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Daily Archives: 19. Juni 2023
On this day in 1865, enslaved people in Texas were notified by Union Civil War soldiers about the abolition of slavery. This was 2.5 years after the final Emancipation Proclamation which freed all enslaved Black Americans. #Juneteenth
But Slavery continued…
A THREAD
Blinken holds presser at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
Xi meets Blinken in Beijing
(today)
Xi pointed out that the vast expanse of the Earth is big enough to accommodate the respective development and common prosperity of China and the United States. The Chinese, like the Americans, are dignified, confident and self-reliant people, Xi said, adding that they both have the right to pursue a better life. „The common interests of the two countries should be valued, and their respective success is an opportunity instead of a threat to each other.“
Xi said the international community is generally concerned about the current state of China-U.S. relations. „It does not want to see conflict or confrontation between China and the United States or choose sides between the two countries, and it expects the two countries to coexist in peace and have friendly and cooperative relations.“
Exposing the Russian Military Unit Behind a Massacre in Bucha | Visual Investigations
(Dec 22, 2022)
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Hi, I’m Yousur Al-Hlou and I produced this visual investigation along with my colleagues Masha Froliak, Dmitriy Khavin, Christoph Koettl, Haley Willis, Alexander Cardia, Natalie Reneau and Malachy Browne. I’ll never forget the reporting trips Masha and I made to Bucha, Ukraine, in early April: we witnessed bodies, some with arms bound behind their backs, strewn along a single street in this town on the outskirts of Kyiv. We decided to investigate who killed them. Eight months later, we know. Using exclusive phone records, documents, interviews and thousands of hours of video, we proved how a single paratrooper military unit, the 234th Air Assault Regiment, killed dozens of Ukrainians on Yablunska Street.
Bucha survivors recount Russian atrocities
(Apr 6, 2022)
#Bucha #Ukraine #RussianInvasion
ABC News‘ James Longman reports from Bucha, where residents are detailing alleged war crimes committed by Russian forces, as human rights groups document the atrocities.
Bucha massacre
The Bucha massacre (Ukrainian: Бучанська різанина, romanized: Buchanska rizanyna; Russian: Резня в Буче, romanized: Reznya v Buche) was the mass murder of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war[12] by the Russian Armed Forces during the fight for and occupation of the city of Bucha as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photographic and video evidence of the massacre emerged on 1 April 2022 after Russian forces withdrew from the city.
Russia-Ukraine signed peace treaty, Vladimir Putin says. Then, shows document
(Jun 18, 2023)
Kyiv did not react to Vladimir Putin‘s comments.
The peace agreement was discarded by Ukraine as soon as Russia obliged the request and withdrew troops from Kyiv, Vladimir Putin alleged, saying, “Where are the guarantees that they will not renounce any other agreements in the future?”
Putin publicly shows draft of ‘peace treaty’ signed by Russia-Ukraine in 2022 | Watch
(19.06.2023)
During a meeting with the African Union leaders spearheaded by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at St. Petersberg‘s Konstantinovsky Palace, Putin accused Ukraine of signing a peace treaty with Moscow earlier, claiming that Kyiv later threw it into the ‚garbage of history‘, Hindustan Times reported.
Diplomacy Watch: Did Boris Johnson help stop a peace deal in Ukraine?
(September 2, 2022)
Russia and Ukraine may have agreed on a tentative deal to end the war in April, according to a recent piece in Foreign Affairs.
“Russian and Ukrainian negotiators appeared to have tentatively agreed on the outlines of a negotiated interim settlement,” wrote Fiona Hill and Angela Stent. “Russia would withdraw to its position on February 23, when it controlled part of the Donbas region and all of Crimea, and in exchange, Ukraine would promise not to seek NATO membership and instead receive security guarantees from a number of countries.”
The news highlights the impact of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s efforts to stop negotiations, as journalist Branko Marcetic noted on Twitter.
UK: Julian Assange dangerously close to extradition following High Court rejection of appeal
(08.06.2023)
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is deeply concerned by the UK High Court’s decision rejecting WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange’s appeal against his extradition order, bringing him dangerously close to being extradited to the United States, where he could face the rest of his life in prison for publishing leaked classified documents in 2010.
‚Julian Assange dangerously close to extradition following High Court rejection of appeal‘
(12.06.2023)
It‘s bizarre to watch establishment venues celebrate Daniel Ellsberg while spewing contempt for every cause and value he stood for — from defending Assange and Snowden as heroes to warning Americans that the US Security State always lies us into wars:
Why the Pentagon Papers Leaker Tried to Get Prosecuted Near His Life’s End
Citing the chilling effect that the creeping expansion of the law has on what information the public gets in a democracy, he expressed disappointment that the Biden administration had not dropped the Espionage Act charges against Mr. Assange.
“It’s clearly overly broad and does not just apply to people like me who had a security clearance. Assange is now feeling the weight of that,” he said, adding: “For 50 years I’ve been saying to journalists, ‘This thing was a loaded weapon looking at you.’”
You knew Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower. I knew him as a film fanatic. By Catherine Ellsberg
He was to become a concert pianist — the next Rubinstein. He practiced for hours a day, often leaving school early to fulfill his filial duty. This all came to a violent end at age 15, when his father, driving with the family in the car, fell asleep at the wheel and crashed, instantly killing my grandfather’s mother and his little sister, Gloria.
My grandfather fell into a coma. When he woke, he came to a startling conclusion: He would not become a pianist.
For the next 75 years, he barely touched the piano.
New Partygate video ‘shows Tories dancing, drinking and laughing at lockdown rules’
At least 24 guests were reportedly at the gathering which was held just a few days before Mr Johnson’s 19 December announcement that Tier 4 Covid curbs would be implemented. This put London and the southeast of England under severe restrictions which meant many could not see their families on Christmas Day.
“It is with a very heavy heart that I must tell you we cannot continue with Christmas as planned,” he said just five days after the party.
Exclusive: First ever Partygate video revealed as Tories drink, dance and laugh at Covid rules
When one man sees he is being recorded, he says: “Oh Christ.” Then another asks: “Are you filming this?” Someone else responds: “It’s for party, erm, party use.”
A man then laughs after declaring: “As long as we are not streaming that we’re, like, bending the rules.”
It was just days after the party that Mr Johnson announced even tighter restrictions which meant people in the areas worst hit by Covid could not see their loved ones over Christmas.
‘F— him’: Trump slammed Netanyahu in interview and said the Israeli prime minister ‘did not want to make peace’
(10.12.2021)
Trump also told Ravid that “Bibi did not want to make peace,” using Netanyahu’s nickname. “Never did.”
Ravid only published excerpts of his interview on Axios on Thursday, and it’s not clear from them what Trump is referring to in the “peace” comments.
John Bolton: Intelligence officials ‘failed in many cases’ in not getting classified docs back from Trump
Bolton cited a Trump tweet during his time in office in which the former president referred to a map of a failed Iranian missile strike that experts said contained sensitive information. Trump tweeted a photo of the site of a failed satellite launch in Iran in 2019, which Trump claimed he had the “absolute right” to do.
Were Israel’s Secrets Hidden in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Bathroom?
The Trump indictment rocking the United States contains numerous references to foreign countries and military battle plans that many believe relate directly to Iran and Israel – and may have even originated in Israeli intelligence sources.
Haaretz diplomatic correspondent Amir Tibon joins Haaretz Weekly host Allison Kaplan Sommer to discuss the indictment as well as the similarities between Trump’s latest legal headaches and those of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was elected to Israel’s highest office while on trial for corruption.