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The reaction to the unprecedented indictment of President Trump was predictable. Most of Trump adversaries responded with unrestrained jubilation. The former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, James Comey reacted to the news with delight. Yes, this is the former head of the foremost law enforcement agency in the U.S. What a fall in standards. Now that a fall in standards has been mentioned, we examine a tweet from Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi claimed that the Grand Jury has acted upon the facts and the law.null So let’s look at the facts first. President Trump has denied the affair with…
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Russia’s Wagner Group has intervened in the affairs of several African countries, providing military and security support while expanding Moscow’s influence across the continent. The Wagner Group, a thousands-strong private military force, has in recent years become one of Russia’s most influential foreign policy tools. It has played a significant role on the battlefields of Syria and Ukraine and, recently, has worked to expand its footprint in Africa. The group has operated in several African countries since 2017, often providing its clients with direct military support and related security services alongside propaganda efforts. What is the Wagner Group? Founded by…
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March 26, 2022 Days after reports detailing a failed assassination attempt on the Ukrainian President surfaced, Kyiv’s top intelligence agency again claimed that mercenaries hired by Moscow continued their hunt for Zelensky and other high-ranking politicians. The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense revealed this in a Facebook post on March 20. “Another group of militants linked to Yevgeniy Prigozhin, a Russian propagandist close to Putin and owner of the Liga (Wagner), began arriving in Ukraine today,” the intelligence agency claimed. “The main task of criminals is to eliminate the top military and political leadership of Ukraine. On February…
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Oct. 2, 2007 Academi, formerly known as Blackwater, is an American private military contractor founded on December 26, 1996, by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince. It was renamed Xe Services in 2009, and was again renamed to Academi in 2011, after it was acquired by a group of private investors. On Sept. 16, 2007, a convoy of Blackwater contractors guarding State Department employees entered a crowded square near the Mansour district in Baghdad, Iraq. But versions of what caused the ensuing bloodshed diverge. Employees from the firm claim they were attacked by gunmen and responded within the rules of…
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Reports suggest that Western weapons sent to Ukraine are being redistributed to terrorists around the world, particularly in Africa. According to the interim President of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traore, Western military equipment ends up in the hands of African terrorists instead of supplying Ukrainian forces, thus generating instability and insecurity for Africa, and further increasing the need for cooperation with Russia. In an interview with Russian media, Traore showed neutrality about the current conflict in Eurasia, saying he is more concerned about the domestic situation in his own country. For Traore, Burkina Faso is at war against terrorist groups, which are indirectly…
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4 November 2022 Russia’s ambassador insists he has evidence of UK aiding a Ukrainian drone attack on Putin’s fleet in Black Sea Diplomat Andrei Kelin has said Britain is involved ‘too deep’ in the Ukraine War and warns of consequences Russia said it lodged a ‘strong protest’ over Nord Stream and Black Sea attacks which it accuses UK of aiding Britain denies direct attacks on Russia as ‘false claims on an epic scale’ but is open about support for Ukraine The UK is ‘too deep’ in the Ukraine war, Russia‘s ambassador warned – while insisting that Putin will not use nuclear weapons in an attack…
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Congress and the courts have shirked their duty, letting bureaucrats make and interpret the laws. There are two competing conceptions of American governance: the version students are taught in the classroom, and the one that exists in the real world. Grade-school civics teaches that Washington is designed to operate under a system of checks and balances, constrained by the Constitution and empowered by the consent of the governed. In practice, however, power has become concentrated in the executive branch and largely wielded by unaccountable career bureaucrats. The notion of a “deep state” isn’t a conspiratorial talking point but a manifest…
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Child trafficking and exploitation reaches into the highest levels of authority, both secular and religious. No, thankfully the malady has not yet overtaken the entirety of the West, but it certainly has seized hold of the element within it that sets the tone and shapes minds. The precise matter that currently exercises the establishment is not motherhood so much literally as symbolically, insofar as the powers that are dismissed with undisguised contempt is the inviolability of motherhood’s most precious issue, innocent children. That is close enough. The opinion dictators’ unhinged reaction to the newly released film “Sound of Freedom” highlights a seeming…
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Nineteen months after the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, many people are still wondering: what is the war really about? Ukraine considers it exclusively defensive against Russian aggression. For the Western bloc (as they inconsistently try to demonstrate) the war is a defense of Western values and countering the military threat from Moscow. For Russia, this war is a serious geopolitical challenge, in which it is necessary to protect the fraternal people and eliminate the ultra-right neo-Nazi forces that seized power at all levels in 2014 and are acting with a tough anti-Russian policy. However, as always happens…
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The West African bloc has a history of successful military interventions to restore constitutional order within the region.A Nigerien soldier with ECOMOG, the military arm of the Economic Community of West African States, adjusts a rocket launcher in the village of Lomo Nord, in central Ivory Coast, February 14, 2003 [Issouf Sanogo/AFP] On July 26, members of Niger’s presidential guard deposed President Mohamed Bazoum in a coup, the fifth successful one in nine attempts in West Africa since 2020. This has prompted the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to impose sanctions and issue a one-week ultimatum to the…
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The strategy to increase President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s (PBAT) legitimacy by lobbying to make him the chairman of The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) might backfire if he doesn’t skillfully navigate the drifting of the treacherous Niger Republic time-bomb with wisdom and discernment out of the Bermuda Triangle. It’s so unfortunate that the responsibilities of the ECOWAS chairman has quadrupled overnight. His actions and inactions will be observed closely and analyzed in real-time by the NeoCon and the BRICS nations. The Niger Republic situation will test his sagacity and wherewithal to manage crisis. PBAT should come to terms…
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One of the coup leaders claims Paris has sought and obtained permission to “intervene militarily” in the country’s political crisis Niger’s deposed government has authorized France to conduct strikes on the presidential palace in order to release President Mohamed Bazoum, the military junta that seized power last week claimed on Monday. The junta had earlier warned against foreign attempts to free Bazoum, who has been held hostage at the palace since Wednesday, when the putsch took place. In a statement on Monday, Colonel Amadou Abdramane, one of the coup leaders, claimed that France, an ally of the country in fighting…
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Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani, the Niger head of state has banned Uranium and Gold Exports to France, Forges Alliance with Russia” The junta in Niger announced that it was suspending the export of uranium and gold to France with immediate effect, APA reports citing BBC. Niger is the world’s seventh largest producer of Uranium. Niger accounts for 15-17 percent of the uranium used to generate electricity in France. It should be noted that according to the statement of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France has suspended financial support programs for Niger until the constitutional structure is restored in the African…
