The government’s decision to add an extra working day is part of its plan to raise an extra 3 billion kroner (USD 0.43 billion) for the rearmament of the country.
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Facebook protects Nazis to protect Ukraine proxy war
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced on January 19 that the company no longer considers Ukraine’s Azov Regiment to be a “dangerous organization.”
A masterpiece of Socialist Realism
BRUNI DE LA MOTTE recommends a classic of East German literature that gives a human face to difficult political choices.
India replaces U.S. dollars with dirhams in Russian oil trade
Citing four sources with knowledge of the matter, Reuters reports that Indian refiners and traders embarked on paying for most of their Russian oil purchased via Dubai-based traders in UAE dirhams instead of U.S. dollars.
Sanctions imposed by U.S. and allies hamper relief and rescue work in earthquake-devastated Syria
Over 5,000 people have been reported dead so far and thousands more injured in Turkey and Syria in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Monday.
Ecuador strongly rejected the Lasso Administration: Paola Pabon
During an interview broadcast by teleSUR on Monday, Paola Pabon, the re-elected prefect of Pichincha, analyzed the results of the subnational elections held in Ecuador on Sunday.
Adani’s fraudulent empire exposed
The Hindenburg Research, a short selling firm, brought out a 129-page report on the Adani group marshaling evidence of all the funding operations and offshore activities of the 578 subsidiaries and shell companies linked to the seven listed companies of the Adani...
They’re not worried about “Russian influence”, they’re worried about dissent
Being labeled a Russian propagandist all day every day for criticizing U.S. foreign policy is really weird, but one advantage it comes with is a useful perspective on what people have really been talking about all these years when they warn of the dangers of “Russian...
Blinken concedes war is lost-offers Kremlin Ukrainian demilitarization; Crimea, Donbas, Zaporozhye; and restriction of new tanks to Western Ukraine if there is no Russian offensive
David Ignatius (lead image, left) has been a career-long mouthpiece for the U.S. State Department. He has just been called in by the current Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) to convey an urgent new message to President Vladimir Putin, the Security Council,...
U.S. sends long-range missiles to Ukraine
The White House announced Friday that it would send long-range missiles capable of striking nearly 100 miles into Russian territory to Ukraine, in one of the most significant escalations of U.S. involvement in the war with Russia to date.
Diplomatic cables prove top U.S. Officials knew they were crossing Russia’s red lines on NATO expansion
U.S. officials were told that pushing for Ukrainian membership in NATO would not only increase the chance of Russian meddling in the country but also risked destabilising the divided nation.
We are the Citizen Revolution again: Ecuador’s Rafael Correa
On Sunday, the Ecuadorian right-wing parties suffered a resounding defeat both in the subnational elections and in the referendum.











