February, 2022

• 20 February

  Le Mali invite la France à retirer les forces Barkhane et Takuba du pays sans délai (officiel)

  

  Le gouvernement malien a invité la France à retirer sans délai les forces Barkhane et Takuba du territoire national sous la supervision des autorités maliennes, selon un communiqué publié ce vendredi par le ministre malien de l’Administration territoriale et de la Décentralisation, et porte-parole du gouvernement malien, Abdoulaye Maïga. Cette …

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• 20 February

  Секс по несогласию

  Следственный комитет России возбудил дело пяти массовых захоронениях на территориях ЛНР и ДНР. Раскопали 295 гражданских лиц, так пишут сепаратисты. То есть, картина вроде такая, что украинцы, покидая Донбасс, расстреливали мирных жителей, а потом кидали их в ров и закапывали. Но, как водится, когда врёшь, то враньё торчит из всех …

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• 20 February

  Der Mali-Einsatz war ein Debakel für Frankreich – und für Mali. Der militärische Rückzug ist richtig

  Der Abzug der französischen Truppen aus Mali muss für Paris auch Anlass sein, Selbstkritik zu üben. Wie konnte die einstige Kolonialmacht innert weniger Jahre vom gefeierten Befreier zum Volksfeind werden? Emmanuel Macron hat recht: Es ist Zeit zu gehen. Die Bedingungen für den von Frankreich angeführten Anti-Terror-Einsatz in Mali haben …

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• 20 February

  Even though the Neocons and Neoliberals are drooling for war in Ukraine, Putin never intended a war

  

  As the title states, the Washington DC Think Tank crowd have been itching, along with the military industrial complex, for another major war. They are still attempting to draw Iran into a trap but so far that hasn’t worked because of the pragmatism of the Iranian leadership. However, they knew …

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• 20 February

  The Western Allied Nations Bully the World While Warning of Threats From China and Russia

  

  On January 21, 2022, Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach attended a talk in New Delhi, India, organized by the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses. Schönbach was speaking as the chief of Germany’s navy during his visit to the institute. “What he really wants is respect,” Schönbach said, referring …

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• 20 February

  Western Democracies Have Mutated Into Propagandists for War and Conflict

  

  Marshall McLuhan’s prophecy that “the successor to politics will be propaganda” has happened. Raw propaganda is now the rule in Western democracies, especially the U.S. and Britain. On matters of war and peace, ministerial deceit is reported as news. Inconvenient facts are censored, demons are nurtured. The model is corporate …

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• 20 February

  Turkey’s PKK Conflict: A Regional Battleground in Flux

  Turkey is increasingly relying on airpower in its fight against the PKK. New parties have been drawn into the conflict as it spreads to new theatres in Iraq and Syria, which, for now at least, complicates potential efforts to settle things down. Early February brought a fresh demonstration of the …

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• 20 February

  United States’ Diplomatic Communication & Ukraine-Crisis!

  United States’ expertise at holding strategic command over controlling operation of diplomatic reins may well be assumed to have fumbled a little at propagation of so-called Ukraine-crisis because of alleged military designs of Russia. Yes, to a considerable degree, greater part of the world still depends on going by what …

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• 20 February

  Biden claims “Putin has made the decision” to invade Ukraine as mass evacuations begin in the Donbass

  At an extraordinary press conference Friday afternoon, US President Joe Biden declared that he was “convinced” Russian President Vladimir Putin had made “the decision to invade” Ukraine and advance on the country’s capital Kiev. Biden said that the White House “expected” such a move “within the coming week, within the …

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• 18 February

  Presidential Challenger says Serbia Faces Vote between ‘Good and Evil’

  

  Military veteran Zdravko Ponos, an opposition candidate for president in an election in April, tells BIRN that Serbia will struggle to recover from five more years of Aleksandar Vucic. As a candidate for Serbia’s highest office, Zdravko Ponos could hardly have a better biography: a highly-educated military man, former head …

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