RTWed, 23 Oct 2024 07:33 UTC
The BRICS Summit in Kazan has further exposed the failed attempts to isolate Russia, Margarita Simonyan has said.The BRICS Summit in the Russian city of Kazan signals that the world is "tired" of the dictates of the US-led collective West, RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan has said. The gathering also exposes the West's failed attempts to isolate Russia, she added.
Speaking on Tuesday at an event marking the anniversary of diplomatic relations between Russia and China, the RT editor-in-chief recalled the words of Chinese President Xi Jinping, who once said that his country does not need foreign "masters" who attempt to interfere in internal affairs on the pretense of human rights concerns. The same can be heard in Russia from President Vladimir Putin, Simonyan stated.
"We know the price of their [the West's] hypocrisy when they talk about human rights, and this is being said by the same people who used drug trafficking and the most brutal, most disgusting ways to enslave a nation in an effort to force China not to be China - which they did during the Opium Wars," Simonyan said.
© Kirk McKoy/Los Angeles TimesRep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank) • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco)
Former President Donald Trump defied his critics and repeated the phrase "
enemy from within" to refer to certain political opponents.
Trump previously said that both Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) are the "enemy from within" and insinuated he would use law enforcement or military force to go after them. Given the chance to clear up his past comments with Howard Kurtz on Fox News's
Mediabuzz, Trump repeated his claim that Pelosi and Schiff are within the definition of "enemy from within."
"Are you prepared to say now that you will not use law enforcement to punish or prosecute your political opponents?" Kurtz asked the former president.
"Excuse me, that's what they're using on me," Trump replied before alluding to the classified documents case in Florida.
© Onur Burak Akin/unsplashDestruction in Lebanon
, is wreaking havoc in this small defenseless country. The Israeli genocidal machine is waging an incinerating assault on fleeing civilians and critical facilities.
The scorched-earth Israeli strategy is the same as what we have seen in Gaza.
Attack in Lebanon anyone who moves or anything that stands - whether a hospital, a dense residential area, a café, a municipal building, a market, a school, or a Mosque - and allege there was a Hezbollah commander or a Hezbollah site here or there. Two recent
New York Times headlines express some of the impact of this latest Israeli war:
- In Just a Week, a Million People in Lebanon Have Been Displaced
- Lebanon's Hospitals Buckle Amid an Onslaught: 'Indiscriminate' Strikes Overwhelm Health System, U.N. Says
Historical note: Hezbollah, also a political Party and social service organization, was created to defend impoverished Shiite Muslims in southern Lebanon in 1982 right after the Israeli army once again invaded Lebanon and badly mistreated the residents during an 18-year-long military occupation.
RTMon, 21 Oct 2024 16:02 UTC
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The country is headed for a chaotic new era marked by volatility, economists say.
The US economy is currently undergoing a historic shift, moving into a new cycle of higher growth, persistent inflation and geopolitical instability that is expected to reroute cash flow across the globe, Business Insider (BI) reported Sunday, citing economists.
The new "supercycle" will reportedly be marked by higher interest rates and geopolitical and economic volatility that is likely to produce inflationary effects. Moreover, industrial planning is projected to be increasingly impacted by national-security concerns, inevitably altering supply chains across sectors.
The new supercycle "puts the economy in a completely new era," the CEO of Mar Vista Investments, Silas Myers, told the news outlet, warning that a whole generation of investors, lenders, and entrepreneurs had failed to embrace the "profound impact" that the change will have on their businesses.
Comment: Merely the tipping point? The US is sliding face down off the financial cliff jeopardized by billions in global giveaways, fake 'Bidenomics', the influx of thousands of illegal aliens draining American resources and the war-hyped agenda to benefit the MIC.
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RTMon, 21 Oct 2024 17:34 UTC
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on Sunday:
"This week's BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan will entice more countries to join the growing group, and Washington only has itself to blame."
Speaking on Galloway's
Mother of All Talk Shows (MOATS),
Maloof applauded Russian President Vladimir Putin for recognizing that countless states around the world are seeking a more inclusive economic system and looking, in Maloof's words:
"...to get out from under the odious sanctions of the West and the financial system that has really encumbered them.
"The United States is in charge of the 'Rules Based Order', which means that they can not only make the rules, but break them at will, and we've seen this constantly in its own decision making. And the world is saying 'we've seen enough of this crap.
"We're going to be seeing challenges to the hegemony of the dollar, [and] the weaponization of the dollar and the Western system, and we're already seeing mechanisms that will be offered at this summit this week."
© Udostepnij przezFlags of Poland and Ukraine
The state-run
Polish Press Agency recently reported on the publication of the latest survey by the
publicly financed Center for Public Opinion Research about Poles' attitudes towards Ukrainian refugees and the
proxy war. The results might surprise casual observers who hitherto assumed that this population is still gung-ho about both due to their
supposedly innate and irredeemable Russophobia. Before diving into the details, the reader should review these three prior analyses on this subject (
see below *).
