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Dr. James Lindsay, an American-born author and political commentator, called the “woke” ideology and movement embraced by Black Lives Matter organizations and other left-wing activists “Leninism 4.0.” “Now we have the attempt to apply Leninism to the American context, using corporations as part of the toolset, for example. And so we call this movement the ‘woke’ movement. We talked about woke capital with all the corporations … the woke movement is Leninism 4.0,” Lindsay told Jan Jekielek, host of The Epoch Times’ American Thoughts Leaders program on Jan. 13. Lindsay explained that the first 3 versions or flavors of Leninism...

On 1 June, The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland published an important article about the longstanding claim of Robert Mueller’s special counsel team. The assertion was retired LTG Michael Flynn had made false statements to the FBI about his discussion of sanctions with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Flynn document release The article was based on the released transcripts of Flynn’s monitored phone calls with Kislyak in December 2016. (DNI John Ratcliffe had just released them, following up on a promise made by just-departed Acting DNI Ric Grenell.) What the calls showed, as Cleveland pointed out, was that Flynn did not, in...

Oh, really? Although Russia -- the largest nation on the planet -- is in many ways a failing state with an economy barely the size of Texas, it still has a huge percentage of the world's nuclear weapons, about equal with ours, and the capacity to deliver them (and to pass them along to unreliable non-state actors). It behooves us to have a relationship with them for our survival and everybody else's, to keep our friends close and our enemies closer, as the Godfather would put it. The obvious goal in this is to limit nuclear proliferation and even to...

Russia is to expel 23 British diplomats amid tensions over the nerve agent attack on a former spy and his daughter in the UK. The Russian foreign ministry said staff from the UK's Moscow embassy would be expelled within a week. It also said it would close the British Council in Russia, which promotes cultural ties between the nations, and the British Consulate in St. Petersburg. The move comes in response to Britain's decision to expel 23 Russian diplomats.........

arly last August, an envelope with extraordinary handling restrictions arrived at the White House. Sent by courier from the CIA, it carried “eyes only” instructions that its contents be shown to just four people: President Barack Obama and three senior aides. Inside was an intelligence bombshell, a report drawn from sourcing deep inside the Russian government that detailed Russian President Vladi­mir Putin’s direct involvement in a cyber campaign to disrupt and discredit the U.S. presidential race.

The United States last month expelled two Russian officials in response to an attack on an American diplomat by a Russian policeman in Moscow, the State Department said Friday, in a development that was sure to further strain already tense bilateral relations. The officials were expelled June 17, department spokesman John Kirby told reporters. He didn’t immediately provide additional information. Kirby said the American was attacked June 6 by a Russian guard outside the U.S. Embassy compound. Kirby said the attack was “unprovoked and it endangered the safety of our employee.” …

Ecuador's government has ordered everyone in the US Embassy's military group, about 20 Defense Department employees, to leave the country by month's end. The group was ordered to halt operations in Ecuador in a letter dated April 7, embassy spokesman Jeffrey Weinshenker said Thursday. The Associated Press was alerted to the expulsions by a senior Ecuadorean official who refused to be identified by name due to the information's sensitive nature.

Recent demolitions of outposts are part of psychological warfare to prepare the public for mass expulsions, warns a Yesha leader. Sarah Eliyash, deputy chairman of the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria (Yesha), said she is calling for an urgent conference of Yesha leaders to break off relations with the government as a response to the recent wave of demolitions of Jewish homes and the expulsion of families, including women and babies, in the middle of the night. “We plan to break off all contact with Cabinet ministers and Knesset Members, the army and the Civil Lands Administration”...

Rightists slam Peres despite his instrumental role in the settlement enterprise Published: 07.16.07, 14:24 / Israel Opinion Shimon Peres entered the presidential residence Monday riding a wave of consensus. The humiliation of the Katsav affair managed to do what the guilt feelings regarding his past defeats did not. And what the Katsav affair didn't do, his ripe old age did: His age has turned into an advantage in the eyes of the public. Just like our forefathers, even modern-day Israelis have begun to believe that old-age is synonymous with wisdom (with one difference: The elderly at the time of our...

AN accused Iraqi spy awaiting expulsion says he will fight Australian troops if they join a US-led war on his country. Helal Ibrahim Aaref, who has been told to leave Australia by Wednesday, told the Herald Sun he would have no option but take up arms. "I hope Australians don't go to Iraq," Mr Aaref said. "But anyone, from all the world, who attacks Iraq, enters my cities, enters my country, I fight him. "You know, Iraq has a long history, from about 8000 years, and all that time we are fighting enemies because Iraq has oil and resources." Mr...

