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Sonja van den Ende
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Sonja van den Ende is an independent journalist from the Netherlands who has written about Syria, the Middle East, and Russia among other topics. She writes for several news outlets and studied Journalism and English (BA), and has also done a study in Global Media, War and Technology (BA). She is currently based in Moscow, Russia, covering the Special Military Operation and before that the war in Syria.
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The testimony of a Czech mercenary sheds light on the alleged massacre in Bucha in 2022.
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Russia has been the U.S. target for regime change for many years, due to its awesome natural wealth and resistance to U.S. hegemony.
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The independent journalists reserve the right to issue the following warning: attacking a nuclear power plant is not a good idea. It smells like Chernobyl.
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God’s chosen nation has its own ideas of higher righteousness. Perhaps Washington seriously believes that the American hand has a firm grip on God.
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The restriction of religious freedom and the arrest of Russian clergy is another crime against its own people by the Ukrainian regime.
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The U.S. and its allies have arrogated a political prerogative to exclude Russia in a way that would have been unimaginable with the USSR.
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The West is playing with fire, given the war rhetoric that is spouted daily in the media by its historically illiterate politicians and NATO elites.
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Pareciera que la guerra secreta de la OTAN contra Rusia se está tornando más abierta a través de sus diferentes redes.
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According to the Rand Corporation, there are two scenarios for the United States: “after” the less favorable war or “after” the more favorable war.
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The Special Military Operation is still going on, but in addition there is another real war being waged by the West, a “war in the dark.”