Daily Archives: September 18, 2022

2022-09-18: News Headlines

Staff (2022-09-18). Turkey, Russia reach deal resolving nuclear plant dispute. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey and Russia had reached a deal resolving a dispute over a nuclear power plant being built at Akkuyu in southern Turkey.

Staff (2022-09-18). Syria air defense repels Israel's nighttime attack. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) — Syrian air defense forces repelled a nighttime attack by Israeli fighter jets on Saturday using Russian-made Pantsir-S1 and Buk-M2E air defense systems.

Brenda Norrell (2022-09-18). Poisonous Green: Navajoland Freight Rail Scam — Nuclear Industry leads Energy Transition. indybay.org Poisonous Green: The Navajo Nation freight rail scam follows the announcement that the atomic bomb industry is heading energy transition in the Four Corners. The United States government has long deemed the Four Corners a sacrifice zone. It remains strewn with radioactive tailings from uranium mining. Coal fired power plants on the Navajo Nation have left a trail of suffering, disease and death.

Staff (2022-09-18). Kremlin responds to Western nuclear claims. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) — The cases of when Russia will use nuclear weapons are stated in the national nuclear doctrine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday.

TeleSUR, JCM (2022-09-18). Rusia frustra ataque de tropas ucranianas en Jersón. telesurtv.net "El régimen de Kiev reanudó los ataques para crear la amenaza de una catástrofe nuclear en la planta nuclear de Zaporiyia", denuncia el Ministerio ruso de Defensa.

_____ (2022-09-18). Asian and NATO Countries Get Actively Engaged in the "Battle for the Arctic" journal-neo.org During the Cold War, Washington and Moscow fought hard for dominance in the Arctic. But then these tensions subsided in the 1990s, a period of "rapprochement between the West and Russia". The Arctic Council was even created, bringing the states of the region together and allowing them to coordinate their policies. After that, for a …

____ (2022-09-18). Shipping route launched between Quanzhou, Russian Far East. ecns.cn A Panamanian container shipcarrying 12 TEUs of cargo departed from Quanzhou City in southeast China's Fujian Province on Thursday, heading for Russian port city Vladivostok.

Anonymous103 (2022-09-17). Military Situation In Ukraine On September 17, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Russia struck the 28th Mechanised Infantry Brigade of the AFU near Nikolayev with high-precision missiles; | Russia struck the 66th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU near Kupyansk with high-precision missiles; | Russia struck the 66th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU near Kharkov with high-precision missiles; | Russia struck the 80th Airborne Assault Brigade of the AFU near Seversk with high-precision missiles; | Russia struck military assets of the AFU near Ochakov with high…

Staff (2022-09-17). Biden warns Russia against nuclear option in Ukraine. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 17 (MNA) — US President Joe Biden has warned Russia of harsh consequences should it use nuclear or chemical weapons in Ukraine.

Alexander Rubinstein (2022-09-17). Zelensky and NATO plan to transform post-war Ukraine into 'a big Israel'. thegrayzone.com The NATO-backed Atlantic Council has proposed apartheid Israel as a blueprint for a hyper-militarized Ukraine. The paper was authored by Obama's former ambassador to Tel Aviv, now an Israeli spy-tech consultant. Just forty days after Russia's military campaign began inside Ukraine, Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky told reporters that in the future, his country would be like "a big Israel." The following day, one of Israel's top promoters in the Democratic Party published an op-ed in NATO's official think tank exploring …

Charles Pierce (2022-09-17). Ukraine War, Divided Left: "Social Patriots" and the "Anti-Imperialism of Fools"! covertactionmagazine.com Since Russia's military operation commenced on February 24, the socialist left has been divided in its response to the armed conflict in Ukraine. On one side are those who align with the U.S., NATO and the Ukrainian state in denouncing Russia as the principal villain. In opposition are those who view the conflict as the outcome …

