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Second time in months an #IRGC official has been reportedly kidnapped. In May, #Iran International published video of an IRGC official named Mansour Rasouli admitting to alleged #Mossad agents that he had been ordered to establish a cell to assassinate a worker at the Israeli Consulate in #Istanbul, a #US general stationed in #Germany and a journalist in #France.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-712731 #israel #syria #lebanon #yemen #iraq

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Russia’s war against #Ukraine initially obscured tensions within the Russian #elite but then exacerbated them. Both the Rector of the Russian Presidential Academy of National #Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Vladimir Mau, and three influential police generals from #StPetersburg have recently come under criminal investigation. An influential businessman from Vladimir #Putin’s entourage, Yevgeny #Prigozhin, harshly criticised St Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov, although such a situation had been impossible earlier due to unspoken rules within the power vertical. Prior to that, the Secretary of the General Council of United Russia, Andrey Turchak, and the Chairman of the State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, had argued in public. Conflicts among high-profile politicians and the siloviki are a sign of the collapse of the old system and its body of laws and rules. The elite are fumbling around in search of the outlines of an emerging new order, and it is already clear that the creation of such an order will be preceded by inter-elite #war|s and #repression|s.

https://ridl.io/playing-by-new-rules/ #russia #fsb #wagner #syria #donbas #society

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It was early 2016, and I had gone to #Trinidad to report on Trinidadian #ISIS foreign fighters for The Atlantic. Between 2013 and 2016, some 240 Trinis travelled to #Syria and Iraq to join the caliphate, making Trinidad one of the world’s biggest exporters, per capita, of ISIS foreign fighters. I wanted to know how a country famed for #calypso, rum and carnival could incubate something so profoundly unTrinidadian.

https://unherd.com/2022/07/the-jihadists-of-the-caribbean/ #is #islamism #war #corruption #religion #violence #iraq

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The story that follows is based on dozens of interviews with #neo-Nazis, eyewitnesses, and former spies, and hundreds of pages of #Stasi files and court records. It is the story of how, more than thirty years before #Putin ordered the invasion of #Ukraine, under the disingenuous banner of “de-Nazifying” the country, he and some of his closest intelligence associates helped nourish a neo-Nazi movement across #Germany. Their preferred tool for sowing hate and discord was Rainer Sonntag.

https://magazine.atavist.com/follow-the-leader-nazi-putin-sonntag-cold-war/ #farright #history #violence #dresden #bautzen #prison #poland #kgb #syria #giessen #kühnen #hamburg #berlin #worch #racism #leipzig #hoyerswerda #afd #pegida

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There’s a well-known story about Russian President Vladimir #Putin and a rat. As Putin tells it in his autobiography, as a child, he chased a rat around his family’s apartment building, eventually trapping it in a corner. The rat then lashed out, attacked the young Putin, and attempted to bite him.
This experience, in Putin’s words, taught him that if cornered, “you have to fight to the finish line in every fight” and “you need to assume that there is no retreat.”
Western officials have often cited this story for how Putin allegedly never backs down and is particularly dangerous when cornered.
This belief has led many in the #West to fear that Putin may undertake more brutal and destructive steps, even resorting to chemical or nuclear #weapons, if he’s trapped into a humiliating defeat in #Ukraine. That assumption appears to be behind Western pressure on Ukraine to give up territory and make concessions to end the #war with Russia.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/08/vladimir-putin-backs-down-russia-ukraine/ #russia #draghi #macron #scholz #nato #syria #turkey #lybia #wagner #erdogan #crimea #politics

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Amnesty International #UK announced a new line of merchandise on Monday titled "End Israeli #Apartheid."
The announcement was made by Kristyan Benedict, #AmnestyInternational UK campaign manager for #Israel / #Palestine and #Syria, over #Twitter.
"New Amnesty UK T-shirts, briefings, and other merch to support the #EndIsraeliApartheid global campaign - more coming soon," Benedict tweeted.

https://www.jpost.com/bds-threat/article-711795 #humanrights #antisemitism #ai #ngo

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