(2022-08-14). Taiwan's New Party makes positive contributions to cross-Straits relations: mainland spokesperson. ecns.cn A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Sunday said Taiwan's New Party has made positive contributions to promoting the peaceful development of relations across the Taiwan Straits and advancing peaceful reunification of the motherland.
(2022-08-14). Rusia y las fuerzas aliadas en Donbas toma la ciudad de Peski. telesurtv.net El portavoz del Ministerio de Defensa ruso, Ígor Konashénkov, detalló que…
(2022-08-14). Prey revives the art of action storytelling. greenleft.org.au Delmar Terblanch reviews Prey, an authentic, collaboratively-told story of warriors in the Comanche nation — and a prequel to the 1980's blockbuster, Predator.
(2022-08-14). Tropical Storm Meari makes landfall on Japan's Izu Peninsula. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 14 (MNA) — Tropical Storm Meari made landfall on central Japan's Izu Peninsula on Saturday, causing disruptions to transportation services during the peak summer holiday season.
(2022-08-14). S.Korean president grants special pardons to Samsung vice chairman, Lotte chairman. ecns.cn South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol granted special pardons to Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong and Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin, the Ministry of Justice said Friday.
(2022-08-14). Singapore's first giant panda cub turns 1-year-old. ecns.cn Le le, the first giant panda born in Singapore turns one year old on August 14.
(2022-08-14). Saturday 8/13: All Out for Palestine. indybay.org Santa Cruz: Ocean at Water Streets corner…
(2022-08-14). Northeast Japan braces for further downpours as Typhoon Meari approaches. ecns.cn Japan's weather agency said on Friday that further downpours were expected in the northeastern prefectures of Aomori and Akita.
(2022-08-14). Saturday 8/27: Bay Bridge March: World Day for the End of Speciesism. indybay.org 210 Burma Rd, Oakland, CA…
(2022-08-14). Nowhere Land: The Magical Thinking of Santa Cruz Officials. indybay.org "The staff at the Armory treated me so badly I climbed on the van with my walker and bags and moved to the bushes near the Benchlands," explained a recently widowed woman in her 70s at the Union of the Homeless meeting this week. She was one of more than twenty Benchland residents who came to discuss the closing of camp.
(2022-08-14). Teochew opera promoted in Hong Kong. ecns.cn Teochew opera, also known as Chaoju opera, is performed in Chaozhou dialect and becomes popular in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Europe and America.
(2022-08-13). Ukraine Bombed a Donetsk Hotel Full of Journalists—Here's What it Felt like to be There. orinocotribune.com At 10: 13 am today (August 4), Ukraine began shelling central Donetsk. There were five powerful blasts in the space of ten minutes. The last explosion blew out my hotel's ground-floor glass, including a sitting room—where journalists often congregate before and after going out to do field reporting—and the lobby. About one minute earlier, I had passed through the latter. A cameraman's assistant who was there at the time of that fifth explosion suffered a concussion from the force of the blast. | A woman walking outside the building was killed, as were at least four others, including a child. Donetsk Te…
(2022-08-13). An Objective Look At US Foreign Policy: Joe Lombardo Interview. popularresistance.org Joe Lombardo is the co-coordinator of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) and has been an organizer in the anti-war movement and a labor activist for decades. He is a cofounder and lead organizer for Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, a local anti-war group based near Albany, New York, a member of the Troy Area Labor Council, and former staff person of the Vietnam era National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC). He is the author of many articles and a frequent radio and TV commentator. | We focus here on the realities of the international power struggle unfolding in real time, specifically addressing the role of…
(2022-08-13). Tallahassee Police Department trains with mass murderer. fightbacknews.org Commentary by Ben Grant | Tallahassee, FL – On August 4, the Tallahassee Police Department was hosted by Stronghold SOF Solutions at their facility in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, for training led by Eddie Gallagher. Gallagher is a former Navy SEAL infamous for being court-martialed in 2019 for ten offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. | Some of the of worst things Gallagher has done include posing in a photograph with the body of a murdered Iraqi teenage prisoner, shooting unarmed civilians in 2017, and, according to the New York Times, "indiscriminately spraying neighborhoods with rockets and machi…
(2022-08-13). Sri Lankan government "postpones" visit by Chinese research vessel. wsws.org Sri Lanka is caught in the middle of a geopolitical maelstrom over the planned visit of Yuan Wang 5 to Hambantota, with Washington and New Delhi determined to break Colombo's relations with Beijing.
(2022-08-13). Aliyev warns Armenians not to test Azerbaijan's patience. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 13 (MNA) — President of Azerbaijan stressed Baku's right to conduct military operations in Karabakh similar to the one its armed forces conducted in early August along the Lachin corridor.
(2022-08-13). Westerners Think They Are Free-Thinking Individualists and It's Effing Adorable. orinocotribune.com 
By Caitlin Johnstone — Aug 7, 2022 | The Times has published an article titled " Here are the first three paragraphs of the article by Ben Macintyre, because if I had to read them then so do you: | A woman looking like an extra-terrestrial praying mantis upholstered in red leather strode on…
(2022-08-13). Video: Culture of Resistance: Music behind colonial bars with Dr. Louis Brehony. samidoun.net On August 12, 2022, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network hosted a webinar with Dr. Louis Brehony, the author of "Genius in the People: On Collective Resistance and Musical Instrument Making in the Jails of the Colonizer" on Fida' al-Shaer, Syrian musician from the occupied Golan, who built an oud while locked behind colonial bars in …
(2022-08-13). No casualty reported in S.Korea's fighter jet crash. ecns.cn No casualty has been reported in a South Korean fighter jet crash over the country's western waters on Friday, the Yonhap news agency reported.
