Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s ascent to the presidency is a landmark achievement for Namibia and a beacon of progress for gender equality in Africa.

Two travellers discovered on the beach

    An Oyster, carried thither by the sea.

'Twas eyed with equal greediness by each;

    Then came the question whose was it to be.

One, stooping down to pounce upon the prize,

    Was thrust away before his hand could snatch it.

"Not quite so quickly," his companion cries;

    "If you've a claim here, I've a claim to match it;

The first that saw it has the better right

    To its possession; come, you can't deny it."

"Well," said his friend, "my orbs are pretty bright,

    And I, upon my life, was first to spy it."

RT has released AI-generated footage of Winston Churchill highlighting the crucial role of the Soviet Union in the defeat of Nazi Germany and other Axis powers.

As the world prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied victory next week, the video responds to a tendency in the West to often overlook or downplay the USSR’s contribution. The Soviet Union destroyed the bulk of the German forces and lost around 27 million people in what is known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War.

Australia's socialist leader Anthony Albanese cruises to election victory thanks to anti-Trump bump - just six days after same happened in Canada

Australia's socialist leader Anthony Albanese has cruised to an election victory in a remarkable turnaround fuelled by the so-called anti-Trump bump.

Leaders who oppose world domination by the Coalition met in Brussels on November 17 – 18, 2005. They were invited by Voltaire Network to attend the first Axis for Peace International Conference. Political leaders, diplomats, military officers and opinion makers spoke out based on their own experiences and facts, and not based on the issues represented by the Bush administration in the media.

MEETING OF ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT WORLD LEADERS
Axis for Peace: The founding of an international movement against world domination

The increased use of private military companies to wage covert warfare is here to stay. Valère Llobet takes a look at a sector that's not affected by the crisis.

While mercenary work is arguably the second oldest profession in the world, the emergence of private military companies (PMCs) is more recent.

It's a sector that inspires a lot of fantasy. It boasts real professionals and more "marginal" players, such as the Comya Group of a certain Alexandre Benalla, who rushed to enter into a partnership with the Ukrainian SMP. Omega Consulting Group, which recruits widely from neo-Nazi circles...

Imagine how this would have been reported if Russian soldiers had executed Ukrainians in this way. Not like this, you can be sure.

Here is yet another example of stunningly craven journalism from The Guardian, entirely illustrative of what is going on across the British establishment media in its coverage of Israeli war crimes in Gaza for the past 18 months.

Jonathan Cook

Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much?

In Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, Scott Horton explains how since the end of the last Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union, successive U.S. administrations pressed their advantage against the new Russian Federation to the point that it finally blew up into a full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine.

Anthony Albanese will hold power as prime minister after leading Labor to an extraordinary victory at the federal election and driving Peter Dutton to the brink of defeat in his home seat.

A significant swing to Labor in more than a dozen seats put Labor in position to increase its majority in parliament, with some supporters calling the results a landslide.

The results made it impossible for Dutton to claim power, whether in minority or majority government, as the opposition leader was in danger of losing his seat of Dickson on the northern edge of Brisbane.

We keep hearing that Israel’s genocide in Gaza is “AI-powered.” Many pundits warn that this marks a new era in warfare, the first time that “automated” war has been waged. Foreign Policy declares that “AI Decides Who Lives and Dies.” Vox reports that “AI tells Israel who to bomb.” The Washington Post claims “Israel offers a glimpse into the terrifying world of military AI.”

"The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders. When we lay off, more and more Iranians tend to be critical of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The more abusive we are and the more pressure we put on them, the more nationalism fuses with fundamentalism in Iran."

The Stakes of Donald Trump’s Negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran
by Thierry Meyssan

This week marks the 50-year anniversary of the end of the U.S. war against the country and people of Vietnam. Americans refer to the war as the Vietnam War, but it was actually an American war.

This war had a huge impact on me, my generation and, of course, the Vietnamese.

Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s during the Cold War, we were inundated with anti-communism. I didn’t really know what a Communist was but I knew that they were bad and we were made to feel threatened by them. I believed that it was okay to kill the Communists before they could come to my country.

Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War
By Scott Camil

The hope, shared among many, that replacing the Biden government would increase the chances of peace in Europe is rapidly fading. The war obsession among Europe’s power elites is at this point unremitting. The European public is inundated with a relentless wave of propaganda. The new US administration is also sending out contradictory signals and is by no means consistent in its efforts to correct its aggressive course.
 

The Western strategy of escalation is threatening mankind

by Karl-Jürgen Müller

We live in troubling times, globally and regionally, with not the least of our troubles being the current occupant of the White House.

What most troubles me about Donald Trump — and I think should trouble all of us whatever our political leanings, and I’m conscious that not all of you here will share mine — is not just the dumb destructiveness of his assault on all that is best in the global economic and security order we have known since the end of World War II, an order from which just about everyone, not least the US itself, has benefitted.

Gareth Evans

Treasury chief Bessent says President Trump handed Zelensky "a royal flush" with the US-Ukraine mineral deal which he can use in negotiations with Russia, signalling that there's "no daylight between the Ukrainian people, the American people, between our goals." There's just one problem, experts say: the entire deal looks like a propaganda stunt.

The Trump administration desperately needs a foreign policy victory amid the chaos and uncertainty surrounding it, hence its officials’ boasting about the minerals deal in “a typical case of speculative promotion,” veteran French geopolitical analyst Come Carpentier de Gourdon told Sputnik.

As for Zelensky, he can now claim the deal will ‘save Ukraine’, hoping “that Trump’s America will now be bound to support his regime militarily in exchange for a monopoly on the exploitation of some valuable Ukrainian natural resources.”