Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rode to power on pledges to clean up the Eastern European country, but the Pandora Papers reveal he and his close circle were the beneficiaries of a network o...
Newsweek Jan 24, 2023. Despite being elected in 2019 on the platform of fighting corruption, the Ukrainian president was found to have a network of companies based in tax havens.
av Jonathan Turley 29 juli 2024
Below is my column in The Hill on the recent notice that this blog is now being formally "reviewed" by NewsGuard, a company that I just criticized in a prior Hill column as a threat to free speech. The questions from NewsGuard were revealing and concerning. Today, I have posted the response of NewsGuard's co-founder…
By Jonathan Turley (Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.)
I hope that our readers have read the response of NewsGuard's Gordon Crovitz to my recent criticism of the company's rating system for news sites. He makes important points, including the fact that the company has given high ratings to conservative sites and low ratings to some liberal sites. I have mutual friends of both…
I am particularly concerned over the reported government contracts given to NewsGuard by the Biden Administration as well as agreements with teacher unions to help filter or rate sites. The Twitter Files have shown an extensive system of funding and coordination between agencies and these companies. The funding of such private rating or targeting operations is precisely what I have warned about in congressional testimony as a type of “censorship by surrogate.” The government has been attempting to achieve forms of censorship indirectly that it is barred from achieving directly under the First Amendment.
Speech by Sevim Dagdelen, Member of the German Bundestag at
„No to NATO – Yes to Peace“-rally in Washington DC on July 7th 2024.
"In fact, Germany is the second most important arms supplier for Israel after the USA. From 2019 to 2023, 30 percent of weapons came from Germany. In 2023, the figure was 47 percent while the USA supplied 53 percent. I think that is irresponsible and a shame to send weapons to an ongoing war."
Douglas Jones. "Although the technology used in voting continues to evolve, it remains vulnerable to both malicious and unintentional errors. To protect the systems against both, explains Douglas W. Jones, a computer scientist at the University of Iowa and co-author of the book Broken Ballots, election officials need to be able to check and double-check the election’s results."
‘There was no promise not to enlarge NATO’
Robert Zoellick, the U.S. diplomat who helped negotiate the end of the Cold War, says Vladimir Putin’s claims about Ukraine are part of a disinformation campaign
Jasmine Owens. The link between colonialism, exploitation, and nuclear weapons is seen most clearly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. "Eighty percent of the uranium used in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs originated from the Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, the Congo was the number one supplier of uranium to the U.S., and the people of the DRC paid a heavy price."
Was kann die Nato für die Ukraine tun? Was passiert, wenn Trump die US-Wahlen gewinnt? U.a. mit Omid Nouripour, Sahra Wagenknecht und Claus Kleber
Nato in der Krise – stark genug gegen Putin?
"maybrit illner" – Der Polit-Talk im ZDF vom 11. Juli 2024
Von 2026 an sollen Marschflugkörper vom Typ Tomahawk mit deutlich mehr als 2.000 Kilometern Reichweite, Flugabwehrraketen vom Typ SM-6 und neu entwickelte Überschallwaffen für einen besseren Schutz der Nato-Verbündeten in Europa sorgen.
Das gaben das Weiße Haus und die Bundesregierung am Rande des Nato-Gipfels in Washington bekannt.
Die genannten Systeme hätten eine "deutlich weitere Reichweite als gegenwärtige landgestützte Systeme in Europa", hieß es in einer gemeinsamen Erklärung. Sie sollen zunächst zeitweise in Deutschland stationiert werden, später permanent.
Der Beginn der geplanten Stationierung liegt mehr als ein Jahr nach der US-Präsidentenwahl im kommenden November. Die Entscheidung könnte also rückgängig gemacht werden, falls der Republikaner Donald Trump die US-Wahl gewinnt.
Trump hatte während seiner Amtszeit von 2017 bis 2021 eine Reduzierung der US-Militärpräsenz in Deutschland eingeleitet, die später unter dem jetzigen Präsidenten Joe Biden gestoppt wurde.
Sergei Karaganov: "For many years I have studied the history of nuclear strategy and come to an unambiguous, albeit seemingly not quite scientific, conclusion. The creation of nuclear weapons was the result of divine intervention. Horrified to see that people, Europeans and the Japanese who had joined them, had unleashed two world wars within the life-span of one generation, sacrificing tens of millions of lives, God handed a weapon of Armageddon to humanity to remind those who had lost the fear of hell that it existed. It was this fear that ensured relative peace for the last three quarters of a century. That fear is gone now. What is happening now is unthinkable in accordance with previous ideas about nuclear deterrence: in a fit of desperate rage, the ruling circles of a group of countries have unleashed a full-scale war in the underbelly of a nuclear superpower."
Sergei A. Karaganov
Professor Emeritus
National Research University–Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs
Academic Supervisor;
Council on Foreign and Defense Policy
Honorary Chairman of the Presidium
Karagano speaks abt the necessity of fear.
Eeva-Kaarina Kolsi, Ilta-Sanomat:
21.11.2020 12:35 Juice Leskinen teki Imagine-kappaleelle suomenkieliset sanat luokkakaverinsa Eija Ahvon laulettavaksi. Se julkaistaan levyllä nyt, kun John Lennonin kuolemasta tulee 40 vuotta.
Rejecting calls for him to step aside, Biden defended his determination to remain in the race by using one of his favorite foreign policy talking points, the conceit that America is the indispensable or essential nation. Building on the idea expressed by then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright a quarter century ago, the president said, “You know, not only am I campaigning, but I'm running the world. Not — and that's not hy — sounds like hyperbole, but we are the essential nation of the world. Madeleine Albright was right.”