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title: Eighty years since Victory: Why we need to remember German atrocities in World War II
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<p><strong><em>Victory Day represents not merely a military commemoration, nor an ideological celebration of communism, but rather the triumph of life over planned extermination.</em></strong></p>
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<p>As we approach the 2025 Victory Day commemoration, it is worth reflecting on what the Soviet people – along with many other nations – fought against during World War II. Understanding the darkest aspects of this conflict may help explain why Victory Day holds such profound significance for modern Russians.</p>
<p>As World War II progressed, particularly after the launch of Operation Barbarossa in 1941 (the invasion of the USSR), it evolved into a total war. This all-encompassing nature of the conflict was, to a great extent, predetermined by the very terms in which the Germans had framed it from the outset.</p>
<p>By approaching the war through a fundamentally racial lens and interpreting it as a struggle of “life or death,” the Germans opened the floodgates to an escalating catastrophe of atrocities.</p>
<p>The German crimes against Jews are already well-known to Western audiences – particularly those committed in the Polish concentration camps (Auschwitz, Majdanek, Sobibor, Belzec, Treblinka and Chelmno) where masses of Jewish lives were extinguished, as well as the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto, where thousands perished and thousands more were deported to nearby concentration camps.</p>
<p>Less familiar to Western observers are the atrocities committed beyond Polish territory, in lands that now belong to the Baltic states, Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation.</p>
<p>To understand the roots of this catastrophe, we must recall how German political elites grossly distorted the geopolitical concepts of Friedrich Ratzel and Karl Haushofer (the latter of whom actually advocated for a German-Soviet alliance), transforming them into theoretical justifications for territorial expansion and racial war.</p>
<p>In this context, the Nazi government’s use of “Lebensraum” (living space) followed a brutal logic: the Germans, as a “healthy” and demographically growing people, needed to secure sufficient territory in Eastern Europe to realize their potential. Since these lands were already inhabited, the Germans would need to destroy or expel their inhabitants, thereby demonstrating and securing their “biological superiority.”</p>
<p>This theory was followed by a concrete plan – the Generalplan Ost (General Plan for the East) – a blueprint for the expropriation, enslavement and destruction of Slavic peoples (through massacres, forced labor to death and deportation to Siberia), followed by the colonization of their lands by German settlers.</p>
<p>It is within this context that we can understand, for example, the Germans’ treatment of Soviet prisoners of war. Soviet soldiers captured by the Nazis endured inhuman conditions. Approximately 3.3 million Soviet POWs perished in German camps, many from starvation, disease, or summary executions. In stark contrast to the treatment of Western prisoners, Soviet captives were often left exposed to the elements without shelter or food – a direct violation of international conventions.</p>
<p>The same Generalplan Ost logic explains one of Nazi Germany’s least discussed but equally horrific crimes: the deliberate starvation policy imposed on occupied territories, particularly in Ukraine and parts of Russia. The plan systematically diverted food supplies to German troops and the Reich while leaving local populations to die.</p>
<p>Cities like Leningrad (present-day St. Petersburg) endured nearly 900 days of siege, resulting in over one million civilian deaths, many from starvation. Reports of cannibalism emerged as a consequence of extreme desperation. In other regions, entire villages were burned and their inhabitants executed (as in Koryukivka and Khatyn) as part of anti-partisan reprisal operations under the Bandenbekämpfung (bandit suppression) doctrine.</p>
<p>Following Directive 46, personally signed by Hitler, SS conduct on the Eastern Front escalated dramatically. The Germans began designating entire areas as “bandit territories,” where the objective shifted from “pacification” to the complete annihilation of all inhabitants to ensure German troop “security,” as witnessed in Zhestianaya Gorka.</p>
<p>Most of these massacres, along with other operations specifically targeting communists and Jews, were carried out by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units). These death squads specialized in rounding up victims in forests, ravines or anti-tank ditches for mass shootings. The most infamous example remains Babi Yar, where Nazis slaughtered over 100,000 civilians over several days, followed by the 1941 Odessa Massacre where German and Romanian forces killed approximately 40,000 Russian and Ukrainian civilians.</p>
<p>While we’ve previously mentioned slave labor as part of Generalplan Ost, it’s crucial to highlight the specific deportation of 4-5 million Slavic civilians to German territory as forced laborers. These Ostarbeiter (“Eastern workers”) received less than 1,000 calories daily, primarily working in arms factories like Siemens and Krupp. Due to malnutrition and abuse, hundreds of thousands perished before war’s end.</p>
<p>Equally significant was the slave labor system operated by the Organisation Todt, a massive state-run corporation overseeing infrastructure projects across Nazi-occupied Europe. Notable examples include the Dora-Mittelbau camp for experimental weapons testing and railway construction in Belarus where thousands died under brutal working conditions.</p>
<p>The evidence before us clearly demonstrates that through starvation, exhaustive forced labor, mass shootings and various other methods, Nazi Germany sought to eradicate Eastern European populations to make way for German colonization.</p>
<p>This is precisely why Victory Day matters. It represents not merely a military commemoration, nor an ideological celebration of communism, but rather the triumph of life over planned extermination.</p>
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guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330047
title: The Irish public’s “secondary audience” problem
author: ;John McGuirk
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/RTE-scaled-e1744731320673.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: An open letter to the Teacher’s Union of Ireland
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/TUI-congress.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Below is an open letter to the organisers of the TUI conference, written by Cork-based teacher Stephen Lynch. This letter was shared with Gript Media and we believe it to be in the public interest to publish it in full.</strong></p><div dir="auto" readability="125">
<p><em>Dear Sirs,</em></p>
<p><em>Stephen Lynch, Chair of Cork C&amp;C here, but presenting my own personal opinions.</em></p>
<p><em>I was deeply offended, shocked, and frustrated by the running of Congress this year. It was taken over (hijacked) by the far left.</em></p>
<p><em>For years now, I’ve been concerned with the direction the union has been going: too much focus on far-left ideology, too much involvement with political ideas (left-wing politics in particular), humanitarian issues, foreign policies, and climate activism. I am not arguing against these causes, but I pay my subs to the Teachers’ Union of Ireland for you to work to preserve, improve, and fight for the pay and conditions of teachers, here in Ireland! If members of the TUI, the Executive, and/or paid staff want to march for Palestine or be involved in climate activism, for example, they should do so on their own time, in a personal capacity. The TUI is not a political party.</em></p>
<p><em>Back to Congress: this year, just like last year, there were many speeches and references to the rise and threat of the far right in Ireland. I too would be concerned about the rise of the far right, but what concerns me most is the stranglehold that the far left has on our union. In all my 16 years (and counting) of attending Congress, I’ve never encountered “the far right,” but I have increasingly been accosted by the far left.</em></p>
<p><em>Last year, I was scowled at by several members of our union at the entrance to the Congress hall because I handed back a leaflet that was given to me on entering — it was the Communist Party of Ireland’s leaflet. I have no interest in communism, and it has no place at Congress. This year, I had the same experience and reaction when refusing a leaflet from a Socialist Party member, and again when I declined an invite to a special meeting in aid of Palestine. I was made to feel like an outcast and faced derision and accusatory looks.</em></p>
<p><em>Also, last year, a member spoke from the podium about the need to rewrite our rulebook to make all pronouns gender-neutral. He received plenty of applause and support — far left again! I was offended by such a suggestion, as I believe there are only two genders, and gender-neutral pronouns offend me.</em></p>
<p><em>This year, again, I encountered the Communist Party at Congress, the Socialist Party, and People Before Profit — all very aggressive and intimidating.</em></p>
<p><em>There was far too much time spent on the war in Palestine and Israel during Congress this year and last year. There was a threatening air of antisemitism. Again, I am not arguing for or against either side, just highlighting that this isn’t the forum for it.</em></p>
<p><em>Our speaker spoke at length about the plight of the left in Turkey (we even watched a video shown to us in Turkish) and about the threat of the far right. Again, I have never felt the threat of the far right at Congress, in teaching, or in Ireland. But I am constantly accosted and threatened by the far left at Congress, in teaching, and in Ireland.</em></p>
<p><em>John spoke about how the far right are coming for us, for our children, and for our curriculum. Again, I see zero evidence of this, and I am at the frontline in school! What I do see is the far left infecting our curriculum through sex education and gender ideology, with conservative, concerned parents pushing back. That’s not the rise of the far right.</em></p>
<p><em>The biggest joke of this year’s Congress was that we ran out of time to discuss one full section with several motions put forward by paying members: Equality. It’s so ironic that our event was hijacked by the far left at the expense of equality. It seems equality for us paying members of the TUI isn’t as important or equal to the plight of others in society and abroad!</em></p>
<p><em>We have lots of issues here in Ireland: homelessness, a health crisis, a mental health services crisis, a housing crisis, immigration issues, and misuse of public funds in government. We also have many issues facing teachers: pension issues, Croke Park hours, certified and self-certified sick leave at austerity levels, the S&amp;S scheme at austerity levels, maternity leave at austerity levels, an increase in workload, autocratic and authoritarian management in schools, senior cycle implementation — and many, many more. I advise we focus our time and effort on those matters, which you are being paid to do, and leave the politics outside!</em></p>
<p><em>I don’t want this email of complaint to go unanswered.</em></p>
<p><em>Thanking you,</em><br><em>Stephen Lynch</em></p>
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title: Make Peace, Not Headlines
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title: The Death of Palestine
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<p>The Death of Palestine</p>
<p>Israel approves full ‘conquest’ of Gaza<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The reported plan includes the forced relocation of Palestinians and occupation of the territory</p>
<p><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/616801-israel-plan-gaza-conquest/">https://www.rt.com/news/616801-israel-plan-gaza-conquest/</a> <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/05/06/trump-pours-more-us-arms-and-money-into-israel-to-continue-the-genocide/


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138892
title: PCR and Larry Sparano Discuss the Collapse of Journalism and Law Schools into Anti-Americanism
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<p>PCR and Larry Sparano Discuss the Collapse of Journalism and Law Schools into Anti-Americanism</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-9YwZv73_s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-9YwZv73_s</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/05/06/pcr-and-larry-sparano-discuss-the-collapse-of-journalism-and-law-schools-into-anti-americanism/


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138883
title: Will America Survive?
author: ;pcr3
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<p>Will America Survive?</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>The foreign policy of the United States is in the hands of the least capable, most uninformed, and most reckless morons the American education system has yet produced, and their successors, if any, will be worse.</p>
<p>American aggression toward the world is hidden under a euphemism:<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>“national defense.”<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>In past years before<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>euphemisms took over from reality, the Secretary of Defense was known as the Secretary of War.</p>
<p>Washington conducted wars against Mexico. Against the Confederate States of America.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Against the native American Indians. Against Spain from whom Washington seized Cuba and the Philippines. Against varied Central and South American countries–remember US Marine Commander Smedley Butler, twice decorated with America’s highest honor, who said that he and his US Marines were the enforcement squad in Latin America for the United Fruit Company and the New York Banks who were exploiting Latin America to the hilt, backed up by the bayonets of the US Marine Corps.</p>
<p>The name of the War Department changed, but we went on to wars in Korea, Vietnam, the Caribbean, overthrowing various countries in central and South America.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Then in Africa where leaders and governments were overthrown.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Then in Yugoslavia.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Then in the Middle East where Washington eliminated Israel’s opponents for Israel. Then in South Ossetia against Russia.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Then in Ukraine again against Russia. And now the US has wars pending against Iran and China, while continuing the one against Russia by shifting the burden to Europe.</p>
<p>In no way is this “national defense.” <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>We are witnessing the continuation of Washington’s policy of hegemony.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Washington negotiates with Russia, China, Iran, for one purpose only. To present them with “peace agreements” that they cannot possibly accept in order for Washington to say it tried for peace, but Russia, China, and Iran refused the peace offers.</p>
<p>The “peace offers” amount to the surrender of sovereignty of Russia, China, and Iran. They have to conform their policies to Washington’s instructions.  Iran has to dismantle its national defense and destroy its conventional missiles.  Iran can’t sell any oil to China or anyone else. Iran can’t enrich uranium for peaceful purposes. Russia can’t have all of its conquests of the Russian territories in Ukraine.  Ukraine won’t be demilitarized. Russia will be punished with more sanctions if Putin doesn’t agree to a ceasefire before he knows what the deal is.  Ukraine can have de facto NATO membership with a mutual security clause with the West. China can’t continue succeeding economically more than America. Far from renouncing the Paul Wolfowitz Doctrine of American Hegemony, President Trump espouses it.</p>
<p>America is not as strong as Washington thinks it is.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Actually, America is very weak, as is every Western country, not merely militarily, but also emotionally, spiritually.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> Generations of denunciation of Western Civilization by Western universities have created populations unsure of who they are.  The damage universities have done to the belief system is extensive.  In America’s coming wars with China, Iran, and Russia, what are the American youths dying for except Israel and the profits of the armaments industries?</span></p>
<p>Why should Americans die for Ukraine and Israel and the profits of armaments industries?  No one asks or answers this question.</p>
<p>The relationship between men and women and between ethnic citizens and their tyrannical Western governments are severed perhaps beyond repair. The belief system throughout the Western World has been dismantled by decades of White Liberal and Jewish propaganda that the West, all of it, is racist, misogynist, homophobic, and anti-semitic and must make amends by accepting second class citizenship for oppressive white heterosexuals–the “Trump Deplorables,” an ethnic and gender class that in Jean Raspail’s novel, <em>The Camp of the Saints,</em>  is eliminated from the earth by its own loss of belief in itself.</p>
<p>How can an American believe in himself when he is endlessly told that he is the source of all evil, all oppression? The indoctrination of white kids against their race begins in early education with critical race theory and aversive racism. Can Washington’s war propagandists create larger monsters out of Putin, Xi, and Iran than Western Universities have created out of white people?</p>
<p>So, here is the situation:<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>On the one hand the neoconservatives and the America First Liberals tell Americans that they are ordained for rule.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>On the other hand the Democrats and the left tell Americans that they are hopeless racists who have to be displaced.</p>
<p>The Trump regime is creating a war scenario that America cannot win. Let’s just consider one of the many possible developments.  Washington withdraws from the war in Ukraine, leaving it to Europe, but before Washington can engage China, Netanyahu sics his American puppet on Iran.  Iran, unlike Putin, decides to fight. There go the American aircraft carriers in the region. There go the American bases in the Middle East. Iran’s Russian supplied air defense systems eliminates a large percentage of the American Air Force. America is handed a resounding military defeat.  Out come the nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>Putin’s inability to make decisions is aiding and abetting Washington’s self destruction. Putin says that Russia stands alone against the West which is attempting to finish off Russia by breaking the Federation into a number of smaller countries, as Washington did to the Soviet Union, creating Ukraine for the first time in its history as an independent state, one now only 30 years old, a Washington creation.</p>
<p>Does Putin understand that the peace negotiations are a fraud intentionally designed to fail?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>What is actually going on is that America’s intended wars with Russia and China are being sequenced, because the US lacks the strength to take on all its chosen opponents simultaneously.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Washington’s war against Russia in Ukraine is being turned over to Europe under the pretense of a US/EU split.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  As neither Zelensky nor Putin can accept Trump’s terms, Trump can extract America from the conflict by walking away, leaving the continuation of the conflict to the  EU. </span>The American establishment will continue to make money from this conflict by selling the weapons to the Europeans and make more money by ramping up war with China. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The conditions Trump requires of Iran are so unrealistic as to indicate a total lack of seriousness. They amount to stripping Iran of all possibility of existence as a sovereignty nation. Trumps’ announcement of US sanctions on every country that buys oil from Iran is mindless.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Washington is trying to cut China off from oil like FDR did Japan, thus leading to the war that FDR wanted.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Trump has either made a deal with the American establishment or his government has.</p>
<p>Look at the picture with a clear eye. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>What and how is Russia endangering the West that justifies war to suppress the threat?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Russia has threatened no Western country and has done nothing but to plead for a mutual security agreement with the West, which the West has refused.</p>
<p>What actions have Iran taken against the West?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>None.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Iran is in the crosshairs<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>because<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> Iran supports Israel’s last remaining enemies, the small group of Houthis in small Yemen and the decapitated Hezbollah militia in small Lebanon.  Washington eliminated for Israel at the cost of American lives and money Israel’s enemies in Iraq, Libya, and Syria.  The Arab world is no more. America wiped it out for Israel.</span></p>
<p>As Norman Podhoretz made clear in the Jewish journal <em>Commentary</em>, the purpose of America’s 21st century’s wars in the Middle East is to overthrow Arab states in the way of Greater Israel.  And Washington complied.  Today the only remaining Arab state is Saudi Arabia, and not long ago an Israeli minister added half of Saudi Arabia to the map of Greater Israel. Israel now occupies part of Syria and says it is there to stay.  This week Israel announced that the total conquest of Palestine was under way.</p>
<p>The first quarter of the 21st Century has been Israel’s.  Israel’s American puppet has destroyed for Israel, at the expense of American lives and money, Israel’s Arab enemies.  Now Netanyahu is going to sic his dumbshit puppets in Washington on Iran.</p>
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title: Waking Up From The Nightmare Of Western Civilization
author: ;Caitlin Johnstone
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*tvPZNmU8DBxknRy5BfEvAg.png"></figure><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt-L5xuhRFw"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FLt-L5xuhRFw%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DLt-L5xuhRFw&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FLt-L5xuhRFw%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/5b2f9003e33f6ffbf9a6112243eebc9f/href">https://medium.com/media/5b2f9003e33f6ffbf9a6112243eebc9f/href</a></iframe><p>We don’t need horror movies. We’re creating our own horrors in places like Gaza.</p><p>We don’t need dystopian fiction. We’re living in dystopia right here in our own society.</p><p>We don’t need fantasy stories about scary monsters. The scary monsters run our government.</p><p>Westerners will create a waking nightmare, psychologically compartmentalize away from its existence, and then go watch a movie about a fictional waking nightmare to give themselves a thrill.</p><p>We’ll sit on the edge of our seats watching made-up tales about psychopathic killers while psychopathic killers rule the world.</p><p>We’ll turn our backs on horrific acts of human butchery and then go watch fictional acts of human butchery, getting ourselves through any discomfort we might experience by reminding ourselves that what we are watching isn’t happening in real life.</p><p>Someone in my Substack comments just asked me if I’d considered the possibility that the world might be better off without humanity, because of all the horrible things that are happening while the vast majority of us do nothing to stop it.</p><p>There are certainly many ugly things about human behavior, and there are forces within us which absolutely do not deserve to exist. Our self-centeredness. Our competitiveness. Our hatred and prejudice. Our seemingly limitless tolerance for unfathomable abuses so long as they are being inflicted on people in other countries whose anguished faces we don’t have to look at. The delusions and trauma-based conditioning patterns we’ve been passing on from generation to generation since the dawn of civilization. The world would be better off without these things.</p><p>But over the years I have also become acquainted with dynamics inside the human organism which could make this world into a paradise, if we can only get out from underneath our delusion-based conditioning enough to realize them. Within every human being sleeps the potential for selfless action and vast compassion. We all have within us the ability to heal. We all have within us the ability to shed egoic consciousness like a reptile sheds old scales.</p><p>Maybe it’s silly, but I like to think of this potentiality as a kind of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_gun">Chekhov’s gun</a> for our species, sitting there onstage waiting to go off as humanity’s story unfolds. I know for a fact that humans have the potential to awaken from the trance of the ego in profoundly transformative ways, and I choose to believe that the playwright put that potential there for a reason.</p><p>Every species eventually hits a point where it must adapt to changing conditions which threaten its existence or go extinct. It just happens that in humanity’s case, the changing conditions which threaten our existence are the creations of our own minds. Ecocide. Nuclear brinkmanship. Weaponized AI. Biological warfare. The further our egos carry us down the path of competition and domination, the more likely it is that we open up some existential peril down the road for ourselves that there is no coming back from.</p><p>We’ll either make the necessary adaptations and find a way to collectively unlock our dormant potential for selfless functioning on this planet, or we will go the way of the dinosaur. I keep at this because I have seen far too many strange and miraculous things in my life to believe such an awakening is impossible.</p><p>And the good news is we have truth on our side. The human ego is an illusion; the self does not exist. Enlightenment is already here, closer to us than our own breath, just being overlooked amid the flailings of the deluded mind. The propaganda is deceitful, and the truth is getting more and more exposure. Humans are getting better and better at sharing ideas and information about what’s really happening in our world.</p><p>We just need to open our eyes. 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title: Francis, Peace and the pilgrimage of the hypocrites
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<p><strong><em>Francis leaves many longings and a void that will probably not be filled so soon.</em></strong></p>
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<p>The poignant flood of laudatory words from the rulers of this world began to flow to express feelings that do not exist, to comply with protocol conveniences, to identify with everything they despise, to exhibit false commotions, to take advantage of an event that tomorrow they will no longer remember because it is essential to return to the petty and predatory life of the usual.</p>
<p>The death of Pope Francis is undeniably a loss for the world. Not as the head of the Catholic Church, but as a universalist and humanist man who knew how to avoid and circumvent the Vatican squabbles, centuries old, to dedicate himself to thinking and acting on the things of the world and humanity; the things that lead us down misguided paths, perhaps fatal and that the Pope, not as a saint but as a human being, tried to stop with his sensitivity and fraternal spirit.</p>
<p>The community of hypocrites that runs the world, leading us to precipices that Francis has identified as easily avoidable if men and women had the goodwill that goes far beyond the words of religious texts, now does not hesitate to take advantage of his death with vampiric boldness.</p>
<p>The Pope who is now leaving us, head of an institution that will hardly find another to match, because he will not know (nor will he want) to sail against the current with the courage and lucidity of Francis, leaves orphans the unprotected, the marginalized, the poor, refugees and migrants, the peoples of the peripheries, those who suffer in the flesh the effects of ecological crimes committed by those who fill their mouths with the (false) fight against climate change, in short, the millions of human beings who face the terrors of greedy wars imposed by the interests of dehumanized castes and the minorities of money.</p>
<p><strong>The courage and lucidity of a pacifist</strong></p>
<p>Francis was a courageous and lucid man. Courageous because he was not afraid to speak out against the executioners of the human being who, trying to lull us with soft conversations from which only lies remain, do not hesitate to create hells in life and threaten our existences. Lucid, because he knew how to read the world like few others in the international community, ruthlessly drawing the portraits of the wrongdoers and dissatisfied himself with the horrors of the wrongdoings, despite the fact that those affected always looked the other way, pretending that nothing was with them while, cynically, they made the usual salaams.</p>
<p>The Pope who is now leaving us has gone far beyond Catholicism and Christianity. Even within the institutions of his faith and the communities of believers, he was often not well accepted by traditionalist currents, the same ones that, at the same time, accommodate themselves, and even defend the worst that exists on the face of the Earth.</p>
<p>Francis has sealed his presence in the history of Catholicism and, above all, of humanity, because in his time he fought without hesitation the two true demons that persecute and slaughter human beings: neoliberalism and war.</p>
<p>The Argentine priest who suffered so much with his poor people cruelly handed over to the most extreme state of neoliberalism, was never meek towards this economic, social and political doctrine that despises human beings in the name of freedom, that oppresses them by plunging them into poverty as a path to the always distant and thus unattainable abundance, that kills them by guaranteeing them independence and sovereignty to which they are intrinsically averse. Inhumane globalist neoliberalism is its goal; social justice, respect for the human being, the dignity of life, peace and fraternal coexistence are the lights by which the late Pope was guided.</p>
<p>Francis was, for all this, a man against the current, in reality a foreign body in this world and who did not give up, until the end, to try to change it, to make it a suitable place for the flourishing of the dignity of the human being, of all human beings. For this reason, the Pope did not identify, and never ceased to condemn, this Western preciousness of being moved, justly, by the suffering and drama of the Ukrainians but despising and even being an accomplice in the slaughter and genocide of the Palestinian people. The Pope has never forgiven and would be able to forgive the segregationism and xenophobia that are in the DNA of hypocrites. He especially loved all peoples who were victims of wars, and not just the machetes with weapons.</p>
<p>On last Easter Sunday, in his last and strenuous words, Francis had the superhuman energy necessary to remember the poor, the despised, the persecuted minorities, the excluded from the peripheries, the victims of racism and xenophobia, refugees and migrants, showing solidarity with them as victims of greed and wars imposed on their countries. And he did not fail to blame, once again, the doctrine that he explicitly identified as responsible for these expressions of misery: capitalism and its extreme version, neoliberalism</p>
<p><strong>A fighter for disarmament</strong></p>
<p>And Francis, horror of horrors, defended peace.</p>
<p>Not an abstract peace as those who seek it and guarantee that it is at the end of wars proclaim. But rather the peace that they despise and forbid us to invoke and defend, under penalty of being considered traitors and servants of the enemies that lurk around us. The peace that is found by speaking, understanding and negotiating and not by spreading poverty and death because more weapons, more weapons, more and more sophisticated weapons are needed, capable of making the multitudes of innocent murdered people ever greater and overflowing the coffers of the tycoons of death.</p>
<p>It is true, Francis defended disarmament without sparing the arms industry and its visitors as one of the great scourges of this time. He even kept his last words uttered, with difficulty, on Easter Sunday to call for disarmament. Guess what: those who now say they mourn his disappearance never listened to him, they pretended to be deaf. For them, the Pope was someone they tried to identify with his despicable images and likenesses; not the Pope who never forgot the real victims of these hypocrites, refined merchants of the Temple.</p>
<p>The leaders and ruling cliques of the European Union, of Marcelo and those who go to the ends of the Baltic, now utter banal, protocol and circumstantial words, express feelings that they have only in their wallets and bank accounts, unwillingly pronounce the word peace while assembling armies and stuffing the European continent with weapons, putting on their most expensive and black suits to go on pilgrimage and line up, perhaps for the family photo, on the carpets of the Vatican. Francis would dispense with their presence, but they always think they are indispensable and welcome even when no one invites them. Lagarde, the lady of money, along with Von der Leyen, the lady of war and Costa, the drooling servant of all this, will not be lacking. From this you can see the type of people to whom we are entrusted and that the Argentine Pope, perceptiously, did not have much regard for.</p>
<p>Francis leaves many longings and a void that will probably not be filled so soon. The hierarchy of the Catholic Church, other than the immense multitude of the faithful, has great ability to correct its “errors” by moving and conspiring with an experience of two millennia in the silence of the Vatican corridors. As was the case of John Paul I, a promising good man who did not last more than 33 days in the chair of Peter the Fisherman, soon replaced by Wojtyla (or John Paul II), the Pope of neoliberalism, of imperial unipolarity, herald of a Catholicism with medieval resonances.</p>
<p>Francis was an older brother, wise and present to Catholics, non-Catholics and non-Christians, religious, agnostics and atheists, many of whom, not sharing his doctrine and philosophical concepts, admired him as a man and humanist, certain that they could trust him. She defended concepts of earthly life for which it is worth fighting to remove the world from the swamp where women and men degenerated by power and money are plunging it. These are sad days and, at the same time, days that the cafila of hypocrites and war fanatics yearns to be able to parade and shine.</p>
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title: Brazil, permanent headquarters of BRICS?
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<p><strong><em>Brazil – through Rio de Janeiro – сould become a bridge between the West and the East, benefiting not only Brazil and Latin America but also Eurasian countries</em></strong></p>
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<p>At the end of April, two Brazilian professors presented an unprecedented idea: that Brazil should become the permanent headquarters of BRICS, much like the United States is the permanent headquarters of the UN.</p>
<p>Eduardo R. Gomes, coordinator of the BRICS Studies Center (NuBRICS/UFF), and Lier Pires Ferreira, a researcher at the same institution, published an article in the Rio de Janeiro-based newspaper Toda Palavra arguing that Brazil’s former capital – which will host the next BRICS summit in early June – should become the permanent headquarters of the organization that represents the aspirations of the so-called “Global South.”</p>
<p>“Rio de Janeiro is a unique city. It was the only one in the Global South to serve as the capital of a European colonial empire, as the capital of the United Kingdom of Brazil and Portugal (1815–1822). Since the early 20th century, when it still held the status of the Republic’s capital, Rio de Janeiro has been the stage for major events, such as the International Exposition of the Centenary of Independence in 1922; the Rio Conference in 1942; or the 1950 World Cup, a bittersweet memory. In the early 1990s, the city also hosted the second United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (ECO-92) and the Summit of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the European Union, with representatives from nearly 50 countries,” the researchers wrote. “But it was in the 21st century that Rio de Janeiro solidified its vocation as a global stage, with successive events such as the 2007 Pan American Games, Rio+20 in 2012, the 2014 World Cup final, and the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.”</p>
<p>They added: “However, what is missing is the daily experience, the routine of a true global city, hyperconnected with the world. There is a lack of a fixed element that, beyond the trinity of tourism, culture, and the oil industry, would daily enrich Rio with global citizens, with foreigners from all over, as diverse and plural as the locals themselves. Today, this opportunity arises with BRICS.”</p>
<p>Gomes and Ferreira express a common frustration among many who support the BRICS project – the lack of a permanent headquarters for the organization, which, according to them, hampers the group’s work. They argue that “a physical headquarters and a permanent secretariat are necessary investments for the coalition, encouraging BRICS to act more systematically in the international arena. Moreover, a professionalized secretariat could provide technical and logistical support to advance priority agendas, such as trade, investment, technological innovation, energy security, sustainable development, and climate change, while coordinating multiple actors – state and non-state, domestic and international.”</p>
<p>Professor Gomes, who holds a PhD in Political Science, told SCF that academics from other BRICS countries have already shown interest in the idea of a permanent headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. Additionally, there are reports that some foreign ministers who attended the recent preparatory meeting for the June summit were also introduced to the proposal. The mayor of Rio de Janeiro is said to have been informed of the idea as well.</p>
<p>“There is currently a very clearly constituted hegemonic transition between China (the rising power) and the United States (the declining power), and this has been generating a series of tensions and conflicts, particularly regarding the prospects of multilateralism,” Professor Lier Ferreira, PhD in Law, explained to SCF. “The United States is questioning multilateral institutions and orchestrating them to target China’s allies, so it would be beneficial if large international institutions could remain outside the axis of this hegemonic dispute,” he continued. He concluded: “In the case of BRICS, a headquarters in Rio de Janeiro would fit perfectly within this perspective.”</p>
<p>Eduardo Gomes, however, believes that the process of implementing this idea among BRICS countries would be lengthy rather than immediate. “The founding of the New Development Bank, the BRICS bank, and its establishment in Shanghai, for example, only happened after discussions spanning several annual summits,” he noted. In any case, discussing and establishing a permanent headquarters would foster greater engagement among all BRICS members, especially the founding countries.</p>
<p>Both professors agree that, if this idea is developed, discussed, and implemented, Brazil – through Rio de Janeiro – would become a bridge between the West and the East, benefiting not only Brazil and Latin America but also Eurasian countries, attracting investments, and boosting the South American giant’s economy, which would pull its neighbors toward greater development and connect a world in transition.</p>
<p>“Plural by nature, Rio could amplify the creative forces of the Global South in favor of a new international order – multipolar, free from hegemonies – capable of realizing the long-held aspirations for development and a new international standing that have driven Afro-Asian and Latin American struggles for centuries against the various expressions of coloniality,” they conclude.</p>
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<p><strong><em>Brussels is enforcing its vision of Europe by branding dissent as betrayal.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>By Rafael Pinto BORGES</em></strong></p>
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<p>Come May 9th, Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić and Slovak prime minister Robert Fico will stride into Moscow’s Red Square for the Victory Day parade, marking 80 years since the defeat of Hitler’s Germany and of the final destruction of the odious creed of Nazism. Their decision, a bold assertion of sovereign prerogative, has drawn the EU’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksK_SHa6_gk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrath</a>. Threats of sanctions, diplomatic ostracism, and new obstacles for Serbia’s future membership of the Union have predictably followed; as always, the EU mandarinate has no qualms about showing just how hostile to national democracy it is. The episode really brings to mind that day when Nigel Farage, in the European Parliament, looked then Commission President Herman van Rompuy in the eye and asked him: “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDnsbz3wJpY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Who the hell do you think you are?</a>”</p>
<p>The EU’s reaction to Vučić and Fico’s sovereign decision is a study in arrogance. Kaja Kallas, the bloc’s foreign policy czar, warned that attending Moscow’s parade would carry “<a href="https://www.nin.rs/english/news/74527/participation-in-the-may-9-parade-in-moscow-carries-consequences" target="_blank" rel="noopener">consequences</a>”, threatening to stall Serbia’s EU membership and scolding Slovakia, a member state, for daring to chart its own course. Estonian diplomat <a href="https://www.serbianmonitor.com/en/an-alternative-to-the-government-in-serbia-being-sought-does-europe-want-it-too/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonatan Vseviov</a> called the event a “test of alignment,” as if sovereign nations must genuflect to Brussels’ edicts or face punishment. This is not partnership; it is <em>diktat</em>. The EU, which in 2022 urged members to boycott Russian-hosted events, now brandishes that stance as a whip. Fico, defiant, declared that “<a href="https://x.com/RobertFicoSVK/status/1912168829272142161" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No one dictates my travel</a>,” while Vučić stressed that he would “proudly represent Serbia” in the event. Their resolve is a rebuke to a bloc that persistently—and intolerably—mistakes coercion for unity.</p>
<p>Brussels’ threats only bolster the argument for Vučić and Fico’s presence. You don’t need to be a Russophile to remember that, whatever their faults and despite the crimes of the post-1945 division of Europe, the Russians were ultimately on the good side of World War Two. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact notwithstanding, they did storm the Berlin Reichstag. It is morally repugnant that, 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz and so many other death camps, Brussels is trying to prevent European leaders from paying their fair tribute to the more than 20 million Russians who, alongside millions of British, Commonwealth, and American servicemen, fought and fell in the battle against Nazism. For Serbia and Slovakia, attending is an act of historical gratitude to those who saved both nations from genocidal occupation, not a statement on contemporary geopolitics. The EU’s attempt to paint participation as a betrayal ignores this context, weaponising history to enforce conformity. It is also an act of arrogance wholly out of touch with the spirit of the times, even more absurd at a time when the Russian and American presidents are sharing envoys in an effort to return peace to a much bloodied Ukraine.</p>
<p>The EU’s conduct reveals its true face: that of a prison of nations, stifling the autonomy of members and aspirants alike. Slovakia, despite its EU membership, is lectured to as if foreign policy were Brussels’ domain, not the inalienable right of the Slovak people. Serbia, a candidate for over a decade, faces ultimatums to abandon its independent stance, with accession talks hostage to compliance. This is no union of equals but a bureaucratic empire, demanding ideological lockstep over sovereignty. The bloc’s pressure on Serbia mirrors its treatment of Hungary’s Viktor Orban, whose pragmatic diplomacy has been studiously vilified by the Commission’s propaganda machine. The EU’s “solidarity” is a sham, a one-way demand that silences dissent and belittles smaller states’ histories, preferences, and aspirations. Indeed, after this, why would Serbia want to join at all? Why would anyone?</p>
<p>It is no different for the other European nations still exposed to Brussels’ whims. Consider the consequences if Fico had not stood his ground. What nation worthy of the name could accept the institutionalisation of the principle that it is not their national, elected representatives, but a class of foreign, unelected imperial functionaries, who is to decide on our foreign policy, where our leaders go or don’t, or how to vote at the United Nations Security Council? Could anyone accept an EU in which, say, Meloni is bullied for daring to visit Washington against the desires of Mrs. Kallas? What believer in national sovereignty could accept that Mr. Orbán, for instance, is prevented from flying to Israel—or from inviting the Israeli Prime Minister to Budapest—simply because of the EU mandarinate’s known hostility for that country?</p>
<p>Nevertheless, it is Vučić and Fico, like Trump and Orbán, who are the patriotic realists that history will ultimately remember. In an era of multipolar transformation and global unpredictability, their commitment to dialogue over isolation is anything but weakness. It is foresight. Trump’s push for negotiation, Orbán’s courageous, tireless bridge-building, and, now, Vučić and Fico’s refusal to bow down to von der Leyen reflect a shared—and insightful— understanding of the historical moment: that war and peace is too important a matter to be left in the hands of the Eurocrats; that principle must prevail over blackmail; and that no foreign institution should be entrusted with deciding a nation’s fate.</p>
<p>Serbia, traditionally non-aligned and with much to regret in the games of the great powers, and Slovakia, in its prudent rejection of establishment warmongering, both see the value of preserving de-escalatory channels. Their stance—a rebellion against Brussels’ globalist cage—is a rightful cry for a Europe of nations, not a homogenised bloc subservient to ivory tower elites. In a world of fractured alliances and rising tensions, it is they who deserve applause in championing dialogue, national autonomy, and diplomacy. Their defiance is not only profoundly admirable—it shows the rest of Europe exactly how it should deal with EU bullies. Are we paying attention?</p>
<p><em>Original article:</em> <strong><a href="https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/may-9-von-der-leyen-vucic-fico-moscow-parade/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The European Conservative</a></strong></p>

link:
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/06/von-der-leyen-has-no-business-telling-vucic-and-fico-where-they-can-go/

tags:
#Editor's Choice #Aleksandar Vučić #European Commission #European Union #Robert Fico #Slovakia #Ursula von der Leyen


guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=885114
title: Nessuna pace e nessun rispetto: Zelensky minaccia la parata del 9 maggio
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tags: #Italiano #Russia #Terrorism #Ukraine #Victory Day #Volodymyr Zelensky
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<p><strong><em>La verità è che questi sono gli ultimi singhiozzi di Zelensky, probabilmente spinto dai suoi padroni anglofoni a tentare il tutto per tutto. A Mosca il 9 maggio verrà dato un segno così forte da tracciare una rotta per il futuro. Lo capiremo presto. </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><strong>La volontà è chiara</strong></p>
<p>Volodymyr Zelensky, nei suoi deliri da autoproclamato presidente-senza-fine dell’Ucraina, non cessa di proferire sproloqui insensati nemmeno in questo periodo di festa: riferendosi ai festeggiamenti del 9 maggio, ha respinto la proposta avanzata da Vladimir Putin di una tregua, similmente a quanto era avvenuto in occasione della Pasqua.</p>
<p>Il rifiuto, purtroppo, era ampiamente prevedibile, com prevedibile è anche il fatto che cercherà di provocare la Russia, proprio nel momento più intenso dei festeggiamenti. Zelensky ha chiesto un cessate il fuoco di 30 giorni che la Russia non ha motivo di accettare vista la situazione sul campo di battaglia, pienamente a favore della Russia. D’altronde Putin ha sempre detto, sin dall’inizio della SMO, che avrebbe accettato di fermare la guerra soltanto in maniera definitiva, dunque con le trattative di pace, vere e complete, come diplomaticamente si usa fare.</p>
<p>L’arroganza del fantoccio di Washington non conosce alcun rispetto, restando fuori da ogni decoro diplomatico. Nemmeno nelle peggiori scuole di guerra si sarebbe mai arrivati a tanto. È quasi imbarazzante il modo in cui il presidente ucraino sta cercando a tutti i costi lo scontro diretto. Non è più una semplice provocazione a ripetizione, è molto di più: è una strategia di esasperazione della pazienza del nemico. La mossa più suicida che si possa tentare.</p>
<p>Zelensky ha infatti anche affermato che l’Ucraina non può garantire la sicurezza dei leader che parteciperanno alla parata del 9 maggio in Piazza Rossa. Stiamo assistendo ad una minaccia esplicita nei confronti di capi di Stato che, in teoria, se lo volessero, potrebbero applicare misure restrittive e sanzionatorie nei confronti dell’Ucraina. Come si può arrivare a tanto? È una affermazione scellerata. Chiaramente a nessuno fa paura la minaccia dell’ “uomo più solo del mondo”, il leader ignorato da tutti, che come un parassita ha succhiato denaro agli Stati europei e ai membri della NATO i nome di una guerra impossibile, tutelando soltanto i propri interessi.</p>
<p>Immaginate di avere un amico pazzo a cui non dareste mai niente di importante da fare perché avete paura che possa rovinare tutto. Ecco, questo è Zelensky. Ma adesso è l’ora di smetterla di giocare.</p>
<p><strong>A Mosca sono pronti a scrivere la Storia </strong></p>
<p>Se veramente l’Ucraina attaccherà Mosca, la ritorsione sarà devastante. E altrettanto sarà la risposta internazionale.</p>
<p>A Mosca per il 9 maggio sono attesi numerosi politici da tutto il mondo. L’invito, come noto, è stato indirizzato anche al presidente statunitense Donald Trump, in continuità con i colloqui di pace che sono in corso da gennaio, come anche al presidente cinese Xi Jinping, in un momento di particolare tensione fra USA e Cina.</p>
<p>È, ancora una volta, una lezione di vita e diplomazia. La Russia cerca la mediazione e la mette in pratica con autorevolezza, essendo in una posizione internazionale tale da non dover certo chiedere il permesso a nessuno, anzi dà l’esempio. Un esempio che a Kiev dovrebbero tenere ben presente. L’opportunità ha un valore enorme: simbolicamente, è la ripetizione di un principio che si è impresso nella Storia, quello dell’antifascismo, e della verità storica della sconfitta di nazismo in Europa grazie proprio ala Russia sovietica. È anche la ripetizione di una storica vittoria oggettiva del socialismo, nel modello sovietico, sulle altre ideologie di un secolo fa (una vittoria che non è durata ininterrottamente, subendo purtroppo un duro colpo dal liberalismo dopo il 1989). Ed è, oggi, il segno di una volontà chiara: quella di riunire i popoli dell’Eurasia in un blocco che faccia da guida per tutti i popoli che non vogliono sottomettersi alla egemonia occidentale, sotto nessun nome e nessuna bandiera. Una volontà di promuovere prosperità condivisa, cooperazione di successo e pace, pace e ancora una volta pace. Tutte cose che l’Occidente rinnega e alle quali risponde con guerre, sopraffazione, violenza e brutalità.</p>
<p>È chiaro che né a Kiev, né a Bruxelles, né a Londra questo intento di pacificazione può andare bene. La guerra in Ucraina è stata alimentata dai Paesi occidentali perché faceva comodo ad alcuni di loro per sovvertire l’ordine presente e cambiare alcuni equilibri, alimentando il mercato del settore bellico. Arrivati a questo punto, non possono rinunciare a fare una guerra, perché hanno investito troppo. Il fallimento dei loro piani di distruzione non è contemplato.</p>
<p>Questo è il livello di follia di cui Zelensky è solo un bieco portavoce. Se l’Europa vuole la guerra, purtroppo la avrà. La Russia ha continuato a mantenere un esemplare equilibrio durante questi tre anni di conflitto, senza cedere mai alle provocazioni. Ma cosa accadrebbe se Mosca decidesse di fare la prima mossa, al di là delle violenze ucraine? Cosa succederebbe se decidesse di onorare il sangue di quei martiri che 80 anni fa hanno liberato l’Europa combattendo contro quella ideologia politica che oggi anima i combattenti ucraini? Cosa accadrebbe se venisse deciso di dire “basta” alle violazioni del diritto di guerra e del diritto internazionale che l’Ucraina compie ininterrottamente da molto più di tre anni?</p>
<p>La verità è che questi sono gli ultimi singhiozzi di Zelensky, probabilmente spinto dai suoi padroni anglofoni a tentare il tutto per tutto.</p>
<p>A Mosca il 9 maggio verrà dato un segno così forte da tracciare una rotta per il futuro. Lo capiremo presto.</p>
<p></p>

link:
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/06/nessuna-pace-nessun-rispetto-zelensky-minaccia-la-parata-del-9-maggio/


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title: Doug Ford speaks at Skills Ontario Competition, announces funds for skills training – May 6, 2025
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guid: https://swprs.org/?p=81244
title: WWII 80 Years Ago
author: ;Swiss Policy Research
link: https://swprs.org/2025/05/06/wwii-80-years-ago/
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<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-81246" data-sanitized-id="attachment_81246" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-recalc-dims="1" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="81246" data-permalink="https://swprs.org/2025/05/06/wwii-80-years-ago/fdr-churchill-hitler-stalin-ww2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/fdr-churchill-hitler-stalin-ww2.webp?fit=1280%2C716&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1280,716" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="fdr-churchill-hitler-stalin-ww2" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/fdr-churchill-hitler-stalin-ww2.webp?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/fdr-churchill-hitler-stalin-ww2.webp?fit=736%2C412&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/fdr-churchill-hitler-stalin-ww2.webp?resize=736%2C412&amp;ssl=1" alt="" width="736" height="412" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-81246 size-large"><figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-81246" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">From west to east: Roosevelt, Churchill, Hitler, Stalin (YT)</figcaption></figure>
<p>The European part of WWII ended 80 years ago this week. As with most other wars, the “official narrative” about WWII consists mainly of propaganda and deceptions. In the case of WWII, the difference is that many people still haven’t realized this.</p>
<p>Seeing through WWII propaganda is one of the most important but also most challenging tasks for any independent and self-determined citizen. Such propaganda notably comprises Anglo-American, Soviet-Communist, Jewish-Zionist, and National-Socialist propaganda.</p>
<p>Over 250 videos and documentaries in the <a href="https://odysee.com/@swprs:3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SPR Media Archive</a> may assist in gaining a more realistic and more comprehensive understanding of WWII, its causes, and its consequences.</p>
<p><strong>Video collections:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://odysee.com/$/playlist/cb019bc633b4aa17cf12cb0236ce830a2ea3ae55" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Second World War</a></li>
<li>DE: <a href="https://odysee.com/$/playlist/a7e8e3e77bc2c2ce5e908ea4083e3943c403419a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zweiter Weltkrieg</a></li>
<li><a href="https://odysee.com/$/playlist/459bcc58526604644b2c7b644f6c7842b18b235c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Allied War Crimes</a></li>
<li><a href="https://odysee.com/$/playlist/0249a127e02592fe10bc4d6d5555d447394fb82f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Holocaust Debate</a></li>
<li><a href="https://odysee.com/$/playlist/3d28ee2720ec9b77b098a552557ad2cbcac9c274" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Socialism</a></li>
<li><a href="https://odysee.com/$/playlist/742f18c7e1737d21c3393549ba85e3aeb3b0c89f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Winston Churchill</a></li>
<li><a href="https://odysee.com/$/playlist/5eed6d4e8be4915a7ed99482fdc4b16b50badd9e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russia and USSR</a></li>
<li><a href="https://odysee.com/$/playlist/970e69ba98d78b6ab643886da347c1a7fcd3fa7a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pearl Harbor / Japan</a></li>
<li><a href="https://odysee.com/$/playlist/2eb463bb699769bc93d971c0c54411beef1af98a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">First World War</a></li>
<li><a href="https://odysee.com/$/playlist/e75c99a6b9b6f6786f5e59e99f7761c5e6938fc7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cold War</a></li>
</ol>
<hr>


guid: https://www.whitehouse.gov/?p=11437
title: Promises Made, Promises Kept: President Trump Brings Americans Home
author: ;The White House
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<p>Since taking office, President Donald J. Trump and his administration have secured the release of 47 detained Americans abroad — and that’s just the beginning as countries around the world respond to our renewed display of American strength and President Trump’s commitment to leaving no American behind.</p>
<p>The released American citizens include:</p>
<p><strong>Ksenia Karelina — an American ballet dancer who was wrongfully detained in a Russian penal colony for 14 months —</strong> <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114319263138009661"><strong>returned home</strong></a> <strong>in April.</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>“Mr. Trump, I’m so, so grateful for you to bring me home and for [the] American government. And I never felt more blessed to be American — and I’m so, so happy to get home. Thank you,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/russian-american-ballerina-ksenia-karelina-has-message-trump-after-release-from-russia">Karelina said</a>.</li>
</ul><figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="2048" height="1366" src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Ballerina.jpg" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-11439"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">President Trump greets Ksenia Karelina in the Oval Office on May 5, 2025</figcaption></figure><p><strong>Marc Fogel — an American teacher who was wrongfully detained in a Russian prison for years —</strong> <a href="https://x.com/POTUS/status/1889526448945307901"><strong>returned home</strong></a> <strong>in February,</strong> <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1889396835158020569"><strong>making good on a promise</strong></a><strong> President Trump made to Fogel’s 95-year-old mother, Malphine.</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>“President Trump is a hero … I will forever be indebted to President Trump, to Steve [Witkoff] over there — what a dynamic man this guy is. When I met him, the energy, the can-do attitude just exudes from his body,” <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1889521780005503240">Fogel said</a>.</li>
</ul><figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized"><img decoding="async" width="3000" height="2000" src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/54325920598_baa1fb4c39_o.jpg" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-11445"><figcaption data-sanitized-class="wp-element-caption">President Trump welcomes Marc Fogel to the White House on February 11, 2025</figcaption></figure><p><strong>Keith Siegel — an American held hostage by Hamas for 484 days —</strong> <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/american-officials-welcome-release-of-us-citizen-keith-siegel-from-hamas-captivity/"><strong>was freed</strong></a> <strong>in February.</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>“I am here and I am alive. President Trump, you saved my life. You saved the life of 33 hostages because of your efforts,” <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1909775445165285532">Siegel said</a>.</li>
</ul><figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized"><a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114055482632468260" target="_blank" rel=" noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" width="738" height="483" src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-05-143612.png" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-11443"></a></figure><p><strong>George Glezmann — an American held by the Taliban in Afghanistan for 836 days —</strong> <a href="https://www.state.gov/release-of-george-glezmann/"><strong>was freed</strong></a> <strong>in March, joining Americans Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, who were released on the night of President Trump’s inauguration.</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>“President Trump — amazing. Thank God he’s in the White House where he’s at and thank God he got me out … I’m in debt with everybody that was involved in this equation because they got me home. A free American individual, free from the hands of these people that abducted because of my U.S. passport, basically — and I’m just thankful. I got no words to express my gratitude for my liberty, my freedom,” <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1903105044523655445">Glezmann said</a>.</li>
</ul>

link:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/05/promises-made-promises-kept-president-trump-brings-americans-home/


guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=885120
title: Viajando a Cachemira… solo para encontrar a alicia en el País de las maravillas
author: ;A A
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<p><strong><em>Sean bienvenidos a ‘El Soberano del Mundo’ recorriendo su particular País de las Maravillas, al compás del hipnótico riff de ‘Kashmir’ [1].</em></strong></p>
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<p><span><strong>Escríbenos: </strong></span><a href="mailto:info@strategic-culture.su"><strong>info@strategic-culture.su</strong></a></p>
<p><em>Dos tabúes imperan en el Occidente colectivo, ahora destrozado:</em></p>
<ol>
<li><strong>No puede definir al régimen de Ucrania como nazi.</strong></li>
<li><strong>No puede condenar el genocidio psicopatológico israelí en Gaza.</strong></li>
</ol>
<p>Estos tabúes están indisolublemente ligados a las interminables guerras del eje Sionista/Imperio del Caos.</p>
<p>Sin embargo, a las Guerras Híbridas Menores -incluso las que conllevan la horrible perspectiva de convertirse en nucleares- se les permite ir y venir. Sobre todo, si forman parte de la actual guerra contra los BRICS, una subsección de la <strong><em>guerra de facciones de Occidente contra la Mayoría Global.</em></strong></p>
<p>Así que vayamos a Cachemira – al son <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-MdiUm1_Y" target="_blank" rel="noopener">del hipnótico riff de Jimmy Page</a>. Tanto India como Pakistán están intensificando la guerra de decibelios. Turquía está ofreciendo armas – a Pakistán. Irán ofreció un papel de mediador: no hay interesados.</p>
<p>El motivo de la guerra es de lo más dudoso. <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pahalgam-attack-who-are-the-26-people-shot-dead-by-terrorists-full-list-101745397115435.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Un autobús turístico sólo para hombres</a> con un montón de alegres turistas recorre la Cachemira controlada por India. Entre los pasajeros hay un teniente de la marina india de 26 años recién casado, pero sin su esposa (¿qué clase de luna de miel es ésa?) Otro pasajero es nepalí. El autobús es atacado por turbios matones disidentes vagamente afiliados a la <strong><em>organización salafi-jihadi Lashkar-e-Taiba</em></strong>.</p>
<p>El Imperio ha estado en todo el frente indio. La actual <strong><em>Directora de Inteligencia Nacional (DNI) de Estados Unidos, Tulsi Gabbard</em></strong>, estuvo anteriormente financiada en su totalidad por los círculos del primer ministro Modi. El vicepresidente J.D. Vance, cargado de delineador de ojos, visitó recientemente India, con sesión fotográfica familiar en el Taj Mahal.</p>
<p>Luego Modi fue a visitar Arabia Saudí – invitado por MbS. Tras el ataque terrorista al autobús de Cachemira, los fanáticos del <strong><em>Hindutva </em>[2]</strong> se lanzaron a una juerga de ciberataques.</p>
<p><strong>Las burdas tácticas son el clásico <em>Divide y vencerás</em>. Doble golpe: armamentismo renovado de la India y desestabilización de un frente chino clave de la Iniciativa de la Franja y la Ruta (BRI): <em>el Corredor Económico China-Pakistán (CPEC)</em>. Una belleza: dividir el BRICS desde dentro.</strong></p>
<p>Nada de eso, por supuesto, legitima a los espantosos militares pakistaníes, que han metido en la cárcel, con cargos espurios, al hombre que intentaba llevar a Pakistán a la respetabilidad: <strong>Imran Khan</strong>.</p>
<p>Depende, una vez más, de los adultos en la sala, cualquier sala – Rusia – desescalar. Lo ideal sería hacerlo en el seno de la OCS, de la que son miembros India y Pakistán, codo con codo con Irán. Moscú optó por tomar la iniciativa, por sí misma.</p>
<p>El viceministro de Asuntos Exteriores, Andrey Rudenko, se reunió tanto con el embajador de India en Rusia, Vinay Kumar, como con el embajador de Pakistán en Rusia, Muhammad Khalid Jamali.</p>
<p>La terminología rusa es esencial: no sólo se hizo un llamamiento a ambas partes para que <em>“entablen un diálogo constructivo”</em>. Moscú subrayó que <strong><em>“estamos dispuestos a contrarrestar juntos la amenaza terrorista global”</em></strong>. La palabra clave es <strong><em>“global”</em></strong>. Delhi e Islamabad no parecen haber captado el mensaje… todavía.</p>
<p><strong>Cachemira como laboratorio de guerra volátil</strong></p>
<p>La máquina infernal está previsiblemente en marcha. Es como si el eje anglo-sionista estuviera utilizando Cachemira como un laboratorio volátil para una serie de pruebas en vivo – <strong><em>incluyendo empujar a las potencias nucleares al borde de la confrontación.</em> <em>Y todo ello tratado con despreocupación – prácticamente como un espectáculo secundario.</em></strong></p>
<p>Nada procedente del sultán Erdogan y su aparato de inteligencia podía considerarse digno de confianza. En Siria, los activos del MIT -la Headchopper Inc. congregada en el Gran Idlibistán- acabaron instalados en el poder en Damasco con su jefe de banda amigo de los sionistas haciéndose pasar ahora por presidente.</p>
<p>Nada que provenga del sultán Erdogan y su aparato de inteligencia podría considerarse confiable. En Siria, los activos del MIT (servicio de inteligencia turco, <em>Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı</em>) —la empresa decapitadora congregada en el Gran Idlibistán— terminaron instalados en el poder en Damasco, con su cabecilla, afín a los sionistas, ahora posando como presidente.</p>
<p>La junta cipaya proyanqui en Islamabad, por su parte, podría estar enfrentándose al abismo —lo cual, en sí mismo, califica como una noticia auspiciosa.</p>
<p>Paralelamente, crece la expectativa sobre si Modi asistirá al desfile del Día de la Victoria el 9 de mayo en Moscú —y qué les dirá a sus anfitriones rusos.</p>
<p>Los miembros del BRICS, Rusia e Irán, quieren que el Corredor Internacional de Transporte Norte-Sur (INSTC) llegue sin problemas a la India cuanto antes. El juego se complica aún más cuando vemos que la investigación iraní empieza por fin a considerar que la horrenda explosión del puerto de Shahid Rajaee pudo ser un acto de sabotaje o un ataque FPV (drones).</p>
<p>La presión adicional sobre China es una verdadera motivación para crear este laboratorio de guerra. Ahora Pekín no sólo tiene que empezar a preocuparse por un frente India-Pakistán explosivamente renovado, sino también por las travesuras adicionales de la CIA/MI6 <strong><em>impulsando la conexión pakistaní con los salafi-jihadis uigures</em></strong>.</p>
<p>No hay ninguna posibilidad de que Delhi comprenda realmente los predicamentos geopolíticos de Pekín. <strong><em>Un escenario perfecto para la banda de la Guerra Híbrida</em></strong>.</p>
<p>Mientras tanto, en el frente de los BRICS, al menos hay algunos signos de racionalidad -procedentes, una vez más, del <a href="https://karlof1.substack.com/p/foreign-minister-sergey-lavrovs-written" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gran Maestro Lavrov.</a></p>
<p>Incluso antes de la reunión de ministros de Asuntos Exteriores de los BRICS a principios de esta semana en Río, Lavrov fue al grano en el frente financiero y geoeconómico.</p>
<p><strong>Subrayó que los BRICS están trabajando intensamente en la <em>“Iniciativa de Pagos Transfronterizos” </em>aprobada en la cumbre de Kazán de 2024; en una <em>“infraestructura de pagos y compensación”</em>; en <em>“una compañía de reaseguros”</em>; y en <em>una nueva plataforma de inversión</em>.</strong></p>
<p>Tuvo que explicar una vez más a los medios de comunicación occidentales -desde EE.UU. hasta Brasil- que</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>sería prematuro hablar de una transición a una moneda única para los BRICS. Estamos trabajando juntos para crear una infraestructura de pago y liquidación que permita realizar liquidaciones transfronterizas entre los países BRICS. En particular, como ya he dicho, esto incluye aumentar la cuota de las monedas nacionales en nuestras transacciones.</em></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Una moneda común de los BRICS -un espectro que planea sobre Trump 2.0- sólo volverá a la mesa <em>“<strong>cuando se den las condiciones financieras y económicas necesarias”</strong></em><strong>.</strong> <strong>Hasta entonces, la guerra contra los BRICS, híbrida y de otro tipo, será implacable.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Trumpty Dumpty</strong></p>
<p>Pasando de la realidad a la fantasía, fue una pasada encontrar la conexión entre <em>Cachemira y Alicia en el País de las Maravillas</em>… <a href="https://www.guancha.cn/yanmo/2025_04_29_774003.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">en un ensayo chino.</a></p>
<p>Hace falta una finura china suprema -como subvertir la sabiduría taoísta con un toque de posmodernismo- para identificar al <strong><em>“El Soberano del mundo”</em></strong> (su propia terminología) arrojando a todo el mundo, prácticamente a todo el planeta, a la madriguera del conejo.</p>
<p>Así que, en este desierto de espejos narrativos, Trump debería ser percibido como todos los personajes combinados: el Conejo Blanco, Humpty Dumpty <em>(“Cuando utilizo una palabra, significa lo que yo decido que signifique, ni más ni menos”</em>), el Sombrerero Loco, la Reina de Corazones (<em>“¡Que les corten la cabeza!”</em>)</p>
<p>Esto ilustra ciertamente la intersección entre la guerra comercial (lanzada por el “El soberano del mundo”) y la guerra genocida (plenamente legitimada por el “ El Soberano del mundo”). Con un giro adicional: <strong><em>la realidad tiene la habilidad de superar en caricaturas incluso al mismísimo Lewis Carroll.</em></strong></p>
<p>Entre en el curioso caso del USS Truman, un gigantesco portaaviones, que fue poseído por el espíritu de Ayrton Senna y decidió trazar una curva ultra cerrada como si fuera un Maserati Gran Turismo Stradale en medio del Mar Rojo, sólo para que un F-18E Super Hornet protestara por la maniobra precipitándose de cabeza al fondo del océano.</p>
<p>Al menos esa fue la narrativa que el CENTCOM vendió a la opinión pública mundial. ¡La culpa fue de los malditos misiles Houthi!</p>
<p>Pues bien, el CENTCOM ha sido implacablemente humillado por las Fuerzas Armadas yemeníes -21 MQ9-Reapers destrozados, y contando-, ya que no ha logrado ningún objetivo militar; el Pentágono no ha sometido a los houthis y no ha garantizado la “<em>libertad de navegación</em>” en el Mar Rojo para los barcos con destino a Israel. Su venganza: <strong><em>bombardear sin parar objetivos civiles yemeníes.</em></strong></p>
<p>Todo ello porque “el Soberano del mundo” lanzó una guerra ilegal -contra personas guiadas por la claridad moral y espiritual- para proteger el genocidio perpetrado por sus compañeros de régimen psicopatológico.</p>
<p>Sean bienvenidos a ‘El Soberano del Mundo’ recorriendo su particular País de las Maravillas, al compás del hipnótico riff de ‘Kashmir’</p>
<p><strong>Notas nuestras</strong></p>
<p>[1] “Kashmir” es una canción icónica de Led Zeppelin, conocida por su poderoso riff (frase musical corta, repetitiva, que sirve como un motivo rítmico)<br>
[2] El hindutva literalmente “hinduidad”, se define, en un sentido religioso, como el espíritu hinduista o el sentido de ser hindú. Actualmente se identifica como término político para referirse al <em>nacionalismo hindú</em>, que identifica a la India con el hinduismo y el hinduismo con la India, a pesar de que India es un país muy diverso con muchas más religiones y culturas aparte de la mayoría hindú.</p>
<p><em>Traducción: </em><a href="https://observatoriodetrabajad.com/2025/05/05/viajando-a-cachemira-solo-para-encontrar-a-alicia-en-el-pais-de-las-maravillas-pepe-escobar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Observatorio de Trabajadors en Lucha</strong></a><br>
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<p><strong>Yesterday, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-idf-will-hold-captured-areas-in-gaza-until-hamas-defeated-hostages-freed/"><em>The Times of Israel</em></a> reported that the Israeli cabinet had met and decided that not only were military operations against Hamas to be intensified in a planned ‘Operation Gideon’s Chariots’ but that Israel intended to retain all territory taken and basically <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-okays-expanding-gaza-op-as-idf-chief-said-to-warn-we-could-lose-the-hostages/">occupy Gaza</a></strong> <span><strong>and put an end to it as an independent entity</strong>. That will involve removing all Palestinians who still remain in Gaza.</span></p>
<p><span>The announcement, which coincided with Israeli Independence Day, was immediately criticised by other state leaders including the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris. He described it as “despicable” and claimed that it would lead to a further increase in the number of casualties in Gaza where the Israeli onslaught since October 2023 has already taken more than 43,000 lives.</span></p>
<p><span>Harris and the others who commented are not without support from within Israel.  Indeed, the Israeli media reported that, when Operation Gideon’s Chariots was presented to the Cabinet by the Israeli Defence Forces Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, that the Cabinet was also of the belief that the offensive will most likely lead to the loss of the remaining hostages. </span></p>
<p><span>Another report claimed that Zamir had also stressed to Netanyahu and his Ministers that the offensive will require a full call up of all reserve forces and that it must be accompanied by an immediate resumption of humanitarian aid.  You would get the impression that the General is dealing with lads who do not much care for such things.  His soldiers, of course, will do as they are told. </span></p>
<p><span>United States President Donald Trump is due to visit the region next week and the offensive is not expected to begin until after that.  He will hardly tell them not to, and the Israelis can claim to have his approval, since he basically recommended such a conquest and resettlement of the more than 2 million Palestinians who live in Gaza.</span></p>
<p><span>It was Trump’s musings on perhaps sending all the Palestinians some place nice and replacing them with casinos and tourists that really meant that it was game-on for this craziness.  He was not the originator, of course, and the notion of basically putting an end to the Palestinians as a people all living in the same place has gathered increasing support in Israel. </span></p>
<p><span>If the operation goes ahead then it also raises the prospect of an escalation in the “settlement” of the West Bank as well as Gaza.  Another aspect to the conflict in which America, and Americans, are at the heart. It was something that I had meant to remark upon after watching Louis Theroux’s BBC documentary</span> <em><span>The Settlers</span></em> <span>last weekend. </span></p>
<p><span>One of the clips from that film showed Israeli National Security Minister Hamiv Ben-Guir, the  leader of one of Netanyahu’s coalition partners Otzma Yehdit/Jewish Power, tell a festival of settlers that his government was committed to the removal of the more than two million Palestinians currently living in Gaza. And presumably support their replacement by his audience and their pals.</span></p>
<p><span>That audience had gathered where someone had helpfully placed picnic spots equipped with telescopes where tourists and day trippers like Ben-Guir’s audience could gaze happily on the smoke rising from the ruins of the place that some of Theroux’s interviewees were already planning to take over led by a Polish woman who was busily engaged in recon to spot nice places to move to.  That land is already owned and farmed by others, and settlers brave enough to chance their arm already are armed to the teeth and backed by the full force of the IDF and frontier law.  </span></p>
<p><span>At the moment there are something in the region of 750,000 settlers in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and other enclaves. In 2016, it was estimated that 15% were American citizens and that percentage has likely increased by now. Louis Theroux met some of them, including a chap from Texas who assured Theroux that there was no such thing as a Palestinian.  </span></p>
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<p><span>For the same chap, and for others who featured in the film, history is based firmly and solely in the Bible and its designation of the lands of Judah to their unlikely and very distant ancestors now living in Brooklyn or Carmel, California. What about the Palestinians? Are they in the Bible?</span></p>
<p><span>Some seem to believe that they are “Arabs” who wandered over from Egypt or Dubai or someplace but other Biblical and Jewish scholars concede that they probably were, inconveniently, around back in the days when they was much smiting of enemies and gnashing of teeth in the Old Testament times. Those times appear to be still with us in much of the conflict.</span></p>
<p><span>All that aside, the notion that the Old Testament should be taken as the authority for Israel to do as it pleases in the land and to the occupants of the land that is Palestine and lived in by millions of Palestinians who exist still whether that suits others or not is – let us face it – an abomination.</span></p>
<p><span>I doubt that I have ever before read something that Simon Harris has said and thought, “Yes, that is exactly what it is – despicable.”</span></p>


