Thank you Off-Guardian for this summary of the week: https://off-guardian.org/2022/08/07/this-week-in-the-new-normal-41/  

Kudos to Off-Guardian for these memes: https://off-guardian.org/2022/08/08/12-memes-to-get-you-through-the-day-part-19/  

RT Celso Amorim, Brazil’s former foreign minister and current foreign policy adviser to presidential frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has condemned the West’s sanctions on Russia and said that should Lula take office, Brazil would chart a different course. In an interview with Bloomberg published on Friday, Amorim claimed that the West’s response to […]

RT Former President Donald Trump has condemned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for visiting Taiwan, calling her trip “China’s dream.” Trump previously argued that Pelosi’s visit, which led to large-scale Chinese military drills and a severing of some diplomatic links with the US, would “cause great friction and hatred.” “Crazy Nancy Pelosi, what the hell? What was she doing […]

Al Jazeera Taiwan has accused the Chinese army of simulating an attack on its main island, as Beijing continued the large-scale military drills it began in response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) sent “multiple” warships and aircraft into the Taiwan Strait on Saturday, Taiwan’s Ministry of […]

Al Jazeera The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has sound the alarm over the situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after shelling damaged parts of the compound on Friday. “I’m extremely concerned by the shelling yesterday at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, which underlines the very real risk of a […]

by BY CHEYNA ROTH AND AMIRA ROSE DAVIS On Thursday, WNBA superstar Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony in Russia after she pleaded guilty to illegally bringing hashish oil inside a vape cartridge into the country, where she plays professionally during the American pro league’s off-season. Griner was also fined 1 million rubles, roughly equivalent to $16,260, […]

RT 03 August 2022 The so-called collective West is at war with Russia. Using Ukraine as a proxy, the West has made it clear it wants a Russia that is weaker and isolated on the world stage. To date these attempts have ended in failure. In fact, the opposite has happened: the West is weaker […]

by Paul Fromm   CAFE [Canada First dot Net] June 15, 2022 Ottawa, ON – Today, candidate for Prime Minister and MP Pierre Poilievre announced he will introduce the Free Speech Act. The Trudeau Liberals are obsessed with controlling what Canadians can see, hear, and say online. Their Online Streaming Act empowers government gatekeepers at the CRTC […]