7 November 2023 Army says Amichai Friedman’s comments don’t align with its values after he told soldiers that Israel would make its former settlement bloc in Gaza look ‘tiny’ The rabbi at an Israeli military training base celebrated Israel’s actions in Gaza with messianic fervor and exulted over Israel someday controlling a swath of territory
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7 November 2023 The UK military and intelligence services may be aiding Israel’s attack on Gaza in at least seven ways. It is vital the International Criminal Court question Rishi Sunak, James Cleverly and Grant Shapps about this support. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the only permanent global court to have jurisdiction to prosecute
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8 November 2023 Horrifying video footage captures what appears to be an attempted assassination on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The president’s convoy came under a hail of gunfire after he disregarded a menacing ultimatum from renegade Palestinian security forces, urging him to declare war on Israel. Abbas holds the position of Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization,
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6 November 2023 Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MBS) of Saudi Arabia is between a rock and a hard place. The Kingdom remains dependent on the US for security, while the US is supporting and supplying the weapons for Israel’s slaughtering of Palestinian civilians. Added to the dilemma, is that MBS was very close to signing
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6 November 2023 Amichai Eliyahu, an Israeli Heritage Minister has admitted to the world that Israel has nuclear weapons ready to be used on the Palestinians. The Times of Israel reported that “Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said Sunday that one of Israel’s options in the war against Hamas was to drop a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip,
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6 November 2023 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is facing two troubles on the foreign front that have received a lot of media attention. The first is that his country is actually receiving much less media attention. For the past month, international attention has been drawn away from his war to another. The second is that he is
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We sit here stranded, though we’re all doin’ our best to deny it.” I do not know under what condition Bob Dylan wrote that song line. All I know is that it serves my purpose as I sit here at the bank of Nigeria searching for the right metaphor for what the country has become.
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The world’s attention has turned to the slaughter in Gaza as the Israeli military-political system enacts its brand of ethnic cleansing and genocide on the Palestinian people. The U.S. pretends to be standing by in order to ensure the conflict does not spread into a regional conflagration, a pretext rationalizing and disguising their desire for
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4 November 2023 Building solidarity requires confronting the crimes committed by the State of Israel from the very outset in 1948. This is the object of Felicity Arbuthnot’s article first published in 2017. According to Arbuthnot (in 2017): This “Nakba” (“catastrophe”) seventy years after Israel’s final founding, is ongoing “Nakba is ongoing” in October 2023, and the United Nations
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• says at government selling price, cooking gas shouldn’t cost more than N500 per kg to consumers The Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers has accused terminal operators of incessantly increasing the price of gas, exploiting and limiting its availability to Nigerians. The marketers, led by the association’s president, Oladapo Olatunbosun. on Monday, told
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China slams US report on Beijing’s military buildup and uses it to hit back at Washington’s recent actions in helping Israel and Ukraine as well as its buildup of military installations worldwide. The United States is the “biggest disruptor of regional peace and stability” in the world, China has said in a scathing response to
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The IDF has said it is broadening its ground operations in Gaza Oil and metals markets reacted strongly on Friday to news from the Middle East, where Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced they were “expanding ground operations” in Gaza. Oil prices climbed nearly 3% to a one-week high amid fears that the conflict between Israel
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The economy may shrink more than 10% amid the conflict with Hamas JPMorgan has sharply lowered its fourth quarter economic forecast for Israel. According to a research note made public on Friday, the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) may shrink 11% from the previous three months amid the escalation of hostilities with the Palestinian armed
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Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has argued that the measure would help stop “crimes in Gaza” Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has urged Muslim nations to impose an oil and food embargo on Israel to stop its military operation in Gaza. Speaking to students in Tehran on Wednesday, Khamenei said, “What Islamic governments
