Daily Archives: July 2, 2022

2022-07-02: News Headlines

Talha Burki (2022-07-02). [World Report] New declaration on neglected tropical diseases endorsed. thelancet.com Signatories reaffirmed their commitment to tackling neglected tropical diseases at a summit in Kigali, pledging US$4 billion. Talha Burki reports.

Staff (2022-07-02). NATO claims on its defensive nature "Joke of the century" en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 02 (MNA) — China's Foreign Ministry Spokesman, called the claim of NATO officials about the defensive nature of this military organization the 'Joke of the century'.

____ (2022-07-02). Chinese spokesperson voices firm opposition to NATO chief's false remarks on Taiwan. ecns.cn A Chinese spokesperson on Friday voiced firm opposition to false remarks on Taiwan made by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

____ (2022-07-02). They Should Dissolve Most Of US "Higher Education" As Useless… smoothiex12.blogspot.com Including very many military "educational" and "national security" programs because they are taught by amateurs and people, including from Pentagon, who have no clue of the subject. This is what happens when much of your military history is a fantasy created in Hollywood. I always talk about it. When elites' "knowledge" of strategy is derived primarily from entertainment (I am sure some in the US State Department believe in the superpowers which Marvel movies show) this is the inevitable result. They still cannot come to grips with the fact that VSU doesn't exist anymore. The Kiev regime begins to draft 22 y…

Staff (2022-07-02). Excluding Russia from UNSC possible only if UN disbanded. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 02 (MNA) — Excluding Russia from the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is possible only if the entire organization is disbanded and created anew, Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said.

Shotgun Players (2022-07-02). Saturday 7/23: Ashby Stage Indigenous Land Acknowledgement Mural Unveiling. indybay.org Ashby Stage | 1901 Ashby Ave | Berkeley, CA 94703…

____ (2022-07-02). Mosfilm Finally Decided… smoothiex12.blogspot.com To upload a whole of Bondarchuck's masterpiece War and Peace. And here is the deal, apart from mind-boggling battle scenes throughout the whole movie, the Battle of Borodino–a horrifying mutual slaughter of Russian and French which became the bloodiest single day battle in history–the portrayal of this battle, as well as its eve is nothing which ever will be repeated in our life time and no CGI will ever be able to substitute these 40 minutes of the greatest war movie ever made. It is incomparable in conveying both the savagery and, in the same time, dark magnificence of the action. In about 8 hours of battle r…

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-07-02). Friday 7/29: Stolen Legacy: California Pioneers of African Descent. indybay.org Leidesdorff Street | Financial District…

SCOTUS ruled wrongly (2022-07-02). People pour into Federal Bldg Plaza to Express their Outrage on Day of Decision. indybay.org Protesters spilled into the streets on June 24 soon after the much anticipated Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization was announced.

Michael Petrelis (2022-07-02). Friday 7/1: Speakout: Cordileone at Mission Dolores. indybay.org Mission Dolores Basilica | 16th and Dolores Streets…

Peter Maiden (2022-07-02). Abortion Rights Rally in Fresno June 28. indybay.org People protested the anti-abortion Supreme Court decision at Fresno City Hall on Tuesday, June 28.

Benjamin Norton (2022-07-01). NATO seeks to prevent Eurasian challenger to US world dominance, admits ex CIA chief Mike Pompeo. multipolarista.com Neoconservative ex CIA Director and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo admitted NATO seeks to prevent a "Russian-Chinese axis" and "pan-Eurasian colossus." He described the new cold war as a battle over "economic hegemony" and resources, in a speech outlining Washington's imperial strategy.

Pavan Kulkarni (2022-07-01). Massacre of African refugees in Spanish colonial enclave of Melilla just ahead of NATO's Madrid Summit, a mere coincidence? peoplesdispatch.org Spain is seeking NATO protection for Melilla, where the massacre occurred, and Ceuta, its other colonial enclave on the North African coast. The NATO Summit has declared irregular migration from Africa to be a threat to the "state security" of its members…

WSWS (2022-07-01). Germany commits tens of thousands of soldiers, combat aircraft and ships in the deployment against Russia. wsws.org Germany is playing a central role in NATO's preparations for war against Russia and China.

