(2021-09-08). 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…
(2021-09-08). 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). Video: Russia's Aerospace Forces in Northern Syria. globalresearch.ca
(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). 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). 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). 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). 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). 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). 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). 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). 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 …
(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 …
(2021-09-07). Georgian, Ukrainian military chiefs continue to collaborate on LOOT. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com LOOT: Liberation of occupied territories, in which endeavor they're fully backed by the U.S., NATO and the EU. Those territories are Abkhazia, Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk and South Ossetia. Wars have been and are being waged in the last three. Commander of the Ukrainian Guard inspects the base of the 20th cadre brigade of the National …
(2021-09-07). Reopening of French schools threatens students and workers with a resurgence of the pandemic. wsws.org With an average of over 13,000 daily cases, the reopening of schools in France that began last week is preparing a new wave of infections, illnesses and deaths among teachers, children and the population at large.
(2021-09-07). Turkish Soldier Killed In Shelling On Syria's Al-Bab (Video). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On September 7, a Turkish soldier was killed and four others were wounded when a military unit of the Turkish Armed Forces was shelled near the city of Al-Bab in northern Syria. | Turkey's national defense ministry confirmed the death infantry specialist Sergeant Muammer Yigit. In a statement on Twitter, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar extended condolences to the family of the martyred and the Turkish nation. | The attack occurred on a base within the Operation Euphrates Shield zone. Several…
(2021-09-07). A Busy Start In September For Russia's VKS Over Idlib. southfront.org 
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(2021-09-07). Military Situation In Syria On September 7, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On September 5, Russian military police entered the Daraa al-Balad neighborhood | On September 5, the Daraa al-Balad militants started to hand over their weapons to the Syrian Arab Army | On September 5, Russian warplanes attacked positions of Turkish-backed forces in Fatirah area | On September 5, Turkish forces and Russian military police conducted a joint patrol near the city of Ain al-Arab | On September 5, artillery of Turkish-backed forces shelled SDF positio…
(2021-09-07). Should the Cuban Revolution Hold on to Power? Part 4: Lenin's New Economic Policy and the Cuban Situation. orinocotribune.com By Sam King — Sep 4, 2021 | The following article outlines some theoretical considerations to help place Cuba's contemporary situation into a Marxist framework. A relevant reference point seems to be another revolutionary country that also found itself in the situation of isolation — Russia. | In the broadest possible terms, the objective situation in Cuba today approximates aspects of the situation the Russian revolution faced in 1921 after its victory in the civil war. There are countless differences in detail and emphasis, however, in broadest terms, in both countries state power had/has been consol…
(2021-09-07). LOOT prototype: Turkey, Azerbaijan launch military exercise in conquered Karabakh. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com LOOT: liberation of occupied territories. With Nagorno-Karabakh as model, the next "occupied territories" in the former Soviet Union to be "liberated" are Abkhazia, Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, South Ossetia and Transdniester, with perhaps Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kaliningrad, the Kurils and others to follow. Turkey, Azerbaijan launch joint military drill in Lachin Turkey and Azerbaijan on Sept. …
(2021-09-07). Map: Three Brothers and Iran. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com For the "Three Brothers" strategic military alliance see here and here and here and here. Defence chief inspects Azerbaijani-Turkish-Pakistani drills site Defence Minister Zakir Hasanov has inspected the venue for the upcoming Three Brothers — 2021 international drills by Azerbaijani, Turkish and Pakistani servicemen, the Defence Ministry reported on September 6. The drills will be …
(2021-09-07). NATO deploys "counter hybrid" team against Belarus. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO Counter Hybrid Support Team arrives in Lithuania A NATO Counter Hybrid Support Team has come to Lithuania to help the country's authorities deal with the migrant crisis and other pressures from neighbors, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. [The] team of security experts "will analyze the hybrid aggression against Lithuania" and "will make recommendations …
(2021-09-07). Poland to get 250 Abrams tanks as tensions with Belarus worsen. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Nearly 400 exhibitors to show wares at Polish defence fair Almost 400 exhibitors from 27 countries are expected to show their wares at a major defence fair that opens in the south-central Polish city of Kielce on Tuesday. The annual exhibition, which is scheduled for September 7 to 10, will feature military equipment displayed by …
(2021-09-07). Illegal Woman: The plight of immigrants in Spain. wsws.org The film, streaming on Netflix, exposes the brutal Spanish immigration policy, and more broadly, the European and global mistreatment of immigrants and refugees.
