(2021-09-09). Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: COVID-19 modeling shows 100,000 people in the U.S. could die over the next 3 months. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org U.S. hospitalizations for patients with COVID-19 have risen almost 500% over the past two months, according to news reports. Also, the number of ICU beds in the South is dwindling. "We have over 101,000 Americans in the hospital with COVID-19," says Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious diseases expert and head of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. "Many of them fighting for their lives in ICUs and on ventilators. We are having over 160,000 new cases and just below 1,000…
(2021-09-09). Defense collaboration chief priority of U.S.-Ukrainian strategic partnership: FM. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Kuleba: We intend to work to ensure United States further supports strengthening of Ukrainian defense capability Based on the results of the visit of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to the United States, four key areas have been identified, in which work will now be performed not only in order to successfully implement the agreements …
(2021-09-09). Turkey issues new condemnation of Syria. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Turkey 'concerned' over regime attacks on besieged Daraa Turkey on Sept. 8 expressed "concern" over the latest reports of Assad regime forces escalating attacks on the Daraa al-Balad neighborhood in southwestern Syria. "We are closely monitoring the developments in Daraa with concern," Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgiàß said in a written statement. **** Syria has …
(2021-09-09). Russian Soldier Killed In Roadside Bomb Explosion In Syria's Homs. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On September 9, a Russian serviceman was killed in a roadside bomb explosion in the Syria's Homs governorate. The explosion hit a convoy of the the Russian military police when it was checking the route for a humanitarian convoy."The Russian military police were reconnoitering a path of a humanitarian convoy in Syria's Homs province on September 9 when there was a roadside bomb explosion," the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported. | The soldier who was in the armored…
(2021-09-09). Russian, Syrian Helicopter Pilots Held First Joint Exercise (Video). southfront.org 
Illustrative image. | Helicopter pilots from the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) and the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) had held their first-ever joint exercise in the Syrian desert, Chief of Aviation of the Russian forces in Syria Andrei Yermakov told reporters on September 7. | The exercise, which took place near the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria, involved Mi-8 transport helicopters and Ka-52 attack helicopters from the VKS. The Syrian side used Mi-24 attack helicopters. The drills simulated combat conditions. | "T…
(2021-09-09). Military Situation In Syria On September 9, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On September 9, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 23 times: 10 — in Idlib province, 8 — in Latakia province, 1 — in Hama province, 4 — in Aleppo province | On September 9, Russian warplanes attacked ISIS hideouts near Rasafah | On September 8, artillery of Turkish-backed forces shelled SAA positions in Saraqib city | On September 8, artillery of Turkish-backed forces shelled YPG positions near Mi…
(2021-09-09). Five Of Turkey's Largest Proxies In Syria Unify In New Coalition (Photos). southfront.org 
The official banner of the Syrian Front for Liberation. | On September 9, five of Turkey's largest proxy groups in Syria unified in a new coalition dubbed the Syrian Front for Liberation (SFL). | The groups, the Mu'tasim Division, the Hamzah Division, the Suleyman Shah Division, the 20th Division and the Northern Hawks Brigade, announced the formation of the SFL in a ceremony attended by their top leaders. | Click to see f…
(2021-09-09). New Opportunities For Progressives in an Evolving Middle East? counterpunch.org The American withdrawal from military intervention in Afghanistan continues a broader American as well as European disengagement from the Middle East. Greater US energy independence and a shift on the part of Europe to Russian oil, fatigue among Americans over their "endless wars" in the region, and a perceived need to "pivot" to the challenge
(2021-09-09). Turkish defense chief: we will continue to assist Azerbaijan in conquering the Caucasus. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Translation: United by blood, soil and faith we will mutually exterminate the infidel enemy. Turkey to continue to support fraternal Azerbaijan — Turkish defense minister Azerbaijan liberated its lands (Karabakh and 7 surrounding districts) from the Armenian occupation following the 44-day Armenia-Azerbaijan second Karabakh war, Turkish Minister of National Defense Hulusi Akar said, Trend reports …
(2021-09-09). Poland rallies NATO, EU partners against Belarus. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Visegrad Four: The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Three Seas Initiative members: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Polish president honoured by Hungary Duda has already met with his Hungarian counterpart 12 times, either bilaterally or as part of the regional Visegrad Group, which also …
(2021-09-09). Eastern Europe, Balkans: NATO integrates air, ground special ops for "hard to predict conventional conflicts" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Multinational Special Aviation Programme Hosts DV Day Senior Special Operations Commanders gathered at the Multinational Special Aviation Programme Training Centre to discuss future training programmes for special operations aviation, followed by a capabilities demonstration in Zadar, Croatia, on Wednesday. **** Maj. Gen. Ivica Olujiƒá, Croatian Director of General Staff…emphasis[ed] the importance of the Multinational Special …
(2021-09-09). Address the Global Public Health Crisis: Ban Glyphosate Now! counterpunch.org Environmentalist and campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason recently wrote an open letter to the head of the Pesticides Unit at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Jose Tarazona. (Since this article was written, Jose Tarazona has stepped down from his position and the letter has been forwarded to his successors, Manuela Tiramani and Benedicte Vagenede.) Mason
(2021-09-09). Atlantic to eastern flank: NATO's "biggest adaptation since the Cold War era" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com JSECS Road to Full Readiness Reaches Its Final Milestone As a result of its biggest adaptation since the Cold War era, NATO celebrated the foundation of a new full operational Headquarters in Ulm on September 8, 2021. The Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Tod D. Wolters, declared the Joint Support and Enabling Command's full readiness …
(2021-09-09). Rwanda's Military Is the French Proxy on African Soil. zcomm.org Rwanda entered Mozambique in July, followed by SADC forces, which included South African troops. France got what it wanted: Its energy giant can now recoup its investment.
(2021-09-09). NATO completes conference on air and space power. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Conference Highlights NATO Air, Space Power From Sept. 7-9 the Joint Air Power Competence Centre (JAPCC) hosted their annual Conference convening the NATO Airpower community at Essen, Germany. The presentations and discussions were focused on the topic of Delivering NATO Air and Space Power at the speed of relevance. **** "The annual JAPCC conference provides …
(2021-09-09). Violent Clashes Over New Patriarch, Church Matters In Montenegro. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On September 5th, riot police in Cetinje, Montenegro fired tear gas on protesters on and dismantled barricades erected the day before. | Citizens organized an effort (now failed) to block the inauguration of the new head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in their country. At least 20 people were injured and none died in the clashes. | Montenegro's state TV RTCG showed footage of Serbian Patriarch Porfirie and Bishop Joanikije arriving by helicopter at the monastery. | The two were su…
(2021-09-09). Crimea: West plays Tatar card in "liberating the peninsula" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Kuleba slams Russia for going after innocent people over Crimea Platform disruption failure "There can be no other interpretations than to acknowledge that these raids and arrests are part of Russia's revenge for Ukraine's successful holding of the Crimea Platform summit….[T]hey are forcing innocent Crimean Tatars to pay the price, throwing them behind bars and …
(2021-09-09). Russia's Northern Fleet Holds Drills In The Arctic To Exercise Protecting Northern Sea Route. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On September 9th, the Russian Northern Fleet began large-scale exercises in the Arctic zone with the participation of 8,000 servicemen, about 800 pieces of equipment and approximately 50 warships. | As part of the maneuvers, the defense of the Northern Sea Route will be worked out, the press service of the fleet told reporters. | "Up to 8 thousand servicemen, about 800 units of military and special equipment, including about 40 tanks, 460 armored combat vehicles, up to 24…
(2021-09-09). Lavrov Says Greater Idlib Agreement Was Not Fulfilled By Turkey As More Airstrikes Hit The Region (Videos, Photos). southfront.org 
On September 9, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out a series of airstrikes on militants' positions in the…
(2021-09-09). COVID-19 Here to Stay, Vaccine-Driven Herd Immunity Unlikely, Say Swedish Professors. sputniknews.com Virology professors from Sweden's leading universities have concluded that SARS-CoV-2 cannot be eradicated and will remain as a recurring seasonal virus, urging people to "learn to live with it". On the bright side, despite immunity being short-lived, the virus is likely to lose some of its potency over time.