WSWS (2022-07-01). NATO prepares for "warfighting against nuclear-armed peer-competitors" wsws.org NATO has adopted a new strategy document outlining plans to militarize the European continent, massively escalate the war with Russia, and prepare for war with China.

Dave DeCamp (2022-07-01). Pentagon Agency Wants to Send Weapons Inspectors to Ukraine. news.antiwar.com An official from the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said Thursday that US military leaders Currently, the US is relying on the word of Ukrainian officials to ensure that the weapons are being properly used and stored, although

Amarynth (2022-07-01). Letter from Faina Savenkova: The more you grow up, the more you realise that the world is unfair. thesaker.is Faina Savenkova, 13, Lugansk The more you grow up, the more you realise that the world is unfair. When the war in Donbass began eight years ago, few could have…

Contributing Writers (2022-07-01). WTF: Russia Exchanged Azov Fighters? Scott Ritter Answers Question From A Russian. marktaliano.net READ MORE:

Anonymous811 (2022-07-01). U.S. Reveals Weapon Supplies To Ukraine. Creates Special Agency. southfront.org Full of military aid containers | The conflict in Ukraine is ongoing, and American taxpayers, against their will, continue to sponsor arms shipments to Ukraine. | The United States has already committed approximately $6.8 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden Administration, including approximately $6.1 billion since February 24, the report of the U.S. Department of Defence reads. | During the recent NATO Summit in Mad…

Jeremy Kuzmarov, Steve Brown (2022-07-01). Is Russia's Bombing of the Mall in Kremanchuk Another False Atrocity Story Being Used to Justify Ongoing Military Intervention in Ukraine? covertactionmagazine.com Empty mall parking lot and existence of a munitions plant nearby raise questions about official narrative advanced in mainstream U.S. …

Anonymous765 (2022-07-01). Overview Of U.S. Military Supplies To Ukraine. southfront.org |

Dave DeCamp (2022-07-01). US Announces New $820 Million Weapons Package for Ukraine. news.antiwar.com The Biden administration on Friday The NASAMS is a joint project between the Norway-based Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace and Raytheon, the US weapons maker that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin worked for as a board member before taking his post at the Pentagon. | The NASAMS is an air defense system with a range of ov…

Editor (2022-07-01). Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster. scheerpost.com President Joe Biden delivering "stand with Ukraine" remarks on May 3 at the Lockheed Martin facility in Troy, Alabama. (White House, Adam Schultz) | By Jeffrey D. Sachs / The war in Ukraine is the culmination of a 30-year project of the American neoconservative movement. The Biden Administration is packed with the same neocons who championed the US wars of choice in Serbia (1999…

____ (2022-07-01). War not a solution to solve problems between Russia, Ukraine. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 01 (MNA) —Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmitry Kuleba said that Iran does not consider war as a suitable solution to solve problem between Russia and Ukraine.

____ (2022-07-01). Ukraine 'now has clear European perspective': EU says. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 01 (MNA) — Ukraine now has a "very clear European perspective" but the road to EU membership will take time and require hard work, the president of the EU executive told the country's parliament on Friday.

Staff (2022-07-01). Georgia: NATO inspects military proxy force in Caucasus. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Georgian Ministry of DefenseJune 30, 2022 Representatives of the Defense and Security Committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly were in the Ministry of Defense The members of the delegation of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly visiting Georgia got acquainted with the ongoing reforms in the Defense Ministry of Georgia. Members of the delegation of the sub-committee …

Staff (2022-07-01). NATO summit "great diplomatic success for Turkey," escalation of war in Mideast. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Hurriyet Daily NewsJuly 1, 2022 Deal with Nordic states just a beginning: Erdogan The deal Tàºrkiye, Sweden and Finland agreed in Madrid is just the beginning of the two Nordic states' process to join NATO, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said, underlining that Ankara will closely follow the implementation of the promises outlined in the …

Staff (2022-07-01). NATO summit: Pentagon to establish permanent military bases in Central, Eastern Europe. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Radio PolandJune 30, 2022 NATO's Madrid summit marks beginning of permanent US bases in CEE: Polish FM Poland's foreign minister on Thursday said that decisions made by NATO leaders at their Madrid summit signalled that a number of permanent US military bases would be established in Central and Eastern Europe. Zbigniew Rau made the remark …

