Month: August 2021

Categories Russia

Putin is right about the West’s endless attempts to woo Kiev: Rejecting Ukraine’s history with Russia could destroy the country

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has penned an article arguing that Russians and Ukrainians, despite the differences between their two governments since the 2014 Maidan, are actually one people, with a shared history and culture. … Read More >Putin is right about the West’s endless attempts to woo Kiev: Rejecting Ukraine’s history with Russia could destroy the country

Categories World

Police call in military to help enforce Covid lockdown in Sydney after cases rise unabated

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Sydney authorities have been blasted for “militarizing a public health crisis,” after the New South Wales Police Commissioner Mick Fuller requested the support of 300 soldiers to ensure greater compliance with Covid restrictions. … Read More >Police call in military to help enforce Covid lockdown in Sydney after cases rise unabated

Categories Middle East

Israel tells France it takes NSO spyware allegations ‘seriously’ after defense ministers discuss Pegasus affair

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Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz has said the country is taking allegations around Pegasus spyware, sold by Israeli firm NSO, “seriously” after discussing the scandal with his French counterpart Florence Parly. … Read More >Israel tells France it takes NSO spyware allegations ‘seriously’ after defense ministers discuss Pegasus affair

Categories World

Sydney widens police powers, ordering residents to wear masks AT ALL TIMES outside home amid surge in cases

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Some two million residents living in Sydney, Australia, which is currently in the middle of an extended lockdown, have been told to mask up outdoors and not travel further than five kilometers from home, as cases rise. … Read More >Sydney widens police powers, ordering residents to wear masks AT ALL TIMES outside home amid surge in cases

Categories Shows

10 years since Mark Duggan killing and the UK uprising (Claudia Webbe MP & Alex Wheatle MBE)

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On this episode of Going Underground, we firstly speak to Claudia Webbe MP. She discusses how the killing of Mark Duggan by the police revealed the extent of institutional racism in the UK, the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement, being the chair of Operation Trident at the time when Mark Duggan was killed, the cover-up … Read More >10 years since Mark Duggan killing and the UK uprising (Claudia Webbe MP & Alex Wheatle MBE)

Categories Latin America

‘Independent’ Mexico has every right to send aid to Cuba in defiance of ‘inhumane’ US sanctions, president says

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President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has scoffed at the notion that Mexico should honor a US-imposed embargo on Cuba, as his country sends aid to the island in defiance of Washington’s suffocating economic restrictions. … Read More >‘Independent’ Mexico has every right to send aid to Cuba in defiance of ‘inhumane’ US sanctions, president says

Categories Middle East

Massive wildfires ravage Lebanon’s north with flames approaching towns & forcing residents to flee (VIDEOS)

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Multiple fires have broken out in northern Lebanon, devastating pine forests and threatening multiple villages. The blazes have forced some residents to flee their homes, while at least one firefighter died battling the flames. … Read More >Massive wildfires ravage Lebanon’s north with flames approaching towns & forcing residents to flee (VIDEOS)

Categories World

My land, not theirs’: Crimea will NEVER be Russia & region’s return to Kiev rule is just a ‘matter of time’ – Ukraine’s Zelensky

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Crimea will never be Russian and its return to Kiev’s control is inevitable. That’s according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who explained his belief that his fellow countrymen love the peninsula more than Russians do. … Read More >My land, not theirs’: Crimea will NEVER be Russia & region’s return to Kiev rule is just a ‘matter of time’ – Ukraine’s Zelensky