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Israeli jets strike Gaza in latest bomb attack


RT
Tue, 09 May 2023 15:32 UTC
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© AP / Adel HanaFire burns at an apartment building following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on May 9, 2023
The IDF claimed to have neutralized several top Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders

Twelve people were killed in the latest round of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza on Tuesday, according to the region's health ministry. The Israeli military claims that it targeted senior members of a leading Palestinian militant group.

The strikes took place around 2am local time and left at least 20 people injured in addition to the 12 killed, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued a rare statement confirming its operations in Gaza, claiming to have killed three top members of the Islamic Jihad militant group. Those included Khalil Bahtini, who heads the group's branch in northern Gaza, Jahad A'Nam, the secretary of its military council, and Tarek Ezz Al-Din, who was accused of planning attacks in the occupied West Bank.

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Light Saber

Foreign Ministry: China won't forget NATO's 'barbaric' acts in Yugoslavia


RT
Wed, 10 May 2023 15:19 UTC
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© Andrej Isakovic / AFPDemolition of the ruined Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, November 10, 2010.
The remarks came on the anniversary of the 1999 embassy bombing that killed three Chinese journalists

Beijing has neither forgotten nor forgiven the May 1999 bombing of its embassy in Belgrade, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters on Monday. Wang condemned the US-led bloc for creating conflict while posing as a defensive alliance, urging it to "seriously reflect" on its crimes.

Wang noted that May 7 was the anniversary of the embassy attack, in which three Chinese journalists were killed and 20 diplomatic staff were injured. "The Chinese people will never forget what they sacrificed to uphold the truth, fairness and justice. Nor will we ever forget this barbaric atrocity committed by US-led NATO," he told reporters.

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Bizarro Earth

Sowing seeds of plunder: A lose-lose situation in Ukraine

Colin Todhunter
Global Research
Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00 UTC
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It's a lose-lose situation for Ukrainians. While they are dying to defend their land, financial institutions are insidiously supporting the consolidation of farmland by oligarchs and Western financial interests.

So says Frédéric Mousseau, Policy Director of the Oakland Institute, an independent think tank.

Depending on which sources to believe, between 100,000 and 300,000 Ukrainian soldiers (possibly more) have died during the conflict with Russia. That figure, of course, does not include civilian casualties.

The mainstream narrative in the West is that Russia grabbed Crimea and then invaded Ukraine. Russia is portrayed as the outright aggressor which wants to restore its control over large swathes of Europe.

However, this narrative is false and has been debunked by various commentators who explain in some depth how Ukraine has been used and manipulated as part of a geopolitical campaign formulated by neoconservatives in Washington to destabilise Russia.
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Eye 1

US threatened WWII vets over Victory Day parade - envoy


RT
Tue, 09 May 2023 00:25 UTC
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© Telegram / EmbUSA"Immortal Regiment" procession at the Russian Embassy in Washington, US, May 8, 2023.
American veterans were reportedly told their passports would be canceled if they traveled to Russia.

The US government intimidated several WWII veterans who wanted to fly to Moscow for the Victory Day parade, Russian ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov claimed on Monday.

US officials have blocked US veterans from reuniting with their Russian comrades in arms for the second year in a row, Antonov announced, even threatening to cancel their passports if they flew to Russia.

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Ukraine cancels traditional holiday celebrating defeat of Nazis


RT
Mon, 08 May 2023 16:27 UTC
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© Sergei SUPINSKY / AFPPeople hold portraits of relatives who died in the Second World War, during the Immortal Regiment march marking Victory Day in Kiev on May 9, 2018.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has called President Vladimir Zelensky a "traitor" for proposing to shift Victory Day to May 8.

Ukraine may break the Soviet tradition of celebrating Victory Day on May 9 after President Vladimir Zelensky suggested holding commemorative ceremonies on May 8 instead. The idea was quickly slammed by officials in Moscow.

In a message on his Telegram channel on Monday, Zelensky explained that his proposal was based on the fact that it was "on May 8 that most nations of the world remember the greatness of the victory over the Nazis." He added that the German Third Reich's unconditional surrender was signed on that day.

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Control Panel

Big Tech companies are becoming more powerful than nation-states

Tom Valovic
Common Dreams
Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
Apple's Cupertino headquarters
© Carles Rabada on UnsplashApple's Cupertino headquarters; the tech giant is richer than 96% of the globe.
They are already richer than many countries, and the rise of AI looks set to increase their influence.

