The ruins of Ukraine are the best carrion for the big capitalist vultures.
Big business gets its hands on the ruins.Where the rest of us see destruction, the capitalists see business. As in Ukraine, where the money comes not only from arms sales. The future is splendid. The country is being auctioned off and Ukrainian workers will have to make do with very little. Money will not be lacking because it will come from “aids” and non-refundable subsidies or at very low interest rates. For the vultures, the carrion is a bargain that the Bertelsmann Foundation has studied in collaboration with the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies. The report was summarized in…
Keep readingBig monopolies no longer paint ‘green’ hydrogen in pink
The energy monopolies TotalEnergies and Engie have asked the European Commission for aid, i.e. public subsidies, for their large Masshylia “green” hydrogen production project.Brussels has approved the aid because the first tests with electrolyzers made by the Belgian company John Cockerill are not performing as well as expected.Electrolyzers are machines that extract hydrogen from water using an electric current. The supplier of the Masshylia equipment is John Cockerill and the first tests have shown many problems that make the project unfeasible, at least with its current design. Announced in 2021, the Masshylia megaproject should result in the largest “green” hydrogen…
Keep readingPutin orders seizure of U.S. assets in Russia
Putin on Thursday signed a decree establishing a mechanism to compensate Russia for damages caused following the seizure of property and assets in the West by U.S. order. The U.S. is putting the squeeze on Europe to transfer those assets to Ukraine to fund rearmament and Putin is attacking the source of the problem through U.S. property in Russia. The decree is titled “On the special procedure for compensation for damage caused to the Russian Federation and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation in connection with hostile actions of the United States of America.” The Russian government is to…
Keep readingHamas military strength still intact after eight months of war
Despite the nearly eight-month offensive in Gaza, Hamas’ military strength remains largely intact, according to a U.S. military intelligence estimate. The Palestinian organization has lost only one-third of its fighters. Most of the organization’s extensive tunnel network also remains intact. “Although Hamas’s military and communications power has been reduced, only 30 to 35 percent of its fighters – those who were part of Hamas before the Oct. 7 attack – have been killed, and about 65 percent of its tunnels remain intact,” Politico reports. There is growing concern in Washington that Hamas has been able to recruit thousands of people…
Keep readingWithout repression in Europe, the Israeli killings in Gaza would be impossible.
Europe cannot lecture any country in the world on rights and freedoms. Since the beginning of the Gaza massacre, the repressive machinery of the Continent has been set in motion to support and silence Israeli crimes. Prosecutors have initiated dozens of prosecutions, often followed by harsh sentences for exercising the right to free speech, or for demonstrations of solidarity with the Palestinian population. Meetings, conferences and lectures have also been banned. On April 19, French police summoned a candidate for the European elections for questioning for “supporting terrorism”. Four days later, the same thing happened to the president of a…
Keep readingOfficial apology for the contaminated blood transfusion in the United Kingdom
Medicine has gone backwards in a huge way and, as a consequence, iatrogenesis is skyrocketing. There are more and more medical errors, which are becoming more and more serious. Not to mention the pharmaceutical companies, which are also making more and more mistakes. For their part, the “health authorities” are also increasingly slow to acknowledge their responsibilities. On Monday, the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, apologized for the transfusion of contaminated blood in the sixties to the nineties of the last century, which left 3,000 dead. In 2018 they commissioned Judge Brian Langstaff to hold a vast public inquiry into…
Keep readingIsrael trained Colombian death squads
Colombia and Israel have long enjoyed close ties.Israel provided the South American country with military equipment and training. The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called Colombia the “Israel of Latin America” for its role as a U.S. proxy and platform for maintaining control of the region. In 2013, then Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos boasted that “if someone were to call my country the Israel of Latin America, I would be very proud. I admire the Israelis and would consider it a compliment.” On October 16 last year, Colombia demanded that Israel’s ambassador, Gali Dagan, leave the country. “At least…
