The English translation of Cassandra - a dramatic retelling of the Trojan War from a woman's point of view - by Ukrainian poet and author Lesya Ukrainka, released today.
Sasha Dovzhyk writes about Cassandra, and the importance of Ukrainka - "a forgotten feminist icon of European culture" - here:
Palestine has ignited our planetary consciousness once again, and it is the student movement that refuses to let genocide become our new normal. They know that the fight for Palestine is a fight for us all.
Today in Writing History June 4, 1917: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall won the first Pulitzer prize for biography. They wrote about their mother Julia Ward Howe, the feminist, abolitionist, pacifist author and poet. You can read the biography here.
Howe not only wrote the lyrics to The Battle Hymn of the Republic; she also wrote the pacifist 1870 Mother’s Day Proclamation. Also known as the Appeal to Womanhood Throughout the World, the proclamation called on women to unite worldwide for peace. In 1872, Howe called for a Mother’s Day for Peace to be celebrated each year on June 2. Yet today, women throughout the U.S. and Europe (along with the men) are calling for ever more heavy weaponry and NATO troops to be sent to the Ukrainian killing fields, where over 200,000 Ukrainians have already lost their lives, and where this now direct NATO involvement risks precipitating WWIII between nuclear-armed powers, neither of which show any indication that they are willing to back down or negotiate an end to the slaughter. Where is the peace movement today? Or, is some slaughter justified in the name of capitalism (er, I mean against despotism)? And, if that is true, where are all the people screaming for war against India? Philippines? Italy? Saudi Arabia? El Salvador? Egypt? Sudan? And Israel?
@Peter_Arbeitslos@LaFinlandia yes and no. Yes, If they could do it timely. And #fuckrussia milanalysts need to be sharp. Not much proof they are. From this war also another dilemma: 'fog of war' through TOO MUCH data, or better too much 'noise' incl. Deep fakes. Unlikely but not impossible. Then you need proper ML/'#AI' to find signal in that forest of noise. #ukraine#destroyrussiaonceandforall
The New York Times is not an unbiased fount of information, but a sophisticated ideological weapon. Our goal is to unmask the Times and expose the paper for what it is: a tool of empire encased in a liberal veneer.
@mondoweiss@palestine@israel the New York Times was the only media that published an apology for false news after the Iraq INVASION, AFAIK.
There is a nuanced issue of reliable sources for media. .
Not defending them, but saying the sources available to them are at issue... As #Ukraine has well known when all the major news agencies maintained offices in Moscow to cover that region after the fall of USSR, which portrayed things from... A Moscovite perspective.
Ambassadors meeting in Brussels on Wednesday gave the go-ahead after Belgium signaled a climbdown on the way it treats tax revenue on the cash — the last major obstacle to deal.
“The money will serve to support #Ukraine‘s recovery and military defence in the context of the Russian aggression,” the Belgian government, which holds the six-month rotating presidency of the EU, said in a message on X, formerly Twitter.
The initiative is separate from a wider-ranging push by the U.S. to confiscate the assets in their entirety to support Ukraine, a move that is being rejected by the biggest EU governments over fears about legal and financial-volatility repercussions.
The tax income amounted to €1.7 billion in 2024.This comes after the U.S. and several EU countries — led by Germany — heaped pressure on the Belgian government to hand over the cash to Ukraine, as POLITICO first reported.
In another last-minute concession, Belgium also reduced the fee that Euroclear will charge for handling the frozen assets to 0.3 percent — freeing up extra cash for Ukraine.
The latest text of the EU plan offered neutral countries, such as Austria, Ireland, Malta and Cyprus, the chance to opt-out from buying weapons — possibly securing their backing for the deal.
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The NYT informs Russia about foreign aid deliveries
The @nytimes has published sensitive tactical details about the US arms deliveries to #Ukraine which leads to very specific risks of Russia intercepting these deliveries. Is this necessary? I don't think so.
Huge Soviet-era monument taken down in Kyiv as Ukraine continues 'derussification' #TheArtNewspaper
“A Soviet-era monument believed to glorify Ukraine’s ties to Russia is being dismantled on orders of the Kyiv city government in the latest stage of derussification following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Kyiv’s Department of Territorial Control announced the start of the monument’s removal in a Facebook post on 30 April, stressing its massive size: “The sculptural composition is large, consists of about 20 elements weighing between 6,000kg and 7,000kg each. Due to the complexity of the design, dismantling may take a few days.””
#Israel on trial?
This is not what the #ICJ organises. Its role is to establish the law.
A halt of invasion?
In 2022, the ICJ issued a condemnation on the #Russia invasion, to no consequence.
Kate Ferguson: “Will it be enough to stem the tide of atrocity crimes? No, of course not.” https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-kate-ferguson@israel
#Israel “has refrained from agreeing to ICJ jurisdiction in all the hundreds of treaties it has signed, except one: the #Genocide Convention. Article 9 of the Convention stipulated that if disagreements arise between the members over the Convention’s authority or interpretation, the ICJ is the place to hear them.”
“Back then, the popular Israeli notion that we do not let gentiles judge us had not yet developed.”
New evidence US blocked Ukraine-Russia peace deal, and a new Ukrainian excuse for walking away ( www.aaronmate.net )
Ukrainian soldiers near the front line were startled by sounds they initially mistook for a Russian tank, but it was a farmer spraying his fields. ( streamable.com )
https://t.me/combatfootageua/16191...
EU agrees €3B raid on Russian assets to buy weapons for Ukraine ( www.politico.eu )
Late concession by Belgium paved way for deal on using profits to buy ammo for Kyiv’s war effort....