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title: Prof. John Mearsheimer : Can Netanyahu Conquer Gaza?
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title: COL. Lawrence Wilkerson : Is Trump for Peace?
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title: Pepe Escobar : Yemen Wins by a Landslide!
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title: Washington Today (5-7-25): Fed Chair cites tariff uncertainty in holding interest rates steady
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title: LIVE from Tehran - Max Blumenthal : How the Houthis Defied Netanyahu.
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title: Demandes de démolitions inscrites au CDD du 21 mai 2025
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title: Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson: Alarming Signs the American Empire Is Crumbling Before Our Eyes
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title: Gerald Celente: No Strategy, Just Chaos: Empty Tactics That Achieve NOTHING
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title: Sacks, need a one world gov
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title: British Plan for War With Russia
author: ;Carl Osgood
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<p>Britain is preparing for war with Russia. So reported <em>The Telegraph</em> on April 5 in an article entitled “Starmer prepares for attack by Russia.”</p>
<p>“Britain is secretly preparing for a direct military attack by Russia amid fears that it is not ready for war,” it reports. Accordingly, “Officials have been asked to update 20-year-old contingency plans that would put the country on a war footing after threats of attack by the Kremlin. A classified dossier will set out how the Government would respond to a declaration of war, including bunkers to protect the Cabinet and the Royal family, public service broadcasts and the stockpiling of resources.”</p>
<p>“Ministers fear that Britain would not only be outgunned by Russia and its allies on the battlefield but would also be unprepared and poorly defended at home.</p>
<p>“Kremlin officials have repeatedly threatened the UK with a direct attack over its support for Ukraine, which may soon include British troops on the ground.</p>
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Danish Russia and Ukraine Expert: Stop the War in Ukraine with a New Security and Development Architecture

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<p>In connection with the Schiller Institute in Denmark’s meeting on May 4, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Denmark from Nazi occupation, we conducted <a href="https://youtu.be/n6wxY_G6gOw?si=qi0Aqy-EA6WQSu6Z">an interview with Jens Jørgen Nielsen</a>, an historian, author and lecturer on Russia and Ukraine. He was the Moscow correspondent for the Danish daily <em>Politiken</em> in the late 1990s, and is a leader of the Russian-Danish Dialogue organization.</p>
<p>In Part 1: In response to interviewer Michelle Rasmussen, who asked for Jens Jørgen Nielsen’s evaluation of the current situation, and what he thinks would be important to make it possible to achieve peace, he started that though, in light of it being 80 years after the liberation of Denmark, he wished he could be optimistic, but we are very far from a peaceful solution. Whereas he has sympathy for Trump and Witkoff’s efforts, it is not so easy to end the war. For many years, we have not had any diplomatic relations with Russia, thereby lacking a climate for negotiations. He pointed to the Peace of Westphalia which took five years to negotiate, and the Congress of Vienna which took a year. Diplomatic relations have to be rebuilt. Zelenskyy, von der Leyen and now Kallas have not wanted to negotiate with Russia.</p>
<p>He hopes that important countries which have not been part of the war, as the U.S. has, countries like India and China, or South Africa, BRICS countries, would convene Peace of Westphalia-type negotiations, be neutral and open to understand both sides of the conflict, and begin a longer process towards peace.</p>
<p>Yet, even if the Ukrainian army would collapse, we would still have to figure out how to build what Gorbachev called the European House. How to create a security, economic and cultural architecture leading to a normal cooperation structure. If not it will be destructive for all parties.</p>
<p>With the U.S. pulling back, it will be up to the Europeans to instead of just talking about rearmament and war with Russia, figure out how to recreate the relations that were built up during the last 50 years—policies like Ostpolitik (policy towards the East), and <em>wandel durch handel</em> (change through trade). He hopes that European politicians would promote that, but does not see that in the Danish parliament. We need competition between Europe and Russia. Right now there is no contact, neither educational, cultural, nor in sports.</p>
<p>The interviewer said that Jens Jørgen Nielsen’s statements lead directly towards Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s call for a new international security and development architecture. I could not be more in agreement, he said.</p>
<p>Part 2 will come tomorrow.</p>

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title: Lavrov Denounces British Plan To Destroy Russia—in World War II and Today
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/2025/05/---------------------.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Speaking at a May 6 wreath-laying ceremony before plaques at the Foreign Ministry <a href="https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2014026/">building</a>, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov forcefully denounced Great Britain’s treacherous role— historically and today—in attempting to destroy Russia (or the former Soviet Union). This same point has been made in recent days by high-level Russian security and defense officials.</p>
<p>The Foreign Minister pointed to “Operation Unthinkable,” a top-secret plan drafted by Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in which non-Soviet Allied troops—also defeated Germans—would launch a massive assault on Red Army troops which dominated Eastern Europe on July 1, 1945, “with the aim (how familiar it sounds today) of inflicting a strategic defeat on it.” Had the plan been launched, it would have led to World War III. That experience, Lavrov said, “is invaluable for us now. It is about making coalitions based solely on our own interests, without being naive or giving excessive trust to empty promises.”</p>
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title: India &amp; Pakistan on the Brink
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title: La diplomazia di Xi Jinping: un faro di stabilità in un mondo instabile
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<p><strong><em>In un’epoca segnata da tensioni globali e incertezze economiche, la Cina di Xi Jinping ha consolidato relazioni regionali e multilaterali, promuovendo dialogo, cooperazione infrastrutturale e impegni climatici concreti per infondere certezze e coesione internazionale.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span><span><em>Segue nostro</em></span> <a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegram</a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tlg.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875659"></a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>.</span></a></span></strong></p>
<p>Da quando Xi Jinping ha assunto la guida del Partito Comunista Cinese e dello Stato, la diplomazia di Pechino ha assunto un carattere riconoscibile per coerenza strategica, chiarezza di intenti e affidabilità d’azione, divenendo per molti governi e forze economiche un vero e proprio porto sicuro in un panorama mondiale sempre più incerto. Questa visione si è dispiegata in un ventaglio di iniziative e di visite di alto profilo, volte a rafforzare le partnership regionali, a tenere insieme i pilastri del multilateralismo e a offrire risposte concrete alle crisi globali.</p>
<p>Uno dei tratti distintivi della diplomazia di Xi Jinping è l’attenzione prioritaria rivolta ai Paesi confinanti, riassunta nella formula della “politica di buon vicinato”. Nel marzo 2025, a Pechino si è svolta una conferenza centrale sul “lavoro di vicinato”, alla quale hanno partecipato ministri e funzionari di tutti i paesi limitrofi, consacrando l’obiettivo di costruire con le nazioni limitrofe una “comunità dal destino condiviso” basata sulla cooperazione concreta. Le tappe di quest’anno ne hanno confermato la sostanza: <a href="https://giuliochinappi.wordpress.com/2025/02/13/unita-progresso-e-passione-dellasia-ai-giochi-asiatici-invernali-di-harbin-2025/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">i Giochi Asiatici Invernali di Harbin hanno accolto a febbraio i capi di Stato e di governo</a> di Kirghizistan, Pakistan, Thailandia e altri Paesi dell’Asia, offrendo non solo momenti di sport, ma tavoli di confronto sui temi della sicurezza energetica e della connettività infrastrutturale.</p>
<p>L’apice di questo approccio è arrivato con la prima grande missione all’estero di Xi nel 2025: tra aprile e maggio, <a href="https://giuliochinappi.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/la-politica-cinese-verso-lasean-nellera-dei-dazi-di-trump-unalleanza-strategica-tra-sviluppo-e-sicurezza/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">il presidente cinese ha visitato Vietnam, Malaysia e Cambogia</a>, firmando complessivamente oltre cento accordi che spaziano dalla cooperazione portuale alla digitalizzazione dei servizi, dalla finanza verde alle reti 5G. Questi documenti non sono meri fogli di carta, bensì impegni destinati a tradursi in cantieri, imprese congiunte e scambi di tecnologie. Il significato politico di tali passi è duplice: innanzitutto, rafforzano la credibilità di Pechino come partner affidabile, capace di mantenere le promesse in un mondo in cui le alleanze possono cambiare in fretta; in secondo luogo, confermano la scelta china di puntare sull’Asia-centrismo, ritenendo che la stabilità del proprio vicinato sia essenziale per l’equilibrio globale.</p>
<p>Parallelamente, Xi Jinping non ha mai fatto mancare il proprio sostegno ai Paesi in via di sviluppo, da sempre area di non-allineamento nelle relazioni internazionali. <a href="https://giuliochinappi.wordpress.com/2024/09/03/la-cooperazione-cina-africa-per-promuovere-lo-sviluppo-comune/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">L’invito ai leader africani al Forum per la cooperazione Cina-Africa</a>, tenutosi a Pechino pochi mesi fa, ha testimoniato l’importanza attribuita dal governo cinese al rafforzamento di un partenariato mutuamente vantaggioso. Di recente, poi, <a href="https://giuliochinappi.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/la-visita-del-presidente-ruto-promuove-la-cooperazione-tra-cina-e-kenya/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">il presidente keniota William Ruto ha visitato Pechino</a>, accolto con tutti gli onori al Palazzo dell’Unione, e ha chiesto a Xi di “confermare la Cina quale roccia di stabilità” in tempi resi turbolenti dalle guerre commerciali. Il solenne scambio di venti memorandum, che spaziano dall’industria automobilistica all’innovazione agritech, ha dimostrato come Pechino voglia offrire all’Africa non solo prestiti e infrastrutture, ma anche opportunità di crescita sostenibile e un dialogo paritario.</p>
<p>Tornando all’interno della regione asiatica, il contributo della Cina alla stabilità si è espresso anche attraverso il sostegno a iniziative multilaterali. Assumendo la presidenza di turno dell’Organizzazione per la Cooperazione di Shanghai (SCO), Pechino ha convocato un vertice a Tianjin, ribadendo l’intento di rafforzare una cooperazione di sicurezza e di contrastare le minacce transnazionali quali terrorismo ed estremismo. È in questo stesso ambito che <a href="https://giuliochinappi.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/la-cina-invita-india-e-pakistan-alla-de-escalation-delle-tensioni/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">la Cina ha recentemente invitato l’India e il Pakistan alla de-escalation</a>, promuovendo indagini imparziali sui recenti attacchi in Kashmir e invitando entrambe le parti a esercitare moderazione lungo la Linea di Controllo (LoC). In una telefonata con il ministro pakistano Ishaq Dar, il ministro degli Esteri Wang Yi ha sottolineato la responsabilità comune di evitare errori di calcolo che possano portare a scontri diretti fra due potenze nucleari.</p>
<p>Pure il dialogo con l’Unione Europea e con i suoi paesi membri nel loro complesso è stato curato con attenzione. Recentemente in visita a Pechino, <a href="https://giuliochinappi.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/sanchez-in-vietnam-e-cina-madrid-sceglie-lautonomia-strategica/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">il premier spagnolo Pedro Sánchez, giunto per il terzo incontro di alto livello in tre anni</a>, ha ribadito la volontà di Madrid – ma anche di Bruxelles – di cooperare con la Cina per salvaguardare il sistema multilaterale e contrastare il protezionismo. Nelle conversazioni con il leader del governo iberico, Xi ha sottolineato che l’Eurasia non è un semplice corridoio del processo di globalizzazione, ma un’area in cui lo sviluppo deve rispettare le regole del WTO e le esigenze di un mondo interconnesso, aprendosi a standard comuni per le tecnologie emergenti e il cambiamento climatico.</p>
<p>Ed è proprio sul clima che il presidente cinese ha voluto porre un sigillo di stabilità globale. Al “Leaders Meeting on Climate and the Just Transition” di New York, collegandosi in video, Xi ha promesso che <a href="https://giuliochinappi.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/il-mondo-constata-ancora-una-volta-laffidabilita-della-cina/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">la Cina non rallenterà mai la sua agenda ambientale</a>, continuando a espandere la capacità rinnovabile e a ridurre le emissioni di CO₂ con grande determinazione. Questo intervento ha prodotto eco in Asia, Africa e America Latina, dove molti governi vedono Pechino come partner concreto per investimenti in solare ed eolico, infrastrutture verdi e nuove industrie a basse emissioni.</p>
<p>La diplomazia di Xi non è dunque fatta solo di accordi e visite di Stato. È anche fatta di un uso sapiente delle piattaforme internazionali. In particolare, la <em>Belt and Road Initiative</em> rimane il fiore all’occhiello del progetto cinese, offrendo corridoi ferroviari, industrie high-tech, porti e hub logistici che legano Europa, Asia e Africa. L’obiettivo ufficiale è abbattere i costi del commercio e incrementare il benessere economico, ma il risultato politico è altrettanto significativo: la Cina collega il proprio sviluppo a quello di centinaia di milioni di persone, costruendo un senso di interdipendenza che contrasta l’idea di muri e di barriere.</p>
<p>Infine, ma non meno importante, la diplomazia di Xi punta a seminare certezze anche sul piano economico. Gli incontri con grandi imprese straniere – da Mercedes-Benz a FedEx, da Aramco a Sanofi – sono stati l’occasione non solo per rassicurare gli investitori sul fatto che il mercato cinese rimane stabile e aperto, ma anche per mostrare un clima regolatorio in cui le regole non cambiano alla luce di ritorni elettorali o colpi di mano politici. Il messaggio è semplice: chi investe oggi in Cina, investe in un futuro prevedibile.</p>
<p>In un mondo in cui le tempeste geopolitiche e le guerre commerciali minacciano di invertire le tendenze economiche e di sollevare nuvole di incertezza, la diplomazia di Xi Jinping si propone come faro di stabilità. Essa si fonda su una visione strategica di lungo periodo, sostenuta da una robusta architettura istituzionale che sa includere partner grandi e piccoli, governi e società civile, governi locali e aziende globali. Con centinaia di accordi firmati, visite di Stato programmate con cura e un interventismo diplomatico puntuale nei momenti di crisi, Pechino cerca di dimostrare al mondo che un approccio pragmatico, dialogico e multilaterale è ancora possibile. E, per molti leader e imprenditori, questa promessa di continuità rappresenta l’ancora di salvezza di fronte alle acque burrascose della politica internazionale.</p>
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title: India and Pakistan Trade Accusations, as Fighting Escalates
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<p>In the aftermath of Operation Sindoor, the Indian military action against Pakistan in the overnight hours of May 6-7, Indian authorities are saying that they hit terrorist targets and only terrorist targets inside Pakistan. According to a report in the <em>Hindustan Times</em>, Indian counter-terrorism officials said the strikes were based on intelligence indicating that the nine locations targeted were actively supporting terrorist operations in India. The <em>Hindustan Times</em> account includes profiles of each of the nine locations which are described as “epicenters of radicalization and training in intelligence and arms handling.”</p>
<p>Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and Hizbul Mujahideen, among others, all identified by Indian officials as anti-India terror outfits, have been receiving covert aid from the Pakistan Army and its Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, according to the <em>Hindustan Times</em> account. This support includes systematically coordinated financial, logistical, doctrinal, and military assistance, as well as direct combat training, officials added. Pakistani military officers regularly visit and supervise sessions at training camps operated by these groups, the <em>Hindustan Times</em> report continued, which have been rebranded as The Resistance Front (TRF), People’s Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF), Kashmir Tigers (KT), etc., to evade global scrutiny and portray their terrorism as an indigenous resistance movement.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1908824/pakistan-downs-5-indian-jets-as-retaliation-for-late-night-strikes-at-6-sites-officials">Pakistani authorities claim</a> the exact contrary: that the strikes were all against civilians and a mosque, and that the Pakistani military shot down five Indian war planes. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar also claimed that a number of Indian border posts along the Line of Control were destroyed by Pakistani return fire. Inter-Services Public Relations Director General Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said this morning that 26 civilians had been killed and 46 were injured.</p>
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<p>The Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp wrote in a letter around May 6 to the European Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas stating that the Netherlands would veto any renewal of the EU trade agreements with Israel over the issues of genocide in Gaza and settler violence in the West Bank, according to <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-eu-relationship-must-reviewed-over-gaza-aid-dutch-foreign-minister-veldcamp-kallas/">Politico</a>. The EU is the biggest trading partner with Israel and the Dutch government has been seen as one of the most loyal allies of Israel. It was often the Dutch that defended this same EU trade agreement from earlier criticism from Ireland and Spain.</p>
<p>This current EU/Israel trade agreement was first signed in 2000, but Article 2 demands a respect for human rights and democratic principles. Veldkamp wrote, “I withhold the support of the Netherlands for extending the EU-Israel Action Plan pending a review of Article 2.”</p>
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<p>The Schiller Institute of France issued the following emergency statement:</p>
<p>At the end of February, the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came to an end. On March 2, Israel brutally implemented the blockade on humanitarian aid to Gaza. At the beginning of May, two months after this decision, the situation is such that the Red Cross has just warned of the danger of a total collapse of humanitarian operations. In concrete terms, this means that two million people who have endured bombardment, displacement, non-existent sanitary conditions and constant hell, are condemned to starve to death sooner or later.</p>
<p>Of course, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—prosecuted by his country’s justice system and by the International Criminal Court—bears a crushing responsibility, both for having played the Hamas card for his own calculations, and for having deliberately thwarted the prospect of positive developments that were taking shape with the temporary ceasefire negotiated in Doha (Qatar). But no one can be fooled. If Netanyahu has trampled for so long and with such impunity on every one of the most fundamental principles of our common humanity, if he has been able to go so far in the cynical violation of every provision of International Law, it is because he has benefited from the unlimited indulgence of his Western protectors.</p>
<p>Make no mistake about it, the bloodshed of thousands of victims, the dead, the crippled, the erasing of a culture—whether through the elimination of Gazans or the destruction of its heritage—will not be swept under the carpet of history, despite the attempts to rewrite it that are already emerging.</p>
<p>As far as the blockade of humanitarian convoys is concerned, it should be remembered that International Humanitarian Law, and in particular the Geneva Convention of 1949, “obliges third States to put pressure on belligerents to respect their obligations.”</p>
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title: Pakistan Reportedly Used Advanced Chinese Missiles To Shoot Down Indian Warplanes
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<p>Not long after Pakistan claimed its military had shot down five Indian fighter jets involved in airstrikes on Pakistani territory, evidence began circulating first in social media and then in news media reports that the Pakistani air force used Chinese-made PL-15 long range air-to-air missiles for the kills. The use of the PL-15 would be significant because it’s an advanced weapon that was originally developed for use by China’s J-20 stealth fighter. Secondly, it’s reported to have a range of 200-300 km in Chinese service, though the export version reportedly has been reduced to a range of 145 km, which is still long enough to kill Indian fighter jets flying in Indian airspace from Pakistani airspace.</p>
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guid: 681bb9a4038a3200013a650e
title: Maria Zakharova on the Defeat of Fascism and `Lessons of History’
author: ;Cynthia Rush
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/05/1273px-Soviet_troops_and_T-34_tanks_counterattacking_Kursk_Voronezh_Front_July_1943.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>In a May 6 briefing, <a href="https://www.mid.ru/en/press_service/video/view/2014182/">Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova</a> powerfully discussed the role of the Soviet Union and the Red Army in defeating fascism during the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War, but offered some “related history lessons” as well, again targeting the British role in supporting and promoting fascism, both then and now. She pointed out that the foreign guests attending the May 9 events commemorating the end of the war and defeat of Nazism/fascism, “share our principled assessments of the causes that led to the Second World War, its outcomes, and the role of the Soviet Union in defeating Nazi Germany and its allies…. This is a powerful argument against disingenuous claims that modern-day Russia has allegedly appropriated Victory.”</p>
<p>She underscored: “The peoples of the Soviet Union defeated the enemy together. No one will be able to diminish our feat or split our common victory into separate victories.… The peoples of the Soviet Union not only defeated the Wehrmacht, but also brought life, liberation and salvation to the peoples of Eastern and Central Europe. The Red Army, the Soviet soldiers literally stopped the Nazi extermination machine in its tracks and put out the crematoria of the Holocaust.”</p>
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guid: 681bbf91038a3200013a6662
title: Kiev Regime Tries To Disrupt Moscow Victory Day with Massive Drone Attack
author: ;Carl Osgood
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/2025/05/Moscow_-_Domodedovo_-DME_-_UUDD-_AN1951779.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On the day that foreign dignitaries began to arrive in Moscow—including 29 heads of state/government—to attend the May 9 Victory Day celebrations, including a large military parade, Ukrainian attack drones and other weapons began raining down on Russia, including Moscow, disrupting Moscow’s regional airports. The Russian Defense Ministry <a href="https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21082">reported shooting down</a> 524 Ukrainian attack drones. Another wave of drones prompted renewed temporary airport closures across the region. Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency announced that flight operations were suspended from 7:15 p.m. local time at Domodedovo Airport, the biggest one in Moscow, as well as at Zhukovsky, and Kaluga airports, whose operations were suspended earlier, <a href="https://kyivindependent.com/wave-of-drones-target-moscow-again-prompting-airport-closures/">reported the <em>Kyiv Independent</em></a>.</p>
<p>Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that Russian air defense units destroyed at least 14 Ukrainian drones from 10 p.m. on May 6 (1900 GMT) until Wednesday morning, May 7 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-drone-attack-disrupts-moscow-airports-xi-visits-2025-05-07/">reported Reuters</a>.</p>
<p>In addition to the drones, Russian air defenses also took down two HIMARS rockets, five long-range Neptune guided missiles and six JDAM precision-guided aerial bombs. Aerial assaults have increased in the lead-up to a unilateral ceasefire declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin, which is scheduled to take effect from midnight on May 7-8 through midnight on May 10-11, <a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/616957-russia-massive-drone-attack/">reported RT</a>.</p>
<p>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed on May 7 that Russia still plans to offer the three-day ceasefire. By ramping up drone strikes on Russia, “the Kiev regime continues to demonstrate its essence, its inclination to terrorist actions,” Peskov said.</p>

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guid: 681bc6db038a3200013a6678
author: ;Cynthia Rush
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An &amp;#039;Unstable&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Fragile&amp;#039; Merz Government Is Not What the Atlanticists Hoped for

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<p>The fact that the CDU’s Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz wasn’t voted in on the first round in the Bundestag on May 5, falling short by six votes from the CDU, is cause for considerable hand-wringing among Atlanticist house organs that are panicking that the new German Chancellor is damaged goods and can’t offer the leadership he promised. A May 6 commentary by the NATO outpost, the <a href="https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/is-merzs-double-take-chancellor-vote-a-sign-of-things-to-come-in-germany/">Atlantic Council</a>, is entitled “Merz’s Double-Take Chancellor Vote a Sign of Things To Come in Germany.” Authors Jorn Fleck and Jurek Wille lament that instead of winning in the first round and getting “crowned” victoriously, Merz instead got a “shot across the bow,” and while not fatal, “this short-lived saga shows that political instability in Europe’s largest economy and reluctant hegemon may not be over, despite Merz’s promises to the contrary.”</p>
<p>At a time when Germany and Europe “can least afford it,” the two authors say, the new government’s takeover is very weakened, and Merz’s promise to restore Germany’s predictability and credibility in Europe “has taken some damage now.” Worse, if the six votes against him mean that resistance is “more deep seated, then it could destabilize the government every time controversial issues and complex compromise deals are up for a vote.” After Merz officially became Chancellor, he tried to project an image of strength and promised that Germany’s voice would be heard “in Europe and the world.” But Fleck and Willie warn that the vote and the dissension against Merz from his own ranks suggests “Germany’s next leadership will continue to struggle with fragility, division and indecisiveness. This will not go unnoticed in Moscow, Beijing or Washington.”</p>
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guid: 681bde7c038a3200013a6692
author: ;Cynthia Rush
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Global Times Asserts, To Uphold International Fairness and Justice, Maintain a &amp;#039;Right View of History&amp;#039;

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<p>In commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the defeat of fascism in Europe and the Chinese Resistance against Japanese aggression, China’s semi-official <a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202505/1333459.shtml"><em>Global Times</em></a> warned in a May 6 editorial that the international order is “currently facing multiple shocks,” the underlying causes of which “are closely linked to the erosion of the view of World War II (WWII) history.” Some right-wing politicians try to obscure and distort the history of World War II “while others seek to gain political benefits and solidify their positions by whitewashing fascism.” Worse, this flawed historical view “feeds a vicious cycle alongside geopolitical conflicts: in an attempt at containment, they denigrate—or even deny—the historical contributions of China and Russia; and in the name of a `free and open Indo-Pacific’ they seek to breach the pacifist postwar constitution and resurrect military adventurism.”</p>
<p><em>Global Times</em> asserts that China and Russia are both promoting a correct view of World War II history while also defending the outcome of the victory and the postwar international order. The reality is that the wartime victory was a “triumph of multilateral cooperation that transcended different systems and beliefs, overcoming fascist tyranny,” and proving that “the law of the jungle … is not the right path for human development…. Fostering a right view of WWII history is also about defending a proper view of the international order.” Moreover, the creation of the postwar international system also proved that “multilateralism is not a temporary strategy in the game of great powers, but a conscious choice of civilization born from immense sacrifice.”</p>
<p>China has contributed to maintaining the post-war international order, <em>Global Times</em> affirms, by advocating the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, using diplomacy effectively to alleviate regional crises, etc. “It is actively demonstrating what it means to uphold and defend a right view of WWII history … providing the world with a Chinese solution that transcends zero-sum games and promotes the development of the international order in a just and reasonable direction.”</p>

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guid: 681bf5cb038a3200013a66a1
title: Trump To Visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the U.A.E.
author: ;Dennis Small
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<p>In his first trip abroad of his second term, President Donald Trump will have a high-profile visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the U.A.E. from May 13 to 16, with big economic deals reportedly on the agenda. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-06/blackrock-citi-ceos-to-visit-saudi-arabia-along-with-trump">Bloomberg reports</a> that top executives of BlackRock, Citigroup, Alphabet and other multinational giant will also be in Saudi Arabia along with Trump. “BlackRock Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink, Citigroup Inc.’s Jane Fraser and top bosses of American tech firms will visit Saudi Arabia along with Donald Trump next week,” Bloomberg reported. “Other U.S. executives who will travel to Riyadh include Blackstone Inc.’s Steve Schwarzman, Franklin Templeton’s Jenny Johnson, and Alphabet Inc.’s Ruth Porat. They’re slated to speak at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum on May 13.… IBM Corp.’s CEO Arvind Krishna and Qualcomm Inc.’s Cristiano Amon will also be at the investment conference.”</p>
<p>Trump is expected to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and is hoping to land a deal, according to Bloomberg, which would include about $1 trillion in increased trade and investment each from Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. Saudi Arabia, for its part, is hoping to seal a major defense deal with the U.S., along with security guarantees, in order to bolster its efforts to become the dominant business center in the Gulf. Major deals along these lines have been under discussion for years, but there is no indication that the underlying difficulties the Saudis see have been resolved: an end to the Gaza genocide, and the recognition of a Palestinian state.</p>
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title: 29 Foreign Leaders To Attend May 9 Victory Day Celebrations in Moscow
author: ;Cynthia Rush
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<p>Twenty-nine foreign leaders will be in Moscow for the May 9 military parade and commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War (World War II) and the defeat of Nazi/fascism, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov announced today. There are many video clips of individual dignitaries as they arrive in Moscow. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s presence is of special significance, as Putin will also be traveling to Beijing for the September anniversary of China’s defeat of Japan’s aggression against that country, which began with the 1931 invasion of Manchuria and lasted until 1945.</p>
<p>Among the arriving guests are Dilma Rousseff, former President of Brazil, who is now the president of the BRICS New Development Bank. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic arrived safely in Moscow, despite Lithuania and Latvia denying his plane’s flight through their airspace. Between May 7-10, President Vladimir Putin will hold a total of 15 bilateral meetings.</p>
<p>The 72-hour truce Putin declared began at 00:00 hrs on May 8. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reported that every effort is being made by Russian military and security forces to ensure the safety of all participants, given threats and military activity by Kiev’s Nazi regime. He has asked people for their patience and understanding given that certain restrictions on internet and mobile phone use have been imposed for security reasons. In fact, Ukraine unleashed a barrage of drones and rockets at various Russian airports earlier today, in a vain attempt to stop the arrival of the foreign dignitaries.</p>
<p>The nations whose leaders will attend the May 9 events include Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Abkhazia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Venezuela, Vietnam, Guinea-Bissau, Egypt, Zimbabwe, China, D.R. Congo, Cuba, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Palestine, Serbia, Slovakia, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia and South Ossetia will be present at the Victory Parade. According to TASS, India, Nicaragua and South Africa will be represented at a “notably high level.”</p>

