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It is a lucky break that the Screen Actors Guild has gone on strike as it will give Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky an opportunity to dust off his thespian credentials and look for a new job when the Russians eventually bring down his government. Hollywood and Las Vegas would undoubtedly compete for such a nice Jewish young man to revive his former comedy routine where he played a piano with his penis. To be sure, without disrobing, Zelensky was inevitably the star performer at the recently completed two day NATO Summit in Vilnius Lithuania on July 11th-12th which also featured as a speaker…
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America’s Brobdingnagian $1.3 trillion national security budget thrives on manufactured threats and falsely demonized foes. And nothing could be more demonstrative of that proposition than the utter villainy now emanating from the NATO summit in Vilnius. For crying out loud. Since the Munich Security Conference in 2007, the man (Putin) has said over and over, and then over again, that Ukraine’s accession to NATO is an absolute red line. And anyone with their head screwed on right would have no trouble accepting that declaration by answering one simple question. To wit, how would Washington react if Russia put missiles and…
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As a rule, US war reporting since Vietnam has been mostly mainstream media cheerleading the mission rather than digging beyond government war propaganda. After all, it was images of American boys coming home in body bags shown on the six o’clock news across America that finally galvanized mainstream opposition to that war. The Pentagon learned its lesson by the first Gulf War, and it severely restricted up-close media coverage. Only “trusted” journalists were able to report from the front lines. Most of the press corps wrote up stories based on US military press releases from luxury hotels in Baghdad. By…
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Things are getting awkward and coming to a head as BRICS countries are now just weeks away from the Aug. 22-24 major summit in Johannesburg, South Africa – and Russian President Vladimir Putin is still committed to attending in person. South Africa had even mulled requesting that Moscow opt for Zoom instead, which would have without doubt been taken as an insult by the Russian side. “President Putin will be asked by South Africa to attend a key summit via Zoom and not in person after Pretoria sought legal advice about its obligations to arrest the Russian leader, who has been…
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Our hearts go out to those who were forced to engage in unnatural and unfair activities in a desperate attempt to preserve their sanity and to save their families. But we have to admit now that although what we did made sense to us at the time, it was wrong and it must end. Playing along with the COVID-19 narrative was immoral and it was illegal. The repetition of the bland phrase “during the pandemic” has to end too. We need to make sure that the words we speak correspond with the reality that we see around us. Otherwise, we…
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“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed”. Nigeria is not only the most populous black nation in the world, it is also the country with the highest number of cowards in the universe. If the country has 200,000,000 citizens, over 199,000,000 million of them are effeminate, grovelliing, church and mosque-going cowards, who cannot stand up for themselves or even pursue an argument in pursuit of their own self interest. They only complain, wring and throw their hands in the air and wait for the Almighty God to come down and save them, like Vladimir…
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The restructuring discourse and debate has now been on-going in Nigeria for about a decade. Here in this piece, I simply want to argue that it’s in the best interest of Nigeria, and of Igbos, broadly defined to include “peripheral Igbos” or “fringe Igbos”, to carve out of Nigeria an independent, sovereign nation for all Igbos and only Igbos, and to do this peacefully. The reason such a nation should be created is to solve the Igbo Problem and Paradox. What then is the Igbo Problem and Paradox? It’s the fact that Igbos have been extremely unjustly treated, or, if…
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Our political culture does produce true leaders. The culture produces merchantilist, overtly ambitious, opportunistic and visionless politicians, and that is why they compromise leadership principles to please and align with the culture that produces them, they don’t have their own focus. We don’t need more politicians in leadership, we’ve gotten enough of them, what we need is leaders that are active in politics. Don’t ever believe that a Politician is a leader, because the system that we have, has always produced politicians it doesn’t produce leaders. People who don’t understand leadership are the ones leading us today, and aspiring to…
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There is so much the Igbo can celebrate about themselves. Take their brilliant performance in education which is phenomenal. Whether in the West African School Certificate examination or the Joint Admissions Matriculation examination or the entrance examination into Federal Government Colleges or into the Federal Government-owned School for the Gifted and Talented in Abuja, the story is the same. Even in global educational competitions, the Igbo are outstanding. This is by no means fortuitous. By 1945 when the Second World War ended, there were a handful of Igbo graduates because the Igbo live in the interior; the Europeans who brought education…
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Out of sheer insensitivity coupled with impunity, the members of the National Assembly, regardless of political affliation, conspired to breach the relevant provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 by padding the Supplementary Appropriation Bill, 2023 to provide the so called palliative of N70 billion for 306 newly elected members. While the masses of Nigeria are groaning under the excruciating economic pains unleashed on them by the ruling class, the National Assembly has thereby awarded N228.7 million to each of the newly elected legislators. As if that is not enough, the members of the National Assembly…
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a Muslim. His wife is not just a Christian, but a pastor of one of the biggest Pentecostal churches in Nigeria. I encourage Pastor Mrs. Remi Tinubu to impress on the president the implications of King Saul’s consultation of the witch of Endor as contained in 1 Samuel 28:7. Whoever sold the idea of the N8,000 palliative to the president is a “familiar spirit”. Saul lost the kingship after taking counsel from a familiar spirit at Endor. If Tinubu goes ahead to implement this scam called palliative, he will lose more than his ‘goodwill’, he…
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“Palliatives have a long history and like fuel subsidy nothing about its history smells roses. Like fuel subsidy the administration of palliatives regime was corrupt and became an instant source of wealth for the army of consultants and business comprador’s. Its beneficiaries were not the supposed poor and the vulnerable. Rather they were the same rich people who are not tired of making money.” President Bola Tinubu has asked for and received the approval of the national assembly for N500 billion to be used as palliatives. It is a thousand pities that the president has allowed himself to be persuaded…
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18th July, 2023HIS EXCELLENCY,Bola Ahmed Tinubu,President and Commander in-Chiefof the Federal Republic of Nigeria,Presidential Villa,Asokoro,Federal Capital TerritoryAbuja. My Dearest Mr. President, WE ARE ALL NOW POORER MR. PRESIDENT MUST STEP UP OR LOSE GOODWILL.#OCCUPYNIGERIA IS POSSIBLE I convey the earnest greetings of the good people of Nigeria and particularly Ondo State to you, sir. It is important to state that since your election and eventually swearing-in, as the 16th President, C-n-C of the Armed Forces Federal Republic of Nigeria, my hope had remained high. Indeed, the emblem of a Hope once promised us in 1993, where one of your mentors…
