Pope Francis laments Church’s cooperation in 'cultural destruction'
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Pope Francis, who is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, apologised for the "evil committed by so many Christians ag

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Gazprom to cut down gas deliveries through Nord Stream
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Russian natural gas giant Gazprom said on Monday (July 25) that it is cutting gas deliveries through Nord Stream pipeline to 33 million cubic metre

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Drone saves life of a drowning boy at Spanish beach
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A drone lifeguard has saved a life of a drowing 14-year-old boy in Valencia, Spain.

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Civil­ians in cross­fire as shift­ing al­liances spark Libya vi­o­lence
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Fight­ing in Tripoli and Mis­ra­ta has left at least 17 dead over the last week, many of them civil­ians.
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Ex-US con­gress­man among 9 charged in in­sid­er trad­ing cas­es
Stephen Buy­er was ar­rest­ed Mon­day in In­di­ana, where he served as a Re­pub­li­can con­gress­man from 1993 to 2011.
Published On 25 Jul 2022

Man jailed for sexually assaulting sleeping woman and then sending her photo
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The woman believes the man accessed her bedroom by climbing through an open window via a balcony.

Garda to be sentenced for coercive control of terminally-ill girlfriend
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The garda allegedly told the terminally-ill woman the only reason he had visited her while in hospital was to “watch you bleed to death”

Good Friday Agreement architect and former First Minister David Trimble dies
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The Nobel Peace Prize winner died on Monday at the age of 77 following an illness.

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Chinese consul offers West advice on Ukraine
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The diplomat posted a helpful meme contrasting China’s approach to Ukraine with that of the West

A Chinese consular official in Northern Ireland on Monday contrasted the approach of Beijing to the crisis in Ukraine with that of the US and its allies, in particular those in Western Europe facing energy shortages due to the effects of their anti-Russian embargoes. Zhang Meifang has previously served in the US and Canada, and is one of many Chinese diplomats that have come to use memes and cartoons to communicate with the West.

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Boris Johnson wishes to 'wipe away' his departure: Report
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The Telegraph reported that in a conversation with former treasurer Peter Cruddas, Boris Johnson said he wishes he could "wipe away" his departure.

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Rus­sia’s Gazprom to tight­en squeeze on gas flow to Eu­rope
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En­er­gy gi­ant says flow through Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Ger­many will drop to just 20 per­cent ca­pac­i­ty as of Wednes­day.
Published On 25 Jul 2022

Two home­less peo­ple, at­tack­er, shot dead near Van­cou­ver
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Cana­di­an au­thor­i­ties say the sus­pect­ed gun­man was shot and killed dur­ing an in­ter­ac­tion with po­lice.
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Rus­sia’s Lavrov in Con­go as Moscow courts Africa
Lavrov has al­ready vis­it­ed Egypt and will head to Ugan­da as Moscow aims at strength­en­ing its ties with the con­ti­nent.
Published On 25 Jul 2022

 llusions of Superiority. What’s Next?
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It will need a long catharsis to purge Europe of its illusions of superiority – as perceived by the non-west.

In January 2013, President Xi Jinping gave a speech to the members of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. His speech gave insight into our world as it ‘is’, and secondly, though its analysis was firmly focused on the causes to the Soviet implosion, Xi’s exposition very clearly had wider meaning. Yes, it is addressed to us – the western construct – too.

Immanuel Wallenstein had already warned, in 1991, against the western ‘false consciousness’ of Cold War triumph: For, as Wallenstein points out, the Soviet collapse was not the demise not of Leninism alone. It was rather the ‘beginning of the end’ for both poles of the great ideological antinomy: That of “the ‘American Century, with God on our side’ construct on the one hand – with the Leninist, equally universalist, eschatologies, on the other”.

Since these two were woven from the same universalist ideological cloth – that is, with each defining (and co-constituting) the ‘other’ – the loss of its Manichaean enemy led to a series of geo-political structures from the Cold War fraying – as the prevailing, lone ideology lacked any satisfactory explanation for its global rule, objectives and purposes – absent the co-constituting ‘enemy’ (i.e. Communism).

In Xi’s address, he attributed the break-up of the Soviet Union to ‘ideological nihilism’: The ruling strata, Xi asserted, had ceased to believe in the advantages and the value of their ‘system’, yet lacking any other ideological coordinates within which to situate their thinking, the élites slid unto nihilism.

“Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Communist Party of the Soviet Union fall to pieces? An important reason is that, in the ideological domain, competition is fierce [and necessary, Xi might have added]! To completely repudiate the historical experience of the Soviet Union, to repudiate the history of the CPSU, to repudiate Lenin, to repudiate Stalin – was to wreck chaos on Soviet ideology and engage in historical nihilism”, Xi said.

Rings any bells? Such as Americans repudiating U.S. history as ‘White Man’s story’? As dismissing America’s former leaders as ‘slave owners’? As dissing the founding fathers, and toppling their statues?

“Once the Party loses the control of the ideology, Xi argued, once it fails to provide a satisfactory explanation for its own rule, objectives and purposes, it dissolves into a party of loosely connected individuals linked only by personal goals of enrichment and power”, (Xi again). The Party is then taken over by ‘ideological nihilism’.

This, however, was not the worst outcome. The worst outcome, Xi noted, was that the country had been taken over by people with no ideology whatsoever, but with an entirely cynical and self-serving desire to rule.

This is Wallenstein’s point: The Cold War’s ‘premature triumphalism’ – paradoxically – has made the ideological Manichaeism on which post-Enlightenment modernity functioned, so much harder to sustain. As one form of universalism – liberalism – eliminated all competition for hegemony, paradoxically in so doing, the consequence has been to lift the mental fog of ideology, permitting the return of particularity, rootedness and civilization.

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 Russia’s Ongoing Great Patriotic War
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Winning their current Great Patriotic War is as crucial to today’s Russians as was winning those thrust on their forefathers in 1812 and 1941.

Winning their current Great Patriotic War is as crucial to today’s Russians as was winning those thrust on their forefathers in 1812 and 1941. Because Ukraine is but one of several NATO fronts, victory in Ukraine does not ensure anything unless victory is also won in Russia’s economic and cultural wars as well. All these different fronts are, at day’s end, as one.

Think otherwise? Just look at the most recent targets of the EU’s punitive sanctions, where motor cycle enthusiast Aleksandr Zaldostanov and Russian actors Sergey Bezrukov and Vladimir Mashkov join the EU’s naughty list.

The EU criminalizes Zaldostanov for “actively supporting Russian state propaganda through publicly denying Ukraine’s right to statehood and calling for the ‘denazification’ as well as the ‘de-Ukrainization’ of the country.” Leaving aside the patently idiotic question of what, in this contget, does or does not constitute “Russian state propaganda”, Zaldostanov is targeted for opposing the well documented presence of Nazis in Ukraine. The other cited charges against him are EU disinformation: though no one opposes Ukraine’s theoretical right to statehood, tens of millions quite rightly oppose Zelensky’s stalled ethnic cleansing campaign in Eastern Ukraine. As regards ‘de-Ukrainization’, Borrell and that awful von der Leyen woman should check out the laws and actions of the Zelensky junta against Russian speakers and politicians representing them before they next open their mouths to once again prove their roles as empty headed NATO court jesters.

In so far as Zaldostanov is being persecuted for defending the right to life of those whose mother tongue is Russian, all Russophones should take note as, if it is Eastern Ukraine and Zaldostanov today, it will definitely be them tomorrow no matter in what part of Russia they and their grandmothers live.

And then we have award-winning actors Vladimir Mashkov and Sergey Bezrukov, whose equally heinous crime is they verbally opposed Zelensky’s ethnic cleansing campaign in Eastern Ukraine and that Bezrukov, a Russian, had the temerity to quote from ‘To the Slanderers of Russia,’ a poem by Alexander Pushkin, Russia’s national poet. Every literate Russian speaker must take due note: because Bezrukov and Pushkin are in the cross hairs of these barbarians, so, first of all, are you. You and your grandmothers have targets on your backs.

And, secondly, it goes much much further than that. Though recent articles highlighted NATO’s seemingly Quixotic war against such world literary greats as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, as well as its campaign to ban world class children’s stories for no other reason than they are Russian, renowned NATO flunkey and horror story writer Stephen King put all this NATO depravity in perspective when Russian journalists pranked him to reveal the demons that possess that Satan obsessed war hawk and his fellow golems.

King freely agreed not only to propagate lies about non existent Russian war crimes in Ukraine but also agreed to help demonize Russians, all Russians because this moron believes that fanning the flames of Russophobia is the right thing to do and, as a corollary, that those, like you and your grandmother, who suffer therefrom are of little human consequence. King has there...

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