In an interview with Global television aired on Saturday, Trudeau said that Western countries must “do a better job of working together and standing strong so that China can’t… play the angles and divide us one against the other.” “There’s been a bit of competition, amongst friends, because we are …
Read More »General calls for death penalty to be given to soldier who defected
Speaking to local media outlet wPolityce on Saturday, General Waldemar Skrzypczak remarked that Emil Czeczko, a member of Poland’s 16th Pomeranian Mechanized Division, had “committed the worst thing during the war by defecting to the side of the enemy.” “If I read in the media today that the prosecutor’s office …
Read More »Biden calls VP ‘President Harris’ again
Speaking at the historically black school in Orangeburg, South Carolina, on Friday, Biden told a joke about Delaware State University – another historically black college – and followed up with “all kidding aside, of course President [Kamala] Harris is a proud Howard alum,” a reference to yet another HBC in …
Read More »Ukraine’s Zelensky calls for sanctions against Russia now
Speaking on Wednesday in Brussels following the Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit – a meeting of EU member states with Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova – Zelensky suggested that measures could convince Russia not to escalate militarily, while also noting that Kiev is open to starting negotiations directly with Moscow. …
Read More »New German foreign minister calls for renewed talks on eastern Ukraine
Speaking during a trip to Stockholm, Annalena Baerbock suggested restarting the Normandy Format talks – named after those first held informally in Normandy seven years ago – between Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and France, with the aim of bringing peace to the region. The conflict in the Donbass, in eastern Ukraine, …
Read More »House calls for criminal contempt charges against Trump’s ex-chief of staff
The vote on Tuesday night was 222-208, with two Republicans – Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Liz Cheney of Wyoming – joining the Democrats in supporting the criminal charges against Meadows. It’s now up to the Justice Department to decide if it’s going to follow the recommendation by the lawmakers …
Read More »China calls for ‘reckoning’ over US atrocity in Afghanistan
“While the US talked about ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights’ at the ‘Summit for Democracy’, the innocent Afghan people who were gunned down by the US military were brushed aside and their families had no place to complain about their grievances,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters in Beijing on …
Read More »Turkish leader calls out ‘main threat to democracy’
While social media networks were initially marketed as “a symbol of freedom,” they have become a menace to democratic society, Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared in a video message to a communications conference on Saturday, according to the Associated Press. “We try to protect our people, especially the vulnerable sections of …
Read More »Putin calls for review of ‘comical’ rules for ‘foreign agents’
Speaking during a meeting of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights on Thursday, Putin said: “We need to pay attention to this. That includes how the bill was created, and specifically why it wasn’t discussed with the professional community. Not only do we need to consider this, we’re …
Read More »Former National Guard official calls out Army’s Jan. 6 ‘lies’
Matthews’ memo was sent to the congressional committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021 earlier this month. In it, he accuses Gen. Charles Flynn (brother of Trump ally Michael and deputy chief of staff for operations on Jan. 6), and Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt (director of the Army staff), …
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