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To put this speech in context, be aware that it was delivered four years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, three years after the NATO expansion into Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania (Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic had already joined NATO in 1999), and two years after the “Orange Revolution” had overthrown the legitimate government of Ukraine. Western moves for the military encirclement of Russia were well underway. The speech also occurred one year after the founding of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and two years after the initial founding of the BRICS.

Satanically gleeful, with bugged-out eyes and flapping arms, on Oct. 20, 2011 during an interview with CBS news, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, upon hearing of the sadistic torture and murder of Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi, gushed out in an orgasm of ecstacy, “We came, we saw, he died.”

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a new financing package to support the continued implementation of the Pantawid Pamilya, the Philippines’ conditional cash transfer (CCT) program.

UNHCR staff brief new arrivals from Mozambique on the registration process in Kapise village in Mwanza district.

Brando Benifei is writing a report on how to integrate refugees into the labour market

Sabha Isa, Ahmad, and their children Hamzeh and Alma meet Filippo Grandi at their temporary home in Berlin.

Civilians flee the violence that erupted in the Protection of Civilians site in Malakal, South Sudan.

Children write on the blackboard at a school in the village of Staromykhailovka, which is on the frontline between the cities of Donetsk and Mariyanovka Ukraine.

The United Nations and the Government of Colombia on 17 February announced the launch of a new multi-partner trust fund in the country’s capital, Bogotá, to respond to stabilization and peacebuilding needs.

In Madaya, Syria, local community members help offload and distribute humanitarian aid supplies.