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guid: 681bf75b038a3200013a66b7
title: Eighty Years Later: Why Was Fascism Defeated, But Not Destroyed?
author: ;Dennis Small
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/2025/05/1010px-Ve_Day_Celebrations_in_London-_8_May_1945_HU41808.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Thursday and Friday of this week mark an occasion of special significance.</p>
<p>This May 8, the United States officially celebrates the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, when in 1945, Germany formally surrendered to the Allied Powers, putting an end to World War II. On May 9, Russia also officially celebrates Victory Day in what they call the Great Patriotic War, when Germany’s surrender was formally signed in Berlin. Heads of state and government of 29 nations—including BRICS members China, Brazil and Egypt—are gathered in Moscow this week for the Victory Parade and related activities.</p>
<p>In the weeks leading up to May 9, Russia’s top leadership have singled out, with pinpoint accuracy, the role of Great Britain as the force behind the rise of Nazi Germany and the power that urged them to drive East into Russia, in sharp contrast to the role played by the United States in defense of democracy and sovereignty—noting, as well, that this is the crucial lesson to be drawn for today. In recent weeks, <a href="https://eir.news/2025/05/news/head-of-russian-national-security-council-shoigu-says-britain-instigated-nazi-germany-to-seek-living-space-in-russia/">Sergey Shoigu</a>, Secretary of the Russian Security Council; <a href="https://eir.news/2025/04/news/patrushev-russia-and-the-u-s-bear-special-responsibility-for-the-world/">Nikolay Patrushev</a>, former Secretary of the Russian Security Council and now personal aide to President Vladimir Putin; and Sergey Naryshkin’s <a href="https://eir.news/2025/04/news/moscow-work-with-a-revolutionary-u-s-against-british-empire-french-jacobins/">SVR</a> (Foreign Intelligence Service) have all struck that same theme: that the United States of Lincoln and FDR is Russia’s natural ally, just as it was in the past, in the war against British-created fascism today.</p>
<p>American statesman Lyndon LaRouche helps us understand the actual nature of fascism—and how it is that it was stopped 80 years ago, but never fully destroyed. In an article written nearly 50 years ago, dated Aug. 19, 1977, and headlined <a href="https://larouchepub.com/lar/2025/5210-what_actually_is_fascism-lar.html">“What Actually Is Fascism?”</a> Lyndon LaRouche wrote:</p>
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<p>“Nazism, like present-day ‘environmentalism’ in the B.R.D. (West Germany), has two faces. The primary fact concerning Nazism, like present-day ‘environmentalism,’ is that the institution of the Nazi regime was imposed upon Germany from the outside, by German central bank head Hjalmar Schacht’s collaborators among, chiefly, London and Manhattan financial circles—and not by German industrialists. The secondary fact concerning Nazism is that social forces of varied outlooks and composition were manipulated into acting as an auxiliary political strike-force in support of Schacht’s Hitler project….</p>
<p>“To understand the driving force behind the overall phenomenon, one must concentrate attention at the top, on the Hjalmar Schachts and their analogs. It is at the top that the essence of the matter is defined. However, the relatively tiny forces immediately associated with the top of such conspiracies require significant numbers of manipulated dupes as a social base for the establishment of fascist regimes or other institutions of fascist policies. This social base compels us to focus on the second, complementary aspect of fascism, environmentalism, terrorism, and exotic synthetic religions generally. In this second aspect of the matter, we are obliged to consider the susceptibilities of the various distinct social strata being manipulated. This second aspect of the matter involves the difficulty that large fascist movements have never been sociologically or politically homogeneous.…</p>
<p>“The summary strategic evaluation to be made on this point is that when Manhattan and London circles set Hjalmar Schacht’s Hitler-project into motion, they transformed both Germany and Nazism, creating a curious symbiotic interdependency between the Nazi machine and German national economic and related interests. The result was that Germany’s economic and related interests expressed themselves in the distorted forms possible within the framework of the Rentenmark and Mefo-Bill structures created by Schacht and administered by the Hitler apparatus.…</p>
<p>“The economic side of Nazism was in full swing prior to 1933, not from Hitler or Gregor Strasser, but from Schacht. As the international monetary crisis deepened, especially after the fall of the Vienna Kreditanstalt and the floating of the British pound in 1931, the existing measures of Schachtian austerity in Germany became altogether insufficient to prop up the tottering German debt structure. A collapse of German debt structures at this juncture would have toppled the power of key London and Manhattan financial institutions totally. More drastic measures were required in the estimation of Schacht and his London and Manhattan associates.</p>
<p>“The existing Weimar structures could not facilitate such increased austerity. The Reichstag had to be eliminated, along with the party structures which might serve as a mobilization point for counterattack against foreign-imposed austerity. For this, Schacht emphasized, Hitler was needed.”</p>
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<p>Mankind today is once again staring at the ugly face of fascism: in the followers of Hitler-ally Stepan Bandera who today rule Kiev; in the followers of Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky, whom Ben-Gurion called “Vladimir Hitler” for his open defense of the Nazis, who today run Israel’s Netanyahu government and are engaged in the extermination of Gaza and its people; in the use of blind terrorism to spark geopolitical regional wars, such as in the Indian subcontinent.</p>
<p>That is because the British-centered financial interests have once again revived the policies of Schacht—rearmament for war, combined with a bailout of the bankrupt financial system—to try to salvage their world order.</p>
<p>In her <a href="https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2025/05/06/live-with-helga-zepp-larouche-three-dangerous-hot-spots-one-solution-may-7-11-am-eastern-5pm-cet/">weekly webcast dialogue today</a>, “Three Dangerous Hot Spots, One Solution,” Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche pointed directly to the problem—and its solution.</p>
<p>“We see worldwide a whole pattern of attacks against every single BRICS country.… [On the current India-Pakistan crisis] the first thing to do is to reinstate the [Indus] Waters treaty between India and Pakistan, because that is a very serious question. Otherwise, [they should] really get involved in the New Paradigm, because there is a move for settling all of these questions—if you agree on principles of cooperation. Given that the BRICS countries are intending to use the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, as well as the UN Charter, that is already a framework. So, if you agree that that is what you want to uphold as your basic principles, then you can sit down and discuss all the tricky questions in a separate way, as was done in the Peace of Westphalia.</p>
<p>“I think an approach like that should be taken, and I think Russia and China and other countries—like Indonesia, Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa—there are many countries that could be part of such an approach.”</p>

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guid: 681bfa48038a3200013a66c1
title: U.S. and Chinese Officials Will Finally Talk Trade
author: ;Dennis Small
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<p><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/06/bessent-greer-to-meet-with-chinese-trade-officials-later-this-week-00332271">Politico reports</a> that U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will meet with China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng on May 10-11 in Geneva. They will discuss the insane tariff warfare that President Trump unleashed between the two countries, and broader economic issues that they face.</p>
<p>Since Trump had been demanding that China had to ask to talk before he’d agree to a meeting, and the Chinese had steadfastly refused to ask first, which would have given the false impression that they were going hat-in-hand, Politico reports that the Geneva meeting is “a face-saving gesture,” in which both sides are saying that their top officials just happened to be in Geneva at the same time.</p>
<p>“I was going to be in Switzerland to negotiate with the Swiss,” Bessent said in an interview on Fox News. “Turns out the Chinese team is traveling through Europe, and they will be in Switzerland also. So we will meet on Saturday and Sunday.”</p>
<p>China, for its part, likes the optics of the meeting being in Geneva, which is the home of the WTO, which China says the U.S. is violating right and left.</p>
<p>Bessent said the current 145% vs. 125% tariffs don’t work. “This isn’t sustainable, as I said before, especially on the Chinese side,” Bessent said. The current tariffs are “the equivalent of an embargo. We don’t want to decouple. What we want is fair trade.”</p>
<p>“Our doors are open if the U.S. wants to talk,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said May 6. “If a negotiated solution is truly what the U.S. wants, it should stop threatening and exerting pressure,” Lin added. “To pressure or coerce China in whatever way simply does not work. We will resolutely safeguard our legitimate interests and uphold international fairness and justice,” <a href="https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xw/fyrbt/202505/t20250507_11616836.html">he stated May 7</a>.</p>


guid: 681bfbf7038a3200013a66cc
title: Will America&amp;#039;s Creditors Drop the Debt Bomb?
author: ;Dennis Small
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<p>That’s the question that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/economy/trade-war-tariffs-japan-china-us-debt">CNN asks</a> in an article headlined “America’s Trading Partners Have a Massive Bazooka in the Trade War. They May Never Use It.”</p>
<p>The May 6 piece recalls that on May 2 Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said that, in the high-stakes trade negotiations with the U.S., selling their holding of U.S. Treasuries is a “card on the table.… It does exist as a card, but I think whether we choose to use it or not would be a separate decision.”</p>
<p>Japan is the largest foreign holder of Treasuries in the world, with $1.1 trillion. China is second, with $784 billion. The U.K. is third with $750 billion.</p>
<p>CNN thinks it highly unlikely that any of these countries would actually start a sell off. Two days after his original comments, Kato backpedaled, saying Japan is “not considering the sale of U.S. Treasuries as a means of Japan-U.S. negotiations.”</p>
<p>CNN explained that “Japan was unlikely to fire this big bazooka in the trade war anyway, since selling U.S. Treasuries is considered an extreme move—one that would likely backfire, experts say.… If Japan sold massive amounts of U.S. debt, it would very likely spark a massive Treasury selloff. Treasury rates would in turn sharply increase, making it more expensive for Washington to borrow and freaking out investors along the way. ‘It would send shockwaves around world financial markets if one of the most reliable buyers of Treasuries is no longer reliably in the market for it,’ said Ernie Tedeschi, director of economics at the Budget Lab at Yale and a chief economist in the Biden administration.”</p>


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Who made the greatest sacrifice for World War II victory? Not a debatable issue but an open and shut case

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<p><strong><em>To be more precise, it would be in a world operating on normal principles of decency.</em></strong></p>
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<p>To be more precise, it would be in a world operating on normal principles of decency. But from the perspective of the fact-challenged denizens of the collective West, we all suspect that it is not.</p>
<p>As the 80th anniversary of the defeat of European Axis powers approaches, a notorious non-issue is gaining prominence. It is which country deserves the most credit and had sacrificed the most to achieve victory over the Axis that is soon to be commemorated. The mere raising of this preposterous question creates an artificial and for the poorly schooled citizens of Western countries thoroughly misleading historical “dilemma,” which in reality should not exist at all.</p>
<p>In the mediatically most relevant sense, this non-issue was recently featured in a statement by President Trump. It bears directly on the question of which country contributed the most to the victory of Allied forces and bore the brunt of that victory in terms of the lives and treasure sacrificed on the altar of common victory.</p>
<p>The position in this regard of the leading country of the collective West was unmistakeably reflected in <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-declares-may-8-victory-day-world-war-ii-going-start-celebrating-our-victories-again" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Trump’s decision to designate 8 May “Victory day” in the United States</a>, coinciding with the “Victory in Europe” day celebrated by most Europeans since Germany surrendered in May of 1945.</p>
<p>There is nothing necessarily controversial in the creation of this new holiday, except for the President’s grandiloquent rationale in support of his decision, i.e. because “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-declares-may-8-victory-day-world-war-ii-going-start-celebrating-our-victories-again" target="_blank" rel="noopener">we did more than any other country, by far, in producing a victorious result</a>.”</p>
<p>There can be no dispute that alongside other Allied troops U.S. forces fought bravely and sacrificially to defeat the Axis, not just in Europe but in the Far East against Japan as well, where they achieved victory in August 1945. But to claim that the U.S. did more than any other country, and “by far,” to secure victory in World War II is stretching it a bit.</p>
<p>President Trump is a patriotic American, but he is no historian any more than he is conversant with academic economics, at least judging by his tariffs policy the boomerang effect of which could have been explained to him by anyone even modestly familiar with the principles of the dismal science. There is nothing inherently wrong or incorrect with celebrating America’s enormous contribution to Allied victory, or even hyping it, as long as that is done with a sense of proportion and with due respect for the sacrifices of others. Many nations, large and small, contributed to the victorious result in World War II which saved the world from the horrors of fascism, at least in the form in which it had presented itself over eighty years ago. But once we start making self-centred comparisons in order to stress the primacy of one country’s contribution at the expense or in denigration of that of others, it becomes incumbent upon us – before making public statements – to carefully review the facts and to conform our assessments not to the demagogic exigencies of domestic politics but to historical reality.</p>
<p>It would seem that, being apparently better informed and closer to the actual events, <a href="https://x.com/ZeppLaRouche/status/1919408041994150308" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Franklin Roosevelt had a much more realistic picture</a> of the major participants’ relative contribution to Allied victory in World War II. In one of his Fireside Chats in March of 1942, President Roosevelt told the American public that “Russian troops have destroyed—and continue to destroy—more manpower, planes, tanks, and cannons of our common enemy than all the other United Nations combined.”</p>
<p>Throughout the conflict Roosevelt spoke in much the same vein. In a letter to the Soviet government dated 4 February 1943 Roosevelt offered his congratulations on the local but in terms of conflict dynamics pivotal victory over the Axis at Stalingrad, noting that, “by their example, Russian soldiers arouse in the Allies a new determination to achieve the final defeat of the enemy.”</p>
<p>Later that month, on 22 February, President Roosevelt stated that “the Red Army and the Russian people certainly forced [Adolf] Hitler’s armed forces to follow the path to final defeat and won the admiration of the people of the United States for a long time.” Alas, that admiration was not so long-lasting, but this was well and quite accurately said at the time.</p>
<p>Similar sentiments, recognising the crucial contribution of the Soviet Army to the Allied war effort, continued to be expressed by President Roosevelt at other times during the conflict. In his <a href="https://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/franklin-delano-roosevelt/state-of-the-union-1943.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1943 State of the Union address</a>, after recounting events in other theatres, he singled out for special emphasis developments on the Russian front in terms that left no room for doubt where he thought the main action was:</p>
<p>“By far the largest and most important developments in the whole world-wide strategic picture of 1942 were the events of the long fronts in Russia: first, the implacable defense of Stalingrad; and, second, the offensives by the Russian armies at various points that started in the latter part of November and which still roll on with great force and effectiveness.”</p>
<p>It could be observed that such sentiments, historically accurate as they may be, were primarily courteous in nature and contained tributes intended to fortify links with an important ally, to encourage him to fight even harder. But there are far too many hard data points independent of these remarks which pertain to the relative contributions of the participants in the conflict for the theory that Roosevelt’s words were mere courteous accolades to be sustainable.</p>
<p>One is that about eighty percent of casualties inflicted on the Axis in the course of the entire war in Europe occurred on what they called the Eastern Front, i.e. in the context of Nazi Germany’s ultimately unsuccessful invasion of Russia. Directly related to that fact, apart from the material devastation suffered by the USSR, the <a href="https://youtu.be/qqijUMnZmX4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">peoples comprising the Soviet Union suffered twenty-seven million military and civilian casualties</a> during World War II, dwarfing the losses of European nations, Great Britain, and the United States combined in the European theatre. Of equal significance, <a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/operation-barbarossa#:~:text=For%20most%20of%20the%20war,killed%20in%20World%20War%20II." target="_blank" rel="noopener">for most of the war about 75-80 percent of the Wehrmacht had to be deployed in the East</a>, which is in itself conclusive proof of where the German High Command perceived its principal opponent to be. The 80 percent of German war dead who perished in combat against Russia were about four million of the five million German soldiers killed in World War II. These are objective data posted by the <a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. National War Museum</a>. Even if President Roosevelt’s words quoted above were to be taken as inter-allied courtesy, facts established and dispassionately cited many decades later by a serious American scholarly institution, and essentially <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnE4FqTCtfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">undisputed by academic historians</a>, tell their own story.</p>
<p>The reason this text had to be written is to call attention to a scandalous trend in the collective West’s amoral discourse regarding the world war that ended eighty years ago. That discourse is disseminated with brazen disregard for amply corroborated historical facts and with contempt for moral norms that until quite recently even in politics would have been considered inviolable. It is a vicious campaign worthy of knaves to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU8wV5qqh0Y" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rewrite and maliciously misrepresent</a> the history of World War II. Borrowing a key concept from the sick woke methodology, the consensus engineers of the collective West are attempting to cancel, to blot out, and to memory hole the significance of Russia’s unique and indispensable role in defeating Nazi Germany and its Axis allies, to denigrate the unparalleled magnitude of its contribution to the war effort whose fruits we still enjoy, and to indecently mock the generous sacrifices made by the Russian people.</p>
<p>They must not be allowed to succeed in their despicable purpose.</p>
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title: OTD: 8 May 1916: The last words of Éamonn Ceann
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<p><strong>On this Day: 8th May 1916, Éamonn Ceannt, Michael Mallin, Seán Heuston and Cornelius Colbert were executed.</strong></p>
<p>On Sunday, 7th May, 1916, Éamonn Ceannt was informed at 4 p.m. that he was to be shot at 3:45 a.m. the following morning. Upon receiving this news Ceannt requested writing materials, and wrote his last words to his country, his wife and his child.</p>
<p>Éamonn Ceannt (christened Edward Kent) was born on 21 September 1881 , in Ballymoe, County Galway, the son of an RIC constable, James Kent. He was ten years of age when his family moved to Dublin, where he attended the Christian Brothers’ School on North Richmond Street. Later on, he became a member of Conradh na Gaeilge and he pursued an avid interest in all aspects of the Irish language, literature, and culture. It was at this point that he adopted the Irish form of his name by which he was thereafter known.</p>
<p>Above all else, Ceannt was a leader who could inspire confidence through competence. If an organization needed a clear thinking and organized secretary,  Ceannt frequently filled the breach. He did this without complaint for he was a practical man, but as he labored over minute entries, accounts, and ledger entries, he sometimes wrote with a measure of exasperation at the existence of pen-scratching and record-keeping.</p>
<p>When it came to organizing and uniting men to action, Ceannt didn’t have the rhetorical gifts of Pearse or Connolly, but it was plain to all that he was the right man for a fight in a tight corner. He proved a lodestar for the volunteers as they built the organization, and when the Rising exploded into action he was a steady and inspiring leader at the South Dublin Union, one of the most frenetic locations of fighting.</p>
<p>He had proven his worth on manoeuvers when, on the 26th of July 1914, he led the men of the 4th Dublin Battalion to Howth for the famous gun-running incident. He was a major reason for the success of the operation when his quick thinking and logistical planning outwitted the authorities and ensured that the arms got to safe houses around the city. He was also present a week later when the Volunteers landed a second consignment of guns at Kilcoole, County Wicklow.</p>
<p>As a young boy, this competence wasn’t obvious. Ceannt was shy and not a very distinguished student. However, it seems he was holding back, because in his final year at the Christian Brothers, he achieved the highest results in his class and was asked to deliver an oration at the end of year’s prizegiving. His family attended the event expecting him to forfeit the chance, but to their amazement he confidently stepped onto the podium and delivered an eloquent speech.</p>
<p>His pleasantly surprised father, James, said “My boy Éamonn will do something great yet”. He hadn’t seen the quarter of it!</p>
<p>Ceannt became known as someone who would diligently apply himself to a task and master it pretty quickly. He started getting Irish lessons in Conradh na Gaeilge in 1898, and just four years later he was known as one of the best Irish teachers in Dublin.</p>
<p>He was an accomplished musician and athlete. He attended the Jubilee Celebrations held in Rome in 1908, in honour of Pope Pius X. As the Irish athletes marched into the Roman arena to compete in the Celebrations, they were led by Éamonn Ceannt who, it was reported, looked quite regal playing his pipes and dressed in an 11th-century Irish costume. He made such a sensation that the Pope, hearing of his performance, summoned him for a Papal appearance.</p>
<p>Ceannt played a crucial part in another critical moment for Irish culture. In founding the Piper’s Club he gave a critical lifeline to the tradition of uilleann piping which was in danger of dying out. There were very few pipers in Ireland at the time and the revivalist nature of Ceannt’s organizational zeal and enthusiasm for the art of piping cannot be understated. If it was not for Ceannt it is quite likely that the unbroken tradition of Irish piping that goes from the present young people learning at na Píobairí Uilleann all the way back through the 18th century would have been severed at the turn of the 20th Century.</p>
<p>Ceannt learned the pipes himself, but more significantly he was one of the founding members of Cumann na bPíóbairí (The Pipers Club). He was at the heart of organizing the activities of this organization and he bought a printing press and published a monthly pamphlet named An Píobaire.</p>
<p>The following is from a flyer he was seen handing out on Sackville Street (O’Connell Street) in 1901 announcing the first edition of An Píobaire.</p>
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<p><em>An Píobaire</em></p>
<p><em>The above is the title of a new journal which will be read once a month in future before the members of CUMANN NA bPIOBAIRI (Pipers Club) in Nth. Frederick St., Dublin.</em></p>
<p><em>AN PIOBAIRE will be devoted to Irish Music in general, to the pipes in particular. Needless to say articles in Irish will be a feature. The first number will be ready, July 5th, 1901. It is intended to transcribe articles from old journals such as “The Dublin Penny Journal” which are now difficult to obtain. All references to pipes and Pipers from the earliest times to the present day will be collected and read for the information of members. The first number contains a song in Irish entitled “Ceol an Phiobaire” written down by Mr. J.J. Loyd (Editor , “Gaelic Journal.”) A brief account of work done in past month will also be read. </em><br><em>You are cordially invited to attend</em><br><em>ÉAMONN CEANNT, Hon. Sec.</em></p>
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<p>His last words on this earth were written to his wife Áine.</p>
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<p><em>‘My dearest wife Áine – not wife, but widow before these lines reach you. I am here without hope of this world, and without fear, calmly awaiting the end. I have had Holy Communion, and Fr. Augustine has been with me, and will be back again. Dearest “silly little Fanny”! my poor little sweetheart of how many years now? Ever my comforter, God comfort you now. What can I say? I die a noble death for Ireland’s freedom. Men and women will vie with one another to shake your dear hand. Be proud of me, as I am and ever was of you. My cold exterior was but a mask. It has served me in these last days. You have a duty to me and to Rónán – that is to live. My dying wishes are that you remember your state of health. Work only as much as may be necessary, and freely accept the little attentions which in due course will be showered upon you.</em></p>
<p><em>‘You will be, you are, the wife of one of the leaders of the Revolution. Sweeter still, you are my little child, my dearest pet, my sweetheart, of the hawthorn hedges, and summer eves. I remember all, and I banish all, so that I may die bravely. I have but one hour to live; then God’s judgement, and through His infinite mercy, a place near your poor Grannie and my father and mother, and all the fine old Irish who went through the scourge of similar misfortune from this vale of tears into the Promised Land. Bíodh misneach agat a stóirín mo chroidhe. Tóg do cheann agus mo chroidhe agus bíodh foighne agat go bfeicimid a chéile arís i bhflaithis Dé. Tusa and mise agus Rónán beag bocht. – Adieu, Éamonn’</em></p>
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<p>On Monday morning, 8th May 1916, Éamonn Ceannt, Michael Mallin, Seán Heuston and Cornelius Colbert were executed.</p>

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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">This is the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/letter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#letter</a> that once inspired a visitor to thank us "for minding these things".</p>
<p>Written by Eamonn Ceannt to his wife Áine at 2.30am <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnThisDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OnThisDay</a> Monday, 8th May 1916, just a few hours before he was executed for his part in the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EasterRising?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EasterRising</a>; <a href="https://t.co/L4ALs4ZQKN">https://t.co/L4ALs4ZQKN</a>. <a href="https://t.co/KqMWYVk8om">pic.twitter.com/KqMWYVk8om</a></p>
<p>— National Library of Ireland (@NLIreland) <a href="https://twitter.com/NLIreland/status/1523241531901358080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2022</a></p>
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<p><em>Éamonn Ceannt, full-length, facing front portrait, seated, holding pipes. Photo by Arnall. Credit: National Library of Ireland </em></p>


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title: EU to Ireland: Bring back hate speech laws, or else
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]<p>Ireland still fails to transpose the provisions related to criminalising the public incitement to violence or hatred</p>
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]<p>RTE should be free to take whatever campaigning stance that it wishes. But it should be free to do so only when the television licence and taxpayer funding for its activities is ceased.</p>
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title: Support for EU membership lowest in a decade – poll
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/christian-lue-8Yw6tsB8tnc-unsplash-2-scaled.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>A new poll has shown that almost half of Irish respondents feel that their views aren’t represented at the level of the European Union, while 34 percent feel the EU is not upholding its core values and 26 percent are dissatisfied with its direction.</strong></p>
<p><span>Despite this, support for Ireland’s membership of the EU remains high at 82 percent. However, that figure represents the lowest level of support in over a decade (since 2013).</span></p>
<p><span>Just nine percent said Ireland shouldn’t remain a member of the EU, while eight percent said they didn’t know.</span></p>
<p><span>The new data comes from <a href="https://www.europeanmovement.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/FINAL-EU-Poll-2025-UPDATED-9.pdf">European Movement Ireland’s (EMI) EU poll 2025</a>, carried out by Amárach research.</span></p>
<p><span>It found that 43 percent of respondents felt their views weren’t “adequately represented at EU level,” a sentiment felt most strongly by respondents aged 35-44.</span></p>
<p><span>Almost half (47 percent) of respondents in both the Republic and Northern Ireland said that they think the EU is “moving in the right direction”.</span></p>
<p><span>For those who answered “yes” to that question, 41 percent said that they think the EU is moving in the right direction because of “unity and cooperation,” followed by “economic benefits” at 19 percent.</span></p>
<p><span>Positive respondents in Northern Ireland agreed that “unity and cooperation” (43 percent) was the main reason they think the EU is moving in the right direction, followed by “defence and protection” at 17 percent.</span></p>
<p><span>For those who said that the EU is moving in the wrong direction, 35 percent of respondents said that it was because of “immigration control issues”. Other stated concerns included “economic and regulatory issues” (24 percent) and “militarisation concerns” (24 percent).</span></p>
<p><span>On the topic of defence, 50 percent of people surveyed said that Ireland should be part of increased EU defence and security cooperation. Meanwhile, 32 percent said that no, Ireland should not be part of increased EU defence and security cooperation. A further 18 percent of respondents said that they didn’t know.</span></p>
<p><span>When it came to EU performance, 51 percent of respondents said that they felt the EU’s performance was weakest on migration, with 18 percent saying it was weakest on defence and security, while 10 percent said it was poor on climate change.</span></p>
<p><span>On their concerns, 56 percent said “cost of living” was the issue they were most concerned about “at EU level”. Migration came a close second with 53 percent highlighting it, followed by EU-US relations (44 percent) and the EU response to the Russia-Ukraine conflict (43 percent).</span></p>
<p><span>For respondents in Northern Ireland, the EU response to international conflicts featured at the top of respondents concerns, with 52 percent highlighting the EU response to the Israel-Palestine conflict and 49 percent identifying the response to the Russia-Ukraine conflict as the issues they were most concerned about at an EU level.</span></p>
<p><span>These were followed by migration, security and defence and EU-US relations.</span></p>
<p><span>In both the Republic and Northern Ireland, trade was where respondents felt the EU’s performance is strongest, at 40 percent and 49 percent respectively.</span></p>
<p><span>In ROI, this was followed by the economy (21 percent), while “don’t know” was the second highest response (13 percent) for respondents in Northern Ireland.</span></p>
<p><span>In the North a “significant majority” (60 percent) believe that changes in the EU-UK relationship following Brexit have not improved Northern Ireland’s relationship with the EU, only 29 percent agree, while 11 percent remain unsure.</span></p>
<p><span>A majority in both the Republic (40 percent) and Northern Ireland (39 percent) said they do not trust governing institutions, with only 30 percent in the Republic expressing trust in the EU and the Irish Government.</span></p>
<p><span>The EU is the most trusted institution in Northern Ireland at 29 percent, followed by the Irish Government at 19 percent.</span></p>
<p><span>Despite that, 34 percent of respondents in the Republic and 39 percent of respondents in the North said that they don’t think the EU is “effectively upholding its core values in its policies and actions”.</span></p>
<p><span>Commenting on the poll’s findings, Noelle O’Connell, CEO European Movement Ireland said: “It is encouraging to see strong support for EU membership in Ireland, albeit a decline on recent years. In our twelfth year of polling, it is clear that we cannot be complacent, with some people expressing dissatisfaction with the EU’s current trajectory and Irish influence at EU level.</span></p>
<p><span>“At a pivotal time in European politics with intensifying efforts to end the war in Ukraine, the ongoing issues relating to EU-US trade which could have serious implications for Ireland, and the increasing influence of populism, among other issues, it is important citizens feel their views are heard across all levels of the EU.”</span></p>


guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330213
title: Conclave Day Two: Black Smoke in the morning
author: ;Jason Osborne
link: https://gript.ie/conclave-day-two-black-smoke-in-the-morning/
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Sistine-Chapel-Chimney.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Dear Reader,</strong></p>
<p>It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a media outlet that blames everything on the “far right” in Ireland, then you don’t have to go far to find one. If, by contrast, you are looking for a media outlet that looks beyond that cheap sloganeering, and tries to understand and report on the real concerns held by ordinary people – and a good few prominent people, albeit privately – then that is what we try to do here.</p>
<p>But we cannot do it without your support, and your subscription.</p>
<p>We reject Government funding, because, in our view, that would be the end of our independence. The moment we did so, we would begin looking over our shoulder, and wondering if our coverage of a particular issue might lead to that money being taken away. In time – not all at once, but slowly and inexorably – we would become just another safe, consensus, state-funded voice.</p>
<p>But there’s a bargain to be struck here: If you value our independence, then you must support it. If you want us to be answerable to you, then you must take a stake in our work.</p>
<p>What we try to do here is to be open, honest, and brave. That does not mean that you will always agree with us. It does mean that there will be times when we will annoy you, and publish things you disagree with: That’s part of the deal. We are independent, not servants of one cause, or another.</p>
<p>That is what media is supposed to be, but too often in Ireland no longer is. We are trying to change that, and we need your help. I am, therefore, asking for it, and would deeply appreciate a subscription at the level you can afford.</p>
<p>With gratitude,</p>
<p><strong>John</strong></p>


guid: https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/p/anton-chaitkin-on-rumble-with-charles
title: Anton Chaitkin on Rumble with Charles Moscowitz
author: ;Magdalena Therrien
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<p><span>Since Anton Chaitkin has published his new book</span> <em><strong>Who We Are - America’s Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy - Volume II: 1830s to 1890s,</strong></em> <span>he is engaging in a vigorous campaign of interviews on radio and podcasts to bring the urgent issues of this new book before the American public.</span></p>

