politics
Politics does not dictate our collective cultural mindset as much as it simply reflects it; We've got to look in the mirror sometimes, and we've got one.
U.S. President Joe Biden Accuses Putin of War Crimes
Images of the Bucha massacre have left many world leaders baffled, boggled, and bewildered. Shocking is an understatement. A 3-year-old girl, with visible signs of rape, can be seen. Arina's dead body is on top of 17-years old sister Veronica. The evidence speaks for itself. Women raped and set on fire. The world needs to see this. There’s another story of a 10-y.o. girl found dead with a torn vagina. It's barbaric. A few nations continue to tiptoe around Russia.
Shain ThomasPublished 2 years ago in The SwampIraq: The President's Dilemma
After the occupation of Iraq, the Americans proceeded to distribute power on the basis of my identities, based on their perceptions of the identifiable demographic assessment of Iraqi society! Thus, the Governing Council was formed, which was announced on July 12, 2004, and included 25 members, including 13 Shiite members, 5 Sunni and Kurdish members, and one member for each of the Turkmen and Christian components. This distribution was adhered to when the first Iraqi authority was formed: a Sunni president and two deputies, one Shiite and the other Kurdish. And an interim government was announced on June 28, 2004, headed by a Shiite, and his two deputies are Sunni and Kurdish, with 31 ministers distributed as follows: 17 Shiite ministers, 6 ministers each for Sunni Arabs and Kurds, as well as two Christian and Turkmen ministers!
The impasse of the return of Spanish-Moroccan relations
During this week, Moroccan-Spanish relations witnessed an exciting development, which confused all the reassuring statements of the Spanish Foreign Minister, Jose Albares, about the imminent return of these relations and the end of the stalemate in them. Amin Tikaa, two senior officials at the same embassy.
International Response to horrific Bucha massacre has been swift
Lithuanian officials, on Monday, 4 April 2022, ordered the Russian consulate in Klaipėda to close. The consulate closure isn't surprising. Anyone with a modicum of intelligence, considering breaking-news coming out of Ukraine, could have seen the closure coming.
Shain ThomasPublished 2 years ago in The SwampWar Crimes Reported...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, believing Russia is intending the "elimination of the whole nation and the people," has accused Russian forces of genocide.
Shain ThomasPublished 2 years ago in The SwampSports and Politics are inseparable
A wide sector of world public opinion believed that there was no link between politics and sports, and considered that sport was another matter that had nothing to do with the political contradictions between countries and peoples. This view was promoted by the Western capitalist and Israeli media, with the aim of achieving purely political goals. Winter and other global sports platforms promote the consideration of sports as another matter, not linked to politics and its calculations. That is why they, out of a previous determination and insistence, first agreed to hold international matches in Arab or Islamic countries that reject normalization with the Israeli colonial state and deliberately included in their programs, and with previous design and insistence. The participation of players from Israel with Arab or Muslim players who reject free normalization in order to achieve penetration and normalization by bypassing methods with these countries, not through the participation of players only, but by raising the flag of the colonial state in the countries’ lands, and playing the “national” anthem, which means an acknowledgment of dealing with it, And allowing players, teams, clubs, coaches and their fans to travel and enter the country, and so on gradually it is entered into the cycle of free normalization, as happened in Malaysia And Indonesia, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and other countries that refused in principle the participation of Israeli delegations on their soil, or their meeting with players or teams from other countries with Israelis.
What is the role of comedians in The Russian-Ukrainian war?
The Russian-Ukrainian war revealed the ugly face of the European Union and the countries that are tempting it to set foot in it, and for all the countries and governments that tied their necks to the American halter. The price is for the peoples of poor countries.
Can Putin plunge Europe into darkness?
