Daily Archives: January 24, 2024

2024-01-24: News Headlines

  • bbc.com (2024-01-24). Russian jet crashes carrying Ukrainian PoWsA Russian Ilyushin-76 military transport plane has crashed in the southern Belgorod region bordering Ukraine. | | Russia's ministry of defence said 65 captured Ukrainian military were on the plane heading to Belgorod region for a prisoner exchange.
  • koreajoongangdaily.joins.com (2024-01-24). Russia blames West for Ukraine war at UN Security CouncilRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blamed his country's ongoing aggression on Ukraine on the United States' continued arms support to Ukraine during the UN Security Council meeting in New York on Monday.
  • WSWS (2024-01-24). The Indian ruling class and imperialist powers embrace Modi as he erects a Hindu supremacist state. wsws.org The imperialist powers' embrace of the Hindu supremacist and pogromist Modi is at one with their full-throttle support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right government as it mounts its genocidal assault on Gaza and their alliance with the fascist disciples of Stepan Bandera in waging war against Russia in Ukraine.

    infobrics (2024-01-24). CIA's openly declared spy war on Russia not going so well. infobrics.org Somewhat schizophrenically, the CIA calls for Russians to "end betrayal" by actually committing it, all for "family values" and "the future of Russia", which is quite strange given the fact that Washington DC ideologues are obsessed with every anti-family idea in the book. The so-called "woke" extremist, ultra-liberal ideology is at an all-time high in the US, while solid evidence suggests that the troubled Biden administration is even involved in the massive child trafficking in Ukraine and elsewhere. So much for America's "focus on family values".

    infobrics (2024-01-24). BRICS+ Expansion Causes Turmoil for Western Countries. infobrics.org At the dawn of this year, five more countries became full members of BRICS, a transnational association which until then consisted of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, and thus became BRICS+ (BRICS Plus), totalling 10 countries…

    infobrics (2024-01-24). Achievements and Potential of Economic Cooperation Between India and Russia. infobrics.org India today is the fastest-growing economy in the world, with a strong outlook of 7-8 per cent growth rates for the coming decade. Russia, despite having become the most sanctioned economy in the world, has shown uncommon resilience and returned to positive GDP growth…

    presstv.ir (2024-01-24). Public panic in Sweden over war with Russia as Turkey ratifies Stockholm's bid to join NATO. presstv.ir Turkey signs off on Sweden joining NATO, as public panic rises in Stockholm over a war with Russia.

    Sara Flounders, Monica Moorehead (2024-01-24). Int'l assembly in NYC salutes Palestinian resistance. workers.org The International Assembly Against Imperialism in Solidarity with Palestinian Resistance was held at the historic Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial & Educational Center in New York City on Jan. 21. Workers World Party, the organizer of the event, had chosen the date to honor the centennial of Russian . . . |

    Staff (2024-01-24). "The Military-Industrial Complex: An Unseen Beneficiary of War. muslimmirror.com By Hadiqa Maryam Abbasi Today, the world is grappling with horrible wars, whether it's the Russia-Ukraine, the Israel-Palestine war, or any other conflict. Innocent civilians are the ultimate victims of dumb bombs, bunker busters, artillery shells, mortars, and pellet guns. But, who is the winner in these destructive war episodes? The states? The people? No. …

    WSWS (2024-01-24). Kiev kills 27 civilians in artillery attack in East Ukraine as it plots geographic expansion of war into Russia. wsws.org The Zelensky government is doubling down its increasing attacks on civilians in Russian-controlled territories as it embraces a far-right ideology as state policy.

    Luis Linares Petrov (2024-01-24). Russian Central Electoral Commission invited international observers. plenglish.com Moscow, Jan 24 (Prensa Latina) The Central Electoral Commission of Russia (CCE) sent invitations to similar entities from some 95 countries to participate as observers in the presidential elections, announced the president of the organization, Ella Pamfilova.

    infobrics (2024-01-23). India-Russia Ties Can Be a Paradigm for Countries Seeking to Befriend India. infobrics.org The five-day visit of External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to the Russian Federation from 25-29 December 2023 has caused quite a stir both in India and Russia and abroad as many angry opinion pieces in Western media show. Why has this visit caused this stir; what was the visit meant to convey; was it meant to reboot bilateral relations or is there an inevitability to Indo-Russiam ties?>

    infobrics (2024-01-23). American Neo-Nazis "refocus" on American issues and away from Ukraine. infobrics.org Russia's success in Ukraine is breaking global Nazi morale.

    infobrics (2024-01-23). Kiev neo-Nazi regime continues to openly practice terrorism against Russian civilians. infobrics.org Recent attack in Donetsk's public market makes clear the terrorist nature of the Kiev regime.

