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🇪🇺 The EU is preparing a €20 billion military aid package for Ukraine, including artillery, air defense systems, missiles, drones, and more. The package aims to strengthen Ukrainian brigades but faces potential delays due to opposition from Hungary. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 19 hours ago • 46 comments

OK, the report is now fully in major media. Media must get an extensive White House response; Congress must investigate (even if it's a minority report); DOJ and the FBI must investigate; the CIA must issue a report on what it knew about this and when.

submitted 6 hours ago • 281 comments

This report is rightly generating headlines & discussion. For me it shows why we shouldn’t go down the route of trying to match Russian capabilities - but should focus on our own strengths esp emerging defence tech to boost combat power, deter & if needed defeat RU www.bruegel.org/analysis/def...

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

submitted 1 day ago • 1173 comments

This made me so angry I have to not actually say what it made me think.

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“During my time at the institute, I witnessed how they would ‘take’ organs from a Palestinian body and not ‘take’ anything from the soldiers in return.” #israel doctors “would take corneas, skin, and heart valves..." from Palestinian corpses Dr. Meira Weiss, Israeli doctor and anthropology expert

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

#israel submerged front-page news with news of dead Israeli babies whom they killed - not a peep about dead Palestinian kids from #gaza

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

Europe's politicians are openly discussing how they could tackle the threat of nuclear attack without American help, in a dramatic sign of the deep crisis engulfing the transatlantic alliance under Donald Trump.

submitted 17 hours ago • 63 comments

Starting to think the right’s mEmE KiNg WhO LeGaLiZeD CoMedY is actually just a whiny little bitch with a fragile ego.

submitted 1 day ago • 723 comments

From United Humanists on FB

submitted 19 hours ago • 774 comments

The EU stepping in when the Russian compromised leader of the United States won't.

submitted 18 hours ago • 164 comments

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

submitted 1 day ago • 294 comments

“Russia’s notoriously vague and broad anti-extremism law is used to prosecute those who call for free and fair elections, expose corruption, advocate on behalf of political prisoners, or appear to identify as Navalny supporters” www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...

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⚡️🇩🇪🇺🇸 German Foreign Minister Baerbock threatens the U.S. with a severing of ties over Trump’s remarks on Zelensky and Ukraine. "We will increase pressure on the Americans to make them realize they have a lot to lose if they stop supporting Europe's liberal democracies," Baerbock stated.

submitted 1 day ago • 87 comments

Lie after lie has been told this week about how the Ukraine war started, from the Kremlin and the White House. Here's our News Agents video essay which explains the truth, and spells out why Trump clings so close to Putin and lives in his warped reality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufM...

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

OTD in 2014 we sent masked soldiers to occupy Crimea 2014 “they’re not Russian soldiers but local militias. Russia has nothing to do with them” 2015 “They were not Russian soldiers but we “stood behind them” Later 2015 “They were Russian soldiers" But we are not lying this time

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Peace plan.

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

It's no understatement to say the Elon Musk is the most dangerous man alive. He's an existential threat to everyone on this planet if he's not stopped.

submitted 2 days ago • 64 comments

US President Donald Trump says he will “recommend” his plan to “take over” Gaza and displace Palestinians, rather than impose it, amid continued opposition from Palestinian leaders and Arab states. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/g8ygx0

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"But my advice to fellow Canadians and our international allies is that we can’t wait or hope for America to get its act together. The resistance must start now." charlieangus.substack.com/p/speak-now-...

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

🤬 you Putin!

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Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill says she will not attend St Patrick’s Day events at the White House in protest against US President Donald Trump’s position on Gaza. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/zenhdd

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My warmest greetings go out to the wonderful people who built their careers sniffing out “Ukrainian Nazis” under every stone in Ukraine for tasty headlines that fueled Russian war propaganda on this-is-why-Ukraine-must-be-dealt-with, only to get Nazi salutes normalized in their own country.

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

Ireland’s neutrality is widely regarded as absurd and complacent

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Thank you for sharing this Rob. I stopped supporting WWF many years ago. When I was fostering a RARE Black Rhino through them they BACKED an auction for a trophy hunter to shoot a RARE Black Rhino at the same time!! They are a corrupt ‘business’!

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Lawyers at Twitter are reportedly threatening advertisers to spend more money on the platform “or else” Elon Musk will use his connections with Trump to hurt their companies.

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The Moscow Institute of Computer Science has "caught fire", I felt a great disturbance in the algorithm, as if millions of bots suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

submitted 2 days ago • 454 comments

Trump has shafted Ukraine. Now he threatens the security of the west

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments