Daily Archives: August 5, 2022

2022-08-05: News Headlines

Dave DeCamp (2022-08-05). Amnesty International Says Ukraine's Fighting Tactics Endanger Civilians. news.antiwar.com Amnesty International on Thursday "We have documented a pattern of Ukrainian forces putting civilians at risk and violating the laws of war when they operate in populated areas," said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty's secretary-general. "Being in a defensive position does not exempt the Ukrainian military from respecting internation…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-08-05). Has the Ukraine Conflict Driven U.S. Government Officials Crazy? covertactionmagazine.com Latest outrage is the FBI's use of flash-bang grenades and drones to startle 80-year-old leader of Black Nationalist organization who …

Infobrics (2022-08-05). Here's Why More Countries Are Knocking on BRICS' Door. infobrics.org The growing charm of strength between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) coupled with the loss of attraction in the West has led to more countries, including Iran and Argentina, applying for BRICS membership…

WSWS (2022-08-05). German government sets course for world war as it backs Pelosi's Taiwan visit. wsws.org Similar to the war in Ukraine, Berlin also sees the conflict with China as an opportunity to advance its long-cherished plans for rearmament and its great power ambitions.

Infobrics (2022-08-05). Russia, China to Break Ground on Gas Pipeline Via Mongolia in 2024. infobrics.org The Power of Siberia-2 pipeline, which will deliver Europe-bound gas from western Siberian fields to China for the first time, is expected to go online in 2030…

Infobrics (2022-08-05). Why Russian Exporters Should Be Looking to the India Consumer Market for Diversifying Trade. infobrics.org Indian Imports of Russian Goods Grew 272% in April-May 2022…

TeleSUR, ysm, MER (2022-08-05). Cuba y Serbia ratifican voluntad de ampliar cooperación. telesurtv.net Los cancilleres de Cuba y Serbia debatieron temas de interés común, como la colaboración en áreas de biotecnología, deporte, turismo y cultura.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-04). Today, Ukraine Bombed a Donetsk Hotel Full of Journalists. libya360.wordpress.com Eva Karene Bartlett Another attack from Kiev has hit central Donetsk, targeting a funeral and a hotel where numerous reporters stay and work At 10: 13 am today (Thursday), Ukraine began shelling central Donetsk. There were five powerful blasts in the space of ten minutes. The last explosion blew out my hotel's ground-floor glass, including a sitting…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-04). Lucien Cerise: "NATO Threatens France, Western Civilization, and all Forms of Civilization" libya360.wordpress.com Lucien Cerise, a social engineering researcher, answers questions from Continental Observer about NATO on the occasion of the new edition of his book, Ukraine, NATO's Hybrid War, a first edition of which was published in 2017 under the title Return to Maidan — NATO's Hybrid War. How do you assess the differences in NATO's hybrid…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-04). Russian Operations in Ukraine (August 4, 2022): Featuring Mark Sleboda. libya360.wordpress.com Joining me for this update is Mark Sleboda, an international relations and security expert based in Russia, and US Navy veteran. We will discuss the latest developments in Ukraine including a recent Pentagon briefing and Western media claims made in recent days. References War on the Rocks — Ukraine's Window of Opportunity?: warontherocks.com/2022/07/ukr… US Department…

Dave DeCamp (2022-08-04). Stoltenberg Says NATO Working With Arms Industry to Get Ukraine More Weapons. news.antiwar.com NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday said that the military alliance was working closely with the arms industry "We are providing a lot of support but we need to do even more and be prepared for the long haul," the NATO chief told Reuters. "Therefore we're also now in close contact and working closely with the defense industry to produce mor…

TeleSUR (2022-08-04). Three Ships To Leave Ukrainian Ports by Friday. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Tàºrkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar announced that three new shipments of Ukrainian grain are expected to leave Ukraine's ports by Friday. | RELATED: | "As part of the intensive activity of the joint coordination center, three ships with grain are scheduled to leave Ukrainian ports tomorrow," said the Tàºrkish minister. | Last Tuesday, the Ministry announced that the first shipment of Ukrainian gr…

Infobrics (2022-08-04). Viktor Orban says Trump is "important ally" for peace in Ukraine. infobrics.org Trump gives another re-election hint after meeting with ideological ally Viktor Orban.

____ (2022-08-04). He Can Not Take It Any Longer. smoothiex12.blogspot.com Good. So, there is still some integrity to be found… Or, are they getting ready to admit the inevitable which is very near, in fact is in progress–a collapse of the front in Ukraine. But as they say, better late than never. Anyway, good for you, Cory Bernardi.

WSWS (2022-08-04). Ukrainian top intelligence official reveals US involvement in missile strikes against Russia. wsws.org The provocative interview with the deputy head of Ukraine's military intelligence was published the same day as the first grain shipment from Ukraine since the start of the NATO-provoked war left Odessa as part of a deal brokered by Turkey and the UN.

TeleSUR (2022-08-04). Canada Deploying Soldiers To Train Ukrainian New Recruits. telesurenglish.net Under Operation UNIFIER, Canada's military training and capacity-building mission in Ukraine, the CAF will deploy personnel to the United Kingdom, Defence Minister Anita Anand said. | Members of the Canadian Armed Forces wearing face masks walk outside a mobile hospital at a parking lot of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on April 30, 2021.

Contributing Writers (2022-08-04). NATO's Moderate Rebels (HTS) in Idlib Mourn Al Qaeda's Zawahiri/ By Arabi Souri. marktaliano.net Original Link Here: NATO's Moderate Rebels (HTS) in Idlib Mourn Al Qaeda's Zawahiri (syrianews.cc) NATO-sponsored Al Qaeda in northern Syria (HTS) and its affiliated terrorists mourned the alleged killing of the head of Al Qaeda Organization Ayman Zawahiri on their social media accounts widely circulated among their members. NATO member state Turkey insists that Al …

TeleSUR (2022-08-04). EU Economy Grows for Second Quarter, Recession Fears Linger. telesurenglish.net The eurozone's GDP increased by 0.7 percent, while the European Union's GDP grew 0.6 percent in the second quarter of 2022, according to a preliminary flash estimate published by Europe's statistics office Eurostat. | RELATED: | Despite the growth achieved in the second quarter, some experts believe that the triple pressure of the energy crisis, high inflation and tightening of monetary policy may plunge Europe into a…

TeleSUR (2022-08-04). Italy: 17-Bln-euro Aid Package to Combat Inflation, Drought. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi announced an aid package worth an estimated 17 billion euros (17.3 billion U.S. dollars) to combat surging inflation and drought. | RELATED: | As head of a caretaker government, Draghi announced that the Council of Ministers had just approved the latest aid package at his first press briefing after his official resignation as prime minister on July 21. He agreed to stay on as hea…

WSWS (2022-08-04). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Aviation workers including cabin crew and pilots continue fight over pay and conditions throughout Europe, in Spain, Belgium, Holland and Portugal; pensioners arrested as protests continue in Iran as food inflation hits 82 percent, driving many to suicide; public sector strike continues in Lebanon as poverty levels hit 74 percent; protests in Gaza against cost-of-living crisis with electricity supplies running short, undrinkable tap water and collapsing health care; Nigerian university and college workers' strike continues over pay and to demand resources to "save" education; four shot dead by police in South Afr…

Infobrics (2022-08-04). BRICS Expansion: Five New Members in 2023. infobrics.org Following Russia's announcement of Iran & Argentina's BRICS membership bids, the alliance president reveals that Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt have the same plans…

Infobrics (2022-08-04). Nigeria Not Against Joining BRICS, It Is Possible in Future. infobrics.org Nigeria is not against becoming a member of the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), Nigerian Ambassador to Russia Abdullahi Shehu said in an interview, adding that it is "quite realistic" in the future…

Infobrics (2022-08-04). French volunteer suggests Bucha tragedy was a false flag. infobrics.org Evidence points that there was no Russian participation in the Bucha incident.

____ (2022-08-04). Iranian, Russian chief negotiators discuss JCPOA in Vienna. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 04 (MNA) — At the threshold of new round of talks on removal of anti-Iranian sanctions, Iranian and Russian top negotiators, headed by Ali Bagheri Kani and Mikhail Ulyanov, discussed JCPOA in Austrian capital of Vienna on Thursday.

ProPublica (2022-08-04). U.S. Lawmakers Demand Federal Scrutiny of How US Tech got into Turkey's Drones. juancole.com By Umar Farooq | ( ProPublica ) As countries around the globe add armed drones to their arsenals, federal lawmakers are pressing the Biden administration to investigate how U.S. parts and technology ended up in what has fast become one of the most popular models on the world market: Turkey's TB2. Manufactured by …

TeleSUR, JDO (2022-08-04). Diplomáticos de Irán retomarán diálogos sobre acuerdo nuclear. telesurtv.net Delegación iraní tiene previsto viajar este miércoles a Austria y reiniciar el jueves la negociación para reactivar el PIAC.

WSWS (2022-08-04). Joy: Humanizing the lower depths. wsws.org The film follows a Nigerian woman sexually trafficked to Austria, where she works as a prostitute to support her family back home in Africa and her young daughter in Vienna.

____ (2022-08-04). Iran's Bagheri, EU's Mora hold bilateral talks in Vienna. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 04 (MNA) — Iran's top negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani and Deputy EU Foreign Policy Chief Enrique Mora held a bilateral meeting in Austrian capital of Vienna on Thursday.

____ (2022-08-04). Freight trains to Europe post increase. ecns.cn Nearly 9,000 freight trains between China and Europe were operated from January to July, a slight increase amid sporadic COVID-19 outbreaks in China in the first half of the year, national railway operator China State Railway Group said on Tuesday.

____ (2022-08-04). China, Greece vow to further deepen mutually beneficial cooperation. ecns.cn China and Greece pledged here on Wednesday to further deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and jointly work for better bilateral relations for the next years.

____ (2022-08-04). Iran's chief negotiator arrives in Vienna for talks. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 04 (MNA) — Iran's negotiating delegation, headed by chief negotiator Ali Bafgheri Kani, arrived in Austrian capital of Vienna on Thursday for the resumption of nuclear talks on the removal of anti-Iran sanctions.

_____ (2022-08-03). Most 'Fact-Checking' Organizations Facebook Uses In Ukraine Are Funded By Washington. popularresistance.org Most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the U.S. government, either through the U.S. Embassy or via the notorious National Endowment for Democracy (NED). | In light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, an information war as bitter as the ground fighting has erupted, and Meta (Facebook's official name) announced it had partnered with nine organizations to help it sort fact from fiction for Ukrainian, Russian and other Eastern European users. These nine organizations are: StopFake, VoxCheck, Fact Check Georgia, Demagog,…

_____ (2022-08-03). Outcomes in Ukraine and Russian Resilience Can be Served Up as the Perfect Scapegoat. journal-neo.org There is always a conflict between high principle and pragmatism. Embracing both is probably a wise strategy. But whether you can actually have anything both ways, or whether the outcome would mean anything if you did, remains to be seen. American policymakers, during their many attempts to isolate and antagonise Russia, should have been asking, …

_____ (2022-08-03). The Movement Sorely Misses Glen Ford. popularresistance.org It has been one year since the death of Black Agenda Report Executive Editor, Glen Ford. The turbulence of the past year has been as intense as Glen Ford's loss to the movement. President Joe Biden is facing a crisis of legitimacy. Inflation and recession loom over a flailing U.S. capitalist system. A U.S.-led imperialist war with Russia and China is closer than it has ever been and Black America is no better off with a Democrat controlling the White House. | Such conditions demand that we remember and emulate Glen Ford's tireless contributions to the Black liberation, peace, and socialist movement. Ford was a st…

Alastair Crooke (2022-08-03). The EU Has Begun its Retreat. "First Steps in Unraveling Energy and Food Sanctions on Russia" globalresearch.ca

Drago Bosnic (2022-08-03). Joe Biden's "Arms Control Talks" Offer to Russia — Genuine Move or More Hot Air? globalresearch.ca

Dave DeCamp (2022-08-03). Biden Sends Mixed Signals to Russia in Offer to Negotiate New START Replacement. globalresearch.ca

Tsvetana Paraskova (2022-08-03). EU, UK Delay Cutting Off Russia from Oil Insurance Market. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2022-08-03). Lavrov, Macron, Blinken and Africa. journal-neo.org From July 23 to 27, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited Egypt, the Republic of Congo Brazzaville, Uganda and Ethiopia. During these visits, which covered the Northern, Eastern and Central Africa, he was received by the heads of these States, Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers. The special significance of this visit was due to …

Baxter Dmitry (2022-08-03). Spain Admits Spraying Deadly Chemtrails as Part of Secret UN Program: One Month after March 2020 Covid-19 Lockdown. globalresearch.ca

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