By Kyle Anzalone

President Donald Trump restated his desire to abolish nuclear weapons during a White House presser on Thursday.

“It would be great if everybody would get rid of their nuclear weapons. [I know] Russia and us have by far the most,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office. “China will have an equal amount within four to five years. It would be great if we could all de-nuclearize because the power of nuclear weapons is crazy.”

Currently, nine countries – the US, UK, France, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel – possess nuclear weapons. With global tensions on the rise, several nations, including the US, are adding to their strategic capability.

According to the Defense Intelligence Agency, Beijing is working to ramp up its production of nuclear weapons. Last year, the agency predicted that China could have over 1,000 nuclear weapons. However, that would still give Beijing a far smaller arsenal than Washington and Moscow, which each have around 1,500 deployed nuclear weapons and thousands more in storage.

Shortly after returning to the White House in January, Trump said he spoke with President Vladimir Putin about denuclearization during his first term, and that the Russian leader was receptive to the idea. “We were talking about denuclearization of our two countries, and China would have come along. China right now has a much smaller nuclear armament than us, or field, than us, but they’re going to be catching [up] at some point,” Trump said.

“I will tell you that President Putin really liked the idea of cutting back on nuclear, and I think the rest of the world, we would have gotten them to follow, and China would have come along too. China also liked it,” he added. “Tremendous amounts of money are being spent on nuclear, and the destructive capability is something that we don’t even want to talk about. It’s too depressing.”

Trump has also discussed negotiating a deal with Moscow and Beijing that would see all three countries drastically cut military spending.

However, while Trump has at times voiced support for demilitarization and denuclearization, during his first term in office he scrapped two major arms control agreements, the Open Skies and the Intermediate Range Nuclear Force treaties.

Additionally, Trump refused to engage in bilateral discussions with Russia on extending the last nuclear arms control agreement between the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals, the New Start Treaty. He insisted that Moscow must pressure Beijing to make it a trilateral deal, a demand that almost led to the downfall of the landmark deal.

Though President Joe Biden was able to reach an agreement with Putin to extend the treaty for five more years in 2021, it is set to expire next year without another extension.

Rep Thomas Massie (left) and Senator Mike Lee (right)

By Jordan Conradson

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) have teamed up to reintroduce the “End the Fed” bill in the House and Senate to liquidate the Federal Reserve’s assets and transfer all money to the Treasury. 

Additionally, Massie also introduced a bill to audit the Federal Reserve in the House.

Massie previously introduced the bills in 2024.

“The Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act was first introduced by former Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) in 1999 and hasn’t been reintroduced since 2013. In addition to introducing this legislation to “End the Fed,” Rep. Massie has also introduced H.R. 24, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2025 to audit the Federal Reserve. H.R. 24 was originally introduced by former Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) in 2009,” according to a press release from Massie’s office.

The Act will abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and liquidate all assets to return to the taxpayer. It also repeals the Federal Reserve Act, the 1913 law that created the Federal Reserve, effective one year after the bill is signed into law.

Read the full bill here.

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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/rep-thomas-massie-sen-mike-lee-introduce-bills/

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RT

Trump’s envoy has reportedly traveled to Switzerland to negotiate the restoration of the pipeline connecting Russia and Germany

US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Richard Grenell has made multiple trips to Switzerland to negotiate the restoration and reactivation of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Bild reported on Sunday, citing sources familiar with the matter.

Nord Stream 2, which was intended to complement the already operational Nord Stream 1, was completed in 2021, but never commissioned. In September 2022, the pipelines were targeted by a series of underwater explosions, which caused severe leaks. In August last year, the Wall Street Journal suggested that they had been sabotaged by a Ukrainian team.

Grennell, who served as ambassador to Berlin during Trump’s first term, is now his envoy for “special missions.” According to Bild, Grennel made multiple unofficial trips to the headquarters of Nord Stream’s operating companies in the Swiss canton of Zug to negotiate a deal.

