Hong Kong: Men trying to flee to Taiwan on boat get jail sentence
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Seven men in Hong Kong who tried to flee to Taiwan in a boat to escape protest related charges have been handed jail sentences.

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Killing of Jayland Walker: Ohio police shot unarmed black man 46 times
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Following widespread demonstrations and the shocking body camera footage that was made public after the incident, a medical examiner revealed Frida

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Free train rides in Spain from September
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Inflation has been worrying countries in Europe. As countries ponder their options, Spain appears to be in an action mode.

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EU pro­pos­es new sanc­tions on Russ­ian gold ex­ports
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The move fol­lows a de­ci­sion tak­en by the world’s most in­dus­tri­alised na­tions at a G7 meet­ing in late June.
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Rus­sia sanc­tions 384 Japan­ese law­mak­ers over stance on Ukraine
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Rus­sia bans 384 Japan­ese law­mak­ers from en­ter­ing coun­try in re­sponse to Tokyo join­ing the G7 in sanc­tion­ing Moscow.
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Egypt to with­draw troops from Mali peace­keep­ing mis­sion: UN
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Cairo’s de­ci­sion comes af­ter sev­en Egyp­tians peace­keep­ers were killed in Mali since the start of this year.
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Griner’s lawyers say WNBA star was pre­scribed med­ical cannabis
Brit­tney Griner had per­mis­sion from US doc­tor to use cannabis for ‘chron­ic pains’, her de­fence team tells Russ­ian court.
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Acquitted suspect of Air India bombing shot dead
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Years after being cleared of perpetrating Canada’s worst terrorist attack, a former suspect has been killed in British Columbia

One of the alleged terrorists who was acquitted of taking down an Air India flight with a suitcase bomb in 1985, killing 329 people, has been fatally shot in Canada in what police say was likely a targeted murder.

Ripudaman Singh Malik, 75, was shot on Thursday morning in Surrey, British Columbia, and died at the scene, according to police. A witness...

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German officer convicted of plotting to kill politicians
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A lieutenant who posed as a Syrian asylum-seeker has been found guilty of preparing terrorist attacks

A German military officer who pretended to be a Syrian refugee has been convicted of charges stemming from a terrorist plot to kill politicians and other public figures.

The 33-year-old German armed forces soldier, identified by authorities only as 1st Lt. Franco A., was found guilty on Friday of preparing a serious act of violent subversion, as well as weapons crimes and fraud. He was ordered to serve five-and-a-half years in prison, nearly matching the six yea...

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Tucker Carlson slams ‘corrupt’ Ukraine
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The US should focus its energies on countering China, not Russia, the Fox News host argued

Fox News host Tucker Carlson issued a fierce condemnation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday over his crackdown on political opposition. While members of both parties in Washington rail against Russian President Vladimir Putin, “it is China that is on its way to controlling the world,” Carlson claimed.

“What does the cause of liberty have to do with Ukraine?,” Carlson asked....

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Polish city dedicates square to Ukraine
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Krakow’s ‘Free Ukraine Square’ is located near Russia’s consulate

The city of Krakow in Poland has christened a strip of sidewalk near the Russian consulate ‘Free Ukraine Square’. The gesture comes after several other Polish cities renamed plazas for Ukraine, but Russia has indulged in some creative renaming of its own.

Krakow Mayor Jacek Majchrowski officially named the square – which consists of a small area of tiles and trees beside a parking lot – in a ceremony on Monday. 

“By opening this square, we want to show that we are with you … as you fight for your freedom and ours,” said Majchrowski....

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 Biden’s Mideast Tour de Farce… Bankrupt U.S. Foreign Policy on Display
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Biden’s top and only priority is to shore up a failing U.S. policy of aggression toward Russia, China and Iran.

In a desperate attempt to align Middle Eastern states against Russia, China and Iran, President Joe Biden this week demonstrated with a tour de force – more accurately “tour de farce” – the humongous scale of U.S. hypocrisy and political bankruptcy.

The stench of Washington’s hypocrisy and duplicity was at once stomach-churning while also farcical.

Biden made his first presidential visit to the Middle East during a four-day itinerary that began in Israel and ended in Saudi Arabia. It was obvious from even U.S. media reporting that the overriding top priority for Biden was to get the Gulf Arab states to pump more oil in order to reduce the repercussions from the U.S.-led NATO proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.