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<p><strong><em>O Dia da vitória para a Rússia, equivale ao dia da vergonha para o ocidente!</em></strong></p>
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<p>Não é apenas ingratidão… Antes fosse! São muito mais profundas as causas efectivas do desprezo, incompreensão, rejeição e repugnância, manifestadas pelas elites políticas de EUA e EU, em relação às comemorações do dia da Vitória, o dia em que a URSS coloca um fim a um dos mais hediondos regimes saídos das entranhas da história humana e, seguramente, um testemunho do expoente máximo a que pode chegar a brutalidade ocidental, alimentada pelas raízes económico-sociais fundadoras do capitalismo e do imperialismo.</p>
<p>Daí que o Dia da Vitória também se devesse designar de “Dia da Vergonha”, o dia em que um estado anti-imperialista, anticolonialista, atacado na sua essência mais profunda com a mais agressiva das armas que o capitalismo ocidental é capaz de produzir – o terror nazifascista -, perdeu 27 milhões dos seus melhores filhos e filhas, para nos salvar a todos de um problema para o qual não contribuiu minimamente. A vergonha ocidental não acaba nos crimes que cometeu contra a humanidade; a Rússia obriga o ocidente a viver e reviver anualmente o reconhecimento de que também ele foi salvo, de si próprio, pela vítima das suas agressões.</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="Na primavera de 1944, o Exército Vermelho começou a libertar a Europa dos nazistas. A missão durou um ano. 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">Na primavera de 1944, o Exército Vermelho começou a libertar a Europa dos nazistas. A missão durou um ano. https://rodina-history.ru/2025/04/29/vse-svobodny.html</p></div>
<p>Esta dualidade explicará muito do ressentimento publicamente demonstrado, da vergonha escondida de uns e da angústia de outros, em relação à história da segunda guerra mundial. Como é que o regime mais odiado, diabolizado e vilipendiado pela mais avançada forma de capitalismo, o capitalismo ocidental – o que se percebe – foi também o que mais contribuiu para o combate, contra uma força opressora produzida no seio dos regimes – ocidentais – que se apresentavam como “moderados, democráticos, civilizados”?</p>
<p>Não deixará de constituir uma ironia histórica que a humanidade se tenha sentido tão ameaçada por um dos produtos mais emblemáticos do fanatismo ocidental e que, ao mesmo tempo, essa humanidade tenha sido salva por um regime que, esse mesmo ocidente, dizia querer destruí-la. É a história do diabólico criminoso que, afinal, se torna no mais abnegado e altruísta dos salvadores. É a epítome perfeita do ditado que diz “a verdade é como o azeite, vem sempre ao de cima”. Como é que o maior criminoso de todos – o mais vilipendiado dos regimes – foi capaz de tão enorme altruísmo, não se limitando a expulsar o agressor da sua casa, mas indo ao limite das suas forças para definitivamente o derrotar? E como é que o mais bondoso e humano dos regimes, foi capaz de produzir, apoiar e alimentar tão hediondo ser, mostrando-se não apenas incapaz de o destruir sozinho, como tendo de assistir à sua destruição por aqueles de quem dizia nada de bom ser possível?</p>
<p>Como pode conviver a Alemanha actual, governada pelos descendentes daqueles que compunham as garras do monstro nazi, com traumas como os que somos forçados a assistir, quando nos deparamos com imagens dantescas de ossadas humanas empilhadas, dessecadas e despidas de toda e qualquer dignidade? Imagens que hoje nos vêm parar às nossas TV’s, passadas em Gaza, e as quais o ocidente, todo o ocidente, varre para debaixo do tapete que esconde os seus inúmeros e históricos crimes?</p>
<p>Como gostariam os que apoiam a segunda iteração do 3.º Reich, revivida a partir dos despojos históricos da 14ª Divisão da Galícia e preservados em algumas das mais privilegiadas e “civilizadas” metrópoles da grande civilização liberal, de apagar da história os retratos vívidos que deveriam suscitar outra coisa que não fosse a sua imensa vergonha e constrição, tal como fazem em relação aos mortos do Iraque, Afeganistão, Líbia, Síria ou à reprodução a vivo e a cores, do terror nazi no século XXI, desta feita perpetrado por quem se sabe ser a vítima do primeiro?</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="Pessoas depositam coroas de flores sobre os restos mortais dos torturados no campo de extermínio de Majdanek. 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">Pessoas depositam coroas de flores sobre os restos mortais dos torturados no campo de extermínio de Majdanek. Ano de 1945. Temin Viktor Antonovich. https://russiainphoto.ru/exhibitions/1042/#5</p></div>
<p>Habituados a escolher os seus heróis e a esconder, quando não sob a luz da recuperação providenciada pelo infame revisionismo histórico, os seus próprios demónios, a Europa ocidental, ventre fértil do fascismo da primeira metade do século XX, criado e crescido sob os auspícios da elite anglo-saxónica mais <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/real-patriots-dont-think-like-hitler-651" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proeminente</a> e alimentado pela mais orgulhosa prole estado-unidense, é obrigada a conviver com quem não lhe deixa esconder os seus crimes, a sua imensa culpa.</p>
<p>Afinal, quando considerado apenas o peso demográfico das mortes soviéticas na Segunda Guerra Mundial, estima-se que este país tenha perdido cerca de 26,6 a 27 milhões de pessoas durante a guerra, o que representava aproximadamente 13,7% da sua população em 1940. Tais perdas englobaram tanto militares quanto civis, sendo que cerca de 8,7 milhões eram soldados mortos em combate, enquanto o restante se deveu a massacres, fome, doenças, trabalho forçado e outras consequências directas do conflito, ou seja, na sua maioria civis inocentes, como os que hoje morrem em Gaza, às mãos dos que são acerrimamente defendidos pelos netos dos que praticaram tão vil terror contra a URSS.</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="Sobre os cadáveres de parentes. Frente Ocidental. Setembro - novembro de 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">Sobre os cadáveres de parentes. Frente Ocidental. Setembro – novembro de 1941. Troshkin Pavel Artemyevich. https://russiainphoto.ru/exhibitions/1042/#9</p></div>
<p>Talvez a forma seja mesmo essa. Com 13,7% da população perdida, não deve ser difícil a alguém imaginar que não existia um único cidadão soviético, um único cidadão ex-soviético e, mais certamente ainda, nenhum russo oi bielorrusso, que não tenha gravado na sua estrutura mental, familiar, social, carnal, o peso do drama que viu o seu ponto final no dia 9 de Maio de 1945. Nenhum. E se alguém tiver dificuldade em visualizar o que foi tamanha destruição e mortandade, não precisará de ir muito longe no tempo. Uma vez mais, qualquer um de nós voltou a ter hoje o negro privilégio de vivenciar e assistir, desta feita ao vivo e a cores, em uma pequena amostra territorial, do que há-de ter sido o dano infringido pelo terror nazi à então URSS. Com as suas quase 100.000 mortes e outros tantos desaparecidos, cerca de 10% a 15% da população de Gaza já terá sido dizimada pelo exército sionista. Alguém pode pedir a um cidadão de Gaza que não sinta tão grande tragédia? Para quem tiver dificuldade em perceber o que custou o terror nazi ao povo russo e soviético, que ligue a 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="Cadáveres de prisioneiros de guerra soviéticos. Local e data desconhecidos. 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">Cadáveres de prisioneiros de guerra soviéticos. Local e data desconhecidos. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/ru/gallery/mosaic-of-victims-an-overview-photographs</p></div>
<p>O problema é que o terror nazi, filho predilecto do fascismo, irmão do sionismo, como muito bem provaram Cinthya Chung e Mathew Heret nos seus profundíssimos trabalhos sobre o tema, versões de uma opressão engendrada nos clubes selectos de Londres e nas caves obscuras dos Sirs ingleses,  foi apenas um capítulo – o mais horrendo – do sofrimento com que o bloco imperialista ocidental quis punir um povo que teve a veleidade de produzir algo tão grandioso como a Revolução Russa e não se contentar com ela, mas levar avante as mais profundas transformações sociais que o mundo viu, em tão pequeno espaço temporal.</p>
<p>Por terem tido a veleidade de desafiar o imperialismo ocidental que amordaçava e manietava a Rússia pré-revolucionária, os povos russo e soviético foram obrigados a conviver com invasões sucessivas do seu território perpetradas por 14 potências imperialistas (1917-1922). Tendo sobrevivido a essa ameaça mortal e a todas as que se lhe seguiram, mascaradas sob muitas formas, a ameaça nazifascista foi a que lhe foi preparada com mais afinco.</p>
<p>O ódio, a raiva, a arbitrariedade, discricionariedade e a violenta voluptuosidade com que o exército nazi “premiou” a população soviética só pode ser entendida à luz da frustração e humilhação com que o ocidente foi obrigado a alimentar o monstro nazi, para então o atirar á jovem pátria soviética.  A ameaça de perda de um prémio apetecido, foi transformada num ódio tão profundo como o que hoje tenta isolar a Federação Russa e classificar o seu líder – Vladimir Putin – como o mais sanguinário tirano da história humana. O Nazismo, como o Banderismo, são ambos filhos dessa ganância, são ambos filhos desse ódio.</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='Os corpos de guerrilheiros soviéticos enforcados e uma placa dizendo "Não tire fotos!" (“Fotografieren proibido!”). Outra placa contém um texto em alemão e uma tradução em russo: “Somos bandidos, matamos e roubamos não apenas soldados alemães, mas também cidadãos russos”. 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">Os corpos de guerrilheiros soviéticos enforcados e uma placa dizendo “Não tire fotos!” (“Fotografieren proibido!”). Outra placa contém um texto em alemão e uma tradução em russo: “Somos bandidos, matamos e roubamos não apenas soldados alemães, mas também cidadãos russos”. https://xn--80aabgieomn8afgsnjq.xn--p1ai/fotografii-poveshennyh-kak-trofei-naczistskie-kazni-sovetskih-zhitelej/</p></div>
<p>Daí que seja tão injuriosa como justificada a sanha raivosa com que o ocidente, através dos olhos de figuras acéfalas, olha para as solenes comemorações do Dia da Vitória. A Federação Russa, ano após ano, impede o ocidente de esquecer o mal que lhe fez, o mal que fez ao mundo e à humanidade. Com essa lembrança, a Federação Russa, âncora actual desse combate ancestral contra a tirania imperialista, por mais que a classifiquem enquanto tal, lembra também ao ocidente o seu caracter eminentemente criminoso.</p>
<p>Quando a repetição histórica é uma característica dos crimes ocidentais (pilhagem, escravatura, guerras mundiais, sanções, embargos, guerras por procuração, revoluções coloridas, destruição de países), tal significa que o crime não é um acidente na história do ocidente dominado pela cultura anglo-saxónica. É uma característica que lhe é inerente e que deve ser relembrada.</p>
<p>Ao observamos as ameaças de Zelensky a quem participa das comemorações do Dia da Vitória, as ameaças de punição de Kaja Kallas para os líderes de países candidatos que participem nas comemorações de Moscovo, verificamos que esta Europa quer esquecer-se dos seus crimes, quer apagar os factos, a história, que tão grande embaraço lhe causa. É interessante sentir que Ursula Von Der Leyen e companhia, quando confrontados com tão significativa data, se comportam como alguém que, lembrado das suas vergonhosas raízes, ao invés de se mostrar humilde e merecedor de perdão, tenta libertar-se delas, da pior das formas possíveis: através do esquecimento alheio e do ataque às vítimas!</p>
<p>Mas como fazê-lo quando quem lho lembra é, de todos os países europeus, não apenas o maior, mais rico e poderoso, como o que mais sofreu com a ofensa? Como resistir – e combater – um oponente que reiteradamente faz questão, não apenas dignificar os seus mártires e respectivos descendentes, como de mostrar a todos, aos sete ventos e aos cinco continentes, a conduta vergonhosa a que o ocidente oligárquico, capitalista, neoliberal, é capaz de chegar quando se trata de defender os seus ilegítimos interesses?</p>
<p>E como poderia a Rússia esquecer-se de tal ofensa? Apenas e só a União Soviética foi responsável por mais da metade de todas as mortes ocorridas na Segunda Guerra Mundial, que totalizaram cerca de 50 milhões globalmente. A Rússia, só por si, terá ficado com mais de 1/3 à sua conta. Como poderia a Bielorússia não participar no dia da vitória quando perdeu cerca de 25,3% de sua população?</p>
<p>Exemplo do infame esquecimento que a EU e EUA querem imprimir sobre o passado é o da Ucrânia. Tendo perdido cerca de 16,3% da sua população, este país que não existiria sem a URSS, é hoje usado num duplo sentido. Por um lado, alvo de traição pelas suas elites oligárquicas, volta a ser armado e fanatizado, tal como o havia sido a Alemanha nazi, para ser atirado à Federação Russa. Pegando nos resquícios históricos do colaboracionismo nazi, o mesmo que alimenta a loucura nazifascista que reemerge na Polónia, Estónia, Lituânia, Finlândia, Letónia e na própria Alemanha, os EUA, auxiliados pela sempre solícita EU, não apenas recriaram o ambiente bandeirista da segunda guerra mundial, como transmitiram o vírus a uma parte importante da população ucraniana e, mais grave ainda, a toda a EU.</p>
<p>Na Ucrânia actual assistimos a tudo o que a EU gostaria de fazer à Rússia, quando lhe jogasse a mão: proibir-lhe os partidos patrióticos, como fez o Banderismo na Ucrânia, encerrar-lhe os órgãos de comunicação social e perseguir-lhe a língua, religião e cultura, como fizeram a Ucrânia bandeirista e a EU de Von Der Leyen.</p>
<p>A Ucrânia é hoje também o laboratório vivo do processo de revisionismo e reescrita histórica. As vítimas passaram a agressores e os agressores a heróis. Estátuas de criminosos de guerra e genocidas, inclusive de ucranianos e judeus, passaram a erguer-se no país. Símbolos nazis foram gravados a letras de ouro à vista de todos, perante o total acriticismo ocidental. A Alemanha que pune criminalmente a utilização de símbolos nazis, esquece-se dos eu vergonhoso passado quando vai a Kiev. Em Kiev, ao invés de responsabilizada e relembrada dos crimes cometidos, para que nunca mais se cometam, ao invés, é idolatrada e a sua história recuperada.</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="Tomada de Berlim. 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">Tomada de Berlim. https://rodina-history.ru/photo/2024/05/05/3ce5c63c4d13b0a.html</p></div>
<p>O mecanismo é simples e foi usado de forma muito repetida. Primeira compara-se o nazi-fascismo ao comunismo e, diabolizando o segundo, normaliza-se o primeiro; depois, compara-se a URSS à Alemanha nazi e, diabolizando a primeira, recupera-se a segunda. A partir de então fica a via aberta para a reescrita da história e para o esquecimento colectivo do passado.</p>
<p>O sistema está tão aperfeiçoado que já não é apenas na Ucrânia que se esquecem os crimes que a própria sofreu às mãos do imperialismo ocidental.  É no próprio Japão, país vítima de duas bombas atómicas ali lançadas pelos EUA, de duas tecnologias diferentes, para que não restassem dúvidas sobre a que melhor cumpriria os desígnios belicistas a partir de então prosseguidos. Neste Japão esquecido dos eu passado, da sua história, do seu sofrimento, o primeiro ministro é capaz de falar uma hora sobre Hiroshima e Nagasaki, sem nunca falar de quem lançou tais bombas e, no final, falar apenas de quem as não lançou: a Rússia.</p>
<p>Se dúvidas houvessem sobre a eficácia de tal método, vejamos como a EU apaga hoje Gaza da sua memória, quando Von Der Leyen se oferece para ajudar Israel a apagar fogos que, segundo consta, os próprios colonos que ocupam á força território palestino, fizeram propagar. Veja-se como uma alemã de gema, que apoia a mais vil renascença histórica do nazismo na Ucrânia, se mostra tão solícita a “ajudar” um povo que foi uma das principais vítimas da ideologia que ela hoje apoia e tenta esconder dos olhos mais atentos.</p>
<div data-sanitized-id="attachment_885131" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-885131" loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/hd06052507.jpg" alt="Atrocidades nazistas na Ucrânia durante a Grande Guerra Patriótica. https://rodina-history.ru/photo/2025/01/21/c7a0c4b76fabb47.html" width="582" height="388" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-885131 size-full"><p data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-885131" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Atrocidades nazistas na Ucrânia durante a Grande Guerra Patriótica. https://rodina-history.ru/photo/2025/01/21/c7a0c4b76fabb47.html</p></div>
<p>E o que dizer de um ocidente que apoiou o Apartheid na África do Sul, aparecer depois a idolatrar Mandela, para depois novamente poder apoiar outro apartheid em Israel? Que bom é poder praticar crimes e depois, ao invés de ser punido, punir e culpar as vítimas e auto anunciar-se como herói salvador. Que bom é poder, uma e outra vez, poder destruir nações inteiras, sancionar, embargar, e acusar outros de o fazer, aparecendo como salvador. Que fantástico é poder ingerir em processos eleitorais alheios, à vista de tudo e todos (como na Geórgia em que altos responsáveis da EU desfilaram em manifestações da oposição) e acusar outros de fazer aquilo que se diz não ter feito. Como é bom ter o poder de anular eleições e impedir candidatos de concorrerem e, ao mesmo tempo, sem um pingo de vergonha, chamar ditador a quem é eleito pelo seu povo e libertador a quem se perpetua no poder, tendo caducado o seu mandato.</p>
<p>Este ocidente que se julga dono da história, que de uma assentada faz a sua auto penitência, não para que aprenda alguma coisa com ela, mas apenas para que se sinta livre para praticar, uma e outra vez, os actos que o deveriam envergonhar, não pode, não quer, quer fugir do convívio com a lembrança repetida dos seus crimes. É isso que procuram EUA e EU de cada vez que se mostram incomodados com a comemoração do 9 de Maio como o Dia da Vitória. Afinal, a cada comemoração, a Rússia lembra a todo o ocidente, a todo o mundo, que não apenas sabe quem cometeu os crimes, como demonstra toda a sua força e resolução para que tais crimes não voltem a ser perpetrados.</p>
<p>A cada Dia da Vitória é como se o povo russo dissesse aos seus algozes: eu sei quem vocês são, sei o que pensam de mim, sei o que querem e aviso-vos de que, se cá vierem, vão ter a punição que merecem. Vejam esta parada, vejam este exército vitoriosos, vejam este orgulho…. Vejam o que vos espera, se voltarem outra vez a tentar fazer de nós os vossos escravos.</p>
<p>Esta é a razão pela qual a EU está tão impregnada de ódio e tão afundada no <em>titanic </em>ucraniano. O instrumento que criou para calar este “malcomportado” aluno russo, este insubmisso escravo, este aprendiz indisciplinado da gloriosa civilização liberal, está a fracassar de forma contundente. Se os EUA de Trump tentam escapar através da própria emulação na qualidade de “mediadores” 2.0 (o 1.0 é na Palestina), à EU nada mais resta do que a vitória, ou a derrota. Tal como o original havia levado a Rússia quase à derrota, também o Ieltsin ucraniano está quase a consegui-lo.</p>
<p>E é aqui que esta gente se torna perigosa. Gente mimada, habituada a ter tudo à sua maneira, “educada” nas melhores escolas e universidades que o dinheiro pode comprar, desfilando nos órgãos de comunicação social que a oligarquia pode dominar e beneficiando da manipulação que as melhores agências de comunicação podem vender, viu serem desmontadas todas as suas estratégias de desestabilização do seu prémio mais apetecido: a Rússia. Mas a Rússia não apenas desmontou a armadilha que lhe estava dirigida; a Rússia remontou a armadilha ao contrário! E de que forma! Não a conseguindo desmontar, é a sua própria existência que fica em risco. Interessante assistir ao feitiço que se vira contra o feiticeiro. A EU poder destruir-se pela armadilha que havia criado para partir a Rússia aos bocados.</p>
<p>Mas não se fica por aqui a afronta. Quando constatamos que Ibrahim Traoré – qual herói de uma jovem áfrica – se desloca a Moscovo para participar nas comemorações do Dia da Vitória, não podemos senão pensar que, uma vez mais a pátria Russa enterra uma espinha na garganta daqueles que todos os males pensaram poder fazer e nenhuma penitência ter de praticar. Ao receber o jovem e promissor chefe de estado do Burkina Faso, que fez mais pelo seu povo num ano – como nacionalizar o ouro e pagar a dívida soberana – do que os fantoches financiados pela França, Vladimir Putin volta a afrontar as mesmas elites que foram responsáveis pelo terror nazi-fascista. Neste caso, do “herói” nacional francês, Napoleão.</p>
<p>Não sendo o mesmo país que era a URSS, esta afronta, acompanhada por outros resistentes do imperialismo e da mais impune e desumana repressão de que é capaz, Cuba, Venezuela, Coreia do Norte (que sofreu às mãos dos EUA níveis de terror similares aos que sofreu a URSS ás mãos do nazifascismo), Irão e muitos outros, a Rússia volta uma vez mais a afirmar-se como bastião e refúgio de povos oprimidos pela ganância neocolonial. A Rússia volta a dizer ao ocidente: enquanto eu existir, serão obrigados a viver e a lembrar a vossa vergonha!</p>
<p>E é com esta vergonha que os EUA e a EU não querem conviver. O Dia da vitória para a Rússia, equivale ao dia da vergonha para o ocidente!</p>
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title: A historia dos martires de Krasnodon
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<p><strong><em>A juventude de Krasnodon se rebelou e oito estudantes criaram a Molodaya Gvardia, em setembro de 1942.</em></strong></p>
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<p>É abril de 2022. Estou na Rússia para acompanhar a operação militar especial para o jornal Causa Operária. Na rua Arbat, uma exposição de fotos com 32 painéis organizada pelo Governo de Moscou homenageia os 80 anos do desfecho da Batalha de Moscou, ocorrida de 30 de setembro de 1941 a 20 de abril de 1942, no âmbito da Operação Barbarossa ─ a invasão nazista, luta contra a qual os russos batizaram de Grande Guerra Patriótica.</p>
<p>Os alemães haviam chegado às portas da capital russa e já consideravam a cidade como tomada. A maior parte do governo soviético já havia se deslocado para Kuibichev (atual Samara). Os cidadãos comuns, que não tinham como fugir, abrigavam-se como podiam do ataque das bombas da Luftwaffe, principalmente nas estações de metrô. Reservistas vindos dos Urais, da Sibéria e do Extremo Oriente, cadetes de escolas militares que sequer haviam completado 18 anos e milhões de moscovitas se mobilizaram para defender o coração do Estado Soviético. Em 5 de dezembro de 1941, as tropas da Frente Oriental, lideradas pelo lendário marechal Georgy Zhukov, e as da Frente Sudoeste, comandadas por Konstantin Tymochenko, lançaram uma contraofensiva em grande escala. De apenas 30 quilômetros do Kremlin, os alemães foram recuados para 200 quilômetros longe de Moscou.</p>
<p>Contudo, Stálin se recusou a ouvir as advertências de espiões e oficiais soviéticos, que informavam sobre o avanço das tropas hitleristas em direção a Moscou. Isso acabou custando a vida de um milhão de pessoas, vítimas do terror nazista. Mas se tivessem sido apenas os habitantes de Moscou que houvessem sofrido nas mãos de Hitler…</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/1000033183.jpg" alt="" width="816" height="460" data-sanitized-class="alignnone size-full wp-image-885139"></p>
<p>Em maio daquele ano, quando viajei para a República Popular de Lugansk, visitei o Museu da Molodaya Gvardiya na cidade de Krasnodon. Trata-se de um museu em homenagem àquela Guarda Juvenil, formada na região e que ficou eternizada por toda a União Soviética por sua história de heroísmo e tragédia brutal. Krasnodon foi invadida em 20 de julho de 1941. A cidade, onde nasceram os mineiros de carvão que participaram da revolução de 1917 e ingressaram no Partido Comunista e no Exército Vermelho, não aceitou a ocupação nazista. Dezesseis cidadãos organizaram a primeira resistência, um grupo de partisans que foram exterminados pela crueldade alemã. Em seguida, 32 mineiros se recusaram a colaborar com os ocupantes e tiveram um destino aterrorizante: foram queimados vivos dentro da mina onde trabalhavam.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/1000033180.jpg" alt="" width="604" height="491" data-sanitized-class="alignnone size-full wp-image-885140"></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/1000033186.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="787" data-sanitized-class="alignnone size-full wp-image-885144"></p>
<p>Finalmente, a juventude de Krasnodon se rebelou e oito estudantes criaram a Molodaya Gvardia, em setembro de 1942. Entre suas façanhas, principalmente através da tática de sabotagem, conseguiram impedir que os jovens da cidade fossem deportados para o trabalho forçado na Alemanha e libertar soldados soviéticos que estavam presos em Krasnodon. A organização chegou a contar com 102 membros, todos provenientes de famílias cossacas, uma vez que a região que abrange o Donbass e Rostov é um histórico território cossaco. Mas a resposta dos invasores foi rápida e violenta, obrigando o grupo a se dissolver apenas três meses após sua criação. Em 1° de fevereiro de 1943, os nazistas começam a encontrar os militantes da Molodaya Gvardiya: são presos, torturados e executados. Alguns tiveram seus dedos, orelhas e olhos arrancados ─ com a ajuda dos colaboradores ucranianos, os mesmos que hoje são homenageados pelo regime de Kiev e idolatrados pelos batalhões do exército ucraniano. Outros foram levados para a floresta; cinco deles foram assassinados. A maioria, no entanto, teve um destino ainda mais terrível: 71 militantes foram levados para dentro de uma mina de carvão e presos a uma profundidade de 58 metros. Todos morreram. Dentre todos os membros do grupo, 80% tinham entre 14 e 18 anos.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/1000033189.jpg" alt="" width="1866" height="1221" data-sanitized-class="alignnone size-full wp-image-885141"></p>
<p>Krasnodon foi liberada em 14 de fevereiro de 1943, duas semanas após a morte dos jovens na mina. Seus corpos foram resgatados e velados no dia 1° de março. Após a libertação, 16 sobreviventes da Molodaya Gvardiya alistaram-se no Exército Vermelho para ajudarem na libertação do restante do país. Oito deles morreram em combate. Nasceram em Krasnodon 18 cidadãos que receberam a condecoração de heróis da Grande Guerra Patriótica, martirizados durante a ocupação ─ seis deles eram membros da Molodaya Gvardiya. A organização inspirou jovens de toda a URSS a pegarem em armas contra os invasores nazistas.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/1000033177.jpg" alt="" width="704" height="445" data-sanitized-class="alignnone size-full wp-image-885142"></p>
<p>─ As autoridades ucranianas de hoje procuram esconder essa história ─ me diz Andrei, liderança da central sindical da RPL que, por ser fluente em inglês e muito amigável, nos levará para vários lugares e servirá como nosso intérprete.</p>
<p>─ O que os grupos nazistas da Ucrânia estão fazendo no Donbass é comparável ao que fizeram os alemães? ─ pergunto a Elena Stechenko, guia do museu.</p>
<p>─ Eles não se comportam da mesma maneira, mas de forma parecida. Eles têm um ódio muito forte contra nós. O problema é entre os habitantes do leste e do oeste. Nós os apoiamos mas em 2014 eles não fizeram nada para nos ajudar. E apoiam os nazistas.</p>
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title: Court hears murder accused “never hit” his wife
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IMG_7785.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>The murder trial of Richard Satchwell has heard that his deceased wife, Tina, used to shed “tears” before bed on many occasions.</strong></p>
<p><span>Richard Satchwell (58)of</span> <span>Grattan Street, Youghal, Co Cork, has pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife Tina</span> <span>Satchwell</span> <span>(45). </span></p>
<p><span>A jury of 5 men and 7 women heard how on the last occasion the married couple had attended a local barboot sale where they sold items, the deceased woman had purchased fewer items than usual while her husband manned the car from which they sold the items. </span></p>
<p><span>The evidence read before the court today was taken from a transcription of a four hour Garda interview conducted by Garda Sergeant David Noonan who said that the particular interview technique used was “</span><span>different to traditional” statement taking.</span></p>
<p><span>Sgt Noonan said that the technique used was called a “cognitive interview” in which a member of An Garda Síochána sits with a subject in a comfortable environment and allows them to “lead” the interviews. </span></p>
<p><span>During the course of the interview, which was conducted in 2021, the accused said that he would “rub oil” into his wife’s “whole body” every night and that he would separately massage each of her feet for 30 minutes each. </span></p>
<p><span>He claimed that his late wife would spend “an hour and a half” in the bath everyday, and that after he would spread two large towels on the bed which she would lie upon while he oiled her body. </span></p>
<p><span>When Sgt. Noonan asked what kind of conversations the pair would have in the midst of the oiling, the accused answered that sometimes afterwards she would say words to the effect of “Oh I love you,” or “I fucking hate you”, but on the last night before her disappearance she “put her head on my shoulder” and that there were “no words spoken”. </span></p>
<p><span>He said that he believed that her crying spells were due to “depression”, before saying that this could “contradict” another assertion that he thought they may have been caused by her thinking of leaving him. </span></p>
<p><span>He said that he had “been accused of never saying no to her,” and described how he would wake up earlier than her and prepare a simple breakfast such as toast and jam. </span></p>
<p><span>Sgt Noonan repeatedly urged the accused to move away from making statements about what would “always” or “usually” happen and to focus on the specific events of the time leading up to her disappearance. </span></p>
<p><span>Satchwell said that during the course of their relationship he had been left with various injuries on his body by being hit or bitten, claiming that he had excused how these were sustained because he didn’t want people to know “the missus” had caused them.  </span></p>
<p><span>He said that the murdered woman would become “nasty” and “violent” and that “10 minutes later” would behave as though nothing had happened. </span></p>
<p><span>He claims he “never hit her”, that he was brought up to respect women, and that a GP had told him</span> <span>“the only thing you can do is leave her alone”. </span></p>
<p><span>Satchwell said he had taken “a box” of sleeping pills in 1995 in efforts to end his life due to these incidents but that he did not work. </span></p>
<p><span>He said that the 1990s were “destroyed” when thinking back on that time period. </span></p>
<p><span>The accused claimed that the late Mrs. Satchwell had a turbulent relationship with some of her family members and that allegations made by a female cousin that she had been abused by a male relative at the age of 10 had caused distress among the family. </span></p>
<p><span>Satchwell said he did not know all the specifics of these allegations as he had not visited Mallow with Tina when she had gone to meet her relatives there. He claimed that people attached to the local swimming pool in Youghal, where he said she would swim everyday, had made statements to the effect that they believed that he and his wife were also tarnished with the allegations. </span></p>
<p><span>He said she would receive “abusive” phone calls from relatives who would “take problems out on her”.</span></p>
<p><span>“They never came to us, we’d  visit them,” he said in the interview. </span></p>
<p><span>Despite the rocky relationship with some relatives, he said that Tina’s birth mother, Mary, and her sister  Lorraine Collins “would have spoken to her” if she had visited them and that they had been there for him since her disappearance in 2017. </span></p>
<p><span>He claimed to have been left with cuts on his forehead, “scralled” arms and legs, as well as black eyes over the course of the alleged abuse. </span></p>
<p><span>The trial continues before Mr. Justice Paul McDermott. </span></p>


