Dear Veterans,
I’m a civilian who, like many Americans, has strong ties to the U.S. Armed Forces. I never considered enlisting, but my father, uncles, cousins, and nephews did. 

As a child I baked cookies to send with letters to my cousin Steven who was serving in Vietnam. My family tree includes soldiers on both sides of the Civil War. Some years before my father died, he shared with me his experience of being drafted during the Korean War and, while on leave, traveling to Hiroshima, Japan. There, just a few short years after an American atomic bomb had devastated that city as World War II ended, he was haunted by seeing the dark shadows of the dead cast onto concrete by the nuclear blast.

I feel like we haven’t been talking enough about the fact that US government agencies were just caught intimately collaborating with massive online platforms to censor content in the name of regulating the “cognitive infrastructure” of society.

The only way you could be okay with the US government appointing itself this authority would be if you believed the US government is an honest and beneficent entity that works toward the benefit of the common man. Which would of course be an unacceptable thing for a grown adult to believe.

BY Caitlin Johnstone

Billionaires are responsible for a million times more greenhouse gas emissions than the average person, according to Oxfam.

Research by the international charity found that the investments of just 125 billionaires emit 393 million tonnes of CO2 each year, equivalent to the yearly emissions of 85 million cars.

This is one million times more than someone in the bottom 90 per cent of humanity. Everyone who earns below €173,000 on average is in this group.

Hungary and Türkiye should stop blocking the ratification of Finland and Sweden’s membership of NATO, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Thursday, adding that there is a “crystal clear basis” for allowing the two Nordic nations to join the military bloc.

Ankara and Budapest have been delaying the process, with Türkiye pointing to concerns about Sweden and Finland’s alleged support of Kurdish “terrorism,” while Hungary claims it will vote on the issue after it resolves a number of disagreements with the EU.

Speaking at a joint press conference with her Swedish counterpart, Tobias Billstrom, Baerbock said that both Ankara and Budapest have committed themselves to formalizing the accession “and that’s exactly what they need to do now.”

When Russian soldiers left his village in southern Ukraine after more than seven months of occupying it, Volodymyr Kmitevych thought the worst was over. But then he watched a missile strike down his wife, Olena, in front of him…

Less than two weeks after her death, the 55-year-old sits in a darkened room among the green potted plants she had arranged throughout their house, looking through a photo album full of memories. In one of the photos, a younger Kmitevych and his wife playfully hug each other on the couch.

“She was a miracle, we lived together for 31 years, soul-to-soul,” Kmitevych says from his home in Novooleksandrivka, which has been without electricity for months. “Now it’s just emptiness, I don’t know what I’ll do next.”

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Against the backdrop of recent turbulent international events in various parts of the world, it is not only them that have attracted increased international and media attention, but also the various “stunts” pulled by a number of ambassadors in their political dances on the diplomatic podium. Above all, they are already known for their contemptuous and unjustifiably arrogant attitude in the diplomatic community and for blatantly exceeding international norms of diplomatic behavior and principles of non-interference in the affairs of other sovereign states.

BY Vladimir Platov

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the summit of G20 leaders in Indonesia next week, in person, his press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, confirmed on Thursday.

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will be heading the Russian delegation at the two-day event, the official said.

The same information was also given to media outlets by Russia’s Embassy in Jakarta. Both sources said Putin may participate in the event via video link.

The host nation previously came under pressure by the US and its allies to block Putin from attending the meeting, claiming that Russia should be isolated diplomatically as punishment for sending troops into Ukraine.

Taronga Zoo has been ridiculed after blaming an incident where five lions escaped their enclosures on a fence “integrity issue”.

An emergency situation was declared on Wednesday after one adult and four lion cubs were found outside their enclosure at the Sydney harbourside zoo at about 6.30am.

Nurses have voted to stage strikes across the UK for the first time in their history in pursuit of a better pay deal, in a move that will seriously disrupt NHS care.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) announced on Wednesday that nurses at many, but not all, hospitals and other places of NHS care would take industrial action before Christmas and could continue striking until next May.

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WE WATCH SOME YOUTUBE VIDEOS WHERE PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS DOING SOME STUPID THINGS BUT NO-ONE GETS HURT…. THE RULE OF THUMB IS THAT ORDINARY PEOPLE CAN GET AWAY WITH THIS AND THE VIDEOS WHERE PEOPLE BLEED OR DIE ARE NOT ON THESE FUNNY DISPLAYS. THE KILLER IDIOCIES ARE RESERVED FOR THE “NEWS”.

THERE, POLITICIANS SHOW THEY ARE NASTY IDIOTS WHO HURT PEOPLE WHILE CLAIMING TO THE CONTRARY. TAKE FOR EXAMPLE JOE BIDEN. HE IS A SMART IDIOT. HE TAKES US FOR FOOLS WHILE DITHERING LIKE A SENILE IMBECILE... TRUMP IS A FOOL WHO TAKES US FOR SMART IDIOTS. THANK YOU....

On Tuesday, the so-called EU-US Taskforce on the Inflation Reduction Act was formed in a move agreed by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and US Deputy National Security Adviser Mike Pyle.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron are seeking to try to clinch “a negotiated solution” with Washington over “unfair competition from the US” and the possible need for the EU to strike back, US media reports.