Staff (2022-07-01). U.S. viceroy: Georgia is "very strong partner" of NATO. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Agenda.geJune 30, 2022 US Ambassador: Georgia's status as "very strong partner" of NATO shown by Summit participation Kelly Degnan, the United States Ambassador to Georgia, on Thursday said Georgia was a "very strong partner" of NATO, as demonstrated by the participation of the Georgian Government's high-level delegation in the ongoing Madrid Summit of the alliance. …

Fight Back (2022-07-01). Minnesota groups join global anti-NATO protests during the June NATO Summit. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On June 28, over 60 people gathered alongside Washington Avenue outside of Senator Amy Klobuchar's Minneapolis office in solidarity with international protests against the NATO Summit in Madrid, Spain, where world leaders discussed the expansion of NATO, among other things. Rush-hour traffic honked in support as protesters chanted, "No war with Russia! Disband NATO now!" | "Yesterday the Spanish government prohibited protest against NATO in Madrid," announced Michael Livingston of Minnesota Peace Action Coalition (MPAC). "Being the free people that they are, the anti-NATO activists immediately g…

TeleSUR, ldp, SH (2022-07-01). Denuncian el asesinato de un diputado colombiano en Arauca. telesurtv.net El Partido Liberal condenó el asesinato de Carlos A Hernández y señaló que el mismo forma parte de la violencia que azota Colombia.

Dave DeCamp (2022-07-01). Putin Says Western Sanctions Speeding Up Russia-Belarus Unification. news.antiwar.com Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that sanctions and other pressure from the West have The two nations signed an integration treaty in 1997. The process has been sped up since the US and its allies rejected the result of Belarus' 2020 presidential election that saw Alexander Lukashenko win another term. | After the election, the US and EU started imposing sanctions on Belarus and threw support behind an exiled opposition leader. As a result, Lukashe…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-01). Ecuador: 18 Days of Social Unrest Ends in the Signing of the "Pacification Act" of Betrayal. libya360.wordpress.com Ollantay Itzamná Beginning of the signing of the Act Nobody knows the subsequent impact that this signed Act will have… Although we know that after every act of pacification comes the political and legal chastisement against the indigenous leaders (as happened in 2019). The only certainty is that the difficult situation of the peoples of…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-01). Ecuador: 18 Days of Social Unrest Ends in the Signing of the "Pacification Act" libya360.wordpress.com Ollantay Itzamná Beginning of the signing of the Act Nobody knows the subsequent impact that this signed Act will have… Although we know that after every act of pacification comes the political and legal chastisement against the indigenous leaders (as happened in 2019). The only certainty is that the difficult situation of the peoples of…

Editor2 (2022-07-01). Gujarat Carnage in India: Human Rights Defenders as Culprits. orinocotribune.com By Ram Puniyani Jun 28, 2022 | The Supreme Court in its judgment the case of Zakia Jafri vs. State of Gujarat dismissed the petition filed by Zakia Jafri. Zakia Jafri had called for an investigation into the conspiracy to hatch the events which resulted in the massive carnage in Gujarat following the Godhra train burning on the morning of 27th February 2002. While dismissing this Supreme Court also went on to put the blame on the human rights defender, Teesta Setalvad and few state officials (R.B. Sreekumar, Sanjiv Bhatt) for creating sensation and making baseless false revelations. Judgment was scathing ag…

_____ (2022-07-01). Economist Michael Hudson on inflation and Fed plan to cut wages: A depression is coming. popularresistance.org Economist Michael Hudson explains the inflation crisis and US Federal Reserve's "austerity program to reduce wages" and boost unemployment. He warns a "long depression" is coming, due to the new cold war on Russia and China.

