(2021-08-09). From Fires to Floods to Sea Level Rise, Human-Induced Climate Crisis Is Severely Disrupting Earth. democracynow.org 
We continue to discuss the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which details the damage of climate change already underway around the world and warns that much worse is yet to come unless governments drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The report tallies the losses from human-induced climate change "in an absolutely scientifically verifiable and attributable manner," says climate scientist Saleemul Huq, director of the International Center for Climate Change and Development in Bangladesh. "The path to keeping it below 1.5 degrees is diminishing by the hour." We also continue wi…
(2021-08-09). Military Situation In Afghanistan On August 9, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On August 8, Taliban captured Bak town in Khost province. | On August 8, Taliban captured Kunduz city in Kunduz province. | On August 8, Taliban captured Taloqan city in Takhar province. | On August 8, US B-52 bombers attacked Safian area north of Lashkar Gah. | On August 9, Taliban attacked Hazrat-e Sultan in north of Aybak city. | On August 9, Taliban attacked Pole Khomri city in Baghlan province. | On August 9, clashes between the Afghan Army and Taliban contin…
(2021-08-09). Dozens of civilians killed in violent clashes in Afghanistan. peoplesdispatch.org The violent clashes in Kandahar, Paktia, Khost, and Lashkargah have killed dozens of civilians, including 27 minors. Civilian infrastructure, including a health clinics and school, were damaged in the airstrikes as well…
(2021-08-09). Twilight of the 20-Year Occupation of Afghanistan: U.S. Soldiers Sent to Kill and Die—For What? counterpunch.org Michael Davis was 11 years old when the war in Afghanistan started, 19 years old when he enlisted in the U.S. military and 21 years old when he arrived in Afghanistan's Wardak province as part of a combat engineering unit tasked with finding improvised explosive devices (IEDs). "I came from a really small town in
(2021-08-09). Afghan women face an uncertain future as Taliban grows stronger. peoplesdispatch.org The cause of the Afghan women was a major reason cited by the US during its invasion of Afghanistan. Today as the US leaves and the Taliban is resurgent, what is the state of women?
(2021-08-09). Shocking' escalation of grave violations against children in Afghanistan: UNICEF. news.un.org The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) expressed shock on Monday at the rapid escalation of grave violations against children in Afghanistan, following the deaths of 27 children in the country in the past 72 hours, and 136 who were injured.
(2021-08-09). "Extended Troika" To Meet For Talks On Afghanistan As Taliban Seizes More Provinces. southfront.org 
Taliban Special Forces. Illustrative image | The U.S., Russian, Chinese, Pakistani special representatives for Afghanistan will meet in the Qatari capital, Doha, to conduct consultations on support of intra-Afghan negotiations. Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, the Ttaliban claims new victories. | The Moscow-initiated group known under the title of the "extended troika" will meet on August 11th to discuss the ways to help the warring parties reach a political settlement and comprehensive ceasefire. | The last meeting of the ex…
(2021-08-09). As the US Leaves Afghanistan, Anti-War Feminists Push a New Approach to Foreign Policy. thenation.com As the US Leaves Afghanistan, Anti-War Feminists Push a New Approach to Foreign Policy…
(2021-08-09). Turkey Objects US Plan on Resettlement of Afghans. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-09). Iran Says 'Israel' Playing Victim to Divert Attention From its Crimes in Palestine. orinocotribune.com Iranian envoy to the United Nations says the Israeli occupation is "playing victim" to divert attention from its continuing crimes in Palestine, warning the 'Israel' against any acts of "adventurism and miscalculations." | Zahra Ershadi, Iran's deputy permanent representative to the UN, made the comments in a statement on Friday after a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council on a recent incident for an Israeli-operated oil tanker in the Sea of Oman. | Ershadi's comments came in reaction to Israeli War Minister Benny Gantz who said on Thursday that 'Israel' is ready to attack Iran and that there must be a…
(2021-08-09). Sports apartheid: Israel's Olympic team did not include a single Palestinian citizen of Israel. mronline.org 
Palestinian citizens of Israel are 20 percent of the population. But not a single one was on Israel's 90-member Olympic team.
