2021-08-17: News Headlines

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-08-17). Latin American Socialists Unite with the West Asian Axis of Resistance. libya360.wordpress.com Ben Norton The leftist governments of Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Bolivia have found a key strategic ally in Iran, the heart of the Axis of Resistance. Revolutionary socialist movements in Latin America are developing closer relations with anti-imperialist resistance forces in West Asia, building a united front against Western aggression and exploitation. This budding alliance…

Editor2 (2021-08-17). US Treasury Imposes New Sanctions on Iran and Cuba. orinocotribune.com The US Treasury Department announces new sanctions on Cuban officials as well as entities allegedly associated with Iran's Revolutionary Guard. |

| The US Treasury Department announced today, via a statement, the sanctioning of entities and individuals under the pretext of "their association with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards." | The statement said that Washington "is designating individuals and businesses involved in an international oil smuggling network that supports Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF)." | The statement indicated that the sanctions "targets an Omani broke…

Editor2 (2021-08-17). First VP Blasts US for Blocking Iran's Efforts to Purchase Medicine. orinocotribune.com "Although the arrogant system (led by the US) claims that access to medicine is free for all people and there is no restriction for any country, when we want to purchase the needed medicine, they do not allow transfer of money and prevent the drugs' imports," Mokhber said, addressing a meeting in Tehran on Saturday. | He also noted that coronavirus has affected many businesses and the shortage of medicine and treatment-related issues have also placed a heavy burden on the country's budget, saying that these problems need serious planning and efforts to address the problems of businesses which are affected by the…

Anonymous007 (2021-08-17). IEAE Says Iran Progressing In Enriched Uranium Metal, U.S. Urges It To Stop. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Iran has made progress in its work on enriched uranium metal, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)."On 14 August 2021, the Agency verified … that Iran had used 257 g of uranium enriched up to 20% U-235 in the form of UF4 (uranium tetrafluoride) to produce 200 g of uranium metal enriched up to 20% U-235," the IAEA said, adding that this was step three in a four-step plan by Iran. | The fourth includes producing a reactor fuel plate. | Iran's work on enriched uranium…

Labor Video Project (2021-08-17). Rehire Namibian Mine Union Leaders & Hands Off Lawyer Beukes! Rally At SF China Consulate. indybay.org A rally was held on 8/13/21 at the San Francisco Chinese consulate to demand the rehiring of the 9 dismissed leaders of the Miners Union of Namibia Rossing Branch. Their employers is the state owned Chinese National Nuclear Corporation.

imperial.ac.uk (2021-08-17). Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as 'ignition' triggered in a lab. imperial.ac.uk Ignition is a key process that amplifies the energy output from nuclear fusion and could provide clean energy and answer some huge physics questions.

Anonymous007 (2021-08-16). Ukraine Building "Mosquito" Naval Fleet With Allies, Because Russia "Stole" Its Old One. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Russia "stole" Ukraine's Navy, according to MSM Still, with the United States' help it will build a "mosquito" fleet, featuring small, fast, and stealthy short-range patrol and fast attack craft in a sort of arsenal similar to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. | The…

John Laforge (2021-08-16). Point Beach Reactor Courts Disaster with Sirens Turned Off. counterpunch.org A change to "emergency response" has been made at the 50-year-old Point Beach nuclear reactors on Lake Michigan south of Green Bay, Wisconsin. The operators, NextEra Energy Point Beach (NextEra), have turned off the site's disaster warning sirens. That's right, no more wailing sirens to warn of potentially catastrophic radiation releases or spills from the

Lawrence Wittner (2021-08-16). Baby Teeth, Collected Decades Ago, Can Show the Damage to Human Health of Nuclear Tests. warisacrime.org By Lawrence Wittner and Joseph Mangano In 2020, Harvard University's T. C. Chan School of Public Health began a five-year study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that will examine the connection between early life exposure to toxic metals and later-life risk of neurological disease. A collaborator with Harvard, the Radiation and Public Health …

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