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Dmitry Trenin: Russia is undergoing a new, invisible revolution

Dmitry Trenin
RT
Tue, 02 Apr 2024 09:48 UTC
Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Grand Kremlin Palace, in Moscow, Russia
© Grigory Sysoev / SputnikRussian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a meeting with election campaign workers at the Grand Kremlin Palace, in Moscow, Russia.
The US-led bloc has pushed the country to develop a new awareness of itself and its place in the world.

When President Vladimir Putin, back in February 2022, launched Russia's military operation in Ukraine, he had specific, but limited objectives in mind. It was essentially about assuring Russia's security vis-à-vis NATO.

However, the drastic, expansive and well-coordinated Western reaction to Moscow's moves - the torpedoing of the Russo-Ukrainian peace deal and the mounting escalation of the US-led bloc's involvement in the conflict, including its role in deadly attacks inside Russia - have fundamentally changed our country's attitude towards our former partners.

We no longer hear talk about "grievances" and complaints about "failures in understanding." The last two years have produced nothing less than a revolution in Moscow's foreign policy, more radical and far-reaching than anything anticipated on the eve of the Ukraine intervention. Over the past 25 months, it has been quickly gaining in strength and profundity. Russia's international role, its position in the world, its goals and methods of reaching them, its basic worldview - all are changing.

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Evil Rays

Climate-con and the media-censorship complex - Part 1

Jesse Smith
Off-Guardian
Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00 UTC
disinformation
The gauntlet has been cast by the media-censorship complex. Just prior to this year's annual globalist confab in Davos, the World Economic Forum (WEF) announced that misinformation and disinformation are currently the greatest threats to humanity, with the release of its Global Risks Report 2024.

From a list of 34 risks, the WEF report identifies mis- and disinformation as the top threats to global stability over the next two years and the fifth most dangerous threats over the next 10 years. Of particular concern is false information that could affect elections, democratic processes, and social cohesion in various countries worldwide, as well as sentiment contradicting the "consensus" narrative about climate change.

“consensus” narrative about climate change.
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Heart - Black

Best of the Web: Israeli strike kills foreign aid workers in Gaza - NGO


RT
Tue, 02 Apr 2024 02:11 UTC
Gaza, bombed vehicle, World Central Kitchen NGO
© AFPA vehicle of the World Central Kitchen NGO destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in the city of Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip.
Seven aid workers, including four foreigners, providing meals for the World Central Kitchen (WCK) have been killed in a "targeted attack" by Israeli forces in Gaza, the NGO, founded by Spanish-American celebrity chef Jose Andres, has said.

All of the group's operations in the Palestinian enclave have been suspended following the Monday incident, it added.

Five fatalities were reported initially as a result of the airstrike, but WCK announced an updated death toll in a statement on Tuesday. The victims include a dual US-Canadian citizen, three Palestinians, an Australian, a Pole and a British national, the group said.

According to the NGO, its staff members were attacked in the town of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza as they were leaving a warehouse after unloading tons of food aid earlier delivered to the Palestinian enclave by sea.

The aid workers were traveling through a de-conflicted zone in two armored cars with the WCK logo on them as well as a soft skin vehicle, the NGO said. The convoy was struck despite WCK coordinating its movements with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the statement read.

"This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations, where food is being used as a weapon of war. This is unforgivable," WCK CEO Erin Gore said.

Comment: This was obviously no accident. But what better way to stop an organization from delivering much needed food than by killing a few people, calling it an accident, and having the organization stop of its own accord.

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Gavel

Appeals court block Texas migrant arrest law again

Emily Goodin
The Daily Mail
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:48 UTC
migrant camp texas border
© Anadolu via GettyMigrants build makeshift tents with blankets to protect themselves from the cold as an American helicopter guards the border
Stops cops from arresting illegal border crosses as state's battle with the Biden administration rages on

A Texas law that allows state police to arrest and deport migrants suspected of illegally entering the United states will remain on hold for now, a federal appeals court ruled in a victory for President Joe Biden.

Biden's Justice Department has argued that Texas' law is a violation of federal authority and would create chaos at the border. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has argued the Biden administration isn't doing enough to control the border and that the state has a right to take action.

A panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied - in a 2-to-1 ruling - a request by Texas to let the law take effect while the state's appeal of a judge's ruling blocking it plays out at the appellate court.
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Bad Guys

Israeli attack on Damascus was terrorism - Moscow


RT
Tue, 02 Apr 2024 22:14 UTC
Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, Israel attack Iranian embassy
© AFP / Louai BesharaThe rubble of a building annexed to the Iranian embassy is pictured a day after an air strike in Damascus on April 2, 2024
The head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, has described Monday's airstrike on the Iranian Consulate in the Syrian capital as a terrorist attack committed by the Israeli government.

Speaking to reporters after a meeting with his Belarusian counterparts on Tuesday, the spy chief condemned the strike, which reportedly killed several Iranian diplomats as well as seven officers of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including two generals - Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi.

Naryshkin described the attack as "an ugly and criminal step in relation to the sovereign state of Iran, and in relation to the sovereign state of Syria, on whose territory this terrorist act was committed."

