UN Secretary-General appoints Anita Bhatia of India

UN Secretary-General appoints Anita Bhatia of India as Assistant Secretary-General for Resource Management, Sustainability and Partnerships and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women New York - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Anita Bhatia of India as Assistant Secretary-General for...

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Putin's ratings fall to all-time low, and the Kremlin knows why

Russia's trust in President Vladimir Putin has declined again. Russia's Public Opinion Research Centre (WCIOM) said that Putin's ratings have fallen to an all-time low. At the same time, however, sociologists speak about a strange paradox at this point. In the week from May 20 to May 26, Vladimir Putin's rating made up 30.5 percent. This...

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Interview: Iran that resists

Interview: Iran that resists The American withdrawal from the JCPOA, the famous nuclear deal between the United States and Iran, which at the time was also sponsored by Russia and the European Union, opened the door to more than one possible scenario but when nations clash, their people pay the consequences. So what is the current situation...

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Russia to modernize Doomsday aircraft

Representatives of the Russian Defence Ministry reported about  the imminent modernization of aerial command posts  known as "Doomsday aircraft." According to Deputy Defense Minister of Russia, Alexei Krivoruchko, the development work on the modernization of the aircraft that carry air command posts on board - the Ilyushin IL-80...

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Russia closes Northern Sea Route for foreign warships

Russia has been actively strengthening its defense capability in the Arctic region lately. The gradual melting of Arctic ice makes the passage of foreign warships near Russia's northern borders possible. In light of this, a set of rules was introduced for the passage of ships along the Northern Sea Route (NSR). All foreign countries must...

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Looking for Democracy, the antidote for extremism

Looking for Democracy, the antidote for extremism The poor turnout in last week's European Parliamentary elections showcases the lack of interest in politics and its growing distance from the people The turnout in last week's European Parliamentary elections was hailed by the media as being the highest in twenty years, being fractionally...

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Why can't the Serbs fight for their land in Kosovo?

Why are the Serbs not fighting for their land in Kosovo and Metohija, where Serbian statehood and Serbian Orthodoxy were born? The answer is about their state of mind. The battle on the Kosovo field near Pristina in 1389 means as much for the Serbs as the battle on the Kulikovo field in 1380 (now the Tula region) means for the Russian....

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Trump's Peace Message While Endless US Wars Rage

Trump's Peace Message While Endless US Wars Rage by Stephen Lendman Throughout the post-WW II era, US presidents endorsed peace while waging endless preemptive direct and/or proxy wars of aggression on one nation after another worldwide. All US wars are based on Big Lies and deception because hard truths would show no just cause exists...

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Nancy Pelosi: America’a Neville Chamberlain

By David Hoffman One common question students ask when told they are required to study history is, "Why do I need to learn about dead people and past events that can't be changed?" The answer is simple:  History teaches lessons, and, if these lessons are ignored, history repeats itself. In 1938, Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister...

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Nationalists gain big numbers in EU elections for good reason

By Giovanni Giacalone The European election results clearly incline to a nationalist and anti-EU establishment line, as numbers show: in France Marine Le Pen's National Front (RN) surpassed Macron of over 1%; in the UK Nigel Farage's Brexit party had a stunning victory with a 31% while in Italy Matteo Salvini's Lega party confirmed itself...

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Ukraine forces Russia to lose goodwill spirit in releasing Ukrainian sailors

The release of Ukrainian sailors could be a gesture of goodwill, but Ukraine does not contribute to this possibility, Anatoly Salutsky, writer, publicist and expert of the UN Alliance of Civilisations believes. The Kremlin responded to the decision of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg on Ukraine's claim about...

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Iran 2019: peace or war?

The signing of the JCPA treaty, the nuclear agreement between the United States and Iran, was one of the two events that in recent years have raised many hopes for peace in the Middle East and the world. The other was the election of Donald Trump to the American presidency, for the many promises made during the electoral campaign regarding...

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Murmansk-BN electronic suppression systems take half of the world under control

In April of 2019, Russia saw the deployment of Murmansk-BN complexes of radio-electronic suppression in the Kaliningrad region. Thanks to the move, the military command of the Russian army could hear and see a lot better in the Wester direction, having thus left competitors behind in the development of the means of electronic warfare or...

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Lightning strikes Soyuz booster rocket after launch

A lightning struck the Soyuz-2.1 booster that blasted off from Plesetsk cosmodrome. All the equipment continued working regularly, the booster delivered the satellite on board into orbit as was scheduled. During the blast off, the lightning struck the head fairing and then the third stage of the launch vehicle, which was recorded in the...

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The UK: A country in cloud cuckoo land

The Brexit vortex has seen a once-proud country tear itself apart pitting nation against nation, region against region and class against class Most Members of Parliament, including Theresa May, backed the Remain campaign in 2016. Why did they not stick to their guns? On the surface, according to the government of soon-not-to-be Prime Minister...

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American militarism destroying the future of humanity

"The culture of peace is universal. It is shared by people and nations Worldwide. Today's "culture of war" is a US hegemonic project predicated on the creation of conflict and divisions within and between countries. It is this (unilateral) project of global warfare which is intent upon destroying civilization." (Professor Michel Chossudovsky,...

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The controversial and amazing liberation of Italian citizen in Syria

By Giovanne Giacalone Syria seems to have become the land of miracles, the only place in the world where terrorists can suddenly become life saviors, or at least that's how it is being depicted. Charles Lister, of the Washington DC based "Middle East Institute", tweeted the following news on Wednesday afternoon: "In a press conference,...

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