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President Cyril Ramaphosa says the bloodshed could have been averted if US-led bloc hadn’t increased instability South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, a potential mediator in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, has faulted NATO for triggering war in the former Soviet republic by expanding eastward onto Moscow’s doorstep. “The war could have been avoided if NATO had heeded the warnings from amongst its own leaders and officials over the years that its eastward expansion would lead to greater, not less, instability in the region,” Ramaphosa told South African lawmakers on Thursday. Rather than reaping an expected peace dividend after the Cold War ended in…
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A new generation of leaders is offering hope for more recognition on the world stage, an activist has told RT African leaders gathered in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi on Sunday, for the fifth mid-year African Union (AU) coordination summit, where the 55 members’ delegations discussed harmonizing national and regional policies in order to advance socioeconomic development across the continent. Kenyan President William Ruto used the summit to push for a new financing system for the AU that would benefit the union’s combined 1.39 billion population, as the organization works to integrate the continent into the global economy. Nigerian President Bola Tinubu…
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has sought an exemption from executing the ICC warrant for his Russian counterpart South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned that executing an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin when the Russian leader attends the BRICS summit next month in Johannesburg would amount to a “declaration of war” against Moscow. “Russia has made it clear that arresting its sitting president would be a declaration of war,” Ramaphosa said in a court filing released on Tuesday. “It would be inconsistent with our constitution to risk engaging in war with Russia.” He added that such a move would also…
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The White House has “publicly disavowed” the new attack on the Crimean Bridge, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has said Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has become “toxic” to the collective West, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has claimed, pointing to veiled criticism in Washington of the Ukrainian drone attack on the Crimean Bridge which killed two civilians. “The White House has publicly disavowed attacks carried out by the Kiev regime, drawing a dividing line between arms sales and terrorist attacks. This is, of course, just another manipulation. But something else is important – Zelensky has become toxic to the West,” Zakharova wrote in a Telegram…
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We have been warned decades ago by US President John F. Kennedy who gave a speech on the dangers the globalists pose to us all before the American Newspaper Publishers Association on April 27, 1961: It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions–by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on…
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There are too many coincidences and contradictions. This article was first published in September 2017 Author’s Note The UN’s climate change summit (COP27) has opened in Egypt. (November 6, 2022). More than 120 world leaders attended last year’s COP27 summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, amidst a stylized propaganda campaign: “Our Planet is “Sending a Distress Signal”. Environmental modification techniques which are the object of this article have been carefully excluded from the debate on climate change. While Environmental modification (ENMOD) techniques have been available to the US military for more than half a century, there is…
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What attitudes toward public infrastructure tell us about the state of the social contract in Nigeria. Two recent incidents in different parts of the country throw an instructive light on a critical aspect of Nigeria’s much-lamented governance crisis. In Lagos, unidentified criminals brazenly disassembled and made away with ground lights at the domestic runway of the Murtala Muhammad Airport. Only reinstalled in November 2022 to much fanfare and official chest-beating, the lighting system suffered the fate of equipment and safety components regularly pilfered from airports across the country. In a second incident, unknown vandals reportedly dislodged and carted away road fittings on the Onitsha…
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The conflict in oil-rich Libya has become a proxy war, fueled by rival foreign powers such as Russia and Turkey. For months, UN-backed government forces have battled rebel commander Khalifa Haftar for control of Libya, with foreign powers increasingly wading into the fray. Here are the major players involved in the conflict: Government of National Accord The United Nations helped establish and formally endorsed Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) in 2015 to unify rival administrations that came out of the country’s 2014 elections. Based in the capital city of Tripoli, the GNA is led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj and controls…
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Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) gathered in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 11–12 to discuss Sweden’s accession, Ukraine membership, new regional defense plans, and other global challenges. Despite significant successes, fundamental divisions within NATO and with wartorn Ukraine were evident. Council of Councils (CoC) experts react to the NATO and Group of Seven (G7) commitments made at the summit for this CoC global perspective series, and what they portend for the future of the alliance. Alessandro Marrone Head of the Defence Programme, Institute of International Affairs (Italy) Realism Was the Right Approach in Vilnius Realism is the hallmark of…
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Adichie revealed this in a press statement posted on her official Facebook page, stating that she has been falsely attributed. Investigations reveal that the following article was written by Gloria Ogo and attributed to Chimamanda Adichie. Read the contentious article below👇 Yesterday I announced that I would unveal my thoughts regarding the IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu. Several people reached out, advising me to be neutral and steer clear of political discourse. They meant well for a young female writer with a reputation to protect, an image to project, and the care not to cause offense. I almost yielded but changed…
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In Biafra, under three years, they were making their own rockets and calculating its distances; distilling their own oil and making aviation fuel, creating in their Chemical and Biological laboratories, new cures for diseases like Cholera, shaping their own spare parts, and turning the entire East into a vast workshop, as Ojukwu put it. At the end of the war, the Ukpabi Asika regime brought together these Biafran scientists and set up PRODA. The initiative led, in the first five years between 1970-1975 under the late Prof. Gordian Ezekwe and Mang Ndukwe, to designs of industrial machinery models and prototypes…
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The African continent has had many admirable and remarkable leaders in times past who fought with their lives, blood, and sweat for the independence and growth of the continent. This reality makes it sad to see that Leaders of today seem to be of a different breed and have completely deviated from the path of visionary leaders of the past such as Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba, and Kwame Nkrumah, to name a few. These leaders were fierce in their advocacy for the freedom of Africa from the clutches of colonial masters. They saw the need for self-determination and fought without end until…