Anonymous103 (2022-09-17). Kiev Begs For ATACMS Ballistic Missiles. southfront.org The Kiev regime continues to beg its Western allies for modern weapons, turning the war in Ukraine into the global one. To approach Ukraine's victory in the war against Russia, Ukraine needs long-range missiles, said adviser to the head of Zelensky's Office Podolyak. | Moscow has already warned that the delivery of longer-range missiles by the United States to Ukraine will make Washington a party to the conflict. In the event of the start of deliveries of longer-range missiles to Ukraine…

Anonymous103 (2022-09-17). SCO Grows While Russia, China Boost Ties In Response To US policies in Ukraine, Taiwan. southfront.org Click to see full-size imageBoth Russia and China see the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit as a major indicator of unity and defiance in the face of threats coming from the US-led political West. | Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst | On Thursday, September 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping held a much anticipated bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Uzbekistan's Samarkand. Th…

Anonymous103 (2022-09-17). Military Situation In Syria on September 17, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org On September 17, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 3 times: 1 in Latakia province, 2 in Idlib province; | On September 16, SDF artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces near Azaz town; | On September 17, artillery of Turkish-backed forces shelled SDF positions in the Tal Rafaat area; | On September 17, Israeli forces attacked Damascus airport and countryside. Five SAA servicemen were killed. | <...

_____ (2022-09-17). US Leaders Moralize About Alleged Human Rights Abuses In Russia And China To Justify Proxy Wars. popularresistance.org Jonny, a pseudonym for a 45-year-old man currently being held in pretrial detention in Miami's Federal Detention Center (FDC Miami), believes that prison authorities are trying to kill him. Maria, Jonny's partner of three years, tells me in a series of interviews translated by her teenage daughter that she is also concerned for his life, given FDC Miami's cruel mismanagement of his grave medical condition. | As a pretrial detainee, Jonny's innocent until proven guilty and protected by the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, but you wouldn't know this from the inhumane treatment he receives at the…

WSWS (2022-09-17). IG Metall union preparing real wage reductions in German contract negotiations. wsws.org The contract negotiations for around 3.8 million workers in the metal and electrical industries will decide how much the costs of the war against Russia and the massive rearmament programme will be pushed onto the backs of the working class.

Anonymous669 (2022-09-17). Russian Airstrikes Hit HTS Positions In Syria's Greater Idlib Again (Videos). southfront.org A Russian Su-24 strike aircraft in the sky over the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. Photo: Dmitriy Vinogradov / RIA Novosti | On September 17, a new wave of Russian airstrikes targeted the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib, which is occupied by al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and several other terrorist groups. | The airstrikes, which were reportedly carried out by two Su-24M and two Su-34 fighter bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces, hit positions of HTS in…

Editor (2022-09-17). Chomsky and Ellsberg on the Death of Gorbachev (video). scheerpost.com By Paul Jay / theAnalysis.news Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg discuss the significance of the life of Mikhail Gorbachev and what the deconstruction of the Soviet Union means for today's world. Noam and Daniel join Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news. _______________________________________________ 00: 00 Introduction 01: 09 End of the Soviet Union and the Role of Gorbachev …

TeleSUR, hvh, DRL (2022-09-17). Cumbre de la OCS en Uzbekistán concluye con firma de acuerdos. telesurtv.net El presidente ruso, Vladímir Putin, afirmó que "es cada vez más claro el creciente papel de nuevos centros de poder".

TeleSUR, jaa, MER (2022-09-17). Rusia ofrece 300.000 toneladas de fertilizante a países en desarrollo. telesurtv.net El mandatario cuestionó el anuncio de la Comisión Europea de levantar sanciones sobre fertilizantes rusos para beneficiar solo a países de la UE.

Infobrics (2022-09-16). Russian, Chinese Energy Companies to Build Hydrogen Plant on Sakhalin. infobrics.org The export branch of Russian nuclear power company Rosatom, Rusatom Overseas, and China's Energy Engineering Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding, which paves the way for cooperation on a pilot project of building a hydrogen plant on Sakhalin Island…

Infobrics (2022-09-16). India unlikely to be coerced by G7 to enforce price cap on Russian oil. infobrics.org Ursula von der Leyen says anti-Russia sanctions "are here to stay" despite European crisis…

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