(2021-08-09). Saudi Arabia cracks down on Palestinian resistance movement. peoplesdispatch.org 69 Jordanian and Palestinian citizens accused of being members of Hamas were sentenced to prison by a court in Saudi Arabia. Hamas has claimed that the verdict is a result of warming relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel…
(2021-08-09). Protesting settler colonialism in the neoliberal university. roarmag.org 
"Holding Palestine" artistic protest, photo by Steven Maybury. | During May's uprising in Palestine against the latest aggression of the apartheid Israeli state, a few students at the Piet Zwart Institute (PZI) in Rotterdam wanted to express their solidarity with the struggle. They hung a banner on the institute's building that read: "STOP THE ETHNIC CLEANSING; #SaveSheikhJarrah; Free Palestine." The action took place at a time when the vicious attacks on civilians in Gaza, the ultra-right-wing mob violence against Arabs in Israel and the forced evictions of the settler colonialist system in Jerusalem had resulte…
(2021-08-09). Sunday 8/15: Q&A Discussion of film "Stitching Palestine" indybay.org
(2021-08-09). Saturday 8/7: Protest US financed oppression in Palestine/Israel. indybay.org Corner of Water and Ocean Streets, Santa Cruz…
(2021-08-09). Military Situation In Syria On August 9, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On August 9, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 22 times: 13 — in Idlib province, 6 — in Latakia province, 1 — in Hama province, 2 — in Aleppo province. | On August 9, Russian warplanes attacked positions of Turkish-backed forces in Shiekh Bahr area. | On August 9, SAA artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces in Kafr Taal. | On August 9, sporadic clashes between SAA and former rebeles wer…
(2021-08-09). US-led Information War Targets Southeast Asia (and China). asia-pacificresearch.com
(2021-08-09). Will India & Iran Ally with Kabul Against the Taliban? asia-pacificresearch.com
(2021-08-09). The Anti-Asian Roots of Today's Anti-Immigrant Politics. thenation.com The Anti-Asian Roots of Today's Anti-Immigrant Politics…
(2021-08-09). COVID catastrophe fuels unrest in Southeast Asia. wsws.org Across the region, the disaster has been compounded by the near-collapse of health care systems, lack of access to vaccines and widespread losses of jobs and incomes.
(2021-08-09). China's Wuhan completes citywide Covid-19 testing in SIX days, finds 37 cases & 41 asymptomatic carriers among 12mn residents. rt.com 
The city of Wuhan has tested virtually every resident, except for children under six and those on vacation, in a sweeping effort to prevent a new Covid-19 outbreak in the metropolis where the pandemic is believed to have started. | Mass testing in the capital of Hubei province was launched on Tuesday, after authorities discovered a handful of locally transmitted cases, marking the first time that Covid-19 infection has been registered in the city since June 2020. | With an army of 28,000 medical staff mobilized to test 11.28 million residents at over 2,800 sampling sites set up across the city, the sweeping ca…
(2021-08-09). NY Times, WaPo national security reporters serve at pro-war Pentagon-funded think tank. thegrayzone.com The Center for New American Security provides residencies to top national security correspondents while raking in massive funding from the arms industry, Pentagon and State Department. This was originally published by Behind The Headlines at Mint Press News Imagine a country where there's no separation between the government, the military, and the media. A lot of Americans would think of China, Russia or North Korea, but it's a perfect description of the United States today. Located in Washington, the Center …
(2021-08-09). The COVID Challenge ‚àí Cooperation Or Competition. popularresistance.org Once again, in confronting the greatest immediate challenge facing humanity, U.S. imperialism has played only a disruptive role. The drive to maximize profits and assert global dominance has pushed Washington to recklessly exacerbate the deadly COVID-19 health crisis. | What does U.S. imperialism hope to gain by blocking the World Health Organization's inquiry into COVID with the demand that the WHO Inquiry focus on blaming China? This intentionally blocks an international initiative which needs full cooperation. | Regarding the 18 intelligence agencies, nine report directly to the U.S. military. The rest coopera…
(2021-08-09). Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Is Defending Freedom by 'Getting in the Way' of COVID Authoritarians. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-09). South Korea to Compensate Nurse Paralysed after COVID-19 Shot. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-09). Venezuela Registers 1,155 COVID-19 Cases on Saturday and Maintains a 95% Recovery Rate (12 Deaths). orinocotribune.com 
On Saturday August 7, Delcy Rodríguez, the executive vice president of Venezuela, tweeted that there were 1,155 new COVID-19 cases, all by community transmission, detected in the last 24 hours by the Venezuelan health authorities. The recovery rate remains at 95%, with 297,536 patients healed, thanks to the free treatments guaranteed by the Venezuelan Government. | During the daily report offered by the Presidential Commission for the Control and Prevention of COVID-19, Rodríguez specified that community cases were detected in 23 states: Miranda (236), Carabobo (192), Caracas (133 ), Lara (104), Yaracuy (104), La…
(2021-08-09). Canada Adds Bell's Palsy Warning to Pfizer COVID Vaccine. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-09). US Foreign Policy Adrift: Why Washington is No Longer Calling the Shots. dissidentvoice.org 
Jonah Goldberg and Michael Ledeen have much in common. They are both writers and also cheerleaders for military interventions and, often, for frivolous wars. Writing in the conservative rag, The National Review, months before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Goldberg paraphrased a statement which he attributed to Ledeen with reference to the interventionist …
(2021-08-09). Percy Bysshe Shelley: romanticism and revolution. mronline.org 
Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, in Crime and Punishment, wrote, "The darker the night, the brighter the stars".