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<p>Le ministre des Finances extrémiste de l’État d’occupation, Bezalel Smotrich, qui occupe également un poste au ministère de la Défense, a dévoilé les ambitions coloniales maximalistes de Tel-Aviv lorsqu’il a <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/33514691-e5cc-4add-9512-f89b78b0b5c7?j=eyJ1IjoiaTFlc3AifQ._8qpI5U56Zqt9LZ9jNpDMzP45EDRjWe8lVaF2CrLl0c" rel="">déclaré</a> le 29 avril dans la colonie israélienne illégale d’Eli, …</p>

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title: Lush accused of promoting gender ideology to kids
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<p><strong>Lush Cosmetics has been accused of promoting gender ideology to children in Irish stores through a partnership with The Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI). </strong></p>
<p><span>The campaign includes marketing, in the form of leaflets and a window display in stores, which claims that GPs are “on board with gender-affirming care.” A window display at the cosmetics brand’s store at Dundrum Shopping Centre in Dublin also includes messages such as “Ireland leads on trans rights” and “trans youth living their truth.” Other messages displayed on the large lilac and blue display include, “Ireland: A safe haven for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers” and “I [love] my trans kid.”</span></p>
<p><span>The Lush campaign has partnered with organisations TransActual and My Genderation in the UK and with Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) in Ireland, with a TENI leaflet placed in stores throughout Ireland.</span></p>
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<figcaption data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-330116" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text">Lush Cosmetics window display</figcaption></figure><p><span><br>The advocacy from Lush, which also has stores in the US, comes after the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a document, “Gender-Affirming Care and Young People,” which called for therapy over medical interventions for youth experiencing gender dysphoria.</span></p>
<p><span>In reaction to the controversy, Genspect slammed the cosmetics company as having a “long history of exploiting gender issues for shock value,” claiming the company had long been guilty of “pushing trans activism.”</span></p>
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<p><span>“Now they’re going even further, shoving medical transition propaganda at vulnerable children, all while bypassing parents. This is appalling,” the international organisation founded by psychotherapist Stella O’Malley said.</span></p>
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<p><span>The new campaign was launched in partnership with UK and Irish charities, after the UK Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of ‘woman’ is biological, and does not include those who identify as transgender women.</span></p>
<p><span>The</span> <strong><a href="https://weare.lush.com/press-releases/lush-partners-with-trans-led-groups-to-stand-up-for-trans-rights/">campaign</a></strong> <span>runs from April 23 to May 11, and will see the brand sell its new “Liberation” bath bomb in the colours of the trans flag, light pink and blue. 75 per cent of proceeds from the bath bomb, which costs around €7 will go to TENI. According to Lush, the campaign features “free educational booklets,” with one authored by TENI entitled: “Challenges for Trans People in Ireland: What needs to change.”</span></p>
<p><span>The window displays features cartoon children designed by trans activists Fox Fisher and Lewis Hancox, whilst a free 24-page booklet (Dream vs. Reality), advocates for the expansion of “gender-affirming care.” QR codes also link to trans activist-produced videos.</span></p>
<p><span>“This</span> <strong><a href="https://weare.lush.com/press-releases/lush-partners-with-trans-led-groups-to-stand-up-for-trans-rights/#:~:text=Lush%20has%20partnered%20with%20trans,raise%20money%20for%20partner%20groups">marketing</a></strong> <span>directly targets Lush’s core audience, young people aged 12 to 25 – many of whom are at critical stages of psychological development and identity formation, and who often shop independently of their parents,” Genspect said.</span></p>
<p><span>“No information is provided about the irreversible consequences of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgeries. There is no room for thoughtful analysis, alternative perspectives, caution, or for truly informed consent. </span></p>
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<p><span>“Serious risks, such as double mastectomies, osteoporosis, incontinence, permanent sexual impairment, and infertility, are entirely omitted. Instead, children and adolescents are presented with a single, activist-driven message: transition is fun – much like the bath bombs and soaps sold beside pastel posters celebrating gender-affirming care. The idea of the “trans kid” is promoted not as a complex identity, but as a cool, edgy persona.</span></p>
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<p><span>“This is not marketing; it is trans activism targeted at children.”</span></p>
<p><span>Lush said of the campaign, “This campaign comes from the heart of the business. Requested by our staff and led by our incredible campaign partners, it comes at a time where positive trans representation is needed to counterpoint some of the toxic narratives that have been shaping public discourse. We hope that the vision presented in this campaign becomes reality and helps to shape a world we can all be proud of.”</span></p>
<p><span>It comes as the store, which is especially popular with teenagers and young women, came under fire after it placed a leaflet in party bags gifted to children as young as seven and eight claiming that there was a global conspiracy against those who identify as transgender, as</span> <strong><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14662767/Lush-puts-transgender-propaganda-leaflets-birthday-party-bags-girls-young-seven-claiming-global-conspiracy-against-trans-people.html">reported</a></strong> <span>by the Daily Mail, with one angry parent describing it as “propaganda.”</span></p>
<p><span>The British newspaper reports that young girls received the pamphlet as they left a birthday celebration event for one of the stores’ branches, where they also created bath bombs and soaps. The booklet, which was 24 pages long, claimed that transgender people had been made ‘the target of a calculated media assault’ in a bid to divert attention from ‘global crises’. </span></p>
<p><span>The Times newspaper also reported that the branded campaign materials handed out were included in the party bags without parental consent or warning.</span></p>
<p><span>The British cosmetics retailer, which has stores in Ireland, produced the leaflet in collaboration with the charity TransActual, with the publication also claiming that the media landscape was “encouraging violence” and that lives had been “devastated” by a “tidal wave of hate.” </span></p>
<p><span>The Natural Women’s Council also hit out at the display in its Dublin store, saying in a statement: “Promoting transgender ideology to children not only contradicts the Cass Review, which advises caution against an unquestioning affirmative approach, but it also stands in contrast to the UK Supreme Court ruling affirming that legal definitions of “women” are based on biological sex”.</span></p>
<p><span>The organisation has said that children should be protected from ideological marketing in retail spaces, as it asked supporters to contact the store to “ask them to respect boundaries.”</span></p>
<p><span>In a letter to Lush, the organisation expressed “serious concern” about the window display which it said “promotes gender ideology in a manner that is prominently visible to children.”</span></p>
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<p><span>“This is especially concerning given that the store also hosts children’s parties, meaning young children are directly exposed to this messaging during events intended to be age-appropriate.” </span></p>
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<p><span>It comes as Lush announced last month that it was launching “gender affirming care” for its UK and Ireland staff.</span></p>
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<p><span>“To coincide with the launch of this campaign, Lush is rolling out a Gender Affirming Care policy as part of its commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and supporting trans, non-binary and gender diverse employees,” it said in a statement. The company said it would provide, among measures, “dedicated transitioning leave” to “ensure that trans employees have the time and support they need to access gender-affirming care.”</span></p>
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<p>Lush Cosmetics were contacted for comment but had not responded at the time of the publication of this article.</p>

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title: Le PM Carney affirme qu'il y aura une renégociation de l'ACEUM #polcan
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guid: https://brixsweden.org/?p=5384
title: China-Europe diplomatic ties at 50: Prospects and challenges
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<div><img src="https://brixsweden.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CGTN-EU-China.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Stephen Brawer, Chairman of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden</p>
<p>Thise article was published by China Global Television Network (CGTN). <span><a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-05-06/China-Europe-diplomatic-ties-at-50-Prospects-and-challenges-1D9cG195IQM/p.html">Click here!</a></span></p>
<p>This May marks the 50th<sup> </sup>anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Europe and China. If one is to consider the evolution of this relationship over the past five decades, it would be marked most clearly by the dramatic transformation of China’s economy for the better, beginning with the opening up of China under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s.</p>
<p>Since that time, China’s economy has been on a continuous upward spiral leading up to today’s leading role in manufacturing, and modern transportation infrastructure in the form of rapidly expanding fast trains, and new systems of magnetically levitated trains reaching up to 600km per hour. The new cutting edge in technological innovation in robotics, AI and digital tech, space travel and the development of new forms of nuclear power based on fusion technology and thorium powered power plants has put China in a leading position internationally for global development and stability as well as sustainability.</p>
<p>On the other hand, European economies have been on a general spiral downward. The modern industry and technologies which put European infrastructure at or near the top of world development in the 1960’s and 1970’s has been moving downward based on a dominant belief in a post-industrial, neo-Malthusian philosophy that considered world resources to be far too limited to provide for a growing world population. Cutting-edge technologies in energy infrastructure were abandoned in the name of environmentally preferable solar and wind. The general condition of both transportation and energy infrastructure in Europe has been collapsing based on neo-liberal financial policies.</p>
<p>However, due to the escalating risks of a trade war and tariffs coming from U.S. President Donald Trump, the possibility of improving China-Europe trade and business relations is on the rise. Because of the above-mentioned negative direction in European policy making, there has emerged a great dependency of European markets on economic cooperation with China. Most inside economic analysts in Sweden and Europe admit that without Chinese markets, the European economies would totally collapse.</p>
<p>Therefore, it is a positive direction for increased bilateral trade between China and Europe in areas like biomedical technologies, and those environmentally approved areas of solar energy and similar low intensity environmental technologies. However, politically, the EU maintains a virtual enemy image of China as a potential aggressor, whose political system is purportedly based on so-called “non-democratic autocracy” and “the abuse of human rights.” This false and baseless perspective is pointing to a major increase in military budgets to provide the necessary “security guaranties” against the dangers coming from supposed “Russian and Chinese imperialism.”</p>
<p>This geopolitical blindness is an obstacle to increased cooperation in those areas of hi-tech infrastructure of nuclear development and modern transport infrastructure directed to the Global South, including BRICS member countries, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and most fundamentally is a real obstacle to cooperation between the EU and China on the Belt and Road Initiative. This limits the framework to deepen collaboration between China and Europe to those areas such as green technology, AI, and the digital economy, which are clearly useful, albeit that they lack the most important element of real friendship, based upon a common cause for “a shared community for mankind.”</p>
<p>China has proposed the three global initiatives, which are the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and the Global Development Initiative, as strategic visions for global cooperation. China has clearly outlined its vision for the coming 25 years and even beyond the one-hundred-year celebration of the founding of the PRC in 2049.</p>
<p>The mission to achieve justice and bring about the total elimination of poverty for the world’s populations is an unbreakable commitment for China’s leadership. The big question remains what direction Europe and the EU will choose to go in this very turbulent period of history. This was the theme of the latest webinar of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden, “The EU and China in a Rapidly Changing World.” What direction Europe and the EU will take is still uncertain. Yet, we are at a crossroads in world history, with great potential and great danger simultaneously. As I emphasized in a recent conference:</p>
<p>The BRI has emerged out of the depths of history and philosophy. The more profound ideas of Chinese civilization and its counterparts in European Renaissance civilization provide the ideas for uniting East and West as well as North and South. Let us proceed on this pathway to give light and harmony to all peoples in these difficult times of 2025.</p>


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title: Trump agite le drapeau blanc et met fin à la guerre au Yémen
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<div>Le président américain Donald Trump a annoncé le 6 mai que Washington a mis fin à sa guerre illégale contre le Yémen, affirmant que les Forces armées yéménites (YAF) dirigées par Ansarallah <em>“ne veulent plus se battre”</em>.</div>
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<p><strong>Moscou et Kiev rivalisent pour s’attirer les faveurs de la nouvelle administration américaine. Alors que la diplomatie russe semblait devancer celle de Kiev, les choses ont changé radicalement avec la signature de l<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yg456mzn8o">‘accord sur les minéraux entre les États-Unis </a></strong>…</p>

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title: Banker Mark Carney's Rise to Power, Tavistock's Century-Long Plan for Canada? | with Matt Ehret
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/a1eee2ff821b8dd862155bc4a7988764.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Banker Mark Carney's Rise to Power, Tavistock's Century-Long Plan for Canada? | with Matt Ehret"></p>April 28, 2025<br><br>I sat down with Dennis O'Connor to discuss the hidden mechanisms of social engineering that shape our modern world. From the Tavistock Institute's early psychological warfare techniques to today's political landscape, as we connects historical dots that reveal how we arrived at our current societal challenge. <br><br>Filmed on the tropical Island of Koh Samui, this interview connects historical dots from Bertrand Russell's dark philosophies to the compartmentalization of education, the corruption of art, and the deliberate fragmentation of knowledge systems. Ehret explains how these frameworks laid the groundwork for current political figures like Mark Carney and traces connections to influential Canadian figures including Maurice Strong.<br><br>Discover how psychological manipulation techniques developed after World War I have evolved into contemporary social engineering, why health systems are trapped in mechanistic paradigms, and how the spiritual battle for human potential continues today. This conversation offers crucial context for understanding the historical foundation of current social and political challenges.<br><br>**********************************************<br>You can find more about Dennis’ work at:<br> https://awakeninginhealth.com/<br>https://x.com/awakeinhealth<br>https://www.instagram.com/awakeninginhealth1/<br><br>************************************<br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Episodes 1 and 2 of The Dystopic Mission of Mark Carney can be watched for free here: https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-dystopic-mission-of-mark-carney-a7a<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episodes here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>And for other films Ive created over the past couple of years, they are here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/cp-videos/<br><br>**********************************************<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee:<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret

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title: My dear friend Ed Lozansky has passed on
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title: Lyndon LaRouche in 2001 – 'The FDR Economic Recovery Precedent and Practice'
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<img src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1fc64c6dbede910be68591e4f7" width="300" height="300"><br><br>In March of 2001, Lyndon LaRouche delivered this keynote address to an EIR seminar in Berlin, Germany addressing the perspectives for recovery from the ongoing worldwide financial and monetary breakdown crisis. The one-day conference, which gathered over 100 policymakers, diplomats, institutional representatives, and press, centered on the theme, “America: From Economic Miracle to Nightmare: How To Overcome the Financial and Economic Crisis.”LaRouche sharply contrasted the American intellectual tradition, typified by Hamilton, Lincoln and FDR with what he termed the "American Tories" peddling British-style "free trade" and globalization. LaRouche's historical overview of this battle for the General Welfare going back to the 15th century is essential study for all those seriously interested in understanding what became the American System of Political Economy.<br><br><span>(Feed generated with <a href="https://fetchrss.com/feedLink?w=67af770b1916a673960ab842" target="_blank">FetchRSS</a>)</span>


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title: Yemen War De-Escalates While India Bombs Pakistan
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guid: 681a582f038a3200013a503c
title: No European Troops in Ukraine without U.S., Says Former Munich Head Ischinger
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<p>Wolfgang Ischinger, former chairman of the Munich Security Conference (2008-2022), appears to be trying to pull the U.S. into the Ukraine trap that the Anglo-French-led “Coalition of the Willing” is trying to set. He told Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/05/ischinger-europe-us-nato-ukraine-00326316">in an interview</a> that he would “totally warn against a military hardware presence of European NATO troops in Ukraine” without U.S. involvement. Politico notes that the U.K. and France have proposed in recent months to create a Europe-led peacekeeping force in Ukraine to (ostensibly) help end the three-year war with Russia. “I don’t think that the Russians would ever, ever agree to that under any circumstances. But even if they agreed, I think we would need to insist that the United States is really involved in this,” he said.</p>
<p>Without a U.S. backstop, “the next thing that could happen would be that the Russian side would test, and would claim that Ukrainians have started some kind of shooting war, and they need to respond to that,” he claimed. “And therefore the Europeans in Ukraine would possibly be shot at, and would need to reply, to engage without the United States on their side,” he said. “Quite frankly, that would be the end of NATO as we know it.”</p>
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guid: 681a5855038a3200013a5048
title: Israeli Airstrikes Hit Yemen for a Second Day
author: ;Carl Osgood
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/05/495362231_1110033467829114_4835167003620742034_n-1.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>A wave of Israeli airstrikes hit Sana’a, the capital of Houthi-controlled Yemen today, knocking out the airport, power plants, and other targets. Today’s strikes came after 20 Israeli jets hit the Hodeidah port and a concrete factory near the nearby city of Bajil, yesterday, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/20-israeli-fighter-jets-strike-in-yemen-after-houthi-missile-hits-ben-gurion-airport/">reported the <em>Times of Israel</em></a>. The Israeli strikes came in response to the Houthi missile strike on the Ben Gurion airport outside Tel Aviv on May 4.</p>
<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates in Sana’a issued a statement today, strongly condemning what it said were Israeli strikes on civilian facilities. “The Foreign Ministry called on the international community, particularly the UN Security Council, to condemn this brazen aggression and halt the Zionist rampage in Yemen, as well as the genocidal crimes in Gaza, which undermine regional and global security and stability,” reported the <a href="https://www.saba.ye/en/news3477013.htm">Yemen News Agency, Saba</a>. “It reaffirmed that the Zionist aggression will only strengthen Yemen’s steadfast support for Gaza and the resilient Palestinian people, using all available means until the aggression and siege imposed by the usurping Zionist entity are brought to an end.”</p>

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guid: 681a587d038a3200013a5053
title: Israeli Minister Smotrich Promotes Conquest of Gaza
author: ;Carl Osgood
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<p>Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich went on Channel 12 TV yesterday and declared that Israel will fully occupy the Gaza Strip, all but telling Israelis that they should forget about the remaining hostages held by Hamas. “We are finally going to occupy the Gaza Strip. We will stop being afraid of the word ‘occupation,’” Smotrich told Channel 12 journalist Amit Segal during a conference organized by the right-wing Besheva newspaper, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-israel-should-embrace-gaza-occupation-idf-wont-leave-even-for-hostages/">reported the <em>Times of Israel</em></a>.</p>
<p>“We are finally taking control of all humanitarian aid, so that it does not become supplies for Hamas. We are separating Hamas from the population, cleansing the Strip, bringing back the hostages—and defeating Hamas,” he said, adding that once the new offensive in Gaza begins there will be “no retreat from the territories we have conquered, not even in exchange for hostages.”</p>
<p>Smotrich’s comments come as hostility against the government’s war policy is skyrocketing. At the Knesset on May 5, Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, lashed out at coalition lawmakers, shouting: “I want to know what the hell you’re thinking, doing this,” and called on reservists not to show up to duty (the matter of mobilization of reservists for expanded operations in Gaza appears to have become a major a flash-point between supporters and opponents of the government—ed.). “The cabinet decided to send heroic soldiers to an operation that will result in the murder of hostages in captivity, and the loss of soldiers,” she added. “You think the nation will take this in silence?”</p>
<p>The <em>Times of Israel</em> particularly puts the spotlight on Democrats party chairman Yair Golan, who wrote on X on May 4, Sunday night: “The cabinet decided tonight to expand the military operation in the Strip—not in order to protect the security of Israel, but in order to save Netanyahu and his government of extremists.”</p>
<p>“This is not another temporary operation, but rather a process that authorizes permanent presence in the territory, as part of the realization of the fantasy of [far-right National Security Minister] Ben-Gvir and [Finance Minister] Smotrich,” he added.</p>
<p>“Occupying the Strip, in practice, for the sake of ‘the survival of the government’ will cost us in blood—in the lives of hostages, in the lives of soldiers, in exhaustion, and essentially: in losing our way,” Golan continued. “While the government of Israel advances a scandalous draft evasion law, it enlists, without shame, tens of thousands of reserve fighters who have already served hundreds of days since the start of the war—and for what? For a process with no security purpose that doesn’t hasten the freeing of the hostages—to the contrary.</p>
<p>“The IDF chief of staff must abide by an iron principle: The IDF is the Israel Defense Forces—it must defend the citizens of Israel, not serve political goals.”</p>


guid: 681a58a7038a3200013a505e
title: UN Security Council Discusses Crisis between India and Pakistan
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<p>The UN Security Council met behind closed doors yesterday at the request of Pakistan, to discuss rising tensions between India and Pakistan in the aftermath of the April 22 terrorist attack in Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir. Council members were briefed on the situation in the region and told of intelligence indicating an “imminent threat” of action by India, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said, referring to the council’s meeting on May 5 in New York, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/un-security-council-urges-india-pakistan-talks-kashmir-islamabad-says-2025-05-06/">reported Reuters</a>. “They called for dialogue and diplomacy to diffuse tension and avoid military confrontation ... and to peacefully resolve issues,” the ministry said in a statement.</p>
<p>Reuters notes that Pakistan is currently a non-permanent member of the Security Council. India is not, but New Delhi had been in talks with Council members ahead of Monday’s May 5 meeting. An Indian source familiar with the discussion said many members expressed concern that Pakistan’s missile tests—there were two in three days prior to the meeting—and nuclear rhetoric were “escalatory” factors. “Pakistan’s efforts to internationalize the situation also failed,” said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “They were advised to sort out the issues bilaterally with India.”</p>
<p>According to a <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/unsc-ignores-pakistans-false-flag-theory-over-pahalgam-attack-calls-missile-tests-as-escalatory-101746511914382.html">report in <em>Hindustan Times</em></a>, which cites PTI, envoys reportedly posed “tough questions” for Islamabad over the involvement of Lashkar-e-Taiba in the Pahalgam attack and also refused to accept the “false flag” narrative. The meeting also saw a broad condemnation of the terror attack and recognized the need for accountability.</p>


guid: 681a58c9038a3200013a5067
title: Pakistan Says India Cutting Water Flow to Pakistan in Violation of Treaty
author: ;Carl Osgood
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<p>Pakistani authorities are charging that India’s actions to reduce the flow of water on the Chenab River have reduced discharges into Pakistan by about 90%. “They have almost blocked the River Chenab flows to downstream [Pakistan] after they [Indian authorities] took the decision on Sunday,” May 4, a senior official of the Punjab irrigation department confirmed on May 5, <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1908705/chenab-parched-after-india-reduces-flows-manifold">reported the <em>Dawn</em></a>. “Currently, they are using our water to fill up their dams/hydropower projects in the Chenab basin. They cannot do this since it is a grave violation of the Indus Water Treaty….”</p>
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guid: 681a5ed7038a3200013a5073
title: U.S. and China Lead April Collapse in Manufacturing
author: ;David Shavin
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<p>According to a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-03/global-factories-struggle-to-overcome-trump-tariffs-uncertainty">Bloomberg report</a>, more signs have emerged from recent reports confirming that global manufacturing is buckling. In particular, purchasing manager indexes across Asia, along with new numbers in Europe (revised on May 2), showed new or persisting contractions in factory activity for the month of April. In sum, both U.S. and Chinese manufacturing lead the way down, but factory giants in South Korea and Taiwan showed sharp drops in their indices, with falling orders and production cutbacks. Thailand, Malaysia, and Indochina experienced similar drops, though not quite as sharp. Europe remains in contraction, says Bloomberg’s report, “with only the prospect of a spending binge to rearm ... likely to buoy the situation.”</p>
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guid: 681a70d0038a3200013a5123
title: Starvation in Gaza: Food, Food Everywhere, and Not an Ounce To Eat
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<p>It is one thing for a population to be malnourished, with starvation setting in. It is quite another for that to be occurring with mountains of food and sustenance minutes away.</p>
<p>According to yesterday’s CNN report: “The [UN] World Food Programme says it is ready to surge enough aid into Gaza to feed the entire population of about 2 million for up to two months. UNRWA, the main UN agency supporting Palestinians, said it has nearly 3,000 trucks filled with aid waiting to cross into Gaza. Both need Israel to lift its blockade to get that aid in.”</p>
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guid: 681a7fb0038a3200013a5156
title: Shoigu Says Britain Instigated Nazi Germany To Seek &amp;#039;Living Space&amp;#039; from Russia
author: ;Richard Freeman
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<p>In a May 6 article in the Russian government newspaper <em>Rossiyskaya Gazeta</em>, entitled, “On the Importance of the Lessons of the Great Patriotic War for Ensuring National Security in Modern Geopolitical Conditions,” Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergei Shoigu, who was previously Defense Minister, singles out Great Britain as the force that had instigated Nazi Germany to mobilize its forces to seek “living space” in Russia <a href="https://rg.ru/2025/05/06/eto-nasha-pobeda.html">in World War II</a>.</p>
<p>Shoigu writes, “The only real force capable of resisting Nazi hegemony was the Soviet Union. But it, too, was the object of Hitler’s coveted aspirations, which at the instigation of London, was seeking for ‘living space’ for the Third Reich in the East.”</p>
<p>Shoigu’s statement is true, but is rarely voiced bluntly in the open. Montagu Norman, the Governor of the Bank of England, working with Hitler’s Reichsbank Governor and Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht, pushed forward the Four Year Plan, 1933-37, which built the Nazi rearmament war machine. Britain helped instigate Hitler to launch Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941, invading the Soviet Union. The subsequent Great Patriotic War from Barbarossa until May 9, 1945 culminated in the deaths of 27 million Soviet citizens, and the pulverization of homes, factories, and so forth.</p>
<p>In his article, Shoigu makes the point that the Great Patriotic War has parallels to the circumstances in which Russia finds itself today, including London’s parallel role. He asserts, “In parallel, the European elites, incited and patronized by London and Paris, continue to make loud statements about the need to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. But not only that. Accompanied by this annoying noise, NATO and the European Union have launched programs aimed at preparing the collective West for a direct military conflict with Russia. These aggressive steps, as well as NATO’s continuing advance eastward, toward Russia’s borders, are justified in the best traditions of Goebbels’ propaganda.”</p>
<p>To make his point indelibly clear, <em>Rossiyskaya Gazeta</em> editorially runs above this statement by Shoigu, a photo of a black-shirted Oswald Mosley giving the Nazi salute to his followers. Mosley as head of the British Union of Fascists, built a mass following of Adolf Hitler in Britain. Mosley was secretly married on Oct. 6, 1936 in Germany to fellow Nazi Diana Mitford, withAdolf Hitler as his best man.</p>
<p>Shoigu’s article is one of the recent articles and presentations prepared by top members of the Putin government and associated elites, who are exposing the role that Britain and France have played to destroy Russia. At the same time, some among these leaders have been publishing the story of the 250 years of Russia and the United States’ collaboration, dating back to the American Revolution. Nikolay Patrushev, former Secretary of the Russian Security Council and now personal aide to President Vladimir Putin, documented on April 21 in the daily <em>Kommersant</em> that, during the 1861-65 American Civil War, Russia deployed its navy to protect the Abraham Lincoln government from a planned British and French invasion to topple the Union.</p>

