Daily Archives: November 14, 2021

2021-11-14: News Headlines

Anonymous669 (2021-11-14). Syrian Army Strikes HTS Police Station In Eastern Idlib With Laser-Guided Artillery Rounds (Video). southfront.org Illustrative image. | Late on November 14, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) shelled a police station of al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in the town of Taftanaz in the eastern part of the Greater Idlib region. | The station was reportedly targeted with a number of Russian-made 2K25 Krasnopol laser-guided 155 mm artillery rounds. | According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, three of the station's personnel were wounded in the artillery strike. | #ÿ™ŸÅÿ™&Y…

Anonymous669 (2021-11-14). Russian State-Of-The-Art Electronic Warfare System Spotted In Syria's Tartus Base (Video). southfront.org The Krasukha-4 in Tartus Naval Base as seen in Sputnik's video. | The Russian military has deployed its state-of-the-art Krasukha-4 electronic warfare (EW) system in Tartus Naval Base on the Syrian coast. | The system appeared in a video from the base that was released by Sputnik on November 12. The video documents defensive drills which were recently held by Russian forces and the Syrian Arab Army at the base. | The Krasukha-4, which is based on a BAZ-6910-022 four-axle-chassis, was developed by the KRET corporation to…

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-14). Turkish state media call for intervention against infidel Russia, Serbia in the Balkans. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com From the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency. The denunciation of alleged pan-Serbism and implicit pan-Slavism is amusing coming as it does from the advocates of a 22-nation Turkic world. Albania and Hungary, both of which border Serbia (Albania through Kosovo), are slated to receive Turkish Bayraktar TB2 combat drones of the sort that have recently slaughtered …

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-14). French DM, FM threaten Russia over Ukraine's "territorial integrity" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com France has warned Moscow against harming to Ukraine's territorial integrity, after the United States shared with European allies its fears about the relocation of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine and a potential attack. France's Minister for Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian and Defense Minister Florence Parley issued an unusually blunt statement after meeting …

_____ (2021-11-14). Is Biden Looking To Reignite A Dirty War In Ukraine? popularresistance.org On October 18, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to affirm U.S. support for Ukraine's war against its eastern provinces. | Since the beginning of the conflict in 2014, the United States has provided more than $2.5 billion in security assistance to Ukraine, including $275 million in military aid that has been announced in the last ten months under President Joe Biden, a staunch champion of the war from its inception. | In early November, President Biden dispatched CIA Director William F. Burns to Moscow to warn the Kremlin about its troop buildup on the Ukra…

_____ (2021-11-13). Regime Change In Belarus — Following The Same Script Used In Syria. popularresistance.org Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, and his Russian counterpart and key ally, Vladimir Putin, have come in for much criticism from the Western media since coverage of the crisis began, with both leaders being accused of 'orchestrating' the current situation, allegedly in a bid to destabilise the EU, and also as a retaliatory measure taken by Minsk in response to EU sanctions imposed as a result of it successfully repelling a Western-backed colour revolution launched against it last August following the re-election of Lukashenko — again, the warmongers who actually created the refugee crisis in the fi…

Yves Engler (2021-11-13). Military knows it looks bad but works with neo-Nazis anyway. mronline.org The Canadian military seem willing, even eager, to work with neo-Nazis in the Ukraine in order to weaken Russia, something the U.S., NATO and Ukrainian—Canadian groups support.

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-13). Missile attacks from West: Lukashenko calls for Russian tactical missiles on Polish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian frontiers. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Lukashenko contemplates deploying Russian Iskander missiles along western, southern borders Belarus needs to deploy several squadrons of tactical missile systems Iskander in the western direction and the southern direction. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the relevant statement in an interview…. Aleksandr Lukashenko remarked that the Belarusian army has good and high-precision weapons. But it is …

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-13). Polish president, defense minister visit troops near Russian, Belarusian borders. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com President, defence minister praise Polish forces protecting Belarus border The two politicians arrived in the northeastern city of Olsztyn to meet with border guards, police officers and soldiers jointly protecting the Poland-Belarus frontier, news agencies reported. *** The president told reporters that the border forces "are responding to a hybrid attack on the Polish border, …

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-13). Cordon militaire: Estonia to erect barrier, deploy forces along border with Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Estonia intends to build barbed wire fence on border with Russia Estonia intends to build a 130 km long barbed wire fence on the border with Russia. Estonian Defense Minister Kalle Laanet stated this…. Estonia does not have a common border with Belarus, but fears that illegal migrants in Belarus may enter the country through …