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‘No Trust or Confidence in a Unitary System of Government’: Lt.-Col. Gowon’s Broadcast on the Assumption of Office, 1 August 1966 This is Lt-Col. Y. Gowon, Army Chief of Staff, speaking to you. My fellow countrymen, the year 1966 has certainly been a fateful year for our beloved country, Nigeria. I have been brought to the position today of having to shoulder the great responsibilities of this country and the armed forces with the consent of the majority of the members of the Supreme Military Council as a result of the unfortunate incident that occurred on the early morning of 29th July…
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Burkina Faso and Mali have denounced the ECOWAS sanctions against the junta in Niamey In the first-ever joint communique on Monday, the military governments in Mali and Burkina Faso warned the West and other African states against intervening in neighboring Niger. Bamako and Ouagadougou would consider any such move as an attack on their own countries, they said. “Any military intervention against Niger would amount to a declaration of war against Burkina Faso and Mali,” said point four of the joint communique, which a Burkinabe military spokesman deliberately repeated three times during a state television broadcast. In case of an intervention, the…
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When Zik, the spirit man, left Onitsha province, Awka District, to Umuahia and appointed Dr. M. I. Okpara as the premier and late Dr. Akanu Ibiam as the Govenor of Eastern Region of Nigeria, people did not have much qualms about Ibiam. After all, they said, the post of a Governor was a ceremonial one. In the case of Okpara, some people were skeptical about his eligibility for the position of premier which was an executive position. In the first place, people did not know much about him like Dr. J. O. J. Okezie and others associated with known Zikists…
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In Three Years (July 2020-July 2023), Deployed Criminal Security Forces And Other Government Extortionist Agencies Seized N2.2 Trillion ($2.7B) From Easterners At Gunpoint As Against N600B ($800M) Collected At Gunpoint By Non State Criminal Entities Involving: Police/Military Roadblocks N670B, Police Custodial Extortions N200B, ‘Crime Proceeds’ Converted By Police N60B, Squandered Govs’ Security Votes N400B, Extortions By Militant Government Agencies N700B, Military/Police House Burnings/Lootings N150B, Police Security To VIPs/Institutions N30B, Non State Ransoms/Robberies N400B And Other Crime Proceeds From Criminal Entities N200B-Totaling N2.8Trillion ($3.5B) …Grand Research Finding: Deployed Security Forces And Other Government Agencies More Criminal And Atrocious Than Non State…
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Mr Ekpa is a Nigerian-Finnish citizen who has been linked to the growing insecurity in the region. Leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has accused the Nigerian government of sponsoring Simon Ekpa to cause unrest in Nigeria’s south-east Mr Ekpa is a Nigerian-Finnish citizen who has been linked to the growing insecurity in the region. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, counsel to the IPOB leader, disclosed this in a statement on Monday, which was sent to PREMIUM TIMES. Mr Ejiofor said Mr Kanu made the remark when the IPOB leader’s legal team visited him at the facility of the State…
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DNA which stands for Deoxyribo-Nucleic Acid, is defined as nucleic acid that contains the genetic code. If you have SEX with a man, his DNA lives in you forever. Workman noted that a research by university of Seattle USA has proven that:- There is now a greater understanding of why God asks us not to have SEX before we get married This research proves that any man that a woman has SEX with, leaves a part of his DNA in the woman. The man who has had more SEX with her, leaves more of his DNA in the woman. So…
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When a dog wags its tail, it is no news, but if ever a tail is seen wagging the dog, then that becomes the greatest news item the world over. The reason is simple, the dog, (with its body mass constituting more than 99.9% of itself, less the insignificant percentage left to its tail), obviously has everything to its advantage, (brain power and physical power), to control and wag its tail at its pleasure. The point being made with the illustration of the dog and its tail is that, as far as the power equation is concerned, as it is…
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In July 2013, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, then Egypt’s army chief, sacked his benefactor and Egypt’s first democratically elected president, President Mohammed Morsi, in a military coup, installed himself as military ruler of the country and suspended the country’s constitution. 11 months later, at the end of May 2014, the General proclaimed himself the elected ruler of Egypt, winning 93% of the votes in an election with a pre-determined outcome in which he was the only candidate with any chance of being declared winner. The African Union, which had previously decided that coup plotters should not use the benefit of their…
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A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, has delivered judgement in Favour of the widow of late Igbo leader and Ikemba Nnewi Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and her Children in the case involving the management and control of some of the assets of Ojukwu Transport Ltd( OTL) the family company of which her husband was a Director prior to his death. The suit filed by Bianca Ojukwu in 2012, on behalf of the claimants being her two sons, Afamefuna and Nwachukwu who were infants at the time, against Ojukwu Transport Limited (OTL) and seven others ( brothers of the late…
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Former Minister of Power and Chairman Geometric Power Group, Prof Bart Nnaji has said that the 188-megawatt Geometric Power Plant in the Osisioma Industrial Layout, Aba, Abia State, will commence electricity generation within two months. Starting with one of its four General Electric brand turbines, the second will come on stream once the performance of the first turbine is declared satisfactory by the team of engineers led by KSE Energy of Turkey and Engineer Ben Caven, a former executive director of the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) reputed to be the only person to have run the generation, engineering and…
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“If you want to stop a coup, remove the cause.” – Brigadier (later General) Murtala Mohammed (1938-1976) in September 1974 These are not the best of times for democratically wired Nigeriens. What are the real issues? While only time will tell, when parrots jabber, eagles are quiet. Perhaps why when many Nigerians became agitated over the 378 km long Kano to Maradi rail line traversing Jigawa and Katsina States, better-informed Nigerians maintained a stoic silence because the very Hausawa of Katsina exiled by Sokoto Caliphate in the early 1800s are those still holding sway in Maradi. Understandably, that brief disquiet…
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“…..Oh, those Russians.” – Last stanza of Rasputin track featured in Boney M’s album, Nightflight To Venus (1978) The French are landlords in West Africa but President Vladimir Putin’s Wagner Group are increasingly challenging them. Virtually every coup crime scene in the Sahel has Russian fingerprints. Hear, the reaction to President Bazoum’s removal by the Moscow generalissimo, Yevgeny Prigozhin in a voice message on Telegram, “What happened in Niger is nothing short than the struggle of the people of Niger with their colonizers. With colonizers who are trying to foist their rules of life on them and their conditions keeping…
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I grew up in Owerri Nchi-Ise to see every Owere man or woman as a brother or sister. This was in the early sixties. My schoolmates at Township School Owerri were practically family members as we ate at each other mother’s kitchen after school. We had few non- indegenes living in Owerri. We were bonded to each other with great love and affection. We were the pride and envy of visitors and residents in Owerri who even wished, they hailed from Owerri and always happily elated whenever called Owere Nchi- ishii. They worshiped and adored us and were even afraid…
