(2021-10-02). Norway: U.S. Marine Corps outpost on Russia's border. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The U.S. Marine Corps has been present in Norway since the beginning of the Cold War, when Norway was the only NATO member bordering Russia. Earlier this year over 1,000 U.S. Marines were deployed to Norway for anti-Russian Arctic warfare training. ==== II MEF Intelligence Leaders Welcome Norwegian Counterparts As a critical and valued ally …
(2021-10-02). AUKUS in breach of NPT, damaging regional security: EU MP. en.mehrnews.com Referring to US-Australia nuclear submarine agreement, Clare Daly says providing weapons-grade enriched uranium to a non-nuclear weapon state to power military submarines is a provocative action in a highly contested region.
(2021-10-02). Bulgaria to dump old Russian aircraft, move fully to NATO interoperable warplanes. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Bulgaria warns Russia it could cancel MiG-29 service deal Bulgaria might cancel a $165 million contract with Russia for maintenance and repair services of the country's Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter jets, according to local media. On September 24, 2021, Monitor.bg reported that the Bulgarian military department intends to finally terminate the contract with Russia, the reason …
(2021-10-02). Inside The CIA Plot To Kidnap, Kill Julian Assange. popularresistance.org Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News discusses his team's reporting on the CIA plot to surveil, kidnap, and even kill Assange — all overseen by Michael Pompeo. In response, Pompeo has called for the prosecution of all the sources involved. | The story builds on previous disclosures including a May 2020 exposé by The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal, which revealed that the CIA was working with Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson and the Spanish security firm UC Global to target and surveil Assange in London's Ecuadorian embassy. | Isikoff and Aaron Maté also debate Russia's role in the Assange controversy, particularly…
(2021-10-02). Submission in Czarist Russia. dissidentvoice.org In Daniel Rancour-Laferriere's ambitious psychohistorical study, The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering, the author, a psychoanalytically-oriented Russian studies scholar, presents an overarching thesis: that Russian character was long grounded in masochistic tendencies. Scholars have long recognized that folktales as well as popular literature often express recurring psychological themes specific to …
(2021-10-02). Targeting Assange: Yahoo Deep State Revelations. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | Written by Steve Brown. | Article referenced: First reaction to this story: Why did Verizon (owns yahoo) — a super Deep State shill for the CIA — and three miserable establishment Russiagate propagandists (especially Isikoff) feature this story? With a little thought and help from an 'unnamed source' I posted this Sept 27: | Biden regime makes a big deal about extraditing Assange but typical of the many-headed hydra, source…
(2021-10-02). Central Syria: 21 ISIS Terrorists Killed Or Wounded In New Wave Of Russian Airstrikes. southfront.org 
2717545 10/10/2015 Russian Su-25 attack aircraft take off from the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. Dmitriy Vinogradov/RIA Novosti | On October 1 and 2, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) carried out more than 40 airstrikes on Syria's central region where ISIS terrorists are waging an insurgency against Syrian government forces. | The airstrikes targeted hideouts of the terrorist group's cells in the Hama-Aleppo-Raqqa triangle, the eastern Homs countryside and the western countryside of Deir Ezzor.
(2021-10-01). China Urges US To Join Talks On Preventing Arms Race In Outer Space. popularresistance.org "After the end of the Cold War, and especially in the past two decades, the US has tried its best to get rid of its international obligations, refused to be bound by new treaties and long resisted multilateral negotiations on PAROS [the 1967 UN resolution on the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space]," Li said. | "To put it bluntly, the US wants to dominate outer space." | Beijing and Moscow first unveiled the Treaty on the Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space and of the Threat or Use of Force against Outer Space Objects in 2008, but the move was greeted with scepticism in Washington, which f…
(2021-10-01). North Korea Tests Brand-New Anti-Aircraft Missile In Second Weapons Test Within A Week. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On September 30th, North Korea test-fired a newly developed anti-aircraft missile in what has become a regular occurrence in past weeks. | It was North Korea's second known weapons test in the same week after launching a previously unseen hypersonic missile on September 26th. | The tests highlighted how North Korea has been steadily developing increasingly sophisticated weapons, raising the stakes for efforts to press it to give up its nuclear and missile programmes in return for U.S. s…
(2021-10-01). Hungry for Change? With Sixty Million Americans Going Hungry, the United States Needs to Make Peace Not War. strategic-culture.org The United States cannot afford to maintain a war economy. Such a hyper-militarized economy is inciting dangerous tensions between nuclear powers, as well as eroding the very material foundations of American society. | Food hunger in the United States has reached shocking levels with new Rising food poverty in the U.S. has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic as millions of workers are laid off. A…
(2021-10-01). Humanity's Call to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons. zcomm.org Citizens around the world are calling on their governments to ratify the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty—and the United States has a leading role to play. Nuclear weapons have no place in our future…
(2021-10-01). Video: War on Syria: Greater Idlib Moving Towards a Cliff after Failed Putin Erdogan Meeting. globalresearch.ca
(2021-10-01). Russia Resumes Airstrikes On Greater Idlib, Turkey Places Its Troops In The Region On High-Alert (Photos). southfront.org 
A Russian Su-24 strike aircraft in the sky over the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. Photo: Dmitriy Vinogradov / RIA Novosti | On October 1, the Russian Aerospace Forces resumed their airstrikes on the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib where several terrorist groups are present and active. | Russian warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on the outskirts of the town of al-Zeyarah in the al-Ghab Plains in the northwestern countryside of Hama. The area is a known stronghold of al-Qaeda-affiliated…
(2021-10-01). Latvia Estimates It Could Run Out Of Gas By January. southfront.org 
Illustrative ImageLithuania might have to turn to Belarus for energy this winter despite blockading energy sources. | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | The Latvian gas transmission system operator AS Conexus Baltic Grid Gas warned that reserves in the Inƒçukalns underground storage facility, the largest in the Baltic States, may run out halfway through the heating season. With this in mind, the Baltic countries will probably have to look for alternative energy sources over the winter, most likely Russian or Belarussian. | Head of the Conexus Corporate Strategy division,…