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Ruben Kazuangongo
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Former war reporter in Angola
♦️“Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range.”
—James Nachtwey, American war reporter
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller presented a new law to defend the aggressive U.S. campaign to acquire Greenland. He claimed that, under “the law,” nations were not entitled to their territory if they were unable to defend it.

SOURCE: www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-mill...
Stephen Miller Invents New Law to Justify Trump’s Obsession
The White House Deputy Chief of Staff said “tiny” Denmark was not entitled to Greenland.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:38 PM
As Norman Finkelstein points out, the UN Security Council has declared war on Gaza, and its resolution annuls decades of precedent established under international law on Palestine — erasing its entire legal history.

Watch his full interview with Chris Hedges.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=1ke5...
Deconstructing Trump's 'Peace' Plan for Gaza (w/ Norman Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report
YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
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January 18, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Holding up a sign at a protest is enough to verify that a brutal and unashamed fascism is taking deep root in Trump's dreadful AmeriKa...
And the worst is yet to come❗️
January 18, 2026 at 1:57 AM
“The malignancy of covert narcissism is more pervasive and difficult to detect, making it a significant concern in the study of narcissistic behaviors.”

SOURCE: ‘Vaknin Talks’
— by Sam Vaknin, author of Malignant Self-Love: Narcissism Revisited

vaknin-talks.com/transcripts/...
January 14, 2026 at 11:39 PM
“We are immersed in a behavioural psychology programme. The global elite is manipulating everything from incidents to information, in the process of building an authoritarian technocracy.”

— by Niall McCrae, former lecturer in mental health at King’s College London
off-guardian.org/2026/01/08/m...
More fool you: 10 modus operandi of the mass manipulators
We are immersed in a behavioural psychology programme. The global elite is manipulating everything from incidents to information, in the process of building an authoritarian technocracy. The powerf…
off-guardian.org
January 9, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Venezuela's military said at least 24 Venezuelan security officers were killed in the US operation. Cuba's government has said that 32 Cuban military and police officers working in Venezuela died in the operation.

news.sky.com/story/donald...
January 7, 2026 at 1:40 AM
“The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife solidifies America’s role as a gangster state,” as Chris Hedges puts it.
This operation constitutes yet another blatant act of international piracy & banditry, a total disregard for international law by a rogue imperialist power.
January 4, 2026 at 1:43 AM
A ruSSian missile attack on a residential area of ​​Kharkiv, which injured many, destroyed a five-story building and damaged other civilian infrastructure, a shopping center and vehicles, reports @asamiterajima.bsky.social .

kyivindependent.com/russian-atta...
Update: Russian missile attack on Kharkiv injures at least 19 people, including a baby, local authorities report
Six of the wounded were hospitalized, including a woman in serious condition, Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
kyivindependent.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:37 PM
As 2025 draws to a close, Russian officials are projecting an image of an army on the rise, claiming territorial victories and a surge of young recruits, maintaining a rigid negotiating stance. However, data collected by Mediazona, the BBC Russian Service and a team of volunteers reveals.… ⤵️
December 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Selected bridges are being fitted with “engineering structures for attaching explosive materials,” enabling rapid demolition in the event of an armed conflict. The goal would be to block or slow the movement of hostile military forces attempting to cross into Lithuania.

caliber.az/en/post/lith...
Lithuania prepares bridges for demolition along Belarus, Russia borders | Caliber.Az
Construction work on bridges near Lithuania’s borders with Belarus and Russia has raised public attention. The Lithuanian Armed Forces confirmed to LRT.lt that this...
caliber.az
December 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha stated in a tweet on X that Russia's claims of an alleged "attempt to attack Putin's residence" were aimed at creating a false justification for further Russian attacks on Ukraine in order to undermine the peace process.