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Earlier this month I reported that my Medicare account has been billed by three separate labs for expired Covid tests sent to me as “totally free, paid for by the Government. Please Do Not Return.” “Paid for by Government” means paid for by Medicare. I now have 24 expired Covid tests for which Medicare has paid. Since reporting this a few days ago I have now received Medicare notices that FIVE more labs have sent me AT MEDICARE’S EXPENSE Covid test kits. These kits have not arrived, but the bill to Medicare has. One is from Chicago Care Lab Services, W. Pratt Blvd, Chicago,…
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“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.” William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 Hit the ground running was the advice given by most of our erudite young columnists as soon as Tinubu was declared winner of the February Presidential Election. Apart from the fact that it was neither original nor new, few of the purveyors of that idea had stopped to ask if it was appropriate – given the circumstances and the individual being addressed. Tinubu, as elected Governor of Lagos State in 1999, was 24 years younger than his age is today. He started so slowly that he was openly insulted…
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On Tuesday, 13 June, 2023, I was at the University of Ibadan where I delivered a public lecture titled “The task before Nigeria’s 16th Head of State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu” at the 31st Anniversary of the Resurrection Morning Star Society, Chapel of Resurrection of the university. Following is an abridged version of the lecture: “Tinubu is an enigma. To borrow from the words which the self-styled “evil genius” and self-conceited military president-cum-dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (IBB), employed while describing the sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Tinubu has been “the issue” in Nigerian politics since the current Fourth Republic kicked off in…
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For the first time since Independence in 1960, Nigeria’s economy expanded slower than its population between 2015 and 2020. Nigeria’s GDP per capita declined by 0.02 per cent, 4.16 per cent and 1.78 in 2015, 2016 and 2017 respectively; in 2018, 2019 and 2020, it declined by 0.68, 0.38 and 4.57 per cent respectively. Nigeria’s annual GDP growth rate also declined from 6.22 in 2014 to 3.10 in 2022. Under Buhari, Nigeria’s economy fell into recession twice. The exchange rate of Naira to US dollar in 2015 was N197 but today the rate on the black market where most Nigerians…
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“Friends speak the truth to each other. Good friends speak the bitter truth” – Israel’s President Herzog, in address to the US Congress, July 19, 2023. Herzog stunned the US Congress (National Assembly) by confessing that his country is now practising the same apartheid for which South African whites were globally condemned in the last century. American elected officials who had gathered, expecting another denunciation of Palestinians as terrorist, were shocked into silence. That took courage. Nigeria needs that sort of courage from anybody seeking to advise you on how to run your government – if the courts give you…
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State Department inspectors have flagged concerns about the billions sent to Kiev The US is struggling to keep track of billions of dollars it has sent to Kiev since February 2022, the effectiveness of which may be reduced by government and private corruption in Ukraine. This was the most recent finding of the US State Department’s Office of the Inspector General. The redacted version of the State Department OIG report, published this week, notes that “corruption in the Ukrainian government and private sector poses risks to the effectiveness of US foreign assistance over the longer run.” Concerns about corruption are well-documented, the OIG…
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The former US president suggested that Joe Biden is not fit for purpose in his role as Commander in Chief Former US president Donald Trump took aim at Joe Biden at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Saturday, branding his successor in the White House “the most corrupt president in American history.” “We have somebody that’s not at the top of his game,” Trump said of Biden to a fiercely loyal crowd at the Erie Insurance Arena. “Never was at the top of his game. We have a guy who is a dumb son of a b*tch.” Trump, the frontrunner to land the…
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Gems have up to now been largely spared from international restrictions Sanctions on exports of Russian diamonds that have been debated by the G7 countries for more than a year may send gem prices soaring globally, CNBC reported on Friday, citing analysts. So far, importing Russian rough diamonds has been banned by the US. At the same time, Washington still imports gems extracted in Russia if they have been substantially altered in other countries. The UK, Canada, and New Zealand followed suit, adopting similar measures against Russian mining giant Alrosa. The European Union and G7 have been seeking new ways…
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The trade in precious stones has so far avoided sanctions The EU wants to tighten economic sanctions on Russia by imposing further restrictions on trade in precious stones. According to a statement from the European commissioner for financial stability, Meirid McGuinness on the website of the European Parliament, Brussels is looking for ways to restrict the trade in Russian diamonds and their use, to reduce Moscow’s export revenues. The comments came in response to a query from MEP Tomas Zdechovsky, who claimed that “significant quantities” of uncut gems are being exported through EU channels and worldwide. Zdechovsky submitted his query on May…
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State companies should develop joint standards in the gemstone mining industry, the head of Alrosa says Russia and Africa account for more than 90% of the global diamond mining market and should develop a joint roadmap for sustainable business development, the head of Russian mining giant Alrosa has said. Pavel Marinychev urged countries and producers to work together and establish common approaches in the gemstone industry. “State-owned diamond companies in Russia and Africa should decide on an appropriate common sustainable development agenda and common standards in the field of responsible business. Standards that are basic, and not imposed on us,” Marinychev…
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Those who think Simon Ekpa is working to get Nnamdi Kanu released are deliberately being naive at best and moronic at worst. The reason you have his supporters believing that destroying the Southeast and killing and maiming Easterners will force the FG to release a man they are holding in far away Abuja is the same reason we had adults believing that Ralph Uwazurike using his armed hoodlums in MASSOB to stop Igbos from participating in the 2006 census would give us Biafra. It was also the same reason seemingly educated adults believed that Kanu getting Ndigbo to boycott the…
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“For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the government.” Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), 33rd U.S. President,(1945-1953), (in an editorial titled “Limit CIA Role to Intelligence“, The Washington Post, Dec. 22, 1963, p. A11). [The CIA] “has become so removed from its intended role… I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations… The last thing we needed was for the CIA to be seized upon as…
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A new report finds that DOD uses ‘security cooperation’ programs for ‘secret wars,’ recommends that Congress rein them in. U.S. military forces have been engaged in unauthorized hostilities in many more countries than the Pentagon has disclosed to Congress, let alone the public, according to a major new report released late last week by New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice. “Afghanistan, Iraq, maybe Libya. If you asked the average American where the United States has been at war in the past two decades, you would likely get this short list,” according to the report, Secret War: How the…
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Military leader of the CNSP calls for change in the domestic and foreign policy of the landlocked West African state. A new leader has emerged in the uranium-rich West African state of Niger just two days after the elected head-of-state, President Mohamed Bazoum, was toppled by his special forces. The presidential guard on July 26 took over the residence of Bazoum and other key government buildings including the national media. Colonel-Major Amadou Abdramane spoke for the newly established National Council for the Safeguard of our Homeland (CNSP), saying that the president had been detained. Abdramane later claimed that the government had been…
