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Kosovo detains Russian journalist

Russian journalist and veteran war reporter Darya Aslamova was briefly detained and banned from entering Kosovo on Saturday amid the recent flare-up of tensions between Serbia and the breakaway region.

Kosovo Interior Minister Xhelal Svecla wrote on Facebook that Aslamova, who writes for newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, was detained at a border checkpoint in the northern part of the region.

“Many countries have proven that she had engaged in espionage for the Russian military intelligence and acted under the guise of a journalist,” Svecla wrote, accusing Aslamova of “propagandizing about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.” The minister added that Aslamova was banned from entering Kosovo and the authorities were holding the journalist until her “intentions are determined.”

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⚡️⚡️Israeli PM says goals of military operation in Gaza Strip have been achieved, little point continuing it - Israeli media reports

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❗️The Times slams Amnesty Intl as... "Putin Propagandists"

The UK charity organisation which found Ukraine to be in violation of endangering civilians, by housing its military in residential areas, is now under attack by the press.

When you don't like the details... just call it 'shameful' propaganda?

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⚡️⚡️Hundreds of mortars and rockets reportedly fired by Islamic Jihad as potential ceasefire being 'negotiated' - Iron dome takes out missiles over Israel (unverified video)

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❗️Israel launches new strike on Gaza Strip - shortly after announcing its military operation goals had been achieved

RT correspondent Mustafa Al-Bayed filmed the aftermath of the shelling.

According to local health ministry, 36 people have died since the violence escalated and 311 injured due in rocket attacks.

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Israel has accomplished its mission, prime minister reportedly says
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Yair Lapid apparently announced the wind-down of Israel’s offensive on Gaza as ceasefire talks continue

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid told municipal leaders that the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) military operation in Gaza has achieved its objectives and would be wound down, local media reported. As Lapid spoke, Egyptian-brokered ceasefire talks between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad continued.

The prime minister told the group of local officials from Israel’s southern regions that Operation Breaking Dawn has achieved its goals over three days of aerial bombardment of Gaza, media reported, citing...

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Sweden to prepare Ukrainians for military service
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The UK-based training program comes after Sweden renounced centuries of neutrality by applying to join NATO

Swedish instructors will train Ukrainian civilians in the UK to prepare them for service in Kiev’s military, the Nordic nation’s Ministry of Defense said on Sunday. With the British hoping to prepare 10,000 Ukrainians for combat, the announcement suggests that Kiev’s conventional forces are depleted.

The Swedish Armed Forces will send up to 120 instructors to the UK between August 12 and December 31, Stockholm said. The instructors will...

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Israel and Palestine agree on ceasefire from Sunday evening after two days of firing: Report
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Israel and Palestinian militants have reached an agreement for a ceasefire in Gaza that will begin on Sunday evening, as reported by Reuters.

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China keeps up pressure as Taiwan detects 66 planes and 14 warships in latest drills
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China has been conducting military drills around Taiwan in the aftermath of the United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the country.

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Data Map: How access to Abortion has changed globally
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Globally, access to abortion has increased during the past 25 years.

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Top 10 world news: China keeps up pressure on Taiwan, Israel-Palestine agree on ceasefire, and more
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The first set of drills ended on Sunday, but the Chinese media has reported that the next round will continue to take place.

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Italian army detonates World War II bomb found in dried-up river Po
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On Sunday, August 7, the Italian army detonated a World War Two bomb that had been found in the low water after the Po, the nation's longest river,

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 Paths of Glory
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The tragedy is that the grandstanding of Pelosi and the avarice of Hunter Biden and Clown Prince Zelensky drags countless millions of Faithful Hussars into war’s abyss.

If there is any glory in war, it belongs not to Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden or their Zelensky puppet but to nobler souls like August Landmesser, Alina Lipp, Édith Piaf, Princess Alice of Battenberg, Princess Anni-Frid Reuss (Dowager Countess of Plauen aka Anni-Frid Lyngstad), Graham Greene’s anonymous whisky priest, Hugh Thompson Jnr, Alexander Prokhorenko , Khaled al Asaad, Seymour Hersh, Julian Assange and all like them.

Who could not but love Édith Piaf, France’s little sparrow, whose sight was saved by her grandmother’s prostitutes pooling their resources to accompany her on a pilgrimage honouring Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, that angel who sang for German soldiers in French brothels during the War, but who was deservedly given Paris’ largest ever funeral? And Abba’s Anni-Frid Lyngstad, now known as Princess Anni-Frid Reuss, who had a horrific Norwegian childhood because her German father had served in Hitler’s Wehrmacht.

And Princess Alice, Queen Elizabeth’s mother in law, who sheltered Jews during the Greek Occupation and who is deservedly buried in Jerusalem’s Russian Cathedral of Mary Magdalene.

And let’s not forget the warriors, heroes like Russia’s Alexander Prohorenko who, near to where Khaled al Asaad was likewise martyred for the same holy cause, called in an air strike on himself to save the honor of his flag and his country. And America’s Hugh Thompson Jnr, who exposed America’s My Lai war crime and who was relentlessly persecuted by his compatriots as a consequence of him being human.