Sex scandal past haunts new envoy Israeli Amir Laty was told to leave Australia last month, but just why is hard to pin down, reports Cynthia Banham. At first blush the secretive expulsion of an Israeli diplomat from Canberra a month ago had all the makings of a James Bond movie - there were claims of espionage, liaisons with women, and plenty of intrigue. But as the real story behind the banishment of Amir Laty slowly unfolds, it is unclear whether what took place was an audacious attempt by a foreign agent to breach high-level Australian intelligence, or more a...

Christians are Jews' best friends Toronto Sun Sat, August 12, 2006 By MICHAEL COREN One of the most difficult things about spending time in Israel is returning home, as I did two weeks ago. As dangerous as life might be in the Jewish state at the moment, daily existence is layered in significance. Then it's back to North America, where the trivial is made to seem profound. I refer to Mel Gibson's drunken stupidity when he made various repugnant comments about Jewish people. As a Roman Catholic with three Jewish grandparents, and someone who worries every day about the...

India and Pakistan in expulsions India and Pakistan have expelled diplomats from each other's countries after Pakistan accused an Indian visa official of "undesirable activities". Pakistani officials said Deepak Kaul, who worked at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, was caught "red-handed" with sensitive documents. India denied the allegation and expelled a Pakistani diplomat in return, India's foreign ministry said. Relations have soured since train bombings in Mumbai (Bombay) last month. More than 180 people died in the bombings, which India said were carried out by militants with support in Pakistan. Pakistan denied the allegation. An unnamed Pakistani government official...

Paris, 9 Nov. (AKI) - The French interior minister has ordered the deportation of all foreigners arrested for taking part in the riots that have wracked the country over the last two weeks. Almost a thousand people have been arrested in the last three nights alone in violence which has mostly broken out in deprived areas with large African and Arab immigrant communities. Nicolas Sarkozy's controversial decision follows the granting of emergency powers to the police and local authorities to impose night-time curfews in an effort to tackle the unrest. Since the government decree on the curfews came into force...

Is the World Ready for German Victimhood? By Charles Hawley Immediately after World War II, millions of Germans were expelled from Poland and Czechoslovakia. And the wounds are still open today. Now, a preliminary agreement by the new coalition may pour salt on them. Poland is warily observing events in Berlin. The bulk of the exodus began soon after the guns of World War II went quiet as millions of Germans suddenly found their homes were now on the wrong side of the border. They were forced to abandon houses and property and trudge across the newly created frontier into...

Extremists face fresh wave of expulsions By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor (Filed: 16/08/2005) Charles Clarke yesterday signalled a fresh wave of expulsions and exclusions of extremist Islamists once the Government has concluded its review of the law later this month. The Home Secretary visited Scotland Yard for a briefing on the terrorism threat and issued a warning that another strike in London could not be ruled out. "We remain worried," Mr Clarke said, though he conceded that there was no specific intelligence about the existence of a third cell of bombers. "It would be ridiculous to assume a further...

Milton Academy rocked by expulsions By Michael Levenson and Jenna Russell, Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff | February 20, 2005 MILTON -- A Milton Academy official said yesterday the school's decision to expel five male students for receiving oral sex from a 15-year-old sophomore girl was ''excruciating" but necessary to send a strong message to students, as students and parents expressed mixed reactions to the discipline. Three sophomores and two juniors, all members of the boys hockey team, were expelled from the picturesque private campus Friday, after a three-day school investigation found that they requested and received oral sex from...

Bahrain expels Iraq diplomat for alleged blast link MANAMA, April 2 (Reuters) - Bahrain on Wednesday expelled an Iraqi diplomat it accused of having links to a blast that occurred near a U.S. Navy base in the capital Manama last week. The official Bahrain News Agency said the foreign ministry asked Iraqi First Secretary Nadim Jawad Ali to leave the kingdom because of his alleged ties to an Iraqi man suspected of carrying out the March 24 blast. There was no immediate comment from the Iraqi embassy. A small cooking gas cylinder exploded near the gateway of the headquarters of...

J E R U S A L E M, Sept. 3 — In a landmark decision, Israel's Supreme Court on Tuesday approved the expulsion of relatives of Palestinian terror suspects. The unanimous ruling by a special nine-judge panel came in the case of three Palestinians whom the Israeli military ordered expelled from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip. Copyright 2002 The Associated Press.

Men aged 15-50 are being rounded up The Israeli army has stormed into the West Bank city of Nablus, declaring it a closed military zone and rounding up Palestinian men. Two Palestinians were killed as soldiers, backed by more than 100 tanks, poured into the city in retaliation for Wednesday's bomb attack at a Jerusalem university. The BBC's Jeremy Cooke, who is in Nablus, saw men between the ages of 15 and 50 being blindfolded and bound by Israeli troops before being taken away in a waiting bus. He says the whole city is under Israeli control and the Casbah,...