De oorlog in Oekrane is niet alleen een Europese Oorlog, maar een oorlog over de toekomst van de hele mensheid. Dus, de horizon van Europa kan alleen de gehele wereld omvatten,

in feite is dit het leitmotiv van het Europese kolonialisme dat al heerst sinds het moment dat Columbus voet aan wal zette op het continent Amerika, en dat leidde tot de dood van tenminste 80 miljoen van de oorspronkelijke bewoners, die abusievelijk onmiddellijk Indianen werden genoemd. De niet democratisch verkozen Von der Leyen benadrukte dat de EU het Russisch-Chinese bondgenootschap als een wereldwijde bedreiging beschouwt, die dan ook ik citeer opnieuw wereldwijd moet worden bestreden. In haar toespraak voor een zaal vol ambassadeurs van EU-landen maakte zij duidelijk dat niet allereerst de mensenrechten en de democratie centraal staan, maar  zoals ook ten tijde van Columbus het beheer over grondstoffen en markten, het belangrijkste motief van de voormalige koloniale machten. Zij merkte op:

The Israeli military has admitted its policy of punitive demolitions does not work as a deterrent measure, and human rights groups have declared the policy violates international law. So, why does Israel continue doing it?

By Ilya Tsukanov Sputnik 08.06.2023

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has characterized the Russia-US proxy war in Ukraine as an abattoir that has killed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian troops for a geopolitical goal which has nothing to do with Ukraine.

What were doing in Ukraine now is just a massive assault on Ukrainians. We have trapped Ukraine in a proxy war against [Russia] and they are being devoured by the geopolitical machinations of neocons in the White House who have this comic book depiction that a lot of Americans have swallowed about what is happening, RFK Jr. said, speaking to Canadian psychologist and media commentator Jordan Peterson.

Explaining what separates his position on Ukraine from that of the incumbent, Joe Biden, RFK Jr. said that although he understood many ordinary Americans support for Ukraine out of compassion and as a humanitarian mission, in reality, every step we have taken, every decision we have made appears to have been intended to prolong the war and to increase the bloodshed.

RFK Jr. recalled Joe Bidens slip of the tongue that the USs real goal in Ukraine was to cause regime change in Moscow an aspiration which he recalled neoconservative advisors in Washington have been pushing for decades now.

Zbigniew Brzezinski their doyen and philosopher said that US strategy should be to suck Russia into a series of wars in little countries where we can then exhaust them. Lloyd Austin, who is president Bidens defense secretary, in April 2022 said our purpose in being in Ukraine is to degrade the Russian army, to exhaust it and degrade its capacity to fight anywhere in the world. Well that is the opposite of a humanitarian mission. That is a war of attrition, and thats what its turned out to be. We have now turned Ukraine into an abattoir that has devoured 350,000 young Ukrainians. They are lying about how many people have died, theyre concealing it from us the Pentagons concealing it from the American people. Ukraine is concealing it from their people We have turned that poor little nation into a killing field for these idealistic young kids in order to advance a geopolitical agenda that has nothing to do with Ukraine, RFK Jr. said.

The candidate also characterized the conflict as a money-laundering scheme for the US military-industrial complex.

Asked what he would do as president to bring the Ukrainian crisis to a close as president, RFK Jr. said the solution was obvious, and that he would work to achieve it...

Members of the CJNV delegation to Palestine didn't just come to observe and document. They engaged in direct actions, participating in shutting down highways and attending protests.

By Ahmed Adel | June 8, 2023

A bill in Switzerland calls into question its neutrality in the Ukrainian conflict because the countrys Senate approved the amendment authorising the re-export of arms to Ukraine, according to a statement from the parliament. This effectively breaks Switzerlands long-held image of a neutral country.

The Senate of Switzerland voted on June 7 to adopt an amendment to the law on re-exporting weapons to countries involved in armed conflict. Buyer states of Swiss armaments and military equipment will now, under certain conditions, have the right to transfer weapons to countries where a war is being waged.

Responding to this development, Ukraines Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted: I thank the Swiss parliaments upper house for an important move to unblock the re-export of Swiss-made weapons. We are looking forward to the next steps. I am grateful to Switzerland for its solidarity with Ukraine while upholding its neutrality.

Nonetheless, the press release about the bill specifies that since certain deputies from the left, centrists and the Peoples Party voted against it, the members of the National Council (lower house of parliament) will therefore have to look again at the question. For these deputies, the right of neutrality is called into question with this bill.

This project is mainly targeted to support the arms industry rather than to help Ukraine, said Mathias Zopfi, MP for the canton of Glarus and member of the Greens group.

