NYT: US Intelligence Shows Iranian Leaders Were Surprised by Hamas Attack

DaveDeCamp

October 11, 2023

Israeli officials have said they have no evidence of Iranian involvement

Iran warns Israel against its apocalyptic war

M.K. BHADRAKUMAR

October 11, 2023

Amidst growing speculations in the US about Tehran’s involvement in the Hamas’ attack on Israel last Saturday and the reported move by the Pentagon to despatch by the weekend a second aircraft carrier to the East Mediterranean, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has spoken for the first time on the explosive situation. 

War News

It is interesting to look at the headlines of online news organizations, that give the reader so much information as to what is going on in the world of politics. For today, October 11,2023, these are RT’s (Russia Today) headlines:

 

راز اینکه چرا انسان‌ها بطور متوسط حدود هشتاد سال عمر میکنند احتمالا کشف شد

نقل از تلگراف، نوشتهٔ سارا نپتن

معمای این که چرا انسان ها در حدود هشتاد سالگی می میرند، در حالی که سایر پستانداران عمر بسیار کوتاه تر یا طولانی تری دارند ممکن است سرانجام توسط دانشمندان حل شده باشد.ا

 

Listening to Lavrov

TedSnider

October 9, 2023

On November 18, 2021, Putin held a meeting with Russian diplomats. Facing renewed vows that Ukraine would enter NATO and continued concerns that NATO’s “military potential and infrastructure [would be] in the vicinity of Russian borders,” Putin turned to his minister of foreign affairs, Sergey Lavrov, and said, “it is imperative to push for serious, long-term guarantees that safeguard Russia’s security . . ..”

Mystery of Why Humans Die Around 80 May Finally Be Solved

SarahKnapton

October 8, 2023

Scientists have been studying the ageing processes of mammals, from humans to mice and giraffes.

Iran slams Nobel Peace Prize decision

 

RTWorld News

October 7, 2023

Tehran says the selection of women’s rights activist Narges Mohammadi was “political”

Tehran has condemned the Nobel Peace Prize committee after it awarded an Iranian rights campaigner, calling the move “politically motivated” and alleging that the activist had engaged in “criminal acts.”

 

Nearly Half of US Nutrition Board Members Have Food and Pharma Industry Ties: Report

Brett Wilkins

October 6, 2023

"Millions of Americans' lives are affected by this report and it's crucial that the report tell the truth to American people and it's not degraded into another sales pitch for Big Food and Big Pharma."

Ambassador of Israeli Crimes: This is How Gilad Erdan Become a Defender of Women’s Rights in Iran

Ramzy Baroud

October 5, 2023

A new trend is emerging in the Israeli hasbara discourse targeting Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims: women’s rights.

 

Eleven Activists Arrested in Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Office Demanding Diplomacy Instead of Funding More War in Ukraine

CodePink

October 4, 2023

Washington, D.C. – A group of 50 activists and Vermont constituents staged a sit-in inside Senator Bernie Sanders’ office on Wednesday, demanding the senator to call for peace and diplomacy in Ukraine instead of more weapons and war. The sit-in resulted in the arrest of 11 activists, including an 89-year-old CODEPINK peace activist.

 

Ukraine SitRep: Bad Demographics - End of Support

By:b- Moon of Alabama

October 3, 2023

Via a Responsible Statecraft piece I came onto a EU study that tried to predict the future demographics of Ukraine's population.

TheWar and the Future of Ukraine’s Population

 

The Origin of COVID

A youtube video about the origin of COVID:

 
(1) Origin of Covid & Whistleblowing w/Jeffrey Sachs - YouTube

Tampering with History

Patrick Lawrence

October 2, 2023

History tells us where we are in the human story and what we, alive now, must do to advance this story. To tamper with history is among the gravest of sins against the human cause.

 

How will a pro-Russia party winning Slovakia vote affect the Ukraine war?

AlJazeera and news agencies

October 1, 2023

Ex-PM Robert Fico is set to replace a technocrat government that has been backing Kyiv against the Russian invasion.

 

One Western Official Finally Comes Clean About NATO Expansion

TedGalen Carpenter

September 26, 2023

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg likely surprised both factions in the ongoing debate about NATO expansion and its role in triggering the Russia-Ukraine War. He also undermined (perhaps fatally) the official cover story about the reasons for the Ukraine war. Since Russia’s February 2022 invasion, Western officials and their allies in the corporate media have insisted vehemently that the alliance’s addition of Eastern European nations after the Cold War and giving a pledge to Ukraine that it would become a member someday had nothing to do with Vladimir Putin’s decision to attack his neighbor. Indeed, anyone who argued otherwise risked being accused of echoing Russian propaganda and being “Putin’s puppet.”

 

Ukraine asked West to strike Iran and Syria – Guardian

RT
27 Sep, 2023

Kiev was reportedly willing to conduct missile attacks on both nations if its Western backers supplied “the necessary means of destruction”

“I Am Not Now, Nor Have I Ever Been”: Musings on Communism and Anti-Communism

JonahRaskin

September 29, 2023

If you grew up in the 1950s, as I did in a lefty American family, the name Joseph McCarthy elicited as much loathing as that of John Wilkes Booth and Benito Mussolini. The zeitgeist of the late 1940s and early 1950s—fueled by the Cold War—were, as troubadour Peter Seeger sang, while he strummed the banjo, “a terrible time,” though it was also, he added, “a wonderful time.” A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens’s novel of the French Revolution, begins on a similar note:  “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

US House Rejects Cluster-Bomb Ban

BrettWilkins

September 28, 2023

Democrats and Republicans turned down the chance to stop the export of weapons that harm and kill civilians long after military campaigns are over.