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U.S. government has for years tried to steer politics in Africa. In some cases, this meddling has led to the assassinations of African leaders with the help of U.S. or Western intelligence support. Some of the stories of the assassination of African leaders by the U.S. and European powers before completing their goal for liberation seem to be out of a horror movie. As the Guardian points out, between 1961 and 1973, six African independence leaders were assassinated by their ex-colonial rulers, including Patrice Lumumba of Congo. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is one American intelligence agency that has had a long…
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The diploma of Nigerian President Bola A. Tinubu is now the subject of judicial proceedings here in the United States. Tinubu’s opponent, Atiku Abubakar has filed suit in the U.S. seeking clarification on its authenticity and is attempting to have the results of the election that was held in February overturned. I gotta admit. This one story shows the level of corruption in Nigeria and it makes you cry and laugh at the same time. The President of Nigeria Bola Tinubu, produced a fake diploma from Chicago State University to an election board in Nigeria that claims he graduated from…
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It just seems like a National emergency everywhere you look. The despondency seems matched only by the desperate sense of helplessness. The curiosity about this pall of disquiet led me to put my ears to the ground. I have been navigating Whatsapp groups. Saying little but feeling the temperature and letting the Barometer gauge. Despair reigns in the land. Most think the economy is in free fall. Some think Band aid is being applied where even bandages may not do the job. A band of outliers even pronounce Nigeria dead. Thank God some people of faith believe that dry bones…
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s legal team has been putting up a valiant fight to keep him from disclosing his true status and identity at Chicago State University (CSU). People are typically proud to show off their diplomas and degrees as evidence of their academic accomplishments. However, in this case, the president and his legal advisors feel that his academic achievements are his own and should not be made accessible for public assessment. But by making his CSU degree his only academic qualification to run for president, he willingly waived this privilege. For starters, INEC required that candidates for president submit…
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Beijing has dismissed similar claims in the past Tens of thousands of messages were stolen from the US State Department in a major cyber attack earlier this summer, a Senate staffer told Politico. The hack was said to have targeted the US commerce chief and Washington’s top diplomat in China, Ambassador Nicholas Burns. State Department officials offered new details on the breach during a closed-door briefing on Wednesday, saying that most of the ten government email accounts affected were owned by people working on “Indo-Pacific diplomatic efforts,” Politico reported, citing an unnamed staffer for Republican Senator Eric Schmitt. “Among the most sensitive…
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We have sold forward crude contracts so our crude is encumbered as some of the crude we haven’t produced doesn’t belong to us. We have sold forward FX contracts so some of our future FX earnings are encumbered. Essentially, some of the FX we are yet to earn does not belong to us. Under the infrastructure tax credit scheme, some of our major company income tax payers were awarded roads to either rehabilitate or construct and are entitled to utilize the total investment cost incurred in the construction or refurbishment of the eligible road as a Tax Credit against their…
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“You are not Alone”: Worldwide Resistance against the mRNA “Vaccine” and Covid Fraud Yet, for most people the implications are not visible. What is the Infamous Agenda ID2020? Behind its development is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – with support of the Rockefeller Foundation – and others belonging to the sinister all-digitization, depopulation and eugenics agenda. It is an alliance of public-private partners, including UN agencies and civil society. It’s an electronic ID-program that uses generalized vaccination against Covid-19 as a platform for digital identity. It is an all-electronic ID – linking everything to everything of each individual (records of health, criminal,…
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Directed Energy is being weaponized. Individuals’ brains can be targeted by microwaves Incisive article by Peter Koenig first published by Global Research on June 14, 2023 DARPA Neurologist and Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program at Georgetown University, Washington DC, Dr. James Giordano, who is also a weapons expert, started his presentation at West Point NY Military Academy by saying, “The brain is and will be the 21st Century battlefield. End of story.” DARPA stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a Pentagon thinktank. Dr. Giordano talks about how Directed Energy can be and is being weaponized. Individuals’ brains can be targeted by microwaves, the type…
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In recent developments, Zelensky is on on official visit to the US and Canada. The nature of the Kiev regime and its links to Nazism are casually denied. At the House of Commons, Zelensky is given a standing ovation. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recognize Yaroslav Hunka, who was in attendance in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023.(AP) The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons apologized Sunday for recognizing 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka as a “Ukrainian hero” before the Canadian Parliament. Hunka served in World War II as a…
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VICTORIA ASCERTA Atiku Abubakar’s Lawyers in the United States of America prevailed at last and Justice was done. It wasn’t an easy road and the masters of Oluwole and technicalities tried to employ their full arsenal of technicalities but failed under the light of TRUE JUSTICE. The following facts are relevant to the Victory of Atiku Abubakar in the case: (b)Usability: the discovery must be for use in a proceeding before a foreign Tribunal. (c)Locus: the application must be submitted by a foreign or international tribunal or an interested party in the foreign proceedings. (3) the contents of the Westberg…
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• Says govt under ruling party has set Nigeria 40 years backwards Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Muhammadu Sanusi, has said the All Progressives Congress-led government has set Nigeria 40 years backwards economically. In a trailer for an interview the former Emir of Kano had with Rufai Oseni of Arise TV, he said based on Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita (an economic metric that breaks down a country’s economic output per person) on a Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) basis between 1980 and 2023, the economic gains the country made was wiped out between 2014…
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When Ogbonnaya Ukeje died in Lagos two days after Christmas Day in 1981, Bode Rhodes-Vivour was a 30 year-old lawyer making his way up the rungs of public service in the Ministry of Justice in Lagos State. Mr. Rhodes-Vivour had been called to the Nigerian Bar a mere six years earlier, in 1975. In 1989, when Mr. Rhode-Vivour succeeded Nureini Abiodun Kessington as the Director of Public Prosecutions in Lagos State, the case concerning the estate of Ogbonnaya Ukeje was already in its sixth year in the High Court of Lagos. Mr. Ukeje’s daughter, Glady’s, had filed the case in…