Keep readingRussian military practices with nuclear weapons on the Ukrainian border
Yesterday the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the start of military exercises using tactical nuclear weapons near the Ukrainian border. Earlier this month, Putin announced that the defense ministries and general staffs of Russia and Belarus had begun preparing joint exercises using non-strategic nuclear weapons.The Russian leader stressed that such exercises are standard practice and would be conducted in three stages. Russia and Belarus conducted the first stage separately, while the second and third stages are implemented jointly.The aim, says the Russian Defense Ministry, is to prepare the military in handling the non-strategic nuclear arsenal in response to threats from Western…
Keep readingThe longest wave of low temperatures ever recorded in Santiago de Chile has arrived
The residents of Santiago de Chile are bundling up to withstand temperatures close to zero degrees Celsius in a hellish autumn: the coldest month of May in the last 74 years. A sudden cold front has gripped many regions of South America, which are unaccustomed to strong icy winds at this time of year. Temperatures broke records along Chile’s coast and in Santiago, reaching near-freezing levels and making this month the coldest May the country has experienced since 1950. An unusual succession of polar air masses has moved over swathes of southern Chile, pushing the mercury below zero degrees Celsius…
Keep readingUkraine charges Zelensky’s godfather with murder
The clique surrounding Zelensky in Kiev is crumbling by leaps and bounds, exposing its true mafia nature and the score-settling that was pending. Billionaire Igor Kolomoisky has been charged with a decades-old murder-for-hire attempt. Zelensky abandons his former godfather amid continuing military setbacks. Kolomoisky has already been in prison since last September, when he was arrested for fraud and money laundering at Ukraine’s largest bank, PrivatBank. In 2003 Kolomoisky ordered the murder of a lawyer who had rejected his attempts to overturn an unfavorable shareholder decision, when the tycoon was trying to take control of the Dniprospetsstal steel plant in…
Keep readingMissile hits oil tanker in the Red Sea
Yesterday a Panamanian-flagged oil tanker was hit by a missile off the coast of Yemen, where the Huthis are stepping up their attacks on merchant ships, maritime security company Ambrey reported.A radio communication indicated that the ship had been hit by a missile and that there was a fire in the command compartment, said the British company, according to which the attack occurred about 18 kilometers southwest of the Yemeni town of Moja. British maritime safety agency UKMTO earlier reported an attack 140 kilometers southwest of the town of Hodeidah, also on the Red Sea, although it was not known…
Keep readingRussia confiscates deposits of three more Western banks
The Ukrainian War and Western sanctions imposed on Russia are having a significant impact on several international markets, especially the financial one. Russia has responded forcefully against foreign companies operating on its territory in what amounts to nothing more than economic warfare. First it was JPMorgan Bank and now a St. Petersburg court has again clamped down on three major Western banks. Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, two of the biggest names in German finance, as well as UniCredit, a major player in the Italian banking sector, have had their assets frozen in Russia. This decision affects significant sums: €238.6 million…
Keep readingBiden’s company financed terrorist attacks in Ukraine
Ukrainian politician Andriy Derkatch denounces in an interview with the Belarusian news agency Belta (*) that in order to close the criminal case against the Burisma company in Ukraine, associated with Biden’s family, a bribe of 6 million dollars was paid to the police. Part of the bribe was intended for a “drone army” for the Ukrainian army, adds Derkatch. The heads of the Ukrainian special services do not hide in their interviews “that they carry out activities with extra-budgetary cash funds.”“The money was transferred at the disposal of the military unit of the General Intelligence Directorate (GUR) to carry…
Keep readingMoney is stolen from an anti-Russian advertising campaign in Poland.