American economic sanctions against Russia, dutifully supported by the servile European Union and other NATO allies, have unleashed a global crisis of inflation. That, in turn, is resulting in all sorts of political tensions and perils for Western governments.

Make no mistake, the conflict in Ukraine has been engineered over the past eight years since the U.S.-backed coup d’état in Kiev in 2014. Biden was then vice president and the point man in the Obama administration for the NATO weaponizing of a Nazi-infested Kiev regime to act as a cat’s paw antagonizing Russia.

Now that the U.S.-led proxy war with Russia has fully manifested, the economic consequences have rebounded with immense pain. With inflation skyrocketing in the United States and Europe, the political impact is undermining incumbent governments. This week saw Italy’s coalition rulers falling down. Last week, Britain’s Boris Johnson became a victim of his corruption and his nation’s economic turmoil. In the U.S., Biden’s Democratic Party is heading for a voter bashing in the midterm elections. Americans, like Europeans, are outraged by the soaring price of fuel, food and other basic commodities.

For Biden, and the U.S. political establishment, getting the spiraling cost inflation of fuel and energy under control is of vital urgency. The social crisis being engendered is threatening to collapse the governing structures. It is no wonder this week that a new poll found that the majority of American voters think that their political system is failing. In short, we are talking about unprecedented civil unrest that is posing an existential threat to the political class in the United States and indeed Europe.

Hence, Biden’s visit to the Middle East was in effect an appeal to Saudi Arabia and other regional countries to pump up the exports of oil as a way to reduce record market prices and crippling consumer inflation. It’s unlikely that that tenuous tactic will succeed in obtaining the desired relief. The genie is out of the bottle and there’s hardly any way to put it back.

The unseemly show of pleading by Biden illustrates the rank hypocrisy of U.S. policy. Washington has no genuine, principled interest in promoting a peace process in Israel with Palestinians, nor a normalization between Arab states and Israel. Biden’s top and only priority is to shore up a failing U.S. policy of aggression toward Russia, China and Iran.

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 The Empire Is Showing More And More Of Its True Face
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By Caitlin JOHNSTONE

Genocide walrus John Bolton outright admitted to planning foreign coups with the US government in conversation with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday. That’s coups, plural.

While arguing that the Capitol riot on January 6th of last year was not an attempted coup but rather just Trump stumbling around trying to look after his own interests, Bolton hastened to pull authority on the matter when Tapper suggested that he might not be correct about how coups work.

“I disagree with that,” Bolton said. “As somebody who has helped plan coups d’etat — not here, but, you know, other places — it takes a lot of work, and that’s not what [Trump] did.”

Places. Plural.

Tapper just let Bolton’s remark slide like he didn’t just admit to something extraordinarily fiendish, but did eventually follow up with a request that the former National Security Advisor elaborate.

“I do want to ask a follow up,” Tapper said. “When we were talking about what is capable, or what you need to do to be able to plan a coup, and you cited your expertise having planned coups.”

“I’m not going to get into the specifics,” replied Bolton with a chuckle.

“Successful coups?” Tapper asked.

“Well, I wrote about Venezuela in the book,” Bolton answered. “And it turned out not to be successful — not that we had all that much to do with it, but I saw what it took for an opposition to try and overturn an illegally elected president, and they failed. The notion that Donald Trump was half as competent as the Venezuelan opposition is laughable.”

“I feel like there’s other stuff you’re not telling me, though,” Tapper responded.

“I’m sure there is,” Bolton said, grinning like he just finished boiling a puppy.

Tapper pursued the matter no further, because he is a propagandist first and a journalist second, and he would be acutely aware that Bolton was saying things that you are not supposed to admit to on television.

Bolton’s sole admission to coup plotting runs counter to his comments about the US government’s failed attempt to oust President Nicolas Maduro while he was facilitating that bizarre operation under the Trump administration, telling reporters in 2019 that the empire’s Venezuela shenanigans were “clearly not a coup.”

In other examples of the US empire just rearing its ugly head right out in broad daylight, an excellent new report by Alan MacLeod with Mintpress News shows that Facebook/Instagram parent company Meta has been hiring dozens of people who previously worked in the US intelligence cartel to help regulate what content gets seen on the social media giant’s platforms. Some were hired from straight out of the CIA or had (officially) left the agency very recently.