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guid: 681a8026038a3200013a5160
title: UN June 2-4 Conference for Lasting Peace in Southwest Asia; Zepp-LaRouche Urges for Oasis Plan
author: ;Mary Jane Freeman
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/2025/05/un_general_assembly_7-16-24.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>It was after a July 19, 2024, scathing advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which found Israel’s continued occupation of the Palestinian territories (OPT) and East Jerusalem to be “unlawful,” that the UN General Assembly, on Sept. 18, 2024, adopted Resolution <a href="https://unwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/n2427275.pdf">A/RES/ES-10-24</a> to hold this June 2-4, 2025 conference, to implement the extensive findings of Israel’s illegal actions in the OPT in order to establish the two-state solution with a Palestinian state.</p>
<p>As <a href="https://eir.news/2024/07/news/international-court-of-justice-issues-advisory-opinion-finds-israels-occupation-of-the-palestinian-territory-and-east-jerusalem-is-unlawful/">EIR.News reported</a> at the time, the July 2024 ICJ opinion directed, <em>inter alia</em>, Israel to “bring an end to its unlawful presence” in the OPT, to “cease immediately all new settlement activities, and evacuate all settlers from” the territories. Further, it called on all Geneva Convention signer states to abide by these findings by ending any support they give to Israel’s occupation. Also, due to humanitarian law obligations, Israel was ordered to protect and provide “natural resources,” as well as to “ensure adequate supply of foodstuffs … including water.” As Netanyahu’s onslaught of Gaza and other OPT so blatantly violated these humanitarian norms, bringing about a horrific genocide, the ICJ’s opinion directed that Israel be held accountable.</p>
<p>Already the heavily Zionist-funded NGO, UN Watch, has issued a release questioning the legitimacy of the UNGA’s June conference, claiming it to be a violation of the Oslo Accords. UN Watch’s real vexation, however, is that the conference is mandated to establish means to implement the ICJ 2024 opinion. To its chagrin, “Palestinian representative to the UN Riyad Mansour said he planned to work with member states” to ensure that the conference acts upon the ICJ ruling which ordered the occupation to be “terminated.”</p>
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guid: 681a8141038a3200013a5177
title: President Putin Offers To Facilitate Dialogue Between the U.S. and Iran
author: ;Richard Freeman
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<p>In a discussion with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on May 6, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to facilitate dialogue between the United States and Iran on Iran’s nuclear program and a just peace, so that they could reach “a fair agreement based on the principles of international law,” the <a href="http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76851">Russian President’s website</a> reports. Today, Putin also spoke with <a href="http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76857">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu</a>.</p>
<p>“The President of Iran extended warm greetings to Vladimir Putin and all citizens of Russia for the 80th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War,” the President’s website wrote. “The leaders had a thorough discussion of issues pertaining to further development of Russian-Iranian cooperation based on the bilateral Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, signed during the Iranian President’s official visit to Russia on January 17. Special attention was paid to the expansion of mutually beneficial ties in trade and the economy, including via the implementation of major joint projects in transport and energy.” This agreement has a significant Iran-Russia military component.</p>
<p>Importantly, “The Presidents exchanged views on pressing international and regional issues, including the progress of Iran-U.S. talks on the Iranian nuclear program, proceeding under the mediation of Oman. The Russian side reiterated its willingness to facilitate this dialogue with a view to reaching a fair agreement based on the principles of international law.” That would appear to indicate that President Putin, perhaps, may have discussions concerning this with U.S. President Donald Trump in some manner.</p>
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guid: 681aa81e038a3200013a51c3
title: Goods Shipments from China Through the Port of Los Angeles Will Fall by 35%
author: ;Richard Freeman
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<p>Shipments from China to the United States’ West Coast will plummet by 35% within 7 days, as the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs causes companies to cut their import orders, Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on April 29.</p>
<p>“According to our own port optimizer, which measures the loadings in Asia, we’ll be down just a little bit over 35% next week compared to last year. And it’s a precipitous drop in volume with a number of major American retailers stopping all shipments from China based on the tariffs,” Seroka said. Appearing May 2 on Bloomberg TV’s “Surveillance” program, Seroka stated that this will have large repercussions, with the Port of Los Angeles losing 50,000 TEUs (twenty foot container units) of goods, an immense amount.</p>
<p>To put this into perspective, one-fifth of all seaport freight entering the United States comes through the port of Los Angeles-Long Beach. With respect to containers, the port handles 40% of all containerized freight entering the United States. In 2024, this meant 10.3 million container units entered the port. The Los Angeles-Long Beach port has 25 cargo terminals, 82 container cranes, 8 container terminals, and 113 miles of on-dock rail.</p>
<p>The port employs 15,000 longshoremen workers, but one report states that 230,000 jobs in the region depend on the Port of Los Angeles-Long Beach. There are tens of thousands of truck drivers. The number of jobs in the United States dependent on the port for imported goods upon which are either sold directly or on which further work is done, is approximately 1.5-2.8 million, depending on the source of information. Of all the goods passing through the port, 45% come from China.</p>
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guid: 681ab0b5038a3200013a51d3
title: Carney&amp;#039;s Meeting in Washington with President Trump
author: ;EIR News
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<p>U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney met in the White House today, assisted by several advisors, including Carney’s Chief of Staff Marco Mendicino. Carney was elected as the man who could stand up to Trump. Would he do so, or would he receive the Zelenskyy treatment?</p>
<p>The political media would have us believe that “perception is reality.” The short, edited version of the Oval Office meeting shown on television made Carney appear to hold his own. Trump seemed to treat him with respect, and talked of friendly relations with Canada. Carney repeated the tired line that Canada is not for sale, like the White House and Buckingham Palace. He even criticized the USMCA agreement saying:</p>
<p>“I’ll just say, I’ll say a word on USMCA if I may, Mr. President. It is a basis for a broader negotiation. Some things about it are going to have to change. And part of the way you’ve conducted these tariffs has taken advantage of existing aspects of USMCA. So it’s going to have to change.”</p>
<p>The <a href="https://youtu.be/mtoJZ0lBAo8">full video</a>, however, tells a different story. The President dominated, extolling his accomplishments for the U.S. economy, while a nervous Carney, reduced to a very junior discussion partner, struggled to get a word in edgewise. The President not only refused to back down on any of his measures against Canada, he, in fact, reinforced them:</p>
<p>1. He insisted that Canada should become the 51st state, telling Carney “Never say never!”</p>
<p>2. He refused to back down on tariffs, saying that there is nothing Canada could do to alleviate them. “We want to make our own cars. We don’t really want cars from Canada,” Trump said. “And we don’t want steel from Canada because we’re making our own steel,” Trump added, while not mentioning the enormous <a href="https://eir.news/2025/05/news/cleveland-cliffs-steel-to-shutter-steel-plants-and-coal-mines-throughout-america/">steel plant closures</a> announced only days before.</p>
<p>The President also praised Carney for increasing defense spending (Canada has fallen far short of a NATO member’s requirements). Afterwards Carney held a press conference, in which he dodged pointed questions, making the nebulous statement, “Today marked the end of the beginning of the process of the United States and Canada redefining that relationship.”</p>
<p>One should not get too caught up in this pairwise relationship though. King Charles is coming to Canada soon to give the Speech from the Throne—only the second time a British monarch has done so. Never discount the manipulations of the British.</p>


guid: 681ab6c5038a3200013a51e4
title: Silence the Guns of War, Build a Movement for Lasting Peace
author: ;Stewart Battle
link: https://eir.news/2025/05/news/silence-the-guns-of-war-build-a-movement-for-lasting-peace/
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/05/Screen-Shot-2025-05-06-at-9.57.54-PM.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>The world is in shock following the eruption of military strikes between India and Pakistan overnight. On top of the already tense situation globally, this new conflict between nuclear powers represents yet another flashpoint, one which could rapidly become a global disaster. Airstrikes launched by India overnight killed a number of people in Pakistan, along with at least a dozen wounded. Pakistan immediately vowed to retaliate, and has reportedly already begun firing artillery shells into India. Leaders around the world are wisely calling for immediate calm and a silencing of hostilities.</p>
<p>While the immediate trigger of this conflict was the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, India, in April that left 25 Indians and 1 Nepali dead, the roots of this conflict go back decades. Before Pakistan was a nation, the Indian subcontinent was known as the “pearl” of the British Empire—a bloody and degrading period of those peoples’ history. When Britain was finally forced to depart India in 1947, it left in its wake the Partition into India and Pakistan, setting into motion decades of religious tension to follow. But that wasn’t all. The British Empire’s “Great Game” against the Soviet Union, along with the willing obeisance of their American assets, turned this region into a playground for extremist and militant activity throughout the ’70s and ’80s. As <a href="https://eir.news/2025/04/news/pakistani-defense-minister-charges-long-standing-british-u-s-role-in-kashmir-terrorism/">Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said</a> on April 24 when asked about the presence of terrorism in Pakistan: “We have been doing this dirty work for the U.S.A. for about three decades, and for the West, including Britain. That was a mistake and we suffered for that. If we had not joined the war against the Soviet Union and the war after 9/11, Pakistan’s track record was unimpeachable.”</p>
<p>The world is now at a crossroads. There are various conflicts raging—Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, now India-Pakistan—none of which can be resolved if vengeance and retribution become the order of the day. But neither can they be resolved without addressing the root causes of each—their geopolitical origin—which are in fact still operating to this day! Have the Anglo-Americans admitted to their hand in utilizing Islamic extremism as an asset to overthrow the Syrian government, as Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn warned President Obama in 2013? Have they admitted to their propping up of neo-Nazis in Ukraine to effect “regime-change” and the dissolution of Russia? Without addressing these and other issues, any solution to these conflicts will remain elusive.</p>
<p>Beyond that, the collapse in the West is proceeding at a breakneck speed. Germany’s prospective new Chancellor Friedrich Merz made history on May 6 when he became the first-ever chancellor candidate to lose the first round of voting in the Bundestag. As Europe’s ruling elites are increasingly rejected by their voters, the notion of “democracy” and “Western values” is increasingly becoming nothing more than a hollow slogan.</p>
<p>At the same time, Trump’s new tariffs are causing major disruptions across the supply chain. The Port of Los Angeles, which receives one-fifth of all seaport freight entering the U.S., will be down 35% in shipments from Asia next week compared with a year ago. This kind of shock comes on top of the longer-term collapse of the nation’s physical economy as a whole. Cleveland-Cliffs, America’s third-largest steel-maker, on May 2 announced major plant and mine closures, which will soon mean the direct loss of 2,200 jobs.</p>
<p>As Helga Zepp-LaRouche has insisted, a solution to these problems cannot come from the level from which they originated. Only a higher-level solution, basing itself in natural law, as her <a href="https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2022/11/30/ten-principles-of-a-new-international-security-and-development-architecture/">“Ten Principles”</a> document proposes, will stand a chance at providing the world a pathway forward over the next 50-100 years, and beyond. These ideas will be the subject of the upcoming <a href="https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2025/03/01/conference-invitation/">May 24-25 Schiller Institute conference</a>—be sure to register and attend.</p>

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guid: 681abf91038a3200013a5218
title: India Launches Air Strikes Against Pakistan
author: ;Richard Freeman
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<p>In a post on X, <a href="https://x.com/ShihabudeenMb/status/1919874547098013848/photo/1">Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif</a> has decried the strike as an “act of war.” “Pakistan has every right to give a befitting reply to this act of war imposed by India and a befitting reply is being given,” he said. “The entire nation is with the Pakistani forces and the morale and spirit of the entire Pakistani nation is high. … They will never allow the enemy to succeed in their nefarious objectives.”</p>
<p>The spokesman for Pakistan’s armed forces says the military will respond to India’s strikes “at a time and place of its own choosing.” “It will not go unanswered,” the spokesman said in the statement, carried by the Associated Press of Pakistan. Pakistan claims it shot down two Indian military jets.</p>
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<p>The following exchange occurred during the May 2 meeting of the International Peace Coalition:</p>
<p>Q: My question is directed to Helga Zepp LaRouche on India-Pakistan tensions, which, as she mentioned in her enlightening talk, can conflagrate into nuclear war. In such a tantalizing situation, why is the international community, especially the United States, not trying truly to diffuse the tensions?</p>
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<p><strong><em>La storia, sia in Ucraina che in Iran, è che il presidente Trump vuole un “accordo” – ed entrambi gli accordi sono disponibili – eppure sembra essersi messo con le spalle al muro.</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>Trump presenta la sua amministrazione come qualcosa di più rude, più spietato e molto meno sentimentale. A quanto pare, aspira a emergere anche come qualcosa di più centralizzato, coercitivo e radicale.</p>
<p>In politica interna, questa categorizzazione dell’ethos trumpiano può avere un fondo di verità. In politica estera, tuttavia, Trump tergiversa. Il motivo non è chiaro, ma questo fatto offusca le sue prospettive nei tre settori vitali per la sua aspirazione di “pacificatore”: Ucraina, Iran e Gaza.</p>
<p>Sebbene sia vero che il vero mandato di Trump deriva dal dilagante malcontento economico e sociale, piuttosto che dalla sua pretesa di essere un pacificatore, i due obiettivi chiave della politica estera rimangono importanti per mantenere lo slancio in avanti.</p>
<p>Una possibile risposta è che nei negoziati esteri il presidente ha bisogno di un team solido ed esperto che lo sostenga. E lui non ce l’ha.</p>
<p>Prima di inviare il suo inviato Witkoff a parlare con il presidente Putin, il generale Kellogg, a quanto pare, <a href="https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/the-kellogg-framework-is-a-disaster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ha presentato a Trump</a> una proposta di armistizio in stile Versailles: una visione della Russia alle corde (cioè il piano era formulato in termini più appropriati alla capitolazione russa). La proposta di Kellogg implicava anche che Trump avrebbe fatto a Putin un “grande favore”, concedendogli una scala per scendere dall’albero dell’Ucraina su cui si era arrampicato. Ed è proprio questa la linea che Trump ha adottato a gennaio:</p>
<p>Dopo aver affermato che la Russia aveva perso un milione di uomini (in guerra), Trump ha poi aggiunto che “Putin sta distruggendo la Russia non accettando un accordo”. Ha inoltre affermato che l’economia russa era “in rovina” e, cosa ancora più significativa, ha detto che avrebbe preso in considerazione l’ipotesi di imporre sanzioni o dazi alla Russia. In un successivo <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113872782548137314">post</a> su Truth Social, ha scritto: “Farò un grande FAVORE alla Russia, la cui economia sta fallendo, e al presidente Putin”.</p>
<p>Il presidente, debitamente informato dal suo team, potrebbe aver immaginato di offrire a Putin un cessate il fuoco unilaterale e, in un batter d’occhio, di ottenere un accordo rapido a suo merito.</p>
<p>Tutte le premesse su cui si basava il piano Kellogg (la vulnerabilità della Russia alle sanzioni, le enormi perdite di uomini e una guerra in fase di stallo) erano false. Nessuno nella squadra di Trump ha quindi svolto le dovute verifiche sulla strategia di Kellogg? Sembra (pigrizia) che abbia preso come modello la guerra di Corea, senza considerare se fosse appropriato o meno.</p>
<p>Nel caso coreano, il cessate il fuoco lungo una linea di conflitto ha preceduto le considerazioni politiche, che sono arrivate solo in un secondo momento. E che rimangono ancora oggi in corso e irrisolte.</p>
<p>Lanciando richieste premature di un cessate il fuoco immediato durante i colloqui con i funzionari russi a Riyadh, Trump ha invitato al rifiuto. In primo luogo, perché il team di Trump non aveva un piano concreto su come attuare un cessate il fuoco, presumendo semplicemente che tutti i dettagli potessero essere risolti a posteriori. In breve, è stato presentato a Trump come una “vittoria facile”.</p>
<p>Ma non lo era.</p>
<p>Il risultato era scontato: il cessate il fuoco è stato rifiutato. Non avrebbe dovuto essere permesso, dato il lavoro competente dello staff. Nessuno del team di Trump aveva ascoltato dal 14 giugno dello scorso anno, quando Putin aveva <a href="https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1957107/?TSPD_101_R0=08765fb817ab200020b1d367e4711f11b2ede878b6afd35fa1d64bff8dcda7938762d8b9bb632930089f5fd0f0143000ad2d624d99a1ebdd96e467701da1aec1d50b4e29c3d1178d7b86d1c4b171d41a7fbf975432e2c0043f0d7f7cbb4a4c8d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">delineato</a> molto chiaramente al MFA la posizione russa su un cessate il fuoco? E che è stata ripetuta regolarmente da allora. A quanto pare no.</p>
<p>Eppure, quando l’inviato di Trump, Witkoff, è tornato da un lungo incontro con il presidente Putin per riferire sulla spiegazione personale e dettagliata di quest’ultimo sul perché un quadro politico deve precedere qualsiasi cessate il fuoco (a differenza della Corea), il resoconto di Witkoff sarebbe stato accolto con la secca risposta del generale Kellogg che “gli ucraini non accetteranno mai”.</p>
<p>Fine della discussione, a quanto pare. Nessuna decisione presa.</p>
<p>Diversi altri voli per Mosca non hanno modificato la situazione di fondo. Mosca attende prove che Trump sia in grado di consolidare la sua posizione e di prendere in mano la situazione. Ma fino ad allora, Mosca è pronta a facilitare un “ravvicinamento delle posizioni”, ma non approverà un cessate il fuoco unilaterale. (E nemmeno Zelensky).</p>
<p>Il mistero è perché Trump non interrompa i flussi di armi e intelligence statunitensi verso Kiev e non dica agli europei di togliersi dai piedi. Kiev ha forse una qualche forma di potere di veto? Il Team Trump non capisce che gli europei sperano semplicemente di ostacolare l’obiettivo di Trump di normalizzare le relazioni con la Russia? Devono capirlo.</p>
<p>Sembra che il “dibattito” (se così si può chiamare) all’interno del Team Trump abbia in gran parte escluso i fattori della vita reale. Si è svolto ad un livello normativo elevato, dove certi fatti e verità sono semplicemente dati per scontati.</p>
<p>Forse il fenomeno dei costi irrecuperabili ha pesato molto: più a lungo si continua con una linea d’azione (non importa quanto stupida), meno si è disposti a cambiarla. Cambiarla sarebbe interpretato come un riconoscimento dell’errore, e riconoscere l’errore è il primo passo verso la perdita del potere.</p>
<p>E c’è un parallelo con i colloqui con l’Iran.</p>
<p>Trump ha una visione per un accordo negoziato con l’Iran che raggiungerebbe il suo obiettivo di “nessuna arma nucleare iraniana”, anche se l’obiettivo stesso è una sorta di tautologia, dato che la comunità dell’intelligence statunitense <a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/us-intel-report-determines-iran-not-building-nuclear-weapon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ha già stabilito</a> che l’Iran NON possiede armi nucleari.</p>
<p>Come si fa a fermare qualcosa che non sta accadendo? Beh, l’“intenzione” è un concetto estremamente difficile da circoscrivere. Quindi, il Team torna alle origini: alla ferma dottrina della Rand Organisation secondo cui non esiste alcuna differenza qualitativa tra l’arricchimento dell’uranio a fini pacifici e quello a fini militari. Quindi, non dovrebbe essere consentito alcun arricchimento.</p>
<p>Solo l’Iran dispone dell’arricchimento, grazie alla concessione di Obama nell’ambito del JCPOA, che lo ha permesso, con alcune limitazioni.</p>
<p>Circolano molte idee su come quadrare il cerchio tra il rifiuto dell’Iran di rinunciare all’arricchimento e il diktat di Trump sulla “mancanza di capacità” di produrre armi. Nessuna di queste idee è nuova: importare in Iran materie prime arricchite; esportare l’uranio altamente arricchito dell’Iran in Russia (cosa già fatta nell’ambito del JCPOA) e chiedere alla Russia di costruire l’impianto nucleare iraniano per alimentare la sua industria. Il problema è che anche la Russia sta già facendo questo. Ha già un impianto in funzione e un altro in costruzione.</p>
<p>Israele ha naturalmente anche le sue proposte: sradicare tutte le infrastrutture di arricchimento e la capacità di lancio missilistico dell’Iran.</p>
<p>Solo che l’Iran non accetterà mai.</p>
<p>Quindi, la scelta è tra un sistema di ispezioni e sorveglianza tecnica più rigoroso in un accordo simile al JCPOA (che non renderà felici né Israele né la leadership istituzionale filo-israeliana) o un’azione militare.</p>
<p>Il che ci riporta al team di Trump e alle divisioni intestine all’interno del Pentagono.</p>
<p>Pete Hegseth ha inviato il seguente messaggio all’Iran, pubblicato sul suo account social:</p>
<p>“Vediamo il vostro sostegno LETALE agli Houthi. Sappiamo esattamente cosa state facendo. Sapete molto bene di cosa è capace l’esercito americano e siete stati avvertiti. Pagherete le CONSEGUENZE nel momento e nel luogo da noi scelti”.</p>
<p>Chiaramente, Hegseth è frustrato. Come ha <a href="https://sonar21.com/us-is-flummoxed-by-yemen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">osservato</a> Larry Johnson:</p>
<p>“Il team di Trump ha lavorato sulla base di [un’altra] falsa supposizione, ovvero che i collaboratori di Biden non abbiano compiuto sforzi seri per distruggere l’arsenale di missili e droni degli Houthi. I sostenitori di Trump credevano di poter bombardare gli Houthi fino a costringerli alla resa. Invece, gli Stati Uniti stanno dimostrando a tutti i paesi della regione i limiti della loro potenza navale e aerea… Nonostante più di 600 sortite di bombardamento, gli Houthi continuano a lanciare missili e droni contro le navi statunitensi nel Mar Rosso e contro obiettivi all’interno di Israele”.</p>
<p>Quindi, il team Trump si è prima immerso in un conflitto (Yemen) e poi in una complessa negoziazione con l’Iran, ancora una volta senza aver fatto i compiti a casa sullo Yemen. Si tratta ancora una volta di <a href="https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/a-strange-defeat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pensiero di gruppo</a>?</p>
<p>«In una situazione di incertezza come quella attuale, la solidarietà viene vista come un fine in sé e nessuno vuole essere accusato di “indebolire l’Occidente” o di “rafforzare l’Iran”. Se devi sbagliare, meglio sbagliare in compagnia del maggior numero possibile di persone».</p>
<p>Israele lascerà correre? Sta lavorando alacremente con il generale Kurilla (il generale statunitense al comando del CENTCOM) nel bunker sotto il Dipartimento della Difesa israeliano, preparando piani per un attacco congiunto contro l’Iran. Israele sembra molto interessato al suo lavoro.</p>
<p>Tuttavia, l’ostacolo fondamentale al raggiungimento di un accordo con l’Iran è più cruciale, in quanto, così come è attualmente concepito, l’approccio degli Stati Uniti ai negoziati <a href="https://strategicreflections.substack.com/p/the-new-iran-deal-misconceptions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">infrange tutte le regole</a> su come avviare un trattato di limitazione delle armi.</p>
<p>Da un lato, <a href="https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/nuclear-weapons-who-has-what-glance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">c’è Israele con una triade di sistemi di armi nucleari</a> e capacità di lancio: da sottomarini, aerei e missili. Israele ha anche <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-11-08/ty-article/iran-nuclear-chief-ministers-threat-to-nuke-gaza-confirms-israels-capability/0000018b-aecb-df42-a78f-afcbcbcd0000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">minacciato l’uso di armi nucleari</a>, recentemente a Gaza e in precedenza durante la prima guerra in Iraq, in risposta alla capacità missilistica Scud di Saddam Hussein.</p>
<p>Il principio che manca qui è un minimo di reciprocità. Si dice che l’Iran minacci Israele, e Israele minaccia regolarmente l’Iran. E Israele, ovviamente, vuole che l’Iran sia neutralizzato e disarmato e insiste per rimanere intoccabile (niente TNP, niente ispezioni dell’AIEA, nessun riconoscimento).</p>
<p>I trattati di limitazione delle armi avviati da JF Kennedy con Krusciov derivavano dal successo dei negoziati reciproci con cui gli Stati Uniti ritirarono i propri missili dalla Turchia prima che la Russia ritirasse i propri missili da Cuba.</p>
<p>Deve essere chiaro a Trump e Witkoff che una proposta così sbilanciata come la loro per l’Iran non ha alcuna relazione con le realtà geopolitiche ed è quindi destinata a fallire (prima o poi). Il team Trump si sta quindi mettendo con le spalle al muro, spingendosi verso un’azione militare contro l’Iran, di cui poi si assumerà la responsabilità.</p>
<p>Trump non lo vuole, l’Iran non lo vuole. Quindi, la questione è stata valutata adeguatamente? L’esperienza dello Yemen è stata presa pienamente in considerazione? Il team di Trump ha ipotizzato qualche via d’uscita?</p>
<p>Una via d’uscita creativa dal dilemma, che potrebbe ripristinare almeno in parte una parvenza di classico trattato di limitazione degli armamenti, sarebbe che Trump avanzasse l’idea che ora è il momento per Israele di aderire al TNP e di sottoporre le proprie armi all’ispezione dell’AIEA.</p>
<p>Trump lo farà? No.</p>
<p>Il motivo è ovvio.</p>
<p>La trasformazione dell’America voluta da Trump mirava a ricostruire il Paese secondo il principio dell’America First.</p>
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/unnamed-3-scaled-e1732371145841.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Here is a simple question, which is probably not so simple once you try to answer it: What is the objective of Irish foreign policy?</strong></p>
<p>I ask this question because the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs gave something of a craw-thumping speech on the topic yesterday, defiantly asserting that Ireland would never be deterred from asserting its values. The obvious subtext for the speech was matters Middle Eastern, where the Israeli state has been stubbornly obstinate in not taking its cue in matters of policy from Simon Harris, <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/05/06/irish-support-for-human-rights-and-international-law-will-never-be-compromised-says-tanaiste/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">up till now at least:</a></p>
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<p><em>“The protection of human rights, accountability, and compliance with international law are values that can never or will never be compromised by the Irish people, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris has said.</em></p>
<p><em>In a significant speech on Ireland’s foreign policy, he said the Government backed “strong multilateral institutions with a strong United Nations at its heart, to meet the challenges of our century”.</em></p>
<p><em>He said it was “more important now than ever that countries like Ireland stand up for the values and ideals that the multilateral system embodies”.”</em></p>
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<p>There are some obvious questions here, once you get beyond the fluff: What does “a strong United Nations” look like? The United Nations is a historically weak organisation hampered by an inability to project force because five of the worlds’ most powerful nations – who are most often in political if not military conflict – each have a veto. For example, the UN is entirely powerless to intervene in Gaza because the United States has a veto, and is entirely powerless to intervene in Ukraine because Russia has a veto. Is that a “strong United Nations”?</p>
<p>More fundamentally, what are “the values and ideals that the multilateral system embodies”? Co-operation, obviously, is one such value – but co-operation to what end? “Ideals” is probably a better word, since ideals are almost by definition unachievable. That is why they are called “ideals” and not “standards”.</p>
<p>Anyway, Harris went on, somehow not drawing laughter from his audience:</p>
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<p><em>“Mr Harris said he was “deeply appalled and sickened” at Israel’s continuing blockade of humanitarian aid entering Gaza.</em></p>
<p><em>“We have reports from the world Food Programme that food supplies are running out, with famine now a real risk for many Gazans. Children are being left starving, and even dying, as we speak.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>“We cannot and will not stand idly by and let this happen.”</em></strong></p>
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<p>Sorry now, but <em>standing by idly and letting things happen</em> (we could add the words “while publicly lamenting the event”) has long been almost the sole foreign policy objective of the Irish state. Indeed, this country stood by idly and let world war two happen, stood by idly and let the Falklands war happen, stood by idly and let two Iraqi wars happen, along with the Iran-Iraq war, stood by idly and let Vietnam happen, and stood by idly and let the Bosnian Genocide happen. This business of “not standing idly by” is an entirely new foreign policy innovation – but what exactly does it look like?</p>
<p>When Simon Harris says that “Ireland will not stand idly by” in Gaza, what exactly does he mean?</p>
<p>Indeed, this country has already utilised every one of the tiny and insignificant diplomatic tools in its box: It recognised a Palestinian state (though it does not recognise a legitimate Palestinian Government). It jumped up and down so hard that the Israeli state closed its embassy here (which itself was a more decisive decision than Ireland ever made in the other direction). It spent months planning a big diplomatic push in the EU to cancel the EU-Israeli trade association agreement, which came to naught because the majority of EU states think Ireland is a little kooky on this topic, to put matters mildly.</p>
<p>So what’s next? Is Ireland going to deploy armed force in Gaza? No? Then what does “not standing idly by” actually mean?</p>
<p>What it <em>appears</em> to mean is that the Irish Government will continue to direct substantial <em>solidarity</em> in the direction of our revolutionary brothers and sisters in the Palestinian struggle. What it <em>appears</em> to mean is that the Irish public will be subjected to continued and regular speeches from our politicians about the badness of the Israeli state and the decency of the poor Palestinians, with occasional ass-covering references to hostages being released.</p>
<p>The essential diplomatic posture of this state since its foundation, when it comes to world affairs, is unchanged: We lament bad things and urge others to fix them. That is the essential purpose of the United Nations: It cannot do anything of note itself, but it is an excellent forum for <em>urging other people to do things.</em></p>
<p>We might shrug at this and say that this is the standard posture of small nations who consider themselves very moral, but it actually has a real impact on domestic politics: Because the attitude of our politicians to foreign affairs mirrors substantially the attitude of the Irish politician to domestic affairs: Irish politicians are at their happiest and most contented when calling on other people to do things.</p>
<p>Hence, the five or six press releases I get per day headlined “TD calls on Minister to…”.</p>
<p>The essential disposition here is moral helplessness: Ireland – both in terms of how we conduct domestic politics and international affairs – is an essentially good country that would be even better if everyone else just did things for us. That is the essential tone both of our foreign policy, and much of our domestic politics.</p>
<p>In the meantime, the Palestinians will have to be contented: Simon Harris is going to wag his finger at the Israelis and tell them to shift their policy. If they are <em>really</em> bad, Simon Harris and his government might pass some very watered down version of an occupied territories bill.</p>
<p>Maybe. A little bit. If the Americans let us.</p>
<p>Give me a break. “<em>We won’t stand idly by</em>” – big big words from a very small figure.</p>
<p>One thing the Irish state <em>could</em> do, of course, is to utilise its very well earned good reputation with Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups to prevail upon them to release the remaining hostages, thus depriving Benjamin Netanyahu of any remaining casus belli. But while our Ministers will occasionally make such calls in public, that has never been where our diplomatic energies are expended.</p>
<p>Nor, frankly, will it be. We don’t like to get our hands dirty. We instead prefer to talk about how clean those hands are.</p>
<p>The objectives of Israeli foreign policy, by contrast, are clear: The Israeli Government, having witnessed an attack launched by the Government of the Gaza strip into its territory resulting in over 1,000 murdered citizens, countless rapes, and the abduction of civilian hostages, desires that the Gaza strip and its Government never again pose a military threat to the State of Israel. In pursuit of this objective, it has secured international military support and sufficient backing from allies to ensure diplomatic viability. You may not like its policies, but it has a clear commitment to enacting them. It now appears that the endpoint of that policy will be direct control over much of the Gaza strip by the victorious Israeli army.</p>
<p>Such is how wars have ended, often, throughout history. There is nothing new here, other than the lesson that one should not launch a massive invasion of a much stronger neighbouring state and complain when the resultant war is lost. Most countries in history who have learned that lesson learned it the hard way. So too, now, are the people of Gaza and their brutal Government.</p>

