The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued its order in the case between South Africa and Israel over ongoing genocidal acts in Gaza. It states, inter alia, that: "The State of Israel must take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of basic services and urgently needed humanitarian assistance to alleviate the difficult living conditions of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip."

However, basic services and humanitarian aid can only be distributed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

Documents shed light on the earliest-known instance of climate science funded by the fossil fuel industry, adding to growing understanding of Big Oil’s knowledge of climate change. Fossil fuel industry sponsored climate science in 1954.

February 1, 2024 Rebecca John  DESMOG

When you read in Financial Times (or FT to its friends) that the EU wants to destroy Hungary’s economy because of its “recalcitrance,” you should always bear in mind that this is a UK-based newspaper and that the political aim of the publication is to create internal contradictions in the EU after its home country’s exit.

By Timofey Bordachev

Accordingly, the information given to the newspaper by British officials is primarily aimed at manipulating journalists to create stories that will create additional controversies within the EU and worsen the situation of Germany and France. This is the first thing we have to understand when we talk about political war propaganda.

War — THE LONG real GAME…

What is the ultimate goal of this crap?

THE ultimate goal is the CONQUEST OF THE WHOLE WORLD BY THE EMPIRE — the American Empire…

The EMPIRE never admits defeat. It will lie and talk of readjustments and how the enemy is defeating itself by fighting against the Empire… 

By Gus Leonisky, Esq

ONE CAN NEVER WIN AGAINST THE EMPIRE… because the game isn’t about winning but about fighting and being punched incessantly by the Empire that reinvents itself… No rest, NOR PEACE.

How long is the “game”?

MAGA World Is About to Meet Taylor Swift’s Fandom. It Won’t Go Well.
Swift expert Brian Donovan on why the political right is targeting a rich, heteronormative pop star.

Taylor Swift has many titles: cultural juggernaut; international pop star; billionaire businesswoman. She can now add MAGA conspiracy theory target to the list.

According to the good professor Richard Wolff, in the German law system, German industries have the right to sue the German government for bad policies that affect their performance. This is why Siemens and others such as WW, are demanding massive COMPENSATION (billions of Euros) for the impact that sanctions on Russia have had on their business, as well as the destruction of the Nord Sea pipelines.

By Gus Leonisky, Esq

A crowd of furious farmers picketed the EU Parliament building in Brussels on Thursday to protest environmental regulations and the threat to their livelihoods posed by cheap Ukrainian imports. The protesters hurled stones, eggs, and abuse at the bureaucrats behind police lines.

Convoys of tractors began streaming into Brussels on Wednesday night, and by Thursday morning the streets of the Belgian capital were blockaded by around 1,300 vehicles, according to a police estimate.

The farmers assembled in front of the European Parliament building on Luxembourg Square where they burned pallets and piles of manure. The crowd lobbed eggs, stones, fireworks, and flaming projectiles at the legislature, while similar scenes took place outside the nearby headquarters of the European Council.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has called on the German government to abandon its policy of financially supporting Ukrainian refugees on its territory and divert the cash to Kiev instead. The scheme would make aid mechanisms more transparent, he argued in an interview with the public German broadcaster ARD over the weekend.

People who have fled Ukraine and moved to Germany currently receive financial assistance from both countries, Zelensky claimed in the interview, released on Monday by his administration. This needs to change, he insisted.

“It would be better if Germany supported Ukrainians by giving money to the budget of Ukraine,” the president said. He added that the government in Kiev would then distribute the funds, depending on each person’s whereabouts.

By 2021 it was apparent that we were witnessing the accelerating but creeping collapse of the American Empire. That collapse has passed an inflection point – the Empire is now in free fall.

Prosulfocarb is one of the most widely sold herbicidal active substances in France. For several years now, ANSES has been paying close attention to the problems posed by spray drift of prosulfocarb products. For example, the Agency has examined deposits on non-target crops following prosulfocarb treatments. It has also updated its assessment of products with regard to the exposure of local residents. Below we take stock of the work carried out by ANSES since 2017.

The US will only allow Türkiye to return to the F-35 fighter jet program if it agrees to ditch Russia’s S-400 missile defense system, Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland has said. The American official also suggested that Washington may even lift sanctions on its NATO ally if Ankara is more amenable.

Speaking with CNNTurk television on Monday, Nuland said Ankara could be brought in from the cold on the F-35 project if it resolved the spat, after Türkiye was booted from the program in 2019 over its acquisition of the S-400 from Russia.

“Some of the very governments that announced they will cut off funds to UNRWA over these allegations have, in the meantime, continued to arm Israeli forces despite overwhelming evidence that these arms are used to commit war crimes.”

JAKE JOHNSON

Jan 30, 2024

Scott Ritter is wrong

WHAT FOLLOWS IS GUS OWN VIEWS ON THE “SITUATIONS”…

Scott Ritter is very good. He can demonstrate with a few sentences how the US military and the US administration are incompetent and stupid in their knee-jerk responses TO THE WHATEVER…

Scott is on the money… The US military is woeful. but why?

The US military is huge and strong, but USELESS… It acts like a dumb/dumb, but why? WHY?

Imagine that over 20 years, the US military shipped about one trillion dollar worth of equipment to Afghanistan — and when the Americans decamped, they left about 500 billion dollar worth of equipment behind! How dumb is that? 

An epochal anniversary from the annals of modern history on Saturday remains a living memory for the Russian people. The Siege of Leningrad, arguably the most gruesome episode of the Second World War, which lasted for 900 days, was finally broken by the Soviet Red Army on Jan. 27, 1944, 80 years ago. 

By  M.K. Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline

“The West is in danger,” warned Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland. 

In his dangerously appealing style, Milei blamed “collectivism” – that is, social welfare, taxes and the state – as the “root cause” of the world’s problems, leading to widespread impoverishment.