Many people have been justifiably outraged that Saudi Arabia has been elected to the Commission on the Status of Women of the United Nations.
The move has been described as absurd by many, as Saudi Arabia has the worst record on women’s rights in the world and one of the worst in modern history.
Ukraine today cut off supplies of electricity to the Lugansk People’s Republic, and says it is preparing to do the same to the Donetsk People’s Republic.
Supposedly the decision was made because of unpaid power bills. In reality it is part of the blockade Ukraine has imposed on the two People’s Republics.
Russia’s contemporary involvement in the Balkans is comparatively minimal. Russia does do business with Serbia, including with Serbia’s military, but the business does not involve anything that one could call ‘make or break’ for either side. This is particularly true for Russia.
After failing to convince the UN Security Council to pass further sanctions on Syria, America has decided to act unilaterally and pass sanctions on Syrian institutions and individuals.
Earlier this month, after a heated debate in the Security Council, Russia used its veto power to stop America and its allies from passing further sanctions on Syria.
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Marine Le Pen has temporarily resigned from her role as leader of her party, Front National.
Le Pen described her move in the following way,
“I have always considered that the president is the president of all the French. Under this banner, he or she must unite all the French.
Tonight, I am no longer the president of the Front National. I am the presidential candidate.
I will be above partisan considerations”.
Despite asking for full press accreditation in April, the Macron campaign did not give RT what is a standard press credential to cover major campaign events. According to RT, Emmanuel Macron’s campaign didn’t give an actual reason for denying RT’s journalists and crew passes. They instead, repeatedly stated,
“They are still being processed”.
With all of that in mind, nothing could really prepare you for the sheer scale of the devastation visible throughout Syria’s second largest city.
Robert Fisk (born 1946) is a household name among foreign correspondents. We harbored some faint hope that this occasion might arise. And it did. Meeting Robert is like being transferred back in time to a novel from the Cold War days. Aside from our initial projections, Robert is quite down-to- earth. We met him at a seaside café in Beirut on a sunny day where he shared his experience with us. At once close to and remote from the current drama in the neighborhood of Lebanon.
Operation “Gotham Shield” – a drill testing US government response to a nuclear detonation, commenced on April 18th, and is to run until May 5th.
Given the obvious false flag gas attack executed this month in Syria with complicity of the US deep state, any planned “exercise” involving a simulated weapon of mass destruction arouses suspicion and concern.
Here are the details of the test:
Perhaps it is because Russia is a successful democracy with four major parties in the Duma representing various parties of left-right and centre that President Putin’s opinion on elections throughout the world is sought.
However, since Vladimir Putin does not want to meddle in the democracy of other states, he doesn’t formally endorse candidates in foreign countries, but that doesn’t matter, the foreign countries assign Putin an opinion anyway.