In March 2022 Mateusz Morawiecki, then prime minister of the Law and Justice Party (PiS), launched a #StopRussiaNow advertising campaign in Poland. The aim was to endorse the obvious to the European Union and NATO countries, so that there would be no doubt: in the Ukrainian War the aggressor is Russia. The cost of advertising on the largest online news portal of a NATO member state, Onet, was not insignificant: almost 23 million zlotys ($5.7 million). Now the Supreme Audit Office in Warsaw informs the portal that a large part of the funds spent on the campaign have been misappropriated.…
Keep readingUkraine is stringing bad news one after the other
The Ukrainian military recently suffered another loss of an M1A1 Abrams tank in the Avdeievka sector. A pro-Russian source has released a video showing the destruction of the tank, attributed to the combined effectiveness of the Orlan-30 drone and the Krasnopol laser-guided projectile. This type of munition, developed by Russia, is highly accurate against stationary and moving targets, and is causing significant damage to the Ukrainians. The loss of the tank occurred in an area where Russian forces managed to break through Ukrainian lines, in particular near the town of Ocheretyno. The Abrams, used mainly by the 47th Mechanized Brigade…
Keep readingNearly 3,000 protesters arrested in the U.S. for showing solidarity with Gaza
In response to student protests against the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza, U.S. police have carried out violent and, in many cases, tear-gas attacks on camps set up on college campuses. In addition to being detained, many students may be expelled from the university for participating. Since the initial arrest of 108 students from the Gaza solidarity camp at Columbia University on April 18, U.S. police have detained more than 2,800 protesters, or more than 2,900 by other counts. However, violent police raids against the camps are not limited to the United States. Several people were arrested at the University…
Keep readingGeorgia: the imperialists throw the stone and hide the hand
The failure in the Ukrainian War has led the imperialists to once again tempt Russia’s borders in the Caucasus, which has been a hotbed since the demise of the USSR in the 1990s. Wars have broken out inside and outside Russia’s borders, starting with Chechnya and continuing with Nagorno-Karabakh. The same is now happening in Georgia, another hotbed of destabilization that began with the “pink revolution” of 2003. Over the course of 20 years, Western espionage has perfected the methodology of coups d’état. In Georgia they have created some 20,000 NGOs to strengthen their tentacles over the country. As in…
Keep readingThere is no longer talk of anything but the wars that await us
The “experts” no longer talk about anything other than war; not the ones that already exist but the ones that are yet to come, assuring that they will be worse than those that have already begun. Last week a New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof, wondered whether American anxiety about war might become a self-fulfilling prophecy.Iran is a country that has every chance of being the victim of the next war, yet the “experts” turn it around: Iran will be the cause of the war. One of those “experts” with a crystal ball to make his own predictions, Michael McFaul,…
Keep readingThe ‘Israeli-Palestinian conflict’ and other misrepresentations by Zionists
A Washington-based pro-Zionist lobby group, the Israel Project, hired Frank Luntz, a Republican political strategist, to improve Israel’s image in the media.Luntz’s mission was to get the major media networks to adopt Israeli vocabulary as their own. His proposals were published in a 112-page classified report entitled “The Israel Project’s 2009 Global Language Dictionary” (*) and have since polluted news reports and documentaries on what they call “the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”. Through the United States, Luntz’s rhetoric is a canon that has spread to the rest of the world. The rhetoric of “conflict” presents a kind of balance between two populations,…
Keep readingGrowing your own lettuce on the balcony is also very bad for the planet
Urban gardens are also not a good idea for mitigating climate change, according to a new study from the University of Michigan. Urban gardening is even worse for the environment than conventional crops. Maybe five or six times worse. As is often the case in these kinds of pseudo-scientific disciplines, the data is pulled out of the ass. It all depends on how the “infrastructure” is set up, say the Michigan pundits. It also depends on the type of vegetables you grow. Let no one think that only professional farmers destroy ecosystems. Also all those amateurs who grow crops in…
Keep readingIsrael’s failures and lies “80% of Hamas soldiers are still alive!”
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s statements. According to Eisenkot, the Israeli occupation’s claims about the development of the war in Gaza are far from reality. The secret American reports disclosed by the Wall Street Journal confirm these doubts and reveal the main failures of the operation. In fact, despite the thousands of tons of bombs dropped by the IDF in Gaza, 80% of Hamas soldiers are still alive. This is without taking into account the various Palestinian brigades which, together with Hamas, still possess huge stockpiles of weapons, in particular long-range missiles capable of bombarding the territories occupied by Israel for several…
Keep readingWestern countries cut funding to UNRWA and join the genocide in Gaza
Things do not happen by chance: the International Court of Justice ordered to prevent the genocide in Gaza, and then the Western powers cut funding to UNRWA so that the genocide could be consummated as quickly as possible. There are countries, like the West, that believe they are above everything and everyone, and do not hesitate to prove it when they have the slightest opportunity.Israel claims that 12 UNRWA staff members were involved in the October 7 attacks and some countries did not have time to cut off aid funding to the Palestinians.It is a form of collective punishment that…