<p><span>Most recently, he was interviewed by</span> <strong>Charles Moscowitz on Rumble</strong><span>. Here is the link to this provocative talk:</span></p>
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<p><span>And here is the link to</span> <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Who-We-Are-Americas-Universal/dp/B0F4KN1LWB" rel>Amazon</a> <span>books and</span> <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=Who+We+Are+by+Anton+Chaitkin&amp;i=digital-text&amp;crid=3RH0TD7G5P7WU&amp;sprefix=who+we+are+by+anton+chaitkin%2Cdigital-text%2C82&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss" rel>Kindle</a> <span>to purchase Anton’s book.</span></p>
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guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330223
title: TD denies that SF is “two-faced” on immigration
author: ;Gript Video
link: https://gript.ie/td-denies-that-sf-is-two-faced-on-immigration/
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/SF-THUMBNAIL.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Dear Reader,</strong></p>
<p>It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a media outlet that blames everything on the “far right” in Ireland, then you don’t have to go far to find one. If, by contrast, you are looking for a media outlet that looks beyond that cheap sloganeering, and tries to understand and report on the real concerns held by ordinary people – and a good few prominent people, albeit privately – then that is what we try to do here.</p>
<p>But we cannot do it without your support, and your subscription.</p>
<p>We reject Government funding, because, in our view, that would be the end of our independence. The moment we did so, we would begin looking over our shoulder, and wondering if our coverage of a particular issue might lead to that money being taken away. In time – not all at once, but slowly and inexorably – we would become just another safe, consensus, state-funded voice.</p>
<p>But there’s a bargain to be struck here: If you value our independence, then you must support it. If you want us to be answerable to you, then you must take a stake in our work.</p>
<p>What we try to do here is to be open, honest, and brave. That does not mean that you will always agree with us. It does mean that there will be times when we will annoy you, and publish things you disagree with: That’s part of the deal. We are independent, not servants of one cause, or another.</p>
<p>That is what media is supposed to be, but too often in Ireland no longer is. We are trying to change that, and we need your help. I am, therefore, asking for it, and would deeply appreciate a subscription at the level you can afford.</p>
<p>With gratitude,</p>
<p><strong>John</strong></p>


guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330212
title: Is the mystery of the Lissywollen IPAS contract solved?
author: ;Dr Matt Treacy
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_4445.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Dear Reader,</strong></p>
<p>It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a media outlet that blames everything on the “far right” in Ireland, then you don’t have to go far to find one. If, by contrast, you are looking for a media outlet that looks beyond that cheap sloganeering, and tries to understand and report on the real concerns held by ordinary people – and a good few prominent people, albeit privately – then that is what we try to do here.</p>
<p>But we cannot do it without your support, and your subscription.</p>
<p>We reject Government funding, because, in our view, that would be the end of our independence. The moment we did so, we would begin looking over our shoulder, and wondering if our coverage of a particular issue might lead to that money being taken away. In time – not all at once, but slowly and inexorably – we would become just another safe, consensus, state-funded voice.</p>
<p>But there’s a bargain to be struck here: If you value our independence, then you must support it. If you want us to be answerable to you, then you must take a stake in our work.</p>
<p>What we try to do here is to be open, honest, and brave. That does not mean that you will always agree with us. It does mean that there will be times when we will annoy you, and publish things you disagree with: That’s part of the deal. We are independent, not servants of one cause, or another.</p>
<p>That is what media is supposed to be, but too often in Ireland no longer is. We are trying to change that, and we need your help. I am, therefore, asking for it, and would deeply appreciate a subscription at the level you can afford.</p>
<p>With gratitude,</p>
<p><strong>John</strong></p>

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#Comment Ireland #Featured #Highlights #Premium #contracts #Goldstein Property #Immigration #IPAS #Lissywollen #migration #Pastures New


guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=885167
title: Why is Victory Day still so important for Russians today?
author: ;A A
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<p><strong><em>Probably no country treats the commemoration of victory over Nazi Germany in World War II with the same seriousness as Russia.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Probably no country treats the commemoration of victory over Nazi Germany in World War II with the same seriousness as Russia. In fact, Russians even have a special, unique name for the event: The Great Patriotic War—a name that immediately evokes a distinctly Russian significance, yet one they also wish to see recognized by other nations.</p>
<p>World War II was the most devastating conflict in human history. In its hegemonic project, Nazi Germany occupied nearly all of Europe, aiming, among other things, to secure racial supremacy for those they considered part of the “Aryan race.” In 1941, using military movements within USSR territory as justification and seeking to secure Lebensraum im Osten (“living space in the East”) for future German colonization, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union.</p>
<p>Initially, some people welcomed the invasion with optimism—due to weariness with communism—but it quickly became clear that the Germans had not come to liberate the Slavs, but to subjugate, destroy, and expel them from their ancestral lands.</p>
<p>Four years later, however, the Soviets marched into a ruined Berlin. Hitler was dead. The Nazi government lay in collapse. World War II—or the Great Patriotic War—was over. Yet this is not the impression one gets from Hollywood films like Saving Private Ryan.</p>
<p>In Western media, culture, and history books, the event credited with Germany’s defeat is the Atlanticist troops’ landing on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. From childhood, people are taught that, thanks to the U.S., “the world doesn’t speak German.”</p>
<p>The reality, however, is quite different—one only needs to look at the numbers.</p>
<p>Approximately 75-80% of German casualties during the war occurred on the Eastern Front. The USSR inflicted over 3 million German military casualties (killed, wounded, or captured) out of Germany’s total 4.5 million losses. These figures seem decisive in settling the debate.</p>
<p>No one denies that the Western landing in Normandy played a significant role. By forcing Germany to fight a two-front war and diverting some of its forces from east to west, the Western offensive contributed to the conflict’s outcome. But this Western push only began in 1944, by which time the Soviets were already driving the Germans back toward their original borders. Only ideological blindness could lead someone to claim that this landing—rather than the Soviet victories at Stalingrad, Kharkov, Kursk, and beyond—led to Hitler’s downfall.</p>
<p>Battles like Stalingrad (1942-1943) and Kursk (1943) were decisive turning points where the Red Army not only halted the Nazi advance but launched the counteroffensive that would end in Berlin’s fall. At Stalingrad, the Soviets encircled and annihilated the German 6th Army, marking the Wehrmacht’s first major defeat. At Kursk—the largest tank battle in history—the USSR crushed Hitler’s last hopes for a strategic victory.</p>
<p>But what was the price paid by the Soviets?</p>
<p>27 million dead, military and civilian (though mostly civilians), according to the most recent estimates.</p>
<p>This represents roughly 17% of the Soviet population. Some regions, like modern-day Belarus, lost over 25% of their people. Ukraine suffered losses on a similar scale.</p>
<p>For nearly two decades now, Russia has held the “Immortal Regiment” march every Victory Day, where citizens parade with photos of relatives who took part in the Great Patriotic War. This extremely popular public memorial rite has spread worldwide. Why does it hold such importance in the Russian consciousness? Because every Russian family has relatives—grandparents, great-grandparents, uncles—who died in the war. Not a single Russian family was untouched by that tragedy.</p>
<p>For Russians, World War II is the Great Patriotic War because it was the moment of greatest peril for their very existence as a people. They faced the possibility of annihilation if defeated. Yet from the ruins of their country, through blood, sweat, and tears, their triumph over Germany ensured their survival.</p>
<p>And how has the world repaid Russians for this sacrifice?</p>
<p>Before 2022, mostly with indifference, ignorance, and historical falsification. Since 2022, with hatred, racism, persecution, and cancellation.</p>
<p>This is the great disappointment Russians feel toward the modern world. They look around and see that their immense sacrifice is not respected as it should be—at least in the West.</p>
<p>Yet 80 years after their triumph over death, while the West’s attitude toward Russian heroism may bring disappointment and bitterness, Russians feel nothing but pride for themselves and the deeds of their ancestors.</p>
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guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330232
title: EU policies: catastrophic outcomes for Irish fisheries
author: ;Gript News
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]<p>“On fisheries the EU is nothing less than a mortal enemy completely indifferent to the outcomes it is generating for Irish families.”</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://gript.ie/eu-policies-catastrophic-outcomes-for-irish-fisheries/">EU policies: catastrophic outcomes for Irish fisheries</a> appeared first on <a href="https://gript.ie/">Gript</a>.</p>


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138916
title: Kellogg Announces a Peace Deal that Isn’t
author: ;pcr3
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<p>Kellogg Announces a Peace Deal that Isn’t</p>
<p><a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/616989-kremlin-comment-us-peace-initiative/">https://www.rt.com/russia/616989-kremlin-comment-us-peace-initiative/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138914
title: US Out EU In
author: ;pcr3
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<p>US Out EU In</p>
<p><a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/616958-ukraine-eu-accession-talks-2025/">https://www.rt.com/russia/616958-ukraine-eu-accession-talks-2025/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>


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title: Satan’s Chosen People Are Enabled by Americans
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<p>Satan’s Chosen People Are Enabled by Americans</p>
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title: Without Religion There Is No Morality
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<p>Without Religion There Is No Morality</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>When liberals destroyed religion, they destroyed morality. With the demise of morality went integrity and a person’s word.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Today Western societies are overwhelmed by crime.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  Sexual morality is long gone. </span>Young women compete for attention according to which woman can copulate with the most men in a 24-hour time period.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> One contestant says her father is very proud of her.  </span>See:<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span><a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/32172629/lily-phillips-first-person-bonk-1000-24-hours/">https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/32172629/lily-phillips-first-person-bonk-1000-24-hours/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Journalists have no compulsion against lying to the public in behalf of an agenda or an advertiser.</p>
<p>Medical practitioners have no hesitation in supporting treatments, such as the Covid “vaccine” that killed and maimed millions of people for the sake of Big Pharma’s profits.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>And they refuse to be held accountable.</p>
<p>The list is long of morality’s absence.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The worst is the immorality of the entire world, with the single exception of black South Africa, supporting, not opposing, Israel’s assassination of Palestine and Palestinians.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>American governments have made the genocide possible by supplying the bombs, money, and diplomatic cover.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>And we are faced with the prospect that Americans, who overthrew Iraq, Libya, and Syria for Israel, will be taken to war with Iran for Israel’s purposes.  Will Americans ever stop dying for Satan’s Chosen People?</p>
<p>The shame that the Biden and Trump regimes have brought on every American is extraordinary.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Two US presidential regimes have made Americans responsible for the support of genocide, and no one is ashamed. The Christian Zionists are well pleased.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>We are doing God’s will protecting Israel, they say.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>In fact, we are enabling Satan’s Chosen People whose extraordinary immorality resulted in God kicking the Israelis out of the Middle East and dispersing them among the world, stateless.</p>
<p>In the midst of Netanyahu’s extermination of Palestine, Netanyahu was invited to address a joint session of the US House and Senate and received 53 standing ovations.  The American Congress could not refrain from pouring its consent on genocide.</p>
<p>Some countries in past times, such as Spain, recognized the exploitative practices of Jews and  kicked them out.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> I</span>n Eastern European countries and in Russia the exploitative practices of Satan’s Chosen People against the indigenous populations resulted in pogroms against Jews, of which Jews only give one side, their propagandistic side.</p>
<p>Satan’s attack on Western morality has been led by Jews.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>They gave us pornography.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>They gave us the absence of Christian symbols in public spaces. They gave us the March Through the Institutions, which succeeded in destroying the self-belief of Western gentiles.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>And now they are bringing us to World War III.</p>
<p>It is extraordinary how 10 million Israelis rule the world.</p>


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title: VE Day Honoring All WWII Veterans Who Fought Fascism Let's Defeat Colonialism
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title: Insurance salesman avoids jail over money laundering
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Mule-e1746710261504.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Dear Reader,</strong></p>
<p>It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a media outlet that blames everything on the “far right” in Ireland, then you don’t have to go far to find one. If, by contrast, you are looking for a media outlet that looks beyond that cheap sloganeering, and tries to understand and report on the real concerns held by ordinary people – and a good few prominent people, albeit privately – then that is what we try to do here.</p>
<p>But we cannot do it without your support, and your subscription.</p>
<p>We reject Government funding, because, in our view, that would be the end of our independence. The moment we did so, we would begin looking over our shoulder, and wondering if our coverage of a particular issue might lead to that money being taken away. In time – not all at once, but slowly and inexorably – we would become just another safe, consensus, state-funded voice.</p>
<p>But there’s a bargain to be struck here: If you value our independence, then you must support it. If you want us to be answerable to you, then you must take a stake in our work.</p>
<p>What we try to do here is to be open, honest, and brave. That does not mean that you will always agree with us. It does mean that there will be times when we will annoy you, and publish things you disagree with: That’s part of the deal. We are independent, not servants of one cause, or another.</p>
<p>That is what media is supposed to be, but too often in Ireland no longer is. We are trying to change that, and we need your help. I am, therefore, asking for it, and would deeply appreciate a subscription at the level you can afford.</p>
<p>With gratitude,</p>
<p><strong>John</strong></p>


guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330247
title: Murphy slammed in the Dáil for refusing press question
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Paul-Murphy.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Dear Reader,</strong></p>
<p>It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a media outlet that blames everything on the “far right” in Ireland, then you don’t have to go far to find one. If, by contrast, you are looking for a media outlet that looks beyond that cheap sloganeering, and tries to understand and report on the real concerns held by ordinary people – and a good few prominent people, albeit privately – then that is what we try to do here.</p>
<p>But we cannot do it without your support, and your subscription.</p>
<p>We reject Government funding, because, in our view, that would be the end of our independence. The moment we did so, we would begin looking over our shoulder, and wondering if our coverage of a particular issue might lead to that money being taken away. In time – not all at once, but slowly and inexorably – we would become just another safe, consensus, state-funded voice.</p>
<p>But there’s a bargain to be struck here: If you value our independence, then you must support it. If you want us to be answerable to you, then you must take a stake in our work.</p>
<p>What we try to do here is to be open, honest, and brave. That does not mean that you will always agree with us. It does mean that there will be times when we will annoy you, and publish things you disagree with: That’s part of the deal. We are independent, not servants of one cause, or another.</p>
<p>That is what media is supposed to be, but too often in Ireland no longer is. We are trying to change that, and we need your help. I am, therefore, asking for it, and would deeply appreciate a subscription at the level you can afford.</p>
<p>With gratitude,</p>
<p><strong>John</strong></p>

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title: Seminare zizzania, per poi dominare. Il piano NATO/USA nei Balcani
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<p><strong><em>Un nuovo round di scontri geopolitici nei Balcani. A cosa può portare?</em></strong></p>
<p>La recente dichiarazione del Primo Ministro croato Andrej Plenković (HDZ), secondo cui la Repubblica di Croazia non avrebbe imposto sanzioni al Presidente della Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik (SNSD), rappresenta un duro colpo per quanti non ricordano che nel dicembre 1991 a Zagabria fu lanciata l’idea – congiunta con Belgrado – di creare la Repubblica Croata di Erzeg-Bosnia (HR-HB)” come futura parte costituente della Repubblica di Croazia: “Non siamo nella stessa posizione di altri Paesi non confinanti. Banja Luka è a soli 90 minuti di auto da Zagabria. Per questo motivo intendiamo inviare un messaggio di rassicurazione, promuovere il dialogo e riportare gli attori politici in Bosnia-Erzegovina al quadro costituzionale”, ha dichiarato il Primo Ministro croato Andrej Plenković dopo un incontro con il leader dell’HDZBiH (croati di Bosnia Erzegovina) Dragan Čović. Secondo le fonti disponibili, Plenković avrebbe poi avuto un colloquio segreto con Milorad Dodik.</p>
<p>Ma come si può spiegare questo ulteriore cambio di scena?</p>
<p>Nell’ambito dell’iniziativa trilaterale guidata da Washington e che coinvolge Stati Uniti, Bosnia-Erzegovina e Serbia, il piano prevede l’adesione simultanea di Bosnia-Erzegovina e Serbia alla NATO e all’UE, in attesa dell’esito dei negoziati in corso tra Washington e la Federazione Russa. La massima concessione che la Serbia potrebbe aspettarsi sarebbe la possibilità di preservare la propria neutralità militare. Tuttavia, l’adesione all’Unione Europea rimarrebbe obbligatoria, accompagnata dall’obbligo di concedere agli Stati Uniti l’accesso ai propri giacimenti di metalli rari e di rinunciare ufficialmente alla sovranità serba sul Kosovo e Metohija.</p>
<p>Alla fine di febbraio 2025, è stato consegnato dagli USA un documento informale all’Alto Rappresentante in Bosnia-Erzegovina (OHR), Christian Schmidt (CSU), contenente, tra le altre cose, cinque passaggi chiave:</p>
<p>Ristrutturare la governance: una federazione civica.</p>
<p>Rilancio economico: un piano Marshall per i Balcani.</p>
<p>Verità e riconciliazione: una narrazione condivisa.</p>
<p>Revisione della sicurezza: una forza unificata.</p>
<p>Ancoraggio internazionale: il percorso di adesione all’UE.</p>
<p>Il documento informale include anche sezioni intitolate: “Chi ci rimette?” e “Come coinvolgere tutti?”.</p>
<p>In questo contesto, la Turchia si sta affermando come partner chiave dell’UE, grazie ai suoi legami politici, di intelligence e di difesa con l’Ucraina, nonché alle sue relazioni con la Russia, gli Stati Uniti e con i Paesi islamici, dall’Arabia Saudita all’Iran, all’Iraq, al Qatar e persino agli Emirati Arabi Uniti. Secondo il piano statunitense, Ankara assumerebbe il ruolo di custode dei confini esterni dei Balcani e garante della sovranità della Bosnia-Erzegovina.</p>
<p>In seguito, la Croazia ha accelerato la stipula di una dichiarazione, di fatto un accordo militare, con Albania e Kosovo lo scorso 18 marzo. È seguita una rapida contromisura, con la firma di un analogo accordo militare da parte di Serbia e Ungheria il 1° aprile 2025. Sebbene diretto anch’esso contro la Bosnia-Erzegovina, questo accordo prende di mira principalmente la Croazia, alla luce delle ambizioni espansionistiche del Primo Ministro ungherese Viktor Orbán (Fidesz), che includono parti del territorio croato. Ciò ha spinto i funzionari croati a contattare diversi attori, tra cui l’ex Presidente croata Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (HDZ), alla ricerca di equipaggiamento e hardware militare al di fuori dei canali NATO, in previsione di un potenziale scontro con l’Ungheria e temendo gli stretti legami di Orbán sia con Donald Trump che con Vladimir Putin. Entrambi gli accordi militari hanno spinto la NATO a prendere le distanze, affermando: “La NATO, in quanto organizzazione, non è parte di questi accordi e non ha avuto alcun ruolo nel processo di consultazione”, dichiarazione la cui credibilità è davvero bassa, visto che un potenziale conflitto regionale vedrebbe l’Alleanza Atlantica al centro della scacchiera.</p>
<p>Oltre alla Serbia, sia la Croazia che l’Ungheria, questi ultimi membri dell’UE e della NATO, sostengono Dodik e, di conseguenza, la divisione della Bosnia-Erzegovina. Di particolare rilevanza è la posizione della Slovenia, guidata dai Socialdemocratici (SD), che si rifiuta anch’essa di imporre sanzioni a Dodik. Il risultato è un paradosso notevole: le tre più importanti ex repubbliche jugoslave – Serbia, Croazia e Slovenia – stanno di fatto sostenendo il programma di Dodik di mettere fine alla Bosnia-Erzegovina per il mancato rispetto degli accordi di Dayton.</p>
<p>Germania, Austria, Regno Unito, Paesi Bassi, Francia e altri Paesi hanno chiaramente identificato Milorad Dodik come un problema che deve essere eliminato.</p>
<p>Il 10 marzo 2025, appena una settimana prima dell’annuncio dell’alleanza militare croato-albanese, il Ministro della Difesa della Bosnia-Erzegovina, Zukan Helez, ha dichiarato: “Nel mio discorso al Segretario Generale della NATO, Mark Rutte, ho proposto che alla Bosnia-Erzegovina venga concessa immediatamente un’adesione condizionata all’Alleanza Atlantica. Qualora ciò creasse problemi nella regione, ho suggerito che anche alla Serbia venga offerta un’adesione condizionata alla NATO. Credo che ciò garantirebbe una pace e una stabilità durature in Bosnia-Erzegovina e nell’intera regione”. La dichiarazione di Helez era in linea con il piano trilaterale e gli interessi strategici degli Stati Uniti. La recente visita di successo del Ministro Helez al Pentagono e negli Stati Uniti ha anche offerto l’opportunità di far progredire il dialogo sull’iniziativa trilaterale, di rafforzare ulteriormente il partenariato e garantire il continuo sostegno degli Stati Uniti alla Bosnia-Erzegovina: “Gli Stati Uniti sono nostri amici e un partner chiave in politica estera”, ha sottolineato Helez.</p>
<p>E’ così seguito il tentativo di arresto di Dodik mentre si trovava in visita a Sarajevo Est. Unità speciali dell’Agenzia Statale per le Investigazioni e la Protezione (SIPA, la polizia federale bosniaca) hanno tentato di fermare il presidente della Republika Srpska, ma gli agenti della polizia a lui fedeli si sono opposti e lo hanno impedito. A quel punto, l’Alto Rappresentante per la Bosnia Erzegovina, Christian Schmidt, ha sospeso tutti i finanziamenti pubblici al partito di Milorad Dodik e i soldi trattenuti saranno reindirizzati a un conto speciale presso la Banca Centrale della Bosnia-Erzegovina.</p>
<p>Dopo la visita di Trump jr. a Belgrado, secondo l’eurodeputato ceco Ondřej Kolář (PPE), intervistato da OBCT, quella di Dodik è divenuta una vera e propria lotta per rimanere politicamente in vita e, sempre secondo l’esponente del Partito Popolare Europeo, anche il presidente serbo Aleksandar Vučić sarebbe pronto ad abbandonarlo poiché “troppo costoso dal punto di vista politico”, intenzioni ben celate dietro un’apparenza fatta di dichiarazioni di approvazione e sostegno.</p>
<p>Nel frattempo, Dodik e Vucic si preparano per un altro viaggio a Mosca, dove assisteranno alla parata del 9 maggio. Ogni scenario rimane aperto.</p>
<p></p>

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guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330259
title: Law firm taking cases against State over Covid vaccines
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/IMG_2113.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>A law firm based in Kildare has lodged over 30 personal injury cases on behalf of people who claim they have suffered significant injuries as a result of Covid-19 vaccines.</strong></p>
<p><span>Liam Moloney, Managing partner at Moloney and Co Solicitors in Naas, Co Kildare, said that in a minority of cases of Covid vaccination, people can suffer a “significant adverse reaction.” Speaking to Gript, Mr Moloney said that legal action was necessary because the State currently has no compensation scheme in place for individuals who want to make a claim. The only remedy available to those who are injured, at present, is to pursue legal action against the state, according to the solicitor. </span></p>
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<p><span>“There is no alternative at present but to sue the State. It is regrettable,” Mr Moloney said. The Kildare lawyer added that his clients are seeking financial compensation for significant, and in some cases “life-changing” injuries.</span></p>
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<p><span>Those who have contacted the law firm and are being represented have suffered heart conditions including myocarditis and pericarditis, skin reactions, Guillain-Barré Syndrome. Bell’s Palsy, strokes, and SIRVA – a shoulder injury related to vaccine administration. </span></p>
<p><span>The solicitor said that there was a failure, on behalf of the State, to warn recipients of potential injuries that could be caused by vaccination, as well as a failure to provide sufficient information prior to vaccination regarding the risks associated with the different types of Covid vaccine. Mr Moloney pointed out that this relates only to the risks which were known at the time the vaccines were rolled out.</span></p>
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<p><span> </span><span>“The producer, or any potential defendant, does not have a duty to warn against risks that were not known at that particular time. My clients are claiming that the HSE, as the main defendant, were aware of certain risks associated with different vaccinations and failed to warn them of those risks,” He believes it is the case that informed consent was not secured for many of the individuals he is representing who received the Covid vaccine.”</span></p>
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<p><span>He added that under Article 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights that injured Irish citizens are entitled to an adequate remedy for their injuries and this should be in the form of a no-fault compensation scheme.</span><span> </span></p>
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<p><span>“There is also a product liability claim. If a plaintiff can prove that they were supplied with an unsafe and defective product, they are entitled to succeed in their claim as strict liability applies . These cases are being contested by the State but will be vigorously pursued by the injured clients . Full defences have been filed by the State and the next stage will be the discovery stage. “</span></p>
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<p><span>Explaining the legal action, Mr Money said: “Ultimately, a judge will look at all aspects of a plaintiff’s claim, such as if somebody had an uneventful medical history, and then within a very short time of vaccination, developed an adverse reaction and significant medical issues, a court can look at that and draw an inference from all of that. There are also arguments in terms of the science, and the scientific evidence continues to develop. </span></p>
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<p><span>“The recent decisions from the European Court do favour plaintiffs. These are ultimately product liability cases, and the burden of proof is on the individual who claims they have been injured by the vaccine, who must prove, on the balance of probability, that the product was unsafe. There is also the issue of the lack of informed consent, however this is a subjective test for a judge to decide one way or another if an individual was properly warned of the risks of developing certain illnesses, and secondly, can the individual prove that the specific batch of the vaccine itself was unsafe.”</span></p>
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<p><span>Mr Moloney says that medical professionals, nurses and pharmacists who administered Covid vaccinations had certain legal duties to uphold. </span></p>
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<p><span>“There are legal duties and responsibilities attached. Ultimately, I do not agree that anyone would take legal action if they suffered a minor injury. I would not advise action like this for minor side effects. It is true to say that everyone accepts minor side effects such as headaches or dizziness, for the greater good when it comes to vaccination. Ultimately I am in favour of the vaccination programme, but this is about providing a fair compensation scheme for the very small minority of people who unfortunately go on to sustain significant medical injuries and problems following vaccination. A compensation scheme is something which supports the system of vaccination in any State.”</span></p>
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<p><strong>FAILURE TO PUBLISH TERMS OF COMPENSATION SCHEME </strong></p>
<p><span>“There are a plethora of side effects associated with different types of vaccines. AstraZeneca, in particular, was associated with myocarditis and pericarditis, which is an inflammation of the heart muscle. We have quite a number of those cases. Those side effects were risks associated with that vaccine which were known at a particular time. That vaccine was subsequently pulled in Ireland,” Mr Moloney added.</span></p>
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<p><span>“We also have an issue regarding the State’s and the Department of Health’s failure to publish the terms of a Covid vaccine compensation scheme. It had been confirmed by the previous Minister for Health, and we had assurances that such a scheme was being prepared. We await the publication of the terms of the scheme, which will hopefully mirror similar schemes in place in the UK. If a redress scheme is published, then it may be the case that litigation will not have to be pursued, depending on the terms of the scheme. Most redress schemes provide an alternative – you can continue litigation, or you can opt into the terms of the scheme. </span></p>
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<p><span>“That has been the previous form here in Ireland in terms of other redress schemes. We do not have a class action system where the liability is decided in one case, and then there’s a class settlement. Each case is tried on its own merits, so unless there is a finding from a higher court, such as the Supreme Court, you’re not bound by it. It is the scenario that two High Court judges could ultimately make different decisions in a vaccine damage case. </span></p>
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<p><span>“There’s litigation going on at present in Switzerland, Belgium and in France. However, most European countries have a vaccine compensation scheme. Litigation is only taking place, essentially, where a completely inadequate scheme exists. There is significant stress and cost involved for individuals in pursuing litigation. The risks and costs involved in litigation are high. It is unfair that people feel forced down this route in the absence of a proper, functioning scheme.”</span></p>
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<p><span>Government schemes exist in the UK, and there have been calls for a similar scheme here since as early as 2020. In February, Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said that the Department of Health is working to develop a model for a vaccine damage scheme and officials in the department are working through related policy matters. The Minister for Health said that once the model is developed, it will be brought to Cabinet for discussion and consideration.</span></p>
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<p><span>“I believe that Minister MacNeill, who is a very effective politician, will drive through the implementation of this scheme, and I believe that she will do right by vaccine injury victims in this State,” Mr Moloney said.</span></p>
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<p><span>To date, the State’s medical regulator, the HPRA, has received a total of 21,374 reports describing suspected side effects in association with COVID-19 vaccines, of which 2,846 were received in 2022, 399 were received in 2023, 212 were received in 2024, and 35 were received in 2025. </span></p>
<p><span>The State is contesting liability, meaning that it is defending the cases. When the State bought Covid vaccines from manufacturers, it assumed indemnity, meaning that it took on legal responsibility. </span><span> </span></p>
<p><span>The HSE states that both myocarditis and pericarditis are “very rare” side effects from the Covid vaccine, claiming that the inflammatory heart conditions can affect roughly every one in 10,000 people after vaccination. </span><span> </span></p>
<p><span>The health service notes that the risk of these very rare conditions is higher in young men, and says such conditions are more likely to happen after the second dose of the primary course of the vaccine – with most cases “having been seen within 14 days of getting the vaccine.” Regarding “extremely rare” side effects, the HSE says: “We do not know yet how many people are affected by extremely rare side effects. There is not enough data available at this time.”</span></p>
<p><span>However, it points out that extremely rare side effects include: a severe allergic reaction (anaphylaxis), extensive swelling of the limb where you got your vaccine, and tingling or prickling sensation, or loss of sensation in some part of the body. The HSE also notes that those who have facial fillers “may develop swelling of their face” and also notes erythema multiforme as a very rare side effect – a skin reaction that causes red spots or patches on the skin. Heavy menstrual bleeding (periods) are also noted as a potential side effect.</span><span><br></span></p>
<p><span>In response to a request for comment, the HSE said: “The State Claims Agency (SCA) has a statutory remit to manage personal injury claims on behalf of State Authorities. The Minister has no role in determining how claims/cases are conducted and for that reason she cannot comment on individual cases.</span></p>
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<p><span>“Department of Health officials have completed significant work to develop a model for a vaccine damage scheme and are working through related policy matters. The model has been considered by the Minister for Health and will be brought to Cabinet for further consideration shortly.”</span></p>
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<p><span>The State Claims Agency confirmed to Gript that to date, it has been notified of 80 COVID-19 vaccine claims.</span></p>