Anonymous103 (2022-07-01). Why America's Nuclear Threat To Russia Now Is Bigger Than The Soviet Nuclear Threat To America Was In The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. southfront.org Written by Eric Zuesse During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the central issue was how short America's available reaction-time to a…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-01). How Spooks and Establishment Journalists are Circling the Wagons. libya360.wordpress.com JONATHAN COOK Earlier this month, Russia banned 29 British journalists, including several from the BBC and The Guardian, on the grounds that they were "associated with the defense complex". That claim was not, at least in all cases, quite as preposterous as was widely assumed. In part one of this two-part series, we saw how the Guardian's Luke Harding — one…

____ (2022-07-01). Iran, Russia emphasize enhancing trade-economic relations. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 01 (MNA) — Islamic Republic of Iran and Russian Federation stressed the need to increase bilateral relations in the fields of trade and economy.

Anonymous669 (2022-07-01). Russian Warplanes Continue To Fly Over US Al-Tanf Base In Southeastern Syria. southfront.org On July 1, a warplane of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) conducted a reconnaissance mission over the southeastern Syrian area of al-Tanf where the US-led coalition maintains a large garrison, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. | Al-Tanf garrison is located right on Syria's border with Iraq and Jordan. Around 200 US troops and some 300 militants of the Revolutionary Commando Army (MaT), a local proxy of the coalition, are usually present at the garrison. | The…

____ (2022-07-01). Australia imposes sanctions on three Russian ministers. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jul. 01 (MNA) — Australia has imposed sanctions on Children's Rights Commissioner for Russian Pres. Maria Lvova-Belova and three Russian ministers as well as on another 12 Russian nationals, according to Australian Department of Home Affairs.

Editor (2022-06-30). NATO Knew Terrorists Would Gain from Toppling Gaddafi. scheerpost.com <\/i>\r\n—————————————————————————-\r\nPhotographer: SAC Neil Chapman\r\nImage 45152559.jpg from www.defenceimages.mod.uk","created_timestamp": "1300989305","copyright": "Crown Copyright","focal_length": "14","iso": "200","shutter_speed": "0.00125","title": "RAF Tornado GR4 at Gioia Del Colle Air Base During Operation Ellamy","orientation": "1"}" data-image-title="RAF Tornado GR4 at Gioia Del Colle Air Base During Operation Ellamy" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="A Tornado GR4 aircraft is pictured being prepared for a sortie during Operation Ellamy, the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-06-30). A View on Ukraine's Future from Donbass. libya360.wordpress.com Dmitry Plotnikov During his 2019 election campaign, Ukraine's current President Volodymyr Zelensky constantly repeated that his mission was to unite the country and breach the ideological gap between the EU-leaning West and the Russian-speaking East. This was the division that resulted in the declaration of independence by the Donbass republics, in 2014. However, but the…

_____ (2022-06-30). How the GCC is Benefitting from the Russia-Ukraine Conflict. journal-neo.org Military conflicts are a deadly — and costly — business, especially for those who fight them directly. But these conflicts also benefit others directly and indirectly. Those involved in the military-industrial complex benefit from both actual and potential conflicts. This has been the most famous story in the US and continues to be in the …

Editor (2022-06-30). NATO announces plan for massive European land army. mronline.org In what NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called the "biggest overhaul of our collective deterrence and defense since the Cold War," the US-led NATO alliance has announced plans to build a massive standing land army in Europe, numbering in the hundreds of thousands.

_____ (2022-06-30). Arab World on the Eve of Joe Biden's Visit. journal-neo.org The Arab world seems to be not only making successful attempts at unification, but also seeking to play a more active role on the international arena. And here Russia's plans to transform the selfish unipolar world into a multipolar one, where the interests of all countries, including the Arab states, would be fully taken into …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-06-30). Are We Able to Face the Reality of American Fascism? libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea In front of us, something is unfolding that we don't want to properly see, but that we subconsciously recognize. The warning signs for a fascist crackdown in America have been here for years, if not decades. It's now that they've become too big for much of this country's complacent left to ignore. We're…

Amarynth (2022-06-30). BRICS is turning into a collective "Non-West" thesaker.is Elena Panina, Director of the RUSSTRAT Institute Machine Translated and cleaned up from the Russian original. MOSCOW, June 29, 2022, RUSSTRAT Institute. BRICS expansion has been discussed for a long…

2022-07-02 14:23 | 10:23 EST | jz | 50 | 7 | 31 | 11 | 0