(2025-01-09). Concerns mounting over new energy crisis in EU as Russian gas transit via Ukraine ends. presstv.ir As the agreement allowing Russian gas transit through Ukraine to Europe expires on Tuesday, concerns are mounting over new energy crisis in EU.
(2025-01-09). Almost half of Brits say investing in arms manufacturers is unethical. leftfootforward.org Nearly half (49%) of Britons view investing in arms manufacturers as crossing an ethical line, according to a new YouGov poll. | Furthermore, opinions on arms manufacturers differ by political affiliation: 60% of Labour voters and 65% of Liberal Democrat supporters consider investments in arms manufacturers to be unethical, compared to just 28% of Conservative voters. | Meanwhile, three-quarters of the public oppose investments in Russian government-owned companies, and 49% view investing in Israeli government-owned companies as unethical. | However, Reform supporters are less likely to describe Russian-owned…
(2025-01-09). Headlines for January 9, 2025. democracynow.org L.A. Wildfires Kill 5; Officials Order 130,000 Residents to Evacuate as Angelenos Brace for More Blazes, Israel Kills 70 Palestinians in Gaza; 15 Incubated Newborns Could Die Unless Hospital Receives Fuel, "Let's Call It Mexican America": Pres. Sheinbaum Fires Back After Trump's "Gulf of America" Remark, DOJ Plans to Release Findings on Trump's 2020 Election Subversion Efforts, But Not on Classified Docs, Russian Attack Kills 13 in Zaporizhzhia; Biden Admin Sends Final $500M to Ukraine, Chad Says It Fended Off Armed Attack on Presidential Residence, Lebanon Elects Joseph…
(2025-01-09). Russia says closely watching Trump's Greenland claims. aljazeera.com Europena Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says that Greenland's sovereignty must be respected.
(2025-01-09). Ukraine takes another bite out of Russia as Moscow grinds on in Donetsk. aljazeera.com Ukraine also announced significant investments in unmanned and long-range systems, where it has an edge.
(2025-01-09). Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,050. aljazeera.com Here are the key developments on the 1,050th day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
(2025-01-09). Take Your Money and Shove it: The Second Long Telegram, US Aid, and Russia's Economic Trauma. counterpunch.org 
"It was as if the West's central philosophical commitment to limited government was extirpated by a crude economic determinism that insisted on no government in Russia." — Peter J. Stavrakis, Kennan Institute Occasional Papers, 1993 Diplomatic advisors and analysts are a funny breed. They can be lauded as sages, called upon to clarify the complex and offer the odd lapidary
(2025-01-09). "We sent weapons quietly": Blinken Admits US Armed Kiev Before Russian Military Operation. Peace Was Never an Option. globalresearch.ca US Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted to local media that Washington began arming Kiev long before Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine, thus confirming Moscow's accusations about the direct involvement of the US in the deliberate preparation …
(2025-01-09). Latin American Mercenaries in Ukraine: A Desperate Gamble for Survival. globalresearch.ca By the end of 2024, as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine entered its third year, the presence of foreign mercenaries, particularly from Latin America, began to increase significantly. The trend has rapidly shifted from the initial influx of European …
(2025-01-09). BRICS — What's in It for Malaysia. infobrics.org At a meeting held in Kazan in Russia, Malaysia was admitted as a partner country in the international organisation known as BRICS for the time being…
(2025-01-09). "We sent weapons quietly": Blinken admits US armed Kiev before Russian military operation. infobrics.org Trump unconcerned about Russia's "threat" to Europe, complains media.