    infobrics (2024-01-23). French mercenaries obliterated in Kharkov, bad omen for NATO personnel in Ukraine. infobrics.org The mercenaries were stationed in the eastern city of Kharkov and their mission was most likely to coordinate and direct long-range strikes on Russian territory.

    infobrics (2024-01-23). Achievements and Potential of Economic Cooperation Between India and Russia. infobrics.org India today is the fastest-growing economy in the world, with a strong outlook of 7-8 per cent growth rates for the coming decade. Russia, despite having become the most sanctioned economy in the world, has shown uncommon resilience and returned to positive GDP growth…

    infobrics (2024-01-23). BRICS+ Expansion Causes Turmoil for Western Countries. infobrics.org At the dawn of this year, five more countries became full members of BRICS, a transnational association which until then consisted of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, and thus became BRICS+ (BRICS Plus), totalling 10 countries…

    Andrew Korybko (2024-01-23). Kiev's Implied Territorial Claims To Russia's Border Regions Are Totally Bogus. thealtworld.com It's actually Russians that have always lived in modern-day Ukraine's border regions, not Ukrainians that have always lived in Russia's like Zelensky implied. | Zelensky signed a

    Valeriy Krylko (2024-01-23). Latest Wonder Weapon Being Provided to Ukraine Unlikely to Turn the Tide in War. covertactionmagazine.com But It Will Widen the Conflict and Represents Another Escalation Directed Against Russia On January 6, Denmark announced that it would be transferring 19 American-made F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine in the second quarter of 2024. Last August, the Biden administration approved sending F-16s—which are made by Lockheed Martin—to Ukraine from Denmark and the Netherlands. …

    Andy Kroll (2024-01-23). Trump Allies Plot to Take Over the European Union. tomdispatch.com It would be funny if it weren't so potentially tragic — and consequential. No, I'm not thinking about Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign but a related development: the latest decisions from the European Union (EU) about Ukraine. As 2023 ended, European nations failed to agree on a $54-billion package of assistance for Ukraine at a time when that country was desperately trying to stay afloat and continue its fight against Russian occupation forces. Bizarrely, the failure of that proposal coincided with a surprising EU decision to open membership talks with that beleaguered country. In other words, no…

    Editor (2024-01-23). Patrick Lawrence: Russia's Turn From the West. scheerpost.com

    teleSUR, hvh, JCM (2024-01-24). Rusia inicia cuarta unidad de central nuclear en Egipto. telesurtv.net Putin precisó que la planta permitirá la producción anual de hasta 37.000 millones de kilovatios hora.

    Charlotte Dennett (2024-01-23). When Nuclear War is No Longer Unthinkable: Honoring Two Television Events. counterpunch.org "There's something about the sound of a mothers scream, you just never forget." That was a comment from actress Ellen Moore when interviewed about her role in a recently released documentary about the 1982 movie The Day After, a spellbinder that had over a hundred million Americans glued to their TV sets, watching how a

    John Laforge, Counter Punch. (2024-01-23). Blocking The Doors Of The Nuclear Ban Treaty Blockers. popularresistance.org The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) now has seventy "states parties" and two dozen governments moving to see it ratified. The Entry Into Force anniversary will be celebrated all over the world as the best means of preventing accidental or deliberate detonations of the most poisonous and overwhelmingly destructive weapons in human history. (Universalization would also end today's regular use of nuclear weapons which are employed by nine governments the way bank robbers use a pistol: without pulling the trigger, they still get the loot. It's no deterrence but armed robbery.)…

    Anthony Donovan (2024-01-23). NYC: Vigil to Abolish Nuclear Weapons on the 3rd Anniversary of the TPNW. pressenza.com January 22nd, 2024 A vigil outside the U.S. UN Mission across from the United Nations with members of Peace Action NY, Manhattan Project for a Nuclear Free World, Pax Christi NY, The Catholic Worker, Veterans For Peace, PSR, and ICAN gathered today in front of the United Nations to commemorate and celebrate the 3rd Anniversary of the entry into force (becoming international law) of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). | In contrast to and fully aware that in just 9 days, the universities, corporations, national labs, contractors, and government agencies of our entire nuclear weapon "Enterprise…

    Anthony Donovan (2024-01-23). NYC: Vigil to Abolish Nuclear Weapons on the 3rd Anniversary of the TPNW. pressenza.com

    teleSUR, hvh, JCM (2024-01-23). Rusia inicia cuarta unidad de central nuclear en Egipto. telesurtv.net Putin precisó que la planta permitirá la producción anual de hasta 37.000 millones de kilovatios hora.

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