Key take­aways from Kenya’s pres­i­den­tial elec­tions de­bate
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The much-an­tic­i­pat­ed de­bate was a solo show as only Deputy Pres­i­dent Ruto, a lead­ing con­tes­tant, par­tic­i­pat­ed.
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Lavrov den­i­grates West’s stance to­wards Africa on Ethiopia vis­it
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Russ­ian for­eign min­is­ter vis­its Ad­dis Aba­ba to end a four-na­tion African tour aimed at drum­ming up sup­port for Moscow.
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As mon­key­pox surges, WHO urges re­duc­ing num­ber of sex­u­al part­ners
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Marauding monkey caught, killed after dozens injured in Japan
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Local authorities hunting for a gang of monkeys who attacked and wounded nearly 50 people in western Japan have caught and killed one of the maraud

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Fourth patient in history seemingly cured of HIV
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On July 27, AIDS experts revealed that a fourth person had been "cured" of HIV.

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Biden offers Russia deal to secure release of two citizens held by Moscow
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US President Joe Biden's administration has offered Russia a deal to secure the release of its two citizens held by Moscow.

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Germany approves $1.7 billion arms deal for Kiev – media
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Berlin is allowing a German company to produce as many as 100 self-propelled howitzers for Ukraine, according to Der Spiegel

German arms manufacturer Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has struck a deal with the Ukrainian government that would see the firm produce and supply Kiev with as many as 100 PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzers, Der Spiegel reported on Wednesday, citing a company representative. Berlin approved the sale in just two days, the paper said.

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Zelensky lectures Americans on inflation and Covid
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The Ukrainian leader said that helping his country should be more important for Americans than domestic concerns

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has told British broadcaster Piers Morgan that inflation and coronavirus are “nothing” compared to Ukraine’s struggle, and Americans should support aid for Kiev “until we win.”

As the US grapples with a 40-year-high inflation rate and record gas prices, multiple polls name these economic concerns as more pressing among Americans than the conflict in Ukraine. Furthermore, nearly...

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US offers prisoner swap to Russia
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Washington has reportedly offered Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout in exchange for the basketball player Brittney Griner and convicted spy Paul Whelan

US Secretary of State Tony Blinken said on Wednesday that the US has made a “substantial offer” to Russia to secure the release of basketball player Brittney Griner and convicted spy Paul Whelan. According to a CNN report, the offer involves trading Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for the two Americans....

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Kate Ferdinand reveals loss of unborn second child with husband Rio
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John Daly died in a car crash in southeast Clare less than one hour after kissing his mother on the cheek goodnight

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 The Phoniest, Most PR-Intensive War of All Time
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By Caitlin JOHNSTONE

The president and first lady of Ukraine have posed for a romantic photoshoot with Vogue magazine, wherein President Volodymyr Zelensky waxes poetical about his love for his darling wife.

Now, I know what you’re thinking: how is Zelensky making time for a Vogue photoshoot amidst his busy schedule of PR appearances for other major western institutions?

I mean this is after all the same Volodymyr Zelensky who has been so busy making video appearances for the Grammy Awards, the Cannes Film Festival, the World Economic Forum and probably the Bilderberg group as well, and having meetings with celebrities like Ben Stiller, Sean Penn, and Bono and the Edge from U2. It’s as busy a PR tour as he could possibly have without having a discussion about the strategic importance of long-range artillery with Elmo on Sesame Street.

Oh yeah, and also isn’t there like a war or something happening in Ukraine? You’d think he’d probably be somewhat busy with that too.

Call me crazy, but I’m beginning to suspect that there might be a concerted effort to manipulate the way we think about the war in Ukraine. In fact, I’d even go so far as to say it’s the most aggressively perception-managed war we’ve ever experienced.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February we have not only been smashed with mass media propaganda unlike anything we’ve ever seen while Russian media are purged from the airwaves, we’re also seeing the new media element of unprecedented amounts of online censorship, algorithm-boosted...

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 Brits Sanction Brit
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Rather than use Phillips to build backdoors to potentially save the lives of Aslin and his fellow killers, MI5 cast Phillips out into the cold.

In their latest round of sanctions, the British regime has sanctioned British subject Graham Philllips, as well as a number of Syrians, who sent Syrian fighters to Ukraine. The main reason Syrians have to emigrate to kill zones is because Britain, working through her Muslim Brotherhood proxies, has destroyed the country and should be held accountable in a court of law for this. If Europeans are short of food and heating this winter, they should remember that that is what their governments have been doing to Syrians for the last ten years. That the British regime would further penalize Syrian Christians for fighting fascists in Ukraine should surprise nobody.

And nor really is it a surprise that Graham Phillips, whom we previously met when discussing Germany’s persecution of Alina Lipp is on the sanctions’ naughty list. Although Phillips currently has about 250,000 youtube subscribers, in the great scheme of things, that is nothing when compared to BBC and other MI5 outlets.

And though that probably does not bother MI5 too much, it obviously irritates a lot of Zelensky’s trolls, who have been egging on each other to report Phillips and have his Patreon and other accounts banned. A quick Twitter trawl confirms that, rather than a cold analysis of Phillips’ work, is the main motif.

I hadn’t visited Phillips’ social media footprint since last I wrote about him for the simple reason there is little there or from Lipp and the others for me. That said, this video, at 4:30 where he meets a little girl and her dog trying to come to grips with hell, is “good”. And ditto the conversation with old women both before and after it. And this video of Aiden Aslin belting out the Russian national anthem to John Mark Dougan is also “good”, even though Aslin must be worried that, like other British mercenaries before him, he too will face a firing squad at dawn.

Though all of these videos and reports have a grubby side to them and most social media comments on Phillips are equally grubby, the British government should, in theory at least, be above such petty spite. But that would be to mistake the British government and its media mouthpieces for something less toxic. If Phillips deserves to have his property and bank accounts confiscated, we can only dream about what criminals like Liz Truss, Boris Johnson and Prince Andrew deserve.

The main charges against Phillips are that he interviewed Aslin, whilst the latter was in custody, that he disagreed with the Zelensky/Bojo line on Bucha and that Bojo used Parliamentary privilege to defame him. As previously reported, though some of his videos and not just the Aslin one, were decidedly tacky, there are...

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