According to him, the retroactive nature of this solution is also problematic, which is why making changes to exports that have already been carried out risks undermining legal certainty.

MP Jean-Luc Addor of the Swiss Peoples Party, which holds the most seats, was one of the main opponents of this proposal, saying: Accepting this initiative means committing oneself to one of the protagonists () and therefore violating neutrality.

With 22 MPs favouring the bill, 17 against, and four abstaining, the decision demonstrates that Switzerland is no longer a neutral country.

It is recalled that in May, Germany requested to purchase 25 Swiss Leopard 2 tanks to send to Ukraine, which won the support of Switzerlands government. Switzerland announced that it was in favour of decommissioning the tanks and selling them back to their maker Rheinmetall AG, as requested by Berlin.

More recently, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte asked Switzerland to deliver 96 non-operation Leopard 1 battle tanks stored in Italy to Ukraine. Swiss officials declined to comment on Ruttes request.

The action by the Swiss Senate comes only a week after Switzerlands President Alain Berset met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky at the European Political Community summit in Moldova. Swiss public radio RTS reported that the two leaders discussed t...

RT | June 8, 2023

At least five people were killed and 41 were injured in the wake of the breach of the Kakhovka dam, the mayor of the city hosting the damaged structure has said.

Reports came today that out of the seven people, who were grazing cattle, five died. We are in the process of evacuating the other two, Novaya Kakhovka Mayor Vladimir Leontyev reported during an interview on Thursday.

The mayor previously advised that seven people were missing in the wake of the frontline dam breach, which occurred early on Tuesday morning. Ukraine and Russia accused each other of destroying it and exposing thousands of people living downstream near the Dnieper River to flooding.

Novaya Kakhovka is located on the left shore of the river and is controlled by Russia, while Ukraine controls the opposite side of the Kherson region. Ukrainian officials said there were some fatalities after the flooding on the right shore as well.

Water levels in the city rose by 12 meters after the dam was breached, before starting to slowly recede by Tuesday evening. Russian authorities estimated that 14 settlements were in the impact area. In addition to the direct damage to buildings, infrastructure and fields, the incident caused the draining of a water reservoir, which was used to feed a canal transporting fresh water to Russias Crimea.

Kiev claimed that Russian troops blew up the dam to prevent a possible amphibious operation across the Dnieper in Kherson Region. Ukrainian officials say that charges were planted inside the dam, which the Russian Defense Ministry has denied.

Moscow in turn blamed the Ukrainians, citing their record of shelling the strategically important facility. A Ukrainian general last year confirmed to The Washington Post that Kievs forces used US-supplied rocket artillery to hit one of the dams floodgates as a dry run for future attacks, should the military deem it necessary to cause a flood.

By Drago Bosnic | June 8, 2023

Russophobia and anti-Russian propaganda run very deep, particularly in the political West. For centuries, various European invaders have been portraying Russia in the worst possible light. Over time, this became extremely intricate and even found its way into the mainstream. However, more recently, particularly since the start of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, Russophobic propaganda became completely absurd. Choosing the top 5 of these certainly wasnt an easy task, as the amount of ludicrous claims is absolutely mind-boggling. From the Ghost of Kiev and the last stand of the Snake Island defenders to pickle jar air defenses and the Goat of Kiev, you get a pretty good idea of just how laborious such a task couldve been. However, in terms of being completely devoid of any logic, here are the top 5, in chronological order.

Russia destroys its own Nord Stream pipelines

According to the free press, on September 26, 2022, Moscow was extremely bored with all the windfall coming from rising natural gas prices, so it decided to blow up its Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines after spending the previous 17 years building them. Interestingly, Russia decided to do this only a day after Poland and Norway opened the Nord Streams primary competitor, the Baltic Pipe, running through Denmark and bringing in gas from the North Sea. Obviously, in order to make the task more difficult, but also more fun, Russia decided to conduct the attack within the exclusive economic zones (EEZ) of Denmark and Sweden, instead of its own.

For months, various conspiracy theorists kept claiming that Russia didnt actually destroy its own pipelines. However, the free press had conclusive evidence that the cartoonishly evil Kremlin, previously accused of weaponizing its vast energy reserves against the European Union, decided to destroy it and help the US profit immensely from the EUs weaning off Russian natural gas. US President Joe Biden openly threatening to destroy Nord Stream, as well as Victoria Nulands snarky boastfulness about the pipelines becoming a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea mean absolutely nothing and are just Russian propaganda.