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There is this allegory or tale that in the animal kingdom, the tortoise, reputed to be very mischievous, stole from every other animal. The tortoise acted with impunity and went scot-free each time he was confronted by his hapless victims. On a good day, basking on the euphoria of his previous successful escapades, the tortoise went and stole from the lion. The lion, being a no-nonsense animal, went berserk, searched everywhere and caught the tortoise. Early in the morning, the lion tied the tortoise on top of a very tall tree on the road leading to the market square for…
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African populations are eager for partners and reform in the international system, the United States should embrace change. When Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi made a swing through east and southern Africa last week, his agenda was unsurprising. He sought to evade isolation by shoring up relations with Kenya, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, signing a flurry of agreements aimed at enhancing cooperation and trade, though whether these deals yield much in the way of results remains to be seen. He seized on the opportunity to align himself with Ugandan leadership in support of its new, draconian laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community, finding common ground in a…
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There are basically two economies in the world and every nation on the face of the earth fall under either of them. These are: The rich and prosperous nations of the world belong to the Knowledge Economy while the the poorest and poverty stricken nations of the world belong to the Religion Economy. The Knowledge Economy is one that engages the brain, asks relevant questions, and proffer solutions to problems. The Religion Economy is one that blackmails God and dumps every responsibilities on Him. The Knowledge Economy tasks the brain, the Religion Economy numbs the brain. Japan, for example, is…
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Tinubu’s macroeconomics gets a reality check from Nigeria’s micropolitics. This time last month, the Bola Tinubu administration was riding a wave of popular approval. Following his inauguration on May 29, the new president hit the ground running with a string of measures and pronouncements that seemed to indicate that he had a clear vision for his presidency. For many people, it wasn’t so much the substance of the moves (more on which in a moment) as an apparent decisiveness that stood in sharp contrast to the ponderousness and foot-dragging of the Buhari years. Yet, over the past couple of weeks, a cross-section…
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The Israeli parliament’s new legislation limiting Supreme Court oversight of government policies has raised alarm over deepening societal divisions and potential democratic backsliding. Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, has passed the first part in the planned overhaul of the country’s judiciary system. What does this new legislation do, and why is it so controversial? The Knesset passed legislation that abolishes the “reasonableness doctrine,” which the Supreme Court of Israel has employed to evaluate government policies. It is a practice used by high courts in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, among other countries. The doctrine operates exactly as it sounds: the…
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AI is about to revolutionize “US efficiency” with devastating social consequences. With AI (supported by other technologies), 30 % of hours currently worked across the US economy could be automated. See the McKinsey Study 12 million Americans will lose their job within the next 6-7 years. A “stimulus” package in itself will not fix the problem, because “stimulus” will only increase occupation in remaining job types, not help people made redundant by AI learn to master new types of occupations which will emerge. Jobs taken by automation are always replaced – but that is over time. And many of those who lose their…
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On July 26, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu held high-level defense talks with his North Korean counterparts. In a clear message to the United States, Pyongyang is also conducting a series of ballistic missile tests that serve as a warning to Washington DC’s belligerence. Namely, the US is escalating tensions with everyone in the area, including by sending its nuclear-powered submarines to South Korean ports. Apart from various guided missile submarines (SSGNs), the US Navy also sent the USS “Kentucky”, a nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), that docked in the southern port city of Busan on July 18. It should be noted that…
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Our enemy that shills for ‘the science’ and digital ID passports Each day brings with it its measure of joy or travail. The noise of life hums along and practicalities absorb the attention of most of us, enough so that the profundity of alterations introduced by the covid operation may not quite be appreciated. Indeed, I cannot myself come to comprehend the depths and breadth of the iniquity visited upon us, though I can perceive the stigmata. It bores me to have to repeat the litany of abuse to which we have been subjected – the lockdowns, masks, jab mandates…
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If the truth be told, we are getting sick and tired of Zelensky who runs the “cease-pool” of corruption, tyranny, delusion and death in Ukraine. This clown – and that’s what he is actually trained as – just can’t seem to stop stridently demanding money, arms and support from the rest of the world and lecturing everyone to fall into line or else. In his actual clown days, of course, Volodymyr Zelensky was known for the act depicted below. But when it comes to the collective West, the latter seems to enjoy the fact that the Ukrainian president continues to bang away…
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The weaponization of US currency has pushed many nations to look for alternatives, a top banker has said Alternative payment mechanisms in mutual trade will be addressed at the ongoing Russia-Africa summit, one of Russia’s top bankers said on Thursday. Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the event in St. Petersburg, Andrey Kostin, the CEO of Russia’s second-largest bank VTB, said that the US dollar had been weaponized, which is why nations will gradually move away from using it in trade. “Structural changes are bound to happen. African countries are also acting on this. They have already started to…
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The continent will be part of a multipolar world with completely new economic relations, Igor Morozov has told RT The unipolar world is collapsing and a multipolar world is being formed with the participation of Africa, where a newly-minted middle-class will drive consumer demand in the near future, the head of the Coordinating Committee for Economic Cooperation with African Countries (AFROCOM), Igor Morozov told RT on Friday. Last year alone, 19 African countries applied for BRICS membership because they wanted completely new economic relations, Morozov revealed on the sidelines of the Russia-Africa summit. After the US and the…
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Cooperation with African countries has been growing rapidly despite difficulties on global markets, Russian president has said A transition to national currencies in bilateral trade between Africa and Russia would further boost cooperation between the two, which has seen rapid growth despite outside pressure, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. Even with economic headwinds and difficulties on the global markets, Russian entrepreneurs “have something to offer” to partners in African countries, the president pointed out, adding that there is broad scope for growth in bilateral commerce. Speaking at a plenary session of the 2023 Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg,…
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Abdourahamane Tchiani, the head of the presidential guard, has been designated president of the newly formed military council Niger’s presidential guard chief, General Abdourahamane Tiani, who masterminded the overthrow of President Mohamed Bazoum this week, has declared himself the new national leader. Abdourahamane, also known as Omar Tchiani, appeared on the state TV channel Tele Sahel on Friday, calling himself president of the newly formed military council, the National Council for Safeguarding the Homeland, and claiming that Wednesday’s coup was to protect national security. President Bazoum was detained early on Wednesday by members of his security detail, with top military…
