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A papal apology to Indigenous survivors of residential schools in the right spirit could provide much needed inspiration and guidance to Canadians. The time for residential schools apologies would appear to be over. Repeated expressions of regret for past wrongs become meaningless, or worse, when related present-day injustices pile up and their long-standing causes go unaddressed.

“Iran Nuclear Deal” Ploy Coming Full Circle Print This By Brian Berletic | NEO from New Eastern Outlook Hopes for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) simply known as the Iran Nuclear Deal seemed to fade further during US President Joe Biden’s recent trip to Israel where the US and Israeli governments signed a pledge to use force against Iran should it pursue nuclear weapons (weapons both the US and Israel possess).

Serbs Bombed by NATO in 1999 Show Levels of Uranium in Bloodstreams Hundreds of Times Above Norm The US and its allies spent 78 days bombing the now-dissolved nation of Yugoslavia in 1999, contaminating the Balkans with at least 15 tons of depleted uranium munitions. In the United States, troops who have been exposed to DU are eligible for generous disability benefits. Nothing of the kind has been offered to the people of Yugoslavia.

The UK will send Ukraine anti-tank weapons, drones, artillery guns and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition, Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told Parliament on Thursday. Ukraine will receive more than 20 M109 and 26 L119 artillery guns, as well as counter-battery radar systems and more than 50,000 rounds of ammunition for its existing Soviet-era artillery systems.

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Ready to help shape a new world order It’s perhaps hard to believe now but – only eight years ago – Russia was a full member of the former G8. Since then, there have been dramatic changes. Participants gather near a screen showing Russian President Vladimir Putin delivering a speech during a plenary session of the 25th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Russia and Ukraine have agreed to establish a joint coordination center on grain exports in Istanbul that will include representatives from all parties, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar told local media following the four-way talks that also involved Turkey and the UN. On Wednesday, negotiators from Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the UN met in the Turkish city to discuss the situation regarding the held-up Ukrainian exports.

The military relies on advanced semiconductors. The U.S. doesn’t make any. [OMG - this might interfere with the poor bastards' efforts to kill off half the world's population - prh, ed.] ‘A very dangerous situation’ The most advanced category of mass-produced semiconductors — used in smartphones, military technology and much more — is known as 5 nm. A single company in Taiwan, known as TSMC, makes about 90 percent of them. U.S. factories make none.

Little more than three months after provincial governments across Canada followed the demand of the far-right “Freedom Convoy” and dismantled all remaining public health protections, another wave of COVID-19 infections and deaths is raging. Despite drastically scaled back screening measures, data from British Columbia to the Atlantic provinces makes clear that Canada confronts a rapidly escalating summer wave, fueled by the more immune-resistant and transmissible BA.5 variant.

The ongoing war in Ukraine is fraught with a broad range of imminent consequences. With its end still not being in sight, it has affected various spheres of life in different countries, Ukraine and Russia, first and foremost. Both economically and politically. At that, its hybrid character influences domestic policies of other countries too.