(2021-08-06). US Peace Groups Call for Biden and Congress to Adopt 'No First Use of Nuclear Weapons' Policy. globalresearch.ca The U.S. "has …
(2021-08-06). 76 years since Hiroshima bombing: sign the nuclear weapons prohibition treaty. greenleft.org.au Peace groups have used the 76 year anniversary of the United States' bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan to demand the federal government sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Kerry Smith reports.
(2021-08-06). Eastern express: NATO's new command in Germany nears readiness. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO's Joint Support and Enabling Command in Germany is a sister initiative with the Allied Joint Force Command in Norfolk, Virginia. In language not heard since the depth of the Cold War, both commands are openly described as executing the prompt delivery of troops and military equipment from, respectively, the U.S. across the Atlantic to Europe …
(2021-08-06). Mapping Faultlines: 76 years after Hiroshima, nuclear threat still looms large. peoplesdispatch.org 76 years after Hiroshima, humanity still faces the threat of nuclear annihilation. Treaties which reduced the threat have expired mainly due to the the intransigence of the US. Prabir Purkayastha looks at these issues…
(2021-08-06). August 6, 9, 1945: Who Ordered the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-06). Monday 8/9: Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki: The Existential Threats of Nuclear War & Climate Crisis. indybay.org Online rally…
(2021-08-06). 76 Years After Hiroshima Bombing, Fresh Call for End to All Nuclear Weapons. commondreams.org There is an urgent need for action to protect the vote and our democracy, and it's time that our leaders started acting like they understand this.
(2021-08-06). Any Delay to Save Democracy Is a Loser's Game. commondreams.org "Nuclear weapons are the ultimate human violence," said Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui. "If civil society decides to live without them, the door to a nuclear-weapon-free world will open wide."
(2021-08-06). Nuclear Weapons Still a Clear and Present Danger 76 Years After Hiroshima. commondreams.org "Choosing a FERC nominee that will reject new fossil fuel development would be a strong sign that Biden intends to take our climate crisis seriously."
(2021-08-06). Friday 8/6: Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki: Existential Threats of Nuclear War & Climate Crisis. indybay.org Virtual rally…
(2021-08-06). Polish armed forces: Pentagon proxy force on borders of Belarus, Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The commander of V Corps spoke of U.S.-Polish military cooperation in the context of "NATO allies…deterring aggression in the region." V Corps strengthens bond between US and Poland during welcome ceremony The U.S. Army's Fifth Corps held a welcome ceremony for Maj. Gen. Adam Joks, Deputy Commanding General of Interoperability, and Brig. Gen. Matthew Van …
(2021-08-06). Georgia: and now onto the active phase, war. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Just in time for the thirteenth anniversary of Georgia's invasion of South Ossetia and war with Russia two days from now. Agile Spirit 2021 is over The official closing ceremony of the jubilee Agile Spirit was held after the demonstration training. The President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili [queen of the 2003 "Rose Revolution"], the Prime …
(2021-08-06). U.S. envoy to Russia: occupier country must leave the territories of Georgia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The first thing Russia should do is withdraw troops from Georgian territory — US Ambassador responds to Russia's statement The US ambassador responds to Russia's statement . According to Kelly Degnan, if Moscow wants to restore relations with Georgia, the occupier country must leave the territories of Georgia. She offered to use the Geneva format …
(2021-08-06). Finis to the Grand Fool's Errand…or to All Of Us? counterpunch.org Our long-term objective is to include China in the international framework of cooperation which we are attempting to build among the key nations of the world. The global dispersal of power precludes the possibility of either a Pax Americana or a world ordered through a Soviet-American condominium. But we believe we can attain national security in a world of diversity in part by cultivating good relations with the newly emerging countries, none of which is more important than China.
(2021-08-06). U.S. envoy to Ukraine: we will launch activities to drive Russia from Crimea. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Kvien, who has been in Ukraine since 2019 in various capacities, is — aptly enough — a graduate of the U.S. Army War College. The Crimea Platform initiative, which is to hold its first conference on August 23, is transparently designed to drive Russia out of Crimea; including expelling the Russian Black Sea Fleet from …
(2021-08-06). Mythmaking and the Atomic Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. counterpunch.org Truman and his advisors thus fell under the spell of what the renowned American historian William Appleman Williams has called a "vision of omnipotence". They convinced themselves that the new weapon would enable them to force their will on the Soviet Union. The atomic bomb was "a hammer", as Truman himself put it, that he would wave over the heads of "those boys in the Kremlin".
