Author, journalist, commentator, former editor, and writer for major news media. Worked in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. https://teapawt.org/t.co/LSnLInwK2S
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Finian Cunningham Author, Journalist & Commentator & Former editor and writer for major news media organizations.
I have written extensively on international affairs, with articles published in several languages.
Book: Killing Democracy
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Recent Articles: 1. Strategic Culture Foundation Column
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2. SCF Weekly Editorials Award: strategic-culture.su/categor…
Serena Shim Award for Integrity in Journalism
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When Norway and Finland spoke to Moscow, we realized: Putin has won and Ukraine has lost the war.
Everyone is now rushing to reposition themselves and their country. This foretells the end of the European Commission. teapawt.org/vick55top/status/21151…
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لقائي في منصة الصحفية اللبنانية رولا نصر
محمد بن سلمان جلب العار لبلاد الحرمين الشريفين
الهدف من زيارة وزير الدفاع السعودية مع حلف مكة باكستان و تركيا ل طهران إيران، هو من أجل الوساطة لوقف هجمات اليمن على السعودية، وذلك بعمل هدنة بين الطرفين،
وهدف تلك الهدنة هو من أجل ضمان فتح البحر الأحمر أمام النفط السعودي لكي تتمكن امريكا من شن هجمات على إيران، بينما يستمر تدفق نفط السعودية، فالعالم لن يتحمل اكثر، خصوصا مع دخول فصل الشتاء، إغلاق المضيقين أمام النفط الخليجي.
ولشن حرب على ايران، يجب أن يكون البحر الأحمر متاح لمرور نفط السعودية
رابط اليوتيوب
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Some of the leaders in Europe—Macron included—want this conflict with Russia to continue.We’ve talked about the military-industrial complex here in the United States that keeps beating the drums of war. Europe has one too. For that complex to keep growing and justifying itself, it needs a boogeyman. Right now, that boogeyman is Russia. As long as they keep repeating “Russia is the threat, Russia is the threat,” they get the budgets, the influence, and the political cover they want. The endless war narrative serves their interests, not the interests of the people paying for it or the soldiers on the ground.This isn’t about defending Europe from an imminent invasion. It’s about sustaining a system that requires a permanent enemy.
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When the Ukrotards say Ukraine is fighting for freedom, show them this video
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🚨Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov🇷🇺:
‼️“Over the past 500 years, all tragedies in the world originated in Europe or occurred owing to European policies: colonisation, the Crusades, the Crimean War, Napoleon, WW1, Hitler…’
After 300 years of slaughtering the peoples of the world and plundering the wealth of the global south to build the cities of Europe…
Their empires crumbled in 1945. Since then, all they have had to offer the world is neocolonialism, uncritical vassalage to the United States, and now face being an afterthought and an irrelevance.
Instead of recognising a new world exists where neocolonialism will not be tolerated, and prioritising economic rejuvenation via engagement with the rising powers of the 21st Century…
Europe instead decides to invest its remaining and dwindling fortunes into the military-industrial complex to fight a war against Russia which none of their populations are remotely interested in…while the rest of the civilised world invests in trade and development.
Europe had a last chance to look to the future, and instead violently jerked their heads 180 degrees back to the past.”
Harsh but not untrue.
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🇷🇺🌍 Lavrov just told a room of African editors what the Western client media spends its life tiptoeing around... political independence came with the 1960s wave of decolonisation, but Africa's "second awakening" will be economic, with its richest resources used "in Africa itself so that added value is created there, rather than in the former colonial powers." The UN's own trade body backs him up, with UNCTAD counting 46 of Africa's 54 countries as commodity dependent. And today 48 of those 54 states turned up in Moscow for the Russia-Africa summit, 22 of them at head of state level (up from 17 in 2023).
He told them a story that says it all. More than once, in a "friendly" country, he couldn't get his own plane refuelled because the oil facilities belonged to Western companies that had decided Russia was "behaving badly". Today Putin went further, quoting Thomas Sankara on debt as "neocolonialism" and accusing the West of trying to drive Africans back into "debt bondage" on predatory terms.
Now the part Europe's ruling class never wants joined up. Ship the ore out raw, keep the factories and the margins at home, and you export the jobs as well.. then act shocked when young men follow the value chain north.
