Friday, June 19, 2026

UK to send Ukraine 150,000 drones, air defense systems using proceeds from frozen Russian assets . . . . . Western allies pledge $4 billion in military aid for Ukraine . . . . . Investigation: How EU machinery keeps feeding Russian missile makers . . . . . Russian attack damages over 40 homes in Kharkiv . . . and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/06/friday-june-19-2026/

As Canada plans to send election observers to Armenia, advocates warn of a democratic backslide
As the federal government prepares to send seven election observers to Armenia, an advocacy group featuring the former president of Human Rights Watch is warning Canada and its Western allies of democratic backsliding prior to the June vote.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-ca-politics-armenia-elections-canada-9.7198559?cmp=rss
As Canada plans to send election observers to Armenia, advocates warn of a democratic backslide
As the federal government prepares to send seven election observers to Armenia, an advocacy group featuring the former president of Human Rights Watch is warning Canada and its Western allies of democratic backsliding prior to the June vote.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-ca-politics-armenia-elections-canada-9.7198559?cmp=rss
As Canada plans to send election observers to Armenia, advocates warn of a democratic backslide
As the federal government prepares to send seven election observers to Armenia, an advocacy group featuring the former president of Human Rights Watch is warning Canada and its Western allies of democratic backsliding prior to the June vote.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-ca-politics-armenia-elections-canada-9.7198559?cmp=rss
Monty Slander Hours! đź’Ş

while watching i've just realised that my country NL was under #nazi occupation during WW2, and it's only a strip of land on the coast, just like #gaza. 3/4 of the dutch jewish community was massacred, murdered in the #shoah.
if it wasn't for the #WesternAllies i might never been born and my country would be german now. my granddad was in the #resistance. he'd be turning in his grave if he knew what #israel & western allies are doing to #palestinians & actually, me as an immigrant trans person with a differability.

#GifsArtidote: i am utterly ashamed of my country and my host country. I feel sick being white, from a middle-class family and a racist, colonialist country. I feel I am carrying the responsibility both countries deny they have. and it's mentally crushing me. luckily it can't touch my moral integrity, growing stronger by the day, until death do us part.

#press #news #BreakingNews

https://youtu.be/tC8l09ut418?si=kWvjdUChi-lfsuzs

Louis Theroux’s The Settlers (2025)

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while watching i've just realised that my country NL was under #nazi occupation during WW2, and it's only a strip of land on the coast, just like #gaza. if it wasn't for the #WesternAllies i might never been born and my country would be german now. my granddad was in the #resistance. he'd be turning in his grave if he knew what #israel & western allies are doing to #palestinians & actually, me as an immigrant trans person with a differability

#press #news #BreakingNews
https://youtu.be/tC8l09ut418?si=kWvjdUChi-lfsuzs

Louis Theroux’s The Settlers (2025)

YouTube

@noelreports
UA: "Can you please help us with more and longer range missiles, so we do not need to waste the life of our best men on the front line?"

Western allies: "First, send your younger men to the front line, then maybe"

#ukraine #westernallies #atacms #stormshadow #scalp #taurus #DontLetPutinBullyUs #VictoryPlan

"It is urgent, then, for the #UnitedStates and its #WesternAllies not only to call out #Sudan’s terrifying hunger crisis for what it is—an intentional aim of the warring parties—but also to push the #GulfPowers that have clout to force the two sides to end the tactics that are driving it." #SaudiArabia #SAF #UAE #RSF #SudanCrisis #Genocide #Sudan #ICC #TheHague

#Sudan’s Manmade #Famine | Alex de Waal
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/sudan/sudans-manmade-famine
Sudan’s Manmade Famine

The United States and Its Gulf partners are enabling mass starvation.

Foreign Affairs