Daily Archives: November 15, 2021

2021-11-15: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-11-15). NATO push for dangerous escalation along its European border with Russia. wsws.org Military tensions between Russia and NATO at two major flashpoints, the Polish-Belarusian border and the Black Sea region in Ukraine, have escalated further over the weekend. Both Ukraine and Poland have for decades been cornerstones of the US-led NATO encirclement of Russia following the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union.

_____ (2021-11-15). Censorship Is The Last Gasp Of The Liberal Class. popularresistance.org On November 8, 2021, Twitter locked my account for a period of one day for responding to corporate media darling and Russiagate fanatic Keith Olbermann's slanderous reply to journalist Wyatt Reed's coverage of the Nicaraguan election. The flagged tweet simply restated Olbermann's question, replacing "whore for a dictator" with "whoring for the American oligarchy." Twitter demanded that I delete the tweet or send a time-consuming, lengthy appeal with no assurances as to if or when my sentence in "Twitter jail" would end. This prompted me to delete the tweet and wait for the 12-hour suspension to end. Keith Olberma…

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-15). Wars of the Soviet Succession: NATO accuses Russia of aggression against Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, targets Belarus, Balkans. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba Stoltenberg: In recent weeks, we have seen large and unusual concentrations of Russian forces close to Ukraine's borders. Similar to Russia's build-up in Crimea and the Black Sea region earlier this year. NATO remains vigilant. We do …

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-15). Hybrid attack on Belarus, Russia: analyst says NATO's wars caused refugee crisis. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Opinion: West is using refugees for a hybrid attack on Belarus, Russia The West is using the refugee factor as an instrument of a hybrid attack on Belarus and Russia, Russian political scientist, Associate Professor Sergei Karnaukhov told the Belarus 1 TV channel….. "We see the Western countries going to extraordinary lengths to make the …

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-15). NATO says its jets intercepted Russian nuclear-capable bombers over Norwegian, North Seas. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO jets intercept Russian nuclear-capable bombers over the Norwegian and North Seas On Friday 12 November 2021, fighter aircraft from Belgium, Norway, the UK were scrambled to respond to Russian aircraft near allied airspace. In the High North, Norwegian F-16s took to the sky after a Norwegian P-3C aircraft identified a group of Russian military …

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…

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 …

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 …

_____ (2021-11-14). Impact Of Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty On Nuclear Weapons Business. popularresistance.org A new report released by ICAN and PAX today, has found that the number of banks, pension funds, asset managers and insurance companies investing in the production of nuclear weapons has gone down in 2021, and shows significant drops in the shareholder values of investments in the 25 companies involved in nuclear weapon production around the world. There is also an early but visible impact of the entry into force of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), with many institutions citing the treaty's entry into force and the risk of a negative public perception as reasons for the change in their i…

_____ (2021-11-14). New Report Shows Impact Of Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty On Nuclear Weapons Business. popularresistance.org A new report released by ICAN and PAX today, has found that the number of banks, pension funds, asset managers and insurance companies investing in the production of nuclear weapons has gone down in 2021, and shows significant drops in the shareholder values of investments in the 25 companies involved in nuclear weapon production around the world. There is also an early but visible impact of the entry into force of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), with many institutions citing the treaty's entry into force and the risk of a negative public perception as reasons for the change in their i…

_____ (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…

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