Before NATO's illegal 2011 war on Libya, Italy logged 4,406 sea arrivals (2010). By 2016 it was 181,436, and per UNHCR 90% of them sailed from Libya. Knock the cork out of the bottle and then hold emergency summits about the flood...
The pull side gets lobbied for in plain sight. Europe's big employer groups want an EU Talent Pool that is "demand-led" and recruits third country workers at every skill level, "low, medium and high". Cheap labour in, wages flat, and the friction billed to the working class.
Then comes the show. George Soros earmarked $500m in 2016 ("Why I'm Investing $500 Million in Migrants", his own headline) on top of Open Society money for "migrant legal aid groups" across Europe. On the other side the US based Middle East Forum (a pro-Israel Zionist think tank, bankrolled by a self-described "ardent Zionist" donor Daniel Pipes) boasted in 2018 of funding Tommy Robinson's legal defence and organising the "Free Tommy" rallies in London (it cut ties in 2020). Two sides of the same neoliberal coin.. foreign money at both ends of Europe's migration shouting match, and not a cent of it ever went near the root cause. By the way, who profits when Europeans fight each other over the symptoms instead of asking who manufactured them? Gaslight both sides, divide and rule as you don't want folks to see it's the system stupid (not the fake left and fake right political parties).
Brussels is busy working out how to borrow tens of billions more for Kiev, yet I've never once seen a summit on why Uganda's coffee leaves as raw beans and gets roasted, packed and branded somewhere else (Museveni's example, retold by Lavrov this week). Africa gets the mine, the shareholders get the margin, and the Complaints Department is a rubber dinghy off Lampedusa.
(And before the "Kremlin talking points" brigade arrives... UNCTAD, UNHCR and the Italian Interior Ministry aren't run out of Moscow. Paris can keep hunting for whoever is "colonising minds", the minds are simply learning to count.)
Extract Upstream, Blame Downstream. So who really gains from keeping Africa poor and Europe angry? Europe's Transatlantic puppets would sooner bankroll both sides of the argument than fix the one thing causing it. Want to fix migration? Stop the forever wars. Gadaffi warned of the consequences of destroying Libya but the same patrons of the Tommy Roninsons of the world lit the match and sold you the illegal war and when the natural consequences arrived much like the arsonist who cries about the blaze they blame the fire they lit the match on.
This circus with no bread is so weak. At least Rome understood the need for better circus but also bread.
The Ukraine war’s end will mark the death of US-led Western hegemony.
Former US Army Lt. Col. Earl Rasmussen says the war in Ukraine is one front in a broader international conflict that is aimed at preserving a world order once dominated by a global minority of Western powers, primarily the United States.
Ukraine, Iran, Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Cuba and Venezuela, together with tensions in Latin America, for example from the Trump administration's interference in Brazil’s presidential elections, and in East Asia with China, are all stemming from a desperate attempt to prop up the Western order. That order has prevailed for several centuries, with first the European powers and then the US taking over as the lead hegemon since the Second World War.
But that old order is failing and falling as a new multipolar order emerges, as illustrated by the growing importance of the BRICS, Eurasia, Africa, and, in general, the Global South. A world majority is more assuredly asserting itself, demanding equitable development based on win-win partnerships and mutual co-development in contrast to the exploitative Western order.
Earl Rasmussen also contends that the Western nations, as presently seen in France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, and other European states, are themselves undergoing popular revolts against their elitist ruling classes who are invested in the old order. The political crises in Western nations are due to the loss of moral authority of establishment parties. People can see their corruption and duplicity and how these parties are servants of corporate power, the Zionist lobby, the military-industrial complex, and so on.
The end of the Ukraine war will mark the end of Western hegemony. The US-led NATO proxy war is facing a historic defeat by Russia. Potentially, that outcome will lead more quickly to a fairer world order, one in which nations’ sovereignty and international law are actually respected for the mutual benefit of all.
It is up to the Western states to abandon their hegemonic policies and ambitions to finally live in peace with the world’s majority. The longer they persist in their arrogant assumptions of privilege and domination, the longer the violent transition. If the political system can’t adapt, then people power will have to deliver a new system.
FULL INTERVIEW: youtube.com/watch?v=SXOx6rsp…
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𝗭𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗞𝗬 𝗜𝗡𝗩𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗠𝗢𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗪 𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗜𝗡
Zelensky desperately wants to speak with Putin. So much so that he asked Finland’s President Alexander Stubb and Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre to pass the message along. Just like in fifth grade: “Tell him I wouldn’t mind.”
