Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

Kiev wants to assert the short-lived “Ukrainian People’s Republic’s” claims to modern-day Russian territory that Zelensky tacitly revived through a decree in January that most observers missed.

Ukraine’s sneak attack against Russia’s Kursk Region is widely interpreted by analysts as a desperate attempt to divert its foes’ forces from the Donbass front, but there are also unstated political objectives that are being advanced by it too. Few were aware of it at the time, but Zelensky signed a relevant decree in late January where he strongly implied the revival of territorial claims to Russian border regions that were either occupied or claimed by the short-lived “Ukrainian People’s Republic” (UPR).

Some of these areas importantly fall within modern-day Bryansk, Kursk, Belgorod Regions, which are at the forefront of what might turn out to be a larger Ukrainian offensive if Kiev expands the scope of its attack to include Kursk’s two neighboring regions like some speculate that it’s considering. As for the other areas, they’re far behind the Donbass front lines in modern-day Voronezh, Rostov, and Krasnodar Regions and are therefore impossible to threaten through any ground force unlike the aforesaid three.

The political method behind what’s being presented as Ukraine’s military madness (and not without reason considering how counterproductive this could ultimately prove to be) is therefore to assert its tacitly revived claims from earlier this year. This is aimed at boosting morale at home and countering Russia’s international messaging. The first is self-explanatory while the second is about reminding the world of the UPR’s brief existence and associated claims to modern-day Russian territory.

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Strategic Culture Foundation Editorial
Strategic Culture Foundation

Ultimately, the war in Ukraine is not just against a psychopathic NATO proxy. It is against the Western system of global domination and its NATO war machine.

The terrorist cross-border attacks on the Kursk and Belgorod regions of the Russian Federation this week underscore that Russia must liquidate NATO’s regime in Ukraine.

The United States and European Union – the sponsors of the Nazi-adulating Kyiv regime and its illegitimate self-appointed president Vladimir Zelensky – talk cynically about “Ukraine’s right to self-defense” in endorsing this week’s murderous incursion.

This is a disgraceful apology for outright terrorism. The assaults targeted civilians in Kursk and Belgorod. Apartment blocks were shelled and families fleeing in cars were shot at and killed. Even ambulances and paramedics evacuating the wounded were fatally attacked. The U.S. and EU are using the same vile, duplicitous rhetoric of self-defense that they apply to Israel’s genocidal violence in Gaza.

There is no equivalence – as the U.S. and EU shamefully make out – with Russia’s ongoing special military operation that was launched in February 2022. The Western powers claim Russia is the aggressor, when the facts are that Moscow took action in response to years-long NATO-backed aggression against the ethnic Russian population of formerly eastern Ukraine. Russian forces have gone to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties. That is partly why this conflict has dragged on for so long because Russian forces are not wantonly attacking Ukrainian towns and cities in American-style shock-and-awe obliteration.

Not so the Kyiv regime and its Nazi paramilitaries who have made a barbaric specialty of deliberately killing Russian civilians. The terroristic logic was candidly spelled out this week by Zelenskyy’s aides who brazenly said the purpose of the attacks in Kursk and Belgorod was to “instill fear in the Russian population” to destabilize the Russian government. That is the definition of terrorism.

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Iain Davis
The Iain Davis Substack

In every community, in every corner of the land, the time has come to fight. It is time to stand up against the forces destroying our “way of life.” Now is the moment to stand against our oppressor, draw a line in the sand and defend it with all our hearts.

But “now” is merely the current iteration of a struggle that started hundreds, if not thousands of years ago. It is the same fight that has erupted on streets the world over for eons. It’s not a new fight, it is as old as civilisation.

How long are some people going to vent the same, tired and pointless rage before they realise that whenever they destroy they serve the enemy. What part of human history do the violent not understand?

Do the violent imagine they are protesting against the state? Don’t make me laugh.

Do they really think the state, with its banks and its policies, its laws, its courts and its prisons, its tanks and its missiles, cares one iota if they beat each other to a pulp, smash up their own communities and destroy the small businesses they rely on? The state invites us to do it, the state wants us to do it. Look at what the state does every time we lose control.

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Lubna Masarwa
Middle East Eye

Videos obtained by MEE showed scores of bodies strewn across the floor of the Tabin school in Gaza City after it was targeted in an early morning strike

At least 100 Palestinian civilians, including women and children, were killed at dawn on Saturday after Israeli forces targeted a school in Gaza City whilst displaced people performed morning prayers.

Videos obtained by Middle East Eye showed charred bodies and limbs strewn across a concrete floor, as people scrambled to find their loved ones following the attacks.

Another video appeared to show dozens of bodies covered in cloths and laid out in a courtyard.

The victims of the attack were taken to the partially functioning Maamadani hospital, one of the few operating hospitals in north Gaza.

Moatasem Dalloul, an activist and resident of Gaza City, told Middle East Eye that the hospital does not have enough beds for the wounded and many are being kept in the hallways.

In a video he shared with MEE, a young boy suffering from burns and wounds across his body is seen bandaged and lying on a stretcher in a corridor.

💬 “The bodies of the people who were killed are placed everywhere in the yards of the hospital and their loved ones are bidding them farewell,” said Dalloul, who went to the school following the massacre. “Israel keeps targetting shelters, but people continue to shelter in these places because their homes have been destroyed in repeated Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip.”

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Thomas Fazi
Thomas Fazi'a Substack

"There is no freedom of speech whatsoever in Ukraine", says dissident journalist Vasyl Muravytskyi

Pascal Lottaz, Associate Professor for Neutrality Studies at Kyoto University’s Faculty of Law and Hakubi Center, whose YouTube channel I strongly recommend you follow, has published a fascinating video interview with a Ukrainian dissident journalist in exile, Vasyl Muravytskyi.

Muravytskyi, who had written several critical reports of the post-Euromaidan Ukrainian regime and its handling of the civil war in Ukraine, was arrested in August 2017 by Ukrainian law enforcement and charged with high treason, threatening the territorial integrity of Ukraine, inciting hatred, and even participating in a terrorist organisation. He spent 11 months in prison.

During that time, he received support from several international human rights and journalist organisations. The Swiss human rights organisation Solidarity Network recognised him as a prisoner of conscience, while the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders in France demanded his release. Amnesty International also recognised him as a prisoner of conscience.

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Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ukrainian military
intelligence services (© Serhiy Morgunov for WaPo via Getty)

The US’ internal policymaking dynamics have shifted since the start of Russia’s special operation.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told the Rossiya 1 TV channel that the US heeded his country’s demand last month to force Ukraine to call off a major provocation that his country believed had American backing and which would have dramatically escalated tensions if it happened. He strongly hinted that this was supposed to be an assassination attempt against Putin and new Defense Minister Andrey Belousov at St. Petersburg’s Naval Day Parade on 28 July in order to generate a “media effect”.

Ryabkov’s remarks follow Belousov’s call to his American counterpart Lloyd Austin on 12 July, the content of which was first reported by the New York Times (NYT) on 26 July, where he conveyed Russia’s demand for the US to force Ukraine to call off its plans. One day later on 13 July, which was coincidentally the same day that an assassination attempt was made against Trump, Ukrainian military-intelligence chief Kirill Budanov confirmed that his country had indeed tried to kill Putin in the past but obviously failed.

His candid admission prompted Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova to accuse the US of funding such attempts and allege that Western countries had also directly participated in them. This scandalous development wasn’t given the attention that it deserved due to the fallout from Trump’s attempted assassination, which took priority in the global media cycle, hence why most observers weren’t even aware of Budanov’s admission and Zakharova’s response.

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TACC.ru
TACC.ru

MOSCOW, August 7. /TASS/. Nazi Germany planned to use an atomic bomb against the USSR already in the summer of 1945. This is proven by declassified materials of interrogations of Gruppenführer Werner Wechter, one of the closest associates of the Third Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, who was taken prisoner. It was published by the Russian Federal Security Service.

As it turned out during the interrogations, simultaneously with the position of Chief of Staff of the General Propaganda Department of the NSDAP Wechter headed the Ministry of Propaganda general abstract of armament and construction and closely communicated with specialists in the field of secret armament of the German Ministry of Armaments. The significance of his testimony was so high that on October 10, 1945, Wechter's interrogation about Germany's possession of the atomic bomb and the latest V-2 missiles was personally conducted by Colonel-General Ivan Serov, Deputy Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR.

According to Wechter, he learned of Germany's preparations for the use of the atomic bomb in a private conversation in 1943 with an engineer named Dominik. "He told me that German scientists had succeeded in separating the atomic nucleus, and specialized engineers were engaged in developing methods and ways of practical application of nuclear energy as a means of warfare," Wechter reported. According to him, the British and Americans were doing similar work, but Germany was allegedly a year and a half ahead of them.

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Martin Gilbert
Jewish Founders of Modern Turkey
(Source: The Sunday Times (London), February 11, 1968, page: 8)

In November 1938 Kemal Ataturk, President of Turkey, lay dying. During the 15 years of his stern dictatorship, he had dragged a reluctant Turkey forcibly into the 20th century. He had outlawed the fez and the veil. He had broken the powers of Islam. He had introduced the Latin alphabet.

Now, on his deathbed, Ataturk feared it would be impossible to find a successor able to continue his work. He summoned Sir Percy Loraine, the British Ambassador, to the presidential palace in Istanbul. What passed between them has remained secret for nearly 30 years.

It is revealed for the first time by Piers Dixon, about the life of his father, Sir Pierson Dixon (“Double Diploma,” to be published by Hutchinson this week). Among Pierson Dixon’s papers was a telegram from Percy Loraine to the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax. In what is surely one of the strangest of all documents of recent British history, Loraine recounts his bizarre interview with the dying dictator:

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Martin Armstrong
armstrongeconomics.com

Operation Warp Speed enacted under former President Donald Trump provided the pharmaceutical community with free reign to create a vaccination for immediate use. COVID-19 was perceived to be such a threat that standard operations for testing and researching a vaccine were no longer applicable. The need for a vaccine was so urgent that pharmaceutical companies were granted total immunity from prosecution, which came in handy after countless debilitating ailments and deaths were later attributed to those vaccinations that offer neither protection from transmission or infection. In line with our disease cycle that heats up in 2026, the medical community is now ushering in part II of Operation Warp Speed.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the development of a new mRNA vaccine to defeat the bird flu. The American Medical Association (AMA) updated its Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) system to include H5N8, the bird flu, which is apparently so deadly that it could become the dreaded “next pandemic.” This is the first time we have witnessed a vaccine rollout under the EUA since the development of the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Lucas Leiroz
InfoBrics.org

Since the beginning of the special military operation, the US has been encouraging other countries to participate directly or indirectly in hostilities against the Russian Federation. Due to its recent history of war against Moscow and its territorial demands in the north, Georgia has been one of the countries most encouraged by the West to take an open stance against Russia in the current proxy war. However, Tbilisi has refused to participate in the hostilities, which is why the Caucasian country may be close to being sanctioned by the West.

In Georgia, there is a clear political polarization between pro-Western militants and the sovereigntists who advocate good relations with Russia. Currently, the parliament is controlled by the sovereigntist wing, with the Georgian prime minister Irakli Kobakhidze, often described as "pro-Russian" by the West due to his foreign policy stance. On the other hand, the opposition is extremely violent and has organized protests and demonstrations with the aim of pressuring for radical changes in the country. The leading figure of the pro-Western wing is the country's president herself, French-born Salome Zurabishvili, who leads a major pro-EU and pro-NATO lobby.

Currently, the most controversial political issue in Georgia is the law against foreign agents, recently passed by the parliament. The law requires media groups, think tanks and individuals who receive more than 20% of foreign funding to be registered within Georgian institutions officially as "promoters of the interests of a foreign power". Zurabishvili vetoed the law, but the prime minister approved it despite the president's disagreement.

Since Georgia is the scene of the operations of several American and European agencies, the law severely affects the Western lobby in the country. Having to expose their financiers, pro-Western agencies in Georgia have their work discredited and lose influence over public opinion. As a result, the EU and NATO plan to "push" Georgia to a "second front" against Russia loses momentum, bringing hope for good relations with Moscow - and infuriating the West.