(2021-09-09). Turkey: head of NATO Military Committee inspects bases, lays wreath at Atatàºrk's gravesite. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Chair of the NATO Military Committee visits Turkey On the 6th and 7th September 2021, the Chair of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer was in Turkey, where he met the Minister of Defence, Mr Hulusi Akar and the Chief of Defence, General Ya≈üar Gàºler. The Admiral visited NATO Allied Land Command, as well …
(2021-09-08). Ambassador to US: Ukraine demands full NATO membership, not MNNA. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Markarova explains why Ukraine needs no MNNA status Ukraine's Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova has elaborated on why Ukraine does not need to be designated by the U.S. government as a Major non-NATO Ally. **** "MNNA is a status for countries that do not plan/cannot join NATO for political or geographical reasons. This …
(2021-09-08). South-North Solidarity: Venezuelan Kraft Food Workers Hail US Strike Against TNC. orinocotribune.com In one of the biggest recent private sector strikes in the US, unionized workers who make Oreos, Chips Ahoy!, Newtons and other Nabisco snacks are on strike in at least five states — Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Oregon, and Virginia — over unjust demands for contract concessions. | Members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union have rejected management's call for changes in shift lengths and overtime rules. The workers are also calling for the restoration of a pension plan, which Nabisco's owner, Mondelez International, replaced in 2018 with a 401(k) program after a cont…
(2021-09-08). French Cement Company Lost Crimes Against Humanity Case Over Paying ISIS In Syria. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On September 7th, French cement company Lafarge lost its court case for complicity in crimes against humanity in Syria. | The French Court of Cassation ruled that the company was guilty of paying nearly 13 million euros ($15.3m) to armed groups including the ISIS group, to keep its cement factory in northern Syria running through the early years of the country's war. | Lafarge, which merged in 2015 with Swiss group Holcim, is under formal investigation in France for its efforts to keep a fac…
(2021-09-08). Russian Warplanes Continue To Hammer Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham Strongholds In Greater Idlib (Photos). southfront.org 
A Russian Su-24 takes off on a combat mission at Hemeimeem airbase, Syria, on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. IMAGE: AP PHOTO/VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | On September 8, a new wave of Russian airstrikes hit militants' positions in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib. | The airstrikes targeted the town of al-Bara in the southern Idlib countryside as well as the outskirt of the town of Ma'arrat Misrin in the eastern countryside of the governorate. Both towns are known to be strongholds of al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at Tahrir al-Sh…
(2021-09-08). Video: Russia's Aerospace Forces in Northern Syria. globalresearch.ca
(2021-09-08). Guinea and the Military Coup Incubator, AFRICOM. libya360.wordpress.com Netfa Freeman The recent coup in Guinea exemplifies the damage done by European colonizers and the U.S. Africa Command. West Africa has just experienced its fourth attempted coup in just over a year, and seven coups over the last 13 years were carried out by African troops trained by the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). One was directly…
(2021-09-08). Biden Exits Afghanistan, Heads In The Wrong Direction. popularresistance.org On August 31, Joe Biden accepted the inevitable and announced the final departure of all open military personnel from Afghanistan. | Perhaps, the most important part of the speech had to do with the future, and here Biden was unequivocal: | "And here is the critical thing to understand: The world is changing. We're engaged in a serious competition with China. We're dealing with the challenges on multiple fronts with Russia. ….We have to shore up American competitiveness to meet these new challenges and the competition for the 21st century." | A major motivation for getting out of Afghanistan is to give the US a…
(2021-09-08). Blinken on Damage-Limitation Tour After Afghanistan Fiasco. strategic-culture.org Washington's whirlwind outreach is evidently an effort to shore up confidence among U.S. allies in American defense commitments. | United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting the Middle East and Europe this week in an effort to repair the damage to Washington's standing with its allies following the disastrous retreat from Afghanistan. | The top U.S. diplomat first
(2021-09-08). U.S. missiles in Ukraine: Russia's latest red line. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The red line that is next to the red line over NATO expansion into former Warsaw Pact member states and NATO's war against Yugoslavia in 1999.And the red line over the U.S. and NATO taking over bases in the territory of Russia's Collective Security Treaty Organization allies Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan after the invasion of Afghanistan …
(2021-09-08). Turkey, Azerbaijan have "sovereign right" to conduct war games in captured Nagorno-Karabakh: Baku. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Azerbaijani-Turkish joint tactical exercises in Lachin to ensure regional stability — MFA Azerbaijani-Turkish joint tactical military exercises in Azerbaijan's Lachin district serve to ensure regional stability, Spokesperson the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Leyla Abdullayeva said…. Abdullayeva made the remark commenting on the claims of the Armenian Foreign Ministry that the holding of joint Azerbaijani-Turkish exercises in …
(2021-09-08). Poland pledges to defend NATO, EU eastern flank against…Belarus. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ==== Poland accuses Belarus of "hybrid war against NATO" The Polish foreign minister [Zbigniew Rau] said…migrant crisis on the European Union's border with Belarus was a 'hybrid war' against countries on the eastern edge of NATO, including Poland and Lithuania. He also said both countries "have recently come under multiple pressures resulting from a hybrid …
(2021-09-08). Sápmi: Resisting Green Colonialism. counterpunch.org On June 23, a coalition of Sámi and environmentalist activists erected a protest camp in Nussir, the projected site of a gigantic copper mine in Sápmi, the traditional homeland of the Sámi people, northern Europe's indigenous inhabitants. Today, Sápmi is divided by the borders of four nation states: Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. None of
(2021-09-08). Neo-Liberalism and Nationhood. mronline.org 
There is a tendency in the West, including even among progressives, to treat all "nationalism" as a homogeneous and reactionary category. They treat even anti-colonial nationalism as if it is no different from European bourgeois nationalism, notwithstanding the several crucial differences between the two.
