The UN doesn’t want IAEA monitors to confirm Kiev was shelling the power plant, says local administration
Members of the UN are blocking a visit by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (ZNPP) so they can avoid confirming Kiev shelled the Russian-controlled facility, local official Vladimir Rogov told RT in an interview on Monday.
Éric Toussaint and B. Skanthakumar
Sri Lanka’s acute economic crisis and sovereign debt default, along with its people’s uprising in 2022, has drawn attention across the world. It is described as the ‘canary in the coal mine’, that is, a harbinger of the likely future for other global south countries. Eric Toussaint, spokesperson for the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) interviewed via email Colombo-based Balasingham Skanthakumar of the Social Scientists’ Association of Sri Lanka and the CADTM’s South Asia network. The responses in draft were improved by Amali Wedagedera’s review and finalized on 5th August.
The only possible explanation for this shocking stance is that the West has become so desperate to stop Russia’s slow but steady advance throughout the latest phase of the Ukrainian Conflict that its ideologically driven elite are literally willing to sacrifice their own people’s lives and that of future generations in a last-ditch gamble to bring that about. Their citizens, meanwhile, obviously don’t approve of this but are powerless to shape the course of events.
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China’s Growing Military Might
https://journal-neo.org/2022/08/15/china-s-growing-military-might/
Is the Ukrainian War on its Own People Now Over?
https://journal-neo.org/2022/08/15/is-the-ukrainian-war-on-its-own-people-now-over/
German chancellor opposes fellow EU leaders on visa issue
https://www.rt.com/news/560899-olaf-scholz-against-visa-ban-russians/
Alastair Crooke continues to explore the origins of concealed totalitarianism within European culture.
(Part One of these two articles traced the origins of this concealed totalitarianism within European culture. This second piece takes the story and its implications further)
For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all that would be.(Alfred Lord Tennyson)
Let me start today’s write up out with two reading recommendations.
Lambert Strether and Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism discuss a piece on the Russian operation in Ukraine that had been printed in the Marine Corps Gazette and of which facsimile pictures were published two weeks ago on Twitter and later in full at Reddit and by Southfront.
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[I was able to connect to RT to retrieve this text, you may not be so lucky. B]
Brussels’ claim that Russia is the one threatening the facility is allowing Kiev to obstruct an IAEA inspection, Russia’s Foreign Ministry says
Accusations that Moscow is jeopardizing the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) contradict the facts and allow Kiev to undermine the International Atomic Energy Agency’s efforts to inspect the facility, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
By Kevin Gosztola
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A group of journalists and lawyers, who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while he was living under political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy, sued the CIA and former CIA director Mike Pompeo. They allege that the agency under Pompeo spied on them in violation of their privacy rights.
Parents were angry at the Biden administration’s resumption of weapons sales to Saudi Arabia on August 2, one week ahead of the 4th anniversary of the Yemen school bus children attack on August 9.
Seven new books for people who know that the point is to change the world
Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly Climate & Capitalism feature, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C agrees with everything (or even anything!) these books say.
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Will the West’s greed and hatred lead to the end of the world?
https://williambowles.info/2022/08/14/will-the-wests-greed-and-hatred-lead-to-the-end-of-the-world/
The New York Times Exposed Kiev’s Latest Lie: No Newly Exported Grain Is Going To Africa
https://uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/the-new-york-times-exposed-kievs-latest-lie-no-newly-exported-grain-is-going-to-africa/
Snubbed Ukrainian grain heading to Russia-friendly Syria – Reuters
https://www.rt.com/news/560811-ukraine-grain-ship-syria/
By Aram Mirzaei for the Saker blog
It can certainly be said that the risk for nuclear war is far greater today than it was less a year ago. Ever since the conflict in Ukraine began, the collective West and its vassals, also known as the “international community” have been engaged in a hybrid war against Russia, stopping just short of direct confrontation. Although some EU leaders like Borrell seem to think that the West is an active combatant in the conflict. “We must explain to our citizens that this is not someone else’s war,” Borrell said in an interview published by newspaper El Pais on Thursday. “The public must be willing to pay the price of supporting Ukraine and for preserving the unity of the EU.”
“Health officials have clearly and repeatedly stated that everyone can catch monkeypox and that it is not sexually transmitted”
[Source: pressofatlanticcity.com]Careless messaging by global health agencies about the outbreak of monkeypox virus has created widespread public confusion, including associating the infectious disease with gay and bisexual men and with Africans.
By Dr. Binoy Kampark
Scenes and pictures have been circulating of broken earth, lacking moisture, cracked and yearning. But these are not from traditional drought-stricken parts of the planet, where the animal carcass assumes near totemic power amidst dry riverbeds or desert expanses. Neither Australia nor Africa feature on these occasions – at least in a prominent way. Europe, continent of historical arable sustainability, is drying up.
I’m resuming my occasional series discussing the ground conditions that make society susceptible to pandemania. See my last pandemania post if you don’t know what I’m talking about. I’m moved to resume this series because of some conversations I’ve had over the last few days that reminded me of why I am not letting the issue drop.
Iranian envoy to the IAEA in Vienna, Mohsen Naziri Asl, leaves Palais Coburg, venue of closed-door nuclear talks, August 5, 2022From the look of it, the US-Iran rapprochement is getting on to a bumpy start. The usage ‘rapprochement’ is deliberate — and will be disputed — because in the near term at least, what can be expected if an agreement is indeed reached in Vienna, which is an open question, can only be a state of cordial relations between the two countries, no longer hostile but not yet friendly either.
UK Chief of the General Staff Gen. Patrick Sanders visited Ukrainian soldiers training in the UK, July 2022Britain has played a key role in NATO forward troop deployments and training exercises on Russia’s borders. With war underway, the UK sends billions in arms, special forces, and volunteers to ensure escalation.
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In a new interview with The Wall Street Journal, immortal Hague fugitive Henry Kissinger says the US is acting in a crazy and irrational way that has brought it to the edge of war with Russia and China:
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Charles Eisenstein
The New Dark Age 