During his first term in office, Trump was critical of Nord Stream 2, targeting it with sanctions. In an interview in October, he even boasted that his actions had “killed” the project. Since his second term began, however, Trump has pushed for closer US-Russia ties, hinting at a possible lifting of the trade restrictions. One string of the pipeline remains intact and filled with gas, but Germany refuses to use it due to political considerations.

The purported deal would reportedly see American investors preventing Nord Stream 2 from bankruptcy by acquiring a stake in the company. According to the report, US investors would act as intermediaries for the supply of Russian gas to Germany and Central Europe via the pipeline. The deal would enable the US to profit if it becomes operational following a potential ceasefire in Ukraine and the lifting of Western sanctions. Additionally, it would give Washington significant influence over Germany’s energy supply, the article stated.

The report noted that while the US government would not be directly involved, American financial investors intended to participate in the potential gas deal.

The news outlet also cited alternative plans for the two pipelines of Nord Stream 1 once they are repaired. After a conversion phase, they could be repurposed to transport green hydrogen from Finland.

The German government has not been involved in the reported talks, with sources in Berlin claiming they were unaware of Grenell’s meetings in Switzerland. The envoy has also denied any involvement.

The Financial Times, however, claimed on Sunday that the talks had been brokered by Matthias Warnig, former executive director of the Swiss-based Nord Stream 2 operator.

The outlet alleged that one of the US-led consortium has already drawn up a plan for a deal with Russia’s energy giant Gazprom, which could be concluded after the sanctions against Moscow are lifted.

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Via https://www.rt.com/news/613603-nord-stream-us-investors/

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, 28 June 2019. ©  RIA Novosti

RT

The possible plans are reportedly part of the president’s efforts to improve ties with Moscow and end the Ukraine conflict

The White House has directed the State and Treasury departments to draft proposals for easing certain sanctions on Russia, Reuters reported on Monday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The tentative plans would align with US President Donald Trump’s efforts to improve diplomatic and economic relations with Moscow and to facilitate an end to the conflict in Ukraine.

The proposed sanctions relief could include specific Russian entities and individuals, including some business leaders, according to the outlet. The list will be discussed with Russian representatives in the coming days as part of the administration’s broad talks with Moscow on repairing ties, the sources told Reuters.

However, it remains unclear what concessions or actions Washington might seek in exchange. The White House, State Department, Treasury Department, and the Russian embassy in Washington have not commented so far.

The reported decision follows a series of diplomatic engagements between the US and Russia. On February 12, Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call, beginning discussions aimed at resolving the Ukraine conflict. Subsequently, high-level meetings have taken place in Saudi Arabia and Türkiye between US and Russian officials.

At the Saudi meeting, the US delegation, led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, explored avenues for economic cooperation, including potential joint ventures in the energy and technology sectors. The talks also addressed the possibility of restoring embassy staffing levels to improve diplomatic communications.

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who lead the Russian delegation, described the meeting in Riyadh as a first step toward rebuilding relations, stressing that Moscow and Washington need to “clean up the legacy” left by the Biden administration. Lavrov said that a swift appointment of ambassadors in Washington and Moscow would be an important step toward restoring full-scale cooperation.

Trump has maintained throughout that sanctions relief would not precede a formal peace agreement. He has said that any easing of restrictions would be contingent upon concrete steps toward ending the conflict in Ukraine.

Putin has welcomed efforts with the US on the diplomatic front and expressed Moscow’s willingness to resolve the Ukraine conflict through peaceful means. He stressed Russia’s goal of establishing an international system that fairly considers the interests of all parties, ensuring a lasting and indivisible security framework for Europe and the world. Such a system would prevent some nations from securing their safety at the expense of others, including Russia.