And then there is Seymour Hersh, one of a tiny band of journalistic brothers with a conscience. And August Landmesser, whose pure, untarnished love for his Jewish betrothed saw him die fighting in a Wehrmacht penal battalion.

And so many more, who may have pondered Hamlet’s famous soliloquy of “Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?”

These little, all but forgotten ones, who lived, loved, suffered and died are history’s lodestars, history’s heroes who are remembered most by those blessed to have loved them in life, as well as in death.

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 New Media Are as Intertwined With Imperial Power as Old Media
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By Caitlin JOHNSTONE

Alan MacLeod has a new article out with Mintpress News showing how most of the supposedly independent “fact-checking” organizations which Facebook has partnered with to police the information people are allowed to see on the platform about the war in Ukraine are, in fact, funded by the United States government.

“Most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the U.S. government, either through the U.S. Embassy or via the notorious National Endowment for Democracy (NED),” MacLeod writes.

NED is indeed notorious because, as MacLeod explains, it was set up to do overtly many of the operations which the CIA used to perform covertly, like circulating propaganda in empire-targeted nations, funding foreign uprisings, and facilitating the 2014 coup in Ukraine which set in motion the events that would eventually lead to Russia’s invasion of the nation this past February.

Macleod shows how US government money is funneled into Facebook’s “fact-checking organizations” through NED and other channels, the result being a US government-funded narrative management operation in a social media platform which has almost three billion active users.

This article is just the latest installment in a series of pieces MacLeod has been putting out with Mintpress over the past few months documenting the many strings you can see between major Silicon Valley platforms and the US-centralized empire, which are becoming clearer and more numerous by the year.

Last month MacLeod released a report on the many veterans of the CIA and other branches of the US intelligence cartel who are being hired to high-level positions within Facebook’s parent company Meta which help determine what kinds of information get visibility on the company’s social media platforms. Meta’s “senior product policy manager for misinformation” was hired straight out of the Central Intelligence Agency in 2019 and now helps Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp sort out information from misinformation.

Last month MacLeod also put out an article on the many CIA veterans who have been hired to help Google decide what information gets seen in its searches and on Google-owned platforms like YouTube. Google is easily the single most influential corporation on earth when it comes to public access to information.

In June MacLeod penned an article titled “The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents,” reporting that “the social media giant has, in recent years, recruited dozens of individuals from the national security state to work in the fields of security, trust, safety and content.”

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 Apologizing for the Gospel
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Liberals demand not only that Christians apologize for individual evils, but the very message of Christianity itself.

By Casey CHALK

For many Canadians, Pope Francis’s recent apology for the treatment of some indigenous persons by those representing the Catholic Church was not enough. Murray Sinclair, the lawyer who chaired Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission declared: “It was more than the work of a few bad actors — this was a concerted institutional effort to remove children from their families and cultures, all in the name of Christian supremacy,” reported the Washington Post.

That opinion appears to be the default of the entire commission. The American Conservative’s Declan Leary observed in an article at The Lamp earlier this year that “the commission seems to oppose evangelism as a matter of principle.”

Would that this opinion were limited to government bureaucrats of our northern neighbor. Yet this is an era of reappraising everything about our Western civilizational inheritance. The Bureau of Indian Affairs’ May 2022 “Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report,” which Helen Andrews cites in her recent TAC article on Indian boarding schools, speaks disparagingly of missionary activities among American Indians, including encouraging them to abandon their tribal religious beliefs in favor of Christianity. The Australian government has issued similar reports criticizing missions down under as being “designed to erase peoples’ cultural identity.”

Similar charges are leveled at Christian missionaries wherever they performed their work. “To send missionaries to Africa and Asia to convert the native people to Christianity is religious colonialism,” say even many Christians. Academics and journalists for years have discussed the resurgence of paganism among Europeans and people of European ancestry, often framed as a repudiation of the imperialist imposition of Christianity upon pagan peoples.

Every anti-Christian, pro-pagan example offered employs the same general talking points: narrow-minded Christian missionaries since the Dark Ages have upended traditional beliefs and practices, coercing indigenous peoples to abandon their pluralist worldview in favor of the coercive monolith that is institutionalized, doctrinally intolerant and constrained Christianity. “Pagan beliefs differ, but many uphold the pluralistic view that there are many valid religious paths,” explains the Pluralism Project at Harvard University. It continues: “Today, many people are drawn to Paganism for its affirmation of female, LGBT, and queer people.”

Such comments are telling. For the language of pluralism and tolerance, especially those in supposedly oppressed victim categories, cou...

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Museum to return ownership of looted items as ‘moral’ thing to do
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The items were taken from Benin City by British troops in February 1897.

Haaland scores twice to get Manchester City up and running at West Ham
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The £51million summer signing from Borussia Dortmund scored what are likely to be the first of many goals for the champions.

Late Kilkenny goal seals victory over Cork in gripping Camogie final
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Overall, the sides were tied seven times, but in the end, the winning point fell to Denise Gaule who converted from a placed ball in the 62nd minute

Shift in war’s front seen as grain leaves Ukraine
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Three of the carriers cleared to leave Ukraine on Sunday were transporting more than 171,000 tons of corn.