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The US Navy ran into similar problems. The development of its fleet from the 1940s to the present day has also been cyclical. In the first stage – from the Korean War to the early 1970s – it was oriented towards fighting an enemy on the coast since it did not have any major rivals at sea. As the United States prepared for a possible confrontation with the USSR’s Navy, it mainly focused on anti-submarine defense, and – closer to Soviet waters – on repulsing attacks by naval missile-carrying aviation. In the early 1970s, after a series of incidents in…
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The downsizing of the US Army was accompanied by a massive reduction in weapons and equipment stocks. In America itself, the situation was not as radical as in Europe, where in some cases entire categories of military equipment disappeared. But in absolute terms, given the scale of the military, the reductions were huge – thousands of tanks, planes, artillery pieces, hundreds of ships, millions of tons of ammunition, and other military property items were sold or liquidated. This did not give rise to any political or military fears, since in the first post-Soviet years, Russia expressed no desire to replace…
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30 years after achieving total dominance, has the Ukraine conflict exposed the limits of American power? The failure of Ukraine’s much-hyped counteroffensive – which began in June of this year and has stuttered for over three months – has by now become a universally recognized fact. It has been acknowledged not only by Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, but also by Western media and experts. However, the summer campaign has made the world reconsider not only the capabilities of Kiev’s armed forces, but also the power of the country’s main sponsor – the United States, when it comes to…
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After Germany and Japan were vanquished in 1945, the development of the US military may be clearly divided into several cycles. The first started with the Cold War in the second half of the that decade. Up until the mid to late 1960s, it was characterized by preparations for World War III. This was imagined as a replica of the Second World War, only with the USSR as the main enemy and the concept that it would be nuclear. In that period, local conflicts, including the Korean War, did not significantly influence military development and were conducted using the same…
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President Bola Tinubu gave our country’s Minister of Defence and Minister of State, Defence to the North; he gave the North Minister of Police Affairs and Minister of State, Police Affairs; he gave the North Minister of Education and Minister of State, Education; he gave the North Minister of Agriculture and Food Security and Minister of State, Agriculture and Food Security. Again; he gave the North the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare plus Minister of Steel Development and Minister of State, Steel Development. To the North, again, Tinubu gave Minister of Water Resources and Minister of State, Water…
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The authors of the iconic book “Why Nations Fail,” Daren Acemoglu and James Robinson, stated that it is the parasitic political and economic classes that are the primary cause of why nations fail. What counts to them is what they get out of the system, not what they put into it. Nigeria has not only the worst breeds of them but has also added to the mixt ethnic jingoism. Nigeria has fallen into the abyss. History frequently repeats itself. Muhammadu Buhari, who left Nigeria like a lawless state, presided over some of the worst periods for the country. It may…
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I know you will wondering who is Eddie Quansa, especially if you are among the indomie generation. He’s a legend who survived and became successful at all cost . I will like you to grab your chair and popcorn, if possible and let’s go for a sweet and smooth drive. There was a time when life in Nigeria used to be simple and fun. In Owerri, a town Imo State in the eastern part of Nigeria, there lived a young man called John Obikwe. John Obikwe was a jovial fellow who loved partying and having fun. He used to frequent…
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When Chief Obafemi Awolowo died in 1987, amid a deluge of musical tributes in his honour, a line among those offerings stood out, evergreen. Sang by Fuji music lord, Kollington Ayinla, while extolling Awolowo’s panegyrics, he sang: “ookan ile l’osa gbe, Baba Yinka//eyin t’o funfun kii gbe koro enu.” This line profoundly articulated the open life of Awolowo, as well as his trackable history and pedigree. As short as the lines were, they drilled deep into the most granular of Yoruba’s concept of openness and transparency. Literally translated, it means that shrines that a people are proud of are erected…
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Other States in the South-East have to the best of their abilities, addressed the issue of equity and social justice in the governance of their states. It is noteworthy to acknowledge that Enugu State has an honourable zoning arrangement for the office of the Governor. Yes, the four governors that have presided over Enugu State so far, hail from three different zones. Chimaroke Nnamani is from Enugu East, Sullivan Chime and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi are from Enugu Central and Enugu North zones respectively, while Peter Mbah the current governor is from Enugu East, starting the cycle again. The balance although not…
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This week President Zelensky will be in the U.S. and Canada on an official visit. While Russians entering America are the object of restrictions, the President of Ukraine who is an ethnic Russian of Jewish descent, representing a full fledged Neo-Nazi government will be welcomed at the White House and across America. Absolutely stunning, An Astute Intelligence Op. A Russian Jew transformed into a Nazi? See the video below. Zelensky is Jewish. He supports the Nazi Azov Battalion, the two Nazi parties, which have committed countless atrocities against the Jewish community in Ukraine. He belongs to a Russian-Jewish family. He was brought up…
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Failures to Confront the Unspeakable, and The Way Ahead. Part I At a time of crisis marked by racism and impoverishment, let us recall our history. First published by GR on November 15, 2013 coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, November 22, 1963). April 4, 2020 is the 52nd Anniversary of Martin Luther King‘s Passing. June 6, 2020 is the 52nd Anniversary of the Passing of Robert F. Kennedy, Their Legacy will live forever. In the last 50 years there have been two major threats to life on our planet. The first, the nuclear arms race and…
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Advice from Elon Musk on being a leader, taking risks, charting your own course, and boiling complicated things down to their essence. Like Elon Musk or not — the answer probably depends on how you feel about Twitter/X — it’s hard not to respect his work ethic. His willingness to think differently. His ability to achieve huge goals. So while you may not agree with all of Musk’s advice — like saying you should walk out of a meeting if you’re not adding value — here are four of my favorites. Elon Musk on “Attachments” “Don’t attach yourself to a person, place, or organization,” Musk says. “Attach yourself to a mission, a calling, or a purpose. That’s…