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Belgian trade unions have already refused to handle weapons destined for Israel The branch of Amnesty International for the Middle East and North Africa called on Wednesday for embargoing weapons deliveries to both Israel and Hamas to protect civilians in Gaza. “We’ve called for an arms embargo on all parties to the conflict in [Israeli-occupied
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More than 70% of people surveyed said they don’t favor either side The majority of Russians do not back any particular side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an opinion poll published on Tuesday shows. According to the survey of 1,500 people conducted between October 13 and October 15 by the Moscow-based pollster FOM, 73% of respondents
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Local law enforcement said the episode is being “intensively” investigated The Jewish section of a major cemetery in the Austrian capital was set ablaze and marred with swastikas, according to a religious leader in the city. The attack comes amid a surge of anti-Semitic incidents across Europe. Oskar Deutsch, a leader in Vienna’s Jewish community,
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An anonymous threat reportedly concerned 20 education facilities around the French capital Several Jewish schools around Paris have been evacuated following a bomb threat, triggering “panic” among parents, according to sources cited by the Jerusalem Post. Police launched a sweeping search of multiple schools on Monday after an anonymous suspect warned that “bombs would blow up in 20
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The Roman Catholic pontiff has commented on the Israel-Palestine conflict There are no winners in war, Pope Francis said on Wednesday in an interview with the Italian broadcaster RAI, urging the Israelis and the Palestinians to live together in peace as neighbors. “In war, one slap provokes another. One strong and the other even stronger,
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17 October 2023 Protests against Netanyahu’s legal reform, which annulled the separation of powers, would have had as a side effect the appearance of fissures in the areas of Israeli Defense and Intelligence, due to the refusal of a significant number of reservists to join vital posts for the Israeli Defense, many of them grouped
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Ariel Sharon, deceased former Israeli Prime Minister, said he was not concerned about Arab countries, or the Palestinians destroying Israel. He said his only fear was that the relationship between Israel and America would change, and the lack of US support for Israel would be the end of the country. US President Joe Biden denounced the
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the principal opposition party, should have had the simplest time winning the Nigerian presidential election in 2023. Muhammadu Buhari’s unprecedentedly bad and divisive leadership served as a powerful campaign against the All Progressives Congress, APC. To effortlessly retake control of the centre, the PDP only needed to present a unified
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Before Abuja, there was Lagos as our Federal Capital. And this is where I would want to believe that there is something about our North and Federal Capital Territories. Before independence and immediately after independence, Lagos had a succession of two ministers of Lagos Affairs, both were northerners. One was Alhaji Musa Yar’Adua, father of
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This article from Israeli’s largest newspaper is very long but it’s worth you taking your time over hours or days to read it. It took me 5 minutes to read it. Very interesting and informative pieces of information that American media and other western friends of Israel don’t tell us. Please read. Dear all…In order
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Although there were many oracles only a few became nationally famous for the impartiality of their judicial decisions; there were those at Awgu, Umunoha, Ozuzu, the Agbala oracle at Awka and, what became the oracle of highest appeal in all Ibo and Ibibio land, Arochuku. Awka was famous for its blacksmiths whose guilds took turns
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Susanne Wenger was famous as Adunni Oloriṣa. The BBC in 2008 described her as “white priestess of ‘black magic.’” A Nigerian said she was “white priestess of an African goddess.” Until her death in 2009, she was the custodian of Osun Osogbo grove and everything connected to its sacredness. But that task was not what
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The message of Israeli peace groups’ peaceful solutions are drowned out by the media’s addiction to interviews with military tacticians. In the midst of extensive coverage of the war in Gaza, there are questions that the U.S. mass media should address: 1. How did Hamas, with tiny Gaza surrounded by a 17-year Israeli blockade, subjected
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30 October 2023 “They are Killing Our Children” More than 8,000 Palestinians have been killed in the last three weeks in Gaza. Every day of this atrocious and ever-expanding Israeli onslaught at least a 1,000 more will be murdered. Schools and hospitals are being targeted. The unspoken yet deliberate objective is to kill Palestinian children. More