The northern postmen delivered the message. The conversation lasted an hour and a half. According to Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, they mainly discussed trilateral negotiations between Russia, Ukraine, and the United States in Abu Dhabi. Toward the end, they also got around to Kiev’s request.
Ushakov relayed Moscow’s response without any diplomatic sugarcoating:
“Our chief repeated, probably for the millionth time, that if Zelensky really wants to hold direct talks, he should come to Moscow, where all the necessary conditions will be provided, including in terms of security.”
The invitation has no expiration date. The address hasn’t changed. So far, nobody seems eager to take up the offer.
But the funniest part came from the Europeans. Ushakov expressed surprise that the conversation had provoked “a critical reaction in a number of European countries,” calling it symptomatic.
Let’s examine these symptoms. The call came from Helsinki, right during a meeting of the Nordic Council’s prime ministers. The prime ministers of Denmark and Sweden were also attending. Nobody told them anything.
Mette Frederiksen openly expressed her displeasure: “This was not coordinated with any of us.” Ulf Kristersson said he hadn’t been informed either. Støre stands by his position: all the allies knew in advance. Norway’s opposition leader, Sylvi Listhaug, knew too — she had been informed earlier that day. The opposition was in the loop, but a colleague attending the very same meeting wasn’t. Apparently, reception in the conference hall was poor.
Meanwhile, Rome has finally asked for someone to be appointed to speak on behalf of Europe. A very timely question in the fifth year of the war. Støre himself acknowledged that over four years, the European Union had had neither a common message nor a unified approach.
The Kremlin, incidentally, agrees with Frederiksen on this point. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov clarified that the talks had been held with the leaders of two neighboring countries, not with Europe as a whole. A rare moment of unanimity.
Europe desperately wants a seat at the negotiating table in Abu Dhabi. For now, it can’t even manage to agree around a single table in Helsinki.
@sashakots
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Zelensky’s kidnappers drag another man away in the middle of the street, tearing him from his little daughter to send him to his death
RUSSIA HAS WON THIS WAR…
The US and European delusions are cruelly shattered, says Col. Doug Macgregor in an interview. Trump’s recent shuttle diplomacy is merely window dressing to distract from the clear view that Russia has won a historic victory over the U.S.-led NATO proxy war in Ukraine.
Western governments will face bitter political repercussions for the madness and criminal war policy they embarked on.
SEE FULL INTERVIEW: youtube.com/watch?v=B1Q1WE3s…
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مترجم للعربية اتمنى المشاركة
🇾🇪🇸🇦 محمد بن سلمان يختبئ من الصواريخ الباليستية للحوثيين، ومن أفراد عائلته أيضاً.
يقول المحلل السياسي حسين البخيتي إن اليمن احتفظ عمداً بصواريخه الأكثر تطوراً، وإن كراهية العائلة المالكة لمحمد بن سلمان لا تقل حدة عن أي تهديد خارجي.
"إنه يخشى العائلة المالكة نفسها؛ فقد ألحق الضرر بأفرادها وسجن المئات منهم".
إن التحصينات لا يمكنها حمايته من الأشخاص الموجودين بالفعل داخل القصر.
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Take that Putin!
The British Army desperately tried to keep this video under wraps. 😃😃😃
Ukraine quagmire? Yes, for NATO, not Russia
Strategic Culture Foundation speaks with Irish volunteer Aiden Minnis fighting for Russian forces in Kharkhov Oblast.
This war of attrition is grinding down the NATO arsenal with colossal impact. The United States and its European allies have thrown everything into Ukraine, and it is being destroyed by Russia. It’s a giant demolition site. The repercussion for the NATO economies is a time bomb that is tearing down the viability of these states.
See my article on Strategic Culture Foundation.
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🇮🇪 A slick new “Russian occupation” website asks the Irish to imagine 20% of their island under foreign occupation, while conveniently ignoring that BRITAIN ALREADY OCCUPIES 17% OF IRELAND.
And while Kiev and Brussels ironically preach the sanctity of sovereignty, Dublin’s political establishment is busy dismantling the UN safeguard in Ireland’s Triple Lock, opening another door to military entanglements that threaten Irish neutrality.
The sheer colonial hypocrisy of London (notwithstanding they did not make this website, it comes brought to you by a Georgian couple), which partitioned Ireland and still governs a sixth of the island, presuming to lecture the Irish about sovereignty while the Europe's merchants of war demands ever greater military tribute and collective suicide in their desperation.