(2021-08-05). "They Killed Us from the Inside": U.N. Inquiry Demanded into Officials' Culpability in Beirut Blast. democracynow.org 
One year after the Beirut port explosion, a new Human Rights Watch report implicates senior Lebanese officials in the disaster that killed 218 people, wounded 7,000 others and destroyed vast swaths of the city. The blast on August 4, 2020, was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history. It resulted from the detonation of hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate, which had been sitting in a hangar at the port for years while multiple government officials who knew about the highly explosive chemicals did nothing. "We didn't find any Lebanese official who took any responsibility for securing the port and remov…
(2021-08-05). What Message do Repeatedly Downed Israeli Missiles in Syria Send to Tel-Aviv and Washington? sputniknews.com Three consequent announcements made on 20, 22, and 25 July by the Russian Ministry of Defence about the successful interception of Israeli missiles in Syrian air space have prompted a heated debate among Mideast and Western observers. Why have the briefings of the Russian Centre for Reconciliation produced so much fuss?
(2021-08-05). Syrian Service Members Ambushed In Eastern Daraa As Talks Between Authorities & Rebels Face Setback. southfront.org 
Illustrative image. | Early on August 5, unidentified gunmen ambushed a car carrying service members of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the eastern countryside of Daraa, where former rebels have been taking a stand against Syrian authorities. | The gunmen targeted the car with machine guns as it was passing on a road between the town of Izraa and the governorate of al-Suwayda. The area is controlled by the Russian-backed 8th Brigade, a unit of the SAA's 5th Corps that was especially formed in 2018 for former…
(2021-08-05). Greater Idlib: Syrian Army Snipers Hunt Down Militants As Russian Warplanes Resume Strikes (Videos, Photos). southfront.org 
A Russian Su-24 strike aircraft in the sky over the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. Photo: Dmitriy Vinogradov / RIA Novosti | On August 5, the Russian Aerospace Forces resumed its combat operations against militants in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib. | A series of Russian airstrikes targeted militants' positions around the town of al-Bara in the southern Idlib countryside as well as in the surroundings of the town of Kabani in the northern countryside of Lattakia. | Al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at T…
(2021-08-05). Does Renewed fighting in Syria's Deraa, Birthplace of the Revolution, Show Russia's Weakness? juancole.com Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) — Russia is making an effort to prevent wide-scale hostilities in Syria's southern province of Deraa. The Kremlin reportedly aims to increase its influence in the war-torn country, but recent clashes in Deraa al-Balad — a southern district of Deraa city — between the Moscow-backed Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and …
(2021-08-05). Washington's Terrorist Friends: Prominent Americans Continue to Support a Murderous Cult. strategic-culture.org MEK is a curious hybrid creature that pretends to be an alternative government option for Iran even though it is despised by nearly all Iranians. | One might ask if Washington's obsession with terrorism includes supporting radical armed groups as long as they are politically useful in attacking countries that the US regards as enemies? It is widely known that the American CIA worked with Saudi Arabia to create al-Qaeda to attack the Russians in Afghanistan and the same my-enemy's-enemy thinking appears to drive the current relationships with radical groups in Syria. | Given the fact that Iran continues to be the…
(2021-08-05). As the U.S. Withdraws From Afghanistan, China Forges Ties With the Taliban. towardfreedom.org Peace is not on the horizon for Afghanistan. The country remains caught in the ambitions of regional and global powers, wedged in the new "great game" that involves a contest between India and Pakistan, as well as the United States versus China, Russia, and Iran.
(2021-08-05). The Extended Afghanistan Peace Troika: US, Russia, China, Pakistan. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-05). Answering the Armies of the Cheated. tomdispatch.com "The thirty-year interregnum of U.S. global hegemony," writes David Bromwich in the journal Raritan, "has been exposed as a fraud, a decoy, a cheat, [and] a sell." Today, he continues, "the armies of the cheated are struggling to find the word for something that happened and happened wrong." In fact, the armies of the cheated know exactly what happened, even if they haven't yet settled on precisely the right term to describe the disaster that has befallen this nation. What happened was this: shortly after the end of the Cold War, virtually the entire American foreign-policy establishment succumbed to a monumental…
(2021-08-05). Russia and Venezuela to Implement Energy Security Joint Projects. venezuelanalysis.com Russia's Rostec will provide "advanced technology" and train Venezuelan personnel to recover the country's sanctions-hit power facilities.
