The US Department of Justice has charged two Russians it identifies as RT employees with money laundering and working as foreign agents for their alleged role in pushing video content that sowed “discord and division” in the US.

In a criminal indictment unsealed on Wednesday, US prosecutors claimed that Konstantin Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva financed and directed a Tennessee-based production company that published English-language videos to various social media platforms aimed at amplifying “domestic divisions in the United States.”

These videos were viewed more than 16 million times on YouTube alone, the indictment alleged, and, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray, represented an attempt to “trick Americans into unwittingly consuming foreign propaganda.”

Tech mogul Elon Musk has vowed to seek the seizure of Brazilian government assets in the US if Brazil does not return property belonging to his companies X (formerly Twitter) and Space X.

Last week, the Supreme Court of Brazil ordered the operations of X to be “immediately suspended” and threatened a fine of 50,000 Brazilian reals ($8,874) per day against anyone trying to sidestep the ban on accessing the platform using a VPN. The judge gave Google and Apple five days to remove X from their app stores. The ruling was upheld Monday by a panel of federal supreme court justices.

The court also froze the accounts of satellite internet provider Starlink, a subsidiary of Musk’s SpaceX, to ensure the payment of fines imposed for failing to appoint a new legal representative for X in Brazil.

THE ELIMINATION SERIES FOR THE AMERICA’S CUP— THE OLDEST SPORTING TROPHY IN THE WORLD APART FROM TRYING TO PULL KING ARTHUR'S SWORD EMBEDDED IN A STONE — IS IN “FULL SWING”… THIS EVENT LIKE ALL SPORTS EVENT IS A HIVE OF SPONSORS WHO WANT SOME BANG FOR THEIR BUCKS…

THIS IS WHY THE BEST SAILORS/SKIPPERS ARE USED TO MANAGE THE NEW AC75 WHICH APPARENTLY ARE A BOATFUL TO HANDLE… IMAGINE DOING 50 KNOTS IN A 10 KNOT AFTERNOON BREEZE… FOR THE LAND-LUMBER, THIS IS EQUIVALENT TO DRIVING A CAR AT 84 kmh IN A 20 kmh COBBLESTONE ZONE… ON THE WATER, ANY CRASH IS PAINFUL. 

THUS AUSSIES NATHAN OUTTERIDGE AND GLENN ASHBY ARE WORKING FOR NEW ZEALAND LED BY PETER BURLING (A FULLY FLEDGED N-ZEALANDER)… 

Editing a book about the media and the war in Ukraine taught me first-hand lessons about censorship. It also confirmed that the Western media’s pro-elite bias is as strong as ever. At an academic conference in Europe in the summer of 2023, I witnessed how several audience members shouted at one of the speakers. That’s not how such meetings are supposed to go. They should be much less eventful.

Macron called a dissolution of the Assembly and emergency elections on the eve of summer, hoping that this would allow him to finish his term by governing with the RN. The plan did not go as planned, and for the past two months, he has been doing everything he can to erase his failure and stay in power.

To “test” public opinion, a whole series of detestable names were circulated during the summer as possible Prime Ministers: the far-right Wauquiez, the air-eating politician Xavier Bertrand, the enlightened bourgeois Valérie Pécresse and even Ségolène Royal. Nothing was spared to us. Figures who only represent themselves but are hated by almost everyone.

FOR MANY YEARS ON THIS SITE, WE HAVE EXPOSED THE “AMERICAN DREAM” CON WHICH IS LEADING TO A COMPLETE DYSTOPIA, THAT IS ADVERTISED TO US AS A FANTASTIC UTOPIA...:

A new book and two new exhibitions explore the concept of the American Dream – and how it came to represent both a utopia and a dystopia.

"Sadly, the American Dream is dead," Donald Trump told an audience of supporters when he announced his bid for the US presidency in 2015. "But if I get elected president, I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before."

As the US elections of 2024 draw nearer, the American Dream is back on the agenda, with President Biden also promising to restore it, stating in a speech in November 2023 that "Bidenomics is just another way of saying 'the American Dream'." 