(2022-08-13). [Perspectives] The power of Jatra. thelancet.com The thought of the difficult working conditions in many factories in the Bengal region brings to mind Taslima Akhter's heartbreaking photograph of two dead workers, holding each other in the rubble after the collapse of the Rana Plaza, a building that housed garment factories in Savar, Bangladesh, on April 24, 2013. Cracks that had appeared in the walls of the building before the industrial accident were ignored by the owners and the collapse resulted in the death of more than 1130 people. Different cracks and factory conditions feature in Sonali Bhattacharyya's play Chasing Hares, at the Young Vic in London, UK.
(2022-08-13). Two New Attacks Target Turkish Military Bases In Northern Syria. southfront.org 
Turkish forces are seen near Mount Barsaya, northeast of Afrin, Syria January 23, 2018. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi | Two small bases of the Turkish military in the northern countryside of Syria's Aleppo came under attack on August 13. | In the morning, an anti-tank guided missile struck a guard post inside a Turkish base located in the northern outskirts of the town of Hazwan. The missile destroyed…
(2022-08-13). New Agreement Ends Clashes Between Syrian Army And Militants In Daraa's Tafas. southfront.org 
FILE IMAGE: Sputnik/ Iliya Pitalev. | On August 13, clashes between the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and militants in the town of Tafas in the western Daraa countryside came to an end as a result of a new agreement between Syrian authorities and the local negotiation committee. | The clashes first broke out more than a week ago, when wanted militants in Tafas refused to honor a previous agreement with the government that call on them to leave the town. The militants fled the town a few days into the clashes. However, the situation in the…
(2022-08-13). Syria handed over 50 ISIL terrorists to Iraq. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 13 (MNA) — A media group affiliated with Iraqi army on Saturday announced that Syria who had been arrested on Syria's territory handed over more than 50 ISIL terrorists to Iraq..
(2022-08-13). Martyrs Hamedani, Soleimani demolished ISIL structure. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 13 (MNA) — Anti-terrorist commanders like Major General Hossein Hamedani and Major General Qassem Soleimani managed to destroy the organizational structure of ISIL terrorism in Iraq and Syria, Major-General Mohammad Bagheri said.
(2022-08-13). [Editorial] India at 75 years: progress, challenges, and opportunities. thelancet.com On Aug 15, 2022, India will commemorate its 75th year of independence from British rule. In this week's issue, a Comment by Vikram Patel and commissioners of The Lancet's Citizens' Commission on Reimagining India's Health System reflects on the country's journey to achieving universal health coverage. The authors outline that although India has seen substantial improvements in many health indicators since independence, such as infant mortality, progress in other areas have lagged behind, although huge variations exist between and within states.
(2022-08-13). Indigenous leaders elevated to prominent positions in Colombia. america.cgtn.com Environmental rights activist Leonor Zalabata Torres makes history as the first Indigenous woman to represent Colombia at the UN. Find out more.
(2022-08-13). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org Hundreds of thousands of India Post workers strike against corporatisation; Bangladeshi tea garden workers hold two-day strike for wage rise; South Korean bank workers protest peak-wage system; Australia: Nurses strike in Queensland and Tasmania for higher pay and staffing levels: Qantas Group engineers to strike; New Zealand paper mill workers locked out…
(2022-08-13). Lebanese Soldier Killed, Another Wounded In Clashes On Syria's Border. southfront.org 
The official insignia of the Lebanese Armed Forces. | On August 13, a soldier of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) was killed and another was wounded during clashes with traffickers on Lebanon's northern border with Syria. | The Lebanese media said that the clashes took place in the area of Wadi Khaled, right on the border with Syria's Homs. Wadi Khaled is one of the most impoverished and politically marginalized areas of Lebanon. In recent years, the area also became home to thousands of refug…
(2022-08-13). [Perspectives] Poornima Prabhakaran: advocate for health in a changing climate. thelancet.com Poornima Prabhakaran, Head of Environmental Health and Deputy Director of the Public Health Foundation of India's Centre for Environmental Health, grew up in Bangalore and followed in the footsteps of her physician father. After her medical degree at Bangalore Medical College, she moved to New Delhi, where she worked as a Senior Medical Officer, before her "first foray into research" in the Department of Endocrinology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. She began thinking of working in preventive and social medicine, "but I was never convinced", she recalls, until "I got really interested in epidemiol…
(2022-08-13). 3 killed, injured in mine blast in S Syria. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 13 (MNA) — News sources reported that 3 people were killed and injured after a mine left from terrorists exploded in southern Syria.
(2022-08-13). US troops smuggle another oil shipment out of Syria. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 13 (MNA) — Hours after transferring 60 tankers carrying stolen Syrian oil to Iraq, the United States has transferred a new large shipment to Iraq through the illegal "Al-Walid" border crossing.
(2022-08-13). Italy faces the threat of a far-right government. wsws.org Seven weeks before the election, Giorgia Meloni, the 45-year-old chairwoman of the neo-fascist Fratelli d'Italia, is regarded as the most likely candidate to head the next Italian government.
(2022-08-12). Sri Lanka is a Victim of Global Turbulence. journal-neo.org 
We left the subject of the crisis in Sri Lanka in another state of aggravation when the second of the Rajapaksa brothers (Gotabaya) was still in office. Despite demands from the "street" to step down following his elder brother Mahinda, who resigned as prime minister on May 9. However, in early July, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa …
(2022-08-12). Hopeful Signs of Changes Occurring in World Balance of Power. libya360.wordpress.com James ONeill The recent visit to Taiwan by the United States politician Nancy Pelosi was one of the most ill-judged and provocative actions by a US politician for some considerable time. The fact that the United States President Joe Biden refused the opportunity to forbid the visit also speaks volumes about the US attitude toward…