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A source has told the veteran reporter that Kiev and Washington are deceiving the public about the situation on the ground. US intelligence analysts believe that Ukraine has given up on its counteroffensive against Russia and the only thing prolonging the conflict is the unwillingness of Washington and Kiev to acknowledge its failure, a source has told investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. Writing on Substack on Thursday, the veteran reporter cited an unnamed source, who “spent the early years of his career working against Soviet aggression and spying” as rejecting the Ukrainian narrative about slow but steady progress in its counteroffensive.…
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No challenge to the outcome of a presidential election has been successful in Nigeria since 1999 for obvious reasons. Elsewhere on the continent, the top courts in Kenya and Malawi nullified presidential elections in 2017 and 2020. But Nigeria’s Supreme Court has never overturned a presidential result. The lead justice in the 06/09/2023 PEPT appeal court judgement Justice Haruna Tsammani, who read the verdict, said “the petitioners failed to prove allegations of corrupt practices and over-voting”. Justice Tsammani also said that: •the petitioners failed to specify the polling units where they alleged that rigging took place •the petitioners failed to…
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I write as a professional in politics and the views expressed herein are personal and advisory. In the countdown to the 2023 general elections, parties were upbeat and candidates were sure of victory. The unusual rave of the moment ferociously driven by the social media and the youths was about the Labour Party and her candidate Peter Obi. The People Democratic Party came out divided with an old war horse, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar whose nemesis became Nyesom Wike who led the G-5. The New Nigeria People’s Party owned by an articulate politician Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso navigated without steam. The ruling…
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A push-back against Western influence is reportedly prompting countries to reject the pro-Ukraine agenda Western officials have overestimated the willingness of neutral nations to join anti-Russia policies in support of Ukraine, according to The Wall Street Journal. “It’s clear that the West overall has been surprised by the pretty widespread reluctance by many of the countries in the so-called Global South… to come on board,” Jan Techau of the consulting firm Eurasia Group told the newspaper, as quoted on Thursday. He cited “animosity toward the US and Europe” in some parts of the world and the desire of rising powers, such as Brazil…
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Leaders in developing countries feel ignored as Ukraine takes center stage, said James Cleverly Leaders of the Global South are growing irritated by what they perceive as lecturing by the West, the UK’s Foreign Secretary James Cleverly told The Guardian on the sidelines of the UN general assembly. The official warned that “the West will be in trouble unless it learns to listen better to the Global South” and stated that many foreign ministers from those countries feel that all they hear Western leaders talk about is “Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine.” “We have got to be sensitive to that,” he stressed. Cleverly insisted that it…
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The destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, long held as a symbol of energy security for Europe’s economic powerhouse, became the catalyst for a massive crisis Russian Market, project by financial blogger, Swiss journalist and political commentator based in Zurich For years, the Nord Stream pipelines have epitomized energy stability for Europe’s largest economy. Germany’s industries, households, and economic engine have heavily relied on the uninterrupted flow of Russian gas. However, overnight, a sudden and audacious disruption to this vital energy supply sent shockwaves across Germany, leaving it exposed and vulnerable. The assault on these pipelines last year, allegedly involving…
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A Judgment Founded on the Abuse of the Principles of Electoral Franchise and the Constitutionality of By-Laws According to John Marshall, the iconic fourth Chief Justice of the United States of America: The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right. What then is law, if one may ask? According to Legal Vidhiya: Law is an instrument which regulates human conduct or behaviour. Therefore, Law is a broader…
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Firms from ‘unfriendly’ countries reportedly cannot withdraw their profits Multinational companies from ‘unfriendly’ countries made large profits in Russia last year despite sanctions that their home countries placed on Moscow, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing calculations by the Kiev School of Economics (KSE). The KSE calculations are based on sources such as the Russian company register, news reports, and corporate statements. Major Western brands that decided to continue operating in the country recorded over $18 billion in Russian profits in 2022, out of the $20 billion reported by all foreign businesses working in the country, the data showed.…
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On a Friday in July 2005, Bayo Ojo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, quietly absconded from work in an office in Victoria Island, Lagos, from where he functioned then as the president of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. The next working day, a Monday, he turned up in Abuja as President Olusegun Obasanjo’s fourth Attorney-General in five years. Less than three months after assuming office as Attorney-General of the Federation, on October 6, 2005, Mr. Ojo filed a five-count charge before the Federal High Court against Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo, at the time the self-proclaimed leader of the Niger Delta…
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Narrated by: Arnon Barak (and by edited by African Herald Express) This is the full story of the covert Biafra Air Rescue operation of 1969 – 1970 by a few heroic foreigners – mostly Jewish pilots and humanists that flew ill-maintained aircrafts by night, in bad weather and across enemy fire – and landed with supplies of food and medicines for Biafran civilians ravaged by starvation/air and sea blockade during the dark days of the Nigerian civil war. The moving details of the highly secret and dangerous Mission are being made public now in the words of a few of…
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THE COUP D’ETAT IN NIGER REPUBLIC IS A SAVING GRACE TO NIGERIA: A REVELATION BY THE NATIVE INDIGENOUS HAUSA PEOPLE OF NIGERIA. We as Hausa People of Hausaland in Nigeria love Democracy but only to the extent it administers Justice, Fairness and Equity to all people wherever it is practiced. Recall that the eight years of Nigeria’s democratic rule under former President Muhammadu Buhari was an unmitigated disaster to us as Natives of Hausaland and Nigerians in general. Under him Security, Economy, and Corruption witnessed the worst ever deterioration in the history of Nigeria if not the entire world. Just…
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This is a freedom manifesto for the captured people of Nigeria offered in autobiographical form… I invoke the Spirit of Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jnr, and Nelson Mandela in calling for isolation of the captured State in Nigeria with sanctions as we called for under Abacha… I shall commit to a non-violence resistance to the usurpation in Abuja even as I insist that Nigeria is more deserving of invasion to restore democracy than Niger is. Beginning from age 17 as an undergraduate at the University of Nigeria I have rallied resistance against injustice. My early cry for doing things…