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#Featured #Irish News #compensation scheme #covid #Covid Vaccine #Department of Health #HSE #Kildare #Liam Moloney #State Claims Agency #vaccine injuries #vaccine side effects


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title: TD denies that SF is two-faced on immigration
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Claire-Kerrane.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Sinn Féin TD Claire Kerrane has rejected claims that her party is being “two-faced” on immigration, after being pressed on the party attending a national-level counter-protest against immigration critics and later hosting local meetings with residents to hear their concerns on the issue.</strong></p>
<p>In an exchange with Gript this week, Kerrane was asked whether it was hypocritical for Sinn Féin deputies to attend a counter-demonstration in Dublin against a major protest objecting to the Government’s immigration policy, and then subsequently hold a public forum in Carrickmacross to hear concerns about immigration from local constituents.</p>
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<p>“It’s important that you create the spaces publicly for people that have genuine concerns and questions,” she said.</p>
<p>“That they’re able to do that in a forum where they meet their elected representatives and they raise their questions or concerns.”</p>
<p>She said the purpose of the earlier counter-demonstration had been to send a clear message against racism.</p>
<p>“That counter demonstration from the signs I saw was very much saying no to racism and welcoming people that are here that are coming here to work and to contribute,” Kerrane explained.</p>
<p>“And obviously for those that aren’t, their return to their countries — and we’re seeing that happening now.”</p>
<p>When it was put to her that counter-protesting a large public march amounted to insinuating that those participating were racists, she pushed back on the suggestion.</p>
<p>“No, not at all,” she said.</p>
<p>“But I think sometimes we see racist rhetoric when it comes to the conversation and the debate around immigration. Unfortunately that is part and parcel and it has become that.”</p>
<p>Kerrane defended the decision to counter-protest and said those involved had every right to be there.</p>
<p>“They had a clear message and they were very entitled to have a counter demonstration,” she said.</p>
<p>Pressed again on whether it was contradictory for Sinn Féin to both oppose the Dublin march and hold local meetings engaging directly with residents raising the same issues, she rejected the premise.</p>
<p>“No, there’s no disjointed message,” Kerrane said.</p>
<p>“There’s an issue in Carrickmacross — people are concerned. Matt Carthy is their elected representative. He created that public forum, that’s important. And the counter demonstration — those that wish to be part of that were there, and that was for them.”</p>
<p>The counter-demonstration in Dublin, attended by several Sinn Féin representatives, took place ahead of a major protest against immigration policy that drew tens of thousands of participants. The counter-protest featured signs with slogans including “No to racism” and “Refugees welcome.”</p>
<p>In the weeks that followed, Matt Carthy TD hosted a local forum in Carrickmacross to hear from constituents about immigration, one of several issues on the agenda.</p>
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<p>Attendees at the Carrickmacross meeting expressed deep frustration with both immigration policy and what they described as deteriorating safety in the town. The meeting heard of a sharp decline in quality of life, with one individual saying the town was “practically dead,” and claiming women no longer felt safe walking alone.</p>
<p>Concerns were also raised about antisocial behaviour, large groups loitering near ATMs, and children being unable to walk to school unaccompanied.</p>
<p>There were also criticisms of perceived Government neglect and failure to manage migration effectively, with repeated references to a lack of Garda presence and a fear that crime was rising.</p>


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guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330270
title: Where Did Your €4.3 Billion Go?
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/THUMBNAIL_-copy-2.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Dear Reader,</strong></p>
<p>It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a media outlet that blames everything on the “far right” in Ireland, then you don’t have to go far to find one. If, by contrast, you are looking for a media outlet that looks beyond that cheap sloganeering, and tries to understand and report on the real concerns held by ordinary people – and a good few prominent people, albeit privately – then that is what we try to do here.</p>
<p>But we cannot do it without your support, and your subscription.</p>
<p>We reject Government funding, because, in our view, that would be the end of our independence. The moment we did so, we would begin looking over our shoulder, and wondering if our coverage of a particular issue might lead to that money being taken away. In time – not all at once, but slowly and inexorably – we would become just another safe, consensus, state-funded voice.</p>
<p>But there’s a bargain to be struck here: If you value our independence, then you must support it. If you want us to be answerable to you, then you must take a stake in our work.</p>
<p>What we try to do here is to be open, honest, and brave. That does not mean that you will always agree with us. It does mean that there will be times when we will annoy you, and publish things you disagree with: That’s part of the deal. We are independent, not servants of one cause, or another.</p>
<p>That is what media is supposed to be, but too often in Ireland no longer is. We are trying to change that, and we need your help. I am, therefore, asking for it, and would deeply appreciate a subscription at the level you can afford.</p>
<p>With gratitude,</p>
<p><strong>John</strong></p>


guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330277
title: ‘Not All Gays’ conference to hear safeguarding concerns
author: ;Maria Maynes
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/IMG_2123.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>A conference to take place in Dublin later this month will hear concerns over women’s rights, surrogacy, and alleged safeguarding failures within LGBT youth organisations.</strong></p>
<p><span>‘LGB Interrupted’ will take place on 31 May, and has been organised by the campaign group ‘Not all Gays Ireland.’ The activist organisation previously raised concerns about Belong To youth meetings, claiming that attendees felt  pressure to come out as non-binary or transgender. </span></p>
<p><span>The Irish advocacy group was founded to represent lesbian, gay, and bisexual</span> <span>people concerned about the erasure of same-sex attraction under gender identity ideology. It says that it will campaign for gay and lesbian rights, but not for transgender causes.</span></p>
<p><span>It says its mission is to “defend the rights of same-sex attracted people as a distinct protected group,” with the event to “bring together influential voices in the LGB</span> <span>community to discuss urgent issues such as the erosion of LGB rights, child safeguarding, free speech, and the impact of gender ideology.”</span></p>
<p><span>Keynote speaker for the conference will be Jaimee Michell, a lesbian activist and the founder of the US organisation Gays Against Groomers, a nonprofit she launched in June 2022. Mitchell has hit out at what she describes as “radical gender ideologies” —particularly the promotion of “gender-affirming care” for minors and the inclusion of sexualized content in children’s spaces, such as drag queen story hours. Mitchell says she believes that the gay community has “been co-opted and hijacked by ideological extremists.”</span></p>
<p><span>Mitchell, who describes herself as a right-wing lesbian, has previously spoken at the Moms for Liberty National Summit, and was invited to the White House for an executive order signing.<br></span></p>
<p><span>Another speaker at the event is Connie Shaw, a gender-critical student who was suspended from Leeds University Radio after posting an interview with a detransitioner. The British undergraduate student was barred from role overseeing shows like LGBTQ+ Hour after she expressed gender-critical views, according to free speech campaigners. The student of philosophy, ethics and religion, had been in charge of daytime radio however she was accused of breaching the student union’s code of conduct, over a blog post she had written last October.</span></p>
<p><span>The blog post was published on a Substack page run by Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan.</span></p>
<p><span>Also among speakers is Ritchie Herron, a gender ‘detransitioner’ from Newcastle, England, who says his medical gender transition from male to female was “a mistake” which he has sought to reverse. The 37-year-old civil servant underwent gender surgery in 2018, and is one of a growing number of patients who have come to regret undergoing medical interventions to change gender. </span></p>
<p><span>Sean Atkinson and Annaig Birdy of Not All Gays will speak at the event. Both activists have raised concerns about the State-funded organisation Belong To, having both attended youth meetings in the past. Ms Birdy previously spoke at a Let Women Speak rally in Dublin’s Merrion Square, which was headlined by UK activist Posie Parker. Mr Atkinson, meanwhile, previously hit out at the age gap at Belong To youth meetings,</span> <strong><a href="https://gript.ie/former-belong-to-member-slams-14-24-age-grouping-for-vulnerable-youth-meetings/">claiming</a></strong> <span>that it was his experience that older members of the group would bring young people to nightclubs.</span></p>
<p><span>The activists met Ombudsman for Children Niall Muldoon to raise concerns about social pressures they say are put on teenagers and young adults to declare themselves trans or non-binary. Not All Gays have also written to Micheál Martin last year when he was Taoiseach to raise the alarm about Belong To, which received over €800,000 in state support in 2021.</span></p>
<p><span>In 2025, the group released a report detailing the risks it said were faced by LGB youth accessing adult dating apps — a report which was submitted to the European Union for action. </span></p>
<p><span>In a statement, Not All Gays Ireland said: “We were founded in 2023 in response to the increasing weaponisation of LGB identities to support policies and legislation that actively harm our rights and silence our voices — including Ireland’s proposed hate speech legislation, which would criminalise dissent and debate even within the wider LGBTQ community. </span></p>
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<p><span>“Our formation also responds to disturbing developments in other areas, such as surrogacy legislation that commodifies women’s bodies, the uncritical promotion of medicalisation in LGBT youth groups, and the silencing of those who question these trends. We proudly advocate for child safeguarding, women’s sex-based rights, and free speech.”</span></p>
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<p><span>The event later this month will also hear from Senator Sharon Keogan and Irish author and former International Editor of The Economist, Helen Joyce. </span></p>
<p><span>Senator Sharon Keogan, who has opposed Ireland’s surrogacy legislation, will speak on the issue of surrogacy, with the event billing “a discussion on the ethics and exploitation surrounding surrogacy practices, featuring women’s rights activists, key legislators and advocates for children born through surrogacy.”</span></p>

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#Irish News #Annaig Birdy #Dublin Conference #Feminism #Helen Joyce #LGB #LGBT #not All gays #Safeguarding #Sean Atkinson #trans


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title: What do a tavern lunch and the battle for Palestine have in common?
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<p><strong>Lunch at the tavern</strong></p>
<p>A video showing an argument between an Israeli couple on vacation in Naples and the owner of the Taverna Santa Chiara restaurant in Spaccanapoli, a stone’s throw from the historic monastery, has gone viral on social media. The tone is very harsh and the reason for the argument is clear from the dialogue. As she leaves the restaurant, the Israeli woman accuses the owner, Nives Monda, of being “anti-Semitic” and of supporting “terrorism.” The restaurant owner replies, “I don’t want your money, the Zionists have killed more than 50,000 people.”</p>
<p>The incident caused a stir and immediately went viral on social media, at a very delicate moment in the Zionist narrative in Italy, which is supported by the government and has become the subject of censorship and discrimination for all those who support Palestine and do not accept Israel’s diktat.</p>
<p>The restaurant’s managers, who have always been attentive to human rights and committed to promoting an inclusive space, expressed their dissent, declaring their condemnation of what they believe to be an ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people, which qualifies as a crime against humanity.</p>
<p>The customer then accused the managers of anti-Semitism, claiming that support for the Palestinian cause was tantamount to complicity with terrorism. She also began filming the owners, staff, and other customers—including minors—without their consent. The videos were then posted online, accompanied by serious defamatory statements, with unfounded accusations of anti-Semitism and support for terrorism, contributing to fueling a hate campaign.</p>
<p>Since then, the business has begun receiving anonymous messages containing threats of organized attacks, destruction of the premises, physical violence against the owner and employees, and incitement to rape the owner. Such conduct, in addition to being morally reprehensible, constitutes a criminal offense.</p>
<p>The managers reiterate that their only responsibility is to have joined the campaign for spaces free from Israeli apartheid, declaring their opposition to human rights violations in Palestine. The venue in question, which has always welcomed people of all nationalities, faiths, and ethnicities, reiterates its total opposition to any form of racism or discrimination, including anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Palestinian racism, reaffirming its commitment to maintaining a respectful and safe space for all, as specified in the press release issued after the incident.</p>
<p><strong>The violence of Zionism</strong></p>
<p>Zionism is not an ethnicity, a religion, a nationality, or a social group. Zionism is a political ideology that is inherently violent, supremacist, racist, anti-democratic, and anti-Semitic (the only true Semites in Israel today, or rather in occupied Palestine, are the Palestinians who are victims of genocide).</p>
<p>Events such as the one described are only the tip of the iceberg.</p>
<p>In Italy, in fact, <a href="https://www.governo.it/sites/governo.it/files/Strategia_nazionale_rev_20250218.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a national program on anti-Semitism</a> was issued in March, introducing new measures of total surveillance against Italians. The definition of anti-Semitism adopted is the same as that of 2020, i.e., the one <a href="https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">produced by the IHRA</a> and reported on pp. 10 of the document, where it is expressed in 11 points. In short, any form of criticism of Jews or Israel constitutes a form of anti-Semitism, even simply acknowledging their over-representation in centers of power, in the pharmaceutical industry, in finance, and in centers of information control. Criticism of Israel as a Jewish state and denying its legitimacy as a state according to this definition are also anti-Semitism. On page 14, it is reported that the Palestinian question has led to an increase in anti-Semitism in Italy, and as proof they cite the annual report on anti-Semitism for 2024. They also consider the denial or downplaying of the Holocaust (p. 17) to be a form of anti-Semitism, so as to pass off positions taken on history as positions against a group of people, thereby inflating the number of anti-Semites in Italy.</p>
<p>Such a broad definition of anti-Semitism serves to justify the application of certain surveillance measures.</p>
<p>The first line of attack is massive data collection (pp. 21) provided by various entities listed on pp. 22-23. The new plan introduces a centralized analysis system (p. 23) that will use AI (p. 25) to collect and analyze data such as attacks against Jews, acts of vandalism, anti-Jewish graffiti, but also comments on the internet: social media, public platforms, and even the onion network will be scanned for data on anti-Semitism and automatically reported to the postal police. The entire last section (pp. 44-50) of the document is dedicated to the fight against online anti-Semitism, where counter-information groups are defined as sects. The measures include censorship of any anti-Semitic content <a href="https://t.me/dereinzigeitalia/738" target="_blank" rel="noopener">through DSA</a>, attempts to prosecute the authors, and the use of AI and journalists to attack “conspiracy theorists” (pp. 48).</p>
<p><a href="https://www.eventi.news/carioti-il-governo-riscrive-il-piano-contro-lantisemitismo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">On the ground, they will strengthen</a> security at synagogues and Jewish neighborhoods and hinder protests and demonstrations that they deem to be anti-Semitic (pp. 40-41).</p>
<p>The second line of action is propaganda, which they <a href="https://www.lascuolaoggi.it/nuovo-piano-nazionale-lotta-antisemitismo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">call “education”</a> (p. 28). In schools, universities, etc., it is necessary to teach the “value and richness of the contribution that Jewish communities have made to contemporary societies” (p. 29), creating a narrative completely opposite to reality, where Jews are exalted as the saviors and champions of Western civilization. On p. 33, we read that they want to bring Jews into schools to teach the Jewish religion to children in the name of “religious tolerance.” At the university level, they want to<a href="https://www.jewish-studies.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> establish a degree course in Jewish studies</a> where they train anti-fascist and pro-Jewish propagandists (p. 31) and doctoral courses on the fight against anti-Semitism. In addition, museums, exhibitions, shows, and films exalting Jewish culture will be promoted, and they explicitly state that they will use the national media to indoctrinate against anti-Semitism (pp. 38-39).</p>
<p>Thus, within a few months, we could see examples of social violence motivated by the intolerance of those who do not accept being discriminated against according to arbitrary and ideological criteria. The invention of anti-Semitism as a kind of “original sin” of the whole world after 1945 was one of the most accurate moves of the Zionist leadership.</p>
<p>The immense tragedy that the Holocaust represented for our civilization is comparable to a genuine natural cataclysm. But the Holocaust has now become something else, something that has nothing to do with the memory and respect for the Jewish victims: an exploitation of suffering and an ideological weapon for political ends.</p>
<p>So what do a lunch in a Neapolitan tavern and the battle for Palestine, for Gaza, have in common? It is precisely in simple, everyday places that there is still the possibility of exercising a truly political, popular power, built by the people.</p>
<p>No liberation struggle has ever begun without a people who believed in it. Freeing ourselves from the ideological game of Zionism is increasingly imperative for the peoples of Europe.</p>
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title: President Trump is Bringing Drug Manufacturing Back
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<div><img src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WH47-Social-Share-Card.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>President Donald J. Trump is determined to make the American pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries great again — both as a matter of national security and to unleash unprecedented prosperity for American workers.</p><p>Gilead Sciences became the latest industry leader to announce a massive new investment in its U.S. operations with an <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/gilead-announces-11-billion-new-investments-us-2025-05-07/">$11 billion boost</a> to its planned U.S.-based spending.</p><p><strong>The company joins a host of others in expanding their domestic footprint to align with President Trump’s vision:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>New Jersey-based <strong>Johnson &amp; Johnson</strong> <a href="https://www.jnj.com/media-center/press-releases/johnson-johnson-increases-u-s-investment-to-more-than-55-billion-over-the-next-four-years">announced</a> a $55 billion investment in manufacturing, research and development, and technology.</li>
<li><strong>Roche</strong>, a Swiss drug and diagnostics company, <a href="https://www.roche.com/investors/updates/inv-update-2025-04-22">announced</a> a $50 billion investment in its U.S.-based manufacturing and research and development.</li>
<li>New Jersey-based <strong>Bristol Myers Squibb</strong> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-05/bristol-myers-promises-40-billion-us-investment-over-five-years">announced</a> a $40 billion investment in research, development, technology, and manufacturing.</li>
<li>Indiana-based <strong>Eli Lilly and Company</strong> <a href="https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-details/lilly-plans-more-double-us-manufacturing-investment-2020" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">announced</a> a $27 billion investment to more than double its domestic manufacturing capacity.</li>
<li><strong>Novartis</strong>, a Swiss drugmaker, <a href="https://www.novartis.com/us-en/news/media-releases/novartis-plans-expand-its-us-based-manufacturing-and-rd-footprint-total-investment-23b-over-next-5-years">announced</a> a $23 billion investment to build or expand ten manufacturing facilities across the U.S.</li>
<li>Illinois-based <strong>AbbVie</strong> <a href="https://www.pharmamanufacturing.com/all-articles/article/55286102/abbvie-plans-10b-investment-in-us-manufacturing-over-the-next-decade">announced</a> a $10 billion investment over the next ten years to support volume growth and add four new manufacturing plants to its network.</li>
<li>New Jersey-based <strong>Merck &amp; Co.</strong> <a href="https://www.merck.com/news/merck-unveils-new-facility-to-increase-vaccine-production-capacity/">announced</a> it will invest a total of $9 billion over the next several years after opening a new $1 billion North Carolina manufacturing facility — <a href="https://www.merck.com/news/merck-breaks-ground-on-new-1-billion-biologics-center-of-excellence-in-wilmington-delaware/">including</a> a new state-of-the-art biologics manufacturing plant in Delaware.
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><strong>Merck Animal Health</strong> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/merck-animal-health-announces-895-million-investment-kansas-2025-05-08/">announced</a> an $895 million investment to expand their manufacturing operation in Kansas.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>New York-based <strong>Regeneron Pharmaceuticals</strong> <a href="https://newsroom.regeneron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/regeneron-announces-new-investment-manufacturing-its-industry">announced</a> a $3 billion agreement with FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies to produce drugs at its North Carolina facility.</li>
<li>California-based <strong>Amgen</strong> <a href="https://www.amgen.com/newsroom/press-releases/2025/04/amgen-announces-900-million-manufacturing-expansion-creation-of-350-new-jobs-in-ohio">announced</a> a $900 million investment in its Ohio-based manufacturing operation.</li>
<li>Illinois-based <strong>Abbott Laboratories</strong> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-16/abbott-to-build-new-us-manufacturing-with-tariff-threat-looming">announced</a> a $500 million investment in its Illinois and Texas facilities.</li>
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title: 80 Years Later: Why Was Fascism Defeated, but Not Destroyed?
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title: Will immigration kill off SF’s United Ireland promise?
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Irish-arrow-shutterstock_322689890.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Michelle O’Neill’s recent admission that a Lithuanian or other immigrant could decide the outcome of a border poll highlights Sinn Féin’s internal recognition of a harsh reality they have long refused to publicly acknowledge: the demographic battle for Irish unity in the north may be slipping away.</strong></p>
<p>O’Neill’s statement, perhaps unintentionally, shines a stark light on the underlying failures of Sinn Féin’s recent strategies – policies that have alienated core nationalist demographics and now force reliance by the party on, most likely, uncertain immigrant votes.</p>
<p>For decades, Irish Republicans have placed their hopes on shifting demographics within the North, anticipating that an inevitable Catholic and nationalist majority would pave the way for reunification. However, recent census data reveals a troubling trend for those who might hope unity was just around the corner. Fertility rates among nationalist communities, traditionally higher, have plummeted below replacement levels, mirroring broader trends seen across Europe but exacerbated here by policies supported fervently by Sinn Féin leadership.</p>
<p>Indeed, the embrace by Sinn Féin of progressive social issues, particularly abortion and their aggressive support of the woke agenda, might be broadly popular in some urban centres but has alienated large segments of their traditional rural and working-class nationalist supporters. And these policies have unintentionally undermined the very demographic growth Sinn Féin counted upon to deliver unity.</p>
<p>This reality is one that Sinn Féin’s leadership now internally grapples with, though publicly they continue to push an optimistic narrative of imminent reunification. Michelle O’Neill’s seemingly casual comment betrays this internal anxiety – recognition that their strategy of banking purely on demographic inevitability has already failed. Sinn Féin’s leadership knows privately what it refuses to state publicly: a Border Poll, if called within the next fifty years under current demographic and political trajectories, would likely not succeed.</p>
<p>Yet rather than admit the shortcomings of their strategies, Sinn Féin’s leadership appears increasingly influenced by its internal extreme left-wing faction, which aggressively advocates for mass immigration under the guise of humanitarianism and international solidarity. This stance, though politically palatable among progressive urban elites, directly contradicts the instincts of the party’s grassroots base, particularly in poorer, rural nationalist strongholds, both North and South.</p>
<p>Grassroots Republicans across Ireland have traditionally viewed immigration with cautious pragmatism, advocating sensible border control and balanced immigration policies. Currently, communities that are often economically marginalised, competing for limited resources, housing, healthcare, and education, and therefore naturally wary of mass immigration policies which strain these very resources, are too often simply told they have ‘no veto’ on asylum centres being imposed on the area.</p>
<p>Sinn Féin’s current immigration stance ignores these realities, driven instead by ideological purity tests demanded by the party’s urban leftist elite, creating a rift that could soon become a breaking point within the party itself.</p>
<p>Moreover, there remains no certainty that immigrant communities, whose votes Sinn Féin now desperately courts, would support Irish unity. While Sinn Féin believes it can politically influence new communities through its robust social advocacy and outreach programmes, there is an equally plausible scenario that these voters, seeking stability, employment, and integration, would prefer the known entity of continued union within the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>O’Neill’s recent statement was less a rallying cry for unity and more a tacit admission of demographic defeat and political desperation. For Sinn Féin, the Border Poll is becoming less a genuine immediate objective and more an abstract ideal used strategically to maintain relevance and support. The party’s embrace of mass immigration as a demographic solution rather than addressing the underlying social and economic reasons driving low birth rates among its core nationalist supporters suggests that leadership is more concerned with ideological posturing than realistic political victories.</p>
<p>This divergence from grassroots sentiment has serious implications for Sinn Féin’s future. With nationalist birth rates below replacement levels and unionist or non-nationalist identities remaining stable or growing, Sinn Féin’s vision for a united Ireland may be further from reach than at any point since the Good Friday Agreement. Internal tensions within the party between pragmatic nationalists who understand local realities and an ideological left-wing faction advocating for open borders could fracture the party from within.</p>
<p>In a stark historical irony, Sinn Féin, once the standard-bearer for Irish national liberation, risks becoming the architect of its own failure. As grassroots Republicans begin to demand a return to policies that genuinely reflect their concerns, Sinn Féin leadership will soon be forced into a critical reckoning. Either the party realigns itself with the sentiments of its traditional base or faces losing its historical role as the main vehicle for Irish reunification.</p>
<p>Ultimately, O’Neill’s comment may prove prophetic – not because a Lithuanian or immigrant voter decides the poll, but because Sinn Féin’s leadership has miscalculated its demographic gamble so badly that the poll itself becomes unwinnable. For Republicans committed to genuine reunification, it may be time to acknowledge the necessity of a new political strategy, one that places the aspirations of working-class nationalists and genuine grassroots support at its centre once again.</p>
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guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330289
title: Backpacker hostel seeking to hop on IPAS (paddy)waggon
author: ;Dr Matt Treacy
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/paddy-s-palace-e1746719367435.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>People around the country will be familiar with the fleet of garish Paddywagon tour buses.  They can be seen on the road and stopped at different locations bearing generally younger backpacking types of tourists.  Or so one would have imagined, although even before Covid company founder and owner <a href="https://fora.ie/paddywagon-tours-cathal-oconnell-3552809-Aug2017/">Cathal O’Connell</a> claimed that it was “all middle-aged Americans now that are on a Paddywagon bus.”</strong></p>
<p><span>The company has also provided, as part of their package, hostel accommodation at much cheaper rates than if you were to have to book into hotels and guest houses. Perhaps the best known of the hostels is Paddy’s Palace, which is strategically close to the main northside bus station Busáras and Connolly railway station.</span></p>
<p><span>This has catered to the more budget conscious backpacker for many years – but, it would seem, that is the situation no more.  The reason for this is that an application was registered with Dublin City Council on April 25 to have the building at 55 Gardiner Street Lower/5 Beresford Place changed over “from hostel to emergency accommodation for persons seeking international protection”. </span></p>
<p><span>It will now, with the approval of the Department of Integration if it is allowed a planning exemption, become an IPAS centre.  The application had originally been registered in January but it would appear that the City Council – now more conscious of such matters – asked for further information regarding the plan as the building is a designated Protected Structure.</span></p>
<p><span>The applicants, through their agent Mark Tubridy, have responded to state that “no alteration to the internal or external of the building are proposed”.  Nor ought there really be a need for said alterations given that the IPAS lads, much like backpackers, are happy to be thrown hugger mugger into dormitories containing bunkbeds.  Happy days, except the tourists pay their own way, contribute to the local economy, and go home when their holiday is over. </span></p>
<p><strong>BRANTVIEW </strong></p>
<p><span>The building itself is still registered as owned by Paddywagon Holdings Limited, which is entirely owned by Cathal O’Connell.  However, the application has been made by a company called Brantview which it seems, on first glance, has some modest experience in the field of IPAS asylum accommodation and has done correspondingly moderately well from it.</span></p>
<p><span>In the last six months of 2024, when they began to receive payments, Brantview has taken €1,549,800 out of the kitty.  One imagines that the Paddy’s Palace hostel would have the capacity to pull in a right few punters and therefore earn a good bit more both for Brantview and for Paddywagon: going forward, as they say in the best business circles.</span></p>
<p><span>Brantview gives the same address as Paddy’s Palace as their own business address but they have not bought the building from O’Connell according to the property records. The company was registered in January 2022 and its original address was at Rathcoole, County Dublin. While its own accommodation earnings are relatively meagre, Brantview is connected to pretty serious players. </span></p>
<p><span>Brantview was originally entirely owned by Thomas Malone of Fusion Corporation Limited and that company appears still to have a relationship with Brantview as the change of address form was signed by Damien Malone of Fusion Corporation who, through Damone Holdings, is the sole owner of Fusion. </span></p>
<p><span>Malone also owns an accountancy business based in Baldonnell. He is also a director and a half owner, along with a Walter Thomas Pierce, owner of Galenfield Limited with the same address as Malone’s accountancy firm, of a company called Spindara.  That company drew down more than €3 million in accommodation payments in 2024. Pierce, who lives in Malt,a also owns Healthcare Recruitment and Assistants Limited which is involved in property rather than what you might imagine it to be. </span></p>
<p><span>Fusion Corporation is still secretary of Brantview and the only director of Brantview is Derek Scully. Scully is also a director of four other companies which have drawn down large amounts of money in accommodation payments from DCEDIY. </span></p>
<p><span>One of those companies, Heronwell, is among the major beneficiaries of the accommodation sector and in 2024 alone received more than €15 million from the taxpayer via the good offices of the Department.</span></p>
<p><span>Heronwell was only established in January 2022 and Scully, Thomas Malone and Fusion Corporation have been involved in the company since the beginning.  It is listed as 99.01% owned by a Damien Batemen, with an address in Portmarnock, of whom I know precious little, yet. More anon. </span></p>
<p><span>That address is a property at which several other companies provide as theirs.  It is registered as owned by HLK Developments which is owned by a chap called Harry Parkinson who has an address in Belfast. He has another intriguing connection that I will expand upon in an upcoming piece. One of the directors of HLK is a Damien Fitzsimons who owns a company involved in the Bulgarian property market.</span></p>
<p><span>There is lots more and I shall be following up on it.  Meanwhile, be content to know that the former backpacking hostel at the bottom of Gardiner Street which has been the launching pad for many a happy venture into Ireland is now in the maw of corporate capital.  Top of the Morning to You. </span></p>


guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330300
title: Man attacked uncle with pole
author: ;Fatima Gunning
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<p>It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.</p>
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<p><strong><em>The youth of Krasnodon rose up, and in September 1942, eight students created the </em><em>Molodaya Gvardiya</em><em>.</em></strong></p>
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<p>It is April 2022. I am in Russia to cover the special military operation for the newspaper <em>Causa Operária</em>. On Arbatskaya Street, a photo exhibition with 32 panels, organized by the Moscow government, commemorates the 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Moscow, which took place from September 30, 1941, to April 20, 1942, as part of Operation Barbarossa — the Nazi invasion, known to the Russians as the Great Patriotic War.</p>
<p>The Germans had reached the gates of the Russian capital and already considered the city conquered. Most of the Soviet government had relocated to Kuibyshev (present-day Samara). Ordinary citizens, with no means to escape, sheltered as best they could from Luftwaffe bombing, mostly in metro stations. Reservists from the Urals, Siberia, and the Far East, cadets from military schools who had not yet turned 18, and millions of Muscovites mobilized to defend the heart of the Soviet State. On December 5, 1941, troops from the Eastern Front, led by the legendary Marshal Georgy Zhukov, and the Southwestern Front, commanded by Konstantin Tymochenko, launched a large-scale counteroffensive. From only 30 kilometers from the Kremlin, the Germans were pushed back 200 kilometers from Moscow.</p>
<p>However, Stalin refused to heed warnings from Soviet spies and officers who reported the advance of Hitler’s troops toward Moscow. This ultimately cost the lives of one million people, victims of Nazi terror. But had it only been the people of Moscow who suffered at the hands of Hitler…</p>
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<p>In May of that year, when I traveled to the Lugansk People’s Republic, I visited the <em>Molodaya Gvardiya</em> Museum in the city of Krasnodon. It is a museum honoring the Young Guard formed in the region, which became immortalized throughout the Soviet Union for its story of heroism and brutal tragedy. Krasnodon was invaded on July 20, 1941. The city, home to coal miners who had taken part in the 1917 revolution and joined the Communist Party and the Red Army, did not accept the Nazi occupation. Sixteen citizens organized the first resistance group — partisans who were exterminated by German cruelty. Then, 32 miners refused to collaborate with the occupiers and suffered a horrifying fate: they were burned alive inside the mine where they worked.</p>
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<p>Eventually, the youth of Krasnodon rose up, and in September 1942, eight students created the <em>Molodaya Gvardiya</em>. Among their feats — mainly through sabotage tactics — they managed to prevent the deportation of local youths for forced labor in Germany and to free Soviet soldiers imprisoned in Krasnodon. The organization grew to 102 members, all from Cossack families, as the region encompassing Donbass and Rostov is a historic Cossack territory. But the invaders’ response was swift and brutal, forcing the group to disband just three months after its founding. On February 1, 1943, the Nazis began capturing members of the <em>Molodaya Gvardiya</em>: they were arrested, tortured, and executed. Some had their fingers, ears, and eyes torn out — with the help of Ukrainian collaborators, the same ones now honored by the Kiev regime and idolized by Ukrainian army battalions. Others were taken to the forest; five were murdered. Most, however, met an even more horrifying end: 71 members were thrown into a coal mine and locked in at a depth of 58 meters. None survived. Of all the group’s members, 80% were between 14 and 18 years old.</p>
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<p>Krasnodon was liberated on February 14, 1943, two weeks after the youths’ deaths in the mine. Their bodies were recovered and mourned on March 1. After the liberation, 16 surviving members of the <em>Molodaya Gvardiya</em> enlisted in the Red Army to help liberate the rest of the country. Eight of them died in combat. Eighteen citizens born in Krasnodon were awarded the title of Heroes of the Great Patriotic War, martyred during the occupation — six of them were members of the <em>Molodaya Gvardiya</em>. The organization inspired youth across the USSR to take up arms against the Nazi invaders.</p>
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<p>— The Ukrainian authorities today try to hide this history — Andrei, a leader of the RPL’s trade union center, tells me. Fluent in English and very friendly, he would take us to various places and serve as our interpreter.</p>
<p>— Are the Nazi groups in Ukraine doing in Donbass something comparable to what the Germans did? — I ask Elena Stechenko, a museum guide.</p>
<p>— They don’t behave exactly the same way, but similarly. They have a very strong hatred toward us. The problem is between the people of the East and the West. We supported them, but in 2014 they did nothing to help us. And they support the Nazis.</p>
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<p><strong><em>Victory Day for Russia is the Day of Shame for the West!</em></strong></p>
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<p>It is not just ingratitude… If only it were! The actual causes of the disdain, misunderstanding, rejection, and repugnance displayed by the political elites of the U.S. and the EU toward the commemorations of Victory Day—the day the USSR put an end to one of the most heinous regimes born from the depths of human history, undoubtedly a testament to the peak of Western brutality fueled by the socio-economic roots of capitalism and imperialism—run much deeper.</p>
<p>Thus, Victory Day should also be called “Day of Shame,” the day when an anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist state, attacked at its very core with the most aggressive weapon Western capitalism could produce—Nazi-fascist terror—lost 27 million of its finest sons and daughters to save us all from a problem it did not contribute to in the slightest. Western shame does not end with the crimes it committed against humanity; Russia forces the West to live and relive, year after year, the acknowledgment that it, too, was saved—from itself—by the victim of its aggression.</p>
<div data-sanitized-id="attachment_885125" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-885125" loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/hd06052501.jpg" alt="In the spring of 1944, the Red Army began liberating Europe from the Nazis. The mission lasted a year. https://rodina-history.ru/2025/04/29/vse-svobodny.html" width="526" height="331" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-885125 size-full"><p data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-885125" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text"><em>In the spring of 1944, the Red Army began liberating Europe from the Nazis. The mission lasted a year. https://rodina-history.ru/2025/04/29/vse-svobodny.html</em></p></div>
<p>This duality explains much of the publicly displayed resentment, the hidden shame of some, and the anguish of others regarding the history of World War II. How is it that the regime most hated, demonized, and vilified by the most advanced form of capitalism —Western capitalism (which is understandable) — was also the one that contributed the most to the fight against an oppressive force produced within the very Western regimes that presented themselves as “moderate, democratic, civilized”?</p>
<p>It remains a historical irony that humanity felt so threatened by one of the most emblematic products of Western fanaticism and, at the same time, was saved by a regime that the same West claimed sought to destroy it. It is the story of the diabolical criminal who, in the end, became the most selfless and altruistic savior. It is the perfect epitome of the saying, “The truth is like oil; it always rises to the top.” How could the greatest criminal of all—the most vilified of regimes—be capable of such immense altruism, not merely expelling the aggressor from its home but going to the limits of its strength to definitively defeat it? And how could the kindest and most humane of regimes produce, support, and nurture such a heinous being, proving not only incapable of destroying it alone but also having to witness its destruction by those it claimed could do no good?</p>
<p>How can modern Germany, governed by the descendants of those who formed the claws of the Nazi monster, coexist with the traumas we are forced to confront when faced with ghastly images of piled human remains, desiccated and stripped of all dignity? Images that now reach our TVs, broadcast from Gaza, and which the West — the entire West — sweeps under the rug that hides its countless historical crimes?</p>
<p>How those who support the second iteration of the Third Reich, revived from the historical remnants of the 14th Galicia Division and preserved in some of the most privileged and “civilized” metropolises of the great liberal civilization, would love to erase from history the vivid portraits that should evoke nothing but immense shame and remorse—just as they do with the dead of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, or the live, color reproduction of Nazi terror in the 21st century, this time perpetrated by those known to be the victims of the first?</p>
<div data-sanitized-id="attachment_885126" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-885126" loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/hd06052502.jpg" alt="People lay wreaths on the remains of the tortured at the Majdanek extermination camp Ano de 1945. Temin Viktor Antonovich. https://russiainphoto.ru/exhibitions/1042/#5" width="484" height="347" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-885126 size-full"><p data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-885126" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">People lay wreaths on the remains of the tortured at the Majdanek extermination camp Ano de 1945. Temin Viktor Antonovich. https://russiainphoto.ru/exhibitions/1042/#5</p></div>
<p>Accustomed to choosing their heroes and hiding their demons—when not under the light of recovery provided by infamous historical revisionism—Western Europe, the fertile womb of fascism in the first half of the 20th century, created and nurtured under the auspices of the most prominent <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/real-patriots-dont-think-like-hitler-651" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anglo-Saxon elite</a> and fed by the proudest American progeny, is forced to coexist with those who will not let it hide its crimes, its immense guilt.</p>
<p>After all, considering only the demographic weight of Soviet deaths in World War II, it is estimated that the country lost about 26.6 to 27 million people during the war, representing approximately 13.7% of its population in 1940. These losses included both military and civilians, with about 8.7 million soldiers killed in combat, while the rest were due to massacres, famine, disease, forced labor, and other direct consequences of the conflict—mostly innocent civilians, like those dying today in Gaza at the hands of those vehemently defended by the grandchildren of those who practiced such vile terror against the USSR.</p>
<div data-sanitized-id="attachment_885127" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-885127" loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/hd06052503.jpg" alt="On the corpses of relatives. Western Front. September - November 1941. Troshkin Pavel Artemyevich. https://russiainphoto.ru/exhibitions/1042/#9" width="585" height="385" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-885127 size-full"><p data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-885127" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">On the corpses of relatives. Western Front. September – November 1941. Troshkin Pavel Artemyevich. https://russiainphoto.ru/exhibitions/1042/#9</p></div>
<p>Perhaps this is indeed the way. With 13.7% of the population lost, it should not be hard to imagine that there was not a single Soviet citizen, not a single former Soviet citizen, and certainly no Russian or Belarusian who did not carry in their mental, familial, social, and physical structure the weight of the drama that reached its conclusion on May 9, 1945. None. And if anyone struggles to visualize such destruction and slaughter, they need not look far in time. Once again, any of us today has the dark privilege of witnessing, live and in color, in a small territorial sample, what the Nazi terror must have inflicted on the then-USSR. With nearly 100,000 deaths and as many missing, about 10% to 15% of Gaza’s population has already been decimated by the Zionist army. Can anyone ask a citizen of Gaza not to feel such a great tragedy? For those who struggle to understand what Nazi terror cost the Russian and Soviet people, turn on the TV!</p>
<div data-sanitized-id="attachment_885128" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-885128" loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/hd06052504.jpg" alt="Corpses of Soviet prisoners of war. Location and date unknown. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/ru/gallery/mosaic-of-victims-an-overview-photographs" width="591" height="408" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-885128 size-full"><p data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-885128" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text"><em>Corpses of Soviet prisoners of war. Location and date unknown. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/ru/gallery/mosaic-of-victims-an-overview-photographs </em></p></div>
<p>The problem is that Nazi terror, the favored child of fascism and brother of Zionism—as Cynthia Chung and Matthew Ehret have profoundly demonstrated in their works—is just one chapter, the most horrendous, of the suffering with which the Western imperialist bloc sought to punish a people who dared to produce something as grand as the Russian Revolution and not rest with it but carry forward the deepest social transformations the world had seen in such a short time.</p>
<p>For daring to challenge the Western imperialism that gagged and shackled pre-revolutionary Russia, the Russian and Soviet peoples were forced to endure successive invasions of their territory by 14 imperialist powers (1917–1922). Having survived this mortal threat and all that followed, disguised in many forms, the Nazi-fascist threat was the one prepared with the most fervor.</p>
<p>The hatred, rage, arbitrariness, and violent voluptuousness with which the Nazi army “rewarded” the Soviet population can only be understood in light of the frustration and humiliation with which the West was forced to feed the Nazi monster, only to hurl it at the young Soviet homeland then. The threat of losing a coveted prize was transformed into hatred as deep as that which now seeks to isolate the Russian Federation and label its leader — Vladimir Putin — as the most bloodthirsty tyrant in human history. Nazism, like Banderaism, are both children of this greed, both children of this hatred.</p>
<div data-sanitized-id="attachment_885129" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-885129" loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/hd06052505.jpg" alt='The bodies of hanged Soviet partisans and a sign saying, "No photos!" ("Fotografieren verboten!"). Another sign contains text in German and a Russian translation: "We are bandits; we kill and rob not only German soldiers but also Russian citizens”. https://xn--80aabgieomn8afgsnjq.xn--p1ai/fotografii-poveshennyh-kak-trofei-naczistskie-kazni-sovetskih-zhitelej/' width="558" height="396" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-885129 size-full"><p data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-885129" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text"><em>The bodies of hanged Soviet partisans and a sign saying, “No photos!” (“Fotografieren verboten!”). Another sign contains text in German and a Russian translation: “We are bandits; we kill and rob not only German soldiers but also Russian citizens”. https://xn--80aabgieomn8afgsnjq.xn--p1ai/fotografii-poveshennyh-kak-trofei-naczistskie-kazni-sovetskih-zhitelej/ </em></p></div>
<p>Hence, the furious rage with which the West, through the eyes of mindless figures, looks at the solemn commemorations of Victory Day is as injurious as it is justified. Year after year, the Russian Federation prevents the West from forgetting the evil it has done, the evil it has done to the world and humanity. With this reminder, the Russian Federation, the current anchor of this ancestral struggle against imperialist tyranny, no matter how it is labeled, also reminds the West of its inherently criminal nature.</p>
<p>When historical repetition is a characteristic of Western crimes (plunder, slavery, world wars, sanctions, embargoes, proxy wars, color revolutions, destruction of countries), it means that crime is not an accident in the history of the West dominated by Anglo-Saxon culture. It is an inherent trait that must be remembered.</p>
<p>As we observe Zelensky’s threats against those who participate in Victory Day commemorations, Kaja Kallas’s threats of punishment for leaders of candidate countries who attend Moscow’s celebrations, we see that this Europe wants to forget its crimes, erase the facts, the history that causes it such great embarrassment. It is interesting to note how Ursula von der Leyen and company, when confronted with such a significant date, behave like someone who, reminded of their shameful roots, instead of showing humility and deserving forgiveness, tries to free themselves from them in the worst way possible: through the forgetfulness of others and attacks on the victims!</p>
<p>But how can they do this when the one reminding them is not only the largest, richest, and most powerful European countries but also the one that suffered the most from the offense? How to resist—and fight—an opponent that repeatedly insists not only on honoring its martyrs and their descendants but also on showing the world, far and wide, the shameful conduct to which the oligarchic, capitalist, neoliberal West is capable of stooping to defend its illegitimate interests?</p>
<p>And how could Russia forget such an offense? The Soviet Union alone was responsible for more than half of all deaths in World War II, which totaled about 50 million globally. Russia, by itself, accounted for over a third. How could Belarus not participate in Victory Day when it lost about 25.3% of its population?</p>
<p>An example of the infamous forgetfulness that the EU and U.S. seek to impose on the past is Ukraine. Having lost about 16.3% of its population, this country, which would not exist without the USSR, is now used in a dual sense. On one hand, betrayed by its oligarchic elites, it is once again armed and fanaticized, just as Nazi Germany was, to be hurled at the Russian Federation. Drawing on the historical remnants of Nazi collaborationism—the same that fuels the re-emerging Nazi-fascist madness in Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Latvia, and even Germany—the U.S., aided by the ever-obliging EU, has not only recreated the Banderaist environment of World War II but also transmitted the virus to a significant part of the Ukrainian population and, worse still, to the entire EU.</p>
<p>In today’s Ukraine, we witness everything the EU would like to do to Russia if it could: ban patriotic parties, as Banderaism did in Ukraine; shut down media outlets; and persecute its language, religion, and culture, as the Banderaist Ukraine and von der Leyen’s EU have done.</p>
<p>Ukraine is also the living laboratory of historical revisionism and rewriting. Victims have become aggressors, and aggressors have become heroes. Statues of war criminals and genocidaires, including those of Ukrainians and Jews, now stand tall in the country. Nazi symbols have been engraved in gold letters for all to see, met with total Western uncritical acceptance. Germany, which criminalizes the use of Nazi symbols, forgets its shameful past when it goes to Kiev. In Kiev, instead of being held accountable and reminded of its crimes to ensure they are never repeated, it is idolized, and its history is rehabilitated.</p>
<div data-sanitized-id="attachment_885130" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-885130" loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/hd06052506.jpg" alt="The Fall of Berlin https://rodina-history.ru/photo/2024/05/05/3ce5c63c4d13b0a.html" width="547" height="364" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-885130 size-full"><p data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-885130" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">The Fall of Berlin https://rodina-history.ru/photo/2024/05/05/3ce5c63c4d13b0a.html</p></div>
<p>The mechanism is simple and has been used repeatedly. First, equate Nazi-fascism with communism, demonizing the latter to normalize the former. Then, compare the USSR to Nazi Germany, demonizing the former to rehabilitate the latter. From there, the path is open for historical rewriting and collective amnesia.</p>
<p>The system is so perfected that it is no longer only in Ukraine that the crimes suffered at the hands of Western imperialism are forgotten. It is in Japan itself, a victim of two atomic bombs dropped by the U.S., of two different technologies, to leave no doubt about which would best serve the warmongering designs pursued from then on. In this Japan, forgetful of its past, its history, its suffering, the prime minister can speak for an hour about Hiroshima and Nagasaki without ever mentioning who dropped those bombs and, in the end, speak only of those who did not drop them: Russia.</p>
<p>If there were any doubts about the effectiveness of this method, see how the EU today erases Gaza from its memory, as von der Leyen offers to help Israel put out fires that, reportedly, were spread by the settlers forcibly occupying Palestinian territory. See how a true-blooded German, who supports the vilest historical rebirth of Nazism in Ukraine, is so eager to “help” a people who were among the main victims of the ideology she now supports and tries to hide from watchful eyes.</p>
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<p>And what to say of a West that supported apartheid in South Africa, only to later idolize Mandela, and then support another apartheid in Israel? How wonderful it is to commit crimes and, instead of being punished, punish and blame the victims, proclaiming oneself a heroic savior. How fantastic to destroy entire nations, sanction, embargo, and accuse others of doing so, appearing as the savior. How marvelous to meddle in others’ electoral processes in plain sight (as in Georgia, where high-ranking EU officials marched in opposition rallies) and accuse others of doing what one claims not to have done. How delightful to annul elections, bar candidates from running, and, without a shred of shame, call a leader elected by their people a dictator while labeling those who cling to power beyond their mandate as liberators.</p>
<p>This West, which believes itself the master of history, absolves itself in one stroke —not to learn from its sins but to feel free to commit, again and again, the acts that should shame it. It cannot, does not want to, seeks to escape the repeated reminder of its crimes. This is what the U.S. and EU seek every time they show discomfort with the commemoration of May 9 as Victory Day. After all, with each commemoration, Russia reminds the entire West, the entire world, that it not only knows who committed the crimes but also demonstrates its strength and resolve to ensure such crimes are never repeated.</p>
<p>With each Victory Day, it is as if the Russian people say to their tormentors: I know who you are, I know what you think of me, I know what you want, and I warn you—if you come here again, you will get the punishment you deserve. Look at this parade, look at this victorious army, look at this pride… See what awaits you if you try to make us your slaves again.</p>
<p>This is why the EU is so filled with hatred and so sunk in the Ukrainian Titanic. The instrument it created to silence this “misbehaved” Russian student, this insubordinate slave, this undisciplined apprentice of the glorious liberal civilization, is failing spectacularly. While Trump’s U.S. tries to escape by emulating itself as “mediators” 2.0 (the 1.0 is in Palestine), the EU has nothing left but victory or defeat. Just as the original nearly brought Russia to defeat, the Ukrainian Yeltsin is almost succeeding.</p>
<p>And this is where these people become dangerous. Spoiled, accustomed to getting their way, “educated” in the best schools and universities money can buy, parading in media outlets, the oligarchy can dominate, and benefiting from the manipulation the best PR agencies can sell, they have seen all their strategies to destabilize their most coveted prize—Russia—dismantled. But Russia did not just dismantle the trap set for it; Russia reassembled the trap in reverse! And how! Unable to dismantle it, it is their existence that is at risk. How interesting to see the spell turned against the sorcerer. The EU may destroy itself with the trap it created to break Russia into pieces.</p>
<p>But the affront does not end here. When we see Ibrahim Traoré, like a hero of a young Africa, traveling to Moscow to participate in Victory Day commemorations, we cannot help but think that once again, the Russian homeland sticks a bone in the throat of those who thought they could commit all evils without penance. By receiving the young and promising head of state of Burkina Faso, who has done more for his people in one year, like nationalizing gold and paying the sovereign debt, than the puppets financed by France, Vladimir Putin once again affronts the same elites responsible for Nazi-fascist terror. In this case, the “national hero” of France, Napoleon.</p>
<p>Though not the same country as the USSR, this affront, accompanied by other resisters of imperialism and the most impune and inhumane repression — Palestine, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea (which suffered at the hands of the U.S. levels of terror similar to what the USSR suffered from Nazi-fascism), Iran, and many others — Russia once again asserts itself as the bastion and refuge of peoples oppressed by neocolonial greed. Russia once again tells the West: as long as I exist, you will be forced to live with and remember your shame!</p>
<p>And it is this shame that the U.S. and EU do not want to live with. Victory Day for Russia is the Day of Shame for the West!</p>
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title: We are witnessing the end of the United States as we know it
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<p><strong><em>Far from being the guarantor of global liberty, prosperity and security, America has become a threat to all three pillars of human civilisation</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>By Alex LO</em></strong></p>
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<p>Since its inception, the United States has prided itself on its liberty, prosperity and security. Following its rise to global dominance, its self-legitimising claim is that it has been spreading and realising all three ideals around the world.</p>
<p>That’s why it calls itself “the shining city upon a hill” – its exceptionalism. It denies being an empire. But even if it were one, it’s been exceptional because no great empire in the past, not even the British version, had ever offered such public goods for the enrichment and betterment of the world.</p>
<p>The veracity of such claims, I think, very much depended on where you were born, raised and spent your adulthood in the last century.</p>
<p>It was mostly true after the second world war if you had lived in western Europe, the so-called Anglo-American sphere Canada, Australia, Britain and New Zealand – and pockets of Asia and the Middle East such as Japan and Israel.</p>
<p>For such allies, there were generous post-war reconstruction, technology transfers, an open American market and the anchoring almighty dollar to stabilise global trade and the economy.</p>
<p>But outside of such places, America could make no such claims, rather the opposite. During the Cold War and then “the war on terror”, it was more in the business of spreading dictatorships and far-right governments, suppressing democratic movements, exploiting poor nations for their resources and obstructing their development. That was true across Africa, and much of Latin America and the Middle East.</p>
<p>Unlike the core of the geographical and ideological West which must be protected, the rest of the world became contested places to be freely turned into battlegrounds and conflict zones. There was the zone of creation and prosperity in the West, and the zone of destruction and poverty for the rest.</p>
<p><em>Original article: </em><strong><a href="https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3308119/we-are-witnessing-end-united-states-we-know-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">South China Morning Post</a></strong></p>


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title: Built on ‘hopes and dreams’ – AUKUS and the future of Australian foreign policy
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<p><em><strong>AUKUS represents the single biggest military agreement Australia has ever entered into. Sadly, at a cost of AUD$368 billion, its success hinges on hopes and dreams rather than political reality.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong><em>By Dr Morgan REES</em></strong></p>
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<p>On 15 September 2021, flanked by the televised images of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the beginning of a new and comprehensive security pact–AUKUS.</p>
<p>A multipronged defence agreement that encompasses cooperation across cyber and artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, undersea capabilities, hypersonic and counter hypersonic, electronic warfare, information, and innovation sharing–AUKUS has become central to Australia’s defence architecture and will be for the foreseeable future.</p>
<p>At its heart, AUKUS will see Australia’s aging conventionally powered fleet of submarines retired. They will be replaced with three US supplied Virginia-class submarines powered by nuclear propulsion while Australia and the UK will jointly work on developing a new class of submarine based on the SSN(R) design. The cost of the new security arrangement for Australia has been pitched at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/14/what-is-the-aukus-submarine-deal-and-what-does-it-mean-the-key-facts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an eye-watering AUD$368 billion</a>.</p>
<p>To put this into perspective, the agreement struck by the Turnbull government for French-built, conventionally powered submarines in 2016 was projected to cost around AUD<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-11/albanese-submarine-deal-with-france/101145042">$90 billion</a>. At the time, this was the biggest military acquisition by Australia and cost nearly AUD$3.4 billion to walk away from.</p>
<p>For Australia, AUKUS is a committal step in the future of its defence and security arrangements. Despite the significant financial commitment, AUKUS has been the subject of criticism among public intellectuals and former Australian politicians. Notably, concerns have emerged about the costs and the risks around the impending uncertainty in the relationship with the US, and what this means for Australia’s future sovereign and foreign policy independence.</p>
<p><strong>So, what are the risks?</strong></p>
<p>The obvious one is the AUD$368 billion price tag. Eight AUKUS submarines will cost Australia as much as it would have cost to acquire 40 boats from the French arrangement, which would have had far more operational capacity. As it is, Australia will have fewer boats, spend more running them, and for little strategic advantage. Not to mention that it will restrict flexibility on foreign and domestic policy initiatives for decades to come.</p>
<p>Second, Congress had to pass the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2670/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>2024 National Defense Authorization Act</em> <em>(NDAA)</em></a> to allow the transfer of nuclear submarines to Australia. This passed, with a caveat. Prior to any transfer, the president must certify that the transfer of nuclear submarines will not come at the expense of the needs of the US Navy. Currently, <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-13/us-defence-announcement-raises-questions-on-aukus-anniversary/103578408" target="_blank" rel="noopener">they are not building submarines fast enough to meet their own needs</a> meaning that Australia is unlikely to see submarines anytime soon. And even if submarines were to make it to Australian shores, they cannot be operated independent of the US.</p>
<p>Finally, the return of Donald Trump to the White House raises serious questions as to whether the US is still willing to remain engaged in the region. And more importantly, whether they can be relied on as a dependable ally.</p>
<p>It’s no secret that Trump held a general disdain for foreign alliances and commitments during his first administration. He threatened to withdraw the US from NATO and suggested <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trum-says-south-korea-would-pay-protection-against-north-1969940" target="_blank" rel="noopener">South Korea should pay “rent”</a> to host US forces as they served as a deterrent to attack from the North Korean neighbours–an idea he continued to push through the 2024 presidential campaign.</p>
<p>There’s no reason to think that the US relationship with Australia would be viewed any differently–especially in light of the recent wave of <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trum-says-south-korea-would-pay-protection-against-north-1969940">“</a><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-14/australian-firms-manufacturing-china-caught-trump-tariffs/105165444" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reciprocal tariffs.</a><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trum-says-south-korea-would-pay-protection-against-north-1969940">”</a></p>
<p><strong>So, why sign it?</strong></p>
<p>Put simply, Australia has developed a habit.</p>
<p>Australia has a long history of reliance on “great and powerful friends” for its security. And for the latter half of the twentieth century, Australia has grown comfortable in its relationship with the US. To demonstrate the value of this friendship and commitment to the alliance, Australia followed their American allies into conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Australia did this even when their own interests in such conflicts were murky.</p>
<p>When Trump came to office in 2017 and began pushing back on the rules of the international order and questioned the value of alliances, not only were Australian policymakers reserved in their criticism–they were quietly terrified at the prospect of the US abandoning the alliance along with the rest of the world order.</p>
<p>Not only has the US alliance had important security benefits, but it has also allowed Australia to mitigate the fear of abandonment, provided a greater capacity to act as a regional middle power, and pursue the shared values of the rules-based order.</p>
<p>AUKUS is an effort to stabilise the relationship amid the uncertainty brought about by the first Trump presidency. By subsidising US submarine production, Australia advances US interests and, perhaps, demonstrates it’s continuing value as an ally. But this comes with no guarantees. Especially now that Trump is back.</p>
<p><strong>Where to now?</strong></p>
<p>Australia’s current predicament leaves two options in my view:</p>
<p>First, opt to remain in AUKUS. Accept whatever consequences arise including the possibility that Australia may never see a nuclear-powered submarine under its control. In doing so, Australia will surrender a good deal of its sovereignty and foreign policy independence in the <em>hope</em> that future US interests will align with its own. Simply put, Australia will be abdicating control of its future security arrangements.</p>
<p>Second, choose to retake control of its security interests by stepping back from <em>Pillar 1</em> of AUKUS. Australia could instead seek conventionally powered submarines from elsewhere (probably going hat-in-hand back to the French). By doing so, Australia will maintain a level of independence in foreign policy while also retaining the capacity to assist the US in operations that align with Australian interests around the Indo-Pacific.</p>
<p>I am not advocating for the abandonment of the US alliance. However, Australian policymakers must recognise that the relationship is not what it was. This is not the 1950s, nor is it the 1990s.</p>
<p>The global landscape has changed. The US no longer holds the influence it once did, nor does it represent the same values or provide the same security guarantees. And to be frank, Trump’s return to the White House is the clearest indication that the US no longer covets its post-WWII leadership role.</p>
<p>While pursuing AUKUS in the hopes of holding on to the US as a dependable ally might quell short term anxieties of abandonment, doing so may serve to legitimise the weakening of international institutions, and weaken Australia’s long-term capacity to pursue its actual national interest given the limited strategic, material benefits of AUKUS itself.</p>
<p>It would be a grave error for Australia to ignore these facts. Putting all its eggs in the US security basket is not a path to foreign policy independence, or certainty. Maintaining the current path pins future security on the <em>hopes and dreams</em> that the US will not only remain engaged in the region, but pursue a foreign policy aligned closely to Australia’s own interests.</p>
<p>This is a defining period in Australian foreign policy. AUKUS is a huge gamble, and the payoffs are, at best, murky. It takes bold leadership to reverse course on a decision of this magnitude. But with the return of Trump to the presidency, Australian policymakers would be wise to seriously consider their options–even if it does mean short to medium term pain.</p>
<p><em>Original article: </em><strong><a href="https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/built-on-hopes-and-dreams-aukus-and-the-future-of-australian-foreign-policy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">internationalaffairs.org.au</a></strong></p>