He added that the SVR has received additional information about the incident, and reactions from various countries, but did not provide further details.

Russia's Foreign Ministry has also condemned the bombing of the Iranian compound in Damascus, stressing that any attacks on diplomatic missions, which are protected under the Vienna conventions on diplomatic relations, are unacceptable.
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Putin

Putin warns Moscow terror attack mastermind: 'We will get them'


RT
Tue, 02 Apr 2024 19:51 UTC
Putin Rusija
It's crucial to identify the perpetrators and ultimate beneficiaries behind the Crocus City Hall tragedy, the president has said

Russian security agencies will find the masterminds behind the terrorist attack on Moscow's Crocus City concert hall, President Vladimir Putin has pledged.

It's crucial to establish not only the direct perpetrators of the "bloody terrorist attack" which took place on March 22, but also all the links in the chain leading to its ultimate beneficiaries, Putin said during a meeting with the leadership of Russia's Interior Ministry on Tuesday.

"We will definitely get them," the president said of the masterminds of the Crocus City Hall massacre, in which 144 people were killed and more than 550 injured.

Comment: When the FSB completes its investigation, the results are likely to be shocking. But how will Russia wield that damning information?

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Bad Guys

Gavin Newsom applauds rollout of AI surveillance network in California

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 01 Apr 2024 19:54 UTC
big brother
© ZeroHedge
If you're not a criminal then you have nothing to hide, right? This is the perpetual argument used in favor of state mass surveillance throughout history. It's the underlying justification at the birth of every surveillance agency from the Soviet Cheka to the German Stasi and beyond. Don't commit crimes and "you have nothing to worry about."

Of course, this argument requires the public to overlook a simple and universal truth - That which is legal today can be made illegal tomorrow, and the people who make these decisions are often not good people. With the ability to track and trace the behavior and movements of the citizenry in real time, the temptation to abuse that technology to increase government power is exponential. That is to say, mass surveillance tends to inspire governments to abuse their authority and treat people like criminals even when they are innocent.
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Eye 2

Ukraine targets RT chief with criminal probe


RT
Mon, 01 Apr 2024 19:44 UTC
Margarita Simonyan
RT editor in chief Margarita Simonyan
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has expanded its investigation against RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan.

The agency has announced that it suspects Simonyan of several criminal offenses under Ukrainian law. She was described in a Monday statement as a "propagandist" who has been furthering "Russian narratives" via social media and during interviews.

The list of offenses attributed to the journalist cites alleged includes crimes against the Ukrainian state, including "propaganda of war," the general infringement of its sovereignty, and the specific "denial of armed aggression by Russia." A Ukrainian court ordered Simonyan's arrest for suspected violations against its territorial integrity in March 2022.

The SBU has also claimed it has documented "public calls for mass killings of Ukrainian children in December 2023," by Simonyan, but did not say which particular remarks it was referring to.
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Skull

Best of the Web: Asymmetric response and the perp walk to World War III

Tom Luongo
Gold, Goats, 'n Guns
Fri, 29 Mar 2024 19:21 UTC
nuclear explosion man watering lawn
Have you ever tried to break out of the orbit of a narcissist? It's damn difficult. Their pattern of emotional abuse is designed to make you feel like the abuser, demoralizing you, sapping you of your vitality and agency.

They weaponize your humanity and feed off your guilt. When you finally summon the courage to divorce yourself from them that's when the fangs really come out. That's when their true face is revealed. And it's nothing but scorn, derision and unfettered hatred.

Narcissists don't love you. They love themselves.

I'm opening this article with that quick reminder of human psychology to set the stage for this week's discussion of all things geopolitical. There ain't no art in this piece folks, I'm too damn exhausted to craft the language.
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Question

Are US, Israel heading for divorce?

Scott Ritter
Energy Intelligence
Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:09 UTC
Benjamín Netanyahu, bibi
© ReutersPrimer ministro israelí, Benjamín Netanyahu.
The crisis in Gaza that has been ongoing since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel has resulted in a sea change in political opinion on the question of Israeli security prerogatives and Palestinian statehood. While international opinion has decisively shifted to the Palestinian cause, Israel has until recently been ably backstopped by the US, which has wielded its veto at the UN Security Council to shield Israel from any binding consequences. But shifting global priorities, coupled with turbulent domestic political realities, have caused the US stance on Israel to shift, creating the possibility of Israel, for the first time, standing alone in the crosshairs of global condemnation.

On Mar. 25, the 10 non-permanent members of the UN Security Council tabled a draft resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza during Ramadan, the immediate release of hostages and humanitarian access. The resolution was the latest in a succession of similar calls from the Security Council seeking an end to the violence that has wracked Gaza and the region since Oct. 7.

Prior to the Mar. 25 draft resolution being tabled, all previous efforts to bring an end to violence in Gaza had failed, with the draft texts either vetoed by the US or, on one occasion, Russia and China. But the latest call for a ceasefire passed muster, receiving 14 "yes" votes, zero "no" votes, and one abstention — from the US.
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