Major European countries, Germany, France and Britain, responded to Russian President Vladimir Putin's threat to cut gas supplies to "unfriendly countries" unless they were paid for in the Russian currency, the ruble, with a refusal. Putin’s cutting off gas means exposing a number of countries in the world that imposed sanctions on his country due to his army’s invasion of Ukraine to a shortage of energy imports, which reach Germany, Denmark, France, Poland, Austria, the Netherlands, Spain, Britain, Belgium, Portugal, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, while Russian oil imports reach the Netherlands and Germany Poland, Italy, Finland, Slovakia, South Korea and the United States. In 2012, the European Union countries imported 67% of Russian oil exports. The United States of America and its European allies tried to persuade the oil-exporting countries to pump urgently to avoid the global shortage in energy exports, but the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies rejected these pressures and satisfied themselves with a small monthly increase, and on the other hand, US President Joe Biden announced, yesterday, a significant increase. In oil production, by releasing 1 million barrels per day from the Federal Reserve for a period of 6 months, it was estimated that its allies would withdraw 30 to 50 million barrels per day from their reserves. Regardless of the Russian propaganda goals about the invasion of Ukraine, a large part of the war practically revolves around the control of global energy and food resources. Until late 2005, all Russian gas exports to Europe (80%) flowed through Ukraine. The invasion plan appears in contrast with previous Russian massive projects to avoid the Ukrainian lands, which were represented by Moscow’s grand plans to build other pipelines, such as Nord Stream 1 and 2 under the Baltic Sea, and “Yamal-Europe” (through Belarus), and lines under the Black Sea. change? In 2012, according to various sources, Moscow discovered the possibility of natural gas reserves in the Black Sea region controlled by Ukraine, centered around the Crimea, estimated at two trillion cubic meters, and discoveries were made of potential gas and oil fields around Donetsk and Kharkiv in the east, and in the Carpathians in the west. With the start of granting exploration to Western companies, the possibility of Ukraine becoming an oil state competing with Russia increased, as it would have facilitated its entry into the European Union. The European Union, through the virtual summit with China, began yesterday, Friday, trying to push Beijing to take a tougher stance with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the Chinese position will focus, in the end, on balancing profits and losses from Russia’s support, which will provide Beijing with a cheap source of oil and gas, and will also form a bond It has in its claim to control Taiwan and persecute the Muslim Uyghurs, but it will constitute, on the other hand, a strategic obstacle to China's plans that are based on enormous relations with the giants of the world's economy, America, Europe, Japan and South Korea, as well as on globalization, industrialization, trade, investment and opening borders. Putin's call to pay for gas in rubles carries a great contradiction that weakens a lot of its impact. Its main meaning is based on Europe's acquiescence to his invasion of Ukraine, which is not possible, and the call represents a suicidal gamble that Putin cannot actually implement. Stopping the gas will cause a major shortage of energy within countries' markets. The opposition to the invasion of Ukraine, which will have serious but solvable consequences, and the blow to the Russian economy as a whole, which is based on these imports, and is mainly based on exports, will be fatal.
Abd elrhmenPublished 2 years ago in The SwampViolence erupts at pro-Ukraine rally
Footage shows pro-Ukrainian demonstrators scatter as Russian troops, as reported by ABC News, open fire to disperse a crowd that had gathered in Ukraine's occupied southern city of Kherson.
Shain ThomasPublished 2 years ago in The SwampUkraine Retake Chernobyl
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, with the Ukrainian flag flying overhead, has been retaken by Ukrainian forces. A ceremony, honouring the staff continuing to work at the decommissioned nuclear power plant under Russian occupation, was held.
Shain ThomasPublished 2 years ago in The SwampThe manipulator, the killer, and the left
It is common in Western leftist circles that the current high tension with Russia is attributed to the likes of Joe Biden and Boris Johnson who want to pressure and isolate Russia, driven by selfish calculations of their own, and not to Russia’s expansionist tendencies in Ukraine and the entire former Soviet sphere, and the world. Biden and Johnson are not devoid of private, national and personal accounts, but returning the explosive problem in and around Ukraine to their aspirations, and not to Putin's expansionist nationalist policy, anti-democratic in Russia and the world, and supportive of far-right organizations in Europe, is an aberration in vision that has precedents that push To suspect a defect in the configuration. The most famous of these precedents is the communist skepticism in the days of the Comintern of the intentions of the liberal democracies in the decade prior to the Second World War, and the view of Nazism as a mere variety of other bourgeois policies, and the adoption of narrow tactics of the type of class against class, which returns various political expressions to a rigid class dualism, which places the working class against the bourgeoisie. These tactics undermined potential alliances based on democracy and pluralism, which led to the weakening of everyone in the face of Hitlerism. There are really selfish manipulators, but there are fascist killers, the former exploit and deceive, while the latter seize, rob and can kill millions, and distinguishing between them is a priority over what the Second World War will prove after a few years of this controversy.
Morocco: Street and politicians' movement in dealing with price hikes
Morocco’s luck this year is not good, as three major crises have converged upon it: the continuation of the repercussions of the Corona pandemic, its great impact on raw materials, its causing successive waves of price hikes, the crisis of rising fuel prices in global markets, and the accompanying hike in transport prices, and the consequent From raising the prices of all materials, foremost of which are foodstuffs, then a drought crisis that Morocco has not known since 1981. Difficult effects on the rural world, which lives on agriculture and livestock.