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Foreign powers used Ukraine to target Russian statehood, the president claimed Western countries have spent years steering Ukraine towards a conflict with Russia, as they planned to use Kiev as a tool to undermine Russia’s national security, President Vladimir Putin claimed on Friday. He argued that Russia’s retaliation, including its ongoing military operation in the neighboring state, was justified. “This problem was not created yesterday. It was instigated by certain forces in the West, which for a long time were preparing a hybrid war against our country, and did everything to transform Ukraine into an instrument of undermining the foundations of…
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Moscow can’t accept having a hostile military bloc in the former Soviet republic, the Russian president said The prospect of Ukraine becoming a member of NATO is an existential threat to Russian national security and will not be tolerated, Russian President Vladimir Putin told representatives of several African countries on Friday. In the document that ushered in Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union, “it is written in black and white that Ukraine is a neutral state,” Putin reminded the visiting African leaders, during the public part of their meeting in St. Petersburg. The president was referring to the 1990 declaration proclaiming Soviet…
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The expansion of maritime logistics is necessary to cater for growing trade, according to the customs service Expanding transport links between Russia and Africa is among the priorities for the development of mutual trade, the Russian Federal Customs Service said on Thursday. According to the service’s interim head, Ruslan Davydov, up to 95% of trade between Russia and its main partners in Africa is by sea, meaning an expansion and streamlining of maritime logistics is necessary to cater for the growing trade. “Logistics is one of the key elements, because the distances are long, the goods are heavy and bulky,…
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The Role Model of Our Generation After Two World Wars Time is again “out of joint” (Shakespeare) as it was before the First and Second World Wars. Yet it seems that we citizens again do not know what to do in this incendiary situation. Above all, the intellectuals among us have a much greater responsibility than one would generally like to admit, because it would be their duty to think for the other people and to proclaim freedom in general with the freedom of thought. Pusillanimity and indecisiveness of well-informed adults as well as disagreement about valid values in the…
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A major peace publishing event across cultures: The cover story of the esteemed “China Investment” Magazine’s July 2023 edition Can you imagine a leading economics, finance and investment magazine in the Western world publishing a 30 A4-page (10,000 words) article about the future peace and security world order – a think-piece consisting merely of concepts, theories, visions and philosophical aspects of the theme? I can’t. They would not see it as meaningful to include perspectives on peace, nonviolence, security and related matters. But they’d probably gladly publish articles about military corporations, profits and the like. But in China, they see…
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Issues surrounding corruption in the Judiciary in Nigeria has been a matter of concern for many for a long time and I will like to shed some light on what is going on. As a Judge, I have many friends in the Nigerian Judiciary at all levels I will be revealing facts many may not know, but I will protect the anonymity of my sources so I will not be naming names. I want to explain the categories of undue Influence on Judges and exactly how Judges who bow to these pressures corruptly decide cases to favour litigants. But before…
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Since the 1990s, the United Kingdom has been one of the staunchest supporters of Albanian expansionism (mostly fueled by their unrelenting narco-terrorist tendencies). At the time, London sent its intelligence services to Albania where they worked closely with their American, German and other NATO counterparts to set the stage for a terrorist insurrection in the southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohia. The KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army), an Albanian terrorist organization that was based on a volatile mix of radical Islamism and narco-terrorism, was formed with NATO’s direct participation, particularly the UK and US intelligence services. This support reached its peak in early…
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One of the perennial questions which have plagued theology, religion, and humanity in general for millennia is the seeming lack of a positive correlation between righteous living and prosperity. Were it even so simple as there being absolutely no connection between one’s behavior and one’s prosperity (or the lack thereof), the dilemma would not be so problematic. However, as Job, the classic example of the righteous sufferer, points out: Why do the wicked still live, continue on, also become very powerful? Their descendants are established in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes, their houses are safe from fear,…
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The Russian president has addressed the continent’s leaders on the eve of a major summit in St. Petersburg The African continent is becoming one of the pillars of a new multipolar world, and Russia will do everything in its power to help it prosper, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. In a welcome address to participants of the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum in St. Petersburg, scheduled for July 27 and 28, Putin signaled that Moscow sees great value in cooperation with African nations. “Russia supports African states’ aspiration to achieve social and economic stability and progress. It is important…
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The renminbi was used in 49% of Beijing’s international settlements last quarter, figures have shown The yuan surpassed the US dollar to become the most-used currency in China’s overall cross-border transactions from April to June, Nikkei reported this week, citing statistical data from the Chinese State Administration of Foreign Exchange. According to the outlet’s analysis of the data, the increased use of the renminbi was driven mainly by the opening up of the capital market and more trade with Russia. Statistics showed the yuan was used in 49% of China’s cross-border transactions last quarter, topping the greenback for the first…
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Much of the world now supports de-dollarization. It will happen, but not as a “big bang” The de-dollarization of the global financial system is set to continue. This will be facilitated by the development of new financial technology. Central banks will seek to settle directly with each other without using the currencies of developed countries. In the future, central banks’ digital currencies may also be used for international transactions, reducing costs for economic transactions. However, this process will be rather slow. The US dollar has long been the world’s dominant currency. Its use in international transactions has for many…
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Josina Machel says the continent’s people don’t need to take up arms to get rid of neocolonialism, but must unite instead Josina Ziyaya Machel, the daughter of the first president of independent Mozambique, Samora Moises Machel, has told RT that forces claiming to fight terrorism represent a new form of colonialism. Machel, who is part of the delegation from her country to the Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg, was speaking about the need for Africa’s youth to carry on her late father’s legacy of fighting for the continent’s liberation. “It’s the lithium; it’s the oil; it’s the gas,” she insisted, adding that…
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An increasing number of nations have been shunning the greenback in trade settlements The number of international agreements aimed at abandoning the US dollar in trade has been growing lately, signaling a global de-dollarization push in light of Washington’s aggressive foreign policy. RT explores the reverse side of the US sanctions policy and whether it threatens the hegemony of the dollar.