(2021-09-07). Cuánto gastan las grandes tecnológicas en hacer lobby en Europa. globalizacion.ca Las grandes tecnológicas, capitaneadas por Facebook y Google, superan a otras industrias como la farmacéutica o los combustibles en gasto en prácticas de lobby en las instituciones europeas. Que los gigantes tecnológicos no se iban a quedar de brazos cruzados…
(2021-09-07). U.S. escalates threats to Ethiopian and Eritrean sovereignty. mronline.org 
The U.S. and its Western European allies have been trying to pass some kind of resolution censuring Ethiopia that will lead towards military intervention, but so far, they have not succeeded. Why? Because China and Russia have been blocking it. They say that this is Ethiopia's internal affair, and we shouldn't engage in any undue interference. Everyone is saying the same thing they have been saying all along.
(2021-09-07). 'No Flexibility on the Price Tag,' Jayapal Says of $3.5 Trillion Bill. commondreams.org Bolstering the case for urgent policy change, the sector's top 20 companies collectively produce more planet-heating emissions than some fossil fuel giants and European countries.
(2021-09-07). German police secretly procured & USED controversial Israeli Pegasus smartphone spyware — media. rt.com 
German police bought and used controversial Pegasus spyware sold by the Israeli NSO group in 2019, it has been revealed. The program has allegedly been used for high-profile spying by multiple governments. | The explosive revelation was According to Die Zeit, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) opted to procure the h…
(2021-09-07). Mikis Theodorakis: A life of music and resistance. mronline.org 
Mikis Theodorakis, who began his political life as a partisan in Greek resistance, remained a staunch opponent of imperialist aggression throughout his life. His musical compositions contributed to the cultural revolution in Greece.
(2021-09-07). Russia's New Space Station To Be Autonomous, Begin Deployment In 5-6 Years. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | Russia's new orbital station will operate autonomously to a large extent and will be kitted with artificial intelligence, head of the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said."The system itself, the station itself with artificial intelligence elements should demonstrate intelligence of the highest level," the Roscosmos chief said, responding to a question about the principal distinctions of the future orbiter from previous systems. | The Russian station should…
(2021-09-07). Crimea Pipeline Explosion Was Allegedly Orchestrated By Ukrainian Intelligence. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The explosion of a gas pipeline in Crimea was organized by Ukrainian intelligence, Russia's security service — the FSB reported. | On August 23, unidentified persons damaged the gas pipeline, located in Crimea's mountainous area and used for supplying gas to a military unit and to the village of Perevalnoye. The gas pipeline operation was restored on the next day. On 6 September, four suspects were arrested."It was established that this act of sabotage was orchestrated by the Uk…
(2021-09-07). Russia's FSB Accuses Ukrainian Intelligence of Staging Crimean Gas Pipeline Blast. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The explosion of a gas pipeline in Crimea in August was organised by the Ukrainian intelligence with participation of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People (banned in Russia), the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on 7 September.
(2021-09-07). Russian Armed Forces Waiting For Their Upgrades Following ARMY-2021. southfront.org | DEAR FRIENDS. IF YOU LIKE THIS TYPE OF CONTENT, SUPPORT SOUTHFRONT WORK : | MONERO (XMR): 884Bz8UH63aYsjVdkfWfScRYWZGGNbjFL7pztqvWNSrtYT4reFSwyvkCj9KEGUtheHhhMUj87ciTBFyzoe…
(2021-09-07). Baghdad Conference: A step towards a post-US regional arrangement. peoplesdispatch.org The Conference on Partnership and Cooperation in Baghdad was attended by most of the major regional players, including Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. French president Emmanuel Macron was also present in the meeting…
(2021-09-07). Ukraine: parliament to hold extraordinary session seeking U.S. major non-NATO ally status. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Razumkov convenes Rada extraordinary plenary session on Sept 8 Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Dmytro Razumkov signed an order to convene an extraordinary plenary session of parliament on Wednesday, September 8, press secretary of the chairman Olha Tuniy has said. "The MPs will gather for an extraordinary session immediately after the completion of the next …