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It won’t be an easy task to deny that there’s a wind of change blowing across the African continent at the moment. Africa, which has been for decades a cauldron of traditional politics, is presently at a crossroads and needs to make a crucial decision about the type of leaders it wants to shape its future. Thankfully, for the very first time, the conventional wisdom that has long relied on career politicians is increasingly being questioned. The new narrative emerging from the continent’s intellectuals, youth, and forward-thinking citizens is a call for a new breed of leadership – technocrats. It was…
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As the sun sets on another day in Nigeria, it casts long shadows over the masses, shrouding them in the chilling gloom of hardship. The man on the street, the woman at the market, the artisan in the workshop, and the child in the classroom, all bear the brunt of a political system that seems far removed from their plight. While they continue to hope for the best, the worst keeps locating them, and their soreness keeps festering. Coming off an eight-year tenure marshalled by the grossly ineffective Muhammadu Buhari as President left Nigerians wondering if there could be some higher…
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In an era defined by global economic turmoil and the constant struggle against societal inequality, governments worldwide have a profound responsibility to shield their citizens from the biting impacts of these hardships. Unfortunately, in the case of Nigeria under President Bola Tinubu’s administration, this commitment to public welfare appears to be subverted by misguided attempts at populist governance. President Tinubu recently proposed to dispense N8,000 to 12 million households for six months, a move that his administration parades as an effort to alleviate the burden of the populace. This initiative is not only bewilderingly shortsighted but also representative of a deeply flawed…
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The economy of the former Eastern Region was planned from ground up by the US consulting firm Arthur D. Little Dr. Azikiwe brought them and they worked with M I Okpara at first, then with Sam Otti and later Eluwa who headed the Civil Service and later with Sir Louis Phillip Odumegwu Ojukwu who at the time was the Chairman of the Eastern Nicerian Development Corporation (ENDC) and also the Chairman of the Eastern Nigeria Commodities Board (ENCB) Louis Phillip Odumegwu Ojukwu also sat as Chairman of 15 multinational companies at the time – John Holt, PZ, Michelin, Costain, Thomas…
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This writer recently sent out, worldwide, as a quasi-Public Service Announcement, a document titled “Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky – Part One” This document, at this particularly dangerous moment in time, serves as an especially prescient warning of caution to NATO as it currently deliberates Ukraine’s membership within the alliance. Scott Ritter calls the world’s attention to the underlying truths of those powers like Zelensky and others involved in the commission of the war in Ukraine, who the corporate mainstream media would prefer the general public to implicitly trust, yet know as little about as possible. Yet the overwhelming silence received about…
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NATO is expanding, and the U.S. has recently created also new military alliances to conquer ultimately China, such as AUKUS, which is a nascent version of NATO for the Pacific Ocean and the rest of Asia against China, just like the established NATO is for the Atlantic Ocean and Europe against Russia. In addition, the U.S. and its European vassal nations have recently stepped-up their efforts to recruit new versions of Ukraine but not on Russia’s western border (such as Ukraine is): these are instead on Russia’s southern border. America’s recruiting efforts here are to gain military access against Russia…
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The Russian Foreign Ministry highlighted Washington and London’s role in backing Kiev after two civilians were killed in an attack on the Crimean Bridge The US and the UK are ultimately responsible for the latest attack on the Crimean Bridge, the Russian Foreign Ministry has claimed. Moscow has accused Ukraine of being behind the incident on Monday morning, which left at least two civilians dead and saw the key transport link between the peninsula and mainland Russia closed for car traffic. “This regime [the Ukrainian government] is terrorist and has all the hallmarks of an international organized crime group,” the ministry…
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A raid by two sea drones damaged a section of roadway and killed two civilians, according to Moscow Russia has accused Ukraine of staging another attack on the Crimean Bridge, which claimed the lives of two civilians and injured a child. The incident also resulted in considerable damage to one section of the roadway. What happened? In the early hours of Monday morning, Crimean Governor Sergey Aksyonov said traffic on the key link between the peninsula and mainland Russia had been stopped. At the time, he did not clarify the reason for the move, citing an unspecified “emergency.” Later, Belgorod Governor…
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For almost ten years officials have refused to find the culprits, despite plenty of eyewitness accounts and evidence The active phase of hostilities in Ukraine has been going on for more than 500 days. During this time, tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of people have died. Meanwhile Western governments have spent billions to support the war, and an active discussion has begun in Russia about the possibility of using nuclear weapons. Ivan Katchanovski, a Canadian researcher of Ukrainian origin, believes that the first domino in the sequence toppled almost ten years ago, when the mass protests that would become known…
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Kiev’s Western-supplied tanks and armored vehicles “all burned,” one soldier told the newspaper The Ukrainian military lost 20% of the equipment it sent to the battlefield during the first two weeks of its counteroffensive, the New York Times reported on Saturday. This high attrition rate was reportedly a key factor in Kiev’s decision to pause the operation. Beginning in early June, Ukrainian forces launched a series of attacks all along the front line from Kherson to Donetsk. Advancing through minefields and without air support, the Ukrainian military lost 26,000 men and more than 3,000 pieces of military hardware, according to…
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Fighters from the PMC are sharing their experience from the Ukraine conflict with local territorial defense units, according to Minsk Less than a month after launching a short-lived mutiny in Russia, members of the Wagner private military company are training Belarusian troops and sharing the battlefield experience they gained from the Ukraine conflict, according to the Defense Ministry in Minsk. In a statement on Friday, the ministry said that together with the Wagner leadership it had developed a “road map” for military training and sharing experience. It also noted that Wagner troops were instructing Belarusian territorial defense forces in exercises near the…
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This article first published by Global Research on March 6, 2014 at the very outset of the Ukraine crisis explains the nature of the Kiev proxy regime. It is of relevance to an understanding of recent events. What is happening in Ukraine has serious geopolitical implications and could potentially lead to a World War III scenario. It is important that a peace process be initiated with a view to preventing escalation. This was my assessment in the immediate wake of the EuroMaidan Coup in February 2014: “The World is at a dangerous crossroads: The structures and composition of this proxy government…
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This article first published on February 26, 2014 in the immediate wake of the EuroMaidan focusses on the complicity of US-NATO-EU in turning “a blind eye” to the ongoing actions of Neo-Nazi factions directed against Ukraine’s Jewish community. And now, in the wake of the Vilnius NATO Summit, the 31 member states of NATO (many of which were the victims of Nazism) have committed themselves to supporting the Kiev Neo-Nazi regime. The US and the EU are supporting the formation of a coalition government integrated by Neo-Nazis which are directly involved in the repression of the Ukrainian Jewish community. There are about…