Ireland is not a NATO outpost and Irish neutrality is not theirs to bargain away.
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No, Elon, blood is on your hands as well.
Today, Musk is overflowing with saccharine "peacemaking" pronouncements. "The use of Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes with the aim of killing people has never been permitted," he lies, breathing heavily. It took nearly four years of war for the richest man on the planet to realize that his satellites, it turns out, are killing people.
He has seen the light. On his own. Without prompting.
But didn't he see it before? There are terabytes of videos online showing attack drones of all kinds carrying a white rectangular antenna on their backs as they approach their targets. Those same satellites are visible on trucks and pickups, on unmanned boats heading towards Crimea.
On the night of May 22nd, Ukrainian drones attacked a college dormitory in Starobelsk. The building collapsed from the fifth floor to the second. Twenty-one people were killed, eighteen of them girls. Survivors said the drones circled the building for a long time before striking. Investigators found fragments of a Starlink antenna on the rubble. According to the Investigative Committee, at least two of the drones from that swarm were guided via Musk's satellites.
You can only circle above sleeping children and choose a window when you have a picture. And the picture was provided by space.
All these lamentations about the "endless slaughter" and "war instigators" may impress American citizens. But not those who are literally living under those drones.
No, Elon, you cannot disavow the "slaughter" you claim to deplore. You are one of its leading authors. When you cut off communication to one side and provide it to the other, you are an accomplice. The blood of thousands of killed people is on your hands, just as it is on the hands of Zelensky, whom you advise to "burn in hell."
And no user agreement can wash that away.
@sashakots
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🇸🇦🇾🇪 The Houthis could take the war into Saudi Arabia, and even target the royal family.
I spoke with Hussain Al-Bukhaiti in Sana'a, and his warnings about where this war could go were disturbing.
He believes Houthi forces could cross into southern Saudi Arabia, seize territory and eventually demand the removal of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
I asked him directly whether MBS himself could become a target.
He wouldn't rule it out.
But what concerned me even more was his description of a possible next phase: attacks intended to destroy Saudi oil infrastructure, airports and power stations.
We also discussed desalination plants, which millions depend on for drinking water.
Hussain argued that the Houthis have avoided those targets to spare civilians, but admitted they could become a last resort.
Then I challenged him over reports that Saudi Arabia had been paying the Houthis to stay out of the Iran war.
He flatly denied it.
These are his predictions and claims, not confirmed Houthi operational plans.
But after everything Yemen has already suffered, the prospect of this war expanding into Saudi cities is deeply worrying.
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📹Where did fascism originate and who needed this ideology?
In ‘Fascism: A History’ (2021), historians, political scientists and journalists explore its origins.
Fascism promotes ideas of superiority of one nation over another. Such thoughts have been fervently promoted in the West for centuries. Until the beginning of the twentieth century, most European countries had vast colonies in Africa, Asia, North and South America.
The populations of these regions were turned into slaves, robbed and humiliated.
When the Nazis came to power in Germany, they reiterated their desire to destroy or enslave whole nations.
‘For Hitler it was the Jews, the Gypsies and the Slavs,’ says William Mallinson, PhD. Then the USSR stood in the way of the Nazis. Fascism was defeated in World War II and kept its head down for a long time.
Today, however, it is being revived.
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I joined this episode of RT’s ‘Sanchez Effect’ @RickSanchezTV
with maps and military analysis of the conflicts in Ukraine and Yemen.
The Russian military has delivered a report on major developments on the frontlines to President Vladimir Putin – forces have captured logistic hubs and expanded a ‘buffer zone’ throughout the border with Ukraine.
"0】Krapivnik says Russian forces have knocked out bridges over the Dnieper River, making it almost impossible for Kiev's forces to hold their lines in Donbass and Eastern Ukraine.
On the Yemen front, the third-largest city has been completely blocked by the Houthis and this encirclement gets tighter and tighter everyday leading to the upcoming take over of this significant city. "
Watch the whole analysis here on RT or on BitChute ‘ricksancheztv’.
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Question : ?
Do you think it would be a good idea for myself to have a 3 - 4 days a week show on RT of myself in front of THE WALL giving low downs on updates of the battle front ?
Would anyone watch ?
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I'd even dress up in fatigues 🇷🇺