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«Global Cybersecurity and Russia’s International Initiatives on Combating Cybercrime»

4Oct

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Russia, World

«Global Cybersecurity and Russia’s International Initiatives on Combating Cybercrime»

by Sergey Lavrov VOLTAIRE NETWORK The coronavirus pandemic, which has changed the lives of billions of people within a matter of several weeks, has become a real test for humankind. It is impossible to say with any degree of certainty when the pandemic will end. It would be logical in this situation to digitalise many aspects of everyday life, including state governance, business activities and education. The sphere of international ties has responded to this trend as well. It therefore makes perfect sense that ensuring reliable international information security (IIS) has moved to the top of the global agenda. The situation in this sphere is far from ideal. Moreover, the international community is facing a real cyber pandemic, which can be seen not just in the invasion of the p...

Saluting WWII Heroes on the 70th anniversary of V-Day (Pt. 1)

29Sep

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Europe, Politics, World

Saluting WWII Heroes on the 70th anniversary of V-Day (Pt. 1)

Donald Gallegos Download PDF flyer The “Fighting Girlfriend” Mariya Oktyabrskaya In April of 1943, 38-year-old Ukrainian Mariya Oktyabrskaya (originally from a peasant family in the Crimean Peninsula) learned that her husband had been killed on the eastern front two years before. The devastating news angered her to a point where to vent her rage she sold all her possessions and used the money to buy a T-34 medium tank for the Red Army on the condition that she’d be the driver. After five months of training, Oktyabrskaya and her tank, the “Fighting Girlfriend,” joined the 26th Guards Tank Brigade near Smolensk, Russia. On October 21, 1943, Oktyabrskaya and her tank took part on an assault on the German lines. Any impression that the “Fighting Girlfriend” was merely a propaganda p...

Was COVID-19 a Cover for an Anticipated or Planned Financial Crisis?

14Sep

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Health, Politics, World

Was COVID-19 a Cover for an Anticipated or Planned Financial Crisis?

The internationalization of increased unemployment and poverty brought about in the name of combating the corona crisis is having the effect of further widening the polarization between rich and poor on a global scale. By Anthony Hall A major sign of financial distress in the US economy kicked in in mid-September of 2019 when there was a breakdown in the normal operation of the Repo Market. This repurchase market in the United States is important in maintaining liquidity in the financial system. Those directing entities like large banks, Wall Street traders and hedge funds frequently seek large amounts of cash on a short-term basis. They obtain this cash from, for instance, money market funds by putting up securities, often Treasury Bills, as collateral. Most often...

Chomsky and Pollin: To Heal From COVID-19, We Must Imagine a Different World

21Aug

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Chomsky and Pollin: To Heal From COVID-19, We Must Imagine a Different World

Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin tackle the questions of what lessons we can learn from this pandemic and how society may organize moving forward. BYC.J. Polychroniou, TruthoutPUBLISHEDApril 10, 2020SHAREShare via FacebookShare via TwitterShare via Email Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caught the world unprepared, and the economic, social and political consequences of the pandemic are expected to be dramatic, in spite of recent pledges by leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies to inject $5 trillion into the global economy in order to spur economic recovery. But what lessons can we learn from this pandemic? Will the coronavirus crisis lead to a new way of organizing society — one that conceives of a social and po...

28Jul

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The fatal mistake .. How did Corona spread “silence” among the countries of the world

By: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr The New York Times, quoting doctors and researchers, revealed that underestimating the Corona patients who did not show any symptoms led to a widespread epidemic in the world during the first two months of the health crisis. According to the source, it was initially believed that people who contracted the new coronavirus without showing symptoms, did not transmit the infection, but this was not true. Initially, the researchers suggested that the virus would not transmit from people who had no symptoms, thinking that the emerging Corona virus had the same genetic characteristics as another virus from the Corona family, SARS. In Germany, for example, the virus entered the country through a person who was in China, and arrived through the airport while he was ...

23Jul

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The US Military Has Its Knee on the Throat of the World

by ELLEN TAYLOR The 2021 Defense Budget is making its way through Congress. The annual drama of this event has always been of particular interest to residents of the north Pacific Coast, as the US Navy’s nursery lies only twelve miles off our coast. This is where many of the weapons purchased by Congress take their first baby steps of testing and training before deployment. As a requirement for approval of the Navy’s Environmental Impact Statement regarding these exercises, the Navy must consult us every few years. This opportunity to confront Navy personnel has provided an opportunity to become acquainted with the environmental effects of these weapons, and, just as importantly, the menace their ever-increasing lethality constitutes for life on earth. I watched some of the Armed S...

The Coming Decline of Globalismor, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Multipolarity

23Jul

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World

The Coming Decline of Globalismor, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Multipolarity

KEITH WOODS • INTRODUCTION As a nationalist in the west, it’s often difficult to find any reasons for optimism. A typical month may involve any combination of social media bans, deplatforming and physical threats from society’s dregs, and there is seemingly little to show for the sacrifice by way of tangible victories. I might be forgiven then, for finding cause for optimism in the most unlikely of places. Looking to the East, the ascendant Chinese state is removing the last vestiges of western colonial rule and expanding its own rule over Hong Kong. In many ways, Hong Kong is symbolic of the western international order, it has little identity or culture to speak of beyond being a city state ruled by financial interests for financial interests. In fact, its lack of a real identity ...

20Jul

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150+ Civil Society Groups Issue Global Call for 'New—and Improved—Normal' for Post-Pandemic World

"Now is the moment to reflect on the world as it is and consider a better alternative for the future," the groups say in the letter. by: Andrea Germanos, "Together we can reshape the security landscape for the future and help create a new—and improved—'normal,'" over 150 groups say in a new open letter. (Photo: Aulia Erlangga/Flickr/cc) Over 150 groups on Thursday called for a "new normal" post-pandemic in which the human and economic costs of military spending are slashed, mulitlateralism is boosted, and inequality is uprooted in order to center true human security. The call comes in an open letter whose original endorsers include the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, both Nobel-winning grou...

Trump’s Record on Foreign Policy: Lost Wars, New Conflicts and Broken Promises

20Jul

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Trump’s Record on Foreign Policy: Lost Wars, New Conflicts and Broken Promises

By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On June 13, President Donald Trump told the graduating class at West Point, “We are ending the era of endless wars.” That is what Trump has promised since 2016, but the “endless” wars have not ended. Trump has dropped more bombs and missiles than George W. Bush or Barack Obama did in their first terms, and there are still roughly as many US bases and troops overseas as when he was elected. Trump routinely talks up both sides of every issue, and the corporate media still judge him more by what he says (and tweets) than by his actual policies. So it isn’t surprising that he is still trying to confuse the public about his aggressive war policy. But Trump has been in office for nearly three and a half years, ...

We Won’t Have a Truly Global Economy Until People Start Taxing It That Way

20Jul

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USA, World

We Won’t Have a Truly Global Economy Until People Start Taxing It That Way

by MARSHALL AUERBACK Image Source: Jpatokal – CC BY-SA 3.0 Major talks between the United States and the European Union to establish a shared tax framework for multinational companies broke down on the issue of seeking to secure an agreement on digital taxation. Big tech, which is heavily a U.S. creation, has long been in the sights of European economies, as their profits and revenues have soared and they have increasingly become major components of the 21st-century economy. Taxation is one of those areas that exposes the contradictions at the heart of globalization. Globalization of goods has proceeded quickly, as has the harmonization of industrial standards across countries. Harmonization of taxation? Not so easy. The power to tax is the ...