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First published on February 7, 2023 Introduction My long-standing commitment is to “the value of human life”, “the criminalization of war” , “peaceful co-existence” between nation states and “the future of humanity” which is currently threatened by nuclear war. I have been researching nuclear war for than more 10 years focussing on its historical, strategic and geopolitical dimensions as well as its criminal features as a means to implementing what is best described as “genocide on a massive scale”. What is presented below is the history of nuclear war: a succession of U.S. nuclear war plans going back to the Manhattan Project (1939-1945) leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki…
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First published on July 7, 2022 “And thus it renders more and more evident the great central fact that the cause of the miserable condition of the working class is to be sought, not in these minor grievances, but in the capitalistic system itself.” Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) (preface to the English Edition, p.36) The IMF and World Bank have for decades pushed a policy agenda based on cuts to public services, increases in taxes paid by the poorest and moves to undermine labour rights and protections. IMF ‘structural adjustment’ policies have resulted…
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This article was originally published in 2018. There is a clear consensus among the global elite that overpopulation is the primary cause of the most important problems that the world is facing and that something desperately needs to be done about it. They truly believe that humans are a plague upon the earth and that we will literally destroy the planet if we are left to our own devices… …The following are 30 population control quotes which show that the elite truly believe that humans are a plague upon the earth and that a great culling is necessary: 1. UK Television Presenter Sir David Attenborough: “We…
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Is Worldwide Depopulation Part of the Billionaire’s “Great Reset” First posted on September 29, 2021 For more than ten years, meetings have been held by billionaires described as philanthropists to Reduce the Size of the World’s Population culminating with the 2020-2022 Covid crisis. Recent developments suggest that “Depopulation” is an integral part of the so-called Covid mandates including the lockdown policies and the mRNA “vaccine”. Flash back to 2009. According to the Wall Street Journal: “Billionaires Try to Shrink World’s Population”. In May 2009, the Billionaire philanthropists met behind closed doors at the home of the president of The Rockefeller University in Manhattan. This Secret Gathering was sponsored by…
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Whether you voted for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or Mr Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP) in the recent presidential election. Or have spent your political life fighting Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. If you are Yoruba by ethnic affiliation, you are likely to be made to bear vicarious responsibility for any failings of government for as long as Tinubu remains president of Nigeria. But you will of course not share in the success. Given how many Nigerians are wired, every wrong choice Tinubu makes will be attributed to “your brother”, no…
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One indicator: 78% of Ukraine’s people have close relatives or friends who were injured or killed due to the Russian invasion Prologue NATO’s Summit in Vilnius broke the promise made to Ukraine 15 years ago that it would join NATO. The media won’t tell you that it never will – and that non-NATO Ukraine shall now win over Russia and pay an incredibly cruel price (or make peace with Russia). In other words, US/NATO has recognised what scores of knowledgeable people have said the last 30+ years: Including Ukraine in NATO means WW III. Had NATO been dissolved when the Soviet…
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The World Health Organization has finally gotten around to declaring the popular artificial sweetener aspartame a potential carcinogen The ruling comes from sources with WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), who said aspartame will be listed as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” in July 2023 I’ve been warning about aspartame’s cancer-causing potential since 2010, so you can see just how long this danger has been known For over a decade, researchers have been warning of aspartame’s neurotoxicity and carcinogenicity, stating reevaluation of aspartame consumption is “urgent and cannot be delayed” A 2022 large-scale cohort study found people who consumed…
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The US leader should acknowledge his “failure” in Ukraine and focus on domestic issues, the presidential candidate has said. By ordering the deployment of 3,000 more reservists to Europe, US President Joe Biden is preparing to fight Russian forces on the ground in Ukraine, Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said. “Biden has lost his way,” Kennedy tweeted on Friday, arguing that the president should focus on America’s domestic problems instead of trying to achieve “global military dominance.” “I want people to understand what this troop mobilization is about. It’s about preparing for a ground war with Russia,”…
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The Globalists Are Making Really Big Moves Which Would Fundamentally Change How Our Society Operates
While everybody else is distracted, the globalists are making absolutely enormous moves. Previously, I have written about the UN’s new worldwide system for cracking down on “misinformation” and about their desire to implement a global system of digital identification that is tied to our bank accounts. I realize that these things sound really wild, but they aren’t being done in secret. In fact, the globalists are very proud of what they are doing. But only a small percentage of the population is even aware of this insidious agenda that they are pushing through, and so there is very little debate about it. Ultimately, the…
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First published on October 31, 2022 Important to understand is that there is not one single new or original idea in Klaus Schwab’s so-called Great Reset agenda for the world. Nor is his Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda his or his claim to having invented the notion of Stakeholder Capitalism a product of Schwab. Klaus Schwab is little more than a slick PR agent for a global technocratic agenda, a corporatist unity of corporate power with government, including the UN, an agenda whose origins go back to the beginning of the 1970s, and even earlier. The Davos Great reset is merely an updated blueprint…
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‘‘From experience in DNA testings, most firstborns are not fathered by the husbands at home, because these ladies have a prior relationship before getting married. Most times, they continue with that relationship, they don’t leave it after marriage…’’ Abiodun Salami is a senior geneticist with DNA Centre for Paternity Test, Allen Avenue in Ikeja, Lagos. For over 10 years, DNA Centre has provided comprehensive DNA testing services in three main areas: paternity and other family relationships, Immigration, and DNA tests during pregnancy – Prenatal DNA test. In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES, Mr Abiodun speaks about paternity fraud and the…
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OVERVIEW The Beacon atmospherics platforms continue to monitor the fluid security threat levels in the different geopolitical regions of the country associated mainly with the activities of non-state armed groups (NSAGs) and criminal gangs including Islamist terror groups with international affiliations in mainly the North East and the Lake Chad Basin, separatists in the South East, gunmen and bandits in the North West and North Central and militants and organised criminal gangs in the South-South and South West. Other security concerns affecting the country are the farmer versus herder violence, social upheaval and heavy-handedness and non-compliance with rules of engagement…
