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Sunday, March 26, 2023
By Lawrence Freeman October 24, 2017 On October 12, the U.S. announced the long overdue, official removal of some sanctions on Sudan. Now, new and exciting potentials lie ahead for the future of Sudan and its people. This is not the time to delay; the government of Sudan should seize […]
On Victory over Fascism Day, May 9, Neo-Nazi “National Corps” (former Azov Battalion unit) staged new attack on Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine leaders Dr. Natalia Vitrenko and Vladimir Marchenko May 12—Early Tuesday morning, as the USA, Canada, and European countries had celebrated V-E Day (May 8), the 72nd anniversary […]
By Rachel Douglas April 18—As the Trump Administration of the USA exercised a quick trigger-finger in attacking Syria’s Shayrat airbase with cruise missiles on April 7, and has made increasingly ominous statements about unilateral action to terminate North Korea’s military programs, Russian political leaders and diplomats, so far, have kept […]
By Lawrence Freeman, Political-Economic Analyst for Africa and Vice Chairman of the International Scientific Advisory Committee to the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC). Over recent weeks, there has been considerable, long-overdue international attention given to the horrific conditions for the people living in the nations of the Lake Chad Basin […]
By Lawrence Freeman, Political-Economic Analyst for Africa Famine is stalking Africa, threatening unprecedented levels of starvation. Famine has already been officially declared in parts of South Sudan’s Unity State, Somalia, and sections of the Borno State in Nigeria. Somalian officials reported 110 human beings perished from hunger in forty-eight hours […]
By Rachel Douglas Feb. 14—“If I were Michael Ledeen,” a European friend of mine said yesterday, “and I wanted to intensify a clash with Russia, I would use Ukraine.” He was talking about the U.S. neoconservative operative and the author of Universal Fascism, who has been flitting around the newly […]
by Rachel Douglas 17 Jan.— One of the departing Obama Administration’s last acts of hostility towards Russia was Vice-President Joe Biden’s 16 January visit to Kiev, where he declared that “the international community must continue to stand as one against Russian coercion and aggression.” Biden has been an active booster […]
On Aug. 1 Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov announced that military officials from NATO have been invited to a September meeting in Moscow to discuss the military-political situation in Europe, Sputnik reported. The issue of preventing any incidents in the air or on the sea is high on the […]
In what some are defining as a turning point in the war in Syria, the Syrian army, backed by Russian air power, has completed the encirclement of Aleppo, to cut off supply lines to the terrorist groups who have been entrenched in the eastern part of the city since 2012. […]