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<p>One of the regular attack lines of western politicians and journalists is that by any concession to Russia in concluding the war in Ukraine would be akin to the appeasement of Nazi Germany before World War II. That hugely oversimplifies and twists history for our own convenience, to extend a war that we have never had any intention of fighting. The only people we are appeasing are the war mongers in Brussels and London.</p>
<p>The argument goes that, if we make concessions to Russia, then we will have appeased President Putin in the same way that we appeased Adolf Hitler before World War II. But that is to twist history. Appeasement happened as the great powers of Britain and France made sense of how to ensure collective European security, bringing Germany back onto a peaceable footing while dealing with the rise of communism and the aftermath of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.</p>
<p>Appeasement was an approach, not an individual decision or concession towards Germany, and ran for a couple of decades after the conclusion of World War I. The Locarno Treaties of 1925 fixed the great powers’ post war borders and ushered in Germany joining the League of nations in 1926. The western powers appeased Hitler for years, in March 1936 when Hitler sent the Wehrmacht into the Rheinland, an area that had been demilitarised under the terms of the Versailles Settlement. Then followed the Anschluss in Austria in March of 1938. Britain did this at the same time seeking to normalise relations with Germany, fearing the Soviet threat in the context of the great depression of the Thirties.</p>
<p>Germany was still considered a great industrial power much like Britain with deep historical ties between our nations. Overtures by senior British politicians were made throughout the Thirties, including former Prime Minister Lloyd George who visited Hitler in Bavaria and said, “Germany does not want war and she is afraid of an attack by Russia”. Adolf Hitler famously viewed the English as a natural ally and made of ‘Germanic stock’. The UK and Germany brokered a naval agreement in 1935, that allowed the Nazis to expand there, navy beyond the limits imposed by Versailles. Efforts were made to deepen economic ties with Nazi Germany.</p>
<p>No similar spirit of appeasement has ever existed between Britain and either the Soviet Union or modern Russia</p>
<p>We endured a Cold War to deter Soviet expansionism to the heart of Europe. And the Russian Federation has never been considered as strategically important in the twenty first century, as Germany was considered after World War I. Rather, Russia was widely seen as a broken and diminished relic of a detested Soviet empire. There were undoubtedly periodic thaws in the UK-Russia relationship after 1991. But efforts made by Tony Blair and David Cameron to reengage with Russia were often viewed with suspicion and sometimes hostility by the British media, made worse by events in Chechnya, the Litvinenko murder and the Salisbury nerve agent attack.</p>
<p>Rather than appeasing Russia, you could argue that we looked down on Russia and pursued policies such as NATO expansion believing we’d face minimal resistance.</p>
<p>Britain fundamentally saw security within Europe in the Thirties as resting on the three major powers of the UK, France and Germany and that remains the case today. We were never going to fight for Czechoslovakia in 1938. For Poland in 1939. Or for Ukraine since 2014.</p>
<p>In 1938, the major powers turned their backs on Czechoslovakia precisely because it was a tattered remnant of the Austro-Hungarian empire. It wasn’t our problem.</p>
<p>On the eve of the agreement to cede the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany in September 1938, Neville Chamberlain made a broadcast in which he said ‘how horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing.. However much we sympathise with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbour, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in war simply on her account. If we have to fight, it must be on larger issues than that.’</p>
<p>Having secured agreement from Britain, France and Fascist Italy to claim the Sudetenland in September 1938, Nazi Germany would then move uncontested into the rump of Czechoslovakia in March 1939. Even when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on 3 September 1939, Britain and France declared war, but did not, in fact, commit to war for eight months in what was called the ‘Phoney War’.</p>
<p>Only when Germany went on to invade the Netherlands, Belgium and parts of France on 10 May 1940, was the ‘spirit of Locarno’ destroyed, ushering Winston Churchill in as Prime Minister, and bringing the battle, literally, to Britain in July 1940, after the catastrophic withdrawal from Dunkirk.</p>
<p>Britain has never been willing to fight for Ukraine either because it isn’t core Europe and is seen as a politically and economically dysfunctional relic of Soviet times, much like Czechoslovakia was seen in 1938. Despite our marshal exhortations for Ukraine to defeat Russia on the battlefield, at no point have we ever been willing to deploy UK troops in a direct combat role in Ukraine. I have lost count of the number of times I’ve heard senior European diplomats say that ‘we are never going to fight for Ukraine’. And they were good their word.</p>
<p>You might say, of course, that that was appeasement, but I disagree. Hitler’s expansionism was rooted in Lebensraum, and the desire to create a greater Germanic Reich that stretched as far as the oil rich Caucasus. Russia had no territorial aspirations to be appeased.</p>
<p>President Putin once said, ‘Anyone who doesn’t regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.’ At the turn of the twenty-first century, Russia was took weak economically to contemplate the idea of absorbing Ukraine or any other former Soviet state.</p>
<p>Prior to 2014, Russia made no territorial claim to Ukraine. It had a long-standing basing agreement for the Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol and relations with Ukraine were open and stable.</p>
<p>There is no evidence that Russia had plans either to occupy Crimea of foment unrest in the Donbass prior to the start of 2014. Crimea’s reunification with Russia was undoubtedly opportunistic, justified on the basis of protecting the majority Russian speaking population there. Likewise Russian direct military support for the separatists in the Donbass.</p>
<p>Even in 2014, after the Ukraine crisis started, senior Russian officials were telling us at the British Embassy that there was no desire to absorb the Donbass, which was a huge rustbelt.</p>
<p>There is a significant body of evidence that Russia wanted a resolution of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine through negotiations and devolution that protected the rights of the Russian speaking people there. That Putin recognised Donetsk and Lugansk as independent states, and then went to war, was arguably driven by the collapse of the Minsk Agreements.</p>
<p>War led to Russia to lay claim to the four oblasts, taking another bite out of Ukraine, and driving the western narrative that other parts of Ukraine and even the Baltic states might be next. However, I also see that as driven by opportunism rather than part of a grand Russian plan to conquer all of Ukraine.</p>
<p>I’ve seen no evidence that Russia plans to invade the Baltic States or Poland next. Russia has no desire for more land in circumstances where its population is too small to defend the land it already has. It would also be an act of political suicide for President Putin to go to war with NATO, a point he himself has hinted at many times.</p>
<p>Yet, western journalists and Baltic politicians make these claims, drawing a link to Hitler, who repeatedly broke his commitments through military conquest. Appeasement allowed Nazi Germany to rearm itself while Britain and France turned a blind eye to the carving up of the remnants of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Until realisation dawned that Hitler was coming for us next.</p>
<p>We appeased Hitler precisely because he posed an existential threat to France and Britain. If you believe that we are waging a proxy war in Ukraine because Russia poses an existential threat to Britain then I must beg to differ. By arming Ukraine for a war that it cannot win, the only people we are appeasing are the war mongers in Brussels and London. Ending a war that has killed or injured over one million people already is morally the right thing to do.</p>
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<p>On April 28, a massive blackout plunged nearly the entire Iberian Peninsula, including mainland Spain, Portugal, Andorra and parts of southern France, into darkness. It was the most extensive power outage in the history of the European Union, affecting more than 60 million people.</p>
<p>Public life came to a standstill: trains stopped, communication networks failed, hospitals switched to emergency power and entire cities were paralysed as traffic lights stopped working. At least five people are known to have died.</p>
<p>Three family members perished in Ourense from fumes from a generator powering a fan. A woman in Valencia, reliant on an oxygen machine, suffocated. Another died in a fire in Madrid.</p>
<p>Power was not fully restored for 10 hours. Although initial speculation pointed to a cyberattack or sabotage, government cybersecurity agencies have now ruled these out.</p>
<p>A fairly clear picture has emerged of what caused the blackout. At exactly 12:33 p.m., 15 gigawatts of generation, over 60 percent of the peninsula’s load, detached from the grid in five seconds, causing a total system collapse. Voltage surged past 470,000 volts, and frequency hit 50.2 hertz, triggering automatic disconnections and disabling the grid’s balancing mechanisms.</p>
<p>Experts have pointed to a critical shortage of synchronous generation, particularly hydraulic and gas-fired turbines, which could have stabilised the grid in seconds. Of the 26 gigawatts scheduled for that day, only 5 gigawatts were synchronous. Three of Spain’s five major hydroelectric plants were offline for maintenance, and all nuclear reactors except one were shut down.</p>
<p>These decisions were authorised by Red Eléctrica Española (REE), the utility responsible for operating Spain’s national electricity transmission system. Although the Spanish state owns 20 percent of REE through the public investment agency SEPI, the remaining 80 percent is held by private shareholders and global investment funds, including BlackRock and the holding company of billionaire Amancio Ortega.</p>
<p>In practice, this structure ensures that REE operates according to private profit imperatives, not public need. Despite the state’s minority stake, oversight is negligible. REE functions as a nominally public utility managed in the interests of private capital.</p>
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<p>The result was a preventable overvoltage, which disconnected all generation and plunged the entire grid to zero. The French grid briefly decoupled, averting a wider European failure. Portugal, more deeply interconnected with Spain, went down entirely.</p>
<p>Spain’s energy sector is controlled by a handful of conglomerates—Endesa, Iberdrola, Naturgy, Repsol and Acciona—that dominate both generation and distribution. Behind them stand financial giants like BlackRock, Norges Bank, Vanguard and the Qatar Investment Authority, alongside Pontegadea, the asset management firm of billionaire Amancio Ortega. In 2024 alone, they earned over €11 billion in profits.</p>
<p>These firms have repeatedly blocked grid modernisation, delayed investment in battery storage and refused to maintain reserve capacity in combined cycle gas plants—all to maximise shareholder returns.</p>
<p>Warnings about the risks of inadequate infrastructure to support renewable energy have been voiced for years. Engineers, grid operators and researchers have warned that Spain’s rapid growth in solar and wind generation, while essential, has not been matched by investment in battery storage, grid reinforcement, or system inertia solutions.</p>
<p>In California, battery storage has increased from 500 megawatts to over 13,000 megawatts between 2018 and 2024. Spain, in contrast, has allowed its energy system to become “a giant with feet of clay,” as CSIC expert Fernando Valladares aptly described it in an interview with Público. “Security has a cost that companies don’t want to pay,” he explained, warning that “we are doing an energy transition in a capitalist system that has not socially or economically transformed.”</p>
<p>Antonio Turiel of the CSIC accused the energy companies Iberdrola, Endesa and Naturgy of “criminal responsibility,” stating that “if the combined-cycle gas plants had been ready to take over, the blackout would have been much smaller. But they had them shut down.”</p>
<p>Political responsibility lies with successive governments, led not only by right-wing parties, but also by social democratic, pseudo-left and Stalinist parties. This includes the current PSOE–Sumar coalition, and its predecessor the PSOE–Podemos government (2019–2023). These forces have administered years of energy liberalisation, refused to reverse privatization, protected corporate profiteering, and systematically dismantled public oversight, leaving the electricity system exposed to collapse.</p>
<p>After initially praising the recovery effort, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez abruptly blamed “private operators” and called for accountability, claiming he only learned of REE’s internal investigation “through the media.” He then announced the formation of an independent commission to investigate the blackout. This is little more than an attempt to deflect public anger from his own government’s complicity in decades of privatisation and deregulation.</p>
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<p>While the government now insists on “transparency,” its priority remains political damage control. This farce extends to Sumar, PSOE’s pseudo-left coalition partner. Sumar’s leader and Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz first urged the public “not to get tangled up in partisan disputes,” then, amid mass outrage, she demanded, “The electrical grid must be in public hands. It is a strategic sector and today it is privatised and operates not as an oligopoly, but as a monopoly.” But neither the social democrats nor its “Left Populist” allies oppose the system that enabled the blackout. They have acted as its administrators for years.</p>
<p>Without a doubt, private operators are not being transparent, shielding themselves from billion-euro lawsuits. Corredor, president of Redeia (REE’s parent company) insisted in interviews that “our grid did not fail” and blamed an unknown disruption beyond REE’s control. She rejected any responsibility for the failure to schedule sufficient stabilising capacity, refused to resign and dismissed the idea that greater use of nuclear power would have helped.</p>
<p>While some media outlets have suggested solar plants in Extremadura triggered the cascade, REE itself admitted that the Spanish grid “depends heavily on variable renewables, which disconnect under instability and lack physical inertia reserves.” The day after the blackout, under identical conditions of supply and temperature, no failure occurred. This confirmed the blackout was not caused by renewables, but by how the grid was configured, which directly points to disinvestment in critical infrastructure.</p>
<p>To avoid further disruption, REE has since programmed massive activation of combined cycle gas plants, causing electricity prices to soar by 500 percent, from €35 per megawatt-hour on April 29 to €117 on April 30. The blackout occurred during a period of negative electricity prices, when producers lost money on every megawatt-hour generated. Under Spain’s market design, they are compensated through subsidies and backup contracts. Now, with REE’s programme, energy companies are now making a killing of profits.</p>
<p>The blackout has also exposed the grotesque priorities of Sánchez’s government. While enabling private energy monopolies to loot the national grid and refusing to invest in critical infrastructure, the PSOE-Sumar government is diverting more than €10 billion to military spending.</p>
<p>The debate over this vast increase in the defence budget was already scheduled for his May 7 congressional appearance, now to be shared with an explanation of the blackout. Rather than being subjected to a vote, the military budget is being pushed through by decree to avoid defeat in parliament, laying bare the government’s contempt for democratic oversight.</p>
<p>The convergence of the blackout and the weapons spending debate has laid bare the character of the PSOE-Sumar regime: a government of imperialist rearmament for war abroad while attacking workers at home with blackouts, price shocks and corporate impunity.</p>
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title: U.S.-Ukraine agreement signed: How will it be implemented and what awaits Kiev?
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<p><strong><em>The agreement shows that the U.S. continues to use economic tools as part of its geopolitical influence strategy.</em></strong></p>
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<p>The long-anticipated agreement between the United States and Ukraine was signed in Washington, D.C., opening Ukraine’s lithium, rare earth elements, and other critical mineral resources to U.S. capital. The deal also includes the creation of a fund named the United States–Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund, expected to finance the rebuilding of Ukraine.</p>
<p>From Washington’s perspective, the agreement allows the U.S. to gain access to Ukraine’s strategic natural resources under the umbrella of an investment fund, effectively compensating for the military and financial support already provided to Kiev. From Ukraine’s side, although it came to the table seeking economic recovery and military backing in the war against Russia, it does not appear to have fully achieved those aims.</p>
<p><strong>No concrete security guarantees</strong></p>
<p>The partnership envisions a joint administrative body in which both the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) have equal voting rights, with profits to be split 50/50 and tax exemptions in place. However, the text omits the binding security guarantees that Ukraine has persistently requested, offering instead vague promises.</p>
<p>The agreement was signed at the U.S. Treasury Department by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko. The joint statement emphasized collaboration to “accelerate Ukraine’s economic recovery,” and the previously provided $72 billion in military and economic aid is considered part of the fund, not an additional debt—an incentive likely used to bring Ukraine to the table despite the absence of security clauses.</p>
<p>Despite repeated calls from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and top officials for firm guarantees against the Russian threat, the final text only includes “support” rather than any binding commitments. It does not offer NATO membership or any explicit defense obligations—meaning the U.S. did not take on direct responsibility for additional arms shipments or military interventions. This cautious approach likely reflects Washington’s ongoing diplomatic engagement with Moscow.</p>
<p><strong>Carrot-and-stick strategy toward Kiev</strong></p>
<p>By leaving open the possibility of future military aid and the inclusion of air defense systems under the fund, the U.S. appears to be maintaining a carrot-and-stick strategy with the Ukrainian leadership.</p>
<p>Certain provisions—such as the recognition of Ukraine’s ownership of all natural resources, shared management rights, and the continued state ownership of companies like Energoatom and Ukrnafta—are viewed as “partial gains” for Kiev.</p>
<p><strong>How will the agreement be implemented?</strong></p>
<p>According to the agreement, Ukraine’s Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources will oversee the opening of mining fields to international investors in coordination with the fund. Geological data will be shared with the DFC and other institutions to help investors assess potential sites more quickly.</p>
<p>The U.S. will deploy mining technology directly to the field to reduce production costs—one of the key barriers that previously prevented Ukraine from fully utilizing its mineral wealth. The technology will come from the U.S., while the labor force will be Ukrainian.</p>
<p>Another critical requirement for resource extraction is an uninterrupted supply chain and the necessary infrastructure. Hence, the agreement prioritizes transportation and energy infrastructure projects to ensure continuous delivery to ports and refineries.</p>
<p><strong>When will it take effect?</strong></p>
<p>The agreement will enter into force within 30 days after it is ratified by the Ukrainian Parliament. The first board meeting of the joint management committee is expected between May 13–15. Initial investment projects are set to launch in the summer.</p>
<p>To proceed, Ukraine must transfer revenues from its state resources into the fund in a timely manner—these transfers will be closely monitored and audited by the U.S. In other words, Ukraine’s compliance with the agreement will determine whether it receives further promised defense support.</p>
<p><strong>How did Ukrainian politicians react?</strong></p>
<p>The agreement has sparked controversy within Ukraine’s political circles. Lawmakers from former President Petro Poroshenko’s European Solidarity party criticized President Zelensky for not involving Parliament in the discussions prior to signing. They demanded a special session with full parliamentary participation to review the text.</p>
<p>Borislav Bereza, former MP and ex-spokesperson for the far-right Right Sector, criticized the lack of security guarantees, stating:</p>
<p>“Zelensky claimed the deal would secure concrete guarantees from the U.S. in exchange for access to Ukraine’s natural resources. But none of that is in the final text. It’s a strange situation. The agreement is signed, but the guarantees are missing. So we didn’t get the main thing Zelensky went to the White House for on February 28. And remember how tough he sounded back then?”</p>
<p>Yaroslav Zhelezniak, an MP from the liberal opposition Holos party, also pointed out the removal of security clauses from the draft:</p>
<p>“I don’t see any major victory here. It seems we heroically escaped from a crisis of our own making—created by hasty promises and uncoordinated statements.”</p>
<p>Serhiy Sydorenko, Editor-in-Chief of <em>European Pravda</em>, offered a more moderate view:</p>
<p>“This is definitely not a betrayal. It’s a reasonable agreement that needed to be signed. Some parts were surprisingly positive. But it’s not a victory either. Further negotiations are still ahead, and political elements have been wrapped into technical ones. We’ve learned not to celebrate too early.”</p>
<p><strong>Where are Ukraine’s critical minerals?</strong></p>
<p>Ukraine holds an estimated $15 trillion in mineral wealth, making it one of Europe’s richest in natural resources. It contains:</p>
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<li>Europe’s largest reserves of <strong>lithium, titanium, and uranium</strong>.</li>
<li>23 of the 50 critical minerals defined by the U.S. government.</li>
<li><strong>Graphite</strong>, used in EV batteries, in regions like Berdychivskyi, Pobuzkyi, Kryvorizhkyi, and Pryazovskyi—placing Ukraine among the world’s top five in reserves.</li>
<li><strong>Titanium</strong>, essential for aerospace and construction.</li>
<li>One-third of Europe’s <strong>lithium</strong>, especially in the Polokhivske, Shevchenkivske, Dobra, and Kruta Balka regions—some currently under Russian control.</li>
<li>Vast reserves of <strong>beryllium, uranium, copper, lead, zinc, silver, nickel, cobalt, manganese</strong>, and <strong>17 rare earth elements</strong>.</li>
<li><strong>Kryvyi Rih</strong>, which hosts one of the world’s largest iron ore reserves, key to Ukraine’s steel industry.</li>
<li>Western Ukraine and the Carpathians, rich in <strong>gold and other precious metals</strong>.</li>
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<p>Around 40% of key mining regions in Donetsk, Lugansk, and Zaporizhzhia are already Russian territories..</p>
<p><strong>What Does the agreement signify?</strong></p>
<p>Above all, this agreement shows that the U.S. continues to use economic tools as part of its geopolitical influence strategy. The targeted minerals are essential to the growing electric vehicle sector and advanced defense technologies—making this agreement a crucial step in America’s preparations for the emerging era of strategic competition.</p>
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title: The Vatican Tape, edizione 2025
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<p><strong><em>“Morto un papa se ne fa un altro”, dice un antichissimo proverbio romano. La vita ha un inizio ed una fine per tutti, inesorabilmente. È così che ai funerali di Jorge Mario Bergoglio, in arte Papa Francesco, è sfilato il solito carrozzone di personaggi politici di tutte le provenienze. </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><strong>Il carrozzone</strong></p>
<p>C’erano proprio tutti: gli anglicani della corona britannica, i presbiteriani del governo americano, i sedicenti cattolici del governo italiano, i giudei dell’Europarlamento, i banchieri dell’alta finanza, i golpisti in magione verde dell’est Europa, i colletti bianchi del globalismo. Tutti contenti, in prima fila, a rendere omaggio al loro confratello. A giudicare dalla kermesse dei partecipanti, Bergoglio doveva essere proprio una persona per bene…</p>
<p>Se questo è il metro di giudizio, il pontificato di Jorge Mario Bergoglio lascia dietro di sé soprattutto rovine, completando in Occidente un processo di erosione della fede e della proposta cristiana che affonda le radici nel tempo, accelerato dal Concilio Vaticano II che ha ridotto la decadente Chiesa di Roma ad una palude marcescente. I più ingenui avevano spalancato cuori, porte e finestre; il regno di Francesco ha significato un ulteriore tracollo delle vocazioni religiose, della partecipazione ai riti — sempre più svuotati di significato spirituale — e dell’incisività del cristianesimo nella società. Un bilancio drammatico, aggravato dall’ateismo pratico di massa e dall’islamizzazione dell’Europa, fenomeni di fronte ai quali il cattolicesimo appare spettatore, se non complice.</p>
<p>L’orgia mediatica che accompagna la morte di Bergoglio — preparata da tempo — è una sinfonia pressoché unanime di encomi, ondate di retorica, applausi scroscianti in un clima mediatico-culturale-politico quasi senza voci dissonanti. Chiaramente, la sofferenza personale merita rispetto; ma di fronte alla storia e alla missione petrina, i quasi dodici anni di pontificato di Bergoglio appaiono come una dolorosa salita verso il Calvario. Non sorprende che i più entusiasti tra gli elogiatori siano spesso non credenti, laici e anticlericali. L’impatto è stato più sentito nel mondo civile e politiche che in quello religioso. Curioso? No, a dire il vero, perché lo “stile Bergoglio” ha contribuito snaturare ulteriormente il Cristianesimo occidentale, dandogli l’ennesimo colpo.</p>
<p>Non c’è nulla di strano: è venuto meno «uno di loro», una figura allineata al pensiero dominante. Curioso paradosso, visto che il mainstream occidentale è radicalmente anticristiano, materialista, ateo. Piacere agli avversari della fede dovrebbe destare inquietudine. Verrà certamente ricordato come il Papa che ha offerto protezione, accoglienza e sostegno ai movimenti LGBTQ+, all’abortismo, al liberalismo, ai vaccini di massa e al globalismo nelle sue forme più forti e spinte. Morto un papa se ne fa un altro, e la speranza è sempre quella che il successore sia meglio del precedessero.</p>
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<p><strong>Ognuno a casa sua… o forse no</strong></p>
<p>Al di là delle disquisizioni teologiche e morali, su cui in molti hanno già scritto, è interessante sottolineare un evento per nulla marginale: durante le lunghe ore del rito funebre e della celebrazione mondiale per Bergoglio, il presidente americano Donald Trump, recatosi a Roma in visita funebre, ne ha approfittato col suo staff per incontrare ben 42 cardinali, alcuni politici e, più importanti fra tutti, Zelensky.</p>
<p>La scena è stata la seguente: Trump chiede al monsignore che lo accompagnava di predisporre un dialogo con Zelensky, nel bel mezzo della Basilica di San Pietro, davanti ad uno degli altari laterali. Si presenta anche Macron, puntualissimo, che fa aggiungere una terza sedia. I tre politici si scontrano verbalmente e Trump fa allontanare Macron, rimuovendo la sedia. Comincia quindi la “confessione” di Trump e Zelensky, sotto gli occhi della stampa internazionale e durante il momento meno opportuno della Storia.</p>
<p>Una immagine iconica, non c’è dubbio.</p>
<p>Una immagine che dice molto di come stanno le cose.</p>
<p>L’Americano arriva a Roma e fa come se fosse a casa sua. Del Papa non gli interessa granché, sia perché non ha niente di moralmente vincolante con la Chiesa di Roma, sia perché l’Italia è ancora una sua colonia, dunque comanda lui e fa quello che gli pare. Ora, i più attenti potrebbero obiettare e sottolineare che il Vaticano non è Italia, è uno Stato a sé. Tutto vero. Anzi, dovremmo dire che è lo “Stato a sé” più “a sé” di tutti, perché è proprio grazie al Vaticano che in mezzo mondo vige ancora il diritto dell’ammiragliato, è grazie al Vaticano che il potere di Londra è garantito ed è ancora grazie al Vaticano che gli americani sono rimasti in Italia nel 1945, invece di tornarsene da dove erano venuti. Ma questo è un argomento che merita un altro articolo. Quel che è chiaro è che l’America, a quanto pare, ha una buona libertà di manovra anche fra le mura dei Sacri Palazzi.</p>
<p>Quanto è emerso con evidenza è che Trump dei protocolli se ne frega. La sua spavalderia, da vero business man americano, lo spinge ad un pragmatismo politico. <em>Carpe diem</em>, avrebbero detto i latini, e là dove il latino è ancora la lingua ufficiale, lui ha colto l’attimo ed ha applicato la regola.</p>
<p>Il presidente americano ha colloquiato col presidente ucraino, tracciando uno scarabocchio sulle geometrie politiche degli ultimi mesi. Macron, quale emissario di Londra e garante degli interessi della UE, non è stato ben accolto. Uno smacco davvero efficace. Ursula Von der Leyen, presente con suo marito alla cerimonia, poco prima aveva abbracciato Zelensky intrattenendosi con lui per qualche minuto. L’appassionato di benzoilmetilecgonina della CIA per l’occasione aveva persino dismesso la felpa verde militare, indossando una giacca nera, senza troppe pretese stilistiche.</p>
<p>Proviamo anche soltanto a pensare alla potenza mediatica di quella immagine. I leader del mondo hanno visto che Trump fa letteralmente quello che vuole, dovunque va, persino nel temutissimo Vaticano. Non ci sarà da stupirsi se la sua influenza in vista del conclave, considerando gli incontri che ha avuto con i porporati, sarà molto forte. Questa è una bomba atomica, in termini di <em>infowarfare</em>.</p>
<p>Tutto ciò a pochissimi giorni dal viaggio a Mosca per la parata del 9 maggio, mentre gli isterici della UE cercano di correre ai ripari per il rincaro dei prezzi dato dai dazi, che gli sta facendo affondare gli impianti di Rehinmetall.</p>
<p>No, quello che è successo non è un “esempio di pace”, come hanno scritto alcuni, tentando di dipingere il Vaticano come una sorta di spazio neutro in cui avvengono i miracoli; abbiamo visto una violenza politica in perfetto stile <em>yankee</em>, di quelle che “o spari tu, o sparo io”.</p>
<p>Il bullo di turno ha fatto il suo gioco ed è andato via prima che il funerale terminasse. Nemmeno il tempo di cantare un <em>requiem</em>.</p>
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title: The oddities of the “sex for rent” legislation
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/feet-3897321_1280-e1746540402503.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Labour Senator Laura Harmon was very happy yesterday, taking to social media to rejoice in the news that the Minister for Justice, Jim O’Callaghan, has agreed to progress her long-desired legislation outlawing so-called “sex for rent” arrangements.</strong></p>
<p>Those arrangements are exactly what they sound like: Some creepy men (theoretically women could do this too, <em>but who are we kidding</em>) have taken to attempting to benefit from the housing crisis by offering typically younger females, but also a fair few young men (in homosexual arrangements) accommodation in return for sexual favours regularly delivered.</p>
<p>The new legislation would create two new offences: It would become a crime to advertise accommodation where sex would be taken in lieu of rent, and it would become a crime to offer (presumably without publicly advertising) somebody accommodation in return for sex. The maximum penalty under the legislation would be a class A fine – meaning a fine of up to €5,000.</p>
<p>That the men who offer such arrangements tend to be predatory types who are a danger to society is not in dispute, and the evidence backs this up. Look at who it is who most typically gets offered <a href="https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/new-laws-banning-sex-for-rent-to-go-before-cabinet-today/a330478999.html">such arrangements:</a></p>
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<p><em>An Irish Council for International Students survey earlier this year found one in seven people had been offered rentals where they share a room – and sleep in the same bed – with people they do not know.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>All the respondents who received sex-for-rent offers were non-native English speakers and 68pc were female.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Here’s my question – stipulating of course that I personally find the notion of sex for rent to be abhorrent and exploitative: When is consent not enough for the state to stay out of sexual relationships?</p>
<p>The Irish state and its governing political and media class have essentially over the past few decades made consent the magic word when it comes to matters sexual: Young men are often encouraged to take “consent classes”, while kids in our schools are taught that sex between adults is generally acceptable so long as consent has been secured.</p>
<p>In cases of sex for rent, grubby though they may be, there is no real question as to consent: Both parties have come to an arrangement that they consent to. Perhaps, in the case of the woman, sex has been consented to under slight financial duress.</p>
<p>But since when is consent under some duress not consent? Do we really think that there are not, in Ireland, wives who are having sexual intercourse with their husbands when they don’t <em>really</em> feel like it, just to trade that for the reward of a contented spouse? Does consent always have to be enthusiastic to count as consent?</p>
<p>I ask these questions because this writer, for one, has always found the “consent” standard around sexual liasons to be entirely unsatisfactory: Were I setting the curriculum (and I doubt I am alone in this) I would be teaching young people (especially but not only males) that sexual relationships necessitate a positive duty of care for the other person’s physical and emotional well-being. That it is not just enough to wait for a magic word and then “go”, so to speak.</p>
<p>That would also seem to be the message of the sex for rent bill: That pure consent to an arrangement between two adults is not enough, if that arrangement puts one of them under duress or may seem exploitative.</p>
<p>But here’s my next question: How do you even <em>enforce</em> this law? Particularly the part which criminalises an unadvertised offer of sex for rent?</p>
<p>The first part of the law is simple enough: If somebody is dumb enough to put up an advertisement which says “room free so long as sexual favour provided”, then that’s a fairly open and shut case. But of course, that’s not what is likely to happen in the majority of cases.</p>
<p>In the majority of cases, these situations are likely to develop where somebody is unable to pay their rent and their landlord suggests an alternative method of repayment. Unless the landlord is dumb enough to put that offer in writing over text message, it is going to be very hard for the state to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that such an offer was ever even <em>made.</em></p>
<p>Further, what is the nature of the crime here? Is it a particular form of words? If a landlord says to a tenant (as he absolutely should not as a moral matter) that she wouldn’t have to pay rent if she was his girlfriend, is that a proposition for sex for rent? What if it’s a more vague “well there are other ways you could repay me”? Is there room for honest misunderstanding, where a clumsy romantic approach is taken to be criminal because the person approached is a tenant?</p>
<p>The law – and public morality – around sex in Ireland remains greatly confused. If consent between adults is all that is required for sexual activity, then neither sex for rent nor prostitution should be illegal as a matter of logic. And yet, both now will be.</p>
<p>Perhaps it is time that what we teach children about consent and sexual relationships caught up to how we treat those relationships in the real world. Consent is not enough by itself. It never was.</p>