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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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The US-led alliance constantly creates confrontation, a deputy foreign minister said NATO needs enemies so it can justify its existence, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Grushko said on Thursday, commenting on the Western bloc’s recent meeting in Lithuania. “Expansion is one of the instruments used by NATO countries to maintain confrontation,” Grushko told Russia’s Channel One. “Therefore, unfortunately, history has forced us to conclude that NATO cannot exist without an adversary. Otherwise, it would lose all meaning.” Grushko stressed that the admission of Ukraine into the US-led military bloc would have “catastrophic consequences for European security, Ukraine, and the alliance itself.” At the same time,…
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The bloc claims to be a defensive alliance but provokes confrontation, Beijing’s UN envoy has said NATO is “the real troublemaker” that has fully embraced “Cold War thinking and ideological prejudice” as it continues to generate global tensions, China’s permanent representative to the UN has said. In a statement on Thursday, Zhang Jun hit back at the communique issued by NATO members at the Vilnius summit earlier this week, which accused China of pursuing “coercive policies” that challenge the bloc’s interests. It also claimed that Beijing uses a wide array of tools to increase its global footprint and undermine the alliance’s security. The envoy rejected this…
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The media bombardment with weapons of mass distraction intensifies. A few days ago, Poland announced that it had been hit by two Russian missiles, the big media spread the news, the alarm went off, and Moscow announced that it was a fake but nobody listened to it. Finally, NATO admits that the accident was caused by a Ukrainian missile, but that’s it. Another weapon of mass distraction is the news given by the British newspaper Mirror: Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin asked to overthrow and kill President Putin. The big media spread the news on a global scale, then Dugin’s denial arrived but was essentially…
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Author’s Note Independent media is under attack Worldwide. Censorship is now routinely applied. In recent developments, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched indictments to Criminalize Dissent, namely to Weaponize Censorship. Moreover, readers on social media (including Global Research) are “warned not to go onto certain sites”. Those who say the truth are tagged as “conspiracy theorists”. Our analysis confirms that the mainstream media are routinely involved in distorting the facts and turning realities upside down. They are the unspoken architects of “Fake News”. The Lie becomes the Truth. Propaganda under Nuremberg is a crime against humanity One area of routine distortion…
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As long as enough people buy into it for long enough, the slavery exercise will be irreversible. On the side of an apartment high-rise block dominantly visible between buildings surrounding Brussel’s Gare du Midi railway station, the finishing touches are being made to an extraordinary piece of art. One can just perceive the figure in the cage extended out on the hydraulic arm of the vehicle which provides the platform from which the artist can apply his paints to this vast canvas. The work depicts, as I grasp it, a shining techno-industrial mobile phone tower pinnacling out of the summit of a…
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Dear Igbo elite. I know how you feel at this moment. I feel it too. The unease to confront the evolving madness at home. Not knowing who to blame for the current crisis in your land. Your inability to go home without a battery of security men. Feeling cut off from a homeland that was your last refuge and a place you went to be with kith and kin. The prospect of forced mass exile because going home offers more danger to life and freedom. A few decades ago, you were in the forefront of complaining how Nigeria treated your…
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The propaganda machine is inciting ordinary citizens to go to war in Ukraine – where they go through hell Western mercenaries from countries other than the US are dying for Washington’s interests while President Joe Biden warns Americans themselves to stay away. Most of the foreign mercenaries in Ukraine at this point aren’t American, according to Russia’s Channel One news. It’s actually Poland and Canada that lead the charge, with the US coming in third. And now reports are starting to emerge of US intelligence attempting to fill the void with even more foreign recruits to fight for US interests against Russia…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky slams NATO leaders over ‘uncertainty’ on country’s membership
Zelensky released a statement saying it would be “absurd” if NATO leaders gathering for a summit on Tuesday did not offer his country a timeframe for membership. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday hit out at the NATO leaders saying that there was “noreadiness” within the alliance, “neither to invite Kyiv to NATO nor to make it a member of the Alliance”. He took to Twitter and said, “We value our allies. We value our shared security. And we always appreciate an open conversation. Ukraine will be represented at the NATO summit in Vilnius. Because it is about respect. But Ukraine…
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‘WE KNEW THE WORLD WOULD NOT BE THE SAME. A FEW PEOPLE LAUGHED, A FEW PEOPLE CRIED. MOST PEOPLE WERE SILENT. I REMEMBERED THE LINE FROM THE HINDU SCRIPTURE, THE BHAGAVAD GITA; VISHNU IS TRYING TO PERSUADE THE PRINCE THAT HE SHOULD DO HIS DUTY AND, TO IMPRESS HIM, TAKES ON HIS MULTI-ARMED FORM AND SAYS, “NOW I AM BECOME DEATH, THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS.” I SUPPOSE WE ALL THOUGHT THAT, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.’ – J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, 1965. An unlikely leader He was a surprising choice to lead a top-secret government weapons program. The stick-thin, chain-smoking physicist with a…
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President Joe Biden’s administration has urged lawmakers to drop plans for an inspector general to monitor assistance to Kiev President Joe Biden’s administration has objected to plans by US lawmakers to establish an independent inspector general who would scrutinize Washington’s massive military and economic aid packages for Ukraine. At issue is a provision added to the $874 billion US defense budget for the government’s next fiscal year, calling for an additional oversight layer on Ukraine aid modeled after the inspector general established for reconstruction in Afghanistan. Conservative lawmakers, including Representative Matt Gaetz, a Republican from Florida, have argued that the White…
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Nigeria’s debt servicing cost has increased by 55.71 percent to ₦1.24 trillion in three months. According to data obtained from the Debt Management Office, between October and December 2022, Nigeria spent ₦406.77 billion on domestic debt servicing, while it spent $312.27 million (₦143.74 billion) on external debt servicing, giving a total of ₦550.51 billion. However, between January and March 2023, Nigeria spent ₦874.13 billion on domestic debt servicing, while it spent $801.36 million (₦368.87 billion) on external debt servicing, giving a total of ₦1.24 trillion. Nigeria’s debt servicing situation is a major economic risk. Loans taken by the last administration…
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Of the many ills of the Buhari administration, Nigeria’s rising debt profile boggles the mind. Debt is important for a cramped mono-economy like Nigeria. It helps the country metaphorically dump its scooter and buy a tricycle, dispose of the tricycle, and buy a car. However, when debt is misused, it could lead to palpitations. A sizeable chunk of Nigeria’s debt portfolio comprises multilateral credits from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The overall trend history of multilateral debt repayments suggests that satisfaction is far from a foregone conclusion. They are serviced over a long period of time, say…
