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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 โ€˜corruptโ€™ 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, โ€œit is China that is on its way to controlling the world,โ€ Carlson claimed.

โ€œWhat does the cause of liberty have to do with Ukraine?,โ€ Carlson asked....

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Polish city dedicates square to Ukraine
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Krakowโ€™s โ€˜Free Ukraine Squareโ€™ is located near Russiaโ€™s consulate

The city of Krakow in Poland has christened a strip of sidewalk near the Russian consulate โ€˜Free Ukraine Squareโ€™. 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 โ€“ which consists of a small area of tiles and trees beside a parking lot โ€“ in a ceremony on Monday. 

โ€œBy opening this square, we want to show that we are with you โ€ฆ as you fight for your freedom and ours,โ€ said Majchrowski....

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โ€ŠBidenโ€™s Mideast Tour de Farceโ€ฆ Bankrupt U.S. Foreign Policy on Display
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Bidenโ€™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 โ€“ more accurately โ€œtour de farceโ€ โ€“ the humongous scale of U.S. hypocrisy and political bankruptcy.

The stench of Washingtonโ€™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 dโ€™รฉtat 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 catโ€™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 Italyโ€™s coalition rulers falling down. Last week, Britainโ€™s Boris Johnson became a victim of his corruption and his nationโ€™s economic turmoil. In the U.S., Bidenโ€™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, Bidenโ€™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. Itโ€™s unlikely that that tenuous tactic will succeed in obtaining the desired relief. The genie is out of the bottle and thereโ€™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. Bidenโ€™s top and only priority is to shore up a failing U.S. policy of aggression toward Russia, China and Iran.

This American president...

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โ€ŠThe 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 CNNโ€™s Jake Tapper on Wednesday. Thatโ€™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.

โ€œI disagree with that,โ€ Bolton said. โ€œAs somebody who has helped plan coups dโ€™etat โ€” not here, but, you know, other places โ€” it takes a lot of work, and thatโ€™s not what [Trump] did.โ€

Places. Plural.

Tapper just let Boltonโ€™s remark slide like he didnโ€™t just admit to something extraordinarily fiendish, but did eventually follow up with a request that the former National Security Advisor elaborate.

โ€œI do want to ask a follow up,โ€ Tapper said. โ€œWhen 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.โ€

โ€œIโ€™m not going to get into the specifics,โ€ replied Bolton with a chuckle.

โ€œSuccessful coups?โ€ Tapper asked.

โ€œWell, I wrote about Venezuela in the book,โ€ Bolton answered. โ€œAnd it turned out not to be successful โ€” 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.โ€

โ€œI feel like thereโ€™s other stuff youโ€™re not telling me, though,โ€ Tapper responded.

โ€œIโ€™m sure there is,โ€ 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.

Boltonโ€™s sole admission to coup plotting runs counter to his comments about the US governmentโ€™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 empireโ€™s Venezuela shenanigans were โ€œclearly not a coup.โ€

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 giantโ€™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 weโ€™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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โ€ŠHow 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 Senatorโ€™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 Pentagonโ€™s threat assessments were accurate and reliable (this despite the Pentagonโ€™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, itโ€™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 donโ€™t mistakenly kill noncombatants in wedding parties or funerals thereby fueling anti-Americanism. In fact, they donโ€™t see combatants or noncombatants, they see people. They treat patients.

The chorus decrying such an idea as โ€œnaรฏveโ€ is immediately heard, war drums providing the charging beat. And so, an assessment is in order. According to Merriam-Webster, naรฏve can mean โ€œmarked by unaffected simplicity,โ€ or โ€œdeficient in worldly wisdom or informed judgment,โ€ or โ€œnot previously subjected to experimentation or a particular experimental situation.โ€

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 โ€œdeficient in worldly wisdom or informed judgment,โ€ 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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Russยญian opยญpoยญsiยญtion acยญtivist Anยญdrei Pivoยญvarov jailed for 4 years
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Clamยญpยญdown on acยญtivists, inยญdeยญpenยญdent meยญdia and rights groups has inยญtenยญsiยญfied since Rusยญsia inยญvadยญed Ukraine on Febยญruยญary 24.
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Ukraine says Rusยญsiaโ€™s atยญtackยญing caยญpaยญbilยญiยญty โ€˜sigยญnifยญiยญcantยญly reยญducedโ€™ as Kyiv claims deยญstrucยญtion of some 30 milยญiยญtary sites.
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Joe Biden 'raised' Jamal Khashoggi's murder during meeting with Saudi Crown Prince
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During his crucial trip to Saudi Arabia, United States President Joe Biden said that he raised the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi "at t

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Ex-White House doctor makes Biden prediction
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The former White House physician says the US president wonโ€™t finish his term as his mind is โ€˜too far goneโ€™

US President Joe Biden wonโ€™t make it through the rest of his first term as โ€œhis mind is too far gone,โ€ White House physician turned Texas congressman Ronny Jackson predicted on Twitter on Thursday. 

Jackson elaborated that โ€œBidenโ€™s cognitive decline has been on full display for YEARS,โ€ arguing โ€œHe SHOULD NOT be our President!โ€ in another tweet calling for the president to resign.

Jackson served as the personal physician to former presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and George W...

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Saudi Arabia opens airspace to Israeli airlines
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Riyadh has agreed to allow overflights by all air carriers in a move hailed by the White House as fostering Middle East stability

President Joe Biden is taking credit for a decision by Saudi Arabia to open its airspace to overflights by all air carriers, which he claimed will promote greater stability in the Middle East by further integrating Israel with its neighbors.

โ€œToday, I will be the first president of the United States to fly from Israel to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,โ€...

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UN Seยญcuยญriยญty Counยญcil deยญmands halt to flow of guns to Haitยญian gangs
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Trump voters favor secession for their state โ€“ poll
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Backers of the former president believe theyโ€™d be โ€œbetter offโ€ if GOP-led states split from the US, a Yahoo/YouGov survey has shown

Many residents of Republican-controlled states who voted for then-President Donald Trump in 2020 believe they would be โ€œbetter offโ€ if their state seceded from the US, a new poll has revealed.

About 33% of Trump voters in so-called red states say theyโ€™d personally fare better if their state โ€œbecame an independent country,โ€ according to a Yahoo/YouGov poll released on Friday...

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Maria Sharapova and fiance welcome their first baby, tennis star shares adorable photo
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Congratulations are in order as the former world number one, Maria Sharapova, announced on Friday (July 15) that she has given birth to a baby boy.

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