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Some Belarussians in Poland are auditioning for CIA/State Department/NED money

A group of Belarusian dissidents say they are planning a coup against the country’s authoritarian ruler Alexander Lukashenko, to be executed “at the right time.”

The partisan resistance group BYPOL — which operates from Poland — has been training officers and actively sabotaging the Kremlin in its war against Ukraine, all in preparation of a coup d’état against Minsk’s regime, one senior figure said publicly.

“We have worked out a plan and will put it into effect at the right time,” former Belarusian officer Aliaksandr Azarau told Belgian media outlet VRT.

According to Azarau, ensuring Russian President Vladimir Putin’s defeat in Ukraine is necessary to weaken Lukashenko’s regime.

Damn, intercept also has layoffs (according to latest pod), fucks sake, the only good liberals

Edit: I have been corrected on something I misread earlier, thanks comrades!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-68402672

George Galloway is an MP again huh. A lot to say here but I just got up so just read the article bearing in mind it's the BBC.

I came across some interesting numbers today that put China's fisheries in perspective. China contributes something like 35% of the world's fish output and from that China makes up 19.2% of the world's wild catch and 61.5% of the world's aquaculture production. In fact, 73% of China's fish output is from aquaculture, and much of the remaining 27% includes freshwater sources.

When reporting about the end the Nordstream investigation, Danish government broadcaster DR is presenting the public with two possible explanations: Ukrainians on a boat or scary Russians with submarines. The third and most likely option, ie. that the yanks who achieved several geopolitical goals by doing it also did it, is simply not mentioned.

They mention that Danish authorities refused to work with Russia on the investigation but only when prefixed with a "Russia claims that". They do not report on how the Danish regime rejected the Russian proposal of an independent international investigation under UN auspices.

Does Israel turning against Russia and aiding Ukraine change anything significantly?

EURACTIV - West’s Ukraine strategy ‘completely failed’, says Slovak PM ahead of Paris summit [2024-02-26]

On Sunday (25 February), Fico announced he would be convening the Slovak Security Council, together with the government and coalition parties, due to the “chilling” nature of the topics to be discussed in Paris.

Several NATO and EU member countries were considering sending their soldiers to Ukraine based on their bilateral agreement, he claimed.

“Proposals for the direct physical presence of soldiers from EU and NATO member countries in the territory of Ukraine, albeit only on a bilateral level, will lead to a significant escalation of tensions if implemented,” he stated.

According to Fico, the Paris talks would be a “battle meeting” to “prevent the direct participation of Slovak soldiers in the war in Ukraine”.

Fico noted that his country will focus on civilian and non-lethal assistance, and would continue to help Ukraine with de-mining activities.

Live footage of a Hermes 450 drone catching on fire as it falls from the sky after Hezbollah shot it down using a surface-to-air missile over the Iqlim al-Tuffah area - deep inside Lebanese territory: https://twitter.com/EyesOnSouth1/status/1762033111049629751

Trump reelected, storm begins, Hillary Clinton executed by firing squad, Lavrov "Genocide Joe" UN speech, Germany defaults, EU starts dissolution process

Is that picture of the kid run over by a tank real?

United States Dismantles Stolen Plane to Venezuela

Yvan Gil called the operation "shameful theft of the aircraft".

The United States (US) government scrapped the Venezuelan plane seized from the Cargo del Sur Transport Company (Emtrasur), a subsidiary of the state-owned Conviasa.

The plane had been retained since June 2022 by the Argentine government. The main reason for its seizure was its membership of Iranian corporation, Mahan Air, to which the US had imposed sanctions for alleged financing of terrorist groups.

Since its seizure, the US government had asked to be given the ship as part of evidence of an alleged Iranian terrorist network. In 2024 President Javier Milei unconstitutionally ceded the plane to the US.

The Bolivarian government rejected the hijacking and protested the illegitimacy of the action. Yvan Gil called the operation "shameful theft of the aircraft".

Faced with this situation, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro affirmed "Milei’s bandit stole the plane from Venezuela, Javier Milei, the hero of the extreme right of the surnames, that hero of the extreme right of the surnames stole a large plane from Venezuela".

This Wednesday, it was announced that the plane already owned by the United States, was scrapped and destroyed in North American territory.

The Venezuelan Transport Minister and President of Conviasa stated in X "In the Arizona desert, the US government maintains a cemetery of more than 5,000 planes, degrading the environment of the planet. Yesterday they tore apart the EMTRASUR plane, to demoralize the Venezuelan people and demonstrate its imperial character."

Destroying a plane to own the chavistas???

is Israel actually bombing Damascus right now? What's going on?

Republicans are trying to emotionally manipulate their Christo-fascist base on Franklin Graham being CANCELED by the "far left". As if Graham ever had anything of "the left".

But you know they aren't snowflakes

Me and another guy tried to form a polycule, but neither of our partners were into it. Oh well, guess it'll just be double and triple dates.

Argentine Aeronautical Workers Go on Strike on Wednesday

The 24-hour strike will affect around 35,000 people who were scheduled to travel on approximately 300 flights with Aerolineas Argentinas.

The Association of Aeronautical Personnel (APA), the Airline Pilots Association (APLA), and the Union of Superior and Professional Personnel of Air Commercial Companies (UPSA) will hold a strike on Wednesday to demand a salary adjustment that compensates for the accelerated loss of purchasing power in Argentina.

"Given the intransigence adopted by Aerolineas Argentinas and Intercargo, the aviation unions APA, APLA, and UPSA communicate that we are forced to declare a total 24-hour work stoppage," aviation workers said.

Previously, Aerolineas Argentinas and Intercargo offered their workers a 12 percent salary increase starting in March. This proposal was rejected by the workers as there is currently a salary gap equivalent to 70 percent of the recorded inflation.

Since the strike begins at midnight on Tuesday, the unions have warned companies to take necessary precautions to avoid inconvenience to passengers.

However, it is estimated that the 24-hour strike will affect around 35,000 people who were scheduled to travel on approximately 300 flights with Aerolineas Argentinas.

Currently, Argentinians are experiencing a dramatic economic situation. Since far-right economist Javier Milei assumed the presidency in December 2023, the poverty rate has increased to 57 percent due to inflation that has not subsided so far.

The recovery of the purchasing power of Argentines is not in sight even in the medium term. At the beginning of February, Milei signed a decree that will allow the gradual increase in taxes on gasoline and diesel, which will encourage greater inflationary expansion.

From the beginning of an article I won't read the rest of:

Now in his mid-nineties, Jürgen Habermas is one of the pre-eminent philosophers and public intellectuals of our time. In Germany his generation enjoyed the mercy of being born too late. In 2004, in a speech given on receipt of the Kyoto prize in arts and philosophy, he observed that “we did not have to answer for choosing the wrong side and for political errors and their dire consequences”. He came to maturity in a society that he judged complacent and insufficiently distanced from its recent past. This experience sets the context for his academic work and political interventions.

Only took him twenty years after this to find a wrong side he could choose. ("Despite all the concern for the fate of the Palestinian population, however, the standards of judgement slip completely when genocidal intentions are attributed to Israel’s actions.")

The crimea bridge might be the strongest bridge on earth since Ukrainians launch a terrorist attack on it every month and nothing really happens except making crimeans hate them even more.