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On June 14th, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg repeatedly insisted upon facilitating Ukraine’s becoming a member-nation of that marketing organization for the weapons that are produced by U.S.-and-allied weapons-manufacturers, but America’s President Joe Biden made clear on June 17th that he will not allow softening the existing requirements in order to admit Ukraine into NATO. The weapons-manufacturers’ sales are booming from the hundreds of billions of dollars of current and future-expected sales that are resulting from the burnup and breakdown of their products in the battlefields of Ukraine, and from the depletion of NATO stockpiles of those weapons in order to donate them to Ukraine so…
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The United States had been running two separate military campaigns in Yemen, which was kept virtually secret from the American public. One of the campaigns was under the authority of the CIA using drones, and the other was being executed by elite US troops from the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). US president Barack Obama (2009–17) asked to see the “kill lists”, with the biographies of the Islamic militants to be targeted in drone warfare and military raids (1). The London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported in January 2015 that, under Obama’s government, the Americans had carried out 103 attacks…
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Early on the morning of May 3rd the Kremlin was attacked by two explosive drones, and although these were destroyed by the defenses, the Russian government claimed that the incident had probably been an assassination attempt against President Vladimir Putin. I was skeptical at the time, but when Ray McGovern was interviewed a few days later he seemed to take the accusation seriously. Given his 27 years as a CIA Analyst, including serving as head of the Soviet Policy Group, I tend to trust his judgment on such matters: Although pro-Ukrainian forces had likely been responsible for the drone attack, our government provides…
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First published on July 21, 2016. In commemoration of the November 22, 1963 Assassination of JFK Researchers who have investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for 30 or more years have concluded that he was murdered by a conspiracy of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA, and the Secret Service. See for example, JFK And The Unspeakable by James W. Douglass. Shortly before he was murdered, President John F. Kennedy gave an extraordinary speech at American University. In the speech he came out against continuation of the Cold War that risked all life on earth for the benefit of the…
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Presstitute Media, such as the UK Telegraph, spend a lot of energy debunking exposés of government conspiracies. For example, the thousands of highrise architects, structural engineers, physicists, nano-chemists, demolition experts, first responders, military and civilian pilots, and former government officials who have provided vast evidence that the official story of 9/11 is a made-up fairy tale at odds with all evidence and the laws of physics are dismissed by presstitutes as “conspiracy theorists.” Similarly, those, such as James W. Douglass, who have proven beyond all doubt that President John F. Kennedy was not assassinated by Oswald but by his own paranoid anti-communist…
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Former Congressman Ron Paul and his colleague Dan McAdams recently conducted a fascinating interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which focused in part on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who was Kennedy Jr.’s uncle. The interview took place on their program the Ron Paul Liberty Report. Owing to the many federal records that have been released over the years relating to the Kennedy assassination, especially through the efforts of the Assassination Records Review Board in the 1990s, many Americans are now aware of the war that was being waged between President Kennedy and the CIA throughout his presidency. The details of this war…
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After WWII, there was a growing number of significant non-state actors in international relations (IR) like the UN or various specialist agencies connected to it. Nevertheless, two key developments stimulated the growth of such organizations after WWII: The final result of such post-WWII development in IR and global politics was that the application of the UN system took place within the context of the growth and expansion of international law which dealt as well with war crimes. As a consequence, IR became less concerned with the state’s freedoms and independence alone but becoming more interested in general welfare with regards…
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The following audio podcast is a shortened version of a video interview from a few weeks ago. Our conversation touched on many aspects of the CIA’s devious role in so many aspects of history, including its relentless lying attacks on the Kennedy family that go back decades, its assassinations of Kennedys, and its egregious character assassination of RFK, Jr. His recent book, The Real Anthony Fauci, has been ignored by the mainstream media because they speak for the CIA, as they have been doing for decades, and Kennedy is a great threat to their stranglehold on the truth. We discuss many issues: Operation…
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Echoes JFK’s Peace Speech of June 1963 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running against the Democratic establishment’s position on the Russia-Ukraine War and for the presidential nomination of the party in 2024. He recently gave a peace speech in New Hampshire that echoed the sentiments of the peace speech given by his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, in 1963. In his speech, RFK Jr. stated that Russia has legitimate security concerns, that NATO expansion to Russia’s border was a betrayal of promises made to leaders like Mikhail Gorbachev, and that America’s military-industrial-congressional complex (MICC) is enabling forever war rather…
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Editor’s Note We are not in a position to corroborate the alleged controversial statement of Victoria Nuland regarding WWIII. What her recorded statements confirm is that she is a protagonist of a WWIII. What she upholds is a “long war” against Russia, which could lead humanity into a WWIII scenario Has the alleged statement by Nuland from the video conference been removed? The latter was held under the auspices of the Kyiv Security Forum together with the Atlantic Council. 🌐 @AtlanticCouncil was proud to join @ksfopenukraine to co-host a panel on US support for Ukraine. Below is the video of the Conference We suggest you view the National…
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The economy of the former Eastern Region was planned from ground up by the US consulting firm Arthur D. Little Dr. Azikiwe brought them and they worked with M I Okpara at first, then with Sam Otti and later Eluwa who headed the Civil Service and later with Sir Louis Phillip Odumegwu Ojukwu who at the time was the Chairman of the Eastern Nicerian Development Corporation (ENDC) and also the Chairman of the Eastern Nigeria Commodities Board (ENCB) Louis Phillip Odumegwu Ojukwu also sat as Chairman of 15 multinational companies at the time – John Holt, PZ, Michelin, Costain, Thomas…
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American companies reportedly paid over $700 million into the sanctioned country’s budget in 2022 US companies paid more taxes in Russia last year than firms from any other foreign country, data from a joint study by B4Ukraine and the Kiev School of Economics (KSE) published earlier this week shows. According to the findings, companies registered in America paid $712 million in taxes to the Russian budget in 2022. Data also shows that 44% of US firms that had a presence in Russia at the start of Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine have so far continued to work in the country. The…
