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Chinese expert notices remarks 'unilateral,' no confirmation from Indian sideMAIL & GUARDIANGodongwana financially backs Ramaphosa’s tough talk on crimeTHE INDEPENDENTMamdani says he will not ban snowball fights after police targetedTHE INDEPENDENTNearly blind refugee abandoned by border patrol agents found dead in BuffaloLE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUEThe United States' history of regime change — revisitedTHE INDEPENDENTEpstein trafficked women ‘through UK airports until month before arrest’ in 2019THE INDEPENDENTTwo British men arrested in Benidorm after ‘staging fake kidnapping’ to extort £725LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUEFebruary: the longer viewTHE INDEPENDENTFour US residents killed, six captured after attempted ‘armed infiltration’ of Cuba, interior ministry saysMAIL & GUARDIANPolitical parties criticise budget speech amid stagnant growthLE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUEGaza: from witness to resistanceTHE GUARDIANUS accused of ‘shameless exploitation’ over proposed Zambian health aid dealTHE DIPLOMATCambodia Rejects Thai Claims It Launched a Grenade at Thai TroopsTHE GUARDIANRobert Mugabe’s son charged with attempted murder over Johannesburg shootingLE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUEIran unravelled, a littleTHE GUARDIANRoyal Artillery under fire after denying access to looted Asante treasureMAIL & GUARDIANEkurhuleni’s moment: Why a University of Applied Science cannot waitMAIL & GUARDIANSocial Grants get R292.8bn boostBRASIL WIRENathália Urban Presente!MAIL & GUARDIANEconomists split on whether 2026 budget marks a real turning pointTHE DIPLOMATPro-Trump Influencer Nick Adams Dropped as US Ambassador to Malaysia, Report SaysBRASIL WIREInside Brazil’s X Ban: How Elon Musk Started–and lost–a Fight With Brazil’s JudiciaryTHE GUARDIAN‘A devastating force’: how recent Mediterranean storms turned to tragediesTHE DIPLOMATSoutheast Asia’s Grab Finally Turns a ProfitTHE DIPLOMATThai Election Body Certifies Most Parliamentary Seats, Affirming Bhumjaithai VictoryBRASIL WIREMinister warns of “industrial-scale” organized disinformation campaign, hindering disaster effortsBRASIL WIREBolsonaro Takes Stand in Coup TrialTHE GUARDIANTwo women arrested in Uganda for allegedly kissing in public could face life sentenceLE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUEMajor arms sellers and buyersBRASIL WIREAnalysis: NYT’s bizarre coverage and omissions of Bolsonaro’s murderous coup plotGLOBAL TIMESTrump claims India will buy Venezuelan oil, welcomes China's investment; Chinese expert notices remarks 'unilateral,' no confirmation from Indian sideMAIL & GUARDIANGodongwana financially backs Ramaphosa’s tough talk on crimeTHE INDEPENDENTMamdani says he will not ban snowball fights after police targetedTHE INDEPENDENTNearly blind refugee abandoned by border patrol agents found dead in BuffaloLE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUEThe United States' history of regime change — revisitedTHE INDEPENDENTEpstein trafficked women ‘through UK airports until month before arrest’ in 2019THE INDEPENDENTTwo British men arrested in Benidorm after ‘staging fake kidnapping’ to extort £725LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUEFebruary: the longer viewTHE INDEPENDENTFour US residents killed, six captured after attempted ‘armed infiltration’ of Cuba, interior ministry saysMAIL & GUARDIANPolitical parties criticise budget speech amid stagnant growthLE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUEGaza: from witness to resistanceTHE GUARDIANUS accused of ‘shameless exploitation’ over proposed Zambian health aid dealTHE DIPLOMATCambodia Rejects Thai Claims It Launched a Grenade at Thai TroopsTHE GUARDIANRobert Mugabe’s son charged with attempted murder over Johannesburg shootingLE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUEIran unravelled, a littleTHE GUARDIANRoyal Artillery under fire after denying access to looted Asante treasureMAIL & GUARDIANEkurhuleni’s moment: Why a University of Applied Science cannot wait
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Accelerating Fault Lines: Geneva to Mumbai

Accelerating Fault Lines: Geneva to Mumbai

Accelerating Fault Lines: Geneva to Mumbai

History doesn’t pause—it accelerates. Geneva hosts parallel negotiations: Washington juggling Iran’s nuclear file while pretending to broker “peace” between Russia and Ukraine. The same hand that fuels wars now claims to mediate them.

Meanwhile, Russia bleeds: explosions in Leningrad, drones striking deep into its industrial heart. The war is no longer at the front—it is inside the empire itself.