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title: Top countries relying on hydropower for their electricity
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title: Le conflit entre l’Inde et le Pakistan profite à l’Occident.
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<p>Un nouveau conflit armé entre l’Inde et le Pakistan s’amorce dans la région contestée du Cachemire. Après plusieurs jours de fortes tensions entre les deux parties, l’armée indienne a lancé une attaque de missiles sur des cibles pakistanaises, affirmant que …</p>


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title: Cuando el liberalismo provocó el apagón de abril en Portugal
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<p><strong><em>Es imperativa una tarea aún más importante que la seguridad energética: la recuperación de nuestra independencia nacional, de nuestra libertad como pueblo</em></strong></p>
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<p>Un apagón generalizado golpeó el sur de Europa el lunes por la mañana, afectando a Portugal, España y partes del sur de Francia. En las primeras horas, proliferaron las noticias falsas sobre <em>supuestos ciberataques, con la Federación Rusa en el centro de atención, </em><a href="https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/internacional/premie-espanhol-nao-descarta-ataque-cibernetico-como-causa-do-apagao/"><em>como era de esperar</em></a>.</p>
<p>Mientras escribo este artículo, <strong><em>nadie sabe aún cómo se produjo el apagón</em></strong>, pero ya se pueden extraer algunas conclusiones:</p>
<p><strong>los niveles de resistencia y redundancia de la red ibérica dejan mucho que desear, exponiendo la enorme fragilidad de un sistema crítico para los intereses nacionales de las poblaciones afectadas.</strong></p>
<p>Si el sistema eléctrico de Ucrania fuera tan resistente como el que abastece a la Península Ibérica, hace tiempo que la Federación Rusa habría cortado el suministro a ese país.</p>
<p>¿Por qué no lo ha conseguido?</p>
<p><strong>La URSS dejó tras de sí</strong> <strong><em>un sistema energético que sería la envidia de cualquier economía “avanzada” de la Unión Europea</em></strong>. <strong>Las centrales eléctricas de todo tipo forman una máquina de guerra llena de redundancias, extremadamente difícil de cerrar.</strong></p>
<p>En la UE se cierran plantas de este tipo todos los días, sobre todo en Portugal (se cerraron las centrales termoeléctricas de Sines y Pego), y se cerraron refinerías, ¿para qué? Para reabrir centrales de carbón en Alemania y comprar electricidad a España. Fue un negocio fantástico, que generó fabulosos beneficios para EDP (Electricidade de Portugal ).</p>
<p>Después de inversiones masivas pagadas por el pueblo portugués en energías renovables, ahora descubrimos que nuestra energía se vende en el extranjero mientras compramos energía extranjera para uso doméstico.</p>
<p>¿Por qué? ¿Para que el pueblo y las empresas puedan comprar energía más barata? No.</p>
<p>Para que EDP y REN, antes públicas y ahora privatizadas, puedan cerrar sus cuartos con fabulosos beneficios. Mínimo servicio, máximo beneficio. Aunque no soy un experto en la materia, no hay grandes secretos sobre el funcionamiento de las empresas privadas:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>comprar lo más barato posible y vender lo más caro posible, aunque ello signifique someter a toda una población a los caprichos de</strong> <strong>los ‘mercados’ y a la vulnerabilidad del ‘cortoplacismo’.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>La desindustrialización de EE.UU. es un claro ejemplo para cualquiera que dude de esto.</p>
<p><strong>Aunque breve, este episodio dejó al descubierto una crisis estructural raramente discutida:</strong> <strong>las consecuencias de la privatización y liberalización de los sistemas eléctricos nacionales bajo el paraguas de la Unión Europea (UE).</strong></p>
<p>Con el pretexto de los ‘mandatos’ de la UE, Portugal <em>segmentó su sistema (separando la producción de la distribución y la comercialización) basándose en una supuesta competencia que nunca se materializó, privatizó y liberalizó.</em></p>
<p>Para las empresas privatizadas y vendidas al capital extranjero, fue una lotería; para <strong><em>los portugueses, que antes tenían una de las energías más baratas de la UE, incluso si no la más barata, los precios han subido hasta situarse en el 10º lugar entre los más caros </em></strong>en el desglose anual de los precios internos, <a href="https://www.erse.pt/media/rtonfayu/boletim-eletricidade-eurostat_2023s2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">según el ERSE</a>.</p>
<p>El hecho es que desde que la Comisión Europea, dirigida ahora por la inflexible Ursula von der Leyen, comenzó <em>su propaganda sobre que quería energía barata para los europeos, el precio de esa misma energía no ha hecho más que aumentar.</em></p>
<p>Debemos preguntarnos: cuando vemos a esta gente enseñando los dientes contra la Federación Rusa, armándose hasta los dientes para <em>“poner a Vladimir Putin en su sitio”</em>, <em>¿cuánto tardaría una potencia militar como la que sirve al Kremlin en dejarnos viviendo en la Edad de Piedra? ¿Unos minutos? ¿Sólo un arma que provoque un impulso? Interesante, ¿verdad? Para aquellos tan ansiosos de ver morir a ucranianos defendiendo los</em> <em>“valores europeos”.</em></p>
<p><strong>La forma en que se produjo el colapso revela profundas vulnerabilidades sistémicas. En un momento crítico de variación de carga de la red, el sistema no proporcionó la potencia necesaria para mantener la estabilidad (de nuevo, la falta de redundancia y resistencia, todo funcionando al mínimo de su capacidad, en la cuerda floja de los beneficios trimestrales), lo que provocó un apagón en cascada.</strong></p>
<p><strong>El análisis inicial de <em>Red Eléctrica de España (REE)</em> indica que</strong> <strong><em>la interconexión entre los países ibéricos fue un factor determinante, en concreto, la dependencia de Portugal del suministro de España en el momento del incidente.</em></strong></p>
<p>Además, no estamos a salvo de que esto <a href="https://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/empresas/energia/detalhe/ren-avisa-que-portugal-nao-esta-a-salvo-de-um-novo-apagao-total" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vuelva a suceder</a>, <em>como ocurre en los países subdesarrollados y en aquellos que tratan el liberalismo como fanatismo</em>, como Estados Unidos, especialmente Texas.</p>
<p><strong>La lógica del mercado lleva a los operadores nacionales a cortar el suministro nacional para comprar energía más barata en el extranjero, lo que agrava la vulnerabilidad en caso de emergencia.</strong></p>
<p>En el momento del apagón, Portugal importaba electricidad de España y no pudo <a href="https://sicnoticias.pt/pais/2025-04-28-video-entenda-o-efeito-em-cadeia-que-pode-ter-provocado-o-apagao-em-portugal-32981aa3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">restablecer</a> inmediatamente <a href="https://sicnoticias.pt/pais/2025-04-28-video-entenda-o-efeito-em-cadeia-que-pode-ter-provocado-o-apagao-em-portugal-32981aa3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">el suministro</a>).</p>
<p><strong>La verdad es que se trata de un</strong> <strong><em>modelo impulsado por los beneficios</em>, no centrado en la seguridad, y mucho menos en una energía asequible para las familias y las empresas</strong>.</p>
<p>Todos hemos oído a los derechistas de línea dura, los liberales ideológicos del siglo XVII, atacar los impuestos (ahí está, promoviendo un Estado mínimo) y los “costes laborales”.</p>
<p>Nunca, nunca, les hemos oído hablar de <strong><em>la vergüenza criminal que supone privatizar sectores estratégicos, especialmente la electricidad</em></strong>, con graves perjuicios para la economía nacional. No es casualidad que <strong><em>Estados Unidos y la UE tengan algunos de los precios de la electricidad más altos</em></strong>. No hace falta ser un genio para entender por qué.</p>
<p><strong>Este escenario pone de relieve una realidad cada vez más evidente: los sistemas liberalizados tienden a funcionar con márgenes mínimos, eliminando las redundancias que se consideran costosas.</strong></p>
<p>En términos técnicos, esto significa <strong><em>menos capacidad para responder a las crisis</em></strong>: <em>todo funciona bien cuando todo está alineado, pero cuando ocurre un accidente…</em></p>
<p>Esto se aplica a la electricidad, así como a la banca, la aviación, los servicios postales, las telecomunicaciones y más.</p>
<p>No es casualidad que la única red de telefonía móvil que resistió durante el apagón fuera MEO, un vestigio de la privatización de la antigua Portugal Telecom, de una época en la que estas cosas importantes eran de todos y funcionaban para todos.</p>
<p><strong>Los de la era de la <em>“liberalización del mercado”</em> no aguantaron ni un estornudo. Un simple apagón de unas horas dejaba a todo el mundo sin comunicación. Los que van por el mundo intimidando y hablando duro, deberían preocuparse más por su propia casa.</strong></p>
<p>Como sostienen <a href="https://sigarra.up.pt/fep/pt/pub_geral.show_file?pi_doc_id=28023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">muchos autores</a>, el <strong><em>modelo liberalizado y privatizado del sector eléctrico europeo</em></strong> fue “<em>diseñado</em>” para <strong><em>aumentar la eficacia y reducir los costes, pero en la práctica tiende a funcionar con unos márgenes de redundancia mínimos, en el filo de la navaja</em></strong>.</p>
<p>Esto significa una menor capacidad de respuesta rápida ante fallos graves, ya que las empresas privadas tratan de maximizar sus beneficios reduciendo las inversiones en reservas e infraestructuras redundantes.</p>
<p>Como prefiero pasar de los hechos a la teoría en lugar de lo contrario, si el objetivo era bajar los precios, pero éstos aumentaron, si los beneficios crecieron aún más, si todo siguió como siempre a pesar de las lecciones aprendidas de la práctica, sólo puedo concluir que <strong><em>la intención era simplemente entregar a entidades privadas los beneficios que pertenecían a todos</em></strong>.</p>
<p>No importa cuántas teorías e idealismos se construyan. Cuando <em>un fenómeno se observa repetidamente y se vuelve tan predecible que puede extrapolarse a la mayoría de las situaciones</em>, entonces las teorías no se ajustan a la práctica. Y la teoría liberal es una de ellas. <strong><em>Es una fantasía de los tiempos infantiles de la economía.</em></strong></p>
<p>Esto nos lleva a la pregunta esencial:</p>
<p><em>¿Qué pasa con nuestra independencia energética? ¿Es tan fácil dejar sin energía a un país como Portugal? ¿Si los molinos y los hornos no son eléctricos y el agua no llega por tuberías? ¿Es tan fácil para nuestros socios europeos dejar al país a oscuras?</em></p>
<p>Eso parece. Ahora entendemos mejor por qué Viktor Orbán y Robert Fico no querían estar a merced de von der Leyen y prefirieron seguir comprando gas a Rusia. Si hubieran hecho lo contrario, hoy no estarían en el poder.</p>
<p>¡Este es el Portugal independiente y soberano que somos! ¿Y quiénes son los responsables de semejante traición? <strong><em>¿Quién decidió que, en algún momento, nuestra Constitución se cambiaría por las directivas de Bruselas?</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>El hecho es que <em>la liberalización del mercado energético europeo</em> permite a los operadores comprar energía en el extranjero siempre que sea económicamente ventajoso. Sin embargo, esta interdependencia crea importantes riesgos estratégicos, ya que cuando fallan los circuitos transfronterizos, como ha ocurrido recientemente, países como Portugal están especialmente expuestos, dada su escasa capacidad de producción nacional en los momentos críticos.</strong></p>
<p>Como declaró el responsable de la REN (Red Eléctrica Nacional), la producción nacional <em>sólo se activa cuando se consume o exporta energía nacional</em>. Así, se enciende y se apaga esporádicamente, dejándonos vulnerables a las apetencias externas, tanto de amigos como de enemigos.</p>
<p>Entre los principales culpables de este <strong><em>“apagón de abril”</em></strong> se encuentran los sospechosos habituales.</p>
<p>El apagón de abril no es sólo un fallo eléctrico. Después de todo lo ocurrido antes y durante las celebraciones del 51º aniversario de la Revolución portuguesa que nos liberó del fascismo (cancelación de las conmemoraciones oficiales; un grupo de extrema derecha se infiltra entre los manifestantes y los ataca brutalmente de forma inesperada; el gobierno portugués censura el Informe Nacional de Seguridad Interior sobre el peligro de radicalización de los adolescentes por parte de los grupos de extrema derecha), podemos afirmar con rotundidad que <strong><em>este apagón de origen “liberal” demuestra que el liberalismo no sólo está apagando las luces, sino también los valores de abril. </em></strong>Uno de ellos, <em>el más importante para nuestra libertad colectiva, es la Soberanía Nacional.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sin soberanía energética, nuestra soberanía nacional está gravemente amenazada. Cuando oímos a Pedro Sánchez, presidente del Gobierno español, querer discutir la cuestión hasta sus últimas consecuencias, sólo podemos preguntarnos una cosa: <em>¿cómo ha tardado tanto en reconocer el peligro en el que vivimos?</em></strong></p>
<p>Hay que reconocer el mérito del único partido en Portugal que <a href="https://24.sapo.pt/atualidade/artigos/das-autarquias-aos-candidatos-as-reacoes-ao-apagao" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denunció</a> esta situación, el PCP (Partido Comunista Portugués):</p>
<p><strong><em>El sometimiento a un contexto de dependencia exterior y a un mercado liberalizado constituye un factor de inseguridad para el país. Todo ello exige la inversión de la política de abdicación nacional de los sectores estratégicos y la garantía de un funcionamiento articulado, coherente y eficaz del sistema eléctrico nacional</em></strong>.</p>
<p>Hubo otro partido que mencionó la necesidad de <em>discutir la propiedad pública de sectores determinantes para nuestra soberanía energética, el Bloque de Izquierda (BE), pero lo hizo sin atacar nunca la raíz del problema</em>:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>el hecho de que hoy el sector energético de Portugal está entregado al saqueo, y el origen de este problema se llama Unión Europea y su agenda neoliberal.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Cuando hablamos de algo, debemos hacerlo hasta sus últimas consecuencias y abordando las cuestiones de fondo. Porque éste es uno de esos problemas que pueden matar o salvar vidas. Ayer, ¡mató!</p>
<p>Y con él <em>deberían haber muerto las ilusiones de quienes ven alguna salvación en estas agendas belicistas, neoliberales e irresponsables de la UE</em>. Como demuestra la experiencia, con gente como Milei al final de la línea, <strong><em>el liberalismo conduce en última instancia al fascismo, la violencia y la miseria.</em></strong></p>
<p>En este momento, es imperativa una tarea aún más importante que la seguridad energética: <strong><em>la recuperación de nuestra independencia nacional, de nuestra libertad como pueblo y como una de las naciones más antiguas de Europa.</em></strong></p>
<p>Esto no significa vivir al margen de los demás. Más bien, ¡significa vivir con ellos, sacando pecho y con la cabeza bien alta!</p>
<p><em>Traducción</em><em>: </em><a href="https://observatoriodetrabajad.com/2025/05/05/cuando-el-liberalismo-provoco-el-apagon-de-abril-en-portugal-hugo-dionisio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u><em>Observatorio</em></u><u><em> de </em></u><u><em>trabajadores</em></u><u><em> </em></u><u><em>en</em></u><u><em> </em></u><u><em>lucha</em></u></a><br>
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title: Europa abandona princípios democráticos clássicos
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<p><strong><em>Russofobia crescente leva países europeus a violarem liberdades democráticas.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Nos últimos anos, a União Europeia tem deixado de lado sua já frágil imagem de “bastião da democracia e dos direitos humanos” para se transformar, diante dos olhos do mundo, em um regime cada vez mais autoritário e intolerante. A retórica vazia de “liberdade de imprensa” e “valores democráticos” desmorona à medida que jornalistas e ativistas são perseguidos, silenciados e deportados por ousarem desafiar a narrativa oficial da OTAN sobre a guerra na Ucrânia. Casos recentes, como os de Chay Bowes e Dragana Trifkovic, demonstram com clareza alarmante que a UE tornou-se uma ditadura russofóbica em que qualquer voz dissidente é tratada como uma ameaça existencial.</p>
<p>Na última quinta-feira, o jornalista irlandês <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/616631-rt-journalist-detained-romania/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chay Bowes</a>, colaborador da RT desde 2023, foi sumariamente detido pelas autoridades romenas ao desembarcar em Bucareste. Bowes, cidadão da UE, viajou à Romênia com o intuito de cobrir as eleições presidenciais do país — um evento de interesse jornalístico legítimo. No entanto, sua presença foi tratada como subversiva. Segundo o próprio jornalista, policiais subiram a bordo do avião imediatamente após o pouso, perguntando especificamente por ele – o que mostra que havia clara intenção de impedi-lo de permanecer do país, não deixando-o nem mesmo circular pelo aeroporto.</p>
<p>O motivo de toda essa perseguição é simples: Bowes ousou trabalhar para um veículo de imprensa russo, além de ter histórico de jornalismo investigativo que desafiou o establishment irlandês — como quando expôs um vazamento de documentos envolvendo o então primeiro-ministro Leo Varadkar. Após um breve e opaco interrogatório, Bowes foi deportado para Istambul, em uma ação que viola não apenas os direitos de um cidadão europeu, mas também os princípios fundamentais de liberdade de imprensa.</p>
<p>Outro caso emblemático e ainda mais perturbador é o de <a href="https://greece.news-pravda.com/en/world/2025/04/23/1936.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dragana Trifkovic</a>, uma renomada jornalista, acadêmica e defensora dos direitos humanos da Sérvia, conhecida principalmente por seu ativismo em prol dos fiéis da Igreja Ortodoxa na Ucrânia e por seu posicionamento crítico à guerra da OTAN contra a Rússia. Em 22 de abril, ao chegar ao aeroporto de Viena para participar de uma conferência internacional, Trifkovic foi impedida de entrar na Áustria e informada de que estava proibida de acessar o espaço Schengen por três anos — uma medida arbitrária tomada pelas autoridades europeias, sem qualquer processo legal ou notificação prévia.</p>
<p>Trifkovic foi levada a uma delegacia do aeroporto, onde foi informada de que teria que pagar uma multa de 1.000 euros por supostamente tentar cruzar a fronteira “ilegalmente”. Ao se recusar, foi cercada por sete policiais, que tomaram sua bolsa e retiraram o valor à força, numa ação que ela corretamente classificou como roubo. Toda essa hostilidade foi baseada em acusações absurdas de que ela seria “espiã russa”, fundamentadas em publicações falsas e difamatórias oriundas de veículos kosovares — de um território que não faz parte da União Europeia e nem mesmo todos os países europeus reconhecem oficialmente.</p>
<p>O que une os casos de Bowes e Trifkovic é a criminalização da dissidência. A UE passou a considerar como inimigo interno qualquer pessoa que questione a versão oficial da guerra contra a Rússia ou que defenda posições contrárias à expansão militar da OTAN. Em vez de promover o debate plural, Bruxelas prefere o silêncio imposto pela censura, pela repressão e pela intimidação institucional.</p>
<p>Não se trata mais de casos isolados. Estamos diante de um padrão. As autoridades europeias, alinhadas com os interesses geoestratégicos da OTAN, implementam uma política sistemática de perseguição àqueles que denunciam a escalada militar do Ocidente no leste europeu. Nesse contexto, jornalistas e ativistas independentes são tratados como agentes subversivos, enquanto veículos privados e estatais ocidentais continuam a espalhar desinformação impunemente.</p>
<p>A UE, em sua ânsia de “conter” a Rússia, está corroendo os pilares da própria democracia que diz defender. O novo “inimigo interno” é aquele que ousa pensar diferente — e, como nos mostram os exemplos de Bowes e Trifkovic, não importa se você é cidadão europeu, defensor de direitos humanos ou jornalista premiado. Se sua voz desafia o establishment russofóbico, será silenciada.</p>
<p>É cada vez mais claro que a Europa não enfrenta uma ameaça externa, mas sim uma crise interna de valores. Enquanto se afunda em sua própria hipocrisia, a UE caminha aceleradamente rumo a uma ditadura ideológica, onde o pensamento único é imposto pela força e onde a verdade se tornou o maior crime.</p>
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title: Por que o Dia da Vitória é tão importante até hoje para os russos?
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<p><strong><em>Provavelmente nenhum país trata as comemorações da vitória sobre a Alemanha nazista na Segunda Guerra Mundial com a mesma seriedade que os russos.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Provavelmente nenhum país trata as comemorações da vitória sobre a Alemanha nazista na Segunda Guerra Mundial com a mesma seriedade que os russos. De fato, os russos têm até mesmo um nome especial, próprio, para o evento: “A Grande Guerra Patriótica”, um nome que evoca imediatamente um significado especial que é especificamente russo – mas que, simultaneamente, os russos gostariam de ver reconhecido pelos outros povos.</p>
<p>A Segunda Guerra Mundial foi o conflito mais devastador da história da humanidade. Em seu projeto hegemonista, a Alemanha nazista ocupou quase toda a Europa, tendo como objetivo, entre outras coisas, também garantir a supremacia racial daqueles que eles consideravam pertencentes à “raça ariana”. Em 1941, utilizando movimentações militares dentro do território da URSS como justificativa, e objetivando garantir a “Lebensraum im Osten” para a futura colonização alemã, Hitler invade a URSS.</p>
<p>Se, inicialmente, algumas pessoas receberam a invasão com expectativas positivas – por causa de um cansaço em relação ao comunismo – rapidamente ficou claro que os alemães não tinham vindo para libertar os eslavos, e sim para subjuga-los, destruí-los e arrancá-los de suas terras ancestrais.</p>
<p>4 anos depois, porém, os soviéticos marchavam sobre uma Berlim em ruínas. Hitler estava morto. O governo nazista jazia colapsado. A Segunda Guerra Mundial, ou Grande Guerra Patriótica, estava no fim. Não é, porém, a impressão que se tem a partir dos filmes hollywoodianos, como O Resgate do Soldado Ryan.</p>
<p>Na mídia, na cultura e nos livros de história ocidentais, o evento determinado na derrota alemã foi o desembarque das tropas atlantistas nas praias da Normandia no Dia D. Aquilo que se aprende desde a infância é que, graças aos EUA, o mundo “não fala alemão”.</p>
<p>A realidade é bastante diferente, porém, bastando que atentemos para a matemática do conflito.</p>
<p>Aproximadamente 75-80% das baixas alemães, durante o conflito, se deram na Frente Oriental. Foram mais de 3 milhões de baixas militares alemães enfrentando a URSS, incluindo mortos, feridos e prisioneiros, de um total de 4.5 milhões de baixas em geral da Alemanha. Estes números parecem-me definitivos para sanar a questão.</p>
<p>Não se pode negar que o desembarque ocidental na Normandia teve um papel relevante. Afinal, ao forçar a Alemanha a travar uma guerra em duas frentes e a deslocar algumas de suas forças do leste para o oeste, o impulso ocidental colaborou para o desfecho do conflito, mas essa investida ocidental deu-se apenas em 1944, quando os soviéticos já empurravam os alemães de volta para suas fronteiras originais. Apenas a cegueira ideológica poderia fazer alguém dizer que foi este desembarque que levou ao fim do regime de Hitler, e não o triunfo soviético em Stalingrado, seguido por Kharkov, Kursk e assim por diante até chegarem aos Portões de Brandemburgo.</p>
<p>Batalhas como Stalingrado (1942-1943) e Kursk (1943) foram pontos de virada decisivos, onde o Exército Vermelho não apenas deteve o avanço nazista, mas também iniciou a contraofensiva que levaria à queda de Berlim. Em Stalingrado, os soviéticos cercaram e destruíram o 6º Exército alemão, marcando a primeira grande derrota da Wehrmacht. Já em Kursk, a maior batalha de tanques da história, a URSS aniquilou as últimas esperanças de Hitler por uma vitória estratégica.</p>
<p>Mas qual foi o preço pago pelos soviéticos?</p>
<p>27 milhões de mortos, entre militares e civis (ainda que a maioria seja de civis), segundo as cifras mais recentes.</p>
<p>Estamos falando aqui de aproximadamente 17% da população soviética. Algumas regiões, como as da atual Belarus viram mais de 25% da sua população desaparecer. A Ucrânia teve perdas aproximadamente no mesmo patamar.</p>
<p>Anualmente, já há quase 2 décadas, temos na época do Dia da Vitória a marcha do “Regimento Imortal”, em que cidadãos russos desfilam com as fotos de seus familiares que participaram de alguma forma na Grande Guerra Patriótica. Trata-se de um rito memorial público extremamente popular que se espalhou pelo mundo. Por que ele desempenha um papel tão importante no imaginário russo? Porque toda família russa tem parentes (avós, bisavós, tios, etc.) que morreram na Grande Guerra Patriótica. Não há uma única família russa que não tenha sido tocada pela tragédia daquele conflito.</p>
<p>Para os russos a Segunda Guerra Mundial é a Grande Guerra Patriótica porque nela se deu o momento de maior perigo para a própria existência dos russos enquanto povo. Ali os russos se depararam com a possibilidade de desaparecerem, caso fossem derrotados. E a partir das ruínas de seu próprio país, com sangue, suor e lágrimas, ao triunfarem sobre os alemães, os russos garantiram a própria sobrevivência.</p>
<p>E de que forma o mundo tem pagado aos russos por este sacrifício?</p>
<p>Até 2022, basicamente com indiferença, ignorância e falsificação histórica. A partir de 2022, com ódio, racismo, perseguição, cancelamento.</p>
<p>É essa a grande decepção dos russos em relação ao mundo contemporâneo. Eles olham pela janela e veem que seu imenso sacrifício não é tão respeitado quanto deveria ser, pelo menos no Ocidente.</p>
<p>Não obstante, 80 anos depois de seu triunfo sobre a Morte, se a postura ocidental em face do heroísmo russo gera decepção e desgosto, em relação a si mesmos e aos atos de seus antepassados não há senão motivo de orgulho.</p>
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<p><strong><em>Francisco foi um irmão mais velho, sábio e presente para católicos, não católicos e não cristãos, religiosos, agnósticos e ateus</em></strong></p>
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<p>Começou a jorrar a pungente enxurrada de palavras laudatórias dos governantes deste mundo para expressar sentimentos que não existem, cumprir conveniências protocolares, identificar-se com tudo o que desprezam, exibir falsas comoções, tirar proveito de um acontecimento de que amanhã já não se lembrarão porque é fundamental regressar à vidinha reles e predadora do costume.</p>
<p>A morte do Papa Francisco é, inegavelmente, uma perda para o mundo. Não como chefe da Igreja Católica mas como homem universalista e humanista que soube evitar e contornar as questiúnculas vaticanas, velhas de séculos, para se dedicar a pensar e a agir sobre as coisas do mundo e da humanidade; as coisas que nos levam por caminhos transviados, quem sabe se fatais e que o Papa, não como santo mas como ser humano, tentou travar com a sua sensibilidade e espírito fraterno.</p>
<p>A comunidade dos hipócritas que dirige o mundo, conduzindo-nos para precipícios que Francisco identificou como facilmente evitáveis se os homens, e as mulheres, tivessem a boa vontade que extravasa, em muito, as palavras dos textos religiosos, não hesita agora em tirar proveito do seu falecimento com denodo vampiresco.</p>
<p>O Papa que agora nos deixa, chefe de uma instituição que dificilmente encontrará outro à sua altura, porque não saberá (nem quererá) navegar contra a corrente com a coragem e lucidez de Francisco, deixa órfãos os desprotegidos, os marginalizados, os pobres, os refugiados e migrantes, os povos das periferias, os que sofrem na carne os efeitos dos crimes ecológicos praticados pelos que enchem a boca com o combate (falso) às alterações climáticas, enfim os milhões de seres humanos que enfrentam os terrores das guerras gananciosas impostas pelos interesses de castas desumanizadas e as minorias do dinheiro.</p>
<p><strong>A coragem e a lucidez de um pacifista</strong></p>
<p>Francisco foi um homem corajoso e lúcido. Corajoso porque não teve de receio de usar a palavra contra os carrascos do ser humano que, tentando embalar-nos com conversas mansas das quais apenas sobra a mentira, não hesitam em criar infernos em vida e ameaçar as nossas existências. Lúcido, porque soube ler o mundo como poucos na comunidade internacional, traçando impiedosamente os retratos dos malfeitores e inconformando-se com os horrores das malfeitorias, apesar de os atingidos olharem sempre para o lado, fingindo que nada era com eles enquanto, cinicamente, lhe faziam os salamaleques da praxe.</p>
<p>O Papa que agora nos deixa extravasou em muito o catolicismo e o cristianismo. Mesmo no interior das instituições da sua fé e das comunidades dos crentes muitas vezes não foi bem aceite pelas correntes tradicionalistas, as mesmas que, simultaneamente, se acomodam, e até defendem o que de pior existe à face da Terra.</p>
<p>Francisco selou a sua presença na história do catolicismo mas, principalmente, da humanidade porque no seu tempo combateu sem hesitar os dois verdadeiros demónios que perseguem e abatem os seres humanos: o neoliberalismo e a guerra.</p>
<p>O sacerdote argentino que tanto sofria com o seu pobre povo cruelmente entregue ao estado mais extremo do neoliberalismo, nunca foi manso para com esta doutrina económica, social e política que despreza o ser humano em nome da liberdade, que o oprime mergulhando-o na pobreza como caminho para a sempre longínqua e assim inatingível abastança, que o mata garantindo-lhe independências e soberanias a que são intrinsecamente avessos. O desumano neoliberalismo globalista são a sua meta; a justiça social, o respeito pelo ser humano, a dignidade da vida, a paz e a convivência fraterna são as luzes pelas quais o falecido Papa se guiava.</p>
<p>Francisco foi, por tudo isto, um homem contra a corrente, na realidade um corpo estranho neste mundo e que não desistiu, até ao fim, de o tentar modificar, de o tornar um lugar adequado para o florescimento da dignidade do ser humano, de todos os seres humanos. Por isso, o Papa não se identificava, e nunca deixou de condenar, esta preciosidade ocidental de se comover, justamente, com o sofrimento e o drama dos ucranianos mas desprezar e ser até cúmplice da matança e do genocídio do povo palestiniano. O Papa jamais perdoou e seria capaz de perdoar e segregacionismo e a xenofobia que estão no ADN dos hipócritas. Ele amou especialmente todos os povos vítimas de guerras, e não apenas as terçadas com armas.</p>
<p>Neste domingo de Páscoa, nas suas derradeiras e esforçadas palavras, Francisco teve a energia sobre humana necessária para lembrar os pobres, os desprezados, as minorias perseguidas, os excluídos das periferias, as vítimas do racismo e da xenofobia, os refugiados e migrantes, solidarizando-se com estes como vítimas da ganância e das guerras impostas aos seus países. E não deixou de responsabilizar, mais uma vez, a doutrina que identificou explicitamente como responsável por essas expressões de miséria: o capitalismo e a sua versão extrema, o neoliberalismo.</p>
<p><strong>Um combatente pelo desarmamento</strong></p>
<p>E Francisco, horror dos horrores, defendeu a paz.</p>
<p>Não uma paz abstracta como apregoam os que a procuram e garantem estar no final das guerras. Mas sim a paz que desprezam e nos proíbem de invocar e defender sob pena de sermos considerados traidores e servidores dos inimigos que nos espreitam em cada canto. A paz que se encontra falando, compreendendo e negociando e não espalhando a pobreza e a morte porque são necessárias armas, mais armas, cada vez mais armas e mais sofisticadas, capazes de tornar sempre maiores as multidões de inocentes assassinados e fazer transbordar os cofres dos magnatas da morte.</p>
<p>É verdade, Francisco defendeu o desarmamento sem poupar a indústria armamentista e respectivos frequentadores como um dos grandes flagelos deste tempo. Guardou até para apelar ao desarmamento as suas derradeiras palavras proferidas, a custo, num Domingo de Páscoa. Adivinhem: os que agora dizem lamentar o seu desaparecimento nunca o escutaram, fingiram-se moucos. Para eles, o Papa era alguém que tentavam identificar com as suas desprezíveis imagens e semelhanças; não o Papa que jamais se esqueceu das verdadeiras vítimas desses hipócritas, refinados vendilhões do Templo.</p>
<p>Os chefes e as cliques governantes da União Europeia, de Marcelo e quejandos aos confins do Báltico proferem agora as palavras banais, protocolares e de circunstância, expressam sentimentos que não têm a não ser nas carteiras e contas bancárias, pronunciam, a contragosto, a palavra paz enquanto montam exércitos e atafulham o continente europeu de armas, vestem as suas mais caras e negras fatiotas para irem em romaria e alinharem-se, quiçá para a foto de família, nos tapetes do Vaticano. Francisco dispensaria a sua presença, mas eles acham-se sempre indispensáveis e bem vindos mesmo quando ninguém os convida. Lagarde, a senhora do dinheiro, a par de Van der Leyen, a senhora da guerra e Costa, servidor babado de tudo isto, não faltarão. Por aí se percebe o tipo de gente a quem estamos entregues e que o Papa argentino, perceptivelmente, não tinha em grande conta.</p>
<p>Francisco deixa muitas saudades e um vazio que provavelmente tão depressa não será preenchido. A hierarquia da Igreja Católica, que não a imensa multidão dos fiéis, tem grande habilidade para emendar os seus “erros” movendo-se e conspirando com uma experiência de dois milénios no silêncio dos corredores vaticanos. Como foi o caso de João Paulo I, prometedor homem de bem que não resistiu mais de 33 dias na cadeira de Pedro, o pescador, logo substituído por Wojtyla ou João Paulo II, o Papa do neoliberalismo, da unipolaridade imperial, arauto de um catolicismo com ressonâncias medievais.</p>
<p>Francisco foi um irmão mais velho, sábio e presente para católicos, não católicos e não cristãos, religiosos, agnósticos e ateus, muitos dos que, não comungando da sua doutrina e conceitos filosóficos, o admiraram como homem e humanista, certos de que nele podiam confiar. Defendia conceitos de vida terrena pelos quais nos vale a pena lutar para retirar o mundo do pântano onde mulheres e homens degenerados pelo poder e o dinheiro o vão mergulhando. Estes são dias tristes e, ao mesmo tempo, dias que a cáfila dos hipócritas e fanáticos da guerra anseia para poder desfilar e brilhar.</p>
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title: Ray’s Speech in Russia with English Subtitles
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<p data-sanitized-class="excerpt">English subtitles are now inserted into Ray’s speech at Znanie Youth Forum, Moscow, Apr 29. Unbeknownst to Ray, former President Medvedev had spoken on Apr 28, and on Apr 30, President Putin also spoke there &amp; held a typically interesting Q &amp; A.</p><p data-sanitized-class="more-link-p"><a href="https://raymcgovern.com/2025/05/07/rays-speech-in-russia-with-english-subtitles/" data-sanitized-class="btn btn-default">Read more</a></p>