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Via https://www.rt.com/news/613631-trump-administration-weighs-lifting-russia-sanctions/

Bullet for the President

Directed by Vladimir Soloviev (2024)

Film Review

Russian with English subtitles

For the most part this  all of this documentary consists of commentary by Retired Soviet and Russian intelligence officer Andrey Bezrukov. However Russian-American Dmitri Simes, former president of the US Center for National Interest, appears briefly at the end. *

Bezruikov, who believes the assassination attempt against Trump led Biden to drop out of the presidential race, begins with a number of general observations about US politics:

1. The US is a country of radical people and their politics are always radical and messy. He cites the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy and the 1982 assassination attempt on Presidential Ronald Reagan.
2. The financial interests that currently control the US want a manageable president who does what “the system” wants them to. When JFK and Nixon didn’t do what they were told, they were removed from office. Trump has also broken “the rules of the game.”

According to Bezrukov, after the US became the sole world power, the US elite seemed to go brain dead. At present, they protect their own personal interests by installing members of their personal clique as president. Meanwhile US industry has lost its competitiveness and ability to create jobs.

In 2016, underrepresented Americans who hated the worsening corruption in Washington and had ceased to engage with the US political system, were inspired to vote for Trump after he promised to 1) focus on US domestic problems rather than interfering in other country’s domestic affairs and 2) to root out the US deep state and restore their country to an open participatory system envisioned by America’s founding fathers.

Bezrukov believes Trump practically fulfilled all his campaign promises during his first term but two: “draining the swamp” (eliminating the corruption) and improving relations with Russia. Hillary Clinton’s Russiagate smear, based on totally fabricated allegations that the Russian government meddled in the 2016 election, was a major factor behind the deterioration in US-Russian relations after Trump left office.

In the second half of the film, Bezrukov analyzes the total breakdown in basic security the day (July 13, 2024) Trump was shot:

1. Police spotted the gunman Thomas Crooks in Trump’s security perimeter 64 minutes prior to the shooting and the Secret Service made no effort to remove him from the scene.
2. The Secret Service failed to secure a rooftop in Trump’s security perimeter.
3. The way the Secret Service tackled Trump immediately increased his risk of being shot by keeping him upright as a visible traget.

Bezrukov feels it’s too soon to differentiate between criminal negligence on the part of the Secret Service and a deliberate assassination conspiracy. However he clearly reject the claim that Crooks was an unstable “loner” operating on his own.

He notes that Trump was guarded by a private military company during his first campaign but the Secret Service took over his security once he was elected president in 2016. Bezrukov notes that 48% of the Secret Service were fired or resigned during the Biden presidency and it takes 3-5 years for new Secret Service officers to reach their full effectiveness.

He ends by sharing his view that, as with the Soviet economy in 1988, the US economy is on the brink of collapse. He also seems to believe (as did a lot of the people who voted for him) that Trump possibly has both the insight and courage to keep that from happening.

*Former president Richard Nixon started the US Center for National Interest in 1994 to improve US-Russian relations. Simes, its first president, stepped down in 2022 and returned to Russia. He’s currently under investigation by the US State Department for violating US sanctions against Russia.

https://en.rtdoc.tv/films/1406-bullet-for-the-president

By Kyle Jaeger

Arizona lawmakers have approved two different bills focused on psychedelic therapy.

Senate passed a bill to create an advisory board tasked with studying the science of psilocybin, as well as state and federal policies surrounding the psychedelic, while the House separately approved a measure to fund clinical trials on ibogaine.

The Senate legislation from Sen. T. J. Shope (R) cleared the chamber in a 23-4 vote on Tuesday after it was significantly amended in committee, with members removing central provisions to establish licensed psilocybin service centers for adults seeking mental health treatment.

On the House side, the body advanced the ibogaine research legislation, sponsored by Rep. Justin Wilmeth (R), in a 36-22 vote on Monday, sending it to the Senate. It would provide funding for the state Department of Health Services (DHS) to “conduct a certified clinical research study on the use of ibogaine for the treatment of neurological diseases.”