(2021-08-05). Security U.S. Fears of China Nuclear Expansion… Déjà Vu of Soviet Missile Gap Hype. dissidentvoice.org China is providing the equivalent scaremongering of the Soviet "missile gap" in order to sustain America's militarist-dependent capitalist economy. Media reports from the U.S. this week — regurgitated by the European press — highlighted concerns that China is embarking on a massive scale-up of underground silos for launching nuclear weapons. Hundreds of silos are alleged …
(2021-08-05). Hiroshima at 75. The Doomsday Clock and the Ongoing Threat of "Atomic Horror" globalresearch.ca These massive mushroom clouds would go on to become a symbol of the fate of humanity encapsulated in the threat of atomic horror. For all my life, I have contemplated the prospects of nuclear incineration and the aftermath that would follow if our leaders get caught up in a tragic misstep.
(2021-08-05). Hiroshima-Nagasaki: The Story They Want Us To Forget. popularresistance.org The world's first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the barren plains of the Alamogordo Bombing Range, known as the Jornada del Muerto (day of the dead). | US President Harry Truman ordered the first atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Days later (August 9) Washington dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki. | Official figures of those killed by the atomic bombs is well over 150,000 from the two cities. More than 100,000 were injured with most likely dying. Then over the y…
(2021-08-05). Hiroshima memorial: UN chief laments slow progress on nuclear-free goal. news.un.org Underlining UN commitment to achieving a nuclear-free world, Secretary-General António Guterres has urged governments to strengthen efforts to make this goal a reality.
(2021-08-05). Chinese Investors Wage Union Busting War On Namibian MUN Mine Workers. indybay.org Chinese investors both state and private in Namibia are engaging in a massive union busting campaign against the Mineworkers Union Of Namibia breaking strikes with the use of Chinese nationals and also firing union leaders including the 9 MUN union executive members of the Rossing Mine which is owned by the Chinese National Nuclear Corporation CNNC.
(2021-08-05). International Red Aid 1922—1937: Uniting to defend class war prisoners. mronline.org 
The initiative came from Polish Communists seeking to aid compatriots jailed or forced into exile in the Soviet republic.
(2021-08-05). U.S. closure of Fort Detrick lab not coincidental: expert. ecns.cn The sudden shutdown of the Fort Detrick lab in the United States and the pneumonia outbreak that followed are far from coincidental and should be studied in the scope of the ongoing investigation into the pandemic's origins, a Russian political observer has said.
(2021-08-05). Robert Smith's Vista Equity Is Considering Selling One Of His Portfolio Companies, Tibco, For $7 Billion. moguldom.com Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners, owned by Black billionaire Robert Smith, is considering selling its cloud computing data analytics company, Tibco Software, for as much as $7 billion, according to reports. Vista has more than $77 billion in assets under management and is focused on investments in software, data and tech-enabled service companies. It …
(2021-08-05). U.S. destroyer completes anti-missile, anti-submarine, anti-Russian drills. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com USS Roosevelt Completes 2nd FDNF-E Patrol The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt (DDG 80) returned to Naval Station Rota, Spain, following the completion of its second Forward-Deployed Naval Forces-Europe (FDNF-E) patrol in the U.S. Sixth Fleet area of operations, Aug. 3, 2021. In May, Roosevelt participated in At-Sea Demo/Formidable Shield 2021, a NATO-led Integrated …
(2021-08-05). The Murder of Anna Politkovskaya Is Still Not Solved. thenation.com The Murder of Anna Politkovskaya Is Still Not Solved…
(2021-08-05). Ukraine's Zelensky tells Russian speakers to leave country. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com What would the UN, OSCE, EU and other international and multinational bodies say if similar statements (see last paragraph in particular) were made about, say, Spanish speakers in the U.S., French speakers in Canada and Walloon speakers in Belgium? "Russia or Ukraine": It's important for occupied Donbas residents to make a choice, Zelensky says "I …
(2021-08-05). Black Sea Becoming Dangerous Confrontation Zone Because of NATO Drills, Russian Diplomat Says. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Black Sea is turning into a zone of dangerous military confrontation, as NATO exercises in the region provoke new conflicts, Russian Foreign Ministry's Fourth European Department Director Yuri Pilipson said.
(2021-08-05). Contra Belarus, Russia: Polish, Ukrainian commanders-in-chief meet. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Chiefs of General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine and Poland discuss further cooperation Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny has discussed with his Polish counterpart Rajmund Andrzejczak the implementation of agreements on strengthening the defense capability of the two states and ensuring regional stability and security. **** [C]ooperation between Ukraine and …