(2021-08-09). SpyCops: How the UK police infiltrated over 1,000 political groups. mronline.org 
As part of their false personas, many officers entered romantic relationships with politcal activists, leading to the births of a number of children whose mothers were completely unaware of their partners' double lives.
(2021-08-09). Cultivated Delusions at the Tokyo Olympics. southfront.org 
Illustrative image | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark | Australia's Channel 7 team was all about ignoring history as its selected commentators went into describing, poorly, the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics. The trio was poorly equipped culturally, geographically and totally (the Japanese component was barely credible: "We want to make things warm for you," she chirped), to deal with the eclectic groupings of the athletes as they assembled. Clichés and platitudes clogged the commentary as each team strode into t…
(2021-08-09). Military Situation In Yemen On August 9, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 189 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah during the past 24 hours. | On August 8, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 5 airstrikes on the Rahbah district. | On August 8, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 2 airstrikes on the Kitaf area. | On August 8, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted an airstrike on the Sarwah district. | On August 8, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted…
(2021-08-09). Military Situation In Iraq On August 9, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On August 8, a logistical convoy of the US military was targeted by an IED attack in the Yusufiyah area. | On August 8, a logistical convoy of the US military was targeted by an IED attack in the Dhi Qar area. | On August 8, a logistical convoy of the US military was targeted by an IED attack in the Babil area. | The US Army reportedly withdrew parts of its forces towards Kuwait . | On August 8, an Iraq Army patrol was struck by an ISIS IED near Makhmour. | MORE O…
(2021-08-09). Dispatches from India: Two years since abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir. peoplesdispatch.org In this episode, we take a look at the situation in Jammu & Kashmir two years after constitutional changes that took away the State's autonomy and bifurcated it, the state of pellet gun victims, the impact of the Pegasus revelations, and the plight of the power loom workers in Tamil Nadu…
(2021-08-09). Protests in the Indian capital following the rape and murder of a minor. peoplesdispatch.org After a nine-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped, killed, and forcibly cremated in southwestern Delhi on August 1, ensuing protests forced the police to detain the accused Hindu priest along with three associates…
(2021-08-09). Greece and Turkey devastated by wildfires. peoplesdispatch.org Rampant wildfires that have been going on in Greece and Turkey have already caused major destruction. Wildfires charged by protracted heat waves and strengthening winds have spread extensively throughout the Mediterranean region.
(2021-08-09). World War II: US Military Destroyed 66 Japanese Cities Before Planning to Wipe Out the Same Number of Soviet Cities. globalresearch.ca The number of Japanese cities destroyed was the exact figure that the Pentagon compiled when finalizing plans, in mid-September 1945, to eviscerate the Soviet Union. Indeed, 66 Soviet cities were earmarked to be wiped out — with 204 atomic bombs — less than 2 weeks after Japan's surrender.