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title: Trump Touts Trade Deal with &amp;#039;Big&amp;#039; Country … Turns Out It&amp;#039;s Just the UK
author: ;Jason Ross
link: https://eir.news/2025/05/news/trump-touts-big-trade-deal-turns-out-its-with-uk/
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/05/Screen-Shot-2025-05-08-at-8.33.51-PM.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>“Big News Conference tomorrow morning at 10:00 A.M., The Oval Office,” President Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114469488580251681">claimed</a> in the evening on May 7, “concerning a MAJOR TRADE DEAL WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF A BIG, AND HIGHLY RESPECTED, COUNTRY. THE FIRST OF MANY!!!”</p>
<p>When the morning rolled around, Trump revealed the identity of the supposedly “big and highly respected country”—turns out it’s not India, it’s not China, it’s the UK, a country with which the U.S. <em>already</em> runs <a href="https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/europe/united-kingdom">a trade surplus</a> in goods! (Because of this balance of trade, the UK had the lowest tariff rate of 10% on “Liberation Day.")</p>
<p>“The agreement with the United Kingdom is a full and comprehensive one that will cement the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom for many years to come. Because of our long time history and allegiance together, it is a great honor to have the United Kingdom as our FIRST announcement,” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114471661029075259">posted</a>.</p>
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guid: 681cb602038a3200013a78c7
title: Philippines Military Deal With Taiwan – Joint Naval Patrols in Service of Empire
author: ;Michael O. Billington
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<p>Philippines Rear Admiral Roy Vincent Trinidad, spokesman for the National Task Force on the West Philippine Sea (the Filipino name for the South China Sea) told the Manila Times in an interview that “talks are underway to regularize warship transits across the Taiwan Strait, a development he hinted could lead to formal joint military activities between the two neighbors and thus reshape the strategic calculus in the region.” This is obviously a declaration of a threat to the Philippine’s far more important “neighbor,” China. As pointed out by <em>EIR</em>’s friend in the Philippines, Ado Paglinawan, in the Asian Century Journal, it is also obvious that this is yet another case of Philippine President Bongbong Marcos allowing Washington to determine its policy: “The ‘policy pronouncement’ proving that we have a puppet government slipped out of the mouth of Rear Admiral Roy Vincent Trinidad,” he writes.</p>
<p>Paglinawan adds: “The prospect of Philippine-Taiwan military activities, even if limited to information sharing, patrol coordination, or humanitarian assistance, would most likely be viewed by Beijing as provocative but Trinidad stressed that Philippine defense efforts remain anchored in lawful, transparent actions. ‘We are not looking for a fight, but we are not backing down either. What is ours is ours.’”</p>
<p>Ukraine, Gaza, and Pakistan wars are not enough, it appears—a war with China is a clincher.</p>

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guid: 681cb943038a3200013a78dd
title: An Anguished Voice from Israel: Haaretz Editorial Says Stop the War!
author: ;Harley Schlanger
link: https://eir.news/2025/05/news/an-anguished-voice-from-israel-haaretz-editorial-says-stop-the-war/
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/05/A_Palestinian_refugee_carries_his_injured_grandchildren_from_the_Israeli_bombing_of_Nuseirat_Camp-_Gaza_Strip.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>The <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2025-05-07/ty-article-opinion/we-must-not-avert-our-eyes-from-images-of-dead-children-in-gaza/00000196-ac31-d1bb-a5d6-aef56adc0000">lead editorial</a> in <em>Haaretz</em> on May 8 reflects a change in thinking underway in Israel.</p>
<p>Titled “We Cannot Look Away from the Images of Children Killed in Gaza,” the editorial reflects an emerging consciousness of the horrific crimes committed by the Netanyahu regime, leading some to finally say, “Enough.” One hears the anguish in this editorial, and in the chants of growing crowds of Israelis who are taking to the streets, demanding not only a deal to free the remaining hostages, but an end to the war, an end to the murderous actions driven by the psychosis of the supremacists in the regime, and an end to that regime.</p>
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guid: 681cce6d038a3200013a7912
title: Reports of U.S.-Russia Discussions Reviving Russian Gas Supplies to Europe
author: ;Bill Jones
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<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-russia-explore-ways-restore-russian-gas-flows-europe-sources-say-2025-05-08/">Reuters reports</a> that the U.S. and Russia are in discussions regarding the possibility of the U.S. buying Russian gas and supplying it to an energy-thirsty Europe. The Russian daily <em>Kommersant</em> indicates that these talks have been ongoing between Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Trump envoy Steven Witkoff. The story goes that the U.S. could invest in Gazprom, Nord Stream, or the pipeline going through Ukraine, and provide the gas that the Europeans are refusing directly from Russia. Witkoff would not comment to Reuters on this report, and Dmitriev claimed that such discussions were not underway. Those intent on perpetual warfare worry that the supply of Russian gas could help undermine the European opposition to a peace deal in Ukraine.</p>

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guid: 681cd158038a3200013a7925
title: Putin and Xi Issue Comprehensive Joint Statement after Meeting in Moscow
author: ;Bill Jones
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tags: #New World Paradigm #Russia and Ukraine #News
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/05/YAnU4YIHlrLPpSTc86CxrFqVRRXw8Fbv.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Moscow for more than seven hours, after which they signed a series of cooperation agreements. There was a larger meeting with the delegates, and then a one-on-one session over tea, where, among other matters, the leaders spoke about the possibility of resolving the Ukraine conflict.The Russian side noted that the visit of Xi to the Victory Day ceremonies was the most important visit of the many world leaders attending the event.</p>
<p>In his comments to the gathering, Xi underlined that China intended to “unswervingly deepen” its strategic relationship. In the joint statement, the two affirmed, “The parties will resolutely defend the results of the Victory in World War II, suppress attempts to falsify its history, belittle and deny the historical contribution of Russia and China to the Victory in World War II, denigrate the liberators, and sharply condemn actions related to the desecration or destruction of memorials to those who died during World War II.”</p>
<p>It also noted that “Moscow and Beijing will make every effort to counteract the increasing attempts to rehabilitate the misanthropic ideology of Nazism and racial superiority, and will continue to jointly oppose the glorification of Nazis and their accomplices, the rise of neo-Nazism, militaristic revanchism and practices that contribute to the escalation of various forms of racial discrimination, racism, xenophobia and related intolerance.”</p>
<p>“The parties declare their firm support for each other in ensuring sovereignty, territorial integrity, security and stability, preventing any attempts by external forces to impede the normal development of relations between the two states and interfere in their internal affairs, the right to independently choose a path of development, and the preservation of cultural and historical identity and traditional moral values.”</p>
<p>Russia recognized the one-China policy and rejected any moves by Taiwan to declare independence. China, in turn, stated that it “supports the efforts of the Russian side to ensure security and stability, national development and prosperity, sovereignty and territorial integrity, and opposes outside interference in Russia’s internal affairs.”</p>
<p>The agreement also called for the two sides to:</p>
<p>Promote the stable development of bilateral trade</p>
<p>Deepen ties in the field of investment</p>
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guid: 681cde48038a3200013a7967
author: ;David Shavin
link: https://eir.news/2025/05/news/u-s-vp-vance-dismisses-kievs-30-day-ceasefire-demand-as-an-obsession/
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tags: #U.S. and Canada #Russia and Ukraine #Ukraine conflict #News
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Vance Dismisses Kiev&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;30-Day Ceasefire&amp;#039; Demand as an &amp;#039;Obsession&amp;#039;

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<p>Coming out of the April 25 meeting between U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the issue has been for Kiev and Moscow to begin direct negotiations over their substantial differences. For 12 days, Kiev has refused, insisting that the issue is a 30-day complete truce, and Washington has not provided a clear message.</p>
<p>Yesterday, a media outlet asked U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, premised on Moscow being uninterested in ending the fighting, as to what the U.S. plans to do? Rejecting the premise, Vance replied: “I’m not yet that pessimistic on this, I wouldn’t say that the Russians are ‘uninterested.’ What I’d say is, right now, the Russians are asking for a certain set of concessions in order to end the conflict. We think they’re asking for too much.”</p>
<p>Without explicitly citing the Putin-Witkoff arrangement, Vance said that direct dialogue is key to resolving the conflict: “We’d like both the Russians and the Ukrainians to actually agree on some basic guidelines for sitting down and talking to one another. Obviously, the United States is happy to participate in these conversations. But it’s very important for the Russians and the Ukrainians to start talking to one another.”</p>
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guid: 681ce1d6038a3200013a797e
title: Congressional Hearing on Anti-Semitism Compared to McCarthy Hearings
author: ;Steven Carr
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<p>The House Committee on Education and the Workforce began hearings on anti-Semitism on May 7. Unlike the April hearings last year, the new hearing was put on the defensive, including by David Cole, a law professor from Georgetown University and former legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).</p>
<p>“These proceedings, with all due respect, have more in common with those of the House Un-American Activities Committee,” Cole said, referring to the HUAC committee that characterized the excesses of what is typically called McCarthyism. “They are not an attempt to find out what happened, but an attempt to chill protected speech.” Cole said that committee members had seized upon various complaints, which they have not investigated, and then brought in college presidents to “berate them based on the committee’s version of the facts, which may or may not be true.” Cole further argued that the student protesters are not hateful, but even had they been, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that “hate speech” may be reprehensible, but it is still protected, but what is not protected is any government discrimination based on that hate speech. Cole testified, “The line between protected speech that is anti-Semitic and discrimination that is anti-Semitic is a hard line to draw, but it’s a line that our Constitution compels us to draw. It’s not a line that I’ve heard a single Republican care about on this committee.”</p>
<p>“Getting to the bottom of what happened requires fair hearings, where both sides are heard about specific incidents,” he said. “This committee has not held a single hearing looking into a specific incident, having the perpetrator and the complainant testify.”</p>
<p>Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), who is Jewish, quoted from an April 23 <a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/23/campus/over-100-jewish-faculty-members-sign-statement-criticizing-trump-admin-for-punishing-nu-in-the-name-of-jews/">letter</a> from 100 Jewish faculty members from Northwestern University that says, “We are united by the conviction that our Jewishness must not be used as a cudgel to silence the vigorous exchange of ideas that lies at the heart of university life.”</p>


guid: 681ce427038a3200013a7989
title: Trump Replaces Surgeon-General Nominee Close to Waltz
author: ;Jason Ross
link: https://eir.news/2025/05/news/trump-replaces-surgeon-general-nominee-close-to-waltz/
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<p>Mike Waltz and family have had another setback within the Trump administration. Not long after Waltz was removed from his position as national security advisor, Trump withdrew his nomination of Waltz’s sister-in-law, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, to be the surgeon general. Janette Nesheiwat’s sister, Julia, who is married to Waltz, served briefly as Homeland Security Advisor in the first Trump administration.</p>
<p>Leaving aside the issue of Nesheiwat’s (or her replacement’s) competence to hold the position, this change is consistent with a broader shift away from Waltz’s attempts to drag the U.S. into a war with Iran.</p>
<p>In his <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114468502752133916">announcement</a> that he was instead nominating Dr. Casey Means, Trump said that Nesheiwat would be given another position in the Department of Health and Human Services.</p>


guid: 681ce609038a3200013a7994
title: Kiev Drones Interfere with Moscow Airports
author: ;David Shavin
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<p>After days of Ukraine’s threats of violence against the heads of many nations coming to Moscow to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the victory over the Nazis, last night, Ukraine’s acting president Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated, according to Ukrainska Pravda: “And it is entirely fair that the Russian sky—the sky of the aggressor—is not calm either today.” According to the Russian military, 20 Ukrainian drones had been destroyed around Moscow airports, while 60,000 passengers had 350 flights cancelled or rerouted.</p>
<p>While 29 leaders of nations are scheduled to attend, special actions were reserved for two European leaders, Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučić and Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico. Both Latvia and Lithuania denied the routine permission to use their airspace for the planes carrying the two leaders to Moscow. Vučić arrived yesterday and reported that he had had to take a circuitous route through Bulgaria, Türkiye, Azerbaijan, and Georgia; and that Kiev’s drone assault caused an extra delay, as he “barely got permission from the Russian authorities to fly over.”</p>
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guid: 681ce7ee038a3200013a79a3
author: ;David Shavin
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Serbia&amp;#039;s President, We Refused To &amp;#039;Welcome Hitler&amp;#039;s Soldiers with Flowers&amp;#039;

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<p>After refusing to submit to overt pressure and threats from the Brussels officialdom and surviving a grueling trip to Moscow for the 80th anniversary celebration of the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic addressed his countrymen via an interview in Moscow with Serbian Radio Television RTS. He stated: “I am proud to be the President of Serbia, a nation that has the right to be proud, because it did not welcome Hitler’s soldiers with flowers.” He explained that tens of millions of people suffered in order for us to live today, and that no one has the right to revise history. “I promised Putin I would come. I didn’t hide it from anyone.”</p>
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guid: 681cf579038a3200013a79cd
title: U.S. Bill Threatening Prison Sentence for Israel Boycotts Withdrawn from Vote
author: ;Jason Ross
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<p>An outrageous bill that could have <a href="https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section4819&amp;num=0&amp;edition=prelim">imposed</a> fines of up to $1 million and prison terms of up to 20 years on Americans supporting boycotts of Israel called for by international organizations, was withdrawn from its planned floor vote in the House of Representatives on May 5.</p>
<p>The bill, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/867/text">H.R. 867</a> would have expanded the (already outrageous) Anti-Boycott Act of 2018, which bans support for “restrictive trade practices or boycotts fostered or imposed by any foreign country against other countries friendly to the United States or against any United States person,” to also include boycotts called for by international governmental organizations (such as the UN).</p>
<p>Some of the notable statements of opposition:</p>
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guid: 681d03b1038a3200013a79d8
title: Putin and Xi Witness Signing of Documents And Address the Media
author: ;Bill Jones
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<p>President Vladimir Putin underlined the importance of the various agreements reached between Russia and China during President Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow for Victory Day. He said that China and Russia seek an extensive expansion of bilateral trade by 2030. He said there would be progress made in the construction of the second Power of Siberia gas pipeline through Mongolia to China, assuring China of a significant supply of natural gas. He noted their common interest in the expansion of the Eurasian transportation corridor through Siberia to China, which provides the logistics for a significant increase of trade and investment between the two countries.</p>
<p>Putin lauded the work of Rosatom in helping China in the nuclear field and the collaboration with China in the Nika accelerator complex in Dubna. He noted the extensive collaboration between the two countries in education, with 21,000 students studying in China and 51,000 Chinese students studying in Russia.</p>
<p>Putin also underlined the common position of the two nations with regard to the fundamental nature of the UN-based system and the central role of the UN Security Council in world affairs.</p>
<p>Xi focused on their collaboration during World War II in the fight against fascism. “Eighty years ago against fierce militarists and Nazis, the armies and peoples of China and Russia selflessly fought shoulder to shoulder, wrote a majestic chapter in the history of mankind, covering themselves with unfading glory,” Xi said. “The great friendship of our peoples is tempered by fire and sealed with blood.” He urged that China and Russia “stay defenders of the world order in the spirit of equality and justice.”</p>

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guid: 681d0a19038a3200013a79e5
title: Roscosmos and China Space Agency Sign Agreement on Nuclear Station On Moon
author: ;Bill Jones
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<p>Roscosmos and the China National Space Agency signed an agreement that Russia would build a lunar power station as a part of the joint Russia-China International Lunar Research Station (ILRS). Roscosmos specified that fundamental space research will be conducted at the station. The Russian power plant will be an important contribution to the International Scientific Lunar Station project, the creation of which is planned for 2036. Thirteen countries have joined in the Russia-China project.</p>

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guid: 681d0dc0038a3200013a79f4
title: Military Hostilities Between India and Pakistan Continue To Escalate
author: ;Bill Jones
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<p>Some 125 Pakistani and Indian aircraft were reportedly engaged in “dogfights” on May 7, with both sides confining themselves to their own airspace, but using long-range weapons. The Pakistani side said that they had downed five Indian aircraft, a claim that India has not confirmed.</p>
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<p>Today, President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1920537933737550087">unveiled</a> a <a href="https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-unveils-plan-build-brand-new-state-art-air">plan</a> to completely overhaul the nation’s air traffic control system — taking action where the Biden Administration refused, despite repeat <a href="https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-107001">warnings</a>.</p>
<p><strong>The announcement — which builds on the Trump Administration’s unprecedented actions to secure America’s skies and improve air travel — was praised by the nation’s major airlines:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><strong>United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby:</strong> “This really is an historic day — a day I have been looking forward to my entire career when I felt like we have turned the corner and are on the path to give the United States the best-in-class air traffic control system that the citizens of the United States deserve.”</li>
<li><strong>American Airlines CEO Robert Isom:</strong> “I’ve been in the airline business a long time, and that entire time, I’ve known that the U.S. air traffic control system was operating on antiquated technology. This plan from President Trump and Secretary Duffy is absolutely the best opportunity that we’ve had in decades to do something about our outdated air traffic control infrastructure and build a best-in-class system that our country deserves.”</li>
<li><strong>Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian:</strong> “I want to especially thank Secretary Duffy and the Administration for gathering us all here today and taking such a strong approach to overhauling our air traffic control system in the U.S. This has been a long time coming.”</li>
<li><strong>Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan:</strong> “I cannot say enough thanks to Secretary Duffy, to the administration, to President Trump for the stellar leadership to bring everyone together on this problem. This challenge is decades old, but I am absolutely confident that we can get this done and that we are finally going to address the real problem.”</li>
<li><strong>JetBlue CEO Joanna Geraghty:</strong> “We very much appreciate the leadership that you are bringing to this ATC modernization effort … This has quite literally been our number one priority for decades. I am proud to stand here today with what appears to be a solution and path to move forward.”</li>
</ul><p><strong>Key aspects of the Trump Administration’s</strong> <a href="https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/brand-new-air-traffic-control-system-plan"><strong>plan</strong></a> <strong>include:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>Replacing outdated infrastructure with state-of-the-art fiber, wireless, and satellite technologies at over 4,600 air traffic control sites — including 25,000 new radios, 600+ new radars, and 475 new voice switches.</li>
<li>Building six new air traffic control coordination centers for the first time in six decades.</li>
<li>Replacing towers and TRACONs and implementing modern hardware and software at all air traffic facilities to create a common platform throughout the network.</li>
</ul><figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-unveils-plan-build-brand-new-state-art-air" target="_blank" rel=" noreferrer noopener"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="639" height="205" src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/airtrafficcontroldotlogo.png" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-11918"></a></figure><p data-sanitized-class="has-text-align-center"><a href="https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-unveils-plan-build-brand-new-state-art-air" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong><em>Click here to learn more about the Trump Administration’s plan</em></strong></a></p>