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-13). Biden expresses "grave concern" to Belarus, Russia as U.S., Russian nuclear-capable bombers are in the sky. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com From Radio Poland and the Polish News Agency. The article also includes a reiteration of condemnations of Belarus and Russia by the U.S.-EU-NATO triad. By way of reminder, American B-1B and Russian Tu-160 nuclear-capable bombers are in the area, with U.S. B-2s and B-52s also frequently deployed along NATO's self-defined eastern flank from the Baltic …

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-13). Lithuania: NATO warplanes ready for action against neighboring Belarus, Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Danish F-16s continue to protect Allied airspace in the Baltic Sea Region Allied Danish F-16s have been stationed at Siauliai Air Base, Lithuania since September for Baltic Air Policing (BAP) and will continue the mission until December. Denmark has four F-16s and 56 service members from Fighter Wing Skrydstrup currently deployed in Siauliai Air Base. …

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-13). "Everything was ready. NATO troops, Americans and others": Belarus faces war after color revolution bid out of "Gene Sharp's playbook" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Lukashenko comments on last year's riots in Belarus Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko talked about last year's riots in Belarus as he gave an interview with Igor Korotchenko, a military expert and Editor-in-Chief of the Russian magazine Natsionalnaya Oborona [National Defense] on 9 November, BelTA has learned. "A year has passed since then. We are now …

_____ (2021-11-13). Mendeleyev, Witte and the Revival of Russia's Lost Revolutionary Potential of 1905. strategic-culture.org The biosphere's limits only dominate humanity's destiny when we permit the law of the jungle, rather than the law of civilization, to shape our world… as all empires demand be so. | My primary intention in that location was to demonstrate…

Staff (2021-11-13). Pulitzer-winning WaPo 'corrects' Russiagate stories. rt.com Critics have called for the revocation of a Pulitzer Prize given to the Washington Post for its "relentless" Russiagate reporting, after the newspaper made heavy corrections to two stories based on the discredited Steele dossier. | In a statement on Friday, the Washington Post

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-13). U.S. warships, surveillance aircraft continue drills in Black Sea: Russian Defense Ministry. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Naval operations of US warships, NATO spy planes moved to northwestern Black Sea US warships and NATO reconnaissance aircraft have moved their activity to northwestern Black Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday. "The Russian Defense Ministry continues to monitor the United States' military activity of an aggressive nature in the Black Sea region. …

Anonymous669 (2021-11-13). Greater Idlib: Syrian Army Shelled Militant Positions With Laser-Guided Artillery Rounds (Video, Photos). southfront.org Illustrative image. | On November 13, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) shelled the northwestern region of Greater Idlib with Russian-made 2K25 Krasnopol guided artillery rounds. | The pinpoint artillery strikes targeted militants' positions in the outskirts of the town of Taftanaz in the eastern countryside of Idlib. Al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the de-facto ruler of Greater Idlib, maintains a large presence in this area. | Syrian opposition activists shared video footage of the shelling as wel…

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-13). Ukraine's FM: "U.S. remains our No.1 strategic partner in countering Russian aggression, Kremlin's imperial ambitions" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Dmytro Kuleba, Minister for Foreign AffairsThe new Charter from the United States is key to systemically countering Russian aggression Interviewer: Two months ago, Presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Joe Biden issued a joint statement on the strategic partnership between Ukraine and the United States, which stated that the updated Charter should fix the enhanced status of …

WSWS (2021-11-13). NATO ratchets up anti-Russian offensive in Poland and Ukraine. wsws.org The US and European NATO powers are relying on far-right proxies with major fascist constituencies to push an aggressive anti-Russian campaign involving the deployment of tens of thousands of troops.

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2021-11-13). US should lift all sanctions imposed in context of JCPOA. en.mehrnews.com Russia will insist on the resumption of full implementation of the JCPOA on the Iranian nuclear program and on lifting sanctions off Iran, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.

Anonymous007 (2021-11-13). Military Situation In Syria On November 13, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On November 13, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 9 times: 2 — in Idlib province, 5 — in Aleppo province, 2 — in Hama | On November 13, the Turkish-backed forces reportedly downed a Russian reconnaissance drone near the Ain Issa village | On November 12, SAA artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces in Kafr Nuran village | On November 12, two civilians were killed by a landmine explosion in…

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-13). U.S. expands deployment of all three strategic/nuclear-capable bombers to Europe. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Bomber Task Force Europe: B-52s join long-range strategic deployment B-52 Stratofortress aircraft from Minot Air Force Base's 5th Bomb Wing join the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron's B-1B Lancers to support the Bomber Task Force Europe mission series, Nov. 10, during a targeting mission throughout the North Sea region. Air Force Global Strike Command's strategic bomber …

WSWS (2021-11-13). Ex-Australian PM denounced for calling for coexistence with China. wsws.org The AUKUS focus on the provision of nuclear-powered long-range attack submarines to Australia marked a naked shift to war preparations, Keating observed.

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