Empires often follow the course of a Greek tragedy, bringing about precisely the fate that they sought to avoid. That certainly is the case with the American Empire as it dismantles itself in not-so-slow motion.
As the Russian forces continue to target and bomb civilian infrastructure and non-combatants as it presses on its invasion of Ukraine, the cities of Vinnytsia and Mariupol had been the subject of Russian advances together with the city of Irpin, which had earlier been reported to be under attack from mortar shells, killing a Ukrainian family with children.
French forces in Mali have killed a long-time al-Qaida official active in Algeria and Libya, French military authorities said Monday.
France’s army chief of staff said in a statement that Algerian Yahia Djouadi, who went by the name Abou Ammar al Jazairi, was killed north of Timbuktu Feb. 26 in a ground operation supported by a helicopter and two drones.
According to the usual story, analytic philosophy was born when Bertrand Russell revolted against a version of Hegel’s idealism that had dominated the Cambridge philosophy scene. So how is it that around 100 years later, Robert Brandom, an influential philosopher grappling with technical debates at the heart of analytic philosophy, publishes an 856-page book dedicated to interpreting Hegel? Paul Redding explains how Russell’s failed attempt to use Gottlob Frege’s logic as a foundation not only for mathematics, but for the natural sciences, ended up calling for solutions found in Hegel’s philosophy.
In yet another claim of false flags and nuclear issues, Russia alleged that Ukrainian security services and the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion are planning a radioactive incident to blame on Russia.
A nuclear reactor in Kharkiv is the target of a planned false flag attack by the Ukrainian security services (SBU) and the Azov Battalion, the Russian Defense Ministry and official Russian state media outlets alleged.
Ukraine continued to call for the West to impose a no-fly zone and provide fighter jets.
Russia is recruiting Syrians to fight against Ukraine, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday citing US officials. The Syrians recruited are reportedly “skilled in urban combat.”
According to American officials, Russia has been recruiting soldiers from Syria since 2015.
There is no other way to describe the Russian invasion of the sovereign nation of Ukraine except as an unprovoked land grab supported by attacks on every major area of the country.
“Putin is employing hardware policies. It is a military attack. Military attacks cannot be stopped by UN resolutions. Military attacks cannot be stopped by so-called soft diplomacy that we heard so much of from the White House and the State Department.” This from Putin’s former economic adviser Andrei Illarionov in an interview with US Newsmax.
Russian citizens and companies must apply for a special permit to deal with “unfriendly” foreign entities.
A list of foreign states that Russia considers as having committed “unfriendly actions” against “Russia, Russian companies and citizens” was published on the Russian government’s website on Monday.
Une opération des soldats français de Barkhane a mené à la neutralisation fin février de Yahia Djouadi. Surnommé « l’émir du Sahara », cet Algérien était un haut cadre d’Al-Qaïda au Maghreb islamique.
L’opération, menée par les forces spéciales françaises à une centaine de kilomètres au nord de Tombouctou, dans le septentrion malien, a conduit à la « neutralisation de Yahia Djouadi, alias Abou Ammar al-Jazaïri, haut cadre historique d’Aqmi […] dans la nuit du 25 au 26 février », a annoncé l’état-major des armées françaises par voie de communiqué ce lundi 7 mars.
Providing safe passage ‘into the arms of the country that is currently destroying yours is nonsense,’ says UK minister, backing Kyiv’s stance as Russians keep up bombing campaign
Ukraine on Monday rejected Moscow’s offer of humanitarian corridors to Russia and Belarus, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said.