An earlier version of Shope’s Senate psilocybin bill moved through both chambers last year with the regulated access components intact, but it was vetoed by the Democratic governor, who argued that “we do not yet have the evidence needed to support widespread clinical expansion.”

However, the year before, Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) signed into law budget legislation that included provisions to fund research into the medical potential of psilocybin mushrooms for a variety of conditions.

The new Senate-passed bill hopes to leverage some of those appropriated $5 million to create an Arizona Psilocybin Advisory Board, comprised of up to 12 members appointed by the governor and legislative leaders.

Representatives of the attorney general’s office and DHS, as well as military veterans, first responders, scientists with experience with psilocybin and physicians would be among the members.

Under the bill, the board would need to be selected by December 31, 2025, and they’d need to hold their first meeting by March 1, 2026.

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Via https://www.marijuanamoment.net/arizona-lawmakers-approve-psychedelics-bills-to-create-psilocybin-advisory-board-and-fund-ibogaine-research/

Arab states have endorsed an Egyptian reconstruction plan for Gaza that rejects any displacement of Palestinians.

The Cradle

Washington has rejected the Egyptian post-war Gaza proposal put forward by Arab states at a summit in Cairo this week, doubling down on US President Donald Trump’s vision for the expulsion of Palestinians and the takeover of the strip.

“The current proposal does not address the reality that Gaza is currently uninhabitable and residents cannot humanely live in a territory covered in debris and unexploded ordnance,” US National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said in a statement on 4 March.

“President Trump stands by his vision to rebuild Gaza free from Hamas. We look forward to further talks to bring peace and prosperity to the region,” the statement added.

At a highly anticipated summit in Cairo on Tuesday, Arab states endorsed an Egyptian plan to reconstruct the Gaza plan. The plan would see Hamas give up governance of Gaza. A detailed draft of the Egyptian plan obtained by Sputnik envisions setting aside $53 billion to reconstruct the strip and forming a committee to manage it for six months in preparation for the return of the Palestinian Authority (PA).

As part of the Egyptian plan, an international conference for the reconstruction of Gaza in Cairo will be held later this month. At the same time, a trust fund will be set up to receive contributions from donor nations. The draft of the plan added that “implementing reconstruction requires arrangements for transitional governance and providing security in a way that preserves the prospects of a two-state solution.”

The Egyptian plan anticipates that the early recovery phase will last six months and require $3 billion, while the first reconstruction phase will last for two years and cost $20 billion. The second reconstruction phase is expected to last two and a half years and cost $30 billion.

Egypt’s proposal categorically rejects any displacement of Palestinians. Hamas welcomed the plan in a statement on Wednesday.

Trump announced in February that Washington aims to take over Gaza and expel its residents. He claimed the initiative strives to find a safer location for Palestinians while international development teams take charge of reconstructing the battered and besieged strip.

The president said his plan aims to transform Gaza into a “Middle East Rivera.”

He has since backtracked, claiming in late February that he does not wish to impose the plan by force but will recommend it.

Trump said during a speech in Congress on Tuesday, “we are bringing back our hostages from Gaza” – making no other references to the Gaza ceasefire or his plan for the strip.

Israel has been blocking the ceasefire from moving forward to the second phase, and is reportedly making plans for a resumption of war against Gaza.

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Via https://libya360.wordpress.com/2025/03/05/trump-rejects-egypts-gaza-plan-stands-by-ethnic-cleansing-vision/

John Legend’s concert in Rwanda signaled global elite support for Paul Kagame amid his bloody invasion of the DRC. The event was organized by Global Citizen, a pseudo-activist NGO backed by corporations hungry for Africa’s resource wealth.

Ann Garrison

On February 21st, as the Rwandan army deepened its invasion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), John Legend took the stage in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. There, the superstar singer-songwriter headlined a Move Afrika concert produced by Global Citizen, the international NGO front for global elites, NATO, and a corporate world order which bills itself as “the movement changing the world.”

