#Belarus
Austria blocking EU sanctions on Belarus banks
https://euobserver.com/world/152182?utm_source=euobs&utm_medium=email
Austria blocking EU sanctions on Belarus banks
https://euobserver.com/world/152182?utm_source=euobs&utm_medium=email
EUobserver
Austria blocking EU sanctions on Belarus banks
Austria has been blocking new EU sanctions on loans to Belarusian banks so that Austrian lenders can keep making money with the oppressive regime there.
#Russia MOD
https://www.rt.com/russia/526935-mod-home-made-secure-smartphone/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
https://www.rt.com/russia/526935-mod-home-made-secure-smartphone/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
RT International
Russia’s Defense Ministry will develop home-made secure smartphone & ‘digital ecosystem’ for soldiers working on military bases…
Russia’s Defense Ministry is developing a smartphone for employees of its armed forces. Alongside the new device, authorities will also oversee the creation of mobile applications for anyone using the technology at military bases.
Forwarded from Eurasia & Multipolarity
The Good Nazis and Bad Nazis of Western Media
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/06/19/the-good-nazis-and-bad-nazis-of-western-media/
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/06/19/the-good-nazis-and-bad-nazis-of-western-media/
Strategic Culture Foundation
The Good Nazis and Bad Nazis of Western Media
Good nazis look like nazis but aren't really nazis and bad nazis don't look like them but actually are nazis, Patrick Armstrong writes. In the…
#US #China
Debunking A 'Chinese Defector' Story
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/06/debunking-a-chinese-defector-story.html#more
Debunking A 'Chinese Defector' Story
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/06/debunking-a-chinese-defector-story.html#more
With Bezos at the Helm, Democracy Dies at the Washington Post Editorial Board
https://www.mintpressnews.com/jeff-bezos-at-helm-democracy-dies-at-washington-post-editorial-board/277738/
https://www.mintpressnews.com/jeff-bezos-at-helm-democracy-dies-at-washington-post-editorial-board/277738/
MintPress News
With Bezos at the Helm, Democracy Dies at the Washington Post Editorial Board
Alan Macleod investigates the history and personalities behind the Washington Post editorial board and how the paper of record has plummeted ever lower under the tutelage of Jeff Bezos
#COVID19
COVID-19 was spreading in the US by December 2019, mounting evidence suggests
https://www.livescience.com/amp/covid-19-in-us-december-2019.html?__twitter_impression=true
COVID-19 was spreading in the US by December 2019, mounting evidence suggests
https://www.livescience.com/amp/covid-19-in-us-december-2019.html?__twitter_impression=true
livescience.com
COVID-19 was spreading in the US by December 2019, mounting evidence suggests
The virus was already lurking here at least a month before the country's first reported case, according to a new study.
#US #FBI
Questions About the FBI's Role in 1/6 Are Mocked Because the FBI Shapes Liberal Corporate Media
The FBI has been manufacturing and directing terror plots and criminal rings for decades. But now, reverence for security state agencies reigns.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/questions-about-the-fbis-role-in
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/questions-about-the-fbis-role-in
Questions About the FBI's Role in 1/6 Are Mocked Because the FBI Shapes Liberal Corporate Media
The FBI has been manufacturing and directing terror plots and criminal rings for decades. But now, reverence for security state agencies reigns.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/questions-about-the-fbis-role-in
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/questions-about-the-fbis-role-in
Glenn Greenwald
Questions About the FBI's Role in 1/6 Are Mocked Because the FBI Shapes Liberal Corporate Media
The FBI has been manufacturing and directing terror plots and criminal rings for decades. But now, reverence for security state agencies reigns.
#Iran #elections
What does the victory of Ibrahim Raisi as President of Iran mean to the US and Iran’s allies?
https://ejmagnier.com/2021/06/20/what-does-the-victory-of-ibrahim-raisi-as-president-of-iran-mean-to-the-us-and-irans-allies/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
What does the victory of Ibrahim Raisi as President of Iran mean to the US and Iran’s allies?
https://ejmagnier.com/2021/06/20/what-does-the-victory-of-ibrahim-raisi-as-president-of-iran-mean-to-the-us-and-irans-allies/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Elijah J. Magnier
What does the victory of Ibrahim Raisi as President of Iran mean to the US and Iran’s allies?