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title: Syria’s silent genocides
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<p>If you compare<a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/04/first-they-kill-alawites-and-christians-now-druze-who-next-syria/"> Sonja van den Ende’s superlative 4<sup>th</sup> May SCF piece</a> on Syria’s silent genocides to <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2erkr1n15o">Lucy Williamson’s BBC garbage</a> the following day, it becomes very obvious that van den Ende follows the first rule of writing, which is to write about what she knows about, and that Williamson does not.</p>
<p>Let’s first get Williamson and her MI6 friends on the seventh floor of Damascus’ Four Seasons hotel out of the way. Their job is to direct Jolani’s murder gangs and, in Williamson’s case, to make excuses for them by saying their war crimes are in retaliation for alleged attacks by the tens of thousands of Alawite women and children they have indiscriminately slaughtered. Having grown up in Ireland where MI6 used those self same excuses to justify their indiscriminate murder of Catholic children, I am long inured to those lies, which they have recycled in more recent times on the bigger canvasses of Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Did I forget Palestine? Oh well, never mind. Here is renowned British writer and journalist Jonathan Cook <a href="https://www.middle-east-online.com/en/what-bbc-fails-tell-you-about-october-7">hauling the very same Lucy Williamson over the coals</a> regarding the BBC’s complicity in the Gazan turkey shoot. Let’s be blunt here. The BBC and journalistic harlots like Williamson have no credibility in any of this and, not only could I again <a href="https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/2015/03/04/2441/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKFbQJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETAwV0pxR3ZSdk1rckZLVVpwAR62-0CmXSZsE8mWh_55Bwjo4gLGvv5pF59aL5qCijqumjfJfw9VF2B02b5XUw_aem_DYcJMv1E03Ea0TxUeakKew">cite Robert Stuart’s demolition of the BBC</a> but I could cite hundreds of other less thorough demolition jobs if time and space allowed. The fact of the matter is MI6’s BBC have no credibility with regard to Syria, where they are implicated in far too many war crimes to adumbrate here.</p>
<p>If we now turn back to van den Ende (who may be followed, inter alia, <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/contributors/sonja-van-den-ende">here</a>, <a href="https://x.com/SonjaEnde">here</a> and especially <a href="https://freesuriyah.eu/">here</a>), it is patently obvious that she is not only heavily emotionally invested in Syria but that she has a range of well-informed contacts there as well. Not only has she written the article I had planned to write but she has done it far better than I could have and that is a very good thing, as it leaves me to put it all in a wider context.</p>
<p>Having first noted that everything people like van den Ende have said since the beginning of NATO’s war on Syria over a decade ago has been right and everything Syria’s NATO enemies have said has been wrong, let’s move on to the Assad canard as both van den Ende and I have been amongst a large swathe of worthies NATO have tried to dismiss as Assad stooges, Assad lackies and the like. Not only is that name calling in the absence of arguments or facts but it also shows a deep and fundamental ignorance of Syria, where the weakest (Assad and his small band of Alawites) were allowed rule so that the strongest factions would not tear themselves and Syria apart, as they are now doing. Witness Hama, where the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Hama_massacre">Muslim Brotherhood savages were defeated in 1982</a> and where they are now marching <a href="https://x.com/search?q=Ostensiblay%20hama%20dru&amp;src=typed_query">demanding the extermination of the Druze</a>, an ongoing war crime, which van den Ende’s article directly addressed.</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/i/status/1916911139830829363">But exterminate the Druze</a>? Like, wtf? Not only are the Druze an integral part of the Syrian fabric but they played pivotal roles in ridding the country of the Ottoman and French colonialists. As of course, did Kurds like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Hananu">Ibrahim Hananu,</a> whose current relevance is that the first thing, besides their mandatory head chopping, Turkey’s Jolani proxies did when they over ran Idlib was to tear down his statue, a crime that would be akin to French patriots tearing down a statue of De Gaulle or the type of Russophobic vandalism NATO’s Nazi proxies get up to in Ukraine and contiguous countries.</p>
<p>Even leaving aside the tens of thousands of Chinese Uyghurs who are running amok throughout Syria, the driving force behind these war crimes is economic, not in the Marxist class warfare sense, but in the divisive imperialist sense that much of the uneducated Sunni majority have been slowly groomed into seeing their equally impoverished compatriots as the enemy, rather than the external forces to their north and to their south, as well as agent provocateurs like <a href="https://www.mei.edu/profile/charles-lister">Charles Lister</a>, who gave succour to the Muslim Brotherhood and their triggermen.</p>
<p>Witness the lie of the land now and then ask yourself cui bono, who benefits? The first duty of the Alawites and the Druze, like minorities everywhere, is to simply survive, which is no easy task. But NATO has engineered it that they cannot survive without external help that necessarily excludes Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, who must prepare for further tempests coming their way.</p>
<p>Step forward Israel, which now commands southern Syria and which is the only hope of salvation for the Druze, the Alawites and any other minority women who do not want to be sold off as sex slaves in Idlib.</p>
<p>Much as cats can flip about a mouse, so also is Israel free to kick about Syria, which is impaled on the claws of Jolani, Israel and Turkey, with the only friction being some aerial-related stand offs between the air forces of Russia, Israel and Turkey for local dominance. Although Russia has transferred military vehicles from their Hmeimim base to Latakia and they are recruiting thousands of coastal Syrians to fortify their bases, they cannot be the deciding factor in the battles that lie ahead, especially as the Americans, with their psychopathic Turkish sidekicks, are digging in around the Armenian town of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kessab</a>.</p>
<p>But air forces, be they Russian or not, cannot occupy. You need ground troops to do that, and the Yanks have them in abundance both directly through Turkey and Israel, and indirectly through the jihadist head choppers who have the keys not only to the Presidential Palace but to much of Syria as well.</p>
<p>Although <a href="https://www.facebook.com/padma.depana" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Padma de Pama</a> has helpfully reposted this important map of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10163610477075229&amp;set=a.10150242230125229" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who controls what</a> in Syria today, matters are much worse than they were at the time of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Syrian_Revolt#:~:text=In%201925%20Sultan%20al-Atrash,between%20rebel%20and%20French%20forces" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Great Syrian Revolt</a>, where Ibrahim Hananu, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_al-Atrash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sultan al-Atrash</a> and countless other Syrians proved their mettle, just as the heroes of the Syrian Arab Army did for the last ten years.</p>
<p>Though Syrians should be eternally proud of their living and dead heroes, they need something else today if they and all around them are ever to escape the trap being set for them. These ongoing genocides are paving the way for Israel to set up its <a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/davids-corridor-israels-shadow-project-to-redraw-the-levant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Corridor,</a> which will slice through Syria from the occupied Golan in Syria’s south to the lands the Kurds have stolen in the north and, having imposed their own final solution on Syria, the Israelis and heir Yankee sidekicks will move on to dealing with the “Turkish problem” further to the north.</p>
<p>Although addressing that is a problem for another day, for now we must join with van den Ende in lamenting this wholesale slaughter of Druze, Alawites and others just to make the wet dreams of Erdoğan, Netanyahu and their MI6 and CIA enforcers a reality. Although van den Ende is to be commended for being one of a tiny righteous minority, who have raised their voices, no matter how muffled NATO have made them, against these outrageous war crimes, the battle must go on till the next major page involving a war to the death with Iran is turned.</p>
<p>Although that is going to make gruesome reading, Sonja van den Ende and others like her are to be commended for throwing some light on these unforgivable and unforgettable Syrian war crimes, where the guilt must be firmly laid at the door of Lucy Williamson, the riff raff in the Four Seasons Hotel and all the other <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/03/19/architects-of-the-syrian-caliphate-who-is-your-favourite-lord-haw-haw/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">architects of the Syrian caliphate</a>.</p>
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guid: yt:video:PiB2zPpshIU
title: The Strategic Devolution, As Seen from the UK
author: ;The LaRouche Organization
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guid: yt:video:I3R0s8PsfnI
title: Israel Really Is As Evil As It Looks
author: ;Caitlin Johnstone
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guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138897
title: The NIH Is a Criminal Organization that Should Be Exterminated
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<p>The NIH Is a Criminal Organization that Should Be Exterminated</p>
<p>The inhumane criminals who tortured dogs are the same Satanic creatures who murdered and maimed millions with the Covid “vaccine.”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/AFpost/status/1919395030164234549">https://x.com/AFpost/status/1919395030164234549 </a></p>

link:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/05/07/the-nih-is-a-criminal-organization-that-should-be-exterminated/


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138903
title: Three Wars Are On The Table
author: ;pcr3
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<p>Three Wars Are On The Table</p>
<p>Nima and I continue our discussion of the absurdities of our time, absurdities that can destroy mankind.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/d7VbgDPWbv4">https://www.youtube.com/live/d7VbgDPWbv4</a></p>


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138901
title: Are the Peace Deals Real?
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<p>Are the Peace Deals Real?</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>Some Russian journalists, such as the astute Ekaterina Blinova, are wondering about the reality of the Ukraine “peace negotiations.”<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Trump’s promised peace in 24 hours has been replaced with Trump sending more weapons to Ukraine and more threats to the Kremlin.  Journalist Blinova notes that two US Patriot air defense systems, one from Israel, are on the way to Ukraine along with US $310 million for support of the US F-16s sent to Ukraine, and another $50 million in arms.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>How, Blinova asks, is this in support of peace negotiations? Isn’t it instead encouragement to Zelensky to continue the conflict?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20250505/is-trump-selling-out-to-zelensky-and-neocons-1121984537.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20250505/is-trump-selling-out-to-zelensky-and-neocons-1121984537.html</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>In this way Blinova raises the question whether Trump’s “peace negotiations” are intended to fail so that war can continue. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Previously, Blinova had raised the question:<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>“Did US Deep State Allow Trump to Win?”<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20241112/did-us-deep-state-allow-trump-to-win-1120861699.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20241112/did-us-deep-state-allow-trump-to-win-1120861699.html</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Blinova noted that the institutionalized American establishment preferred Trump to Kamala, because Trump has the pro-American image, unlike Kamala, and Trump can marshal support for America’s profitable wars for hegemony. Blinova wrote: <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>“Some commentators presume that the US establishment sees Trump and his popularity as a convenient vehicle for new overseas campaigns as part of his efforts to ‘make America great again’. Patriots often think of greatness in terms of military dominance, they say.”</p>
<p>One doesn’t get this kind of reality analysis in the American or Western media where the presstitutes conform to the official narrative. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>My question is whether Russian journalists, such as Ekaterina Blinova, can succeed in penetrating the Kremlin’s consciousness where to be included in the Western world sometimes seems to be a greater achievement than the defense of Russian sovereignty.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>For more than three years Putin has steadfastly refused to fight a war in order to win it.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I have suggested that he hoped to use the war for negotiations that would deliver his goal of a new Yalta, a mutual understanding with the West.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I have said that, if this is Putin’s goal, it is a delusion that ignores Washington’s doctrine of hegemony.</p>
<p>If Putin has such a fixed idea, it will serve him and Russia badly.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Perhaps Putin should listen to Russian journalists instead of to his advisors.</p>
<p>In the digital world in which we live, reality continues to slip away from us. If we are not more careful our life will also slip away from us.</p>


guid: yt:video:o8MFR9EY4HI
title: Anti-euthanasia groups call for review of assisted dying law – May 7, 2025
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guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=885153
title: Top countries relying on nuclear and wind power for their electricity
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<p><strong><em>This infographic shows the countries reliant on nuclear and wind power for more than 40% of their electricity generation. Interestingly, all of them are located in Europe</em></strong></p>
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https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/07/top-countries-relying-on-nuclear-and-wind-power-for-their-electricity/


guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330151
title: Meeting re immigration concerns packed out
author: ;Fatima Gunning
link: https://gript.ie/meeting-re-immigration-concerns-packed-out/
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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>
<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: yt:video:868wv99op7g
title: Campaign Life Coalition comments ahead of annual rally – May 7, 2025
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guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330164
title: Journalists slam PBP for refusing Gript question
author: ;Gript Video
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]<p>“I THINK WE’RE DONE”: Today journalists in the Leinster House press pool slammed People Before Profit TDs Ruth Coppinger and Paul Murphy for refusing to take a question from Gript’s Ben Scallan, ending the press event early in protest:</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://gript.ie/journalists-slam-pbp-for-refusing-gript-question/">Journalists slam PBP for refusing Gript question</a> appeared first on <a href="https://gript.ie/">Gript</a>.</p>


guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330161
title: Almost quarter of nurses and midwives saw GP for stress
author: ;Maria Maynes
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]<p>Almost a quarter saw a doctor for work-related stress</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://gript.ie/almost-quarter-of-nurses-and-midwives-saw-gp-for-stress/">Almost quarter of nurses and midwives saw GP for stress</a> appeared first on <a href="https://gript.ie/">Gript</a>.</p>


guid: yt:video:EFcd_C96txI
title: Qui est ce sénateur?
author: ;Senate of Canada | Sénat du Canada
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guid: yt:video:HgCDLVn03QA
title: Who’s That Senator?
author: ;Senate of Canada | Sénat du Canada
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guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=885156
title: Energia nuclear: Unica vía para el ambientalismo
author: ;A A
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<p><strong><em>El declarado objetivo de la Agenda Verde sería alcanzado sin afectar el desarrollo económico, gracias a la mayor eficiencia de la energía nuclear.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Uno de los elementos centrales de la ideología hegemónica actualmente en Occidente ha sido la “Agenda Verde”. De acuerdo con su interpretación alarmista y misantrópica de la información científica, la humanidad se encuentra al borde del colapso debido al calentamiento global antropogénico.</p>
<p>Para salvar al mundo, los países deben reducir drásticamente su “huella” ambiental –principalmente reduciendo las emisiones provenientes de fuentes energéticas “sucias” como el petróleo, mientras que realizan grandes inversiones en fuentes energéticas alternativas particularmente solares y (eólicas) de viento. Esto representa uno de los principales pilares de la denominada Agenda 2030 un coercitivo esfuerzo de Naciones Unidas para estandarizar una serie de enfoques y políticas públicas en todo el mundo – todas apuntando hacia una mayor integración planetaria bajo la justificación de estandarizas las respuestas a supuestas “amenazas globales”, es decir “crisis climáticas”, “crisis financieras”, etc.</p>
<p>En consecuencia, los intentos de los gobiernos occidentales para imponer la Gran Agenda a sus poblaciones, hemos observado en años recientes revueltas de granjeros. Para “salvar el ambiente” los gobiernos europeos decidieron liquidar a la clase media agraria a través de impuestos punitivos sobre la propiedad rural y los combustibles fósiles.</p>
<p>Ahora dejemos en claro lo siguiente: en realidad ninguno de nosotros quiere en realidad vivir en un planeta devastado, saqueado y contaminado que parezca una post apocalíptica distopia de ciencia ficción. Todos queremos respirar aire puro, descansar a la sombra de una arboleda y ocasionalmente visitar áreas selváticas para<br>
cazar, acampar, etc.</p>
<p>Pero muchos países, particularmente aquellos fuera del Eje Atlántico perciben el discurso ambientalista como pretendiendo entorpecer su desarrollo industrial. Los países ya desarrollados parecen estar construyendo narrativas que cuestionen las inversiones necesarias en combustibles, industria del acero, infraestructuras, metalurgia, petroquímicos, etc., debido a que estas “dañan el ambiente.” Aunque esta no sea la intención esto se traduce en una consecuencia concreta.</p>
<p>No obstante se trate de un discurso seductor, no solo porque apela a sentimientos morales relevantes, sino también porque este es amplificado por un ejército de ONGs y empresas privadas. Sin embargo, a pesar de que este discurso está siendo amplificado hasta el punto de permear todos los aspectos políticos y económicos contemporáneos, rara vez escuchamos acerca de la energía nuclear como una alternativa. ¿No resulta extraño?</p>
<p>La energía nuclear es lejos la fuente energética disponible más densa. Un solo kilógramo de Uranio 235 libera alrededor de 24 millones de kvh de energía térmica, lo cual equivale a tres mil toneladas de carbón. En comparación, la energía solar requiere de vastas áreas y tiene un promedio de eficiencia de solo 15-22 por ciento de eficiencia, mientras que la energía (viento) eólica depende de las condiciones del tiempo y también ocupa grandes extensiones de territorio.</p>
<p>Además, mientras las plantas solares y eólicas operan a un promedio de 20-40 por ciento de su capacidad, las plantas nucleares llegan al 90 por ciento y más funcionando 24/7 sin intermitencia.</p>
<p>En relación al impacto ambiental y contrario al mito común, la energía nuclear es una de las fuentes más limpias. El ciclo completo (extracción, enriquecimiento, operación y deshecho) emite solo 12 gco/kvh comparable a la energía eólica (11 gco/kwh) y lejos por debajo del gas natural (490 gco/kvh) y el carbón (820 gco/kvh). Si el mundo reemplazara los hidrocarburos por la energía nuclear, las emisiones globales caerían en picada.</p>
<p>De este modo, el declarado objetivo de la Agenda Verde sería alcanzado sin afectar el desarrollo económico, gracias a la mayor eficiencia de la energía nuclear.</p>
<p>Incluso el problema de los deshechos no debiera causar mucha preocupación. Los deshechos nucleares son a menudo utilizados como argumento en contra de la energía atómica, pero el volumen es mínimo (un reactor de 1 GW produce solo m3 de deshechos de alto nivel al año). Las técnicas de reciclaje existen para reducir aún más y los profundos repositorios geológicos aseguran un seguro almacenamiento durante milenios.</p>
<p>Lo mismo no puede decirse acerca de los paneles solares y las turbinas eólicas. Las primeras contienen valiosos materiales como el silicio, plata y cobre pero también altamente tóxicas substancias como el plomo y el cadmio. En la práctica, los paneles solares no son reciclados porque el proceso es caro y complejo. La mayoría termina en simples basurales contribuyendo así a la contaminación del agua y los suelos.</p>
<p>De tal modo, ¿Por qué las ONGs como Greenpeace hacen campaña contra la energía nuclear? ¿Por qué Greta Thunberg aboga por el cierre de las plantas nucleare? En breve, ¿Por qué el personal de Greenpeace ignora o hace campaña contra la energía nuclear?</p>
<p>La mejor interpretación de este fenómeno es que el modelo operativo de la energía nuclear no se presta muy fácilmente para el financiamiento como lo solar y lo eólico.<br>
El espacio para que grandes empresas privadas conviertan la energía nuclear en un servicio para explotación capitalista es sumamente limitado.</p>
<p>La eficiencia energética sencillamente no es lo suficientemente lucrativa para las oligarquías parasitarias.</p>
<p><em>Traducción: Sergio R. Anacona</em><br>
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title: La historia de los mártires de Krasnodon
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<p><strong>La juventud de Krasnodon se rebeló y, en septiembre de 1942, ocho estudiantes crearon la <em>Molodaya Gvardiya</em>.</strong></p>
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<p>Es abril de 2022. Estoy en Rusia para cubrir la operación militar especial para el periódico <em>Causa Operária</em>. En la calle Arbatskaya, una exposición de fotos con 32 paneles, organizada por el Gobierno de Moscú, rinde homenaje a los 80 años del desenlace de la Batalla de Moscú, que tuvo lugar del 30 de septiembre de 1941 al 20 de abril de 1942, en el marco de la Operación Barbarroja ─ la invasión nazi, conocida por los rusos como la Gran Guerra Patria.</p>
<p>Los alemanes habían llegado a las puertas de la capital rusa y ya consideraban la ciudad como tomada. La mayor parte del gobierno soviético se había trasladado a Kuibyshev (actual Samara). Los ciudadanos comunes, sin medios para huir, se refugiaban como podían de los bombardeos de la Luftwaffe, principalmente en las estaciones de metro. Reservistas provenientes de los Urales, de Siberia y del Lejano Oriente, cadetes de escuelas militares que ni siquiera habían cumplido los 18 años, y millones de moscovitas se movilizaron para defender el corazón del Estado Soviético. El 5 de diciembre de 1941, las tropas del Frente Oriental, lideradas por el legendario mariscal Gueorgui Zhúkov, y las del Frente Suroeste, comandadas por Konstantín Timochenko, lanzaron una contraofensiva a gran escala. Desde tan solo 30 kilómetros del Kremlin, los alemanes fueron obligados a retroceder hasta 200 kilómetros de Moscú.</p>
<p>Sin embargo, Stalin se negó a escuchar las advertencias de espías y oficiales soviéticos que informaban sobre el avance de las tropas hitlerianas hacia Moscú. Esto acabó costando la vida de un millón de personas, víctimas del terror nazi. Pero si solo hubieran sido los habitantes de Moscú quienes hubieran sufrido a manos de Hitler…</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/1000033183.jpg" alt="" width="816" height="460" data-sanitized-class="alignnone size-full wp-image-885139"></p>
<p>En mayo de ese mismo año, cuando viajé a la República Popular de Lugansk, visité el Museo de la <em>Molodaya Gvardiya</em> en la ciudad de Krasnodon. Se trata de un museo en homenaje a esa Guardia Juvenil formada en la región, que quedó inmortalizada en toda la Unión Soviética por su historia de heroísmo y tragedia brutal. Krasnodon fue invadida el 20 de julio de 1941. La ciudad, donde nacieron los mineros del carbón que participaron en la revolución de 1917 y se unieron al Partido Comunista y al Ejército Rojo, no aceptó la ocupación nazi. Dieciséis ciudadanos organizaron la primera resistencia, un grupo de partisanos que fue exterminado por la crueldad alemana. Luego, 32 mineros se negaron a colaborar con los ocupantes y tuvieron un destino aterrador: fueron quemados vivos dentro de la mina en la que trabajaban.</p>
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<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/1000033186.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="787" data-sanitized-class="alignnone size-full wp-image-885144"></p>
<p>Finalmente, la juventud de Krasnodon se rebeló y, en septiembre de 1942, ocho estudiantes crearon la <em>Molodaya Gvardiya</em>. Entre sus hazañas —principalmente mediante tácticas de sabotaje— lograron impedir que los jóvenes de la ciudad fueran deportados para trabajos forzados en Alemania y liberar a soldados soviéticos que estaban presos en Krasnodon. La organización llegó a contar con 102 miembros, todos provenientes de familias cosacas, ya que la región que abarca el Donbass y Rostov es un territorio históricamente cosaco. Pero la respuesta de los invasores fue rápida y violenta, obligando al grupo a disolverse tan solo tres meses después de su creación. El 1 de febrero de 1943, los nazis comenzaron a localizar a los militantes de la <em>Molodaya Gvardiya</em>: fueron arrestados, torturados y ejecutados. A algunos les arrancaron los dedos, las orejas y los ojos ─ con la ayuda de colaboradores ucranianos, los mismos que hoy son homenajeados por el régimen de Kiev y venerados por los batallones del ejército ucraniano. Otros fueron llevados al bosque; cinco de ellos fueron asesinados. La mayoría, sin embargo, tuvo un destino aún más terrible: 71 militantes fueron llevados al interior de una mina de carbón y encerrados a 58 metros de profundidad. Todos murieron. De todos los miembros del grupo, el 80% tenía entre 14 y 18 años.</p>
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<p>Krasnodon fue liberada el 14 de febrero de 1943, dos semanas después de la muerte de los jóvenes en la mina. Sus cuerpos fueron rescatados y velados el 1 de marzo. Tras la liberación, 16 sobrevivientes de la <em>Molodaya Gvardiya</em> se alistaron en el Ejército Rojo para ayudar en la liberación del resto del país. Ocho de ellos murieron en combate. En Krasnodon nacieron 18 ciudadanos que recibieron la condecoración de Héroes de la Gran Guerra Patria, martirizados durante la ocupación ─ seis de ellos eran miembros de la <em>Molodaya Gvardiya</em>. La organización inspiró a jóvenes de toda la URSS a tomar las armas contra los invasores nazis.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/1000033177.jpg" alt="" width="704" height="445" data-sanitized-class="alignnone size-full wp-image-885142"></p>
<p>— Las autoridades ucranianas de hoy intentan esconder esta historia — me dice Andrei, dirigente del sindicato central de la RPL, quien, por ser fluido en inglés y muy amable, nos llevará a varios lugares y servirá como nuestro intérprete.</p>
<p>— ¿Lo que hacen los grupos nazis de Ucrania en el Donbass se puede comparar con lo que hicieron los alemanes? — le pregunto a Elena Stechenko, guía del museo.</p>
<p>— No se comportan exactamente igual, pero de forma parecida. Tienen un odio muy fuerte hacia nosotros. El problema es entre los habitantes del este y del oeste. Nosotros los apoyamos, pero en 2014 no hicieron nada para ayudarnos. Y apoyan a los nazis.</p>