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Owerri and Asaba are two Igbo cities notable today for a booming hospitality industry and the high surge of real estate development. Both cities have histories of being centres of Administration during the colonial days. While Owerri is situated at the Southern part of the Igbo geographical centre, Asaba is situated at the West Bank of the River Niger, opposite Onitsha, one of the largest Igbo urban areas. Owerri is the anglicized spelling and pronunciation of Owere. Asaba is believed by many to be an anglicization of the original Ahaba or Azagba, although Asaba is also an Igbo dialectal version…
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The word Amadiọha is principally made up of two words, amadi and ọha. Amadi, used for the freeborn; but also connotes nobility and princely disposition. So, an amadi is a prince; as in nobility, status and rank not monarchy. Ọha, on the other hand, means the people. So, Amadiọha would mean the Noble or Prince of the People. Now, some translate Amadioha as man of the people; but that translation is inadequate considering that other translations of man like nwoke or onye or mmadụ do not yield the same connotation as amadi. Onye ọha, mmadụ ọha or nwoke ọha do…
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(Igbo: Ògụ́àfọ̀ )is the traditional calendar system of the Igbos.The calendar has 13 months in a year (afo), 7 weeks in a month (onwa), and 4 days of Igbo market days (afor, nkwo, eke, and orie) in a week (izu) plus an extra day at the end of the year, in the last month. The name of these months was reported by Onwuejeogwu (1981). Although worship and spirit honoring was a very big part in the creation and development of the Igbo calendar system, commerce also played a major role in creating the Igbo calendar. This was emphasized in Igbo…
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The Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi recently opened a longstanding debate about the relationship between the Igbo and the Yoruba, and did affirm that the Igbo were ancient inhabitants of Ife. The Ooni’s asserts that the ancient Igbo connections to Ife is still evident in the traditions preserved in the oral narratives of Ife itself, and in the extant lineages of the Igbo still present in their habitations inside the Ooni’s palace. The Igbo quarters are still present in Ife. What the Ooni brings to this debate is legitimacy, because Yoruba tradition confers the authority of national memory on…
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“Amanyanabo” is the title for the traditional leader in the Kalabari, Opubo-ama and Okrika kingdoms of the Eastern Delta. These three kingdoms have a long period of relationship with the Igbo people, especially in trade. There were also huge Igbo migration to these areas, even as many Igbo women were married to their men and women !. The Amanyanabo title is an Ijaw expression that means the same thing as the Igbo title “Onye-nwe-ali”. “Ama” means clan or Community and in some context, land. “Nyana” means “own”, while the “Bọ” suffix means person. When put together, it translates loosely as…
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Perhaps Wole Soyinka’s most iconic quote is: “The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.” The quote is drawn from his prison memoir The Man Died. Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, the Nigerian renowned playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist needs no introduction. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his wide cultural perspective, which his poems and other writings brought to understanding existence. He was born 88 years ago. Of all his works, the Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka the book, The Man Died, stands out. Here Soyinka recorded his arrest and interrogation,…
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While the President and Commander in Chief of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama “celebrates” the first anniversary of the alleged death of bin Laden, the substantive issue as to WHO WAS OSAMA BIN LADEN remains unheralded. (Remarks by President Obama in Address to the Nation from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, see video at foot of article) Through lies and fabrications –which he intends to use in his election campaign– president Obama`s carefully scripted speech upholds a world of total fantasy, in which “bad guys” are lurking and “plotting acts of terror”. Meanwhile, Islamic “jihadists” are said to be threatening Western civilization. Each…
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This incisive article by Pierre-Henri Bunel, a former member of France’s Military Intelligence, sheds light on the nature of Al Qaeda, an intelligence construct used by Washington to destabilize and destroy sovereign countries, while sustaining the illusion of an outside enemy, which threatens the security of America and the Western World. The state sponsor of Al Qaeda goes after Al Qaeda? What is the meaning in Arabic of Al Qaeda??? That is the Question which is raised by Maj. Pierre-Henri Bunel It’s “The Base”, namely the Database of the Islamic Mujahideen ( Reagan’s “Freedom Fighters”) recruited by the CIA. The article below describes the origins of Al…
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Understanding the Crusades The pope was the tutor of European civilization during the central Middle Ages. At the end of the eleventh century, he inculcated to the ruling caste one revolutionary idea: the Crusade. It brought the best and the worst out of the warrior class, it was embraced by the masses, and it gave the pope unprecedented spiritual and political dominance. It became central to Europe’s identity and sense of mission. Although dressed in new clothes, the Crusade has remained the West’s defining Big Idea: redeeming the world and itself through wars in the name of lofty principles. The…
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By the time the Battle of Arginusae trials purged the best generals, and Socrates drank the hemlock, and Plato wrote his “Republic,” Athenian democracy had metastasized into a corrupt sham. A sizable number of US citizens currently view the American republic (now empire) with the same disgust that Plato viewed Athens’ failed democracy. In what would have been inconceivable ten years ago, many long for a dictator to rescue them from “democracy,” which operates as neoliberal totalitarianism coated with a veneer of identity politics. Democracy is cool until it isn’t. Apart from some isolated rainforest tribes and shipwrecked castaways that…
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Which superpower is more threatened by its “extractive elites”? The rise of China surely ranks among the most important world developments of the last 100 years. With America still trapped in its fifth year of economic hardship, and the Chinese economy poised to surpass our own before the end of this decade, China looms very large on the horizon. We are living in the early years of what journalists once dubbed “The Pacific Century,” yet there are worrisome signs it may instead become known as “The Chinese Century.” But does the Chinese giant have feet of clay? In a recently…
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The Igbo term for apprenticeship is ‘Igba Boi.’ It involves learning a trade or craft under someone who is already well-established in the field and is now a master in his own right aka ‘Oga’ in local parlance. Though Igbo apprenticeship had been around for a while before the Biafra war, its significance resonated in addressing the Igbo people’s debilitating poverty resulting from the war. The war brought hunger and sickness that ravaged the whole Igbo world, and those who had been prosperous before the war had all fallen into poverty. Men who survived had to start from scratch. The…
