2021-08-20: News Headlines

Edward C. Corrigan (2021-08-20). The United States Does Not Learn from its Past Mistakes. dissidentvoice.org It is said that Afghanistan is the grave yard of Empires. Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, the Empire of Great Britain, the Soviet Union and now the American Empire and its NATO allies have all suffered defeat at the hands of the fiercely independent Afghans. As the World watches in disbelief, the American-backed government in …

Anonymous669 (2021-08-20). In Video: Al-Quds Brigade Fighters Uncover, Destroy ISIS Hideouts In Central Syria. southfront.org File image. | On August 20, the al-Quds Brigade, a Palestinian faction that has been supporting the Damascus government since its formation in 2013, shared a video documenting one of its recent combing operations in central Syria. | The video shows al-Quds Brigade fighters uncovering and destroying several hideouts of ISIS cells in an unspecified part of the central region. Several vehicles of the terrorist group were also destroyed. | The al-Quds Brigade, which is reportedly backed by Russia, has been operating ag…

Anonymous669 (2021-08-20). Intense Russian Airstrikes Hit Greater Idlib As Syrian Army Places Troops On High Alert (Videos, Photos). southfront.org 2712070 10/04/2015 Russian servicemen attach a Kh-25 high-precision missile to a Su-24 aircraft at the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. Dmitriy Vinogradov/RIA Novosti | On August 19, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out intense airstrikes on the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib, where several terrorist groups are active. | The airstrikes targeted the outskirts of the town of Ein Shib in the western Idlib countryside as well as the outskirts of town of Qurqnia in the northern countrysi…

Robert Fantina (2021-08-20). Diplomatic Blackmail: Biden, Iran and the Nuclear Agreement. counterpunch.org Hardly a day passes that this writer doesn't see some news article about how the government of Iran is violating the JCPOA; how U.S. officials say that 'time is running out', and how Iran is generally being demonized by the U.S. It is time, once again, for us all to take a deep breath, step

Lawrence S. Wittner, Joseph Mangano (2021-08-20). Baby Teeth Collected Six Decades Ago Will Reveal the Damage to Americans' Health Caused by U.S. Nuclear Weapons Tests. counterpunch.org In 2020, Harvard University's T. C. Chan School of Public Health began a five-year study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that will examine the connection between early life exposure to toxic metals and later-life risk of neurological disease. A collaborator with Harvard, the Radiation and Public Health Project, will analyze the relationship of

Lawrence Wittner, Joseph Mangano (2021-08-20). Children's Teeth, Collected Decades Ago, Can Show the Damage of Nuclear Testing. dissidentvoice.org Nuclear Weapon Test, Bikini Atoll, 1954 In 2020, Harvard University's T. C. Chan School of Public Health began a five-year study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that will examine the connection between early life exposure to toxic metals and later-life risk of neurological disease. A collaborator with Harvard, the Radiation and Public Health …

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-20). Zelensky: Ukraine's NATO membership would back down nuclear Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Zelensky: Being NATO nation would offer Ukraine protection from fresh Russian offensive President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that NATO membership would offer Ukraine protection from a fresh Russian offensive, The Washington Post reports, citing an interview with the head of state. **** According to the President, the ambiguity over Ukraine's NATO admittance is "a …

Anonymous103 (2021-08-20). Zelensky To Likely Renew Multimillion Dollar Business Ties With Russia After His Presidency. southfront.org Click to see full-size imagePresident Zelensky wants Ukrainians to "do what I say and not as I do". | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | Russophobia and Far Right nationalism have defined and dominated Ukrainian politics, especially since the 2014 Coup in Kiev, or more popularly known as the Maidan Revolution. Following the Maidan Revolution and the resulting removal of President Viktor Yanukovych from office, Petro Poroshenko ascended to the presidency. Poroshenko…

Anonymous103 (2021-08-20). Donbass In Deadlock As Ukrainian President Makes Indecent Remarks About Russians. southfront.org Illustrative Image Written by Uriel Araujo, researcher with a focus on international and ethnic conflicts. | The situation in Donbass seems to have become a deadlock; Ukrainian authorities in Kiev keep hampering peace negotiations and hostilities go on — for example, last week the Ukrainian military moved at least nine airborne infantry fight vehicles to the disengagement line in…

Paul Antonopoulos (2021-08-20). Ukraine: Will Zelensky Renew Multimillion Dollar Business Ties with Russia after His Presidency? globalresearch.ca

Hans Stehling (2021-08-19). A Mideast Nuclear War Spearheaded by Israel Would Make Afghanistan Seem Like a Local Conflict Between Armed Factional Groups. globalresearch.ca

teleSUR (2021-08-19). Russian FM Highlights Taliban's Call for National Dialogue. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov highlighted in Moscow the call made by the Taliban movement to start a national dialogue with other political forces in Afghanistan. | RELATED: | At a joint press conference with Libya ¥s National Unity Government ¥s Foreign Minister, Najla al Mangoush, Lavrov reiterated that his country would promote talks among Afghan political groups and will seek to…

Curtis Daly (2021-08-19). What's the story with Afghanistan? thecanary.co There is a lot of conflicting information about Afghanistan but, as Video transcript | In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in order to prop up the existing government. However, the Soviets were met with huge backlash from resistant fighters known as the mujahidin. | The mujahidin were supported by the US as essentially a proxy war against the USSR. The mujahidin were religi…

Editor (2021-08-19). "Revelations of Carter's Former Advisor : 'Yes, the CIA entered Afghanistan before the Russians…'" (1998). mronline.org Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs that the American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahiddin in Afghanistan six months before the Soviet intervention. In this period, you were the national security advisor to President Carter. You therefore played a key role in this affair. Is this correct?>

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-19). Leading Russian official compares Ukraine to Afghanistan. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Excerpts from an interview with Secretary of Russia's Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, who has traditionally been one of the more perceptive Russian officials. [In December 2013 he said that Ukraine was Washington's payback for Syria; that the U.S. was punishing Moscow for intervening to prevent a U.S.-NATO war against Syria in the preceding months by …

Shane Quinn (2021-08-19). US Attempts to Conquer Eurasia, Control Over Afghanistan. orinocotribune.com By Shane Quinn — Aug 17, 2021 | The ex-Soviet states of the Caucasus and Central Asia have, following the early 1990s, been "all about America's energy security" according to Bill Richardson, the Clinton era diplomat and former American ambassador to the United Nations. | For seven decades, the Soviet Union's existence blocked the way to the vast fossil fuel sources of the Caucasus, Central Asia and also the Caspian Sea. This reality had been of ongoing frustration to Western strategic planners, but the Soviet collapse 30 years ago provoked jubilant scenes in Washington and London. | An oil rush ensued for m…

Tom Clifford (2021-08-19). Post-US Afghanistan: Can China Navigate a Way Through the Tombstones? counterpunch.org Beijing. Another name has been chiseled on the tombstone in the graveyard of empires. The United States of America. 2001-2021. From the swords of Alexander the Great, the British empire, the Russians before and after Lenin, and the US as the newest members of the Great Game, military powers have seen the Afghan sand swallow

Editor2 (2021-08-19). Cuba, China, Latin America and the World. orinocotribune.com By John Ross — Aug 12, 2021 | The US in Latin America is at present once again seeing a series of countries attempting to follow independent policies, corresponding to their national interests, and some with a socialist orientation, rather than subordinating themselves to the US. These countries typically reject the current US cold war against China and indeed seek win-win relations with China. The US is responding to this trend by tightening its blockade of Cuba in an attempt to strangle that country in the hope of provoking a "colour counter-revolution." This anti-Cuba US blockade is being carrying out in…

Anonymous669 (2021-08-19). Greater Idlib: Russian Airstrikes Wipe Out Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham Headquarters (Photos). southfront.org A Russian Su-24 strike aircraft in the sky over the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. Photo: Dmitriy Vinogradov / RIA Novosti | On August 19, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out several airstrikes on the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib, which is held by al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and other terrorist groups. | According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the Russian airstrikes targeted a headquarters of HTS located near the town of Ein Shib i…

Anonymous669 (2021-08-19). Turkish Drone Strike Hit SDF Military Coordination Center In Northeastern Syria (Photos). southfront.org Bayrakdar TB2 UCAV, source: ssb.gov.tr | On August 19 afternoon, a Turkish drone strike targeted a building near the town of Tell Tamer in the northern countryside of al-Hasakah in northeastern Syria. | The Hawar News Agency revealed that the Military Coordination Center of Tell Tamer Military Council, a faction of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), was located in the targeted building. The center's task was to coordinate with Russian and Syrian government forces which are situated in the area. | The Tur…

Anonymous007 (2021-08-19). Military Situation In Syria On August 19, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On August 18, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 25 times: 14 — in Idlib province, 6 — in Latakia province, 1 — in Hama province, 2 — in Aleppo province | On August 18, YPG artillery shelled Afrin city. Three people reportedly were killed | On August 18, SAA artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces in al-Barah | On August 18, clashes between SAA and former rebels were reported in Daraa c…

John Laforge (2021-08-19). UK Navy's Public Brawl over Responsibility for Nuclear Mass Destruction. counterpunch.org In a rare, public dispute between British Naval officers over legal responsibility for attacks using nuclear weapons, two retired British submarine commanders have openly attacked each other's views in writing. The online confrontation opens a window to the tortured thinking inside the perpetual, high-level, planning and reparation for such attacks among nuclear armed states. The

_____ (2021-08-19). Israel's Secret Arsenal: It's Not So Secret Anymore. strategic-culture.org Israel has been allowed to get away with massive espionage directed against the U.S. and the theft of material and technology, Phil Giraldi writes. | Few Americans are aware of the fact that no U.S. government official, to include congressmen, can in any way mention or discuss Israel's nuclear arsenal, which is estimated by some observers to consist of as many as 200 tactical nuclear weapons which can be delivered on target by air, land or sea. The prohibition is spelled out in a Department of Energy "classification bulletin" graded Secret, which was issued on September 6, 2012 and bears the file number WPN-136.