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The liberation of Africa from the oppression of Western colonizers in the 1960s became one of the main themes of Soviet propaganda posters In the second half of the 20th century, the African continent lived through its own ‘parade of sovereignties.’ In 1960 alone, 17 new nations gained independence in what was formerly colonial Africa. While remaining economically dependent on Europe, the former colonies fought for political independence. The USSR tried to provide them with as much assistance as possible and in fact initiated the adoption of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples at…
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US President Joe Biden’s son enters not-guilty plea after US judge raised concerns about plea agreement. US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter has pleaded not guilty to two tax crimes after a plea deal with United States federal prosecutors fell apart during a court hearing after a judge raised concerns over the agreement. Hunter Biden was charged last month with two misdemeanor tax crimes of failure to pay more than $100,000 in taxes from over $1.5m in income in both 2017 and 2018. He had made an agreement with prosecutors, who were planning to recommend two years of probation. That deal is now…
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CNN legal analyst: Hunter Biden’s legal problems are not over A plea deal between President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden and the Justice Department is on hold after a dramatic court hearing Wednesday. Hunter Biden failed to pay between $1.1 million and $1.5 million in federal taxes before the legal deadlines and was poised to plead guilty to two tax charges with prosecutors agreeing to recommend a sentence of probation. But before the original plea could be entered, the deal began to unravel and a revised agreement reached during the hearing was not accepted by the judge. “I cannot accept the plea…
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The Senate on Wednesday strongly condemned the weekly ‘sit at home’ order in the South East imposed by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The upper chamber urged the federal government to collaborate with the Finnish government and extradite a leader of the gang, Simon Ekpa, from Finland for prosecution in Nigeria. The Red Chamber also resolved to invite the Minister of Foreign Affairs, when appointed, and relevant stakeholders to carry out a thorough investigation and bring other sponsors of the act to book. They rejected calls to prevail on the Federal Government to obey court orders for the…
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has accused the courts of being responsible for the present sufferings, hardships, and underdevelopment in Nigeria. NLC President Joe Ajaero made the accusation in his address at the closing ceremony of the 2023 Rain School of the Congress in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Ajaero said that the earlier nationwide action organised by the organised labour over the removal of fuel subsidy was allegedly sabotaged by an abnormal injunction procured and served on NLC in “unholy circumstances” from the Courts by the Government. He said that the government has used the courts to undermine the rights…
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One of the good things out of spending time in Nigerian prison was that I learnt some secrets about how the prison and the Nigerian criminal justice system work. Yes, I was detained in Kuje prison. I was never convicted. No court ever found me guilty of any crime. And I did not commit a crime. Yet, I spent time in prison. I used my time in prison to study the prison and the system so well. If Nigerian prison were to be a university, I would have gotten double PhDs. In Nigerian, nobody goes to prison just because he…
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National security is the protection of the people, preservation of national values, ensuring the protection and furtherance of the national socio-economic and political prosperity and the protection of the abstract State. No State has a life of its own distinct from the lives of the people who constitute the State. However, in Nigeria, there has always been the neglect and assault on the people who hold the empirical sovereignty. Our national security agencies focus on protecting the regime and the abstract State instead of the people. The framework of National Security has become so expanded in the 21st Century to…
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Presidency says army ready to attack if guards do not back down, adds president is well after reports said he was held within the presidential palace. Niger’s presidency has said some members of the presidential guard tried to move against President Mohamed Bazoum, warning that the army was ready to attack them if they did not back down. The presidency’s official Twitter account said on Wednesday that presidential guards engaged in an “anti-Republican demonstration” and tried “in vain” to obtain the support of the other security forces. It added that Bazoum and his family were well after news agencies quoted security…
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Textbook evil. Senator Gerard Rennick is an Australian politician, who is in the Liberal National Party of Queensland since July 2019. He wrote the following on this webpage: We are all used to the Government lying but in my view this has to be one of the biggest lies of all. The World Health Organisation has told governments to code deaths to Covid even if the virus was not identified in an autopsy and even if it was not medically correct. And I quote page 8 of the attached link below: “Although both categories, U07.1 (COVID-19, virus identified) and U07.2 (COVID-19, virus not identified) are…
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The Pentagon inspector general found the arms Washington sent to Kiev did not undergo the required inspections. A report from the inspector general found weapons the US sent to Ukraine in the hands of criminals and on the black market. The Arms Control Act requires the White House to establish an inspection system for weapons the US sells or gifts to third countries. The law mandates the monitoring continues to the end-use of the weapon. In Ukraine, the embassy in Kiev has been assigned responsibility for monitoring the weapons transfers. The Department of Defense inspector general report on American weapons transfers to…
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Chapter XV of “The Worldwide Corona Crisis. Global Coup d’Etat Against Humanity” by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, 2022 The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris on the afternoon of July 14, 1789. The Bastille was a medieval armory, fortress, and political prison. It was the symbol of Royal Authority under the reign of King Louis XVI. The French monarchy was obliged to accept the authority of the newly proclaimed National Assembly as well as endorse the fundamental rights contained in the “Declaration des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen” (Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen), formulated in early August 1789.[1] More…
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Several markers and official responses in the last week demonstrate the unfolding turmoil in the economy and the uncoordinated response of President Bola Tinubu. While the naira exchange rate rose to N870 to $1, and the pump price of petrol to N617 per litre, inflation rate in June was reported at 22.79 per cent. Food inflation was even higher; and external reserves are headed for another dip on the back of unmet crude production targets. Tinubu then declared an “emergency” in food security, ordered the release of grains, and reviewed his earlier “palliative” plan. Ominous clouds are gathering and the…
