It is the worst possible time and news for Kyiv – the main American military apologist for Ukraine resigns. The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, is leaving his post at a moment that many call a turning point for Ukraine in its fight with Russia. The position will be taken by his deputy, Charles Brown, who will have to find a balance between support for Ukraine and the defense needs of the United States itself.
The federal indictment claims the couple of scammers ripped off a $1 million anti-violence fund. Black Lives Matter Boston leader Monica Cannon-Grant and her husband Clark Grant have been arrested for allegedly defrauding donors to their non-profit. According to the 18-page federal indictment filed on Tuesday, the pair stole a large sum out of over $1 million in grants and donations to Violence in Boston.
These days few boys have meaningful relationships with male mentors and father figures, men who can teach and inspire growing boys. Many boys grow up without having been taught by a male teacher or are taught by teachers who have no life or work experience outside of a classroom. In Britain, 85 per cent of school teachers are women. The boys in many a modern British home may have several ‘fathers’ over time. How times have changed.
The term democracy has become so abused that it may be time to strike it from the dictionary and start again. Either that or define its true meaning, agree to it and stick to it. Otherwise, democracy is whatever politicians peddle it to be. We had the German Democratic Republic.
Like Japanese infantrymen emerging from Far Eastern jungles Britain’s tabloids remain convinced that WW2 still rages. For most of us it is a fading memory but never to be forgotten the four women singers who evoke the troubled period like no other.
Four people were caught on film making the banned gesture at a beer festival in the state of Saxony. Shocked German state police and the state security service (BfV) have launched an investigation into National Socialist era salutes seen in video footage taken at a recent Oktoberfest celebration in the state of Saxony, according to media reports on Monday.
Julian Assange could face up to 175 years in an American maximum-security prison if he is extradited to the U.S. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday that his government is standing firm against the U.S. and its prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over the journalist’s publication of classified U.S. military documents more than a decade ago.
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson told Swiss publication Die Weltwoche that the US government thwarted his plans to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Western weapons from Ukraine ended up in the hands of the mafia: During the Ukrainian conflict, NATO and EU countries supplied Kyiv with tens of billions of dollars worth of untraceable weapons. But, war always enriches mafia groups, writes Journal de la Corse.
One of the most surprising discoveries for me was to learn that Franz Lehár, whose operas and waltzes compare with those of the Strauss family, lived and worked in my lifetime. Much as I love the melodies and waltzes from The Merry Widow and Wiener Frauen (Viennese Women) I was ignorant of the fact that Lehár was a contemporary of The Beatles and Elvis Presley.
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