Day: April 18, 2024
OFFICIAL – #Iran‘s Embassy in #Armenia states: “Everyone here knows that one of the main factors of instability in the South Caucasus is the Zionist regime” referring to #Israel‘s increasing presence in #Azerbaijan. https://t.co/oH9harKzWm
— Nagorno Karabakh Observer (@NKobserver) April 18, 2024
New statement from House Speaker Mike Johnson on Ukraine:
“I’m a Reagan Republican. I believe in peace through strength”
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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 18, 2024
Russian “peacekeeping forces” forced to leave the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan after Azeri authorities unceremoniously told them to get out.
Many of these soldiers will head to Ukraine, where they can’t expect the type of vacation they had in Karabakhpic.twitter.com/6icnQMCJrp
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 18, 2024

Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South (Simon & Schuster, 2023) When I recently visited Montgomery, Alabama, I went to see the rows of rusted plinths that together make up the city’s Peace and Justice Memorial. The memorial is designed to replicate the cycle of a lynching. Walking through the memorial, one will see plinths hanging from the ceiling, and others rising out of the ground like coffins. Each plinth represents a county, inscribed with the names of thousands of Black Americans who had been lynched by their neighbors and fellow citizens, and the date of their
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