With oligarchs using their media outlets to promote far-Right presidential candidates, France is being haunted by its own ghosts.
Government capitulations to the far Right have only aided Emmanuel Macron’s opponents | Victor Joly/Abaca Press/Alamy
09/04/2022
The MADness of the Resurgent U.S. Cold War on Russia
Human Wrongs Watch
By Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service*
The war in Ukraine has placed U.S. and NATO policy toward Russia under a spotlight, highlighting how the United States and its allies have expanded NATO right up to Russia’s borders, backed a coup and now a proxy war in Ukraine, imposed waves of economic sanctions, and launched a debilitating trillion-dollar arms race.
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The explicit goal is to pressure, weaken and ultimately eliminate Russia, or a Russia-China partnership, as a strategic competitor to U.S. imperial power.
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09/04/2022
Twelve Years into the War in Syria, Thousands of Families “Remain in the Dark” When It Comes to the Fates of Their Missing Relatives
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Twelve years into the war in Syria, thousands of families “remain in the dark” when it comes to the fates of their missing relatives, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet told the General Assembly on Friday [8 April 2022].
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“The scale of this tragedy is daunting, with people going missing in different contexts, such as during hostilities, displacement or in detention. All too often, this is connected with a range of human rights violations and abuses,” she said, speaking via videolink from Geneva.
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