British freelance journalist Dom Phillips, a frequent contributor to @guardian, and his Indigenous traveling companion, Bruno Pereira, have gone missing in the far north-west of #Brazil, near the tri-border zone with Peru and Colombia, known to be lawless washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/…
#pt: "Western Amazonas state is a lawless region pervaded by violent criminals intent on destroying the forest and extracting resources from it. ... Phillips ... was researching a book project on conservation efforts in the forest. His work took him to Atalaia do Norte, ... "
"... the gateway to the Javari Valley, a massive forest considered the world’s largest repository of uncontacted peoples."
#pt: President Bolsonaro, diplomatic as ever, responded to criticism #Brazil has done too little to find #British journalist Dom Phillips and his Indigenous travelling companion, by blaming the victim: "this is an adventure that isn't recommendable for one to do".
#pt: British freelance journalist Dom Phillips and his Indigenous traveling companion, Bruno Pereira, went missing on 5 June shortly after a confrontation with illegal fisherman, during which he was apparently threatened with a gun and this was caught on camera.
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- #Russia is struggling to advance into the south of Severodonetsk city, despite concentrating artillery and air power on it
- Russia has resorted to unguided missiles because it is running short of precision weapons. #Ukraine's air defences holding.
#Russia is firing up to 50,000 artillery rounds per day and doing better at combined arms warfare. #Ukraine is running very low on ammunition for its Soviet-era weapons systems and Western weapons supplies are too slow and meagre to cover the gap. washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/…
Review of Antony Beevor's new book about the Russian Civil War, says he leaves ideology out as a factor in explaining the cruelty of the war. It's the myth that will never die though to say the the "Whites' ideology" was "ferociously ... antisemitic". newstatesman.com/culture/books/…
There were nominal "White" units, especially in Ukraine, who carried out terrible pogroms in 1919. They did so in defiance of the "White" high command, which repeatedly condemned such behaviour and ordered the protection of Jews.
The problem for the "Whites" on this, as on so much else, was that it was not a unified army in a conventional sense, but a loose movement bound by anti-Bolshevism.
Was certain before checking that this person was American. Putting aside NATO being a Euro-American organisation and the existence of Turkey, this interpretation can only come from someone whose only frame of reference is American racial history and politics.
Thread: 9 June 2022: Day 106 of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
#Poland's President bluntly criticising #Germany ("doesn't give a damn about what's happening in Ukraine. They want ... cheap gas and oil") and #France. Rejects #Russia's nuclear blackmail as a good excuse for this behaviour.
At every single stage we have had this:
> "We can't supply x because training takes months"
> "We are now supplying x, and training that could have been completed by now is instead just beginning"
#Russia's Chief Rabbi has fled the country because the government tried to force him to support the eradication of #Ukraine. The Russian "denazification operation" has devastated Jewish communities in Ukraine and is now de-Jewing Russia, too.