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29 October 2023 The main press stable was keen to see the scrappy benefits of the 31-hour visit to Israel by US President Joe Biden. On National Public Radio (NPR), Scott Neuman expressed the view that the “largely symbolic” visit did yield a few “concrete accomplishments” including an announcement of $100 million in Palestinian aid, convincing Israel to
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29 October 2023 Targeting Palestinian Civilians As of Saturday morning October 28, Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza have killed more than 7,300 Palestinians including about 3,000 children according to Al Jazeera. Another 1,650 Palestinians are trapped under the demolished remains of their homes and buildings destroyed by Israeli bombing, with half of them being children. This is an
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29 October 2023 Al Jazeera is reporting (27 October evening) utterly massive and continuous bombardments of the northern Gaza Strip; unlike anything seen so far. They believe a ground offensive has begun. ALL COMMUNICATIONS WITH GAZA CUT OFF: phones, fax, internet, cellular – all off. Biden sends “war powers” notification to Congress over Gaza situation
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30 October 2023 Introduction Israel has launched an invasion (October 7, 2023) of the Gaza Strip. As outlined by Felicity Arbuthnot with foresight 10 years ago in a December, 30 2013 article: “Israel is set to become a major exporter of gas and some oil, “If All Goes to Plan”. In the current context, Israel’s “All Goes to Plan” option consists in bypassing Palestine
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Nigeria is a country where the best appears impossible but the worst will never happen. What a country! After all the preparations, brouhaha, humungous expenses, logistic nightmares, suspense, dramatics and histrionics that characterised the 2023 general elections and in particular the presidential election, on Thursday the 26th day of October 2023, the Supreme Court of
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I had just arrived Abuja from Beijing, China on Monday when news broke that Nigeria won its case against Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID) Limited, which had been seeking enforcement of a controversial $11 billion judgement debt in its favour. The Commercial Courts of England and Wales upheld Nigeria’s prayer that the said gas processing
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The report by Tasnim News Agency comes as the Pentagon has moved additional military assets into the Middle East Several thousand US troops have taken part in Israel’s ground operation in Gaza, the Iran-based Tasnim News Agency reported on Saturday. The Pentagon has recently announced plans to significantly reinforce its military presence in the Middle
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As West Jerusalem expands its operation in Gaza, the Turkish president has hardened his rhetoric against the Jewish state Türkiye will present evidence of Israeli war crimes in Gaza to the world, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a rally on Saturday. While Erdogan initially positioned himself as a potential mediator between the Israelis
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Elon Musk has promised to help humanitarian organizations to stay connected amid an information blackout in Gaza Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Kahri has vowed that “Israel will use all means at its disposal to fight” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s planned provision of Starlink internet access to Gaza. “Hamas will use it for terrorist activities,” Kahri claimed in a
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27 October 2023 As the Israeli Defence Forces increasingly been reported to be facing difficulties achieving the objective of destroying the Palestinian militia Hamas, the United States has responded by providing growing levels of personnel and material support. While significantly escalating the American military presence in the region, the Pentagon has dispatched Marine Corps Lieutenant General
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28 October 2023 Facts, not opinion, are increasingly showing that the attack carried out by Hamas on Oct. 7 in Israel was the detonator for an Operation False Flag, similar to the Sept. 11, 2001 attack in the United States. Remarkable are the similarities, which we summarize in this fact sheet accompanying the Grand Angle
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WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and his team have markedly shifted their tone on the Israel-Hamas crisis in recent days, moving from unfettered support of Israel to emphasizing the need to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza ahead of a looming Israeli ground invasion. Biden has not changed his fundamental belief that Israel
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On the surface, the piece “Palestine & Israel – Igbo & Yoruba” published 9th October, 2023 by one Adedamola Adetayo is one of those rants that do not deserve refutation. However, some lies, if left to fester, could mislead many people. This is especially true when you consider that Adetayo’s profanity against Ndigbo is not
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Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi has accused the Qatari network of “propaganda,” “encouraging violence,” and aiding Hamas The Israeli government has approved emergency regulations allowing it to suspend the operations of foreign media outlets amid the conflict with Hamas. The move paves the way for the closure of the Qatar-based Al Jazeera channel’s bureau in the country.