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Lawmakers have criticized a resolution by Senator Lindsey Graham that pushes for Kiev’s admittance to the bloc Conservatives in both houses of the US Congress have rebuked their colleague Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) for pushing to get Ukraine admitted to NATO, saying such an expansion of the Western military bloc would make Americans less safe by triggering a direct war with Russia. At issue is a resolution by Graham that presses for allowing Ukraine to join the alliance. The 68-year-old Republican claimed on Friday to have bipartisan support for his proposal, saying, “Ukrainian NATO membership is vital to the future security of…
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The effort to hold together on aid to Kiev is reportedly spelling long-term complications for the US-led bloc. Continuing support for Ukraine in the conflict with Russia may mean long-term trouble for NATO, with major issues getting “kicked down the road” instead of getting solved, experts and former officials have told Politico. A piece run by the outlet on Saturday ahead of the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, raises questions about the mounting costs of aid to Ukraine, as well as a lack of unity among members. Many allies have displayed increasing alarm over “how long, and at what…
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We bring to the attention of our readers this important article by William M. Arkin published by Newsweek. Our thanks to Newsweek One of the biggest secrets of the Ukraine war is how much the CIA doesn’t know. The Agency is as uncertain about Volodymyr Zelensky‘s thinking and intentions as it is about Vladimir Putin‘s. And as the Russian leader faces his biggest challenge in the aftermath of a failed mutiny, the Agency is straining to understand what the two sides will do—because President Joe Biden has determined that the United States (and Kyiv) will not undertake any actions that might threaten Russia itself or the survival of…
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The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war. The playbook the pimps of war use to lure us into one military fiasco after another, including Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Ukraine, does not change. Freedom and democracy are threatened. Evil must be vanquished. Human rights must be protected. The fate of Europe and NATO, along with a “rules based international order” is at stake. Victory is assured. The results are also the same. The justifications and narratives are exposed as lies. The cheery prognosis is false. Those on whose behalf we…
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“Adherence to UN 2030 Sustainability Agenda”. Colossal disinvestment in the trillion-dollar global oil and gas sector. First published by Global Research on November 16, 2022 Most people are bewildered by what is a global energy crisis, with prices for oil, gas and coal simultaneously soaring and even forcing closure of major industrial plants such as chemicals or aluminum or steel. The Biden Administration and EU have insisted that all is because of Putin and Russia’s military actions in Ukraine. This is not the case. The energy crisis is a long-planned strategy of western corporate and political circles to dismantle industrial economies…
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As the frazzled children lay on the ground, pleading for their lives, the wretchedness of barbarism came to the fore. It was a painful watch. Their teachers, all of them mothers and grandmothers, lay beside them and prayed for mercy like prisoners of war. Their offence was that they chose school instead of sitting at home. At least Boko haram advertised their hatred for Western education in their choice of name. That’s some honesty. These other ones claim independence and freedom. But they won’t let children choose school. So much for the Igbo and republicanism. July is when exams are…
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‘Not in our Name’: Opposition to U.S. War Escalation with Russia. Open Letter to President Joe Biden
By Not in Our Name A group of U.S. intellectuals – journalists, political advisers, and scholars –are initial signers of an open letter to President Joe Biden (see full text below), pleading with him to reject policies which lead to an “intensification of conflict with Russia” and which “could lead to the deaths of millions of innocent people.” “We hereby declare that your escalation of this conflict as the President of the United States has not been done in our name.” Please join us with your signature and promotion of this important petition. Not in Our Name Dear Mr. President,…
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This article was first published on March 9, 2022, revised and expanded on October 5, 2022, minor revisions on May 25, 2023. Introduction At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable. All the safeguards of the Cold War era, which categorized the nuclear bomb as “a weapon of last resort”, have been scrapped. Let us also recall the unspoken history of America’s doctrine pertaining to the conduct of nuclear war. Barely six weeks after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,the U.S. War Department released a Secret Plan on September 15, 1945 to bomb 66…
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The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, in a landmark judgment, has ordered the disclosure of the spending details of about USD$5 billion Abacha loot by the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari.” The court ordered the government of President Bola Tinubu to “disclose the exact amount of money stolen by General Sani Abacha from Nigeria, and the total amount of Abacha loot recovered and all agreements signed on same by the governments of former presidents Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan and Buhari.” The judgment was delivered last week by Justice James Kolawole Omotosho…
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‘It was the Western Allies’ extreme good fortune that the Russians, and not themselves, paid almost the entire ‘butcher’s bill’ for defeating Nazi Germany’ In the Western popular imagination — particularly the American one — World War II is a conflict we won. It was fought on the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima, through the rubble of recaptured French towns and capped by sepia-toned scenes of joy and young love in New York. It was a victory shaped by the steeliness of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the moral fiber of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and the awesome power of an…
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Chased by youth armed with clubs, this woman is fleeing from a “death dealer” whose left leg can be seen at the left-hand edge of the photograph. The Lviv pogroms were the consecutive massacres of Jews living in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine),perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists (specifically, the OUN), German death squads (Einsatzgruppen), and urban population from 30 June to 2 July, and from 25 to 29 July, during the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Ukrainian nationalists targeted Jews in the first pogrom on the pretext of their purported responsibility for the NKVD prisoner massacre in Lviv,…
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Top official acknowledges that Russia Is putting up a “successful” defense. Washington’s decision to supply Ukraine with controversial cluster munitions was partly influenced by disappointment with lackluster results of Kiev’s much-vaunted summer counteroffensive,The US Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl told reporters on Friday. Speaking immediately after the White House announced that President Joe Biden had signed off on the delivery of dual-purpose improved conventional munitions (DPICM) to Ukraine, Kahl said that the decision was influenced by “the urgency of the moment.” “We want to make sure that the Ukrainians have sufficient artillery to keep them in the fight…
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As soon as a projectile hit Kyiv’s main radio and television tower, a short walk from the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center nearby, on Tuesday, Jews worldwide reflexively shuddered. It is unclear whether the Russians targeted the memorial center. More likely, they were interested in knocking Kyiv’s television stations off the air. Five people were killed in the strike. But the proximity to the site where 33,771 of the city’s Jews were systematically shot dead by machine-gun fire in a two-day massacre in 1941 is traumatic. Officials at Israel’s Yad Vashem Memorial issued a statement condemning the attack. So did…