Russia won WWII, not the West – Roger Waters
The Pink Floyd co-founder has recognized the USSR’s role in defeating Adolf Hitler

The world owes the Soviet people a debt of gratitude for defeating the Third Reich, musician Roger Waters has told RT in an exclusive interview.

Waters, 80, is well-known as co-founder of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. He has also been an outspoken human rights advocate. He spoke with RT about the ongoing plight of the Palestinians in Gaza, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and censorship in the West, among other things.

“Weaken the Russian people’s resolve? Do you know who they are? They are the people who defeated the Wehrmacht!” Waters told RT, addressing the purported goals of the US and its allies in the Ukraine conflict.

Former CIA Director Leon Panetta (2009-2011) was among the featured speakerson the final day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago on August 22 when Kamala Harris accepted the party’s nomination as its presidential candidate.

In his remarks, Panetta reinvoked the supposed glory days of the Obama administration when he gave the order to U.S. Special Forces to assassinate Osama bin Laden, the alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks.

The Global Majority is fully aware that the genocidals in Tel Aviv are trying as hard as they can to provoke an apocalyptic war – with full US military support, of course.  

Contrast that combative mindset with 2,500 years of Persian diplomacy. Iran’s acting Foreign Minister, Ali Bagheri Kani, has recently remarked how Tehran is trying hard to prevent “the Israeli regime’s ‘dream’ of triggering an all-out regional war.”

How a BRICS trio is staring down Israel
While Israel increasingly isolates itself on the international stage, BRICS members Iran, Russia, and China are quietly coordinating a full-spectrum effort to support Palestine diplomatically and militarily.

BY PEPE ESCOBAR

Since the onset of the Gaza War, many Australians have urged the Albanese Government to speak up in condemning the Netanyahu regime’s constant breaches of international law and to act urgently to protect innocent civilians in Gaza and the West Bank.

While the government has been strident in attacking those Green and Independent parliamentarians who dared to voice their concerns about the devastating death toll of Palestinian civilians , the Australian prime minister has continually refused to condemn the indiscriminate retaliatory behaviour of the Israel Defence Force.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, claiming that there is no alternative to negotiations between Russia and Ukraine other than the "Zelensky formula," wants to remain in history as Europe's main Russophobe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

"In his last speech, Josep Borrell said that there is no alternative to negotiations other than the 'Zelensky formula.' I thought that they at least have an education, that they have an understanding of how to conduct a reality-based policy. This is a dead end. It is clear that Borrell now wants to go down in history as the main Russophobe in Europe. He is leaving his posts. This is amateurism or already madness that has replaced the minds of diplomats and politicians," Lavrov said in an interview with RT for the documentary "Bridges to the East."

Egyptian cartoonist Ashraf Omar tortured in detention

According to the cartoonist’s wife, Nada Mugheeth, and lawyer Khaled Ali, Ashraf Omar was physically abused and tortured while in detention.

While official documents date his arrest to Wednesday 24 July, the cartoonist was taken from his home in the suburbs of Giza province on the night of Monday 22 July, before reappearing before the State Security Prosecutor’s Office on the evening of Wednesday 24 July, almost 60 hours later. It was during this enforced disappearance that he was allegedly subjected to violence and electric shock torture.

The Russian economy is growing at a faster pace than projected, with GDP expected to soar 3.9% this year, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov announced on Friday.

Siluanov told TV channel Russia-24 that GDP growth in the first half of the year amounted to 4.7%, which is “a very good figure.”

“We see investments growing, at around 8%, real disposable incomes of the population are also increasing,” the minister stated.

“The estimates for the dynamics of the economy for this year are also higher than we initially included in our forecasts … Last year, the figure was 3.6%, it was high, and this year we will exceed it,” he said.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian forces have freed the settlements of Viyemka and Ptichye in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), eliminating up to 1,920 Ukrainian soldiers over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.

"As a result of successful actions of units of the Southern Group of Forces, the settlement of Viyemka of the DPR was liberated ... Units of the Central Group of Forces actively liberated the village of Ptichye of the DPR and continue to advance deeper into the enemy's defense," the statement read.

https://scheerpost.com/2024/08/24/the-war-on-gaza-2-6-24/

The moral distinction between liberal democracies and dictatorships is being flattened by the carnage in Gaza.