A few years ago, I was having dinner with a friend who worked at Google. As we were discussing the ins and outs of the tech world, he casually remarked: "Google is going to take over the world you know." Driving home and reflecting on that remark I thought: "How curious." But now, as I contemplate the shambles our democracy has become, I'm more inclined to think: "How prescient."

Democracy is under threat — not just in the U.S. but in many other countries as well. But the precipitous actions of newly minted authoritarian leaders and the turmoil in Western democracies are just a few of the puzzle pieces needed to figure out how we got to this point. Another less discussed trend is that U.S. citizens are being subjected to a relentless onslaught from intrusive technologies that have become embedded in the everyday fabric of our lives, creating unprecedented levels of social and political upheaval.
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Eye 1

The West risks creating a 'Snow ISIS' in Europe with extremists going to fight in Ukraine

Rachel Marsden
RT
Mon, 08 May 2023 15:37 UTC
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© Sputnik / Russian Defence Ministry
A neo-Nazi terrorist threat could emerge from the fog of war as radicals return from the frontlines.

A new assassination attempt shook Russia last week, targeting a prominent civilian figure — this time, writer Zakhar Prilepin, whose car was blown up in Nizhny Novgorod region.

The hit, which Prilepin survived, is reminiscent of the incident that killed political scientist and activist Darya Dugina last year near Moscow, and also the bombing that targeted military blogger Vladlen Tartarsky and leveled a Saint Petersburg café. These attacks are similar to those routinely condemned by the West when they're committed by jihadists. But Western officials' clear lack of interest in identifying or denouncing the perpetrators of these incidents speaks volumes.

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Putin

Globalist elites provoking bloody conflicts and coups - Putin


RT
Tue, 09 May 2023 06:44 UTC
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech at the Victory Day military parade
© Sputnik / Gavriil GrigorovRussian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech at the Victory Day military parade, which marks the 78th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, in Moscow.
The Russian leader has accused Western powers of trying to build a system of "robbery, violence and suppression".

Western elites have forgotten the consequences of the Nazis' "insane ambitions," Russian President Vladimir Putin has said during his Victory Day Parade speech on Red Square in Moscow.

Russia believes that "any ideology of superiority is by its nature disgusting, criminal and deadly," the president pointed out.
"The globalist elites keep insisting on their exceptionalism; they pit people against each other, split societies, provoke bloody conflicts and coups, sow hatred, Russophobia and aggressive nationalism, destroy traditional family values that make human a human," Putin said.

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Bad Guys

Best of the Web: Pakistan's ousted PM Imran Khan arrested at Islamabad court, gov't cuts internet as his supporters take to the streets

Abid Hussain
Al Jazeera
Tue, 09 May 2023 12:00 UTC
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Imran Khan (seen in blue and white in the middle of a scrum of armoured police officers in Islamabad today) has been arrested and led away during a court hearing, dramatic footage shows, with his supporters claiming he is being tortured
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been arrested as he appeared in a court in the capital, Islamabad, to face corruption allegations, sparking protests across the country.

The arrest on Tuesday is the latest twist in a months-long political crisis and follows several unsuccessful attempts to apprehend the cricketer-turned-politician, including a police raid in March at his residence in the eastern city of Lahore which he had managed to evade.

Musarrat Jamshed Cheema, a leader of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, confirmed the arrest on Tuesday to Al Jazeera.

"He went for his biometrics procedure from where he was picked by the Rangers," she said, referring to the paramilitary force.

Comment: Khan, his popularity, and his professed desire for his country to have positive relations with the multipolar world is, evidently, deemed to be too much of a threat to Pakistan's establishment, as well as the West which holds significant sway over them. Meanwhile Pakistan's economy, which desperately needs the mutually beneficial deals on offer, instead flounders:

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Russia's new glide bomb weapon 'changing course' of Ukraine conflict


RT
Tue, 09 May 2023 20:49 UTC
Russian Aerospace Force's Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jet glide bombs ukraine
© SputnikBombs stacked in front of a Russian Aerospace Force's Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jet, location unknown.
Russian glide bombs are complicating Kiev's plans for a grand offensive, the UK outlet said

Russia is using bombs fitted with wings to bypass Ukraine's air defenses and pummel forces assembling for the much-heralded spring offensive, The Telegraph reported on Sunday. Kiev is citing this new development to once again demand F-16 fighters from the West.

"Russia's newest weapon is changing the course of Ukraine war," the Telegraph headline proclaimed, referring to glide bombs such as the FAB-500. Kiev officials have estimated that the Russian Air Force is using at least 20 such bombs per day.

Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yury Ignat said the weapon has been used "intensely" for the past month, and described it as a "serious threat."

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