Post by @ejmalrai.
#US
The US Government's Jailing Of A Drone Whistleblower
https://thedissenter.org/us-government-jailing-drone-whistleblower/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
The US Government's Jailing Of A Drone Whistleblower
https://thedissenter.org/us-government-jailing-drone-whistleblower/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
The Dissenter
The US Government's Jailing Of A Drone Whistleblower
The U.S. government deprived Daniel Hale of the ability to tie up loose ends and prepare for incarceration before sentencing in July.
#Ukraine #NATO #Donbass #Crimea
Ending the Threat of War in Ukraine: A Negotiated Solution to the Donbass Conflict and the Crimean Dispute
Lieven Anatol explains why Ukraine's neutrality disadvantage Russia more than the West. Accepting Ukraine to NATO would actually weaken the alliance undermining the claim to guarantee collective security for each member.
At the same time, Russia has many other reasons to accept and maintain Ukraine's neutrality because it loses nothing but gains freedom of geopolitical maneuver instead of becoming more and more dependent on China, a part of anti-Russian sanctions is going to be lifted, ...this will be a significant international achievement to exploit in internal politics, etc. These all would contribute to the sustainability of a negotiated solution for a pluralistic neutral Ukraine based on Minsk accords
https://quincyinst.org/report/ending-the-threat-of-war-in-ukraine/
Ending the Threat of War in Ukraine: A Negotiated Solution to the Donbass Conflict and the Crimean Dispute
Lieven Anatol explains why Ukraine's neutrality disadvantage Russia more than the West. Accepting Ukraine to NATO would actually weaken the alliance undermining the claim to guarantee collective security for each member.
At the same time, Russia has many other reasons to accept and maintain Ukraine's neutrality because it loses nothing but gains freedom of geopolitical maneuver instead of becoming more and more dependent on China, a part of anti-Russian sanctions is going to be lifted, ...this will be a significant international achievement to exploit in internal politics, etc. These all would contribute to the sustainability of a negotiated solution for a pluralistic neutral Ukraine based on Minsk accords
https://quincyinst.org/report/ending-the-threat-of-war-in-ukraine/
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Ending the Threat of War in Ukraine: A Negotiated Solution to the Donbas Conflict and the Crimean Dispute - Quincy Institute for…
Given new urgency by Russia's recent military buildup on its border with Ukraine, and by its December 2021 demands to NATO and the West, this updated paper from Senior Research Fellow Anatol Lieven explains how the Minsk II Protocol — established in 2015…
Forwarded from Eurasia & Multipolarity
Western Powers Are Using ‘Aid’ as a Cover to Keep a Terrorist-ruled Syrian Region Afloat | The Wall Will Fall
https://thewallwillfall.org/2021/06/21/western-powers-are-using-aid-as-a-cover-to-keep-a-terrorist-ruled-syrian-region-afloat/
https://thewallwillfall.org/2021/06/21/western-powers-are-using-aid-as-a-cover-to-keep-a-terrorist-ruled-syrian-region-afloat/
The Wall Will Fall
Western Powers Are Using ‘Aid’ as a Cover to Keep a Terrorist-ruled Syrian Region Afloat
Propping up HTS and its murderous Idlib tyranny as a jingoistic cat’s paw against the Damascus government and its Russian, Chinese, and Iranian allies – whether through diplomacy, aid, publicity, o…
#US regime #Syria #alQaeda
US fuels Syrian war with new arms supplies to Al Qaeda terrorists
http://dilyana.bg/us-fuels-syrian-war-with-new-arms-supplies-to-al-qaeda-terrorists/
US fuels Syrian war with new arms supplies to Al Qaeda terrorists
http://dilyana.bg/us-fuels-syrian-war-with-new-arms-supplies-to-al-qaeda-terrorists/
Dilyana.bg
US fuels Syrian war with new arms supplies to Al Qaeda terrorists
The Pentagon is buying $2.8 billion worth of weapons for conflict zones around the world. Most of the weapons are destined for Syria.A number of propaganda videos published by Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (
#Ukraine
Torn between East & West, is Ukraine having an identity crisis? Well, just ask ex-boxer Klitschko & a half-Palestinian journalist
https://www.rt.com/russia/527146-east-west-identity-crisis/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Torn between East & West, is Ukraine having an identity crisis? Well, just ask ex-boxer Klitschko & a half-Palestinian journalist
https://www.rt.com/russia/527146-east-west-identity-crisis/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
RT International
Torn between East & West, is Ukraine having an identity crisis? Well, just ask ex-boxer Klitschko & a half-Palestinian journalist…
Ukrainian politics is like the start of a bad joke. A comedian and a boxer walk into a bar... and end up taking over the government. But that is exactly how President Volodymyr Zelensky and Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko started out.