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After over a decade of development, BRICS cooperation has been greatly strengthened. The international community has widely recognized and supported BRICS, and an increasing number of like-minded countries want to join it. Who Wants In? According to Russian media reports, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on June 15 that the number of countries applying to join the BRICS bloc is increasing, reaching nearly 20. Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa met in Geneva on June 14, after which Bangladesh applied to join BRICS. Russian Ambassador to Egypt Georgy Borisenko confirmed in an interview…
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This was originally published in November 2022. World BEYOND War has launched a new online tool at worldbeyondwar.org/no-bases that allows the user to view a globe pock-marked with 867 U.S. military bases in countries other than the United States, and to zoom in for a satellite view of and detailed information on each base. The tool also allows filtering the map or list of bases by country, government type, opening date, number of personnel, or acres of land occupied. This visual database was researched and developed by World BEYOND War to help journalists, activists, researchers, and individual readers understand the immense problem of excessive…
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The Global Deployment of US Military Personnel Editor’s Note This important analysis and review of US military might by award winning Canadian geographer Professor Jules Dufour, was first published by Global Research in 2007. Jules Dufour passed away after a long illness in August 2017. His legacy will live. US military presence around the World has expanded dramatically in the course of the last five years. This study is largely based on data for the period 2001-2005. The Worldwide control of humanity’s economic, social and political activities is under the helm of US corporate and military power. Underlying this process are various schemes of…
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The US urge to dominate the World is still looking for a way. Not that the US can – but that doesn’t mean the Neocons won’t attempt. Neocons no longer identify themselves as such, but that also doesn’t mean that they have gone away – or that they have changed. Democrat Neocons, btw, never self-identified by this term, and as one observer rightly mentioned 20 years ago – Neocons span both the US parties. An article at Al Jazeera prompted me to take stock of Neocon today. The Al Jazeera article erroneously seems to indicate that Neocons are all Republicans. Only a few…
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The plot behind Ukraine is far deeper than anyone is willing to talk about publically. Yanukovich was corrupt and his sons were acting like a protection racket. Yanukovich was keen on joining the EU but the treaty had a clause in there that would have put Ukraine in NATO through the backdoor. Ukraine would have to comply will all the rules and regulations of NATO without formally being admitted. Worse still, Ukraine was to trade exclusively with the EU when Russia was its main trading partner and its fuel came from Russia. This was the first attempt by the West…
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Mirroring meticulous Chinese attention to protocol, they met at Villa 5 of the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse – exactly where Kissinger first met in person with Zhou Enlai in 1971, preparing Nixon’s 1972 visit to China. The Mr. Kissinger Goes to Beijing saga was an “unofficial”, individual attempt to try to mend increasingly fractious Sino-American relations. He was not representing the current American administration. There’s the rub. Everyone involved in geopolitics is aware of the legendary Kissinger formulation: To be the US’s enemy is dangerous, to be the US’s friend is fatal. History abounds in examples, from Japan and South Korea…
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On February 16, 2022, a full week before Putin sent combat troops into Ukraine, the Ukrainian Army began the heavy bombardment of the area (in east Ukraine) occupied by mainly ethnic Russians. Officials from the Observer Mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) were located in the vicinity at the time and kept a record of the shelling as it took place. What the OSCE discovered was that the bombardment dramatically intensified as the week went on until it reached a peak on February 19, when a total of 2,026 artillery strikes were recorded. Keep in mind, the…
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Russians increasingly believe the West wants to destroy their country There is an increasingly widespread view in Russia that the goal of the US – and the “collective West” it leads – is to achieve a “final solution” to the “Russian question.” The goals are believed to be defeating Russia, wrecking its military potential, restructuring its statehood, reshaping its identity and possibly eliminating it as a state, in its current form. For a long time, this view remained on the periphery of foreign policy thinking. However, much has changed in the past year and a half. Today, this perception of the West’s…
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Stress and so-called mental health issues have been in ‘pandemic’ mode? With the seemingly endless fear-generating narratives of the corporate-owned mass media in relation to catastrophic CO2-induced climate change; virus pandemics; nuclear war; or whatever else they can come up with to keep you shivering under your sheets – is it any wonder that stress and so-called mental health issues have been in ‘pandemic’ mode? The modern-day solution to such problems is to go to your doctor, and he prescribes some ‘bio-pharmaceutical pills’ that he probably does not know the actual ingredients of. If the pills do not numb your worries, the…
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US officials are growing tired of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky making endless demands for Western support, writes Douglas MacKinnon, a former adviser for policy and communications at the Pentagon, in an op-ed for The Hill. Even without MacKinnon’s insight, it is evident that Western leaders are becoming weary of Zelensky’s demands, as seen at the recent NATO Summit in Lithuania and the aftermath of the event. MacKinnon, citing sources, points out in his article that US President Joe Biden, in June 2022, “lost his temper and yelled that Zelensky should be showing more gratitude for the billions in aid he was getting from the…
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The Russian leader reflected on the “trust and mutual support” between Moscow and African countries President Vladimir Putin has shared his views on how Russia and Africa should unite their efforts in pushing for global “peace, progress, and a successful future,” in an article released ahead of the Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg. Africa has “rightful place” in deciding the world’s fate The Russian president said that Moscow’s relations with African states have “strong, deep roots and have always been distinguished by stability, trust and goodwill.” Moscow has “consistently supported African peoples in their struggle for liberation from colonial oppression” and “provided assistance in developing statehood, strengthening their sovereignty and defense capability,” he…