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Over the last two decades, funding in Palestine has become tied to ever-increasing restrictive conditions that are used to control and limit Palestinian civil society. We partnered with Al- Shabaka and Badil to produce the visual illustrating how restrictive funding supports Israeli colonial policies, depoliticizes Palestinian society, criminalizes resistance to Israeli colonization, and thwarts Palestinian aspirations for self-determination. We created this visual to serve Palestinian organizations that are engaging with donors toward the creation of less harmful, more liberatory funding models.

<p>Though it is not often examined in these terms, the popular disaffection of Americans with government in general and the rise of anti-democratic politics around the world are seemingly predictable reactions to the contemporary global crises in the international capitalist economy. Persistent poverty, pandemics, military conflict, economic displacement, climate catastrophes, migration, widespread corruption and social media inundation generate societal insecurities and accelerate dystopian social environments. In large measure, these concurrent global crises are driven by capitalist behavior if not caused by the evolution of capitalism itself. The authoritarian political culture emerging in the U.S. and in other regions of the world is inflamed by growing skepticism and outright rejection of governments and institutions that have matured under capitalist development.</p> <p>Many working class and rural Americans distrust, even resent and sometimes fear, a government democratic or not that has done too little to blunt the negative impact of a global economy threatening their families and communities. At the same time, they witness growing disparities in income and wealth over the past several decades and observe a federal government that appears corrupted by it (<a class="western" href= "https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/09/29/massive-wealth-and-income-inequality-will-continue-to-worsen-americas-toxic-corrupt-politics/">Corrupt Politics</a>). The recent assistance to failed U.S banks illustrates this point. It reinforces the widespread perception that the government is more responsive to the wealthiest individuals and entities than ordinary citizens. The government acted swiftly to bail out the banks as corporate executives and large shareholders benefited disproportionately.</p> <p>The $200 billion of venture capital and high-tech start-up money in the two banks was quickly guaranteed by the government (<a class="western" href= "https://thehill.com/business/3898423-heres-who-is-paying-to-restore-silicon-valley-signature-bank-deposits/">SVB & Signature Bank), even though the Federal Depositors Insurance Corporations (FDIC) legal insurance limit is $250,000 per depositor. Furthermore, a mid-May Senate hearing illustrated how risky behavior and moral corruption in large corporations can be profitable for the wealthy and powerful. In this congressional hearing Senator Elizabeth Warren pointed out that Silicon Valley Banks CEO collected nearly $40 million and Signature Bank co-founder and chairman pocketed more than $20 million between 2019 and 2023, even though the FDIC issued dozens of warnings concerning the banks financial stability over the same period of time (<a class="western" href= "https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/at-hearing-warren-blasts-former-svb-and-signature-bank-ceos-for-keeping-millions-after-recklessly-crashing-banks">Senator Warren</a>)....

They being the howling press, the screeching vox populi, and anybody else wishing to weigh in were very clear about it. Kathleen Folbigg was guilty as hell and deserved her special place in it. For two decades, she spent her time behind bars in New South Wales, condemned by a jury for killing her four children, Caleb, Patrick, Sarah and Laura.

The prosecutions approach in 2003 was glacial, instrumental and without nuance. Crudely, it was suggested that Folbiggs diaries, given to police by her then husband, had revealed an admission of guilt for the murder of three of her children, infliction of grievous bodily harm on one child and the manslaughter of her first born. The methods: smothering or various other harmful applications.

Guilt can hardly ever count as a confession. Those blood hounds on the prosecution tend to ignore that fact. They went for the obvious point: the oddity of having four children dying in natural circumstances, and the words guilt about them all haunts me.

That Folbigg supposedly confessed became the stuff of literature and criminal folklore. It made its way into such works as Secret Mothers Business, authored by Joanne Fedler. I was startled by her [Folbiggs] confessions, she reflects. Partly because they so closely resembled those I had penned during some gruelling times when my children were little. You dirty confessional failed child killer.

The spear in the case had already been fashioned by community sentiment, the hungry expectations of the tribe. The mother cannot ever be assumed to hate her children, or feel resentment towards them. The nurturing symbol is all powerful, and anything designed to challenge or malign it must be quashed. The rearing figure must love and be congratulated for doing so. The mother is destiny, security, and reassurance. The impregnator Daddy, Father, carefree Fucker is the one who either stays, moves on, or watches over his shoulder for the son who might depose him. Judgment on that score is less stern.

For all such cheap Freudian assumptions, the scientifically minded did not give up the ghost on Folbiggs case. Those empirical crunching types came knocking with meaty fists. They insisted that something else was afoot. An entire picture had been omitted.

