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The US and EU have imposed sanctions on additional Israeli individuals and entities responsible for terrorism against Palestinians. These include settler organizations and settler leaders and could soon include a unit of the IDF. The listed entities...
by Irenaeus
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 08:32 AM PDT
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Axios and other sources are reporting that Secretary of State, Antony Blinken is expected to announce sanctions against a specific unit of the IDF — the "Netzah Yehuda" battalion — for human rights violations it perpetrated in Gaza. This is the first...
by Munchausen
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on Sun Apr 21, 2024 at 12:01 PM PDT
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An interesting article on Switzerland and the future of their “neutrality” in Newsweek this week. On the plus side, Switzerland has largely gone along with EU sanctions on Russia over their illegal and unjustified war against Ukraine: Switzerland is...
by Irontortoise
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on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 03:04 AM PDT
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The Washington Post on March 22 gives details (and a map) of Israel’s seizure of 3.8 square miles of Palestinian territory in the West Bank. The article quotes Peace Now, a settlement watchdog group, that this is “the single largest land seizure by the...
by ybruti
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on Mon Mar 25, 2024 at 02:24 PM PDT
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This should be a comment, but nobody will see it if I do that. And I hope to learn some things, which means someone who knows stuff would need to see this, and respond. Instructively. Hopefully with a bit of patience and forbearance, but I know where I...
by Gaelsdottir
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 10:08 AM PDT
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Excluding Direct Action (DA), intelligence-sharing, or espionage from this post, President Biden has several non-military mechanisms to leverage against today’s adversaries of global tranquility. ...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 03:48 AM PST
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Ice-breaking tankers are essential, especially for the Arctic LNG 2 project, which will send LNG to Asian countries. With the US sanctions, Novatek is finding it very difficult to recover the tankers built by the Koreans. So, Russia is in a bind. Herve...
by Pakalolo
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 08:14 AM PST
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On Monday, the US and Canada each separately unsheathed nearly two dozen sanctions targeting Belarus for its vicious crackdown on opposition and supporting Russian aggression against Ukraine. The White House reports they sanctioned one dozen entities...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 11:14 AM PDT
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https://mikejohnson.house.gov/contact/ https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/23/biden-new-russia-sanctions-navalny-death-00142894 This is what a real president does to stand up to Vladimir Putin’s Russia! The contrast with TFG could not be more stark....
by BLAYMAN
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on Fri Feb 23, 2024 at 08:10 AM PST
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It’s been an unusually busy day for news out of Hungary. Definitely on the plus side, It looks like the Hungarian Parliament is really (this time for sure?) going to ‘allow’ Sweden into NATO when it meets next Monday. From the AP: Hungary's governing...
by Irontortoise
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on Tue Feb 20, 2024 at 07:32 PM PST
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Interesting news out of RusPutinstan today from Reuters: Moscow Exchange, Russia's largest bourse, on Tuesday said it had suspended trading on the stock market at 1:58 p.m. Moscow time (1058 GMT), without providing a reason for the disruption. "The...
by Irontortoise
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on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 08:38 AM PST
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A big fat Military transport plane supposedly carrying Ukrainian POWs crashed in Belgorod today. Numerous Russian military aircraft have failed and crashed since the war began and will continue to do so as a consequence of sanctions. Unrelated, I kinda...
by ohthatoneguy
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on Wed Jan 24, 2024 at 04:03 AM PST
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Just 2 days after we published an exposé on RussiLeaks (and on Daily KOS) reporting that UAE Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum had struck an energy deal with Putin in which he agreed to continue to provide safe haven for Putin’s super yacht Titan...
by jliccione
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on Thu Oct 12, 2023 at 05:09 PM PDT
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JOHN LICCIONE IS THE ONLY DEMOCRAT RUNNING AGAINST ANNA LUNA FOR FLORIDA’S 13TH DISTRICT HOUSE SEAT Putin’s superyacht Titan, which last October we at RussiLeaks dubbed “A Floating Locus of Evil” has just sailed from its anchorage in the port of Dubai...
by jliccione
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on Wed Oct 04, 2023 at 03:29 PM PDT
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In a court filing last week, Special Counsel Jack Smith, the prosecutor in the federal criminal case against Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, charged him with making “daily extrajudicial statements...
by relehrer
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on Thu Sep 14, 2023 at 01:28 PM PDT
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I just watched an interesting new video from "Magyar" (the "bada- BOOM! Jaga-jaga!" guy) pointing to an interesting article about how Russia has been evading sanctions in order to produce their ...
by subtropolis
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on Wed Aug 30, 2023 at 04:00 PM PDT
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I had not seen this story reported elsewhere, but it is a critical element in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. It’s definitely worth a look. It’s too easy to focus on advances on the battlefield while missing the rest of the picture. Bellingcat...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Aug 27, 2023 at 07:21 AM PDT
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If you’re keeping score, this week’s ruling by Judge Peter Thompson was about the eleventy-second time the courts have declared Democrat Katie Hobbs the Governor of Arizona. In the six months since the Nov. 2022 election, loser Kari Lake has filed a...
by Mother Mags
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on Fri May 26, 2023 at 02:34 PM PDT
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There’s a new list of 500 Americans Vladimir Putin has banned from traveling to or having business in Russia, and it’s a who’s who of Donald Trump’s enemies. Putin is using American ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Mon May 22, 2023 at 07:33 AM PDT
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Finally, we have someone other than the Feds or an academic addressing the China problem
Rubio warns China is trying to topple dollar’s global dominance
by Alexander Bolton - 05/17/23
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by Joseph2482
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on Thu May 18, 2023 at 06:00 AM PDT
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