Poroshenko not allowed to leave Ukraine for Poland and US
Poroshenko said that he had meetings planned in the United States and Poland on financing military assistance and unlocking borders, respectively. A meeting with new House Speaker Mike Johnson was also disrupted, he said. Poroshenko called the disrupted trip “a blow to the country’s defense capability.”
US President Joe Biden signed a stopgap spending bill into law on Thursday, averting a looming government shutdown. The limited appropriation of funds, which omitted aid to Ukraine, passed the Senate on Wednesday.
Biden signs funding bill that excludes Ukraine
After three weeks without a speaker, the House is back in business and putting aid to Israel at the top of its to-do list.
House Republicans aim to pay for Israel aid with cuts to IRS funds
Russian Defectors Planning ‘Surprise’ After Forays Across Border
Ilya Ponomarev, an exiled Russian politician who says he is the political representative for the Freedom of Russia Legion, told Newsweek in June that the group, alongside the RVC, had crossed into the border town of Shebekino in Belgorod oblast.
He said the groups aim “
to liberate Russia from Putinism” [overthrow Putin] and that they had “liberated” the villages of Kozinka and Graivoron in the same region. Kozinka lies directly along the Ukraine-Russia border, with Graivoron just a mile further into Moscow’s territory.
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Prefatory Note: A modified version of this interview conducted by Daniel Falcone, with a long introduction was published online in Truthout on October 29, 2023, The situation in Gaza and its increasingly regional implications grow more humanly distressing and politically menacing with each passing day. Israel has succeeded in influencing the Global West and its corporate main media platforms to accept two interpretations of events following the Oct 7 Hamas attack that are at best highly contentious and controversial and, in my understanding, deeply misleading and distorting: (1) that Hamas is nothing other than a group of terrorists engaged in barbaric crimes, and should be addressed in the same manner as ISIS and Al-Qaeda; (2) that it is legitimate in such a conflict to override normal rules of international law, even to the extent of engaging in genocidal means of ethnic cleansing.
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As of Thursday May 11, 2023, “Fort Benning,” home of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) became “Fort Moore.” The name change was part of a broader initiative by the U.S. military to remove the names of Confederate officers from military bases at the recommendation of a congressional commission.
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., said on Friday that he’s challenging President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination for president because he doesn’t think Biden can win next year’s general election.
Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips says he’s running for president because he thinks Biden might lose to Trump
The House on Wednesday approved a resolution that expressed strong support for Israel, the first bill brought to the floor after Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) was elected as the chamber’s new speaker.
House Approves Resolution Backing Israel in New Speaker’s First Move
On an October 24 earnings call, RTX Corporation CEO Greg Hayes said that the defense contractor stood to “benefit” from a US Department of Defense’s budget increase which would fund the supply of weapons to Israel and the restocking of weapons in Ukraine.
Raytheon’s CEO said on an earnings call that the company stood to ‘benefit’ from DoD budget increases due to the war in Israel
This morning came word that the Biden administration will next try to tie funding for Ukraine to funding for Israel, Taiwan, and more fortifications along our bipartisan wall on the Mexican border. Good luck with that grouping — Ukraine funding fatigue is so strong at the moment that it was used to oust the Speaker of the House.
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