Clinical geneticist Carola Vinuesa of the Francis Crick Institute played the starring, brilliantly meddling role. In 2018, the case, prompted by the urgings of a former student, drew her interest. Only one month prior, she, along with her colleagues, had identified a genetic mutation behind infant deaths in a family in Macedonia. Vinuesas mind clicked: given that a third of deaths in infants and children more broadly migh...

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By Matthew Hoh, Substack, June 8, 2023

Many in Brussels, DC, Kyiv, London, and Moscow have desired this war for decades.

I appreciate the support for the letter the Eisenhower Media Network published in The New York Times last month.

I have taken my original draft of the letter, which was substantially longer, amended it from its formatting as a group letter, and published it below. This goes into much greater depth on the background of Russias invasion, the role of the military-industrial complex and the fossil fuel industry in US policy-making, and speaks to the toxic and dangerous diplomatic malpractice that has dominated US foreign policy since the end of the Cold War.

The essay is not exhaustive, for example, I dont write of events after February 2022 or offer predictions as to what will come if ceasefire and negotiations are not begun, other than stating a general fear of unending stalemated war, a la WWI, or expressing concern for an escalation towards a nuclear WWIII. It also does not address the substantial complaints that can be made about the Russians. Repeating what is found abundantly in US media was not my intent, but rather what is omitted, particularly examining deliberate US decision-making over three decades and noting the absence of strategic empathy from the US/NATO side, hence the charge of diplomatic malpractice.

These are my views and dont necessarily represent the views of my fellow co-signers on The New York Times letter. Please let me know your thoughts.

A War Long Wanted

Nothing written excuses or condones Russias actions. The Russian invasion is a war of aggression and a violation of international law. An attempt at understanding the Russian perspective on their war does not endorse the invasion, occupation and war crimes committed, and it certainly does not imply the Russians had no other option but this war. Rather, this essay seeks to communicate that this war was not unprovoked and that the ac...

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Iranian President Rassi will be traveling to Latin America next week to visit Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba at the invitation of Presidents Nicols Maduro, Daniel Ortega and Miguel Daz-Canel. Iran is restoring ties with the partners of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian leader.

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• Advocates expressed frustration over the lack of consequences for individuals targeting Catholic churches and organizations, compared to the consequences for those targeting other religions or minority groups.
• The number of attacks on Catholic sites has been on the rise, with reports of 174 attacks between May 2020 and September 2021, 260 anti-Catholic incidents tracked by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops since May 2020, and 324 attacks on Catholic churches reported by CatholicVote.
• Although the FBI reported a decrease in anti-Catholic hate crimes in 2021 compared to 2020, Catholic groups argue that attacks have intensified in 2022, particularly after the Supreme Courts May 2022 abortion ruling.
• Critics highlight the need for more resources from the federal government to combat hate crimes targeting Catholic churches and argue that the consequences for perpetrators should be comparable to those for crimes against other religious groups. Read More

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• A study from the University of Bern, Switzerland, suggests that individuals with narcissistic and psychopathic traits are more likely to endorse left-wing antihierarchical aggression, a form of hostility aimed at challenging hierarchical power structures.
• The study highlights a gap in understanding authoritarianism among individuals who support left-wing political ideologies and addresses the psychological factors behind left-wing authoritarianism.
• The findings reveal that neurotic narcissism is related to left-wing authoritarianism, particularly the subfacet of antihierarchical aggression, while psychopathy is associated with violent actions to challenge hierarchy.
• The researchers propose the dark-ego-vehicle principle, suggesting that individuals with dark personality traits are attracted to certain forms of political and social activism to fulfill their ego-centered needs rather than genuine desires for social justice and equality. Read More

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• Chinese citizens posing as tourists have made multiple attempts to access military facilities in Alaska, raising concerns of spying and probing for information on U.S. military capabilities in the region.
• Incidents at bases like Fort Wainwright have involved Chinese nationals being apprehended, claiming to have gotten lost while touring the area.
• The U.S. military has increased security measures to protect installations and personnel, but concerns remain about potential spying and the monitoring of military communications. The tensions between the U.S. and China, along with Chinas activities in the Arctic region, add to the significance of Alaska for national defense. Read More

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• A federal judge declared a mistrial in the spy trial of two married Maryland doctors accused of trying to be Russian assets, due to a deadlock in the jurys deliberations.
• The jury was split, with one juror believing the defendants were entrapped and the remaining 11 jurors believing they were not entrapped.
• The defense claimed entrapment, while the government argued that the doctors willingly shared patient health records for malicious harm or personal gain in support of Russia. Read More

