Streamed live on Aug 4, 2022
Because the US ignored Russia’s offer to trade Bout for Griner weeks ago, her trial in Russia proceeded needlessly. So now, Russia is playing for Bout, and it’s a damned shame that Griner is caught up in it because the US didn’t act sooner.
It seemed all but a done deal: Israel is finally managing to bend the Arabs to its will, and Palestine is becoming a marginal issue that no longer defines Israel’s relations with Arab countries. Indeed, normalization with Israel is afoot, and the Arabs, so it seems, have been finally tamed.
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The Provocations Behind The ‘Unprovoked’ War
https://popularresistance.org/the-provocations-behind-the-unprovoked-war/
G7 issues demand to Moscow
https://www.rt.com/news/560604-g7-demand-russia-zaporozhye-power-plant/
Iran Deal Gets Stuck Once Again. Can the EU Rescue It From the Jaws of Procrastination?
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/08/10/iran-deal-gets-stuck-once-again-can-eu-rescue-it-from-the-jaws-of-procrastination/
Assata Shakur exposes the conditions faced by incarcerated Black women in a powerful 1978 essay.
Nancy Pelosi, White Supremacy, and China
Margaret Kimberley
White supremacist arrogance was the order of the day when Nancy Pelosi ignored a red line set by the Chinese government and visited Taiwan. The Speaker of the House showed stereotypical and racist attitudes towards that country.
ESSAY: Women in Prison: How We Are, Assata Shakur, 1978
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Assata Shakur exposes the conditions faced by incarcerated Black women in a powerful 1978 essay.
On February 24, the day Russian troops crossed the borders to Ukraine, I wrote about the potential end state of the operation:
Looking at this map I believe that the most advantageous end state for Russia would be the creation of a new independent country, call it Novorussiya, on the land east of the Dnieper and south along the coast that holds a majority ethnic Russian population and that, in 1922, had been attached to the Ukraine by Lenin. That state would be politically, culturally and militarily aligned with Russia.
Caitlin Johnstone
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Following objections from the Ukrainian government, CBS News has removed a short documentary which had reported concerns from numerous sources that a large amount of the supplies being sent to Ukraine aren’t making it to the front lines.
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The Names and Faces of the 16 Children Killed in Gaza
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-names-and-faces-of-the-16-children-killed-in-gaza/5789531
There Must be Consequences for Israel’s War of Aggression in Gaza: Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME)
https://www.globalresearch.ca/there-must-consequences-israel-war-aggression-gaza/5789312
“Under a Virtual Siege” – Activists Demand PayPal Offer its Services to Palestinians
https://www.mintpressnews.com/under-virtual-siege-activists-demand-paypal-offer-services-palestinians/281689/
Ukrainian forces have “had the American military at their side” from the start of the conflict with Russia, the magazine Causeur cited a “well-placed analyst” in French intelligence as saying. Pentagon-hired contractors are allegedly “everywhere on the battlefield.”
Staff writer at Mintpress News, Alan MacLeod, discusses the fact-checking organizations that Facebook uses to monitor information about Ukraine that are directly funded by the U.S. government. About Rising: Rising is a weekday morning show with bipartisan hosts that breaks the mold of morning TV by taking viewers inside the halls of Washington power like never before. The show leans into the day’s political cycle with cutting edge analysis from DC insiders who can predict what is going to happen. It also sets the day’s political agenda by breaking exclusive news with a team of scoop-driven reporters and demanding answers during interviews with the country’s most important political newsmakers.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s recent tour in Africa was meant to be a game changer, not only in terms of Russia’s relations with the continent, but in the global power struggle involving the US, Europe, China, India, Turkey and others.
Following Israel’s recent savage attack on Gaza, the last two Tory candidates for PM are outcompeting each other to offer Israel support
Middle East Eye – 9 August 2022
As Israel unleashed a surprise wave of air strikes on Gaza last Friday, the two remaining Conservative politicians vying to replace disgraced Prime Minister Boris Johnson publicised letters vowing fealty to Israel.
The New Dark Age 