The CIA used to infiltrate the media. Now the CIA is the media. This trend of openly hiring US intelligence veterans to help teach the public what thoughts to think about the world began a few years ago in the legacy media, and now we’re seeing it in the new media as well.

This is part of a broader trend in which many of the ugly things the US empire used to do in secret it now does openly with the aid of propaganda spin...

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 How To Get the War Out of America
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A policy of healing rather than warfighting has never been seriously considered, articulated, or deployed in any manner by this country.

By Brad WOLF

Today I spoke with the foreign policy aide of a United States Senator in a scheduled lobbying call for our antiwar organization. Rather than use the standard lobbying points about wasteful Pentagon spending, I asked for a frank discussion regarding ways our organization might find a successful strategy to cut the Pentagon budget. I wanted the perspective of somebody working on the Hill for a conservative senator.

What if we deployed doctors, nurses, teachers, and engineers as quickly as we deployed drones, bullets, and bombs?

The Senator’s aide obliged me. The chances of any bill passing both chambers of Congress that would trim the Pentagon budget by 10%, according to the aide, were zero. When I asked if this was because the public perception was that we needed this amount to defend the country, the aide responded that it was not only the public perception but the reality. The Senator was convinced, as were most in Congress, that the Pentagon’s threat assessments were accurate and reliable (this despite the Pentagon’s history of failed forecasting).

As described to me, the military assesses threats across the globe including such countries as China and Russia, then designs a military strategy to counter those threats, works with weapons manufacturers to design weapons to integrate into that strategy, then produces a budget based on that strategy. Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, overwhelmingly approve the budget. After all, it’s the military. They clearly know the business of war.

When a military begins with the notion that it must confront all problems arising from all locales across the globe, then it develops a global military strategy. This is not a defensive strategy, but a global policing strategy for every conceivable offense. When every conflict or area of instability is perceived as a threat, the world becomes the enemy.

What if such conflicts or instabilities were seen as opportunities rather than threats? What if we deployed doctors, nurses, teachers, and engineers as quickly as we deployed drones, bullets, and bombs? Doctors in mobile hospitals are far less expensive than the current F-35 fighter jet which is closing in on a $1.6 trillion price tag. And doctors don’t mistakenly kill noncombatants in wedding parties or funerals thereby fueling anti-Americanism. In fact, they don’t see combatants or noncombatants, they see people. They treat patients.

The chorus decrying such an idea as “naïve” is immediately heard, war drums providing the charging beat. And so, an assessment is in order. According to Merriam-Webster, naïve can mean “marked by unaffected simplicity,” or “deficient in worldly wisdom or informed judgment,” or “not previously subjected to experimentation or a particular experimental situation.”

The above proposal of doctors over drones does indeed sound simple and unaffected. Feeding people who are hungry, caring for them when they are sick, housing them when they have no shelter, is a relatively straightforward approach. Often the unaffected, simple way is the best. Guilty as charged here.

As to “deficient in worldly wisdom or informed judgment,” we have witnessed America perpetually at war, seen the wise, worldly, and informed proven disastrously wrong again and again at a cost of hundreds of thousan...

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Russ­ian op­po­si­tion ac­tivist An­drei Pivo­varov jailed for 4 years
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Clam­p­down on ac­tivists, in­de­pen­dent me­dia and rights groups has in­ten­si­fied since Rus­sia in­vad­ed Ukraine on Feb­ru­ary 24.
Published On 15 Jul 2022

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Ukraine rock­ets ‘sig­nif­i­cant­ly’ re­duc­ing Russ­ian at­tack po­ten­tial
Ukraine says Rus­sia’s at­tack­ing ca­pa­bil­i­ty ‘sig­nif­i­cant­ly re­duced’ as Kyiv claims de­struc­tion of some 30 mil­i­tary sites.
Published On 15 Jul 2022

Mordaunt clashes with rivals on trans issues in Tory leadership TV debate
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Liz Truss and Kemi Badenoch accused Ms Mordaunt of backing self-identification.

Kinahan cartel 'do not understand the importance of a loving family' says victim's sister
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Violent criminal Christopher Slator (37) on Friday became the third man convicted of Mr Barr's murder