(2021-08-08). Taliban Forces Take Control of 5 Cities in Afghanistan. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Taliban forces took over another three important cities in Afghanistan, accounting for five new territories under their control in the last 72 hrs. | RELATED: | Located in the northern region, Kunduz, Sar-e-Pol and Taloqan are the last three cities to fall in hands of Taliban militias. | During Friday and Saturday, Taliban forces occupied Sheberghan and Zaranj, respective capitals of western provinces…
(2021-08-08). In Video: Kunduz, Sari-Pul Capitals Fell Under Taliban Control. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On August 7th, the Taliban launched an advance in the city of Kunduz in the north-eastern Afghanistan. | Following the night-long clashes, the Taliban fighters declared the complete capture of Kunduz. According to the group's representatives, the militants managed to take control of the police department building, the residence of the provincial governor and the prison building. | The Taliban released video showing the Kunduz police headquarters under the complete control of…
(2021-08-08). Military Situation In Afghanistan On August 8, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On August 8, Taliban captured Sare Pol city in Sare Pol province | On August 8, Taliban captured most of Kunduz city in Kunduz province | On August 8, clashes between the Afghan Army and Taliban continued to the west and south of Herat city | On August 8, clashes between the Afghan Army and Taliban continued inside the city of Lashkar Gah | On August 7, Taliban captured Khaja Do Kuh in Jowzjan province | 572 Taliban militants were killed and 143 others were wounded as a…
(2021-08-08). Hezbollah Secretary General: We Will Not Allow Israel To Change Rules Of Engagements. southfront.org 
Hezbollah Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah as seen on al-Manar TV during a speech on the fifteenth anniversary the 2006 July War with Israel. | Hezbollah will not allow Israel to change the rules of engagements with Lebanon, the group's Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah said on August 7. | The Lebanese leader made the statement during a televised speech on the fifteenth anniversary the 2006 July War with Israel. The leader said that the balance of deterrence with Israel is the most significant achievem…
(2021-08-08). Palestinian Students in Gaza Are Back after Israel tried to destroy their future. juancole.com 
By Wafa Aludaini | — ( Middle East Monitor) — As Palestinian high school students celebrate their success in the Tawjihi exams and plan for the future, those in Gaza are still trying to rebuild their lives after Israel's brutal bombing campaign in May. The Tawjihi exams were held just one month after the ceasefire …
(2021-08-08). Minnesotans keep the pressure on Klobuchar to end US aid to apartheid Israel. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – On August 5, 60 people gathered alongside Washington Avenue near Senator Amy Klobuchar's Minneapolis office to demand an end of U.S. aid to apartheid Israel. The protesters stretched down the block with signs and Palestinian flags, greeting the rush hour drivers, who were overwhelmingly supportive and honking wildly. | The protest was called after Klobuchar, a 'centrist' Democrat, failed to respond to a petition signed by over 1000 of her constituents supporting the Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act (HR 2590) which would…
(2021-08-08). Syria-Jordan Border: Daraa Suffers Terrorist Occupation Again. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-08). US "Regime Change" Plans directed against Syria. 40 Relevant Links. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-08). Mass Defections Push Syria's Ahrar Al-Sham Closer To Its End. southfront.org 
The official logo of the Ahrar al-Sham Movement. | The Ahrar al-Sham Movement, which stood once as one of the largest rebel factions in Syria, appears to be nearing its end. | On August 7, four of the movement's largest units, the Badr Brigade, al-Abbas Brigade, al-Sharqi Groups and Aleppo Gathering, announced their defection. In a joint statement, the four units revealed that they left Ahrar al-Sham on July 17. | The units joined the al-Shamiya Front, one of the largest Turkish-backed groups and a member of the Syrian Natio…
(2021-08-08). Arab Parliamentary Union condemns Turkey's aggressive actions against Syria. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Arab Parliamentary Union condemns aggressive practices of Turkish regime against Syria The Arab Parliamentary Union condemned the continued aggressive practices of Turkey's regime against Syria, particularly cutting off water in Hasaka province. "The Arab Parliamentary Union expresses its deep concern over the repeated aggressive Turkish practices against the brotherly Syrian people in the neighboring areas …
(2021-08-08). Central Syria: Government Forces Inflicted 'Heavy Losses' On ISIS Cells. southfront.org 
Illustrative image. | The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies continue to conduct operations against ISIS cells in Syria's vast central region. | On August 8, Syria's al-Watan newspaper said that the army and its allies inflicted heavy losses on the terrorist group in the eastern countryside of Homs. A number of terrorists were killed or wounded by Syrian troops, who have been combing the region for the last three days. The army also sustained some fatalities. | Meanwhile, warplanes of the Syrian Arab Air Force and the Rus…
(2021-08-08). Military Situation In Syria On August 8, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On August 7, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 24 times: 14 — in Idlib province, 5 — in Latakia province, 3 — in Hama province, 2 — in Aleppo province | On August 7, unknown gunmen killed a person in al-Hawl camp | On August 7, SAA artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces in Ariha | On August 7, clashes between SAA and former rebeles were reported in Daraa | On August 7, artillery of Turki…
(2021-08-08). In Video: Russian Advisors Train Syrian Soldiers On Close Combat. southfront.org 
Screen grab from Russia's TV5 report. | Russian military advisors have been training Syrian Arab Army (SAA) service members near the frontlines around the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib, where several terrorist groups are active. | On August 6, Russia's TV 5 aired a report documenting a training course that was held recently in the countryside of Hama, a few kilometers away from terrorists' positions. | During the course, Russian advisors trained SAA service members on close combat and the use of RPO-A Shmel rock…