Daily Archives: August 7, 2022

2022-08-07: News Headlines

Situational Awareness (2022-08-07). People's Park: Berkeley City Council to Vote on "Tear Gas" Authorization Tonight. indybay.org A special meeting of the Berkeley City Council is scheduled for TONIGHT, Thursday August 4 @ 8: 15PM. The topic is to suspend the city's policy banning the use of chemical weapons. This proposed change of policy is in response to the People's Park protest. | Zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/j/89083608532

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-07). The US Keeps Reneging on Arms Control Agreements, So Why Should Russia Trust Biden's Latest Overtures? libya360.wordpress.com Scott Ritter >An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, U.S., August 2, 2017 Washington's track record on fulfilling treaty obligations is not exactly stellar. This week, in an address to the Tenth Review Conference for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons — which…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-08-07). The Shanghai "Covid Zero Tolerance Mandate". Engineered Depression of China's Economy? globalresearch.ca "Covid Tolerance Zero" has contributed to destabilizing Shanghai's financial sector as well as China's buoyant export economy. It has created social havoc for millions of people, requiring the imposition of PCR tests, using the QR code as a means of social control.

Orinoco Tribune2 (2022-08-06). Evo Morales Calls for a Global Campaign To Eliminate NATO. orinocotribune.com In Interview With British Journalist, Morales Says The U.S. Uses Nato To Provoke Wars And Sell Weapons. | U.S./Uk-Backed Coup Against Him In 2019 Was Undertaken For Lithium And Because His Government Advanced An Alternative Economic Model To The Neoliberal "Washington Consensus". | In an

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-08-06). "The Doomsday Forum": Senior Military, Nuclear Weapons Officials Convene… America's "$1 Trillion Nuclear Weapons Plan". Take out Russia, Iran and North Korea? globalresearch.ca "Blowing up the Planet" through the use of "peace-making nuclear bombs" is a money making undertaking, a corporate bonanza for the "defense" contractors.

Ali Abunimah (2022-08-06). US, Europe greenlight Israel's latest Gaza massacre. electronicintifada.net Western weapons, money and political support sustain Israel's persecution of the Palestinian people and keep the blood flowing.

_____ (2022-08-06). Amnesty International On Ukraine's Violations Of International Law. popularresistance.org The human rights organization Amnesty International released a report Thursday showing that "Ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm's way by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas, including in schools and hospitals." | Amnesty International's findings corroborate an earlier report by the United Nations which also provided evidence that the Ukrainian army has been using civilians as human shields in the conflict. Both of these recent reports come on top of extensive documentation of war crimes committed by the Ukrainian army and its neo-fascist paramilitary forces, pa…

F. William Engdahl (2022-08-06). The "Great Zero Carbon" Conspiracy and the WEF's "Great Reset" globalresearch.ca The globalist Davos World Economic Forum is proclaiming the necessity of reaching a worldwide goal of "net zero carbon" by 2050. Yet transformations underway from Germany to the USA, are setting the stage for creation of what is called the New Word Order. In reality it is a blueprint for a global technocratic totalitarian corporativism, that promises huge unemployment, deindustrialization and economic collapse.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-08-05). Has the Ukraine Conflict Driven U.S. Government Officials Crazy? covertactionmagazine.com Latest outrage is the FBI's use of flash-bang grenades and drones to startle 80-year-old leader of Black Nationalist organization who …

Kyle Anzalone (2022-08-05). The White House Will Approve New $1 Billion Weapons Transfer to Ukraine. news.antiwar.com Reuters reports unnamed officials in the Biden administration say a new $1 billion weapons package is waiting for the president's signature. The next arms transfer will be the 18th since Russia invaded Ukraine in February. President Joe Biden will use the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) to fund the security assistance package. In May, Congress placed …

TeleSUR (2022-08-05). Israel Sends More Troops Near Gaza Amid Rising Tensions. telesurenglish.net Israel on Thursday deployed attack drones over the Gaza Strip and continued to close major roads in the south amid rising tensions with the Palestinians. | Israel's military has announced that it was sending more troops to the area near Gaza in case there were possible reprisal attacks following the arrest of a senior militant in the West Bank this week.

Carson Minow (2022-08-05). U.S. July unemployment numbers hit new low. america.cgtn.com The United States added more than half a million jobs in July, a much better figure than expected. The unemployment rate also dipped to 3.5% last month, a number not seen since before the Covid-19 pandemic, and a figure that represents a half-century low. It's …

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