(2021-11-08). China's going to take over Bagram — Trump. rt.com 
Former US President Donald Trump has warned that China will start using the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. American troops left the base this year as part of their complete withdrawal from the country. | "We would have kept Bagram because it is next to China," Trump told Fox News. "And it is one hour away from their nuclear facility, and we gave that up too." | And now China's going to take over Bagram, in my opinion. | The former president once again criticized the "embarrassing" withdrawal of US forces, which he said was "really a surrender." | Trump has argued in the past that it was a mistake to remove US…
(2021-11-07). Iraq: Iran-backed factions 'will pay the price' for drone attack on Kadhimi. middleeasteye.net 
Iraq: Iran-backed factions 'will pay the price' for drone attack on Kadhimi | Sources tell MEE that the prime minister was not harmed and now has new impetus to go after the paramilitaries | Sun, 11/07/2021 – 20: 12 | A soldier stands watch in Baghdad. Heavy security has been deployed in the Iraqi capital after the drone attack on the prime minister's residence (MEE/Murtaja Lateef) | The appa…
(2021-11-07). Russia, Turkey try to transpose their Mideast rivalry to Caucasus. asiatimes.com 
When Turkey first proposed its "3+3" format — the three South Caucasus states of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan plus Russia, Turkey and Iran — last December, few thought anything of it. After all, since the Soviet collapse 30 years ago, the region had been largely Russia's back yard, with little space for other actors to …
(2021-11-07). F35A approved to carry nukes: US is Set to Make Nuclear War More Likely. warisacrime.org 
By Dave Lindorff The US is about to move towards a far more likely first use of nuclear weapons, with word that the Air Force has "completed flight testing" of the cost-and-performance-plagued F35A Lightning fighter, all units of which are being "upgraded" to carry thermonuclear weapons. What this means, as explained in a new article in Popular Mechanics, …