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In his address before the Munich security conference on February 19, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky raised the issue of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum ‘On Security Assurances in Connection with Ukraine’s Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons’. “Since 2014,” Zelensky said, “Ukraine has made three attempts …

A pornographic clip featuring characters from the ‘Final Fantasy’ video game series interrupted a meeting of Italian senators A virtual gathering attended by Italian lawmakers and academics – including a Nobel Prize winner – was briefly interrupted after a troll streamed a pornographic video, one with senator saying she will …

The first film in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary trilogy was a massive success, both commercially and critically, and the next two films – ‘The Two Towers’ (2002) and ‘The Return of the King’ (2003) – were just as well-received, with RotK receiving Academy Award nominations in 11 …

On October 5, the NATO Association of Canada, which brags of its “strong ties” to both the military alliance and Canadian government, hosted a panel discussion on the subject of “cognitive warfare.” Grayzone journalist Ben Norton has exposed at length NATO’s long-held ambition to perfect methods of “harming the brain,” …

The world of Azeroth has survived many attempts to destroy it, but it may have finally met its match. Blizzard’s World of Warcraft has been the king of the massive multiplayer online (MMO) genre for almost two decades, but the head that wears the crown is starting to grow heavy.  …

It is difficult to avoid the impression that increasingly the media discussion on race has acquired an obsessive, fantasy-like character. In recent weeks, numerous media outlets have held forth on the need to be alert to the racist attitudes of babies. The New York Timeshighlighted this issue, when it featured …

Parsing Biden’s words is a thankless task, because whatever he actually says, his White House handlers and the compliant media will quickly ‘clarify’ if it clashes with their narrative. With that caveat in mind, some of his remarks at Wednesday’s solo press conference in Geneva, following the meeting with Russian …

Among the priorities Johnson lists in the article, published on Thursday, is a pledge to “vaccinate the world” by the end of 2022, reduce carbon emissions, fight loss of biodiversity and fund the education of 40 million girls by 2025. In addition, Johnson and US President Joe Biden will draw …

The consistently cold relations between the West and Russia have been heightened by a series of major scandals recently, despite these being based on imaginary grounds. For instance, massive military drills in Russia’s southeast have prompted hysteria in multiple NATO countries and a fresh wave of doomsday predictions regarding an …

Picture the scene: in a far-off fantasy world, a group of heroes emerges from a dungeon, drenched in the blood of the orcs they’ve slain. A powerful knight, a wise gnome and a dextrous elf, they’ve combined their wisdom and warrior prowess to save their beloved kingdom, and take home …