Daily Archives: August 14, 2021

2021-08-14: News Headlines

Anonymous103 (2021-08-14). Three Bodies Found Days After Mi-8 Helicopter Crashed Into Lake In Kamchatka, Russia. southfront.org In this photo released by the Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service, emergency personnel work near the site where a helicopter carrying tourists crashed at Kurile Lake in the Kronotsky nature reserve on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021. The helicopter carrying tourists crashed Thursday into the deep volcanic crater lake on the peninsula in Russia's far east, leaving multiple people missing. Officials said several people survived. (Russian Emergen…

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-14). FM says Russia waging war in Ukraine, defends ethnic cleansing. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Kuleba responds to Lavrov: Outrageous is war waged by Russia in eastern Ukraine ==== Ukraine's Zelensky tells Russian speakers to leave country ==== In response to the statement by Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba called outrageous the war that the Russian Federation brought to eastern Ukraine. **** …

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-13). Afghan crisis: historical background. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Excerpts from an article by Muhittin Ataman in today's Daily Sabah of Turkey. Who is responsible for the chaos in Afghanistan? Afghan territories served as a buffer zone between the British Empire and the Czarist Russia during the last quarter of the 1800s. To put it correctly, modern Afghanistan is an artificial creation of the …

Staff (2021-08-13). Headlines for August 13, 2021. democracynow.org U.S. Begins Evacuating Afghanistan Embassy Staff as Taliban Seize Kandahar and Herat, China Closes Shipping Terminal over Single COVID-19 Case; Russia Logs Record Death Toll, FDA Approves Third COVID-19 Vaccine Dose for Immunocompromised People, New Orleans, San Francisco to Require Vaccination Card or Negative Test for Indoor Venues, Four Teachers in Florida's Broward County Die of COVID-19 in One Day, Supreme Court Blocks Part of New York Eviction Moratorium Despite Worsening Pandemic, Israel to Resume Building Illegal Settlements in Occupied West Bank, Jewish American Leaders Demand AIPAC Apologize over Islamo…

TASS (2021-08-13). Cuba receives more than 41 tonnes of humanitarian aid from Russia. tass.com The shipment includes canned meat, corn flour and sunflower oil…

Anonymous765 (2021-08-13). Syria's Daraa Remains Volatile Despite Russian Efforts. southfront.org | DEAR FRIENDS. IF YOU LIKE THIS TYPE OF CONTENT, SUPPORT SOUTHFRONT WORK : | MONERO (XMR): 884Bz8UH63aYsjVdkfWfScRYWZGGNbjFL7pztqvWNSrtYT4reFSwyvkCj9KEGUtheHhhMU…

Anonymous103 (2021-08-13). Cold War 2.0: It's Liberalism VS Conservatism. southfront.org Illustrative ImageForget communism and capitalism, the new ideological conflict between Russia and the West is altogether different… | Written by Johanna Ross, a journalist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. | No-one would dispute that the decades-long Cold War between the USSR and the West was based on ideological competition. The difference in values between the two systems of capitalism and communism was too great to be reconciled. Yet having entered what is arguably a much more tense period in western…

Ron Jacobs (2021-08-13). The Myth of the Atomic Genie. counterpunch.org It was forty years ago this coming September that I was busted along with a couple thousand others protesting the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant near San Luis Obispo, California. The protests were one of the larger civil disobedience/direct action undertakings of the anti-nuclear movement in the United States. The politics of the protesters were

Brian Cloughley (2021-08-13). Why Does Israel Have a Stockpile of Nuclear Weapons? counterpunch.org The main result of the meeting between Presidents Putin and Biden in Geneva on June 16 was the joint statement that "we reaffirm the principle that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." This most welcome recognition that nuclear war would probably destroy the world is especially relevant now, because August sees the 76th anniversary

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-13). "Global threat": Ukraine to enlist "other nuclear powers" if Russia deploys nuclear arms to Crimea. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Kuleba: Russia's intention to deploy nuclear weapons in Crimea poses global threat "The issue of nuclear weapons is not a local or even a regional issue, it is a global issue, a global threat. Therefore, we will use all opportunities, including the influence of other nuclear powers on the Russian Federation, to curb such activity," …

Staff (2021-08-13). Russia Calls Alex Saab Situation Atrocious. orinocotribune.com The Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry, NT Lakhonin, drew attention to the illegal actions of Washington to extradite the special envoy of the Venezuelan Government Alex Saab to the United States. | In a

Anonymous007 (2021-08-13). Siberian Wildfires Bigger Than Sum Of Global Fires, Reached Geographic North Pole. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Smoke from massive wildfires in Russia's Siberia region has reached the geographic North Pole "for the first time in recorded history," according to NASA. | The forest blazes themselves are bigger than all the other wildfires currently burning in the world combined. | The U.S space agency published a photograph on August 7th from one of its satellites that shows the acrid blanket of smoke stretching more than 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers), from the Yakutia region in the…

_____ (2021-08-13). Sputnik V Anniversary… Russophobia Endangers Global Fight Against Pandemic. strategic-culture.org A major factor in impeding a global program of vaccination is the Russophobia (and Sinophobia) of Western governments. The fate of millions of lives is hanging in the balance because of offensive political prejudice. | One year ago this week, Sputnik V became the world's first officially registered vaccine against the Covid-19 disease. It was a remarkable achievement by the world-renowned Gamaleya institute of epidemiology and microbiology in Moscow. | The development and registration of the Russian-made vaccine took place within eight months of the first officially reported outbreak of the disease in China and…

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-13). Ukraine's new top commander meets with NATO special operations adviser. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com As the war drums beat louder near the Belarusian and Russian borders. Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny meets with adviser of NATO Representation to Ukraine Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Major General Valeriy Zaluzhny met with Major General (Retired) Michael Repass, Strategic Adviser on Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the NATO …

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-13). Karabakh, Armenia, Russia confirm new attacks from Azerbaijan. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Azerbaijan Continues Attacks on Armenia, Artsakh Azerbaijani forces continued their attacks on Armenian border positions in Yeraskh, as well as on Artsakh Defense Army positions on Thursday, the defense ministries of Armenia and Artsakh reported. Beginning at 5: 20 p.m. local time on Thursday, Azerbaijani forces opened fire on Armenian positions in the Yeraskh region of …

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-13). Romania: NATO warplanes face off against Russia in Black Sea. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Romanian Airspace Battle Managers Visit NATO Air Policing Detachment Romanian Air Force controllers, visited Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base to meet the RAF pilots and personnel they work with during NATO Quick Reaction Alert sorties controlled from the Control Reporting Centre CRYSTAL. …Their meeting gave the Romanian AF personnel a greater understanding of how the RAF …

Anonymous007 (2021-08-13). Bus Explosion Leaves 1 Dead, 19 Injured In Russia's Voronezh. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On the evening of August 12th, a civilian bus exploded in Russia's Voronezh. | A total of 19 people were injured, one was killed, the press service of the Ministry of Health said."The victims were hospitalized in Voronezh hospitals with injuries of varying severity: the condition of three is assessed by doctors as serious, and eight people are in a state of moderate severity," the report says. | Another seven received outpatient care. |

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