The future that Global Citizen heralds is a borderless network of public-private partnerships in which oligarchs, global corporations, and the World Trade Organization profitably manage the world in the name of equity, sustainability, and climate defense. It’s the future promised in the Davos Agenda and the UN Pact for the Future passed by the UN General Assembly in 2024. (Russia, Belarus, Iran, Nicaragua, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria opposed the pact as a threat to national sovereignty.)

Global Citizen doesn’t raise and disburse funds; it conducts global “awareness” campaigns to manufacture global consent – in this case, for the West’s decades-long proxy war for DRC’s unparalleled resource wealth, which has left millions of Congolese dead, and the rest of the country’s population with one of the world’s lowest per capita annual incomes.

The NGO’s corporate “partners” include tech giants PayPal, Cisco, WorldWide Technology, Verizon, and YouTube (Alphabet/Google), all of which depend to a large extent on minerals extracted from the DRC. Others, including Citibank, are hardly known for commitment to human rights; Citibank is, in fact, implicated in the 2001 UN investigators’ report on illegal resource traffic in DRC.

Global Citizen’s Global Board of Directors includes executives from Citibank, Cisco, Delta, and a long list of global asset managers, along with the former prime ministers of Norway and Sweden, top UN agency officials, and officers of closely allied billionaire-backed NGOs like the Open Society Foundations of George Soros, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Its Country and Regional Boards evince a special interest in Africa, the world’s most resource rich continent. Elites from Europe, Canada, Australia, and Africa are well represented there, but figures from Latin America and Asia are not, despite Global Citizen’s growing presence on those continents. In November 2025, the NGO will head to Brazil with “Global Citizen: Amazonia, the World’s First Impact Concert in the Amazon” at the UN’s 2025 COP.

An impact concert? What kind of impact? So far, participants have been promised a collection of “global and local artists” who will “celebrate major COP commitments, spotlight Indigenous leaders, and amplify campaigns for climate action.” Beyond that, the details are vague. “More info coming soon,” Global Citizen declares.

The consummately bland and meaningless language that fills the NGO’s website is clearly intended to gloss over any conflict or contradiction. But the blood-spattered backdrop to Global Citizen’s Kigali concert was impossible to ignore.

The “Global Citizen” as elite frontman

It should come as no surprise that John Legend performed in Kigali as Rwandan troops advanced in DRC, continuing the 30-year genocide against Congolese people. Like Kagame, the singer has been cultivated for over a decade as a top-tier frontman for the neoliberal global elite. Back in 2012, the Davos-based World Economic Forum appointed Legend to its Forum of Young Global Leaders in 2012. This February, Global Citizen announced on its Instagram page that it was “joined on the ground at Davos by three incredible artists” including John Legend.

Though he has at times spoken out in support of Palestinian human rights, Legend elected to perform at the August 2024 Democratic National Convention in support of then-Vice President Kamala Harris as she took ownership of the Biden administration’s genocidal policy toward the besieged Gaza Strip.

During his February 22 visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial, Legend decried man’s inhumanity to man, likening the Rwandan Genocide to the Holocaust and the genocide of Native Americans, but omitted any mention of Gaza or Congo, genocides not granted the official status established by criminal indictments and Western-controlled international courts.

Legend has lent his status to numerous milquetoast productions by Global Citizen. In 2020 he hosted and performed for the second year in a row at the Global Citizen Prize for Activism, which honored Black Lives Matter, billionaire philanthropist Warren Buffett, and Sesame Street’s Sesame Workshop. What more could any organization do to support the status quo?

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Confronted with criticism of his performance in Kigali, Legend insisted that he did not want to limit any country’s economic opportunity because he disagreed with its government. However, back in 2019, he supported a proposed Hollywood boycott of US states which had enacted limits on abortion rights. As a loyal Democrat, he has actively  campaigned for Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and many of the party’s down-ballot candidates, while severing his personal ties with his former artistic collaborator, Kanye West, over his support for Donald Trump. “Money talks,” Legend said of his boycott of states with anti-abortion GOP leaders.