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Timofey Bordachev
RT.com; ВЗГЛЯД

Together with its allies in London, Washington plays by rules of its own.

Over the past few weeks, the media focus on the spectacle that is the US presidential election campaign has been relentless. The incumbent Joe Biden’s disastrous debate with his opponent from the Republican Party, Donald Trump; then the latter’s miraculous survival following an assassination attempt; the choice of Trump’s running mate; and, finally, the change in the candidate of the ruling Democrats. As a result, Vice President Kamala Harris – who has not yet proved herself in any way – has entered the fray.

The whole mess is accompanied by a huge amount of conflicting information and opinions that are sprinkled liberally at the general public, creating a sort of emotional seesaw effect. To some extent, observers in other countries are also in danger of being caught up in the frenzy.

Russia, too, is used to paying close attention to political struggles in the West. This habit has long been part of our political culture – the Russian state was created primarily out of foreign policy necessity. However, I would like this tradition to remain at the level of mere curiosity, and not to create expectations about one or another outcome of America’s internal struggles.

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Humaira Ahad
PressTV

The genocidal war on Gaza launched by the Israeli regime on October 7 last year completed 300 days on Thursday, leaving behind a trail of death and destruction with nearly 40,000 Palestinians killed. Human rights watchdogs, however, believe the death toll is much higher as thousands remain missing, trapped under the rubble and ruins.

In the past ten months, the Israeli military has dropped 82,000 tonnes of explosives on Gaza, carried out 3,457 massacres in the territory, and displaced almost the entire 2.3 million population, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.

Among those killed by the apartheid regime in these 300 days of the genocidal war were nearly 16,314 children and 10,980 women.

Here are some of the gory massacres that Israel carried out in the coastal strip in the past 300 days with complete impunity provided by the US and other Western allies.

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Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

The Ukrainian Conflict was a “red pill” for him and he elaborated on the ten ways in which it opened his eyes to reality.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban elaborated on the global systemic transition and his country’s grand strategy within it during a lengthy speech at the Balvanyos Free Summer University and Student Camp over the weekend. The over 11,000-word English transcript was published on Monday, which the present piece will summarize for the reader’s convenience. It began with him reaffirming that it’s his Christian duty to promote peace and mocking the EU for its Orwellian “war is peace” mantra.

He then said that the Ukrainian conflict was a “red pill” for him and proceeded to elaborate on the ten ways in which it opened his eyes to reality. First, there have been enormous casualties on both sides, but each will continue fighting unless external stakeholders diplomatically intervene since they’re convinced that they’ll win. Second, the US went from containing China to waging a proxy war on Russia, which pushed those two together and prompted questions about why the US would do this.

Third, Ukraine’s resilience in spite of its objective economic and demographic weaknesses can be explained by its sense of mission that fills it with a higher purpose, which is to become the West’s eastern military frontier. Fourth, Russia has also proven itself to be impressively resilient, and it’s nowhere near collapsing like Western leaders hubristically predicted. Fifth, the EU has undergone fundamental changes since the latest phase of the Ukrainian Conflict began two and half years ago.

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Editor thepeoplesvoice.org
The People's Voice

US Vice President Kamala Harris has received $81 million in contributions in the first 24 hours since Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed her candidacy.

According to the campaign, it has received more than 888,000 contributions from “grassroots donors,” 60% of whom have donated for the first time during the 2024 election cycle.

“The historic outpouring of support for Vice President Harris represents exactly the kind of grassroots energy and enthusiasm that wins elections,” campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz said.

Separately, Future Forward – the largest Democratic political action committee in the US – told Politico magazine on Monday that it has received $150 million in new commitments from major donors in the last 24 hours.

⚡ The average American cannot think critically. They believe the lies told by CNN, MSNBC, big tech, and Google. They are a danger to those around them and the world. The globalist media has convinced Americans to eat shit and like the taste. They believe their Constitution is a racist document and their flag a Nazi flag.

⚡ Americans deserve the next rigged 2024 election and the complete destruction of their country and way of life by the globalist puppet democrats. If Trump doesn't win the election, the sane half of America should try to find someplace on the earth to escape to.

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