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The escalatory move is also an admission of Ukraine’s failure, a senior Russian diplomat has said The US decision to include cluster munitions in its latest batch of military aid to Kiev is an admission of failure and a desperate attempt to stave off defeat, Russia’s ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, said on Friday. “Cluster munitions are a gesture of desperation. Such a measure speaks of the awareness of the United States and its satellites of their impotence,” Antonov told reporters. He added “They do not want to admit their own setbacks and the failure of the Ukrainian military’s attempts to carry…
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Foreign fighters are expected to survive a mere four hours in battle The conflict in Ukraine has drawn in thousands of foreign mercenaries, motivated by glory and, in the Kremlin’s words, the chance to “earn money by killing Slavs.” However, those lucky enough to come out alive have described life on the front lines as miserable and short. Three days after Russian troops entered Ukraine last February, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky put out an appeal for foreigners willing to take up arms against Moscow’s forces. Potential recruits visited Ukrainian embassies across the West and signed up to fight – often with the…
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Both Ottawa and London have said they are against using the weapons on the battlefield Canada and the UK have become the latest Western nations to voice concern over US President Joe Biden’s decision to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine. Both countries have reaffirmed their commitment to a UN agreement banning the armaments and spoken against employing them in the current conflict with Russia. “We do not support the use of cluster munitions,” the Canadian government told the national broadcaster CTV on Saturday. Ottawa is “committed to putting an end to the effects cluster munitions have on civilians – particularly children,” the statement…
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By backing membership for Ukraine, the French president is trying to court Eastern European support, the newspaper’s sources said French President Emmanuel Macron realizes that Eastern European states are becoming more influential within NATO, and has shifted his rhetoric on the bloc to match them, Bloomberg reported on Saturday. Macron recently backed a “path” to NATO membership for Ukraine. Before the conflict in Ukraine began, Macron was regarded as one of Europe’s most NATO-skeptic leaders. He proclaimed the bloc “brain dead” in 2019, and spent his first term in office repeatedly calling for the establishment of a “true European army” independent from the US. Even throughout…
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Overall turnover, however, has more than halved since last year, statistics show The United States has increased imports of goods from Russia despite its numerous economic sanctions on the country, data published by the US Census Bureau revealed on Thursday. In May, the volume of products imported from the sanctioned country surged and amounted to $504 million, according to the report. This is more than double the figures from April, when Washington purchased goods worth $215.6 million from Russia. In February, US imports of goods reached a to-date 2023 high of $642.8 million. Meanwhile, US exports to Russia continue to…
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Mexico is considering ways to increase bilateral trade with Russia, the ambassador to Russia, Eduardo Villegas Megias, told RIA Novosti in an interview published on Saturday. According to the diplomat, Mexico is interested in boosting imports of Russian fertilizers, which it primarily receives through third countries. “This is a necessary condition for the development of agriculture. The government allocates considerable sums for fertilizers. “The export of this commodity from Russia used to take place through certain intermediaries, private entrepreneurs… but the Mexican government wants to consider buying large amounts of fertilizers for agriculture with the support of the Russian authorities,”…
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Providing “yet another wonder weapon” to Kiev is nothing but an act of despair on Washington’s part, the foreign ministry has said Washington’s decision to hand over cluster munitions to Kiev only shows that Ukraine and its Western backers are “powerless” to change the situation on the frontlines, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday. The use of this new ammunition would hardly affect the Russian military campaign but would have “dire consequences” for civilians, she noted in a statement published by the ministry. These bombs are nothing but “yet another ‘Wunderwaffe’ [wonder weapon] Washington and Kiev are betting on, without thinking about the…
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“Following his swearing-in, Akpabio was singing like a very happy bird atop a tall tree. The 10th Senate, he declared, will “work to renew the hope of Nigerians via people-oriented legislation.” He declared that the 10th Senate would “ hit the ground running and make sure that our constituents are proud of us,” and that “ the dreams, aspirations and well-being of Nigerians would be at the heart of legislative activities.” But who are Nigerians, from experience, to trust the Senator or his record? lt is his work or his words? “Months after he left office as governor in 2015 but…
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The United States has decided to send cluster munitions to Ukraine to help its military push back Russian forces entrenched along the front lines. The Biden administration is expected to announce on Friday that it will send thousands of them as part of a new military aid package worth $800 million, according to people familiar with the decision who were not authorized to discuss it publicly before the official announcement and spoke on condition of anonymity. The move will likely trigger outrage from some allies and humanitarian groups that have long opposed the use of cluster bombs. Proponents argue that Russia has already been…
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Marat Gabidullin, who worked alongside Yevgeny Prigozhin as his assistant, spoke to Yahoo News about his experience with the Wagner Group. In the weeks following a failed mutiny that saw mercenary soldiers marching toward Moscow in an armed rebellion, Wagner Group paramilitary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has been banished from the Kremlin’s inner circle. Last month, Prigozhin led his soldiers toward the Russian capital on a so-called march for justice to remove what he called Russia’s incompetent and corrupt senior military leadership. Hours later, just 125 miles from Moscow, Prigozhin turned back, stating, “Russian blood will be spilled on one side.” It is a…
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Israel’s military on Wednesday ended its two-day siege of the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, with residents emerging from their homes or returning from nearby shelters to find widespread destruction in their community. During their most intense military operation in the West Bank in nearly two decades, Israeli forces killed 12 Palestinians, with one Israeli soldier also left dead. The offensive was meant to crack down on Palestinian militants that Israel blames for the recent killings of Israelis, while seizing and destroying weapons. Israeli troops launched airstrikes and bulldozed through narrow streets and alleys, leveling some homes.…
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Macron suggesting fines for parents of protesting minors is too little, too late In response to the unrest involving kids averaging 17 years of age, sparked by the shooting death of a teen of the same age who refused to obey orders at a traffic stop, French President Emmanuel Macron has been looking for ways to restore order. He suggested that the young rioters’ parents start paying the price. “With the first crime, we need to find a way of sanctioning the families financially and easily,” he said, calling it “a sort of minimum price for the first screw up.” Does anyone else know of another…
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