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• A 15-year-old boy from Maple Grove, Minn., was arrested in connection with a bomb threat that caused the evacuation and cancellation of classes at Maple Grove Middle School.
• The teenager was taken into custody and held at the Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Center. No explosive devices or materials were found during the school search. The investigation is ongoing, and it was not confirmed whether the teenager was a student at the school. Read More

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• The Salem Police Department arrested a teenager in connection with an anonymous social media threat made against Adam Stephens Middle School in Salem, Ore.
• Concerned residents reported a threatening post on Instagram, leading patrol officers and Salem-Keizer Public Schools security to implement additional safety measures. The arrested teenager is facing charges of first-degree disorderly conduct and is being held at the Marion County Juvenile Department. Read More

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• Two Princess Anne, Md., residents have been arrested for making threats against Somerset Intermediate School over social media, following a fight involving students. The school was briefly placed on lockdown.
• The suspects, Shakira Cephas and Rontari Malik Warren, have been charged with various offenses including threat of mass violence, illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, and contributing to the condition of a child. They are currently held without bond at the Somerset County Detention Center. Read More

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• Camila Rodriguez, a 29-year-old New York City resident, has been charged with multiple counts of assault as a hate crime and aggravated harassment in connection with six unprovoked attacks against Asian victims on the Upper West Side.
• The attacks occurred within a few blocks of each other in the 24th Precinct over a month-and-a-half period.
• Rodriguez pleaded not guilty to the charges and is currently held on Rikers Island. Read More

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BY ANDREW KORYBKO | JUNE 7, 2023

The US Department of the Treasurys Office of Foreign Assets Control just sanctioned several Russians who allegedly taught Moldovans how to protest. According to their press release from earlier this week, These actors provoked, trained, and oversaw groups in democratic countries that conduct anti-government protests, rallies, marches, and demonstrations. These punitive measures represent the US latest repudiation of the same so-called rules that it claims to support across the world.

Organizations such as the US-funded National Endowment for Democracy and George Soros infamous Open Society Foundations regularly teach countless foreigners across the world about the late Gene Sharps protest-related works such as his 198 methods of non-violent action. These operations are aimed at cultivating anti-government cadre that can then be employed to pressure countries that refuse to comply with the US demands of them.

All national models of democracy incorporate a degree of public opinion when formulating policy, which is why training some of their people as professional protesters is such an effective means of influ...

• Three individuals involved with the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, a nonprofit that raises funds to support arrested protesters, will be released on bail after being arrested for charity fraud and money laundering.
• The arrested individuals, Marlon Kautz, Savannah Patterson, and Adele Maclean, were accused of using the funds raised by the Atlanta Solidarity Fund for purposes beyond bail, including materials for signs and camping gear.
• The Atlanta Solidarity Fund has been supporting protesters since 2016 and has recently focused on bailing out protesters involved in the Cop City project and facing domestic terrorism charges.
• Over 40 people have been charged with domestic terrorism in connection to violent actions at the training facility, which has been targeted by far-left extremists. Read More

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• LGBT activist Hunter Lee Darling, also known as Zodiac Rose, and Abby Nicole Thomas were arrested at the WeHo Pride festival. Darling was charged with robbery, vandalism, and battery for an incident in April.
• Twitter footage shows Darling and Thomas claiming they were arrested because of police homophobia, but the Los Angeles County Sheriffs statement states that Darling had a warrant out for his arrest related to a cell phone robbery during a protest in April.
• Darling was arrested during a Pride Weekend event, while Thomas was arrested for interfering with the arrest. A video emerged showing Darling allegedly stealing a mans phone at a Drag Queen Story hour event in April.
• Darling remains in custody with bail set at $100,000, while Thomas was released. Read More

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BY MATTHEW EHRET | JUNE 7, 2023

This morning, I had the pleasure of listening to a powerful conversation between the Grayzones Max Blumenthal and Alex Rubinstein who spoke with the National Endowment for Democracys Communications director Leslie Aun. The call occured because Ms. Aun disapproved of several Grayzone articles characterizing the NED as a CIA cutout and requested the call to clarify her claims that this was a mis-characterization. What followed was a delightful smackdown of reality by the two Grayzone journalists who had both a mountain of facts and brains at their disposal to deploy into the conversation

The recording of the conference call was made public after many weeks passed and Leslie Aun ignored their requests to see what proof she had that the NED was not affiliated with the CIA, advanced the CIAs agenda, or funded violent regime change of elected governements.

Since the NEDs regime change operations play such a major role in mis-shaping international policy, and since the conversation in the Grayzone recording only brushed on the origins of the NED as an outgrowth of the CIA in the early 1980s, I decided to republish an essay titled The Anglo-American Origins of the NED in order to provide a sense of the British pedigree of this nominally American organization. continue