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<p>Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV today.</p>
<p>Prevost is a Chicago native and a member of the Augustinian order. His diocese and his pastoral work has largely been in Peru, where he is a naturalized citizen. His initial comments on accepting the papacy, given in Italian and Spanish, commemorated the role of Francis and indicated he would be following in his path. His message was focused on the importance of peace—and love. He gave a special greeting in Spanish to his Peruvian diocese. Francis, who also served the church in Ibero-America, brought Prevost to Rome to be in charge of the appointment of bishops. This factor was probably not overlooked by the College of Cardinals.</p>
<p>His choice of name harkens back to Leo XIII, the great reformer of the Church in the 19th Century. Leo was also the Pope who changed the Church’s attitude to labor unions and the workers’ movement.</p>
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<div><img src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WH47-Social-Share-Card.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>In February, President Donald J. Trump <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/us-britain-will-have-trade-agreement-trump-says-alongside-starmer-2025-02-27/">promised</a> “a great trade agreement” with the United Kingdom — and today he delivered with a “<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/past-events/%F0%9F%9A%A8-a-good-deal-trump-announces-the-first-breakthrough-trade-deal-between-america-and-the-u-k/">breakthrough</a>” trade deal that expands market access, curbs non-tariff barriers, and levels the playing field for American exporters.</p>
<p><strong>Promises made, promises kept — and he’s just getting started.</strong></p>
<p>It’s the first such deal under President Trump’s transformational plan to liberate Americans from globalist trade policies that make foreign countries rich while Americans get robbed. It’s all part of President Trump’s vision of economic prosperity: fair trade, historic tax cuts, deregulation, and a manufacturing revival that will cement America’s new Golden Age for decades to come.</p>
<p><strong>Here’s what they’re saying:</strong></p><p><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1920524926869512590">National Cattlemen’s Beef Association President Buck Wehrbein</a>: “With this trade deal, President Trump has delivered a tremendous win for American family farmers and ranchers. For years, American cattle producers have seen the United Kingdom as an ideal partner for trade. Between our countries’ shared history, culture, and their desire for high-quality American beef, securing a trade agreement is a natural step forward. Thank you President Trump for fighting for American cattle producers.”</p>
<p><a href="https://ethanolrfa.org/media-and-news/category/news-releases/article/2025/05/rfa-thanks-president-for-securing-greater-market-access-for-ethanol-in-uk-trade-agreement">Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Geoff Cooper</a>: “We sincerely thank President Trump and his trade negotiators for ensuring that American-made ethanol is an important part of the trade agreement announced today with the United Kingdom. While we are still awaiting the specific details of the agreement, we are excited about the prospects of expanded market access that will help boost our farm economy, while also delivering lower-cost, cleaner fuel to UK drivers.”</p>
<p><a href="https://ncga.com/stay-informed/media/in-the-news/article/2025/05/ncga-expresses-support-for-uk-trade-agreement">National Corn Growers Association President Kenneth Hartman, Jr.</a>: “This is great news. We applaud President Trump and his administration for brokering this deal, and we encourage them to continue to include corn, corn ethanol and corn co-products in future bilateral agreements with other countries.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dairyfoods.com/articles/98193-idfa-applauds-us-uk-trade-announcement">International Dairy Foods Association President and CEO Michael Dykes, D.V.M.</a>: “On behalf of America’s dairy processors and producers, IDFA applauds President Trump’s announcement today that the United States and the United Kingdom have reached the terms for a significant trade deal between our two markets that promises to expand access for U.S. agricultural goods, reduce tariffs, and remove barriers to trade … For too long, the UK has limited America’s food and agricultural exports to the world’s sixth largest economy and now President Trump’s deal promises to level the playing field. IDFA looks forward to studying the details of this agreement as they emerge, especially specifics on relief and new market access opportunities for U.S. dairy products. The United States offers the world’s most wholesome, high-quality and affordable dairy products and IDFA is excited to work with our member companies to bring these delicious products to more consumers in the United Kingdom.”</p>
<p><a href="https://growthenergy.org/2025/05/08/uk-trade-deal/">Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor</a>: “In terms of trade with the UK, the American ethanol industry had its best year ever last year of exports valued at over $535 million. This trade agreement puts us on track to set another record, all to the benefit of American farmers, biofuel producers, and UK consumers. We look forward to learning more, and finding new ways to help the UK achieve its economic and environmental goals through the increased use of American biofuels. We commend the President and his team for making this deal and creating new opportunities for American ethanol and rural America.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.nasda.org/state-departments-of-agriculture-applaud-u-s-u-k-trade-deal-reinforce-commitment-to-agricultural-partnership/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">National Association of State Departments of Agriculture CEO Ted McKinney</a>: “This agreement marks a significant step forward for U.S. farmers and ranchers, and U.K. agriculture and consumers as well. We applaud the leadership of both governments in forging a partnership that opens new markets in both countries.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.jobcreatorsnetwork.com/press_releases/job-creators-network-celebrates-trumps-trade-deal-with-the-uk/">Job Creators Network CEO Alfredo Ortiz</a>: “Trump’s trade deal with the United Kingdom is a big victory for small businesses, American consumers, and the Trump administration itself. By reducing tariffs and trade barriers, American small businesses will be able to expand their markets and more easily sell to the relatively wealthy UK, whose population is 70 million. American consumers — including small businesses — will also get cheaper access to British goods. President Trump’s tough tariff stance is starting to pay dividends in the form of fairer and freer trade deals that put America first. The many more deals to come will greatly improve the small business economy, financial markets, and American prosperity.”</p>
<p><a href="https://consumerbrandsassociation.org/press-releases/consumer-brands-issues-statement-on-the-trump-administrations-uk-trade-deal/">Consumer Brands Association President and CEO Melissa Hockstad</a>: “Consumer Brands commends the Trump administration’s successful completion of a comprehensive trade deal with the United Kingdom. As President Trump and his team pursues the America First Trade Policy agenda, the consumer packaged goods industry — America’s largest domestic manufacturing sector by employment — supports the creation of new opportunities for U.S. businesses and efforts to address unfair trade barriers around the world. As the administration continues to pursue deals with other countries, we encourage U.S. trade representatives to examine the needs of different manufacturing sectors and prioritize maintaining access to unavailable natural resources. Ensuring continued trade flows of those key ingredients, which are not available from U.S. sources, is critical to achieving the president’s economic vision, fighting grocery inflation and protecting the 22.3 million American jobs supported by food, beverage, household and personal care manufacturers.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.businessroundtable.org/business-roundtable-welcomes-u-s-uk-trade-deal" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Business Roundtable CEO Joshua Bolten</a>: “Business Roundtable applauds President Trump for reaching a trade deal with the United Kingdom that expands market access for U.S. exports. We welcome commitments from both governments to continue working to resolve other trade issues and encourage them to address the United Kingdom’s digital services taxes, which unfairly disadvantage American companies.”</p>
<p><a href="https://prosperousamerica.org/cpa-applauds-trump-administration-for-prioritizing-revenue-and-protection-in-new-u-s-uk-trade-deal/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Coalition for a Prosperous America Chairman Zach Mottl</a>: “This deal is a clear validation of President Trump’s America First trade strategy. By maintaining the 10% baseline tariff and capping UK auto imports at 100,000 vehicles per year before higher tariffs apply, the administration is demonstrating that trade policy can and should be used to protect and rebuild domestic industry. This is exactly the kind of strategic, outcomes-focused approach we’ve been advocating.”</p>
<p><strong>HSBC USA President &amp; CEO Lisa McGeough:</strong> “Today’s landmark US – UK trade agreement marks a significant step in strengthening transatlantic economic ties and expanding opportunities for businesses and investors. As a British-headquartered bank with a strong US footprint, we’re uniquely positioned to help American companies and investors seize new growth opportunities domestically, in the UK, and beyond. In the US, we stand ready to leverage our position as the world’s leading trade bank to facilitate cross-border commerce, support job creation, and drive investment. We commend the administration on the first of what we hope will be many forward-looking trade agreements.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.fb.org/news-release/farm-bureau-encouraged-by-u-k-trade-deal">American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall</a>: “Farm Bureau appreciates the work between the administration and the United Kingdom to secure a new trade agreement. We have long advocated for new trade deals, and this is an important first step in expanding markets in the four countries … We’re encouraged by progress to create market opportunities for farmers.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.wispolitics.com/2025/wmc-issues-statement-on-u-s-trade-deal-with-uk/">Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce President and CEO Kurt Bauer</a>: “Securing this landmark agreement with the UK is an important step forward for American manufacturers and workers. Strengthening our relationship with a key partner, the deal begins the process of clearing economic uncertainty and provides clarity and stability that Wisconsin manufacturers need to plan for long-term growth. WMC applauds President Trump for delivering an agreement that strengthens our economic landscape, and we look forward to similar deals to come.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/TeamPillen/status/1920506823590773225">Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen</a>: “Trade matters to Nebraska because our farmers and ranchers produce the absolute best – and feed the world. America’s relationship with the U.K. is longstanding, and there is great potential for expanded trade between our countries. President Trump and his administration know that we need more trade with fewer barriers, and they are working around the clock to finalize trade deals with partners across the globe. That’s good news for Nebraska.”</p>
<p><a href="https://iowaagriculture.gov/news/trade-announcement-UK">Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig</a>: “A new trade deal with a key ally like the United Kingdom is great news and so I am very encouraged by President Trump’s announcement today. I am particularly pleased to hear the President tout expanded market access for ethanol, beef, and, as he put it, ‘virtually all the products produced by our great farmers’ … Today’s trade announcement demonstrates that there is real progress being made toward opening additional markets for Iowa products across the globe. I hope this deal is the first of many that will be announced with other trading partners in the coming weeks and months.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/SenJohnBarrasso/status/1920529757579493403">Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso</a>: “It’s good to have the dealmaker-in-chief back in the White House. President Trump’s historic trade deal with the U.K. will mean more jobs and increased investment right here in America. More promises kept.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/SenatorBanks/status/1920513410862600718">Sen. Jim Banks</a>: “Art of the Deal!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/JohnBoozman/status/1920563400066617385">Sen. John Boozman</a>: “I just spoke on the phone with USTR Ambassador Greer to discuss the good news. He’s doing a great job, and I look forward to working with him and @SecRollins to ensure agriculture market access remains a priority as the details continue to be worked out.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/JohnCornyn/status/1920425799414419817">Sen. John Cornyn</a>: “@POTUS Donald Trump will unveil his first post-Liberation Day trade deal this morning — a “major” agreement with the United Kingdom on rolling back tariffs.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/SenJoniErnst/status/1920520075682996353">Sen. Joni Ernst</a>: “President Trump continues to deliver and is opening new markets for Iowa farmers!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/SenatorHagerty/status/1920506802195542098">Sen. Bill Hagerty</a>: “No surprise that our Dealmaker-in-Chief President Donald Trump is rapidly delivering on his promise to ensure our trading partners are operating in good faith and that America is being treated fairly. The deal the President struck with the UK is proof that countries are responding to tariffs and want to enter into trade agreements with the United States that benefit both parties. I look forward to many more announcements in the near future.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RogerMarshallMD/status/1920508882973016249">Sen. Roger Marshall</a>: “Promises made. Promises kept. We are opening up new markets for our world class Kansas beef! Big win.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/JerryMoran/status/1920549416441622683">Sen. Jerry Moran</a>: “The UK offers a strategic market for American aviation &amp; agricultural products. I introduced legislation earlier this year to lay the groundwork for a strong bilateral trade relationship, &amp; President Trump’s announcement of a new trade agreement with the UK is a positive step forward.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/berniemoreno/status/1920505678344368612">Sen. Bernie Moreno</a>: “An absolutely historic pro America deal by the most pro America President of my lifetime. We will no longer be ripped off and will no longer tolerate trade imbalances that have destroyed the opportunities for working Americans.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/SenEricSchmitt/status/1920482154175246660">Sen. Eric Schmitt</a>: “After years of getting ripped off, America is finally playing to win. More exports, more products made here, and record-breaking investment thanks to President Trump’s trade deals.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/SenRickScott/status/1920492418383728659">Sen. Rick Scott</a>: “Great news! Thank you, President Trump, for working with our allies while putting America first and protecting American jobs!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/TimSheehyMT/status/1920516350063046702">Sen. Tim Sheehy</a>: “The Art of the Deal. President Trump just delivered a huge win for hardworking Americans. Let’s keep them coming!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/SenThomTillis/status/1920495696349720720">Sen. Thom Tillis</a>: “A big win secured by @POTUS with the United Kingdom, our greatest ally and one of our largest trade partners. This is a significant step toward establishing fair and mutually beneficial trade relationships with our global partners.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/SenTuberville/status/1920504617479160145">Sen. Tommy Tuberville</a>: “Today’s trade deal with the UK is the first of many to come. Like I always say: Never bet against @realDonaldTrump. THE ART OF THE DEAL”</p>
<p><a href="mailto:House%20Majority%20Whip%20Tom%20Emmer">House Majority Whip Tom Emmer</a>: “The master negotiator succeeds again. @POTUS promised to bring our trading partners to the table and secure deals that put AMERICA FIRST—and that’s exactly what he did. More to come!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepLisaMcClain/status/1920504463833317572">House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain</a>: “Promises Made, Promises KEPT! @POTUS brought countries to the negotiation table and has already DELIVERED a historic trade deal.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepStefanik/status/1920497171918438510">House Republican Leadership Chair Elise Stefanik</a>: “President @realDonaldTrump delivers AGAIN. Thanks to his bold leadership and tough tariffs, the UK is the first to come to the table—with a new trade deal that puts American workers and businesses FIRST. This is what economic strength and real leadership looks like. Fair trade. Better deals. America wins.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepMarkAlford/status/1920498760234221632">Rep. Mark Alford</a>: “Fact check: President Trump’s tariff strategy works. Boosting American manufacturing and fighting for our farmers. ANOTHER WIN FOR AMERICA.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepRickAllen/status/1920497883658190953">Rep. Rick Allen</a>: “Another VICTORY! @POTUS is bringing our trading partners to the table and securing billions in new market access for American workers, businesses, and producers. Today’s trade deal with the U.K. will be the first of many. Economic strength is national strength!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepDonBacon/status/1920552010459271252">Rep. Don Bacon</a>: “I congratulate @POTUS on striking a trade deal with the U.K. While we wait for the finer details of the agreement, including more than $700 million in ethanol exports and $250 million in other AG products like beef, every Nebraskan will surely feel it.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepAaronBean/status/1920535118218707109">Rep. Aaron Bean</a>: “President Trump announced the first historic trade deal with the UK—something the legacy media said was ‘impossible.’ Today’s deal will make our economy stronger, put American workers first, and unleash the full potential of American industry.”</p>
<p><a href="https://buchanan.house.gov/2025/5/buchanan-applauds-historic-u-s-uk-trade-deal">Rep. Vern Buchanan</a>: “President Trump has once again delivered for the American people with a historic trade agreement that puts our workers and businesses first. This new deal with the United Kingdom dramatically expands access for American exports—especially agriculture—and levels the playing field for our manufacturers.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepTimBurchett/status/1920567769814168030">Rep. Tim Burchett</a>: “.@realDonaldTrump is fulfilling his promise to protect American workers and businesses. The UK trade deal slashes tariffs against the U.S. and is Making America Prosperous Again.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepBuddyCarter/status/1920532909640872128">Rep. Buddy Carter</a>: “This new trade deal with the United Kingdom is just the start to the Golden Age of America. President Trump is keeping his promise, bringing fair trade to America by using the art of the deal!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/Rep_Clyde/status/1920506452013088950">Rep. Andrew Clyde</a>: “ART OF THE DEAL in action!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepMikeCollins/status/1920496905127084120">Rep. Mike Collins</a>: “President Trump’s tariff strategy works. Today’s trade deal with the U.K. will make our economy stronger and put American workers first. The only people upset are the Democrats and liberal media who wanted him to fail.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/Rep_Davidson/status/1920507868266090566">Rep. Warren Davidson</a>: “A glaring example of why we need to trust President Trump’s tariff strategy—it’s working. Stay the course.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepPatFallon/status/1920499132512260453">Rep. Pat Fallon</a>: “Another day, another deal!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepFischbach/status/1920514643639849267">Rep. Michelle Fischbach</a>: “More promises made and kept by @POTUS. He said he would hold our trade partners accountable and put America first, and he’s delivering. This is just the beginning!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepFedorchak/status/1920528950062715062">Rep. Julie Fedorchak</a>: “@POTUS is delivering exactly what our producers need. North Dakota grows and raises some of the best products in the world, and now we have greater access to one of the world’s largest markets. This is just the first of many trade victories to come under President Trump!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepChuck/status/1920513900518232521">Rep. Chuck Fleischmann</a>: “@POTUS is ending decades of unfair trade deals that have ripped off the American People and is moving at lightning speed to negotiate and deliver America First trade deals. The US-UK trade deal announced today is historic and is only just the beginning!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/USRepMikeFlood/status/1920550934251282567">Rep. Mike Flood</a>: “Over the last four years, President Biden did nothing on trade. Within a matter of months, President Trump’s dealmaking experience resulted in a trade deal with the United Kingdom, one of our country’s oldest allies.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/virginiafoxx/status/1920511702006682004">Rep. Virginia Foxx</a>: “The Art of The Deal.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/Lancegooden/status/1920506513958768643">Rep. Lance Gooden</a>: “In four years, Joe Biden signed ZERO major trade deals. In just over 100 days, President Trump negotiated and signed a major trade deal with the United Kingdom. America is leading once again.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepMarkGreen/status/1920525968302616821">Rep. Mark Green</a>: “Once again, the Negotiator-in-Chief is closing deals to safeguard American manufacturers and grow our trade bigger and better than ever. On Victory in Europe Day, there isn’t a better anniversary to solidify our partnership with the United Kingdom.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1920557512115318898">Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene</a>: “Another incredible trade deal just secured by President Trump! The Golden Age of America is here!!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepHarshbarger/status/1920503185094918218">Rep. Diana Harshbarger</a>: “This is a HUGE WIN! Because of @POTUS’s leadership, America is securing historic economic deals—and this is just the beginning!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepAshleyHinson/status/1920501892695613862">Rep. Ashley Hinson</a>: “Huge win—and many more to come! @POTUS is fighting to right the wrongs of the past, return to fair trade, and build a more abundant America. Thank you for prioritizing new market opportunities for Iowa’s farmers and biofuels producers.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepRichHudson/status/1920505848943530431">Rep. Richard Hudson</a>: “This is what decisive leadership looks like. Thank you, @POTUS!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepWPH/status/1920495273714896981">Rep. Wesley Hunt</a>: “Economic Security IS National Security — and PRESIDENT TRUMP is doing it again! This HISTORIC DEAL delivers:<br>A stronger industrial base<br>Tougher export controls<br>Protection of U.S. tech<br>Boosted steel production<br>This is the Art of the Deal — the world is taking notes!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1920507966807036345">Rep. Jim Jordan</a>: “President Trump’s trade deal with the UK is the first of many to come. There’s no better negotiator. There’s no one better to fix Joe Biden’s broken economy.”</p><p><a href="https://x.com/RepYoungKim/status/1920530388411150764">Rep. Young Kim</a>: “I’m glad to see the Trump administration work with our ally Britain to promote fair trade and expand market opportunity for U.S. agricultural producers.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepDavidKustoff/status/1920521830814646362">Rep. David Kustoff</a>: “Today, @POTUS unveiled a historic U.S.-UK trade deal. $5B in new market access, $6B in tariff revenue, and a stronger alliance! @realdonaldtrump keeps delivering on his promises! This is America First!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepLoudermilk/status/1920514066147098832">Rep. Barry Loudermilk</a>: “America has spent far too long on the losing end of global trade. President Trump pledged to put America’s interests first, and he is doing so beginning with this trade deal with one of our oldest allies. #promiseskept.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepMcClintock/status/1920534039561142282">Rep. Tom McClintock</a>: “The freer the trade, the greater the benefits for all countries involved. The UK agreement takes us in the right direction. Let’s keep going toward a new golden age of global free trade and the peace and prosperity it produces.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepMeuser/status/1920524402049102102">Rep. Dan Meuser</a>: “This is a strong step forward. Fairer trade, lower energy costs, and pro-growth tax policies will keep driving investment here at home. I also laid out how we can responsibly reduce spending while extending key provisions of President Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which delivered significant benefits for families and small businesses.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepMaryMiller/status/1920511398162866569">Rep. Mary Miller</a>: “THE ART OF THE DEAL!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepRileyMoore/status/1920495264156045533">Rep. Riley Moore</a>: “Absolute genius to announce this deal on V-E Day!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepTroyNehls/status/1920504463162306949">Rep. Troy Nehls</a>: President Trump is the Dealmaker in Chief. He has reached a historic trade deal with the United Kingdom. President Trump and his entire administration are working hard to protect American industries, protect American workers, and grow our economy. AMERICA FIRST!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepRalphNorman/status/1920516831388819592">Rep. Ralph Norman</a>: “MASSIVE win for our farmers who will have the opportunity for a wider range in markets!! Art of the deal.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepOgles/status/1920499543705084203">Rep. Andy Ogles</a>: “President Trump delivers again!! This deal will bring billions home and make America stronger, richer, and more respected. A huge win for the American people.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/USRepGaryPalmer/status/1920499064904298841">Rep. Gary Palmer</a>: “A win for our nation secured by President Trump! This is what it looks like to have leadership in the White House.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepPfluger/status/1920505407631409236">Rep. August Pfluger</a>: “President Trump just secured a huge trade deal—one I believe will be the first of many. This massive win for all Americans brings us one step closer to restoring fair trade policies.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepAdrianSmith/status/1920562682626748895">Rep. Adrian Smith</a>: “I’m pleased the Trump administration has struck an initial trade deal with one of our nation’s greatest trade partners and longest-standing allies. This is a significant step toward eliminating barriers to American products in foreign markets and friendshoring supply chains. I commend President Trump and his administration for conducting negotiations swiftly to the mutual benefit of our producers, job creators, and consumers. This agreement builds upon the groundwork laid in the President’s first term, and I am pleased the administration has indicated it continues to pursue dynamic dialogue with the United Kingdom to address additional concerns.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepStutzman/status/1920508229575909612">Rep. Marlin Stutzman</a>: “As @POTUS says, the first of many, this is a great day for America! A combination of Trump’s trade deals and the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill will make our country strong for generations to come.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepTenney/status/1920557281973866861">Rep. Claudia Tenney</a>: “.@POTUS is continuing to put America FIRST, working to strengthen our economy &amp; national security by achieving historic trade deals. This is a huge win for American manufacturers &amp; farmers, &amp; there is only more winning to come!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepBethVanDuyne/status/1920524628725760208">Rep. Beth Van Duyne</a>: “The first of many historic trade deals!! Better market access for US products!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepWebster/status/1920522038676238555">Rep. Daniel Webster</a>: “Once again, @POTUS delivers for the American people by securing a historic trade deal with our key ally, the United Kingdom. This agreement lowers trade barriers, opening $5 billion of increased market access for American exports, especially for American farmers. Thank you President Trump for putting America’s farmers, businesses, and workers first!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepTonyWied/status/1920514173894578295">Rep. Tony Wied</a>: “The Art of the Deal.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepRudyYakym/status/1920519977385259333">Rep. Rudy Yakym</a>: “President Trump is bringing countries to the table and securing fair trade deals. The first of many!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepRyanZinke/status/1920536641988358522">Rep. Ryan Zinke</a>: “Great news for Montana! The UK is our 6th largest trade partner and this will help that grow!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/HouseAgGOP/status/1920494751465222605">House Committee on Agriculture</a>: “This announcement is a big win for American agriculture! @POTUS is unlocking billions in new market access for U.S. exports like beef, ethanol, and more—boosting our GREAT farmers and rural economies!”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/RepublicanStudy/status/1920510162327978267">Republican Study Committee</a>: “Another day, another historic deal secured by President Trump! This is a MASSIVE victory for American workers. PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT!”</p>

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<p><strong><em>Con l’inaugurazione del corridoio marittimo Novorossiysk-Lagos e l’affermazione dell’Alleanza degli Stati del Sahel si prospetta un vero e proprio sconvolgimento geopolitico che porta l’Africa occidentale sempre più lontana dall’Occidente.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Nel  settembre 2023, i vertici militari di Mali, Niger e Burkina Faso hanno annunciato la nascita dell’Alleanza degli Stati Sahel. Questa veniva presentata come una “architettura di difesa collettiva e mutua assistenza a beneficio della rispettive comunità”. Di fatto, si tratta(va) di una combinazione di sforzi militari ed economici congiunti per limitare la presenza gihadista nella regione di Liptako-Gourma, dove si incontrano i tre Stati e dove vive il 45% della loro popolazione complessiva (che si aggira sui 73 milioni di persone). Da questa area, la ribellione gihadista, iniziata in Mali nel 2012 (e ben raccontata anche sul piano cinematografico dal regista Abderrahmane Sissako con la pellicola <em>Timbuktu</em>), si era estesa sul territorio di Niger e Burkina Faso a partire dal 2015. E l’incapacità dei rispettivi governi ad affrontare la minaccia dei gruppi legati ad al-Qaeda (come <em>Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin</em>) ed al sedicente Stato Islamico (Provincia del Sahel) – e le non meno pericolose e diffuse ribellioni tuareg (il Movimento indipendentista Azawad nel Mali settentrionale che taluni presentano come legato all’Algeria) – è stato uno dei motivi che ha scatenato il risentimento militare (scarso equipaggiamento ed addestramento approssimativo hanno portato le forze armate di questi Paesi a subire notevoli perdite negli scontri con suddette milizie) e dato il là a tutta una serie di colpi di Stato che, a partire dal 2021 (con la salita al potere del generale Assimi Goita in Mali), ha sconvolto il panorama politico e geopolitico regionale.</p>
<p>Nel gennaio successivo, i tre Stati optarono per l’uscita unilaterale dall’ECOWAS (la Comunità Economica degli Stati dell’Africa Occidentale), e quando la stessa ECOWAS minacciò l’intervento militare diretto per ristabilire la “legalità democratica” in Niger, a seguito del colpo di Stato che ha defenestrato il Presidente Mohamed Bazoum, Mali e Burkina Faso comunicarono che avrebbero percepito la cosa come una dichiarazione di guerra a tutti gli effetti.</p>
<p>Nel 2022, inoltre, il Mali ha scelto di mandare via il contingente militare francese che, in linea teorica, avrebbe dovuta contenere la ribellione gihadista (senza grandi risultati, ad onor del vero). Lo stesso è avvenuto in Burkina Faso; mentre il Niger ha optato per una drastica riduzione della cooperazione con Parigi.</p>
<p>A questo proposito, non è errato affermare che l’Alleanza sia impostata alla riduzione della presenza neocoloniale francese nella regione che dal Sahel arriva al Golfo di Guinea. Ed in questo senso, non è affatto da sottovalutare il ruolo della Russia che ai tre Stati dell’Alleanza sta offrendo addestramento, ripristino delle strutture militare distrutte nel conflitto con le milizie gihadiste, fornitura di tecnologia satellitare e bellica (droni e blindati in particolar modo), presenza in loco di compagnie militari private (l’Africa Corps, o Gruppo Wagner, continua a mantenere una notevole presenza soprattutto in Mali), e garanzie di protezione (come nel caso del giovane capitano Ibrahima Traoré, leader del colpo di Stato in Burkina Faso). Senza considerare la partecipazione di Mosca per ciò che concerne i progetti minerari (il Niger, ad esempio, è estremamente ricco di Uranio – e la Francia non potrebbe permettersi di perderlo totalmente) o quelli infrastrutturali (dove anche la Repubblica Popolare Cinese gioca un ruolo di primo piano).</p>
<p>In altri termini, il consolidamento dell’Alleanza degli Stati Sahel si palesa come l’ennesimo fallimento della politica estera francese sotto la presidenza di Emmanuel Macron, colui che affermava che non era il caso di umiliare troppo Vladimir Putin in Ucraina. Il Presidente francese, nonostante le sue pseudo ambizioni neonapoleoniche, di fatto, sembra aver fallito su tutta la linea per quanto riguarda il contenimento/isolamento della Russia sul piano internazionale. E le sue posizioni intransigenti sul conflitto ucraino, assieme a quelle dei vertici comunitari europei, appaiono come il riflesso della loro incapacità di comprensione delle traiettorie geopolitiche globali e, di conseguenza, come la rovinosa estremizzazione (e negazione) di suddetto fallimento. Dopotutto, come ebbe modo di affermare a suo tempo il pensatore francese Alain de Benoist, coloro i quali si occupano della costruzione europea purtroppo non hanno la benché minima idea in materia di geopolitica.</p>
<p>Tornando al ruolo russo nella ricostruzione del panorama geopolitico dell’Africa occidentale appare meritevole di una breve parentesi l’apertura del corridoio marittimo che da Novorossiysk, sul Mar Nero, arriva, attraverso il Mediterraneo, Gibilterra e le coste occidentali africane, a Lagos in Nigeria. La rotta, studiata dalla compagnia russa <em>A7 African Cargo Lines</em> (di nuova creazione, ma già strumento di primo piano per ottenere un ruolo fondamentale in quella che potrebbe essere definita come “geopolitica dei container”, elemento cruciale della progressiva affermazione del multipolarismo), di fatto, riduce i costi di trasporto tra Russia ed Africa occidentale del 50%. Non solo, questa, con la possibilità di essere estesa al Senegal ed anche all’altro lato dell’Atlantico, verso l’America Latina, si presenta come un passo decisivo per l’affermazione di un nuovo paradigma per ciò che concerne la politica internazionale: quelle relazioni Sud-Sud di cui si fece portavoce il pensatore brasiliano André Martin introducendo il concetto di “meridionalismo”, e che, a suo modo di vedere, avrebbero dovuto rappresentare il fondamento di una alleanza strategica tra i Paesi latinoamericani, africani ed asiatici, per il raggiungimento del medesimo livello di sviluppo dell’emisfero settentrionale.</p>
<p>Ad ogni modo, nel contesto africano, pare importante sottolineare anche la potenziale cooperazione tra il gigante nigeriano (oltre 200 milioni di abitanti, enormi risorse naturali e fresco membro BRICS – il suo ingresso risale al gennaio dell’anno corrente) e l’Alleanza degli Stati del Sahel per ciò che concerne la lotta alle organizzazioni criminali transfrontaliere ed all’estremismo gihadista di cui la stessa Nigeria è affetta nelle regioni settentrionali, dove Boko Haram continua a rappresentare una seria minaccia alla stabilità dell’area (gruppi ad esso affiliati sono infatti presenti anche in Mali, Niger e Ciad).</p>
<p>In questo senso, lo sviluppo di reti infrastrutturali transnazionali risulta fondamentale per assicurare una connessione economica capace di garantire sviluppo ad aree per troppo dimenticate e  considerate meritevoli di attenzione (da parte occidentale) solo in termini di creazione di rapporti di dipendenza neocoloniali.</p>
<p>Nello specifico, il collegamento Novorssoiysk-Lagos porterà in Africa cereali, fertilizzanti e macchinari per lo sviluppo tecnologico dell’agricoltura in loco; mentre trasferirà in Russia cotone, minerali e prodotti agricoli. Allo stesso tempo, mette in risalto il desiderio di diversificazione e di interconnettersi sul piano globale della Nigeria, economia in rapida crescita ma la cui megalopoli più importante (proprio Lagos) rimane ancora sostanzialmente esclusa dalle più influenti reti commerciali internazionali e, di conseguenza, da quello che è stato definito come il “ciclo della ricchezza”.</p>
<p>In conclusione, è doveroso sottolineare anche come la crescita esponenziale della presenza russa in Africa rappresenti un elemento estremamente preoccupante per l’Alleanza Atlantica, visto che questa, a prescindere dalle esternazioni bellicose, sul suo lato meridionale si trova di fronte ad una doppia catena di Paesi, dall’Africa del Nord (Algeria, Libia, Egitto) a quella sahariana (Sudan, Ciad, Niger, Mali) e subsahariana (si pensi al ruolo del Gruppo Wagner nella Repubblica Centrafricana), in cui l’influenza di Mosca non accenna minimamente a diminuire.</p>
<p>Di fatto, dal primo summit Russia-Africa del 2019 (al quale parteciparono 43 capi di Stato africani), la penetrazione russa in Africa è rimasta costante ed assicurata dal fatto che Mosca, alla pari di Pechino, non richiede precise condizioni politiche in cambio di aiuti o dello sviluppo di iniziative commerciali bilaterali. Questo, naturalmente, ha portato i media occidentali a descrivere la Russia come un fattore destabilizzante, la cui disinformazione avrebbe portato milioni di persone a guardare con sospetto dei governi percepiti come marionette dell’Occidente (Stati Uniti, Gran Bretagna e Francia, in particolare) e, di conseguenza, a sostenere con fermezza i regimi militari nazionalisti appoggiati da Mosca. Tuttavia, l’Occidente, di fronte alla sua crisi di influenza in Africa, dovrebbe compiere prima di tutto un serio esame di coscienza. Infatti, in più di una occasione, le varie insurrezioni gihadiste si sono presentate come uno strumento per riaffermare sistemi di penetrazione militare e di controllo delle risorse di tipo coloniale in cui l’Occidente stesso, da un lato godeva dell’appropriazione di materie prime in cambio di poco o nulla; mentre, dall’altro, data la sostanziale inefficacia dell’intervento, lasciava il Paese colpito in una condizione anche peggiore di quella in cui si trovava inizialmente. Si pensi, ad esempio, al Burkina Faso che, all’inizio di questo decennio, ha rapidamente superato l’Afghanistan in termini di vittime del terrorismo.</p>
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