Keep readingEgypt’s complicity in the Gaza blockade
In 2006 Israel punished Palestinians with starvation for voting for Hamas in elections.It is Tel Aviv’s silent war, a siege that is slowly taking its toll, depriving Gaza’s 2.3 million civilians of food and medical care. Since the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza in 2005, the Strip has been under a tight blockade, transforming it into a huge open-air prison surrounded by barbed wire and checkpoints. Eight crossings were controlled – six of them by Israel – connecting Gaza to the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948.Four of these crossings remained completely closed and two were intermittently open: “Beit Hanoun”…
Keep readingIsrael boycott campaign triumphs
Major Western retail brands have lost customers and seen their profits decline due to boycott campaigns in the Middle East targeting companies that support Israel in its war on Gaza. Shares of Americana Restaurants International, which operates the KFC, Pizza Hut, Krispy Kreme and Hardee’s franchises in the Middle East, fell 27 percent on the Saudi Stock Exchange in the past three months. Corporate profits will fall in the first quarter due to the boycott. The Turkish Coca-Cola distributor saw its sales volumes fall 22 percent in the fourth quarter of last year from the previous three months, after the…
Keep readingICJ orders “Israel” to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza
The overwhelming majority of ICJ judges voted in favor of provisional measures in Gaza, although there was no immediate ceasefire decision. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered “Israel” to take all measures within its power to prevent “possible acts of genocide” in the Palestinian enclave. However, it did not order a ceasefire, one of the main requests presented by South Africa in its lawsuit against the Zionist regime for its responsibility in the genocidal acts committed against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. The ICJ also demanded that the occupier allow the entry of humanitarian aid and submit…
Keep readingThe European Union joins the economic war against China
Economic relations between China and Europe are increasingly tense. The European Union accuses the Beijing government of subsidizing overproduction and flooding European markets with its goods.Last week, arriving in Davos to attend the World Economic Forum, Chinese Premier Li Qiang described China as a bastion of open markets and multilateralism. Visiting Dublin, Li Qiang reopened beef export opportunities to China and a visa-free regime for Ireland. In Brussels, Beijing is seen as a closed and hostile state, lying in wait for the weakening of the Western alliance on all fronts. According to the European Commission, China is opening its market…
Keep readingFracture within the Israeli war cabinet widens
The rift within the Israeli war cabinet continues to widen, says public broadcaster Kan. Last Sunday ministers ended up shouting insults at each other during a security briefing. It was an intense meeting, says Kan’s political correspondent Mikhail Shemsh. It was initiated by Gen. Eliezer Tolidano, head of the Directorate of Strategy and Third Circle of the General Staff of Israeli troops. Almost every week Tolidano briefs the Israeli ministers on developments on the front. At Sunday’s briefing he explained that the war has entered a different phase. Israeli Minister of National Missions, Orit Strock, told Tolidano that soldiers returning…
Keep readingUkraine shoots down a Russian aircraft with 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were to be exchanged
Yesterday a Russian Il-76 cargo plane was shot down in the Belgorod region.On board were 65 Ukrainian soldiers being transported to the Belgorod region for a prisoner exchange, as well as 6 members of the plane’s crew, escorted by 3 people.The Ukrainian prisoners were transferred to an exchange center at the Kolotilovka border crossing.Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR) confirmed that an exchange with Russia was planned for that day. Consequently, the Ukrainian leadership was fully aware of the prisoner exchange and was informed in advance about the means of transport. Another Il-76 aircraft with another 80 prisoners on board turned back,…
Keep readingRussian cyber-attack against Microsoft
International tensions are charged both from an economic and political point of view, as well as from an IT point of view. Recently, hackers directly associated with Russian intelligence services bypassed Microsoft’s firewalls and stole important documents and e-mails. The company itself confirmed the attack last week in a brief press release. The American giant accuses a group of Russian hackers, directly linked to military intelligence, of having organized a vast cyber-attack operation. The accounts of directors and executives have been attacked. The cyber-attack is the work of Nobelium, a Russian company directly linked to the SVR, the Russian military…
Keep readingRussian alternative to Swift network connects 20 countries.
The Central Bank of Russia launched the SPFS system in 2014.The decision was made in the face of threats to disconnect the Swift network following the annexation of Crimea, which was Russia’s response to the US-orchestrated coup in Ukraine. The international payment system SPFS, the Russian analogue of Swift, is already available in 20 countries. According to the first deputy governor of the Russian central bank, Vladimir Chistyukhin, the Russian analogue of the Swift network currently has 557 participants. In total, 557 banks and companies have established connections to the system, including 159 foreign ones. Apart from these figures, little…
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