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During the last year or more, nearly all our mainstream media outlets have regularly ridiculed and denounced China for its stubborn adherence to a “Zero Covid” policy. Whereas most of the West has chosen to “live with Covid,” China has worked to immediately stamp out any pinprick viral outbreaks through an increasingly burdensome regime of regular testing and swift lockdowns. But a new development now suggests that the Chinese approach may not have been as completely irrational as our media had claimed. As most people know, the Omicron strain of Covid is extremely contagious but also very mild, and its…
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Our political landscape is completely flooded by a massive tide of official propaganda. Therefore, it’s hardly surprising that the few visible points of surviving dissent are often found among those individuals who had previously represented the highest peaks of journalism and academic scholarship. Seymour Hersh falls into that category. With a Pulitzer Prize and five George Polk awards, Hersh certainly ranks as one of the most renowned reporters of the last half-century, known for breaking the stories of the My Lai Massacre, the Abu Ghraib prison, and other landmarks of investigative journalism. A few days ago, he dropped a bombshell perhaps…
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For Americans such as myself who came of age during the 1970s or early 1980s, the Soviet Union always carried the whiff of a decaying ideological empire, ruled by a decrepit political leadership class that had long since lost the trust of its own people. Such was my opinion at the time, and nothing I have learned since then has changed it. Three Soviet leaders ruled during that era—Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko—all elderly and infirm, with the reigns of the last two being so brief that our own President Ronald Reagan once quipped that they died too…
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The war can only end when it helps Biden reelection I am surely not the only one who has noticed that the defensive propaganda lines that are flowing out the Democratic Administration have become more than ordinarily ridiculous of late. One is astonished at the melding of fact and fiction to create narratives that depict the White House and all that pertains to it as forging a new and more wonderful country. Wasn’t “Build Back Better” the battle cry, whatever that is supposed to mean? And the spin is endless, even when a clueless Joe Biden belatedly winds up in…
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Question 1: Hitler In the West, we’re taught that Hitler is the embodiment of all evil, but it’s more complicated than that, isn’t it? The more I read about Hitler, the more convinced I am that his views about the Versailles Treaty were fairly commonplace among Germans living at the time. It seems to me that if Hitler hadn’t emerged as the leader who promised to restore Germany (to its original borders), someone else would have taken his place. The real problem was the injustice of the treaty itself which exacted reparations that could not be repaid along with the partitioning…
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Question 6: Operation Pike Did England and France plan to attack Russia prior to Hitler’s invasion of that country? Ron Unz—For more than eighty years, one of the single most crucial turning points of World War II has been omitted from nearly every Western history written about that conflict and as a result, virtually no educated Americans are even aware of it. It is an undeniable, documented fact that just a few months after the war began, the Western Allies—Britain and France—decided to attack the neutral Soviet Union, which they regarded as militarily weak and a crucial supplier of natural resources…
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“Much of the current political legitimacy of today’s American government and its various European vassal-states is founded upon a particular narrative history of World War II, and challenging that account might have dire political consequences.”—Ron Unz Question 1: Hitler Let’s start with Hitler. In the West it is universally accepted that: Hitler started WW2 Hitler’s invasion of Poland was the first step in a broader campaign aimed at world domination Is this interpretation of WW2 true or false? And, if it is false, then—in your opinion—what was Hitler trying to achieve in Poland and could WW2 have been avoided? Ron…
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Mike Whitney Interview with Paul Craig Roberts Question 1– To what extent has the war in Ukraine accelerated the move to a new global realignment? Paul Craig Roberts– It was Washington’s economic sanctions against Russia, the theft of Russia’s central bank reserves, and the theft of Venezuela’s gold, not the conflict in Ukraine, that weaponized the US dollar and resulted in global realignment. The limited Russian intervention in Donbas was Putin’s belated eight-year-delayed response to the US coup that overthrew the government of Ukraine in 2014 and installed a government hostile to Russia and to the Russian population that had been incorporated…
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(The Devil’s Trick) As we’ve approached the twenty-second anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, more than enough evidence exists to draw reasonable conclusions about what happened that day and who was responsible. Most of the basic facts have been known for years, though unfortunately have not been readily available to the general public. Way back in 2007, a physics professor at Brigham Young University, Dr Steven E. Jones, turned up critical evidence while investigating samples of World Trade Center (WTC) dust. The samples had been collected immediately after September 11, 2001 from the thick deposit of dust that blanketed…
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“Speaking on the selfishness of politicians, he asked them to learn from Gowon’s case, he said, “Please, compare this to the case of former military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon. His nine-year regime was toppled in a military coup on July 29, 1975, while he was attending the Organization of African Unity (OAU) meeting in Kampala, Uganda. Soon after a world press conference during which he magnanimously accepted his ouster and wished his successor, General Murtala Muhammed success, he called our High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Alhaji Sule Kolo, with a request. “His wife, Mrs Victoria Gowon, was…
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The African country’s military government says Paris is continuing to deploy forces to ECOWAS states Supporters of Niger’s National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland protest outside a French and Niger airbase in Niamey on September 9, 2023 to demand the departure of the French army from Niger. © AFP Paris is planning to intervene in Niger, as it continues to deploy troops to several countries in the region, the West African state’s military government has claimed. Relations between Niger and former colonial power France have deteriorated since a coup in July. “France continues to deploy its forces in several ECOWAS (Economic…
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Prof Niyi Osundare boldly lampoons and ridicules Judges and the NJC in illustrative poetry entitled: My Lord, Tell Me Where To Keep Your Bribe Do I drop it in your venerable chambers Or carry the heavy booty to your immaculate mansion Shall I bury it in the capacious water tankIn your well laundered backyard Or will it breathe better in the septic tank Since money can deodorize the smelliesrime Shall I haul it up the atticBetween the ceiling and your lofty roof Or shall I conjure the walls to open upAnd swallow this sudden bounty from your honest labour Shall…
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“The human heart has been the focus of my life’s study” ( William Hurt) We bring to the attention of our readers this important article by the late Award Winning Actor William C. Hurt, who passed away in Portland, Oregon in March 2023. William Hurt is a powerful voice, committed to truth and social justice. His legacy will live. “Digging for truth in the rubble of the official lie, then in another heavier layer of rubble that lay in my own mind, installed there by our mass media.” (William C. Hurt) I was born in 1950. Mom moved back to New…
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The CIA Sponsored Islamic Insurgency (1979- ) The NeoCons’ agenda is not to “win the war” but to engineer the breakup of sovereign nation states, destroy their culture and national identity, derogate fundamental values and human rights. The strategic objective is to trigger political and social chaos, engineer the collapse of national economies, appropriate the countries’ wealth and resources, impoverish the entire Planet including the American Homeland. It’s a mesh of weapons of mass destruction, covert intelligence operations, propaganda and “strong economic medicine”. The criminality of the US/NATO hegemonic agenda is beyond description. This short article focusses on Women’s Rights in Afghanistan “Before” and “After” the conduct of Washington’s “Humanitarian War” against Afghanistan, which…
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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, says the “war is not over”. Speaking at a press conference organised by the party on Thursday, Atiku said he has asked his lawyers to proceed to the Supreme Court. Atiku had challenged the victory of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in court, but the presidential election tribunal threw out his petition and upheld Tinubu’s election. In his reaction at the PDP Headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, Atiku said, ” I am here today to give my official reaction to the judgment delivered yesterday by…
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What seems clear is that, since 1979, judicial appointments and decision-making in election petitions have enjoyed a relationship underpinned by a whiff of implicit quid pro quo. When the presidential election petition process began in March 2023, Nigeria’s Supreme Court comprised 13 Justices. The court received a bumper injection of seven new justices in November 2020 after the conclusion of the disputes arising from the presidential election of the previous year. That was the last set of appointments to the Supreme Court. Since then, six justices have retired; another three have died. Indeed, in the period since the commencement of the presidential election…
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In the recent and past history of Nigeria, the politician who has so quickly become its most controversial is President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In a few days, he will have an opportunity. It will be one of his most important photo ops. It will be on September 12, 2023, in New York.He’s scheduled to meet briefly with the U.S President Joe Biden, at the sideline of the United Nations General Assembly’s UNGA 78th session. There’s no doubt that the rash of recent military coups in the west and central Africa subregions— especially in the Sahelian clashes and terrorism have caused…
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Commemorating 9/11 This article was first published on March 31, 2017. An earlier version was published in 2015 Lest we forget, one day before the 9/11 attacks [as well as on the morning of 9/11, the dad of the sitting President of the United States of America, George Herbert Walker Bush was meeting none other than Shafiq bin Laden, the brother of the alleged terror mastermind Osama bin Laden. It was a routine business meeting on September 10-11, no conflict of interest, no relationship to the 9/11 attacks which allegedly were carried out on the orders of Shafiq’s brother Osama, no FBI investigation into…
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Editor’s Note Outstanding and timely analysis: this article documents the Taliban government’s current project to eradicate opium and implement crop substitution. What is significant is that in the year 2000-2001, a similar project was implemented. The Taliban government –in collaboration with the United Nations– had imposed a successful ban on poppy cultivation. Opium production declined by more than 90 per cent in 2001. Heroin is a multibillion dollar business supported by powerful interests, which requires a steady and secure commodity flow. One of the “hidden” objectives of the war was precisely to restore the CIA sponsored drug trade to its…
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Once denounced by Zelensky as a “criminal,” gun runner Serhiy Pashinksy has become the top private supplier of arms to Ukraine. Eyewitness testimony has fingered Pashinsky as the architect of a bloody false flag operation which propelled the 2014 Maidan coup and plunged the country into civil war. Years before emerging as Kiev’s top private weapons trafficker, ex-legislator Serhiy Pashinsky played a key role in the 2014 US-backed coup which toppled Ukraine’s democratically-elected president and set the stage for a devastating civil war. Though the notoriously corrupt former Ukrainian parliamentarian was condemned by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a “criminal” as recently as 2019, a lengthy exposé by…
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First published on June 25, 2020. Revised on September 3, 2023 This month we are commemorating The tragic events of September 11, 2001 which led to the October 7, 2001 US-NATO invasion of Afghanistan on the grounds that that America had been “attacked by an unnamed foreign power”. “There is continuity from the colonial style legitimate “drug war” led by the British Empire, to the present drug trafficking structures: Afghanistan under US military occupation, the Narco-State in Latin America.” Rarely acknowledged by the media, the “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT) which was launched on 9/11 coupled with an extensive dollarization of the global economy has a bearing…
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Two news items published in these days by the Washington Post – “9/11 families say Biden not welcome at memorial events unless he releases government evidence” and “Biden signs executive order requiring review, release of some classified 9/11 documents” – open other deep cracks in the official version. The fact that, twenty years later, there are secret documents about 9/11 in Washington’s closets means that its real dynamics are still to be ascertained. What is clear, however, is the process that set September 11 in motion. In the previous decade, after the collapse of the Soviet “evil empire”, the US strategy had…
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The following article entitled “Who is Osama bin Laden by Michel Chossudovsky was first published on September 12, 2001 Author’s Note It was 22 years ago: I started writing on the evening of September 11, 2001, late into the night, going through piles of research notes, which I had previously collected on the history of Al Qaeda. This first text on 9/11 entitled “Who is Osama bin Laden?” was completed and first published on September 12, 2001. From the very outset, I questioned the official story, which described nineteen Al Qaeda sponsored hijackers involved in a highly sophisticated and organized operation. Something was not quite right:…
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BlackRock — there’s a good chance you have never heard of them. In less than 30 years, this American financial firm has grown from nothing to becoming the world’s largest and most trusted manager of other people’s money. The assets left in their care are worth a staggering 6.3 trillion US dollars – a figure with 12 zeroes.
