Leonard Eiger, Glen Milner, Ground Zero Center. (2024-01-31). Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Is No Utopian Dream. popularresistance.org The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) went into effect three years ago (on January 22, 2021) making nuclear weapons illegal under international law for the first time in history. | The TPNW is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons, with the goal of leading towards their total elimination. It specifically prohibits countries from producing, testing, acquiring, possessing or stockpiling nuclear weapons. It also outlaws the transfer of the weapons and forbids signatories from allowing any nuclear explosive device to be stationed, installed or…

Binoy Kampmark (2024-01-31). Mesmeric Weapons: South Africa's Nuclear Program. counterpunch.org The lessons of the South African nuclear weapons program are deep, profound and largely ignored by non-proliferation dogmatists. They show that a regime, even one subject to sanctions and exiled to the diplomatic cold room, can still show aptitude and resourcefulness in creating such murderous weapons. The white regime of Apartheid South Africa was marginalised, the globe's

Global Research News (2024-01-31). Selected Articles: US-NATO Largest War Exercise Against Russia. "It Will Also be Nuclear". Italy on the Front Line. Manlio Dinucci. globalresearch.ca By US Army General Christopher Cavoli, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, announced that the largest NATO …

geo.tv (2024-01-31). North Korea performs missile drills amid regional tensions. geo.tv KCNA added that cruise missile launched by Kim Jong-un forces was strategic, referring to nuclear-capable weapons…

Dave DeCamp (2024-01-31). US to Deploy Nukes in the UK for the First Time in 15 Years. news.antiwar.com The US will deploy nuclear weapons to the UK for the first time in 15 years in a move Russia will view as a provocation, The Telegraph reported, citing Pentagon documents. Pentagon procurement contracts show that the US is planning to station B61-12 nuclear warheads at RAF Lakenheath, a base in Suffolk, England. The US …

WSWS (2024-01-31). Biden gives green light for retaliation against Iran. wsws.org US imperialism is rapidly and recklessly plunging the Middle East into a region-wide war that together with the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine threatens to engulf the world.

tvbrics (2024-01-31). Sergey Lavrov: BRICS is capable of shaping the global agenda. tvbrics.com The Russian Foreign Minister emphasised that cooperation in the group is based on the principles of mutual respect…

tvbrics (2024-01-31). Participants of international session at Pushkin State Russian Language Institute discussed cultural and humanitarian co-operation between Russia and Asian countries. tvbrics.com The event outlined a number of problems in the sphere of education and culture in Asian countries and discussed ways to solve them…

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2024-01-31). 'Swarming' the U.S. in West Asia, until it folds. mronline.org The U.S. is so deeply mired in an unwinnable battle from the Levant to the Persian Gulf that only its adversaries in China, Russia, and Iran can bail it out.

infobrics (2024-01-31). Russia Sees Its Natural Gas Exports Recovering on Higher Shipments to China. infobrics.org Pipeline shipments to rise 18% to 108 billion cubic meters…

Robert Koehler (2024-01-30). The Need for Understanding Never Stops. counterpunch.org I inhale the big, do-nothing shrug that always follows the annual posting, by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, of its global metaphor for Armageddon. For the second year in a row, the Doomsday Clock has been set — by scientists analyzing the dangers faced by Planet Earth due to human exploitation and nuclear-armed geopolitics — at

RT (2024-01-30). US and UK to blame for Ukraine conflict — former Czech president. pressenza.com The conflict between Moscow and Kiev really began in 2008 when NATO agreed to eventually admit Ukraine, Vaclav Klaus said | The ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev is the result of a series of mistakes made by the US and its NATO allies, former Czech President Vaclav Klaus, told the World Economic Forum in Davos in a speech published on Friday. | The West's blatant disregard for the geopolitical context led to this "tragic historic event" that "could and should have been avoided," Klaus, who led the Czech Republic between 2003 and 2013, said."This war started on 4 April 2008," Klaus said, referring to a NATO…

tvbrics (2024-01-30). Russian and Chinese companies concluded more than 50 deals in Shenyang. tvbrics.com The city hosted a conference on Sino-Russian trade and economic co-operation…

newarab (2024-01-30). Pelosi faces backlash after linking Gaza activists to Russia. newarab.com A Her comments were dismissed as "unsub…

tvbrics (2024-01-30). Russia's BRICS Sherpa names the priority areas of cooperation in the year of Russia's chairmanship in the group. tvbrics.com One of them is harmonious joining of new members to the common work…

albawaba (2024-01-30). Nancy Pelosi sparks controversy by telling pro-Palestine protesters to 'go back to China'. albawaba.com Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was caught on camera yelling at a group of pro-Palestine protesters who gathered outside her residence in San Francisco on Monday.The incident occurred amid growing criticism of Pelosi's remarks on Sunday, when she suggested that some of the antiwar demonstrations were linked to Russia and called for an FBI investigation.In a video clip that went viral on social media, Pelosi can be seen confronting the protesters on her driveway, demanding that they leave the area immediately. Her frustration reached a boiling point when she shouted a racial statement, "GET OUT OF MY WAY!.. GO B…

European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection, Humanitarian Aid Operations (2024-01-30). Philippines: Western North Pacific | 2023 Tropical cyclone season | DG ECHO Daily Map – 29/01/2024. reliefweb.int Countries: Cambodia, China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Guam, Lao People's Democratic Republic (the), Micronesia (Federated States of), Northern Mariana Islands (The United States of America), Palau, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Thailand, Viet Nam | Source: European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations | Please refer to the attached Map. | The tropical cyclone season across the Western North Pacific basin lasts throughout the whole year, averaging nearly 27 typhoons/tropical storms per year during the reference perio…

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WSWS (2024-01-30). Pelosi accuses anti-genocide protesters of being agents of Putin. wsws.org The revival of McCarthy-style slanders by a leading Democrat testifies to the isolation and desperation of the Biden administration.