(2021-09-08). Series, series everywhere with no audience spared: What's new in fall streaming. peoplesworld.org 
If not the largest, it's certainly "the most important" television festival in the world, as Hagai Levi, the showrunner of HBO's lead fall series Scenes From a Marriage and festival jury president, termed it. This year's edition of Series Mania at Lille in Northern France previewed 70 series from 22 countries with 44 new entries …
(2021-09-08). Ma'rib Battle: Nearly 80 Houthi, Saudi-Backed Fighters Killed As Fighting Intensifies. southfront.org 
Screen grab from combat footage released by the Houthis. | Nearly 80 Houthi and Saudi-backed fighters have been Sources in Saudi-backed forces told the France-Press Agency (AFP) that the Houthi…
(2021-09-08). The Victims of Our Post-9/11 Wars Deserve Remembrance, Too. otherwords.org Few who offer their prayers this September in the hallowed plaza where the Twin Towers once stood will be aware that the September 11 memorial echoes a 1987 Holocaust "counter-memorial" in Kassel, Germany. | Like our memorial, the German monument consists of a hollow in the shape of what had once been there, into which water flows. But the scope of the remembrances evoked by the two memorials are revealingly different. | We Americans want only to recall our innocent dead and to honor them. Unlike the Germans, we spurn acknowledging the evils done in their name that came to be intertwined with our losses, the cata…
(2021-09-08). BRICS' Influence Grows as Three New Members Join the New Development Bank. strategic-culture.org By Paul ANTONOPOULOS | The New Development Bank (NDB) was created by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) in 2015. The BRICS bank, as it is more commonly known, invests mainly in developing economies in areas such as transportation, water and sanitation, clean energy, digital infrastructure, social infrastructure and urban development. On September 2, NDB President Marcos Troyjo announced that the United Arab Emirates, Uruguay and Bangladesh were the first members of the bank's expansion. | "New members will have in NDB a platform to foster their cooperation in infrastructure and sustainable deve…
(2021-09-08). Coup In Guinea Favors US And Hurts Russian Interests In Africa. southfront.org 
Illustrative ImageSituation prevents Russian companies from operating in Guinea. | Written by Lucas Leiroz, research fellow in international law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. | A recent coup in Guinea has left the world surprised and unanswered about what is really happening in the region. The military overthrew the president and seized power after some controversies involving alleged attempts by the former leader to perpetuate himself in power. Regardless of political factors on the domestic scene…
(2021-09-08). Strange Death Of Putin's Potential Successor. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The head of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, who was said to be in a short list of possible successors of Vladimir Putin, died under strange circumstances. On September 8, Yevgeny Zinichev, 55, died when saving a person during the exercises. | This is the first case of death of a sitting minister of the Russian federal government. | According to official data provided by the department, Zinichev was checking the construction of a new fire station in the city of Norilsk in the no…
(2021-09-08). Biden-Zelensky deals include reviving Ukraine's nuclear status. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Ukraine intends to build NPPs, nuclear fuel production plant based on Skhidny Mining with U.S. support — MP The project for the development of nuclear energy worth $9.6 billion presented in the United States includes the construction of two power units of the Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant (NPP) and small modular reactors (SMRs), as well …
(2021-09-08). Nation soon to be formerly known as Ukraine seeks advice on joining NATO from fellow subjugated satrapy. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The former Republic of Macedonia was compelled to change its name to join NATO. As it was and will continue to be forced to transform its military, defense sector (being opened to foreign investment and control if not altogether eliminated in favor of "NATO interoperable" weaponry from more advanced NATO nations), internal security structures, the …