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BRICS alliance is seeking a multipolar global financial system August 23rd was a big news day all over the world. The western media’s focus on the events of that day was solidly on the unproven claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind the sabotage or shooting down of an executive jet that killed his former associate Yevgeny Prigozhin. In reality, however, there was a far more important story that was coming out of South Africa. In fact, Putin had a far more important job to do on that day due to his desire to make progress in stripping the United States of its dollar…
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The 2023 General Election will go down in history as the most significant opportunity lost in the country’s electoral history. Going by the presidential tribunal judgment, the general election is just another disturbing illustration of the tactics utilised by the cabal in Nigeria that has been in control of the country’s state power for decades. This general election in 2023 has the best preparations. All of the money was generously and on time released. The Electoral Act 2022, which Muhammadu Buhari kindly signed into law as president, also provided the essential missing piece, namely electronic component – electronic accreditation, voter…
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On the 6th September 2023, in full view of the entire world, the Election Tribunal(PEPT) staged a dance of shame in the name of judgement, in a country of over 200 million people. We watched our very respected learned gentlemen sitting, bold enough, after mortgaging their consciences against over 200 million citizens to pacify a political party and consolidate on the INEC abracadabra. And I ask; where is equity, fairness and justice in the Judiciary? Where is the transparency that represents the mirror of justice in our judicial system? Upon declaration of the results in February, 2023, the INEC Chairman…
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US Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that an important part of her job is the fact that she “may have to take over” if President Biden is unable to complete his term in office — and that she’s ready to do so if required. Harris was pressed on her readiness for the Oval Office during an overseas trip — after she initially tried to deflect a question about the 80-year-old Biden’s age by pointing to his legislative accomplishments. “Questions about the president’s age often go hand in hand with questions about how you would step into the role if necessary. Do…
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PROTOCOL Good afternoon, Gentlemen of the Press. I am here today to give my official reaction to the judgment delivered yesterday by the Presidential Election Petition Court on the 2023 presidential election. As you already know, I approached the court following the declaration by INEC that the APC and its candidate are the winners of the February 25, Presidential Election. My decision to go to court is anchored in my belief that the court is the sanctuary of justice. The journey of my political career, as you know, holds so much to the courage and fearless decisions of our judiciary.…
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Most believe ethnic Europeans are colonialists and hope to end their stranglehold on power. It’s now the fall of 2023, and the Ukraine conflict has become an integral part of the international political and economic landscape. A cessation of hostilities is not expected.Meanwhile, neither a decisive victory for one side nor a compromise peace agreement seems likely in the foreseeable future. The situation remains the most important factor influencing the global balance of power. When the fighting started, it was immediately clear that relations between Russia and the West were entering an acute phase. But the severity and persistence of…
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It’s a mistake to suggest that the conflict between Kiev and Moscow is only a bilateral struggle, Aleksey Danilov says The head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council has claimed a third world war is already underway, with the Moscow-Kiev conflict pulling in countries far beyond the region. Speaking at the Kiev Security Forum on Tuesday, Aleksey Danilov argued that NATO needs Ukraine as a member, as global turbulence is set to continue. “We’re going to strengthen the alliance,” he insisted. “If somebody thinks that World War III hasn’t started then it’s a huge mistake. It has already begun. It had…
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France still has some level of control over its former colonies, here’s how. France and Britain were colonial overlords of Africa; while Britain colonised 22 African countries, France colonised 20. Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon were some of France’s colonies. France ruled these countries indirectly and assimilated them into their culture and lifestyle, and unfortunately, many of these countries never became fully independent since they signed a colonial pact before their independence. Here’s how France still controls many parts of Africa: African countries that were…
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…Intersociety, South-East CLO and South-East Rights/Democracy Coalition Enugu, Eastern Nigeria Monday, Sept 4, 2023 The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, represented in this emergency Joint-Statement by Emeka Umeagbalasi, the South-East Zone of the Civil Liberties Organization, represented by Comrade Aloysius Emeka Attah and the South-East Coalition of Human Rights and Democracy Organizations; a coalition of over 20 rights and democracy groups based in the South-East, represented by Prof Jerry Chukwuokoro, jointly make bold to say that the alarm raised by Nigeria’s Spy Police, DSS, over “plans by some persons or groups to stage violent protest regarding…
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This article was originally published on bobshideout.com and has been republished here with permission. There are famous criminals. and then there are those whose crime turned into a full-blown empire. This was the story of drug king Pablo Escobar, a man that had managed to build a movie-like cartel and escape the authorities for more than three decades, turning into a highly-controversial legend. By the time he was 20, he was dabbling in small-time crime to supplement his income. By his 30th birthday, he was the kingpin of one of the most notorious drug-trafficking cartels the world has ever known. This is the amazing…
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“Nothing can be ruled out” in such an “intense” proxy conflict between NATO and Russia in Ukraine, Dmitry Polyansky has said The military confrontation in Ukraine has reached a point where it could easily spiral into a full-blown conflict between Russia and NATO, Moscow’s deputy envoy to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, said on Friday. The diplomat blamed the US-led military bloc’s ever deeper involvement in the fighting between Moscow and Kiev. “We have repeatedly warned that the situation is quite dangerous and there is a big risk of a direct clash between Russia and NATO,” Polyansky said while answering questions on…
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Igor Kolomoysky, suspected of fraud, was detained for two month with bail set at some $14 million Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoysky, whose backing is widely believed to have helped Vladimir Zelensky secure the country’s presidency, was detained pending trial for allegedly siphoning off millions of dollars out of Ukraine. Kolomoysky was brought to Kiev’s Shevchenko district court on Saturday, after the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) accused the billionaire of legalizing and transferring abroad more than 500 million Ukrainian hryvnia ($13.5 million) through the “infrastructure of banking institutions controlled by him.” The pretrial detention hearing was held behind closed doors, per…
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Despite being awash with vast deposits of mineral and natural resources, countries across Africa, particularly in the West and Central regions of the continent, have maintained near-permanent positions on the lowest rankings in global index for all negatives: ranging from the poorest countries, the highest unemployment levels, lowest life expectancies, highest infant mortality rates, highest illiteracy levels, widest income gaps, amongst other global parameters for gauging standard of living, strength of national economies and quality of lives of populations within any jurisdiction. Whilst the vast majority of the populations in the various countries in these region eck out a…
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It is now clear that Ukraine’s eagerly anticipated counteroffensive has been a colossal failure.[1] After three months, the Ukrainian army has made little progress pushing back the Russians. Indeed, it has yet to get beyond the so-called “grey zone,” the heavily contested strip of land that lies in front of the first main line of Russian defenses. The New York Times reports that “In the first two weeks of the counteroffensive, as much as 20 percent of the weaponry Ukraine sent to the battlefield was damaged or destroyed, according to U.S. and European officials. The toll included some of the formidable Western fighting…
