Elizabeth Vos, Consortium News. (2024-02-01). Russiagate And Gaza. popularresistance.org Just a few years ago, the Russiagate narrative dominated the news sphere: anyone who questioned the status quo was labeled a Putin puppet or a Russian bot, including American journalists. | In recent months, Israeli officials have similarly labeled anyone and any organization who opposes them as anti-Semitic or Hamas sympathizers, even going so far as to label the International Court of Justice anti-Semitic. | Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took both narratives a step further over the weekend, calling on the F.B.I. to investigate pro-Palestinian protests for alleged financial ties to Russia. | Her statements c…

Pressenza IPA (2024-02-01). Remembering the enormous legacy of a "Great Soul". pressenza.com On 30 January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi, a pivotal leader in the liberation of India from British rule and a living example of active nonviolence, was assassinated at the age of 78 by a Hindu fanatic. | As a lawyer and activist, he inspired his early struggle for the defense of his fellow countrymen, discriminated against and mistreated in South Africa, with a combination of Hindu culture, the ideas of the Russian Christian anarchist Tolstoy, and the action of civil disobedience advocated by the American writer Henry David Thoreau. | On his return to India in 1915, he began the movement that the world would come to kn…

albawaba (2024-02-01). China recognizes Taliban's ambassador, sets diplomatic precedent. albawaba.com ALBAWABA- Chinese President Xi Jinping formally accepted credentials from Mawlawi Asadullah, the Ambassador of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, marking the Taliban's official appointment of their ambassador to China. This move positions China as the first nation globally to acknowledge the Taliban ambassador as Afghanistan's legitimate representative abroad.ü§¨Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun told Shoigu that the PRC will support Russia on the "Ukrainian issue" despite continuous pressure from the US and Europe. | Earlier, China recognized the Taliban government in Afghanistan. | ‚…

albawaba (2024-02-01). Germany to provide Ukraine with $7.6b worth of weapons. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – German Chancellor urged on Thursday European Union countries to increase their arms deliveries to Ukraine amid the war with Russia, which began on Feb. 24, 2022. | ‚Ä® | Olaf Scholz told reporters in Brussels ahead of an extraordinary EU summit, complained that the military weapons sent to Ukraine are not enough to fight Russia.He maintained that military pledges by EU countries have been "far from being enough," while Ukraine is in desperate need to get more advanced weapons. | ‚Ä® | "The discussion must start immediately because we know that what has been planned so far,…

Rhoda Wilson (2024-02-01). 15-minute cities are being built in Russia. expose-news.com Dobrograd, a new city in the Vladimir Region of Russia, is being built according to the concept of a slow city, where everything necessary for a person is within a 15-minute walking …

ecns.cn (2024-02-01). Jilin eyes stable foreign trade growth in 2024. ecns.cn Jilin province is expected to see stable growth in foreign trade this year, driven by deepening business ties between China and Russia, surging trade volume facilitated by cross-border e-commerce, and the nation's thriving automobile industry…

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2024-02-01). Putin afirma que Il-76 fue derribado por misil estadounidense. telesurtv.net El mandatario indicó que el Comité de Investigación de Rusia abrió una causa por cargos de terrorismo.

Kate Hudson (2024-02-01). The Unthinkable Looms: Nuclear-Armed Israel is at War. counterpunch.org Israeli nuclear weapons pose a particular risk to peace and security in the Middle East region and internationally; not surprisingly they are seen as a significant threat by neighbouring non-nuclear states, and the ongoing catastrophe in Gaza and the extending war is exactly the situation in which they are likely to be used.

David Rosen (2024-02-01). Polyamory: Sex, Love and the Family. counterpunch.org Since the nation's founding, individuals, religious groups and radical communities have challenged conventional morality. They have contested the dominant form of monogamous, heterosexual sexuality and the patriarchal nuclear family. In 2021, only 18 percent — or 23 million — of U.S. households were "nuclear families" with a married couple and children. This is a significant drop from nearly 60 percent during the

Leonard Eiger, Glen Milner, Ground Zero Center. (2024-01-31). Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Is No Utopian Dream. popularresistance.org The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) went into effect three years ago (on January 22, 2021) making nuclear weapons illegal under international law for the first time in history. | The TPNW is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons, with the goal of leading towards their total elimination. It specifically prohibits countries from producing, testing, acquiring, possessing or stockpiling nuclear weapons. It also outlaws the transfer of the weapons and forbids signatories from allowing any nuclear explosive device to be stationed, installed or…

Binoy Kampmark (2024-01-31). Mesmeric Weapons: South Africa's Nuclear Program. counterpunch.org The lessons of the South African nuclear weapons program are deep, profound and largely ignored by non-proliferation dogmatists. They show that a regime, even one subject to sanctions and exiled to the diplomatic cold room, can still show aptitude and resourcefulness in creating such murderous weapons. The white regime of Apartheid South Africa was marginalised, the globe's

Global Research News (2024-01-31). Selected Articles: US-NATO Largest War Exercise Against Russia. "It Will Also be Nuclear". Italy on the Front Line. Manlio Dinucci. globalresearch.ca By US Army General Christopher Cavoli, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, announced that the largest NATO …

geo.tv (2024-01-31). North Korea performs missile drills amid regional tensions. geo.tv KCNA added that cruise missile launched by Kim Jong-un forces was strategic, referring to nuclear-capable weapons…

Dave DeCamp (2024-01-31). US to Deploy Nukes in the UK for the First Time in 15 Years. news.antiwar.com The US will deploy nuclear weapons to the UK for the first time in 15 years in a move Russia will view as a provocation, The Telegraph reported, citing Pentagon documents. Pentagon procurement contracts show that the US is planning to station B61-12 nuclear warheads at RAF Lakenheath, a base in Suffolk, England. The US …

WSWS (2024-01-31). Biden gives green light for retaliation against Iran. wsws.org US imperialism is rapidly and recklessly plunging the Middle East into a region-wide war that together with the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine threatens to engulf the world.

tvbrics (2024-01-31). Sergey Lavrov: BRICS is capable of shaping the global agenda. tvbrics.com The Russian Foreign Minister emphasised that cooperation in the group is based on the principles of mutual respect…

tvbrics (2024-01-31). Participants of international session at Pushkin State Russian Language Institute discussed cultural and humanitarian co-operation between Russia and Asian countries. tvbrics.com The event outlined a number of problems in the sphere of education and culture in Asian countries and discussed ways to solve them…

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2024-01-31). 'Swarming' the U.S. in West Asia, until it folds. mronline.org The U.S. is so deeply mired in an unwinnable battle from the Levant to the Persian Gulf that only its adversaries in China, Russia, and Iran can bail it out.

infobrics (2024-01-31). Russia Sees Its Natural Gas Exports Recovering on Higher Shipments to China. infobrics.org Pipeline shipments to rise 18% to 108 billion cubic meters…