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"Most of the children “found” in Germany, whom Ukrainian media called “abducted” by Russia, entered Germany with their legal guardians. This was reported to RT DE by a representative of the German Federal Criminal Police Office. The department added that in several cases minors…
New on MoA: Israel Quietly 'Retaliates' For Iran's Retaliation Attack moonofalabama.org/2024/04/israel…
First par: "One of the largest private western investors in Ukraine has claimed that corrupt officials in the country’s security services and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s administration are trying to extort tens of millions of euros from him."
"The U.N. refugee agency UNRWA has accused Israeli security forces of torturing imprisoned U.N. workers in an effort to extract false confessions about the agency’s ties to Hamas." democracynow.org/2024/4/18/head…
More than six months after Oct. 7th, there are still zero identified sexual violence survivors, and zero physical or forensic evidence to support "witness" claims. Here's another important number: remember when NYT's @gettleman, after we called out his fraudulent reporting,…
More than six months after Oct. 7th, there are still zero identified sexual violence survivors, and zero physical or forensic evidence to support "witness" claims. Here's another important number: remember when NYT's @gettleman, after we called out his fraudulent reporting,…
"Our veto against Palestinian statehood does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood" When you go full Orwellian doublespeak.
Iran's reporting it shot down a few drones and the Israeli attack did no damage. It's possible this was the "limited response" Israel negotiated to be able to commit a massacre in Rafah.
Iran's reporting it shot down a few drones and the Israeli attack did no damage. It's possible this was the "limited response" Israel negotiated to be able to commit a massacre in Rafah.
🚨🚨 UK planning system now officially so bad it is being satirised by American bloggers. 🚨🚨 Scott Alexander on the money again.
Cool. So this week the Senate is voting to let the NSA take over the internet and authorize warrantless surveillance of Americans, and the House is voting to take another hundred billion dollars from you (a tenth of a trillion!) to squander on fruitless foreign wars. Very cool.
Across the📍#GazaStrip, @UNRWA and other humanitarian agencies face continuous challenges to deliver aid to people. Access limitations imposed by Israeli authorities and difficulties on the ground are hindering the process: 🧵 (1/7)
Fascinating study: Even as Israel has killed more than 33,000 Palestinians, the NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post have used the word “brutal” to describe Palestinians 77% of the time that word has been used, compared to just 23% of the time for Israel.
Fascinating study: Even as Israel has killed more than 33,000 Palestinians, the NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post have used the word “brutal” to describe Palestinians 77% of the time that word has been used, compared to just 23% of the time for Israel. https://t.co/dzSDtgqvur
One day that smirk will feature prominently in historical documentaries on the unique evils of our age
Was asked to fact-check this post and others claiming a minimum "social credit score" is required to charge a car. Signs clearly say that people with 550+ in the Wechat payment app's loyalty rewards scheme are entitled to charge before paying. I prefer discount perks, myself.
New on MoA: U.S./EU Lobby Against Georgian Law That Would Reveal Their Secret Influence moonofalabama.org/2024/04/useu-l…
Car body sheet assembly has for years been automated in car factories everywhere. youtube.com/watch?v=P7fi4h… Manpower is still needed to attach all interior fittings as this is much more difficult to automate.
Car body sheet assembly has for years been automated in car factories everywhere. youtube.com/watch?v=P7fi4h… Manpower is still needed to attach all interior fittings as this is much more difficult to automate.
The parasites desperately cling to their host. The US and EU funded "regime change" operators inside Georgia will fight to the death to prevent the light from being shone on them. In the US, transparency in foreign lobbying activity is the law and foreign funding of our elections…
The parasites desperately cling to their host. The US and EU funded "regime change" operators inside Georgia will fight to the death to prevent the light from being shone on them. In the US, transparency in foreign lobbying activity is the law and foreign funding of our elections…
Imagine killing thousands of children just to build a few more houses This mf is evil incarnate
Imagine killing thousands of children just to build a few more houses This mf is evil incarnate
These are testimonies of Palestinians who thought they heard children and women screaming for help in Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp, only to realize that the cries were coming from an Israeli drone broadcasting distress calls to lure them out so it could shoot them.
The account of that weekend in the London Review of Books makes for worthy reading, even though it|s outright depressing. In particular the image of visibly Jewish protestors brutalized by German police "just following orders". lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/apri…
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114K Followers 445 Following Independent Defence Analyst focusing on Russia and Belarus / Director of https://t.co/cRvidHQ0j7 Normal caveats applyWhat drugs did you gobble up to come up with this? The relations between the U.S. and Germany and Japan, respectively, are not friendly relations featuring equal partners but rather a grossly unequal partnership, at best, and boot-licking vassalage, at worst.
@NinaByzantina Both Japan and Germany's strong economies and friendly relations with a former enemy testify to the tremendous value and potential of diplomacy and goodwill. Japan is an example for other states to follow.
Strana: Ukrainian manufacturers of artillery shells do not have enough workers. strana.today/news/460968-ka…
Allen die es feiern wünsche ich ein frohes Osterfest. Genießt ein paar ruhige Tage.
my guess is southern lebanon. any experts out there?
What kind of target requires 2,000-lbs bombs–1800 of them?
HUGE: Hiding the 'ratio': Israel conceals 200+ troop deaths on Lebanon front. The occupation state claims only 10 dead soldiers on its northern front. @TheCradleMedia reveals that number is upward of 230 dead Israeli troops. thecradle.co/articles-id/24…
thanks to b for this clarification
New on MoA: New York Times Misreports Gaza UNSC Resolution moonofalabama.org/2024/03/new-yo…
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PRESS RELEASE: TERRORIST ATTACK AT CROCUS CITY HALL, MOSCOW, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, 22 MARCH 2024
« C’est pourtant simple ».
@evil_SDOC C'est pourtant simple ... aujourd'hui, la Défense en Ukraine est établie. Les nazillons qui nous parlent de paix, en offrant aux russes les territoires déjà conquis ... signeraient une capitulation qui permettrait à la Russie de reconstruire ses forces et d'attaquer ailleurs dès…
Nain-poléon trying his hand at poker 😂 Sorry, couldn't resist 😇
New on MoA: Ukraine - France Already Lost In Odessa moonofalabama.org/2024/03/ukrain… Pic: December 12, 1918. Renault tanks unloading in Odessa
H/t @MoonofA
Independent channels have been reporting for a year that Russia far out-produces the West in artillery shells. CNN finally catches up and calls it an “exclusive.”
Sweetest words in the English language: I told you so. French subs were lethal and affordable. Now we know US is very reluctant to sell us Virginias. Result? No Aussie subs in 2030s and total reliance on the Yanks. Not a sovereign nation. @TurnbullMalcolm abc.net.au/listen/program…
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/… An incredibly powerful, insightful, and highly critical essay that everyone should be mandated to read.
Actually, @intifada, @TheGrayzoneNews & @Mondoweiss have been doing it long before @theintercept picked up on it.
How lucky we are to have reporters and editors at the intercept during this war. No one is doing what they’re doing: theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new…
@MoonofA @ericairlines1 Although it cannot be said publicly, the fact is that Europe needs a strong Russian-American tension to be born, and not détente, just as to consolidate itself it will need a war against the Soviet Union, to do at the right moment. Altiero Spinelli European Diary (1948-1969) 1989
I think swapping any random Ukrainian frontline brigade with a French one would be a very educational event