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The country’s law enforcement has said it will not let violent protests from last week happen again Supporters surround opposition leader, Raila Odinga's vehicle on the streets of Mathare North during a demonstration against the cost of living and President William Ruto's administration. ©  John Ochieng / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Police in Kenya have banned a protest planned for Monday in Nairobi. The proposed demonstrations by opposition leader Raila Odinga are illegal, according to Police Inspector General Japhet Koome. What the government called unauthorized protests in several Kenyan cities last Monday turned into riots, killing one university student and injuring several others. Protesters hurled rocks at riot police outside government...

The new appointee will have a role in supporting exiled forces opposing the government of Belarus US Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies in the Senate on March 22, 2023. ©  Drew Angerer / Getty Images The US government will “very soon” have a special envoy for Belarus, to coordinate Washington’s efforts to bolster the country’s Lithuania-based opposition, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told senators. The pledge was made during a visit to the US by Belarusian opposition figure Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who urged Western nations to “de-recognize” the government in Minsk. Blinken was questioned about the lack of a special envoy for Belarus by Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire during a budget hearing held by the Senate Fore...

ALLAN C. BROWNFELD View of the City of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives in 1753. (PHOTO BY FINE ART IMAGES/HERITAGE IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES). Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November/December 2021, pp. 12-13, 21 Israel and Judaism By Allan C. Brownfeld AS THE WORLD is increasingly focusing its attention upon Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem and its continuing violation of the rights of Palestinians, there is a growing realization that Zionism is guilty of an original sin—namely ignoring the fact that Palestine was fully populated when the Zionist enterprise began. From the beginning, Zionism was a minority movement among Jews. It was created, notes Israeli peace activist Jeff Halper, by “…Jews with little k...

The Kalibr missile family is made up of several variants, including long–range cruise missiles and anti-submarine torpedoes. Russia decided as far back as the 1990s to equip naval platforms with the weapon.  bY: Jonas E. Alexis, https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://www.veteranstoday.com/2023/03/14/russian-navy-to-upgrade-vessels-with-kalibr-cruise-missiles/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21 Russia plans to equip several Navy vessels using Kalibr missiles, a weapon with which one naval policy expert predicts the country will more widely arm its fleet. Russia recently attacked Ukraine using Kalibr cruise missiles, among other projectiles. Russian Defence Minister ...

One mercenary demanded Russian troops ‘surrender or die!’ after botched drone fundraiser cancelled. By: Steve Sweeney Subscribe to our  channelhttps://www.youtube.com/embed/RH80vSKx9eQ Steve Sweeney, reporting for RT, delivers a segment on the topic of foreign mercenaries fighting in Ukraine, discussing why they are there, where their funding comes from, and who they are aligned with. https://youtu.be/RH80vSKx9eQ One such mercenary, Macer Gifford, attempted to crowdsource to buy a drone which he, in an ill-advised personal project, planned to use to drop grenades on the Russian ‘orcs’. Routine use of racism to dehumanise the adversary seems to come naturally to these hired assassins. Another mercenary, Chris ‘Swampy’ Garret, is shown to have hel...

“I’m about to educate some people right now,” lawyer declared before making claim Protestors surround a Memphis police car on Saturday as they march through downtown decrying the death of Tyre Nichols. © Getty Images / Scott Olson A British political activist has concluded that white supremacy was the root cause of Tyre Nichols’ death, despite the fact that the police officers involved were all black and worked for a black police chief.   “The vicious, brutal, unjustified, extrajudicial killing of Tyre Nichols is as a result of a police system that’s built on white supremacy,” London-born lawyer Shola Mos-Shogbamimu told Sky News in an interview on Monday. “White supremacy underpins the policing and criminal justice system, both in the Unite...

Hezbollah Deputy Chief Sheikh Naim Qassem in an interview with Al-Manar TV on 27/11/2020 Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem indicated that after his recent visit to the Islamic Republic, he was reassured about stability in Iran after the riot incidents. In a tweet posted on Saturday, Sheikh Qassem noted that US and its allies have had immense hopes that the media, political and terrorist war on Iran reaches remarkable results. Sheikh Qassem added that the recent war on Iran has failed and that the Islamic Republic is advancing and shining with a normal life situation. It is worth noting that his eminence had visited Iran in order to participate in the First International Conference on Martyr Qasem Suleimani School of Thought. Sheikh Qassem indicated that ...

A 270-year-old British manufacturer is being slowly dismantled by asset-stripping vultures, destroying vital jobs and engineering capacity in the process. Proletarian writers Headquartered in Britain, the GKN engineering group is a major supplier of automotive, aerospace and industrial components, employing 58,000 workers in 22 countries. Its British headcount currently stands at 4,000. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/980338180&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true On 28 January, the same day that industry figures were issued showing British car manufacture last year to have sunk to its lowest level since 1984, GKN announced its latest plans to axe capacity and shed yet more jobs, closing...