(2025-01-09). Sri Lanka Will Not Be Able to Join BRICS Right Now but Membership of Its NDB Bank Okayed. infobrics.org Despite an effort to gain entry to BRICS, Sri Lanka will not be able to join the organization at present due to a decision by its members at its recently concluded summit in Russia not to expand its membership right now. However Sri Lanka's application to join the BRCS promoted New Development Bank (NDB) has been accepted…
(2025-01-09). La mutevole escalation tra Russia e Usa / Nato. strategic-culture.su Una nuova corsa agli armamenti? Cosa porterà lo sviluppo di nuove armi e la possibile escalation tra Russia e Occidente? | Segue nostro Lo scorso 17 novembre, sul ´New York Times ª sono
(2025-01-09). Transcript of NewsX panel discussion, 8 January. gilbertdoctorow.com Transcripti submitted by reader NewsX: 0: 00We are joined by Dr Sergei Dvorinov, Director, Communication of BRICS Culture Media Forum; Gilbert Doctorow, Russian affairs expert located in Brussels; Ambassador Bhaswati Mukherjee, former diplomat. Thank you for joining us on this discussion. Sergei, I wanted to come to you first. There is a lot of talk about …
(2025-01-09). SATIRE: Child's AI-Generated Russian Videos Ruining YouTube Recommendations For Father's AI-Generated Russian Videos. theonion.com ALEXANDRIA, VA—Noting with frustration that the 4-year-old's viewing habits had likely destroyed his YouTube account forever, local man James Ratliff told reporters Monday that the AI-generated Russian videos his son had been watching were ruining his own recommendations for AI-generated Russian videos. "Goddamn it, what is this shit?" said the 47-year-old father, who despite years of training his algorithm to suggest a steady stream of glitchy, …
(2025-01-09). Jacobin promotes Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor, comparing him to Morris Hillquit in 1917. wsws.org American Socialist Party leader Morris Hillquit was thoroughly exposed by Leon Trotsky as a two-faced reformist, during the two months Trotsky spent in New York just before the Russian Revolution of 1917.
(2025-01-09). Eyewitness video shows moment of plane crash in Kazakhstan. presstv.ir A passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan.
(2025-01-09). L'importanza del Partenariato Strategico Globale tra Russia e Corea del Nord. strategic-culture.su Le relazioni tra la Corea del Nord e la Russia, storicamente radicate, hanno raggiunto un nuovo livello di cooperazione strategica nel 2024. Grazie al Partenariato Strategico Globale, i due Paesi intensificano la collaborazione in vari settori, garantendo gli interessi dei rispettivi popoli. | Segue nostro Le relazioni tra la Repubblica Popolare Democratica di Corea (RPDC, meglio nota come Corea del Nord) e la Russia affondano le proprie…
(2025-01-09). Russia: Caught between BRICS and a hard place. strategic-culture.su
(2025-01-09). NewsX World (India): Russian Troops Overrun Kurakhove. gilbertdoctorow.com Yesterday's panel discussion hosted by broadcaster News X (ITV India) demonstrates that the producers of this news program are in the process of finding their unique place in Indian media. They are now presenting experts holding contradictory positions on the nature of the Russia-Ukraine war and on its likely outcome. Readers of these pages will …
(2025-01-09). Iran refutes Macron's allegations that it is a "strategic and security challenge" for Europe. peoplesdispatch.org In response to Macron's allegations, Iran highlighted France's record on nuclear weapons, the genocide in Palestine, and its legacy of colonialism in Africa.
(2025-01-09). Selected Articles: Israel's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons. globalresearch.ca 
By Israel's long known open secret is its formidable nuclear arsenal. Less is known about its chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capability. In 1986, Dimona nuclear …
(2025-01-09). Israel's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons. Stephen Lendman. globalresearch.ca Of relevance to the recent Iran-Israel confrontation and the ongoing debate on Israel's nuclear weapons capabilities, this article by the late Stephen Lendman, first published in May 2012, outlines the features of Israel's nuclear weapons, focusing on the revelations of …
(2025-01-09). Elon Musk Is the One Bond Villain None of Us Asked For. bylinetimes.com Having told the Venice Carnival of his latest technological venture to save the world, a media tycoon in his 50s embarrasses the British and Italian Governments, while escaping their attempt to arrest him for illegally trading fuel for nuclear weapons. | He celebrates his victory by telling a guest, "A piece of advice, Mr. Bond. Don't screw with a man who buys ink by the ton. It's deadlier than uranium." | Fast forward 27 years and replace "ink by the ton" with "X", and Jonathan Pryce's theatrical villain in Tomorrow Never Dies with Elon Musk, and you have a good picture of where we now are. | Of course Carver…
(2025-01-09). The Drought That Felled Assad. fpif.org The meteorological drought that swept through the Fertile Crescent (stretching from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile Valley) in the 2000s finally ended up undoing the Assad regime in Syria and forcing Bashar al-Assad to flee to Moscow
(2025-01-08). Concerns mounting over new energy crisis in EU as Russian gas transit via Ukraine ends. presstv.ir As the agreement allowing Russian gas transit through Ukraine to Europe expires on Tuesday, concerns are mounting over new energy crisis in EU.