Pepe Escobar (2021-08-19). How Russia-China Are Stage-managing the Taliban. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2021-08-19). Venezuela & Russia Examine Bilateral & International Agenda, COVID-19 Response (Phone Call). orinocotribune.com The Executive Vice President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov, discussed various issues of their bilateral and international agenda, the pandemic, as well as the dialogue process begun between the Bolivarian Government and the opposition, during a telephone conversation held this Wednesday, August 18. | The Russian Foreign Affairs Minister confirmed the willingness of his government to contribute to an inclusive solution to the Venezuelan conflict, respecting the principles of sovereignty and non-interference in…

teleSUR (2021-08-19). Russia Supports Withdrawal of Foreign Military From Libya. telesurenglish.net Russia's Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that his country supports the withdrawal of foreign military personnel from Libya, which was agreeded during the 5+5 Military Committee meeting in August. | RELATED: | "We confirm Russia's support for the decisions made by the 5+5 Military Committee, including the decision on the need to withdraw all foreign troops without exception from Libyan territory," he said. | Libya's Foreign…

Anonymous103 (2021-08-19). Second Russian Military Aircraft Crashed In Two Days. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On August 18, a MiG-29 fighter jet crashed in the Astrakhan region in Russia. The pilot was killed as a result of the accident during a training flight. | The information was confirmed by the press service of the Southern Military District."The aircraft crashed in a deserted area on the territory of the Ashuluk training ground. The flight was carried out without ammunition load, " the military department reported. | The reason of the crash are still unknown. A commission of the Main Command of t…

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-19). NATO air missions on Russian, Belarusian borders, in Africa, Asia, Middle East. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Interview: Transport Aircraft for the EFP Mission Air transport of personnel and equipment is a major factor for the success of the eFP [NATO's Enhanced Forward Presence] mission in Lithuania. It is the fastest means of transport available to move the soldiers from Germany to their country of deployment and back…. This enables us to …

Anonymous103 (2021-08-19). Data Contradicts Ukrainian Claims That Russia Is Cheating Europe Out Of Paid For Gas. southfront.org Nord Stream 2 pipelaying operation. Vessel Pioneering Spirit (25.02.19) close to Visby in the Baltic Sea Foto: Axel Schmidt/Nord Stream 2Ukraine continues campaign to end the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project. | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | Ukraine's gas transmission system operator hopes that the European Union will support them in their dispute with Russian state energy company Gazprom. According to Kiev, Gazprom is emptying its gas storage facilities in Europe in order to decrease tr…

Anonymous103 (2021-08-19). Russia Softens Edges In Space Scandal With U.S. southfront.org Illustrative Image | In 2018, a space scandal broke out between Washington and Moscow, following the joint mission to the International Space Station (ISS). | An air leak was detected in one of the Russian Soyuz capsules docked to the orbiting laboratory. There was a 2-millimeter puncture drilled near the toilet. | Click to see full-size image | The unveiled details indicated that the hole was likely made…

Simon Garcia (2021-08-19). Foreign Minister Arreaza meets with Russian Ambassador Sergey Mélik-Bagdasarov. mppre.gob.ve In the spaces of the Casa Amarilla, in Caracas, the Peoplep's Power Minister for Foreign Relations, Jorge Arreaza, met this Wednesday with the ambassador of the Russian Federation accredited in Venezuela, Sergey Mélik-Bagdasárov, with whom he talked about bilateral cooperation and solidarity relations that consolidate the strategic alliance between both countries. In this context, they […] | La entrada

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-19). Russia deigns to notice massive U.S.-NATO military buildup in Poland, Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Ukraine became NATO's first partner in 1991 and Poland joined NATO as a full member in 1999. It's unclear which era Moscow believes it's living in. Russia finds worrisome plans for US military buildup in Poland — Zakharova Moscow finds worrisome the US plans for increasing its military presence in Poland, where infrastructure is being …

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-19). NATO holds anti-Russian air combat drills in Norway's High North. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO Multi-Domain Exercise on Norwegian Coast Norwegian F-35 fighter aircraft operated with NATO AWACS and U.S. Air Force and Navy assets in a multi-domain exercise off the Norwegian coast on August 18, 2021. **** …The exercise trained Alliance forces to integrate, operate, and communicate in the unique conditions of the High North. **** "Rapid and …

Anonymous103 (2021-08-19). Election of Schmidt to High Representative of BiH Violates UN Security Council Protocols. southfront.org Click to see full-size imageBeijing and Moscow react strongly against Schmidt's appointment. | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | The Chinese Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) officially confirmed that Beijing does not accept the legitimacy of Christian Schmidt as the new High Representative in BiH. The move by China is not a surprise, especially if we consider that the Russian Ambassador to BiH, Igor Kalbukhov, recently stated that Moscow does not recognize the legality of Schmidt's a…

Nadezhda Azhgikhina (2021-08-19). 30 Years Ago, the Tanks Rolled Into Moscow—but We Refused to Be Silent. thenation.com 30 Years Ago, the Tanks Rolled Into Moscow—but We Refused to Be Silent…

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