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7Feb

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Russia, Ukraine

Kiev inching closer to conceding defeat

Dmitry Medvedev cited talks about a ‘Korean scenario’ in Ukraine as evidence of a growing acceptance of “reality” FILE PHOTO. Dmitry Medvedev. © Sputnik/Ekaterina Shtukina Discussions of a “Korean scenario” in Ukraine are a sign that Kiev is on the way to recognizing the reality on the ground and accepting its losses, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said. The idea of a Korean-style division of Ukraine has been discussed by current and former officials in Kiev, who claim that this is what Russia is pursuing. The idea that Ukraine could be divided up the way Korea was after the war in the 1950s is “for domestic consumption” and constitutes “wishful thinking,” Medvedev added, citing unnamed “propagandists” as p...

Moscow provides update on Ukrainian losses

7Feb

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Russia, Ukraine

Moscow provides update on Ukrainian losses

More than 6,500 soldiers were killed in January, with hundreds of tanks and other military vehicles destroyed, according to the Russian MoD FILE PHOTO. Medics of Ukrainian Army evacuate a wounded soldier on a road not far of Soledar, Donetsk region. © Anatolii Stepanov / AFP The West’s unprecedented military aid to Ukraine has failed to prevent significant losses among Kiev’s forces, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Tuesday during a ministry conference call. “In the first month of this year alone, their losses amounted to more than 6,500 military personnel, 26 aircraft, seven helicopters, 208 unmanned aerial vehicles, 341 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, and 40 combat vehicles with multiple launch rocket systems,” Shoigu reported. ...

Nearly two thirds of Americans say US headed wrong way

7Feb

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USA

Nearly two thirds of Americans say US headed wrong way

President Joe Biden’s approval rating remains underwater ahead of his State of the Union address © Getty Images / Mario Tama Nearly two out of three Americans - 65% - believe their country is on the wrong track, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll published on Tuesday ahead of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. It’s a marked increase over last year, when just 58% of respondents expressed similar misgivings. With the president set to address Congress on Tuesday evening, Biden’s public approval rating remains underwater at 41% - not quite the low of 36% it repeatedly hit last spring and summer, but still problematic for a leader looking to convince voters to award him a second term. Biden’s State of the Union speech is expected to tout his legislative...

7Feb

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USA

Americans threatened by dissent

The former US secretary of state said the country suffers from ‘domestic division and international disorder’ © Getty Images / Adam Berry Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger chided the nation’s political establishment for its failure to demonstrate “domestic cohesion,” warning an audience at a Sunday event celebrating former president Ronald Reagan that the country could not afford to isolate itself. Because the US is “suffering” from “domestic division and international disorder about arguments about who we are and what we stand for,” it “finds it difficult to muster the domestic cohesion necessary to face the challenges ahead of us,” the former national security adviser told onlookers at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. These, Kissinger ...

Can the Military-Industrial Complex Be Tamed?

7Feb

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USA

Can the Military-Industrial Complex Be Tamed?

BY WILLIAM J. ASTORE Photo by Michael Afonso My name is Bill Astore and I’m a card-carrying member of the military-industrial complex (MIC). Sure, I hung up my military uniform for the last time in 2005. Since 2007, I’ve been writing articles for TomDispatch focused largely on critiquing that same MIC and America’s permanent war economy. I’ve written against this country’s wasteful and unwise wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its costly and disastrous weapons systems, and its undemocratic embrace of warriors and militarism. Nevertheless, I remain a lieutenant colonel, if a retired one. I still have my military ID card, if only to get on bases, and I still tend to say “we” when I talk about m...

An Evidence-Based Look at Mass Shooters in the US

6Feb

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USA

An Evidence-Based Look at Mass Shooters in the US

BY HOWARD LISNOFF Photograph Source: Lorie Shaull – CC BY 2.0 The US has become a shooting gallery (New York Times, January 24, 2023). Here is a list of mass shootings in the US since the 1920s. Mass shootings involve 3 or 4 deaths and often additional injuries among survivors. The list is quite telling, and the list makes the shootout at the OK Corral look like child’s play and there is absolutely no intent of any kind of humor involved here! The US frontier or West is one place where machismo and guns (“Gun Sellers’ Message to Americans: Man Up,” New York Times, June 22, 2022) were turned into national ideals. It is no longer adequate to list the endless mass gun shootings in the US and pass them off to an unbridled Second Amendment frenzy, f...

Syria earthquake: Aleppo among worst-hit areas

6Feb

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Syria

Syria earthquake: Aleppo among worst-hit areas

Our building is dangerous’: Quake leaves Syrians homeless By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News Syria's war-torn city of Aleppo is one of the places to have borne the brunt of the deadly earthquake, which also devastated parts of southern Turkey. More than 1,600 people have been reported dead so far in northern Syria following the quake. Emergency rescue teams said many buildings were damaged or destroyed and that people were trapped under the rubble. The region is home to millions of refugees displaced by the civil war. Control of northern Syria is divided between the government, Kurdish-led forces and other rebel groups. They remain embroiled in conflict. Even before the earthquake the situation in much of the region was critical, with freezing weather, crumbling infrast...

Turkey earthquake: The eyewitnesses who captured the quake on social media

6Feb

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Syria, Turkey

Turkey earthquake: The eyewitnesses who captured the quake on social media

Image caption,An aerial view of collapsed buildings in the Turkish city of Hatay By Kirstie Brewer & Paul Kerley BBC News The sheer scale of the devastation of the earthquake and its aftershocks can be seen in social media photos and videos posted by people in Turkey and Syria. Eyewitnesses have also been speaking about what happened. BBC News has been pulling together and verifying information. The tremors of the main quake - which happened at 04:17 local time - were felt more than a hundred miles in each direction from the epicentre - across southern Turkey and in northern Syria. Witnesses described being shaken from their sleep and running to their cars for safety from the damaged buildings. "I have never felt anything like it in the 40 years I've lived," said Erd...

Turkey earthquake: Where did it hit and why was it so deadly?

6Feb

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Syria, Turkey

Turkey earthquake: Where did it hit and why was it so deadly?

Turkey–Syria earthquakes 2023 By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent More than 5,000 people have been killed and thousands injured by a huge earthquake which struck south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, in the early hours of Monday morning. The earthquake, which hit near the town of Gaziantep, was closely followed by numerous aftershocks - including one quake which was almost as large as the first. Why was it so deadly? It was a big earthquake - registered as 7.8, classified as "major" on the official magnitude scale. It broke along about 100km (62 miles) of fault line, causing serious damage to buildings near the fault. Prof Joanna Faure Walker, head of the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction at University College London, said: "Of the deadlies...

Palestinians Are Not Liars: Confronting the Violence of Media Delegitimization

6Feb

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Palestinians Are Not Liars: Confronting the Violence of Media Delegitimization

BY RAMZY BAROUD - ROMANA RUBEO Photograph Source: alwatan_live – CC BY 3.0 On January 19, during one of its raids in the Occupied West Bank, the Israeli military arrested a Palestinian journalist, Abdul Muhsen Shalaldeh, near the town of Al-Khalil (Hebron). This is just the latest of a staggering number of violations against Palestinian journalists, and against freedom of expression. A few days earlier, the head of the Palestinian Journalist Syndicate (PJS), Naser Abu Baker, shared some tragic numbers during a press conference in Ramallah. “Fifty-five reporters have been killed, either by Israeli fire or bombardment since 2000,” he said. Hundreds more were wounded, arrested or detained. Although shocking, much of this reality is censored in mainstream med...