Deploying his talents in support of NATO at the 2022 Grammy Awards, Legend debuted his slave liberation anthem, “Free”, in a choreographed spectacle that featured Ukrainian musicians and President Volodymyr Zelensky pleading for military support on a larger-than-life background screen.

On the Grammy’s official website, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Science trumpeted Global Citizen’s concurrent Stand Up for Ukraine extravaganza, which urged its million followers to join “one of the largest digital campaigns on social media by sharing why you support Ukraine and refugees everywhere.”

Several days after the awards ceremony, Global Citizen hosted an online propaganda rally for the Ukraine proxy war, presenting a series of online video messages from a long list of celebrities, including Julian Lennon performing his fathers pacifist anthem, “Imagine,” in a room full of candles in service of the NATO military machine.

One day after the social media rally, Global Citizen capped off this propaganda extravaganza with a real-life rally in Poland, one the most ardent supporters of the US war for Western capital and global corporations.

Convened by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, it concluded in a grand “global pledging summit” that saw governments and corporations promise $4.6 billion in grants and $5.5 billion in loans to aid Ukrainian refugees and IDPs. Contributors included the European Commission, Canada, and a list of European nations. Lenders included the European Investment Bank and the Council of Europe Development Bank. It wasn’t clear who the loans would go to, who would pay them back, or how.

Coca Cola, Nestle, Cisco, Google, and Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, were among the global corporations which contributed to demonstrate that they could be good global citizens too.

For all this, Global Citizen won an Anthem Award, a self-styled global do-gooder NGO whose mission is “amplifying the voices that spark global change” in support of “a purpose-driven society.”

Of course, there could be no better way to advance such a lofty mission than standing up for a NATO proxy war in Ukraine that has left a country in ruin, while music-washing a resource war in the heart of Africa – one that has left millions dead and a nation in chaos while its prime instigator danced to the crooning of John Legend, bathed in red and blue light, with “Global Citizen” emblazoned on his chest.

“Global Citizen” Paul Kagame manages lab for Western elite

Rwandan President Paul Kagame is a darling of the global elite. He hobnobs with them annually at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, though he kept clear of the neoliberal confab this year, presumably to manage the latest phase of his war in the DRC. Under Kagame’s management, Rwanda has become a veritable laboratory for technocratic, Davos-driven experiments in global governance, from digital IDs and “sustainable cities” to mandatory or even forced vaccination. In 2022, one Rwandan told Deutsche Welle that he was handcuffed in order to receive the jab. Others fled the country to escape being injected against their will.

In 2022, Kagame began negotiating with UK Prime Ministers Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and then Rishi Sunak, to outsource migrants from war-ravaged areas of the Middle East to Rwanda for processing, asylum, and resettlement, demonstrating his readiness to volunteer his country as a dumping ground for the West’s human surplus. In 2023, after two years of outcry and legal struggle, a UK court ruled that Rwanda was not a safe place to remove asylum seekers to, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer then declared the plan “dead and buried” on his first day in office.

Kagame has also offered the Rwandan Defense Force in the service of Western military objectives on the African continent, most visibly now as an armed enforcer of the interests of France’s TOTAL Energies in Mozambique.

In 2017, Zionist influencer and sex toy salesman “Rabbi” Shmuley Boteach’s World Values Network presented Kagame with a prize for Outstanding Friendship with the Jewish Peoplei in the name of casino baron and pro-Netanyahu financier Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam. A year later Israel opened an embassy in Rwanda, with the Times of Israel heralding it as “a bid to strengthen its diplomatic foothold in Africa.” Israel and Rwanda have intertwined and reinforced their victims’ narratives since 1995.