Having shared the evolving statistical context for those who are interested, it's now time to highlight what the latest survey showed:
Only a little more than half of Poles (53%) support accepting more Ukrainian refugees, while two-thirds (67%) want to deport conscription-aged Ukrainian males (25-60 years old). Less than half (46%) support Ukraine continuing to fight Russia, slightly less (39%) want it to give up territory for peace, and a little bit more (44%) believe that this will ultimately happen in any case.
The military-strategic context within which these results were obtained is that
Poland confirmed in late August, several weeks before the survey was conducted between 12-22 September,
that it had already maxed out its military support for Ukraine.
Comment: Buyer's remorse is the responsibility of the buyer.
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Has there ever been a phonier candidate than
Kamala Harris?
During a Michigan event for Harris billed as a "town hall," mega-elite host Maria Shriver shut down an audience member who tried to ask the veep something — explaining that only "pre-determined questions" were kosher.With two weeks left to Election Day, and Donald Trump looking to have recaptured the momentum, publicly telling potential voters in a must-win state they're not allowed to directly question the woman asking for their trust is . . . an interesting choice.Yet it's pretty much the only option for the Harris campaign.
Their candidate simply can't function without a teleprompter; an open-question event for Harris would be like watching a drunk with an inner-ear disorder wander and weave across a minefield.
Gaza
The Biden administration has approved the deployment of 1,000 CIA-trained private mercenaries as part of a joint U.S.-Israeli plan to turn Gaza's apocalyptic rubblescape into a high-tech dystopia.
Starting with Al-Atatra, a village in the northwestern Gaza Strip, the plan calls to build what the Israeli daily Ynet calls "humanitarian bubbles" - turning the remains of villages and neighborhoods into tiny concentration camps cut off from their environs and surrounded and controlled by mercenaries.
This comes as Israel carries out daily massacres and ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, enacting the proposal known as
The Generals' Plan,
originally crafted by former national security chief Giora Eiland to turn Gaza into "a place where no human being can exist."
Sara Robinson
OrinicusThu, 17 Jan 2008 09:44 UTC
Dorothy Thompson
In 1939,
Time magazine named Dorothy Thompson the second most influential woman in America after Eleanor Roosevelt. The first American journalist expelled from Nazi Germany -- and still then the wife of Sinclair Lewis -- she was one of the country's leading voices against fascism. She'd seen it up close in Europe, and was furiously outspoken about its creeping influence in America.
In the
August 1941 issue of Harper's, Thompson wrote a short piece, based on her long European experience, outlining which Americans at any given dinner party might be expected to "go Nazi." It's still in Harper's archives, and it's as insightful and prescient now as it was on the eve of America's entry into World War II.
The article is a perceptive look at the way class, power, motivation, and character intertwine in the individual political choices we make in the face of authoritarian power. Thompson watched people sort themselves on one side or another of an invisible line that, in Europe, had already hardened into a battle front. From the distance of 67 years, she reports to us what she saw, how they got there, and who among us will be most likely to take us there again.
Comment: Many people on this planet have a deep desire for, and affinity with, the idea of an external authority. Religion is one example.
Religion and the idea of 'god' is just an external authority that people can look to for direction in their lives. From that point of view, belief in a 'god' is little different, in essence, to belief in a government. Both are vague authority figures in people's lives that in some way make them feel safe and secure. It seems to be a rather deep - and yet mostly unconscious - need that many people have.
It helps to explain why so many people get so worked up when we (or anyone) attacks and diminishes these authority figures, on which so many people depend to make them feel 'secure'. Such people just HAVE to believe that their chosen authority figure HAS to be 'all good' and 'right' because that authority is intimately connected to their own personal feelings of security.
Of course, that leaves the question of why some people seem to be ok with attacking and exposing authority as less than righteous. The answer to that question might be that those people are able to see, and do see, themselves as ultimately being their own authority. They don't experience that visceral fear of being 'cast adrift on a sea of chaos' at the idea of there being no external authority in their lives that seems to afflict those who baulk at attacks on 'the established authorities'.
Today, in a world where 1.8 billion Muslims, or people of Muslim/Middle Eastern extraction, are cast as sub-human by 'the established authorities', many in the West are again falling for propaganda that is setting the whole world up for a re-run of what happened to the Jews (and other minorities) in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Can you spot those around you who are likely to "go Nazi"?
RTMon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00 UTC
© Anna Moneymaker / Getty ImagesRepublican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024.
The US Congress task force investigating the July 13 attempt on the life of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has confirmed that the Secret Service and local law enforcement did not coordinate properly.
Trump was speaking at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania when a bullet nicked his ear. One rally-goer was killed and two more seriously injured before the Secret Service neutralized the attacker on the roof of a nearby factory.
"Put simply, the evidence obtained by the Task Force to date shows the tragic and shocking events of July 13 were preventable and should not have happened," said the preliminary report published by the bipartisan body on Monday.
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