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Niger’s military junta that seized power last month on Thursday said it had revoked the French ambassador’s diplomatic immunity and instructed the police to expel him. Sylvain Itte visa and that of his family have also been cancelled. He had been told by the junta last Friday that he had 48 hours to leave the country in response to actions taken by the French government which it said were “contrary to the interests of Niger”. But the deadline passed on Monday without Paris recalling him. French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that the ambassador would stay in Niger despite…
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It’s totally out of place to blame the agitation of Biafra on what has befallen Ndi Igbo. Those that are blaming IPOB should know that there was no Biafra agitation from 1970 to 1999. What did Igbo leaders do within that space of decades? There was neither Nnamdi Kanu from 1970 to 2012 nor ESN from 1970 to 2021. What did Igbo leaders do within this period of time? Where were the Southeastern Governors when their Southwestern counterparts took decision and formed a regional security operatives? The delay of Southeastern Governors to establish a regional security outfit gave birth to…
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The former US president is expected to face trial in March Former US President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him in a Georgia election interference case. Trump, who was booked and arrested last week, is accused of 13 felony racketeering and conspiracy offenses. The 77-year-old entered his plea on Thursday morning. According to documents filed by his legal team, he waived his right to have the charges formally read to him by a judge in Fulton County, where he was arrested last week. Officials in Georgia allege that Trump led a “criminal racketeering enterprise” aimed at overturning…
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Central African bloc ECCAS says it “firmly” condemns the military takeover in Libreville and is considering how to respond Officers from the Gabonese Armed Forces have appointed the chief of the Republican Guard, General Brice Oligui Nguema, as the Central African country’s new ruler following the ouster of President Ali Bongo on Wednesday. Nguema was chosen to lead the former French colony’s transition council after a meeting of commanders-in-chief of the Security and Safety Forces, according to local media. Prior to his appointment, the coup leader was carried through the streets of Libreville by jubilant soldiers. Nguema previously served the country’s long-time…
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The top Ukrainian economic adviser has called on the West to close the sanctions ‘loophole’ The Ukrainian president’s top economic adviser has urged Western countries to tighten anti-Russia penalties, arguing that the current restrictions allow third countries like India, China and Türkiye, to refine crude exported by Moscow and re-sell it without restrictions. In an interview with Politico on Wednesday, Oleg Ustenko appealed to officials in the EU, the UK and the US to close the “loophole” used for evading sanctions imposed on Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine. According to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s aide, Russia’s state energy firms are still…
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Ruitai’s board of directors are all Chinese nationals not eligible to acquire a small-scale mining licence as claimed. The Akwa Ibom government has closed down a Chinese mining firm, Ruitai Mining Company, for failing to produce an operation licence. Uno Etim Eno, the commissioner for environment and mineral resources, disclosed this to journalists in Uyo. Mr Eno said the firm could not provide authorisation documents for titanium ore mining in Ibeno. He said the Chinese company had been mining titanium ore secretly in the area, before it was intercepted and ordered to produce relevant documents. Mr Eno added that during inspection,…
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Foreign threats won’t weaken public support for President Vladimir Putin, the Hungarian PM believes. The administration of US President Joe Biden “misunderstands” Russians if it expects economic sanctions and frontline losses to erode support for President Vladimir Putin, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has claimed. The focus of Western politics is on “how to provide more freedom to the people,” while for Russians the top priority is national unity, Orban told US journalist Tucker Carlson in an interview published on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday. “This creates a kind of military approach [by Russia]… always on security, safety, buffer zone, geopolitical approaches,” the Hungarian prime…
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Washington is angling for open conflict for political reasons, the former Fox News host has said The US proxy war against Russia is likely to become an open war within the next year, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on Wednesday. The ruling Democrats need the war to keep power and too many Republicans are willing to go along, he added. “They will do anything to win,” Carlson said in an hour-long interview with radio host Adam Carrolla. He argued that another coronavirus lockdown is unlikely, as too many people would refuse to comply, so “they’re going to go to war with Russia,…
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The Ukrainian leader has allegedly harbored “resentment” for the “humiliation” he suffered at a 2021 meeting, The Guardian reports US President Joe Biden and his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelensky, apparently got off on the wrong foot when they first met in the White House back in 2021, The Guardian reported on Wednesday, citing an upcoming book by journalist Franklin Foer. Washington was left bewildered by Kiev’s demands for swift NATO accession, while Zelensky felt “humiliated,” the paper said. The two presidents seemingly failed to form a good relationship when the Ukrainian leader first visited America in September 2021, some five months before…
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Times poll reveals widespread support for altering the current Anglican doctrine The Church of England clergy want to see priests allowed to marry gay couples, gay priests to wed, and see the Anglican teachings against homosexuality changed at an upcoming General Synod, according to a survey by The Times. The majority of almost 1,200 respondents would also welcome a female leader and believe Britain is no longer a Christian country. The survey, published on Tuesday, is the first of its kind since 2014, when the UK legalized same-sex civil unions. At the time, 51% of Anglican clergy said same-sex marriage…
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Our hope and belief was that “the Big Lie” would one day be crushed by the undeniable weight of the Truth. We still hold on to this hope. A witch-hunt is being waged against independent journalists, renowned academics, scientists and politicians who have the courage to confront the “narrative” imposed by powerful financial interests. The unspoken objective is to sustain government propaganda and “fake news” by the mainstream media while systematically curtailing freedom of expression and independent analysis. When the Lie becomes the Truth, there is no moving backwards. Censorship did not occur overnight. September 11, 2001 (9/11) has greatly influenced the way the…
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Courtesy of The New York Times Propaganda comes in many forms, but perhaps no media outlet has perfected the subtlety of its art like the once-venerable – or, at least, once credible – New York Times. Two examples appeared to me today and I believe they are eminently worthy of analysis, so that we can see how fine an art it is that this organ of propaganda practices. First, a brief foreword. I grew up reading the Times, looking forward to its massive Sunday edition in particular, and admiring the prose that graced its journalistic pages. I began to become suspicious…
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I have been planning to compose a ‘beginner’s guide’ to conspiracy theory, a work that will presumably take some fine thinking and time, given that conspiracy theory and conspiracy theorists, so-called, have been all the rage in our covidian world. Those of us who dared to opine that maybe — just maybe — the virus that took the world by storm in 2020, along with the multiplicity of its variants and the ensuing ‘necessity’ to slow our spinning earth to a halt — wasn’t all that lethal, were, naturally, conspiracy theorists. Those of us who spoke of natural immunity, informed…
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We bring to the attention of Oblong Media Unlimited readers: Important debate and analysis on the death of Wagner’s Prigozhin, chaired by Judge Napolitano The original source of this article is Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom Copyright © Larry Johnson, Ray McGovern, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, and Scott Ritter, Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom, 2023
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