(2024-10-15). Iran condemns EU, UK sanctions as attempt to divert attention from Israeli genocide. presstv.ir Iran has condemned new sanctions by the EU and the UK as an attempt to divert attention from Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
(2024-10-15). Powder Keg in the Pacific. tomdispatch.com While the world looks on with trepidation at regional wars in Israel and Ukraine, a far more dangerous global crisis is quietly building at the other end of Eurasia, along an island chain that has served as the front line for America's national defense for endless decades. Just as Russia's invasion of Ukraine has revitalized the NATO alliance, so China's increasingly aggressive behavior and a sustained U.S. military build-up in the region have strengthened Washington's position on the Pacific littoral, bringing several wavering allies back into the Western fold. Yet such seeming strength contains both a heightene…
(2024-10-15). Could Palestine Be The Catalyst For An Islamic Renaissance? popularresistance.org Of all the countless analyses across the lands of Islam about the profound significance of fateful Al-Toofan (Al-Aqsa Flood) on October 7, 2023, this one stands out: a cycle of conferences in Istanbul earlier this week, including October 7, titled Palestine: the Lynchpin of Civilizational Renaissance, linked to the Kuala Lumpur Forum for Thought and Civilization. | Call it a Türkiye partnership: Southeast Asia meets West Asia, a graphic illustration of the multi-nodal world that will be congregating in less than two weeks in Kazan, capital of Muslim Russia, for the long -awaited BRICS summit under the Russia…
(2024-10-15). Israel's expanding wars is pushing Iran towards nuclear weapons. newarab.com 
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(2024-10-14). People Ask Me… smoothiex12.blogspot.com why I insist that the SMO is effectively a closing salvo of WW II. My first book is largely about it without stating it like this. But with Kazan BRICS summit coming and new reports pouring in about atrocities committed by "mercenaries" from the West and about their (very low) combat qualities, one begins to understand why they hate Russia. This also explains why they cannot lose as in maintaining a degree of decency and honor when defeated. And they have been defeated. Now comes this sensitive issue of how much, in the end, Nazis influenced the US ⚪ a lot, but we knew that. The issue, however, is larger, it…
(2024-10-14). 2024 Nobel Literature Prize: Han Kang Refuses to Celebrate Award while People Die in Wars. transcend.org 11 Oct 2024 – Han Kang, the first Korean to win the Nobel Prize in literature, has declined to hold a press conference; she cites the global tragedies of the Ukraine-Russia war and the Israel-Palestine genocide.