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Not only has my Medium account been suspended, searching for my work on Google produces dozens of results such as these. Don't click on these links because they lead to malicious sites. Even better, stop using Google! There is no shortage of alternative search engines. @LauraRuHK
🇧🇷🇫🇷 In recent days, since Macron’s visit to Brazil and the excessively warm welcome he received at the end of March (which even prompted countless memes on the internet), there has been debate about the advantages and disadvantages of Franco-Brazilian relations, as well as Macron’s real purpose in this rapprochement.

With Brazil entangled in these various agreements and bilateral relations with Atlantic partners, it will be much easier to put pressure on Brazil at various levels, including key votes at the UN and the Security Council. Threats of sanctions, or even the breaking of agreements, will do “wonders” to convince “pragmatic” characters, but lacking in faith in sovereignty, of the “advantages” of drawing ever closer to the West and NATO.

And it’s also obvious that this is, to a large extent, the result of timidity in relation to the BRICS, the future role of the BRICS and Brazil’s role in the BRICS.

Brazil does not see the enemies of its friends as its enemies. And there’s no problem with that.

💬 Raphael Machado writes

#Brazil #France #West #BRICS

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Money talks 😝🇺🇸

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🇫🇷🇬🇧🇮🇱 Recently, the French government announced that it would take legal action against French citizens who leave the country and go and fight for the Israeli army in Gaza. Currently it is believed there are almost 100 British subjects who have “volunteered” to fight in Gaza with an IDF uniform.

With the recent change to French laws prohibiting its citizens to become IDF soldiers in Israel during the Gaza genocide, Britain should do the same

💬 Martin Jay writes

#Gaza #France #UK

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🇷🇺🚀 The Angara-A5 launch vehicle successfully propelled the Orion upper stage into orbit.

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📷 The moment Israeli aircraft bombed the city of Khiam in southern Lebanon.
❗️I'm very concerned to hear that my friend, your friend Texas, Russell Bentley, is reported missing in Donetsk. He was last seen in the city's Petrovsky region on April 8th, several days ago now.

Sincerely hope that he comes back into contact soon and all is well with him.
🇦🇺🇮🇱 Australia’s Defence Department has refused a Freedom of Information request about the details of an arms deal with Israel on the grounds that such information “could harm Australia’s international standing and reputation,” which suggests the details must be pretty damning.

💬 By Caitlin Johnstone

#Australia #Israel

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🌀 In 1953, John McCloy, former U.S. Under Secretary of War, former President of the World Bank and former High Commissioner in Germany, took over as president of the Ford Foundation. In this last role, McCloy provided cover for numerous CIA agents. It was he who, as president of the foundation, ensured that the agency’s interests were met, creating an internal committee to deal specifically with the #CIA, composed of himself and two other foundation executives. “They would check with this specific committee and, when it was judged to be a reasonable thing, that did not go against the long-term interests of the Foundation, the project was handed over to internal staff and other executives of the house [without that they] were aware of the origins of the proposal”, said McCloy’s biographer, quoted by Frances Stonor Saunders in her book “Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War”.

Modern identitarianism was born directly from the offices of the Central Intelligence Agency with the aim of combating revolutionary tendencies within the popular masses around the world.

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💢✡️ Recently, Zionist troops retreated from Khan Younis, ending one of the main battles of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since October 7, 2023. Israeli propagandists try to describe the maneuver as a strategic retreat, with unsubstantiated claims that Hamas has “ceased to exist” as a military organization in the region. However, the move was the result of a true military defeat. Israel was unable to maintain positions in southern Gaza, being forced to withdraw in the face of new military emergencies.

These “emergencies” are certainly related to the Israeli fear of retaliation from Tehran for the attack on the Iranian Embassy in Damascus. Considering the seriousness of what happened, it is absolutely clear that the Persian country will give a harsh response to the aggressor side, which has generated panic among Israeli officials. Maintaining positions in southern Gaza, where Zionist troops were under constant Palestinian fire, became unfeasible in the face of new “threats”, which is why Tel Aviv retreated from Khan Younis to keep its soldiers in combat readiness in the event of an Iranian attack. Meanwhile, Palestinian resistance forces are now retaking ground previously occupied by the IDF.

The Zionist regime is increasingly unable to predict the next developments in the conflict, remaining in constant instability.

💬 Read more by Lucas Leiroz @lucasleiroz

#Zionism #Israel #Iran #Palestine

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🇰🇷 The semi-colonial rule of imperialism over South Korea stopped the national-democratic revolution of the Korean people. It will only conclude with the liberation of South Korea and the reunification of the entire peninsula independently of imperialism.

💬 Writes Eduardo Vasco

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Good morning everyone! Let's recap last night's pyrotechnics. For the first time Iran has launched a full-scale military assault on the Zionist entity with kamikaze drones and ballistic missiles - the attack was in retaliation for the strike on its Damascus consulate on April 1 that killed seven Revolutionary Guards officers, including two senior commanders. ▪️Senior US official told ABC News: There will be anywhere from 400 to 500 drones and missiles launched at "Israel" from Iraq, Syria, southern Lebanon, and Yemen but the bulk will be launched from Iran. ▪️ 00.40 - IRNA citing an informed source: The first batch of ballistic missiles has been launched. ▪️00:58 - The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon - Hezbollah says it attacked the air and missile defense headquarters in the "Keila" barracks in the occupied Syrian Golan with dozens of Katyusha rockets. ▪️02:00 - IRGC has begun launching the third batch of ballistic missiles toward "Israel": Al Mayadeen's correspondent. ▪️02:10 - US military shot down Iranian drone aircraft headed toward "Israel": Reuters citing three US officials. ▪️03:17 - Tasnim citing an informed source: If the Zionists retaliate after the ongoing punitive operation ends, the next punishment will be immediate and more severe. ▪️04:02 - Israeli Media: The Biden-Netanyahu conversation ended, the American president asked Netanyahu not to respond to the Iranian attack.
▪️04:48 - US defense secretary asks Israeli counterpart to notify US ahead of any potential response to Iranian attack: CNN
🔺US and British warplanes were involved in shooting down some drones over the Iraq-Syria border area, Channel 12 reported. 🔺The UK government said it was sending additional fighter planes to the Middle East. 🔺Benjamin Netanyahu has convened his war cabinet at military headquarters in Tel Aviv, his office said.

▪️Glaring double standards: the European Union, Britain, France, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Netherlands...(the list is growing) were quick to condemn Iran’s attack, though Iran attacked in self defence in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter. Iran's attack is targeting only military facilities in response to the Israeli terrorist attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, which these vassal states didn't condemn.
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🇮🇷🚀🏴‍☠ 7 minutes of rocket clash scenes and ballistic missile flights, filmed from the city of Al-Khalil.

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🗽 How Americans’ perceive the U.S. greatest enemy, by party

A recent Gallup poll revealed Americans’ attitude to the world. While Republicans believe China is the United States’ greatest enemy, Democrats point to Russia. Interestingly, for independent voters, America’s third greatest enemy is America itself.

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©You are free to repost, reproduce and print this infographic.

See also: How Americans View the World

#sc_infographic #UnitedStates

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