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Russia continues to be an attractive market for foreign companies, Moscow’s ambassador to Germany says The Russian economy has proven resilient despite sanctions, and German businesses are reluctant to leave the market despite pressure from the government in Berlin, Russia’s ambassador to Germany said in an interview with the news website Lenta.ru, published last week. According to Sergey Nechayev, the German economy has entered a phase of technical recession and its economic outlook is “depressing.” GDP fell 0.3% in the first quarter of 2023, after a 0.5% contraction in the last quarter of 2022. “On the contrary, the Russian economy, which has…
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“My mates have died, and are dying. I’ve seen things out here that, from a military perspective, are beyond unacceptable,” says one Australian fighter From the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, thousands of foreign mercenaries have joined Ukraine’s Armed Forces. They came to Ukraine from all over the world, but mostly from Poland, the US, and Canada. Recently, however, it seems that their interest in fighting for Kiev has significantly faded. This is evident both from estimates provided by the Russian Ministry of Defense and from foreign media reports. Mercenaries are losing interest Since February 24, 2022, a projected 11,675…
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The ex-US president believed the situation in the country was “highly explosive,” according to a declassified letter Former US president Richard Nixon warned his successor Bill Clinton nearly 30 years ago that Ukraine could plunge into bloody turmoil, while predicting major political changes in Russia, according to a document made available to the public last week. In a seven-page letter dated March 21, 1994 and cited by the Wall Street Journal, the late president gave his take on the volatile post-Soviet political landscape right after he returned from a trip to Russia and Ukraine. Nixon described Ukraine as “indispensable” and warned that…
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Russia and Africa should now work on a more fair agreement, Ovigwe Eguegu told RT It is “disingenuous” of the West to expect Russia to renew the Black Sea grain deal when Western governments didn’t hold up their end of the bargain, policy analyst Ovigwe Eguegu told RT on Saturday. Russia and Africa, he argued, should strike a new deal. “The agreement had run its full course,” said Eguegu, a policy expert at consultancy Development Reimagined. “The conditions were not met, for instance that the Russian agricultural bank would be reconnected to SWIFT, that the EU would lift all restrictions on Russian agricultural products…
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Western businesses “shamelessly” profited from the arrangement, the Russian leader has said President Vladimir Putin says there is no longer any use in continuing the Black Sea grain deal, as it failed to serve its original humanitarian purpose, in an article released ahead of the second Russia-Africa Summit and Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum in St. Petersburg. Russia initially agreed to the deal only because its purported goal was to ensure global food security and reduce the threat of hunger in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Putin wrote in the article, which was penned for major African media outlets and shared by…
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Economic cooperation reached $18 billion in 2022, the president has said Russia’s trade with African nations is growing based on mutual trust and goodwill, President Vladimir Putin has said in an article released ahead of the Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg. The second Russia-Africa Summit is scheduled for July 27-28 and takes place alongside the Economic and Humanitarian Forum, which is expected to provide a platform for business meetings and panel sessions. “I would like to note with satisfaction that Russia’s trade turnover with African countries increased in 2022 and reached almost $18 billion,” Putin wrote in the article, which was…
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For as much as the ruling African National Congress might sincerely want to host President Putin and accelerate financial multipolarity processes through close cooperation with Russia via BRICS, the “politically inconvenient” fact is that it ultimately chose to submit to Western pressure and not do so. Building upon this observation and the precedent established by the simple thought of sanctions enforcing compliance with foreign demands, BRICS clearly isn’t what many of its supporters assumed. The office of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa just announced that “By mutual agreement, President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation will not attend the Summit but the Russian…
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The warning comes after Moscow de-facto re-imposed a naval blockade of Ukraine The Ukrainian military has said it will treat all vessels sailing toward Russia’s Black Sea Ports as if they are carrying military supplies, warning they could share the same fate as a Russian warship sunk earlier in the conflict. The thinly veiled threat was issued in a statement by Kiev’s Defense Ministry on Thursday, accusing Moscow of turning the Black Sea into a “danger zone” while vowing to retaliate with force against any ship in the area, including civilian vessels. “The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine warns that from [midnight] on July 21, 2023, all…
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Restrictions on Russia’s agricultural exports and supporting infrastructure should be lifted, the deputy UN envoy has said Russia is ready to rejoin the grain deal brokered by the UN and Türkiye, but only on the condition that Western nations and Ukraine meet their long-standing obligations, Moscow’s deputy permanent representative to the UN said on Friday. Speaking at a UN Security Council briefing on the Black Sea Initiative, Dmitry Polyansky noted that Russia’s decision to withdraw from the pact, which sought to unblock agricultural exports, “should not have come as a surprise to anyone” given that nothing has been done to address Moscow’s…
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Ukraine has used humanitarian corridors reserved for grain shipments to attack Russian targets, Moscow claims Ukraine has used the Black Sea grain deal to accumulate sizable military and fuel supplies, Russian Deputy Ambassador to the UN Dmitry Polyansky told the organization’s Security Council (UNSC) on Friday. EU nations have also exploited the agreement to reap profits from cheap Ukrainian food products, he said. Since the UN-facilitated deal was introduced a year ago, “the Kiev regime has built up significant military and industrial [supplies], as well as fuel… storage capacities in the areas near its Black Sea ports,” the diplomat said during a…
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Turnover between the two BRICS member states reached a record high last year, Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira says Brazil is looking forward to scaling up its trade with Russia, Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira said in an interview with RIA Novosti published earlier this week. The senior official hailed last year’s growth in trade turnover between the two countries, and said he sees potential to boost it further. “It is necessary to make progress in trade relations, which have great potential for growth. In 2022, we set a new record in our trade turnover, approaching the $10 billion mark, but it…
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