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Influencing the network would show Doha’s change of heart about Hamas US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has asked the Qatari government to change its relationship with Hamas, starting with the way Al Jazeera reports on the Israel-Gaza conflict, Axios reported on Wednesday. Blinken reportedly revealed this to a group of America’s Jewish community leaders
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24 October 2023 As President Biden visited Israel, and the Palestinian death toll in Gaza passed 3,300, the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights released a legal and factual analysis of Israel’s unfolding genocide against the Palestinian people and U.S. complicity. The emergency briefing paper came on the heels of the U.S. veto of a United
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The CEO of Confederated Facilitators Limited (CFL) Group of companies, Lai Omotola has posited that the soaring dollar to naira rate, alongside Nigeria’s economy is not being driven by market forces but by wealthy elite businessmen whom he tagged, ‘market cabals’ He stated this while speaking with journalist during a media parley organised by his
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Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, an Islamic scholar residing in Kaduna, has claimed that Christians cannot be trusted with the nation’s security. This was said by the divisive cleric in a sermon that lasted more than 14 minutes and was posted on his official Facebook page. In the same vein, the cleric yelled profanities at Chinwo Nyesom
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~ A Must Read About 30 years ago, I slept at the Murtala Muhammed Airport for four days. No, I was not a homeless vagabond. I had bought the Nigeria Airways ticket to fly to the United States for a one-year sabbatical leave. But when I arrived at the airport, I realized that my ticket
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Why do public office holders in Nigeria increasingly appoint a large number of personal aides? In November 2022, barely six months before the expiration of his term of office, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike doubled the number of his Special Assistants on Political Affairs from an already staggering 100,000 to an incredulous 200,000. At the inauguration ceremony
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The furor over Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s academic records is less about his person and more about the character of Nigerian society. In one sense, the ongoing commotion in Nigeria over the educational record of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is entirely about his personal failure to retire nagging doubts among the Nigerian public, and
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21 October 2023 The Infamous “Oded Yinon Plan”. Introduction by Michel Chossudovsky A popular article, first published on March 1st, 2013 Update and Analysis On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched “Operation Al-Aqsa Storm.” which wasled by its Military Chief Mohammed Deif. On that same day, Netanyahu confirmed a so-called “State of Readiness For War”. Israel has now (October 7, 2023) officially
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President Joe Biden spoke with Pope Francis on Sunday and discussed the ongoing conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, the White House and the Vatican said in separate statements. They discussed “the need to prevent escalation in the region and to work toward a durable peace in the Middle
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Father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, must have had the conversation last week between Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and the recently cleared Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) Ola Olukoyede in mind. While propounding the theory of what is now known as Freudian slips in his 1901 book he entitled The Psychopathology
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The escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has sparked fears over potential oil supply disruptions in the region Global oil prices saw a sharp increase on Wednesday amid fears that the conflict between Israel and the armed Palestinian group Hamas could spread to other countries in the Middle East, causing global oil supply disruptions. Markets across
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Like everything else, capitalism and democracy have ugly faces. The normal trend is that good men who love law and order win elections and form good government to protect the interest of all. Often they find that they have to confront criminal capitalism in form of organised crimes and unscrupulous businessmen and women who would
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“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future” –Winston Churchill. What is needed for Nigeria to make progress is ideologically driven and values orientated politics and a north that is able to balance the overall interest of Nigeria with its own sectarian interest
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Good evening distinguished ladies and gentlemen. A MUST READ FOR ALL NIGERIANS!!! A MASTER PIECE FROM A 90-YEAR-OLD ICONIC DIPLOMAT CHIEF EMEKA ANYAOKU – Former Commonwealth Sec. Gen. Anyaoku Nigeria’s iconic 90-year-old diplomat and former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku has said that the way forward for Nigeria is a new constitution to