www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
Ukraine's foreign minister says Russian claim of drone attack on Putin residence is attempt to undermine peace process
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has said that Russia's claims of an alleged "attempt to attack Putin's residence" are aimed at creating a pretext and a false justification for further Russian...
www.pravda.com.ua
December 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Two people were killed and 28 were injured in an overnight Russian missile and drone strike on Kyiv and the surrounding region, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday, just a day before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to meet with Donald Trump in Florida.
novayagazeta.eu/articles/202...
Two killed and 28 injured in Russian strike on Kyiv ahead of Trump-Zelensky meeting — Novaya Gazeta Europe
Two people were killed and 28 were injured in an overnight Russian missile and drone strike on Kyiv and the surrounding region, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday, just a day before Ukrainian Presid...
novayagazeta.eu
December 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“If someone had told me in the late 80s or early 90s that there would be political prisoners in Russia again, and that they would get longer sentences for online comments than for committing murder, I would have told you you were mad.”
—Alexander Nesterenko

novayagazeta.eu/amp/articles...
Siren songs. A Moscow academic is facing four years in prison for making a playlist of Ukrainian music
“If someone had told me in the late 80s or early 90s that there would be political prisoners in Russia again, and that they would get longer sentences for online comments than for committing murder, I...
novayagazeta.eu
December 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
C. J. Chivers’ “The School” was published in the June 2006 issue of Esquire magazine. By that time, Chivers, a retired Marine, had been the The New York Times’ Moscow correspondent for two years. He was in Beslan on September 1, 2004, when terrorists took hostages in School No. 1 in Beslan, ….⤵️
December 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Putina Vladimir lashed out at Western leaders during an annual meeting with his defense ministry on Dec. 17, calling European leaders "piglets" and declaring that the goals of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine would be met "unconditionally." ⤵️
December 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Jailed since May, Maria Bontsler is one of the few lawyers in Kaliningrad who has defended political prisoners, and those charged with “discrediting” the Russian military since the beginning of the war. She faces charges punishable by three to eight years in prison.

novayagazeta.eu/articles/202...
Jailed Russian human rights lawyer accuses Russian authorities of denying her medical care — Novaya Gazeta Europe
Jailed Russian human rights lawyer Maria Bontsler says she has been repeatedly denied medical care while awaiting her trial in a detention centre, as a court in the Russian Baltic exclave of Kaliningr...
novayagazeta.eu
December 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
There is no doubt that French Senator Claude Malhuret is 100% correct.

By the way, this insightful senator is a physician & epidemiologist, a former hospital intern, and has served as president of Doctors Without Borders, as well as a government minister. He is also a lawyer.
December 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
“The US is now acting like an agent of Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship in bullying democratic Ukraine to surrender parts of it territory, a wealth of natural resources and millions of its people to Putin’s brutal rule. The USA is not negotiating between Ukraine and Russia, it is putting.…” ⤵️
December 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Too slowly & almost too late, following the brutal-genocidal war launched by the Kremlin against Ukraine & Europe, Germany & other European countries finally seem to have realized that they must rearm as quickly as possible to confront & defeat RuSSia's expansionist war machine.
December 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The insane Moscow City Court announced the conviction of eight judges and the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. They were sentenced to prison terms of up to 15 years for their role in issuing an "illegal" arrest warrant for Putina Vladimir.
December 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
🧵 NATO deploys comprehensive air defense systems that fundamentally alter Ukraine's defensive capabilities in December 2025, reports Rachel Maddow TV. This advanced protection network represents the most significant military aid package since the ruSSian full scale invasion, directly addressing…. ⤵️
December 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
🧵| Despite reports that Ukrainian forces in the east are increasingly exhausted, depleted and overwhelmed by the relentlessness of the Russian war machine, many fighters in the so-called kill zone have long since resolved to continue to defend their homeland indefinitely.
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The Washington Post
December 8, 2025
LONDON — Ukraine will not surrender territory, President Volodymyr Zelensky declared on Monday, rejecting a central Russian demand that Donald Trump had incorporated into his latest proposal to end the Kremlin’s war. ⤵️
December 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
European officials in Brussels has found a way to make decisions on blocking Russian assets without the consent of all EU member states,according to the Financial Times (FT) newspaper.

As noted in the article, the solution found will allow to freeze the assets of the Russian Federation…. ⤵️
December 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.”

“According to the laws of war, survivors of a sunken ship cannot be attacked.”

—by George F. Will

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
December 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM