(2021-06-14). Number Of Nuclear Warheads Went Down, As 'Combat Ready' Nuclear Arsenal Grew In 2021. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The global nuclear arsenal grew in 2021, despite the overall number of nuclear warheads going down, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) The nine nuclear-armed states—the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)—together possessed an estimated 13,080 nuclear weapons at…
(2021-06-14). Who was Juliet Stuart Poyntz? Some early Cold War history in new book. peoplesworld.org 
In the world of Red Scare anti-communist narratives, few have endured as long or been as impactful as the story of Juliet Stuart Poyntz. Denise M. Lynn, associate professor of history and director of gender studies at the University of Southern Indiana, tackles her case in a newly published book from the University of Massachusetts …
(2021-06-14). Putin shows strength to Biden with largest naval drill. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has put on a show of force with the largest naval exercises in the Pacific Ocean since the end of the Cold War ahead of a meeting with the US President next week.
(2021-06-14). An Analysis of China's Borderland History Offers a Left Case for the Uyghurs. counterpunch.org This essay discusses the frontier borderlands of East Asia from the seventeenth through nineteenth century. I analyze Chinese dynastic political practice, its legacy on early twentieth and twenty-first century geopolitics, as well as the need for American progressive positioning regarding the Uyghurs. In my view, commentary on this issue needs to be firmly rooted in leftist opposition to international human rights abuses, (Pukr) while resisting Sinophobia, US militarism, and Cold War exaggeration and intervention. I highlight these borders by looking at multiple frontiers geographically and thematically. Generall…
(2021-06-14). How democrats and progressives undermined the potential of the Biden-Putin summit. nationofchange.org Progressives went along with Democratic Party leaders and corporate liberal media as they fueled the momentum toward a nuclear doomsday.
(2021-06-14). 50 Years After Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg Reveals US Weighed 1958 Nuclear Strike on China over Taiwan. democracynow.org 
As President Biden meets with leaders of NATO countries, where he is expected to continue stepping up rhetoric against China and Russia ahead of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this Wednesday in Geneva, we speak with famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about why he recently released another classified document showing that U.S. military planners in 1958 pushed for nuclear strikes on China to protect Taiwan from an invasion by communist forces. The top-secret study revealed the U.S. military pressed then-President Dwight Eisenhower to prepare a nuclear first strike against mainlan…
(2021-06-14). 50 Years After Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg Reveals U.S. Weighed 1958 Nuclear Strike on China over Taiwan. democracynow.org As President Biden meets with leaders of NATO countries, where he is expected to continue stepping up rhetoric against China and Russia ahead of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this Wednesday in Geneva, we speak with famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about why he recently released another classified document showing that U.S. military planners in 1958 pushed for nuclear strikes on China to protect Taiwan from an invasion by communist forces. The top-secret study revealed the U.S. military pressed then-President Dwight Eisenhower to prepare a nuclear first strike against mainlan…
(2021-06-14). The Elites Are Fighting a Vicious Class War All the Time. zcomm.org Interview on why working-class politics can secure universal health care, climate justice, and an end to nuclear weapons — if we're willing to fight for them…
(2021-06-14). New Zionist FM describes JCPOA as "bad agreement" en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — The new Israeli regime foreign minister Yair Lapid stressed the continuation of normalization of ties with Arab states and described the Iranian nuclear deal as a "bad agreement."
(2021-06-14). Reversing Iran's nuclear knowledge 'very hard'. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Iran's nuclear knowledge is hard to reverse and there is urgency in limiting the program.
(2021-06-14). 'We are flying blind without Iran deal': IAEA. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Emphasizing the need for the revival of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said, "We are flying blind without Iran's nuclear deal."
(2021-06-14). NATO leaders back revival of Iran's nuclear deal, JCPOA. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — Leaders of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in a statement threw their weight behind revival of Iran's 2015 nuclear deal, aka JCPOA.
(2021-06-14). IAEA Chief: Essential to Reach Iran Nuclear Deal Agreements. news.antiwar.com In his most recent interview, IAEA Chief Rafael Grossi played up concerns about the Iranian nuclear program, conceding that he has no indication of an active nuclear weapons program, His comments are reflective of other things Grossi has said lately, suggesting he is trying to shift the narrative on talks with Iran by playing into the tired fear-mongering so often put forward by his predecessors. | Grossi is in an unenviable po…
(2021-06-14). IAEA Chief: Essential to Reach Iran Nuclear Deal Agreements. news.antiwar.com In his most recent interview, IAEA Chief Rafael Grossi played up concerns about the Iranian nuclear program, conceding that he has no indication of an active nuclear weapons program, This comments are reflective of other things Grossi has said lately, suggesting he is trying to shift the narrative on talks with Iran by playing into the tired fear-mongering so often put forward by his predecessors. | Grossi is in an unenviable p…
(2021-06-14). Five Hundred Thousand New Sputnik V Vaccines Arrive in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com 
A batch of 500,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine arrived this Saturday, June 12, at the Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. | This is the eighth shipment of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine to arrive in Venezuela from Russia. The batch was flown in by a flight of the Russian airline Azur Air, and was received at the airport by the Venezuelan Minister for Health, Carlos Alvarado, and the Russian Ambassador to Venezuela, Sergey Melik Bagdasarov. | Alvarado informed that with these new doses "we already have enough vaccines in Venezuela today to vaccinate 13% of…
(2021-06-14). Targeting Russia and China Instead of the Real Enemy — Capitalist Inequality. strategic-culture.org Capitalism and its inequality is the number one enemy of today's world. That is the objective and empirical reality that is staring the world in the face, Finian Cunningham writes. | U.S. President Joe Biden and his Western allies are trying to frame global challenges in a way that ultimately avoids dealing with the most urgent problem that really matters — the explosion in inequality under the capitalist economic system. | The poverty, hardship and litany of social problems, including the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, that stem from the grotesque inequality that capitalism produces are — and shoul…
(2021-06-14). G7 summit issues threats against China and Russia. wsws.org While spending trillions on their armed forces, the world's wealthiest countries refused to do anything to seriously combat the pandemic, which is claiming millions of lives.
(2021-06-14). Military Situation In Syria On June 14, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On June 12, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 38 times: 17 — in Idlib province, 8 — in Latakia province, 9 — in Hama province, 4 — in Aleppo province | On June 13, intra clashes between Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya and Turkish-backed military police were reported in the city of Ras al-Ain | On June 13, SAA sent military reinforcements to the Badia areas to continue sweeping operations against the…
(2021-06-14). Could Putin woo Turkey from Biden and NATO? juancole.com Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) — The Turks seem to be weary of the alliance with the United States. Although it is still a NATO member, and has the second largest army in the organization, Turkey is strengthening military, political and economic ties with the US "major geopolitical rival" — Russia. According to a recent …
(2021-06-14). Meeting of Russian, US delegations on JCPOA fruitful: Ulyanov. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 14 (MNA) — The Russian Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov said the meeting of Russian and US delegations on JCPOA has been fruitful.
(2021-06-14). Secretary general: NATO won't "mirror" Russia, will exponentially outspend, surround it with battle groups. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Secretary general: NATO won't "mirror" Russia, will exponentially outspend, surround it with battle groupsRick Rozoff Just hours ahead of the NATO summit in Brussels on June 14, the military bloc's secretary general, Norway's Jens Stoltenberg, told CNBC's Hadley Gamble that NATO will continue to expand its military capabilities but will not "mirror" its arch-adversary Russia. …
(2021-06-13). Iran Nuclear Talks Resume, Germany Calls for Rapid Progress. news.antiwar.com The JCPOA talks in Vienna resumed Saturday, Germany in particular emphasized the need for rapid progress, saying all sides need flexibility and that there is no reason at this point to be playing for time. China's Ambassador Wang Qun was the most forthcoming on details of where they're at in talk…
(2021-06-13). In the Crosswind. counterpunch.org 
A still from In the Crosswind. | As Estonia prepares to mark the 30th anniversary of regaining its independence from Soviet rule Martti Helde's In the Crosswind (Risttuules) is blowing onto U.S. screens to remind viewers of an especially egregious crime against humanity: The 80th anniversary of Joseph Stalin's purported Baltic purge. Shortly after Crosswind's rapturous opening depicting Erna and her husband Heldur enjoying an Estonian idyll at their countryside home, 40,000 people are deported from the Baltic Republics as part of Stalin's alleged plot for ethnically cleansing Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as…
(2021-06-13). Ulyanov says cannot expect finalization of Vienna Talks soon. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — "We can't expect the finalization of the Vienna Talks in the days to come", Russian Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna said, referring to JCPOA revival.
(2021-06-13). Iran-Russia joint efforts to develop power plants. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — Iran and Russia are always trying to remove obstacles to improving economic and trade cooperation, one of which is the development of bilateral cooperation in the field of energy, said an Iranian official.
(2021-06-13). Venezuela gets new shipment of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 13 (MNA) — A new batch of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has arrived in Venezuela, Russian Ambassador to the Latin American country Sergei Melik-Bagdasarov said.