The Memorial to the Victims of Communism, which is under construction in Ottawa, has received letters of support from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other political figures. Former PM Stephen Harper and Alberta Premier Jason Kenney have backed the project as well. In addition to receiving an estimated Can$7.5 million …
Read More »Russia will join US in planning event on 20th anniversary of 9/11 attacks ‘to commemorate victims of terrorists’ – top diplomat
That’s according to Vladimir Voronkov, the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Office and Russia’s former Permanent Representative to UN International Organizations in Vienna. “On the subject of the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, we are working with our American colleagues to organize an event to commemorate the …
Read More »Dozens of bodies, many of them buried Covid victims, are washed from banks of India’s Ganges by seasonal floods & float downriver
Grim footage from the last few days shows wrapped corpses surfacing in the waters and being carried down the Ganges, a river Hindus honor as holy. Many of the bodies laid to rest on the banks of the river are reported to be from poor families, whose relatives could not …
Read More »US Senate votes to give financial aid to ‘Havana Syndrome’ victims & resurrects spectre of mystery weapon behind ‘attacks’
The bipartisan law – Helping American Victims Afflicted by Neurological Attacks (HAVANA) Act – passed on Monday authorizes funding for treating illnesses with symptoms relating to the so-called syndrome, including headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, hearing and vision impairment, vertigo and memory loss. There have been more than 130 instances of the …
Read More »Southerners were ‘the first victims’ of American imperialism and have been ‘slandered,’ claim the Sons of Confederate Veterans
The snap impression of the Sons of Confederate Veterans isn’t a good one. A rudimentary glance at their mainstream media portrayal is far from flattering and their badge proudly features the controversial Confederate flag. Terms that spring to mind are: racist, exclusionary and backward. So, it was with some surprise …
Read More »Soviet victims of Nazis were long ‘forgotten group,’ German president Steinmeier says ahead of Buchenwald liberation anniversary
Buchenwald was one of the longest-operating and largest facilities, where people deemed undesirable by the Nazi government were worked to death or simply killed. The largest group at the concentration camp were Soviet prisoners of war and civilians kidnapped as slaves in Nazi-occupied parts of the Soviet Union, Steinmeier reminded …
Read More »Active shooter down in Frederick, Maryland; cops report ‘multiple victims’
Reports of the shooting came in on Tuesday morning, with multiple sites that monitor police radio stating that officers were dispatched to “several scenes.” A SWAT team is said to have been deployed, and the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office told local media that “multiple victims” were reported. Shortly afterwards, Frederick …
Read More »French bishops to pay compensation to child sex-abuse victims for church’s ‘crimes and shortcomings’
Citing the need to take responsibility “with regards to the past, the present and the future,” the French Catholic Church on Friday agreed to award an undisclosed amount as “financial contribution” to the thousands of victims of clerical sex abuse. The announcement was made at a video press conference after …
Read More »‘It could have been prevented’: Relatives of NY nursing home victims tell RT they hold Cuomo responsible for their deaths
Grace Colucci, whose elderly father passed away following a 20-day stint in a New York nursing home for physical rehabilitation, told RT’s Colon Bray that she and other family members were unable to contact her dad during his stay due to pandemic restrictions, and that he emerged from the home …
Read More »Calls to fire ‘The Mandalorian’ star Gina Carano for ‘equating Holocaust victims with Republicans’ in post against political hate
Carano took to her Instagram story on Wednesday with a shared post from another user, referencing the plight of Jews living under the Third Reich and drawing a broader point about the persecution of political opponents. “Most people don’t realize today that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers …
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