And in South Asia, Macron embraces Modi in Mumbai, tightening a Paris–Delhi axis of arms, tech, and energy. Europe’s colonial memory finds new partners in today’s market empires.

The lesson? Alliances shift, empires stumble, but resistance survives. Those who endured worse—occupation, siege, betrayal—know that negotiations in Geneva or deals in Mumbai are not the end of history. They are tremors before the next quake.

#Resistance #Geneva #Russia #India #France #AxisOfResistance

Europe Fears Its Own Tools

The European Parliament has quietly done something revealing: it blocked built-in AI features on the devices of its own members. Writing assistants, digital helpers, web summarizers—all disabled.

Not because they are inefficient. Not because they are useless. But because they are listening.

According to internal communications reported by Euractiv, the Parliament’s cybersecurity and data protection teams warned that these AI tools transmit data to cloud servers rather than processing it locally. In other words, European lawmakers finally admitted what the rest of the world has known: the infrastructure of “smart convenience” is also an infrastructure of extraction.

Behind this decision stands a deeper anxiety—the reach of US legal authority over global data flows. Under the Cloud Act, American companies can be compelled to hand over data stored abroad. Europe’s political class now confronts a basic contradiction: it speaks of sovereignty, yet operates on foreign digital rails.

This is not about privacy settings. It is about power.

For decades, Europe lectured the Global South about governance and transparency while embedding itself deeper into Atlantic dependency. Now it fears that the same systems of surveillance and leverage may be turned inward.

When empires lose confidence, they discover vulnerability everywhere.

Blocking AI on parliamentary tablets will not solve Europe’s strategic dilemma. It only exposes it. A continent that once designed global trade routes now debates whether its own emails are safe.

History is accelerating. The digital domain is the new battleground. Data is territory. Infrastructure is leverage. The Axis of Resistance has survived sieges, sanctions, and kinetic war. It understands something Brussels is only beginning to grasp: sovereignty is not a slogan. It is architecture—technological, economic, and strategic.

Europe’s gesture is not rebellion. It is fear.

#EU #ArtificialIntelligence #CloudAct #DigitalSovereignty #AxisOfResistance #Geopolitics

Hormuz Is Not a Strait — It Is a Message

Iranian media report that Tehran closed the Strait of Hormuz for several hours today.

Let us be precise. The Strait of Hormuz is not a symbolic waterway. It is one of the most critical energy chokepoints on earth. A significant percentage of global oil shipments pass through it daily. When it closes—even briefly—markets tremble, fleets reposition, and capitals recalculate.

This is not theater. It is signaling.

For decades, Washington and its allies have treated the Persian Gulf as an American lake—patrolled, sanctioned, and militarized at will. They imposed economic sieges, targeted scientists, assassinated commanders, and encircled Iran with bases and carrier groups. They spoke of “freedom of navigation” while practicing coercion of nations.

Today’s reported closure, even if temporary, is a reminder: geography is not owned by empires.

Iran sits at a maritime artery the global system cannot ignore. That reality has not changed, despite sanctions, cyberwarfare, and economic pressure. The Axis of Resistance understands escalation management. It has learned from siege warfare in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. It knows when to absorb and when to signal.

History is accelerating. Energy corridors, shipping lanes, digital cables—these are the fault lines of our century. When pressure mounts, chokepoints become leverage.

The message is clear: if the region is destabilized, the costs will not be unilateral.

Those who survived invasion and blockade are not easily intimidated by headlines.

#Iran #StraitOfHormuz #EnergySecurity #AxisOfResistance #Geopolitics

The Policy of Submission: The Aoun-Salam Era and the Entrenchment of Collapse

The tenure of Aoun and Salam is a documented failure of political will and a surrender to the financial oligarchy. While the Axis of Resistance stands against the expansionist Zionist project, the official leadership has focused on shielding the architects of Lebanon’s ruin.

Strategic Realities: Military Impotence by Design: Daily Israeli massacres and territorial encroachment are met with a deliberate refusal to arm the Lebanese Army. This is not a lack of funds; it is a strategic choice to keep Lebanon’s borders porous for Zionist aggression.

The Judiciary of the Elite: The release of Riad Salameh confirms that the Lebanese state remains a protectorate for bankers. No funds have been recovered, yet the people are crushed under new taxes and fuel price hikes.

The War on the Interior: By neglecting the reconstruction of the South and the Bekaa, the state is complicit in a siege against the resistance’s social base.

Institutional Decay: The absence of administrative reform is a tool used to keep state institutions paralyzed, ensuring they never serve the public interest or the national defense. History honors those who fight, not those who manage the details of their own occupation. The struggle for liberation is inseparable from the struggle against the domestic agents of the financial and colonial order.

#Lebanon #AxisOfResistance #EconomicSovereignty #AntiColonialism