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Hamas’s atrocities and Israel’s retaliation will change both sides for ever The miscalculations of Israel’s and Gaza’s leaders are being laid bare The first hours were chaos. Residents of southern Israel, near the border with Gaza, woke to the sound of incoming rockets and mortars. They rushed to shelters—a grim routine in this part of
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16 November 2012 On November 14, Hamas military commander Ahmed Jabari was murdered in a Israeli missile attack. In a bitter irony, barely a few hours before the attack, Hamas received the draft proposal of a permanent truce agreement with Israel. “Hours before Hamas strongman Ahmed Jabari was assassinated, he received the draft of a permanent truce
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As the death toll from the Israel government’s air strikes (and ground invasion) increases, consider former Rep. Ron Paul’s January 9, 2009 speech on the US House of Representatives floor explaining that Israel helped encourage the growth of Hamas to counteract the Palestine Liberation Organization. Paul, RPI’s chairman and founder, proceeds to discuss in the speech
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Given Israel’s lie about Hamas beheadings, and its own reported murder of hostages, why are its claims of “a thousand civilian deaths” taken on faith? “I do not condemn Hamas because the resistance of the Palestinian people is a reflex response to their slow genocide…. The people I do condemn are the political class internationally who
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Originally published in French by L’Humanité, and translated. This article originally appeared in Global Outlook, No 2, Summer 2002. Thanks to the Mossad, Israel’s “Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks”, the Hamas was allowed to reinforce its presence in the occupied territories. Meanwhile, Arafat’s Fatah Movement for National Liberation as well as the Palestinian Left were
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Some have claimed that Senator Ishaku Elisha Abbo, who served as the senator representing Adamawa North, is frequently grabbing the headlines for the wrong reasons. The maverick lawmaker gained notoriety after publicly assaulting a salesgirl in an Abuja sex toy store about four years ago. This time, he claimed that Senate President Godswill Obot Akpabio
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“The family rallied around them in an extraordinary manner, and the fact that it’s actually happened is a miracle,” said former NBC correspondent Martin Fletcher, who is related to the pair. Two U.S. hostages abducted by Hamas, both related to former Israel-based NBC correspondent Martin Fletcher, have been released. Judith Raanan and her daughter, Natalie, fell into
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An influential Saudi prince has issued a strong condemnation of Hamas in a rare rebuke from one of the Middle East’s main power brokers. Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former Saudi ambassador to the UK and US, said he preferred “civil insurrection and disobedience” to the murderous tactics adopted by the Palestinian terror group. “I categorically
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The military government in Niger says it has foiled an attempt by the deposed former President, Mohamed Bazoum, to escape from custody. The former president attempted to flee in the night with his family, cooks and security, a military spokesman said. There were plans for the group to fly out on helicopters but the plan
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The official has characterized Washington’s rush to provide military aid as “shortsighted” and “destructive” A senior official in the US Department of State responsible for weapons transfers has resigned in protest, stating that Washington’s rush to arm Israel was “shortsighted, destructive, unjust, and contradictory to the very values that we publicly espouse.” Josh Paul had served
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The first time I visited Israel was in 1994 on a Christian pilgrimage. It served as a spiritual homecoming for my visiting group. To prove that the Bible is authentic and alive today, rather than just being historical or speculative, we visited the sites of worship listed in it. Our faith was strengthened by the
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19 November 2015 A revealing silence from the “free” western press We’ve been very patient. For the last 12 hours we’ve been constantly refreshing Google News for just one — one — western article about Putin’s bombshell comments at the G20 summit in Antalya. You would think that the Russian President stating publicly that ISIS is receiving
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17 November 2015 At G20 summit, Putin calls out member states for supporting terrorism In a classic Putin move, the Russian President presented evidence of G20 member states providing financial support to ISIS…during the G20 summit in Antalya. Speaking with reporters after the summit, Putin revealed: I provided examples related to our data on the financing of Islamic State units
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15 December 2015 By Pres. Vladimir Putin Copyright © Pres. Vladimir Putin, 2015
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9 October 2015 Russian air power together with Syrian ground forces constitute a potential death blow to Washington’s anti-Assad campaign – for the first time challenging it effectively, why US officials are flummoxed about what to do next. On the one hand, Putin wants terrorism defeated and Syrians alone deciding who’ll lead them. On the
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