Like Israel’s cutouts, the Davos set ignores decades worth of documentation of Kagame’s crimes in the DRC as long as he advances their agenda. Their infatuation also survives countless reports of his repressive extremes within Rwanda, including use of Israel’s Pegasus surveillance software, his transnational repression, his assassinations of critics at home and abroad, and his wholly implausible electoral victories, such as his 99%+ win in 2024.

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Rwanda’s War in DRC

John Legend said he’s “aware of what’s happening” in DRC, but what does he know about the conflict? Why aren’t he and Global Citizen as concerned by Rwandan troops in DRC as they are by Russian troops in Ukraine?

Have they bothered to consider UN investigators’ abundant documentation of Rwanda’s invasion, occupation, massacres, and atrocities in DRC, much of which has been summarized by the legacy press?

On the day before Legend’s Kigali concert, the UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding that Rwanda’s M23 militia immediately cease hostilities, withdraw from all areas that it controls, “and fully reverse the establishment of illegitimate parallel administrations in the DRC territory.” It also called on Rwanda to withdraw all Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF) from DRC and stop “supporting” M23.

President Kagame continues to deny that Rwandan troops are in DRC, but Rwanda’s invading and occupying army is in direct command of M23. Further, the May 2024 UN Group of Experts Report on the DRC documented the presence of 4,000 Rwandan troops inside Congo, more than M23.

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A continuous stream of RDF and M23 atrocity reports

Reports of M23 atrocities have emerged in continuous fashion since the militia first began rampaging across Congo in 2012-’13. The 2012 UN experts report stated that Rwandan Defense Chief James Kabarebe sat at the top of M23’s chain of command.

In 2014, a UN Security Council report stated that M23 had been responsible for mass killing civilians, raping, killing, and maiming women and children, forced displacement, and the forced recruitment of children..

On January 26th, Vivian van de Perre, Deputy Special Representative for Protection and Operations of the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC, reported that M23 and the Rwanda Defence Forces had launched an attack on the strategically important city of Goma and that “these attacks continue to ravage the city, killing, injuring, traumatizing, and displacing civilians and exacerbating the crisis.”

During the first week of February 2025, the deputy head of the UN mission in DRC reported that nearly 3,000 people had been killed after M23 seized Goma, the capital of DRC’s North Kivu Province.

In mid-February 2025, after M23 seized Bukavu, the capital of DRC’s South Kivu Province, the UN human rights office accused it of summarily executing children, attacking hospitals and warehouses storing humanitarian aid, sexual violence, child and forced recruitment, and threatening journalists, human rights defenders, and members of civil society organizations.

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Via https://libya360.wordpress.com/2025/03/05/billionaire-backed-global-citizen-whitewashes-kagames-invasion-of-drc/

Al Mayadeen English

Egypt’s reconstruction plan for Gaza revolves around the Palestinian people’s right to their land and includes international and Arab financial support.

On Tuesday, Egypt’s Al-Qahera Al-Ikhbariya channel published Egypt’s plan for rebuilding Gaza, which will be presented to Arab leaders at the emergency summit hosted in Cairo on Tuesday.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty previously stated that the plan was designed to ensure the Palestinian people’s dignity and rights, and would be presented on March 4.

According to Abdelatty, Egypt’s alternative reconstruction plan will not be solely Egyptian or Arab but will include international support and funding to ensure its effective implementation.

“We will hold intensive talks with major donor countries once the plan is adopted at the upcoming Arab Summit,” he stated during a press conference with European Union Commissioner for the Mediterranean Dubravka Suica.

Into Egypt’s plan

The plan, which is based on preserving the rights and dignity of the Palestinian people, includes the formation of a Gaza Administration Committee to oversee the governance of the territory during a six-month transitional period. This committee will be independent, composed of non-partisan technocrats, and will operate under the Palestinian government.

According to the plan, the committee will be established throughout the current phase and pave the way for the full return of the administration, which would manage the next phase under Palestinian decision-making.

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Via https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/egypt-unveils-gaza-reconstruction-plan-ahead-of-emergency-ar