(2025-01-08). EU blasts Russia for weaponising gas in Moldova. aljazeera.com Moscow blames Ukraine and Moldova for halting supplies; Chisinau suspects Russia seeks to influence upcoming election.
(2025-01-08). Russia gained 4,000sq km of Ukraine in 2024. How many soldiers did it lose? aljazeera.com Verifying casualty figures for soldier in the Russia-Ukraine war is difficult, as experts call it 'a war of narratives'.
(2025-01-08). Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,049. aljazeera.com Here are the key developments on the 1,049th day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
(2025-01-08). Scandinavians, the World's Happiest People, Love Killing for the USA. covertactionmagazine.com Part IV: The Yankees Are Coming to All Scandinavia [See Parts 1, 2 and 3 of veteran journalist and political activist Ron Ridenour's look into Denmark and its ties to the U.S. empire—Editors] Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen surprised the nation three days after Joe Biden warned Russia it would lose its Nord Stream natural gas …
(2025-01-08). Selected Articles: The Second Long Telegram, US Aid, and Russia's Economic Trauma. globalresearch.ca 
By The National Security Archive of George Washington University, as it so often does, performed a fabulous …
(2025-01-08). Points Of Interest. . smoothiex12.blogspot.com Yes, this is a great interview of Colonel Macgregor to Judge, but Judge's quip about Air Force and Army at 28: 50 is as hilarious as it is accurate))
Now to a point that Acqua brought to our attention and that fits extremely well in my thesis that American "realists" are nothing more than collection of American exceptionalists ⚪ a euphemism for imperialists ⚪ with milder more aesthetically acceptable manners. These were and are the guys who played all along into the narrative of Russia's weakness and decline (no, Mearsheimer is not alone marked with this dubious distinction) which created the impression among u…
(2025-01-08). Eyewitness video shows moment of plane crash in Kazakhstan. presstv.ir A passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan.
(2025-01-08). Russia e Vietnam continuano ad approfondire il loro partenariato strategico globale. strategic-culture.su Un legame storico, consolidato e in continua evoluzione sin dai tempi dell'Unione Sovietica: le relazioni tra Vietnam e Russia si fondano su una lunga tradizione di cooperazione e fiducia reciproca, che oggi si rafforza con nuovi accordi strategici in materia di difesa ed energia. | Segue nostro L'amicizia tra Vietnam e Russia affonda le proprie radici nelle storiche relazioni ai tempi dell'Unione Sovietica, quando Mosca fu il princip…
(2025-01-08). Russia e Vietnam continuano ad approfondire il loro partenariato strategico globale. strategic-culture.su Un legame storico, consolidato e in continua evoluzione sin dai tempi dell'Unione Sovietica: le relazioni tra Vietnam e Russia si fondano su una lunga tradizione di cooperazione e fiducia reciproca, che oggi si rafforza con nuovi accordi strategici in materia di difesa ed energia. | Segue nostro L'amicizia tra Vietnam e Russia affonda le proprie radici nelle storiche relazioni ai tempi dell'Unione Sovietica, quando Mosca fu il princip…
(2025-01-08). Iran building two more units at Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant: AEOI chief. presstv.ir Official says Iran is pursuing establishment of the second and third units of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.
(2025-01-08). Will Biden Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg Posthumously? Declassified Docs Show FBI Knew She Was Innocent. democracynow.org 
Calls are growing for President Biden to posthumously exonerate Ethel Rosenberg following newly publicized documents proving that the FBI knew of her innocence long before she was prosecuted by the federal government more than 60 years ago. Rosenberg and her husband Julius were charged with sharing nuclear secrets with the Soviet Union and executed on June 19, 1953. A federal pardon or exoneration would be "the right thing to do," says Massachusetts Congressmember Jim McGovern, who is part of an effort led by the Rosenbergs' son Robert Meeropol "to get history right." Ethel Rosenberg…