International News
So long Stoltenberg…
Global Times
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is about to leave his post, and the upcoming NATO summit to be held in the USA next month will be his farewell tour, if nothing else. In the last two days, Stoltenberg went to Washington to warm up for the upcoming summit, at the same time showing off some of his own “achievements” to leave some political legacy for the past nine years in his post as NATO Secretary General. He touted that 23 of the 32-member bloc have met the target of spending two per cent of GDP on defence, while revealing that NATO is discussing the deployment of more nuclear weapons. Stoltenberg’s remarks, which make the world feel uneasy and threatened, are said with easiness and even great excitement. The NATO chief also continued to threaten China, saying that China cannot “have it both ways” between the West and Russia, and that if it does not change course “there should be consequences”.
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Palestinian Resistance breaks morale of Israel’s military
by Monica Moorehead , Workers World (USA)
Eleven members of the Israeli army died on 15th June in a blast of a Namer armoured combat engineering vehicle (CEV) in Rafah, part of occupied Gaza. They were members of the “elite” Combat Engineering Corps’ 601st Battalion. This is one of the highest numbers of Israeli troops eliminated in just one day since 7th October by the Palestinian resistance, which must rely on guerrilla tactics and mainly small, handheld weapons to fight the military might of the American-backed oppressors of their people.
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Korean solidarity in Berlin
by New Worker correspondent,
British members of the Korean Friendship Association (KFA) joined German solidarity workers last week to discuss the life-time achievements of Democratic Korean leader Kim Jong Il. Korean solidarity activists from Germany and the rest of Europe met at the Kom Treff Centre in Berlin for a hybrid seminar held under the auspices of the European Regional Committee For Friendship with the Korean People and the KFA of Germany.
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Escalation: Americans help Ukraine terror strike Sevastopol
by Ekaterina Blinova , Sputnik
The USA has raised the Ukraine conflict to new level by facilitating a terror strike on the Russian Crimean port of Sevastopol. On Sunday at 12:15pm local time, Ukraine attacked the Russian city of Sevastopol with five ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles equipped with cluster bombs. Russian air defences intercepted four missiles, but the explosion of the fifth cluster warhead led to the death of four civilians with 153 more injured.
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Julian Assange: free at last!
by Ed Newman, Radio Havana Cuba
The plane carrying Julian Assange, who has fought American espionage charges for more than a decade for his whistleblowing efforts, landed in his native Australia on Wednesday. Julian was permitted to walk free after pleading ‘guilty’ in a US court in the Northern Mariana Islands, an American possession in the Pacific, to a felony charge for publishing US military secrets.
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Ramaphosa and the new era
by Roberto Morejón, Radio Havana Cuba
A skilled negotiator, Cyril Ramaphosa, the leader of the African National Congress (ANC) has been inaugurated for a second presidential term in South Africa, 30 years after the beginning of efforts to leave behind the heavy legacy of development separated by races, the hated apartheid system.
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Features
The double standards of the imperialist press
by Eduardo Vasco, Pravda.ru
When the news of the death of the Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi, in a helicopter crash broke in May the first thing that came to mind to anyone with a modicum of critical thinking was – is this Israel’s doing?
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