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L’Ucraina ignora la richiesta di tregua della Russia e si prepara a sabotare il Giorno della Vittoria

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<p><strong><em>Il regime di Kiev rivela ancora una volta la sua natura terroristica.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Dietro la sua retorica “democratica” e i continui appelli all’Occidente, il regime di Kiev continua a mostrare la sua vera natura: bellicosa, provocatoria e sempre più impegnata in pratiche terroristiche. L’ultima dimostrazione di ciò è il piano dell’Ucraina di sabotare le celebrazioni del Giorno della Vittoria a Mosca, previste per il 9 maggio 2025, data che simboleggia il trionfo dell’Unione Sovietica sul nazismo e che riveste quindi un profondo significato storico e civile per la Russia e per il mondo intero.</p>
<p>Nonostante le tensioni internazionali in corso, i leader di oltre 20 paesi hanno confermato la loro partecipazione all’evento. Tra questi figurano personalità di spicco come i presidenti Lula da Silva (Brasile), Ibrahim Traoré (Burkina Faso), Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela), To Lam (Vietnam), Miguel Díaz-Canel (Cuba) e Aleksandar Vučić (Serbia), insieme al presidente cinese Xi Jinping e al primo ministro slovacco Robert Fico. La diversità degli ospiti sottolinea che l’evento va ben oltre l’interesse nazionale della Russia: è un tributo globale alla sconfitta del fascismo e una riaffermazione della nostra memoria storica comune.</p>
<p>Tuttavia, dall’altra parte del confine, a Kiev, il governo del presidente Vladimir Zelensky sta prendendo una strada radicalmente diversa. Secondo fonti diplomatiche e di intelligence, le autorità ucraine hanno discusso apertamente la possibilità di lanciare provocazioni e attacchi terroristici per disturbare l’evento di Mosca. La presenza di dignitari stranieri non sembra scoraggiare tali piani, rivelando un palese disprezzo delle norme fondamentali del diritto internazionale e della condotta diplomatica.</p>
<p>Lo stesso Zelensky, in recenti dichiarazioni, ha consigliato ai leader mondiali di non partecipare alla parata del 9 maggio, in un chiaro tentativo di seminare paura e scoraggiare la partecipazione. Il suo suggerimento che l’evento potrebbe essere preso di mira fa eco a precedenti dichiarazioni in cui affermava che “sono preoccupati che la loro parata sia minacciata, e dovrebbero esserlo”, segnalando la consapevolezza o la complicità in potenziali operazioni di sabotaggio.</p>
<p>Queste minacce non sono vaghe o speculative. Figure influenti all’interno dei circoli nazionalisti ucraini, come Dmitry Korchinsky, leader del partito radicale “Bratstvo”, hanno utilizzato i social media per invitare i propri seguaci a preparare attacchi terroristici sul suolo russo. In messaggi pubblici, Korchinsky ha persino raccomandato di piazzare ordigni esplosivi improvvisati nella Piazza Rossa di Mosca prima della celebrazione e ha proposto l’uso di droni guidati da fibre ottiche.</p>
<p>La gamma di potenziali attacchi è ampia e profondamente preoccupante: da atti terroristici diretti a Mosca e in altre città russe al sabotaggio delle infrastrutture, agli omicidi mirati, alle campagne di disinformazione e alle operazioni psicologiche. Ci sono anche prove che suggeriscono il possibile dispiegamento di mercenari stranieri e gruppi militanti nazionalisti come la “Legione Libertà della Russia” o il “Battaglione Sheikh Mansur” per destabilizzare le regioni di confine russe come Belgorod, Bryansk e Kursk. Non si può escludere un’incursione su larga scala dell’esercito regolare ucraino in queste regioni per diffondere il panico e il terrore.</p>
<p>Al contrario, la Russia ha formalmente chiesto un cessate il fuoco durante il periodo della Festa della Vittoria, un gesto umanitario che qualsiasi Stato veramente impegnato nel rispetto del diritto internazionale e dei diritti umani dovrebbe rispettare. Tuttavia, tutto sembra indicare che Kiev non solo ignorerà questo appello, ma lo violerà deliberatamente. Ciò rafforza la crescente percezione che il regime ucraino agisca come un perpetuo agente di destabilizzazione, sostenuto, tacitamente o esplicitamente, dall’Occidente.</p>
<p>Allineandosi con un governo che minaccia di sabotare una commemorazione storica e rispettata a livello internazionale della sconfitta del nazismo, i paesi occidentali, consapevolmente o meno, si schierano con un revisionismo storico sconsiderato e con il disordine. Ciò solleva una domanda seria: fino a che punto gli alleati della NATO sono disposti a tollerare i metodi sempre più estremi del regime di Kiev?</p>
<p>Mentre il mondo si prepara a onorare coloro che hanno dato la vita nella lotta contro il fascismo, Kiev si prepara ad attaccare coloro che un tempo hanno sconfitto i famigerati cosiddetti “eroi” dell’Ucraina. L’Occidente e le sue istituzioni possono assolvere la giunta di Maidan, ma la Storia la giudicherà diversamente.</p>
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<p><strong><em>O Brasil, a partir do Rio de Janeiro, se tornaria uma ligação entre Ocidente e Oriente, beneficiando não apenas o Brasil e a América Latina, mas também os países eurasiáticos</em></strong></p>
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<p>No final de abril, dois professores brasileiros apresentaram uma ideia inédita: a de que o Brasil seja a sede permanente dos BRICS, tal como os Estados Unidos são a sede permanente da ONU.</p>
<p>Eduardo R. Gomes, coordenador do Núcleo de Estudos dos BRICS (NuBRICS/UFF), e Lier Pires Ferreira, pesquisador da mesma entidade, publicaram um artigo no jornal Toda Palavra, do Rio de Janeiro, defendendo a tese de que a antiga capital do Brasil – que receberá a próxima reunião de cúpula dos BRICS no início de junho – se torne a sede fixa da organização que representa as aspirações do chamado “Sul Global”.</p>
<p>“O Rio de Janeiro é uma cidade singular. Foi a única no Sul-Global a ser sede de um império colonial europeu, na condição de capital do Reino Unido de Brasil e Portugal (1815-1822). Desde o início século XX, quando ainda ostentava a fleuma de capital da República, o Rio de Janeiro tem sido palco de grandes eventos, como a Exposição Internacional do Centenário da Independência, em 1922; a Conferência do Rio, em 1942; ou a Copa do Mundo de 1950, de triste lembrança. No início dos anos 1990, a cidade também acolheu a II Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre o Meio Ambiente, a ECO-92; e a Reunião de Cúpula da América Latina, Caribe e União Europeia, com representantes de quase 50 países”, escreveram os pesquisadores. “Mas foi no século XXI que o Rio de Janeiro firmou sua vocação de palco global, com eventos sucessivos como os XV Jogos Pan-Americanos, em 2007, a Rio + 20, em 2012, a final da Copa do Mundo de 2014 e os Jogos Olímpicos e Paralímpicos em 2016.”</p>
<p>Eles completaram: “Todavia, falta a vivência diária, o dia-a-dia de uma verdadeira cidade-global, hiperconectada com o mundo. Falta um elemento fixo, que, para além do trinômio turismo, cultura e indústria do petróleo, alimente cotidianamente o Rio com cidadãos do mundo, com estrangeiros de toda parte, tão múltiplos e plurais quanto os cariocas. Hoje, essa oportunidade surge com os BRICS.”</p>
<p>Gomes e Ferreira expressam um incômodo – comum a muitos que apostam no projeto BRICS – com a falta de uma sede permanente da organização, o que, segundo eles, dificulta os trabalhos do grupo. Ainda de acordo com eles, “uma sede física e um secretariado permanente são investimentos necessários à coalizão, estimulando que os BRICS atuem mais sistematicamente na arena internacional. Além disso, um secretariado profissionalizado poderia oferecer suporte técnico e logístico para avançar agendas prioritárias, como comércio, investimentos, inovação tecnológica, segurança energética, desenvolvimento sustentável e mudanças climáticas, articulando múltiplos atores, estatais e sociais, domésticos e internacionais”.</p>
<p>O professor Gomes, doutor em Ciência Política, afirma à SCF que acadêmicos de outros países BRICS já demonstraram interesse pela ideia de uma sede permanente no Rio de Janeiro. Além disso, há informações de que alguns ministros das Relações Exteriores que participaram da reunião recente, preparatória para a cúpula de junho, também tiveram contato com a proposta. O prefeito do Rio de Janeiro também teria sido informado da ideia.</p>
<p>“Existe hoje uma transição hegemônica muito claramente constituída entre China (a potência em ascensão) e os Estados Unidos (a potência em declínio), e isso vem gerando uma série de tensões e conflitos, particularmente com relação à perspectiva do multilateralismo”, explica à SCF o professor Lier Ferreira, PhD em Direito. “Os Estados Unidos estão questionando as instituições multilaterais e as orquestrando para perseguir os aliados da China, de modo que seria bom que as instituições internacionais de grande porte possam estar fora do eixo dessa disputa hegemônica”, continua. E conclui: “no caso dos BRICS, uma sede no Rio de Janeiro, assim, caberia perfeitamente nessa perspectiva.”</p>
<p>Eduardo Gomes acredita, no entanto, que o processo para colocar essa ideia em prática pelos países BRICS seria demorado, e não imediato. “A fundação do Novo Banco de Desenvolvimento, o banco dos BRICS, e sua instalação em Xangai, por exemplo, ocorreu apenas após discussões em algumas reuniões de cúpula anuais”, comenta. De qualquer forma, a discussão e a concretização de uma sede fixa colaboraria para um maior engajamento entre todos os membros dos BRICS, em especial os países fundadores.</p>
<p>Os dois professores concordam que, caso essa ideia seja desenvolvida, discutida e colocada em prática, o Brasil, a partir do Rio de Janeiro, se tornaria uma ligação entre Ocidente e Oriente, beneficiando não apenas o Brasil e a América Latina, mas também os países eurasiáticos, captando investimentos e movimentando a economia do gigante sul-americano, o que puxaria os vizinhos na direção de um maior desenvolvimento, e conectaria o mundo em transição.</p>
<p>“Plural por natureza, o Rio poderá potencializar as forças criativas do Sul-Global em favor de uma nova ordem internacional, multipolar, livre de hegemonias, capaz de materializar os anseios de desenvolvimento e nova inserção internacional que há séculos permeiam as lutas dos povos afro-asiáticos e latinoamericanos contra as diferentes expressões da colonialidade”, concluem.</p>
<p></p>


guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330190
title: Hundreds gather for meeting in “dying” rural town.
author: ;Gript Video
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/THUMBNAIL_-copy-1.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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guid: https://www.whitehouse.gov/?p=11745
title: ICYMI: Farmers Back President Trump’s Tariffs
author: ;The White House
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<p>American farmers are behind President Donald J. Trump and his relentless push to restore fairness in global trade and secure new markets for homegrown producers.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="1024" height="742" src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Figure8-1024x742-1.jpg" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-11748"></figure><p><strong>According to the</strong> <a href="https://ag.purdue.edu/commercialag/ageconomybarometer/farmer-sentiment-improves-as-long-term-optimism-outweighs-tariff-concerns/"><strong>latest</strong></a> <strong>Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>70% of farmers expect the President Trump’s tariffs to strengthen the agricultural economy in the long-term.</li>
<li>Farmer sentiment improved in April, marked by rises in current and future expectations.</li>
<li>The Farm Capital Investment Index rose to its highest reading since May 2021.
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>“This month, one out of four respondents said it was a good time to make large investments, nearly double the percentage of respondents who said it was a good time to invest when surveyed from May through October of last year.”</li>
</ul></li>
<li>The Farm Financial Performance Index “marked the fourth month in a row that the index was above 100, indicating that producers expect financial performance this year to equal or slightly exceed the year-ago level.”</li>
</ul>


guid: yt:video:3oZSxMidp7E
title: Joe Rogan Experience #2317 - Cody Tucker
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guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330193
title: Pakistan vows to avenge “every drop of blood”
author: ;Ben Scallan
link: https://gript.ie/pakistan-vows-to-avenge-every-drop-of-blood/
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Pakistani-PM.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=330198
title: TD urges “common sense” on zero alcohol product sales
author: ;Ben Scallan
link: https://gript.ie/td-urges-common-sense-on-zero-alcohol-product-sales/
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Heineken.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://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5698444
title: Raids israéliens : des familles entières massacrées dans des écoles à Gaza
author: ;The Cradle
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<div>Des avions de combat israéliens ont pris pour cible deux écoles distinctes abritant des personnes déplacées à Gaza pendant la nuit, tuant au moins 49 personnes, dont une majorité d’enfants, de femmes et de personnes âgées, a <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/87a3cc23-4124-42d6-9eb9-1b77b8f6eb21?j=eyJ1IjoiaTFlc3AifQ._8qpI5U56Zqt9LZ9jNpDMzP45EDRjWe8lVaF2CrLl0c" rel="">rapporté</a>l’agence de …</div>

link:
https://www.mondialisation.ca/raids-israeliens-des-familles-entieres-massacrees-dans-des-ecoles-a-gaza/5698444


guid: yt:video:tB9yVV2ncEE
title: YF Blanchet commente sa rencontre avec le groupe parlementaire du BQ – 7 mai 2025
author: ;cpac
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guid: yt:video:9W9mxv2rjLA
title: Ontario ceremony to commemorate Victory in Europe Day– May 7, 2025
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guid: yt:video:P5vygJDO7ck
title: Doug Ford comments after meeting with PM Carney, premiers – May 7, 2025
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guid: yt:video:WD8ik2ji2ME
title: Defeating Fascism Once and For All On the 80th Anniversary of the End of World War 2
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guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330202
title: First day of the conclave ends with black smoke
author: ;Jason Osborne
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Black-Smoke.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://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5698450
author: ;Karine Bechet-Golovko
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Victoire américaine lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale : Trump confirme la Russie dans le rôle de l’ennemi

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<p>Le 9 mai est un des éléments constitutifs de la Nation en Russie et dans l’espace russe. Le rôle central joué par l’armée soviétique et l’URSS dans la Victoire de 1945 obligea les Alliés à reconnaître leur ennemi idéologique comme …</p>

link:
https://www.mondialisation.ca/victoire-americaine-lors-de-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale-trump-confirme-la-russie-dans-le-role-de-lennemi/5698450


guid: -86698505
title: Mêlée de presse du 7 mai 2025 - Comité exécutif
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guid: 848816381
title: Saisie d'une importante quantité de méthamphétamine
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https://www.gatineau.ca/portail/default.aspx?p=police/actualites/communiques/communique&amp;id=967490407

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guid: yt:video:jN3ShDRoQvQ
title: ☠ Windows 10 Is DEAD! What You NEED to Know Now!
author: ;Dave's Garage
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN3ShDRoQvQ
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guid: https://medium.com/p/72d9de5a26c8
title: Trump Backs Down On Yemen While India Bombs Pakistan
author: ;Caitlin Johnstone
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*SjYckTmbX-jkK1kE92fSiA.png"></figure><h4><strong>Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix</strong></h4><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYx3tXnVqmA"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FMYx3tXnVqmA%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DMYx3tXnVqmA&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FMYx3tXnVqmA%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/cbfce6e44f5711685f2651e7b195602b/href">https://medium.com/media/cbfce6e44f5711685f2651e7b195602b/href</a></iframe><p>❖</p><p>As if there’s not enough terrible shit going on in the world right now, India <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/05/06/india-fires-missiles-into-pakistan-and-pakistan-administered-kashmir/">has just bombed Pakistan</a>. Both India and Pakistan are nuclear-armed states.</p><p>Missile strikes from India reportedly struck nine locations in Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir, which <a href="https://archive.is/Bph7S">India claims</a> were “known terror camps”. The strikes follow a terror attack in Indian Kashmir which India has blamed on Pakistan, while Islamabad has denied any involvement.</p><p>Pakistan has called the strikes “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/06/pakistan-vows-to-retaliate-after-wave-of-indian-missiles-hit-country">an act of war</a>” and vowed to retaliate, claiming Indian planes were shot down during the attack. As of this writing there is <a href="https://x.com/MazMHussain/status/1919912721455173849">some online footage</a> which seems to corroborate claims of downed planes.</p><p>Nuclear states getting into tit-for-tat bombing exchanges with each other is a <a href="https://original.antiwar.com/Eric_Margolis/2025/05/05/will-we-see-mushroom-clouds-over-kashmir/">threat to everybody</a>. This is a conflict that’s been going on a long time, but as nuclear standoffs go this one is still relatively young (Pakistan tested its first nukes in 1998), so there are still a lot of uncharted waters here, and a lot that could go wrong if things continue to escalate. Hopefully this cools down as soon as possible.</p><p>❖</p><p>In some positive news, the Trump administration <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/05/06/trump-says-us-will-stop-bombing-yemen/">has announced</a> that it will stop bombing Yemen, finally accepting the longstanding <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/04/10/houthi-official-says-yemen-will-cease-attacks-on-us-ships-if-us-stops-bombing/">offer</a> from Ansar Allah to cease attacking US ships if the US ends its bombing campaign.</p><p>This is being framed as a victory for the US by Trump and <a href="https://x.com/TRHLofficial/status/1919800095182110888">his supporters</a>, with Trump claiming the Houthis “capitulated”, but if anything it’s actually a win for Yemen. Yemeni forces have made it clear that they will continue attacking Israel until it halts its genocidal atrocities in Gaza, which <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-tell-you-the-houthis-attack">was the only reason</a> the US started bombing Yemen in the first place, and those attacks were the only reason Yemen was attacking American ships. After losing <a href="https://www.twz.com/air/super-hornet-crashed-landing-on-uss-harry-s-truman-its-second-f-a-18-loss-in-a-week">two fighter jets</a> and <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/22/houthis-say-group-downed-us-drone-in-northwest-yemen-as-us-strikes-continue">more than twenty MQ-9 Reaper drones</a> to Houthi attacks, the US is now retreating with its tail between its legs without having gained anything.</p><p>❖</p><p>The Israeli government <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/05/05/israeli-security-cabinet-approves-plan-for-full-military-occupation-of-gaza/">has approved a plan</a> for the full military occupation of Gaza, which will reportedly include flattening every building that remains standing and concentrating the entire population into a single area while pressuring them to leave.</p><p>This has of course <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/it-was-never-about-hostages-it-was">been the plan all along</a>, but there’s been a conspiracy of silence by the entire western political/media class against coming right out and saying so. Every journalist, pundit, politician and hasbarist throughout the western world has insisted on babbling about Hamas and hostages to explain Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip, when it’s been clear from day one that this is really about ethnically cleansing and colonizing a Palestinian territory.</p><p>Now you’ve got Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/05/06/smotrich-gaza-will-be-totally-destroyed-population-will-be-concentrated/">coming right out and saying</a> that the entire Gaza Strip will be “totally destroyed” and the Palestinian population “concentrated” into a small area at the southern tip of the enclave, while Israeli TV producer Elad Barashi <a href="https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-tv-producer-calls-gaza-holocaust-gas-chambers">openly calls</a> for there to be a “Holocaust in Gaza” complete with “gas showers”.</p><p>Zionists will say things like this in public while also telling you it’s a hate crime to compare Israel to Nazi Germany.</p><p>❖</p><p>More and more Palestinians <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/3/57-palestinians-starved-to-death-under-israels-blockade-of-gaza">are starving to death</a> as Israel’s total siege on the Gaza Strip continues. They’re really going to deliberately starve Gaza with siege warfare and then say they need to empty out Gaza to rescue all those poor Palestinians from starvation.</p><p>❖</p><p>Scientists are reporting a stunning <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/30/alarming-bug-splat-decline-uk-cars-fears-flying-insect-numbers">63 percent decline</a> in populations of flying insects in the United Kingdom since 2021. Everyone focuses on climate change, but there are many, many <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/11/03/its-really-weird-how-little-we-talk-about-humanitys-imminent-doom/">other indications</a> that our biosphere is in rapid decline which have little or nothing to do with global warming.</p><p>The first indication that space colonization is fiction is that they’re talking about turning the desert planet Mars into a thriving biosphere while we’re turning our own thriving biosphere into a desert planet.</p><p>_______________</p><p><em>My work is </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/05/24/my-experiments-with-hacking-capitalism/"><em>entirely reader-supported</em></a><em>, so if you enjoyed this piece </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/about"><em>here are some options</em></a><em> where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/"><em>Click here for links for my mailing list, social media, books, merch, and audio/video versions of each article</em></a><em>. 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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*6h5a4ZCBZLQf_udIZhBeAg.png"></figure><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3R0s8PsfnI"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FI3R0s8PsfnI%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DI3R0s8PsfnI&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FI3R0s8PsfnI%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/39190178612c129a41701043f31e4a5b/href">https://medium.com/media/39190178612c129a41701043f31e4a5b/href</a></iframe><p>Israeli snipers routinely, deliberately <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israeli-snipers-routinely-deliberately">shoot children in the head</a> throughout the Gaza Strip.</p><p>Israel <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/israels-wheres-daddy-ai-system-093311866.html">created an AI system</a> for the IDF to target suspected Hamas fighters when they go home to their families and mockingly called it “Where’s Daddy?”, because they are killing the fighters’ children.</p><p>Israel has targeted healthcare facilities and ambulances in Gaza <a href="https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-remarks-at-meeting-of-the-united-nations-security-council-on-the-situation-of-the-health-system-in-gaza---6-november-2024">hundreds upon hundreds of times</a>. They’ve <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-idf-didnt-just-target-hospitals">been documented</a> entering the hospitals they attack and systematically <a href="https://x.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1913717118136176853">destroying individual pieces of medical equipment</a> in order to make them unusable.</p><p>IDF soldiers <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPE6vbKix6A&amp;t=1608s">constantly post photos and videos</a> to their social media accounts showing themselves mockingly dressing in the clothes of dead and displaced Palestinian women and playing with the toys of dead and displaced Palestinian children.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1795394332004086037&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/ab283119d7ca12842cc33578bdaefd8b/href">https://medium.com/media/ab283119d7ca12842cc33578bdaefd8b/href</a></iframe><p>The IDF <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/idf-israel-run-telegram-72-virgins-psyop/">has admitted</a> to running a popular Telegram channel called “72 Virgins” which posted extremely gory and sadistic <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c456DgnvCjY">snuff films</a> of people in Gaza being butchered by Israeli forces.</p><p>After destroying buildings full of civilians, the IDF has been known to <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-war-british-surgeon-tells-mps-account-nasser-hospital">send in sniper drones</a> to pick off the survivors, including children.</p><p>Israel has murdered a <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israels-genocide-has-killed-more-journalists-than-wwi-and-wwii-combined-report/">historically unprecedented</a> number of <a href="https://www.ifj.org/war-in-gaza">journalists</a> in its Gaza onslaught, and has been <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/14/gaza-israelis-attacking-known-aid-worker-locations">knowingly attacking</a> humanitarian aid workers.</p><p>Israeli soldiers <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israel-is-torturing-palestinian-prisoners-to-death-with-us-complicity/">rape and torture</a> Palestinian prisoners to death, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/24/dying-in-hell-palestinian-medics-jailed-by-israel">including doctors</a>. On the rare occasions that anyone is ever arrested for these abuses, Israelis <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/08/19/israel-is-rape/">have riots</a> — not to oppose the abuses, but to oppose the arrests of the perpetrators.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/Antiwarcom/status/1919841171733696754&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/f5453188387de5bd28c65e7ae1bfab1f/href">https://medium.com/media/f5453188387de5bd28c65e7ae1bfab1f/href</a></iframe><p>And now Israel is <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/05/05/israeli-security-cabinet-approves-plan-for-full-military-occupation-of-gaza/">openly declaring</a> its agenda to ethnically cleanse the entire Gaza Strip of Palestinians, with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-says-gaza-to-be-totally-destroyed-population-concentrated-in-small-area/">saying</a> the plan is for Gaza’s population to be “concentrated” at the southern end of the enclave and pressured to leave while the rest of Gaza is “totally destroyed”.</p><p>“The population of Gaza will be concentrated from the Morag Corridor southwards. The rest of the Strip will be empty,” Smotrich said, adding, “They will be totally despairing, understanding that there is no hope and nothing to look for in Gaza, and will be looking for relocation to begin a new life in other places.”</p><p>A poll released earlier this year <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/only-3-of-jewish-israelis-think-trumps">found that only three percent</a> of Jewish Israelis oppose the planned ethnic cleansing of Gaza on moral grounds. That’s right: three percent. Three out of every one hundred people.</p><p>I got into a back and forth with a liberal Israel supporter the other day whose entire argument basically boiled down to “Oh so you’re claiming Israel is just doing terrible things to civilians on purpose, just because they’re evil??”</p><p>And, I mean, yes. That’s a bit of an oversimplification, but yes. Israel is evil. It’s a deeply evil country full of deeply evil people. Again: <em>three percent</em>.</p><p>My interlocutor was attempting to dismiss the idea of Israelis being horrible people as a legitimate explanation for their actions in Gaza, meaning Israel’s actions could only be explained as rational responses to unfortunate provocations by the Palestinians (who he of course had no trouble believing were bloodthirsty savages). But the evidence says Israel really is as evil as it looks.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/SMohyeddin/status/1765630766782767111&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/07fa257c0f1d8ed1f89fb0f0112aa6b9/href">https://medium.com/media/07fa257c0f1d8ed1f89fb0f0112aa6b9/href</a></iframe><p>As we have <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/its-always-about-the-system">discussed previously</a>, this isn’t because there’s anything inherently evil in Judaism or Jewishness which would cause a state led by Jews to behave in this way. Rather, it’s because modern Israel has from its very inception been premised on the idea of a tiered society where one ethnic group dominates the others, making injustice and inequality an inherent part of the system. Israelis are indoctrinated from birth into accepting this unjust apartheid framework as normal, which necessarily entails indoctrinating them into accepting the dehumanization and abuse of the disempowered group.</p><p>If you have a society whose populace are systematically indoctrinated into accepting apartheid and abuse as normal and good, you are inevitably going to wind up with a society full of sociopaths. That’s who’s going to be casting the votes, serving in the military, working in the media, and working in the government. It’s not caused by their ethnicity or their religion — it’s caused by the perverse nature of <a href="https://x.com/caitoz/status/1907911456328396881">the apartheid state</a> in which they live.</p><p>Many westerners tend to give Israel the benefit of the doubt because they assume from the beginning that this can’t be as simple as it looks and the abuse cannot be as one-sided as it appears to be. They assume this because western news media and politicians are constantly churning out narratives to make Israel look as innocent as possible and Palestinians look as guilty as possible, but in reality this really is exactly what it looks like: Israelis murdering and starving a civilian population in order to steal their land.</p><p>It really is that simple. Israel really is that bad. And so is anyone who supports it.</p><p>_______________</p><p><em>My work is </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/05/24/my-experiments-with-hacking-capitalism/"><em>entirely reader-supported</em></a><em>, so if you enjoyed this piece </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/about"><em>here are some options</em></a><em> where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/"><em>Click here for links for my mailing list, social media, books, merch, and audio/video versions of each article</em></a><em>. All my work is </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/reminder-all-my-work-may-be-freely"><em>free to bootleg and use</em></a><em> in any way, shape or form; republish it, translate it, use it on merchandise; whatever you want. 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