#WW2 #Putin
https://www.rt.com/russia/527231-nato-expansion-risks-putin/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
https://www.rt.com/russia/527231-nato-expansion-risks-putin/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
RT International
Soviets worked with West to bring down Nazi legacy – but now NATO expansion risks tearing Europe apart once again, Putin says —…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that a new arms race is underway in Europe, driven by instability and tension, while insisting his country stands ready to rebuild friendly relations with nations across the continent.
Forwarded from TheNebulator
Back in April, I wrote about the strange kind of censorship by US-based Big Tech, citing multiple examples of erasing content celebrating the Red Army's defeat of Nazis in WW2. With the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion ("Operation Barbarossa") looming, it seems the censorship continues.
"The Sacred War" (Священная война) is a song that inspired the Soviets to resist the invaders in 1941. Apparently, YouTube is now flagging a video of it with English-language lyrics as "inappropriate or offensive to some audiences" as determined by the "community" — i.e. YouTube moderators.
As I noted back in April, if celebrating the defeat of Nazis is offensive to the "community," then "perhaps there’s something deeply wrong with that community."
"The Sacred War" (Священная война) is a song that inspired the Soviets to resist the invaders in 1941. Apparently, YouTube is now flagging a video of it with English-language lyrics as "inappropriate or offensive to some audiences" as determined by the "community" — i.e. YouTube moderators.
As I noted back in April, if celebrating the defeat of Nazis is offensive to the "community," then "perhaps there’s something deeply wrong with that community."
RT
Is Facebook so eager to ‘get Russia’ by banning RT’s Redfish that it’s defending… fascism and Auschwitz?
When posts celebrating the fall of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, or the liberation of Auschwitz, are censored for violating Facebook’s “community standards,” perhaps there’s something deeply wrong with that community.
Forwarded from Vanessa Beeley
The event, 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 being hosted by the Campaign for Press & Broadcasting Freedom JSCPRESS which includes Vanessa Beeley and Patrick Henningsen, is being live streamed tomorrow evening, 23rd June at 6pm.
"Join us live on Wednesday, the 23rd June 2021, at 6:00 p.m (London time), for a webinar that will explore the complex role of mainstream media propaganda in destabilising the stability and security of West Asia and Latin America countries.
You can follow the webinar on our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/JSCPRESS
"Join us live on Wednesday, the 23rd June 2021, at 6:00 p.m (London time), for a webinar that will explore the complex role of mainstream media propaganda in destabilising the stability and security of West Asia and Latin America countries.
You can follow the webinar on our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/JSCPRESS
#Ukraine #Neonazis
On the 80th anniversary of the start of Operation Barbarossa, the German-led WW2 military invasion of the Soviet Union, Ukraine's leading opposition party has demanded that authorities in Kiev finally ban neo-Nazi organizations.
https://www.rt.com/russia/527250-opposition-party-neo-nazi-organizations/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
On the 80th anniversary of the start of Operation Barbarossa, the German-led WW2 military invasion of the Soviet Union, Ukraine's leading opposition party has demanded that authorities in Kiev finally ban neo-Nazi organizations.
https://www.rt.com/russia/527250-opposition-party-neo-nazi-organizations/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
RT International
80 years after Nazi invasion of USSR, Ukraine's main opposition party asks Kiev to finally clamp down on neo-Nazi organizations…
On the 80th anniversary of the start of Operation Barbarossa, the German-led WW2 military invasion of the Soviet Union, Ukraine's leading opposition party has demanded that authorities in Kiev finally ban neo-Nazi organizations.