Ian Lowe (2021-10-20). Is Australia's Nuclear Sub Deal, Its First Step Toward Building Nuclear Power Plants? counterpunch.org Anti-nuclear power sentiment in Australia is widespread and longstanding. (Photo of inflatable uranium barrel outside Bonython Hall, University of Adelaide, 22 May 2015 by Emma Monceaux/WikimediaCommons) The Australian federal government has announced a landmark defence pact with the United States and United Kingdom that involves this nation acquiring nuclear-powered submarines. The question of nuclear submarines

Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza (2021-10-19). Demonstrations in New York Against Alex Saab Abduction, Campaigns Relaunched, Russia & Iran Protest (Photos & Video). orinocotribune.com Caracas, October 18, 2021 ( In New York this Sunday, October 17, a group of local activists gathered in support of the diplomat to demand justice for the arbitrary actions of the United States last Saturday, when the ambassador of Venezuela to the African Union was illegally extracted from Cape…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-10-19). Iranian president asks US to lift unilateral sanctions to show seriousness in Vienna talks. peoplesdispatch.org The talks in Vienna between Iran and the remaining signatories of the nuclear deal stopped after six rounds following the election of Ebrahim Raisi in June. Iran said that it wanted to review the outcome of the rounds held so far…

sputniknews (2021-10-19). Israel Approves $1.5Bln Budget for Possible Strike Against Iran's Nuclear Facilities – Report. sputniknews.com The budget reportedly includes money for a variety of aircraft, intelligence-gathering drones, and specific munitions required for such an operation, which would need to target heavily guarded underground facilities.

Kurup SK, Sekulic M, Markowitz AH. (2021-10-19). Retinal Artery Thrombosis and Aortic Valve Vegetations. jamanetwork.com A 42-year-old woman had 30 days of blurry vision in the right eye. Dilated-fundus examination and fluorescein angiography showed retinal artery thrombosis; echocardiography showed pedunculated and mobile aortic valve vegetations, and results of testing for antinuclear antibodies were positive at low titer (1: 40, homogenous pattern) with positive dsDNA (5.0 IU/mL). What is the diagnosis and what would you do next?

Movement Rights, NuclearWakeUpCall, partners (2021-10-19). Wednesday 10/20: How Indigenous Wisdom Can Impact Activism Against Nuclear Weapons. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

_____ (2021-10-19). Notes From National Peace & Justice Unity Meeting. popularresistance.org The meeting was attended by leaders from the US Peace Council, Black Alliance for Peace, United National Antiwar Coalition, United for Peace & Justice, Veterans For Peace, Answer Coalition, Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, WorldBeyondWar, Code Pink, Popular Resistance, Task Force on the Americas, and International Action Center.

_____ (2021-10-19). Notes From National Peace And Justice Unity Meeting. popularresistance.org The meeting was attended by leaders from the US Peace Council, Black Alliance for Peace, United National Antiwar Coalition, United for Peace & Justice, Veterans For Peace, Answer Coalition, Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, WorldBeyondWar, Code Pink, Popular Resistance, Task Force on the Americas, and International Action Center.

Middle East Monitor (2021-10-19). How US-Soviet Cold War Competition led to Fall of the Afghan Left and Collapse of the Country into Fundamentalism. juancole.com By Luis Edel Abreu Veranes | — From the turbulent 1970s ( Middle East Monitor) — With its geographic centrality on the Asian continent, Afghanistan has historically become a corridor and civilisational interstice between Persian and Hindustani empires and peoples flowing in from the north. Some were Turkic-speaking, who marked and shaped the ethnic synthesis …

sputniknews (2021-10-19). Israel Approves $1.5Bln Budget for Possible Strike Against Iran's Nuclear Facilities – Report. sputniknews.com The budget reportedly includes money for a variety of aircraft, intelligence-gathering drones, and specific munitions required for such an operation, which would need to target heavily guarded underground facilities.

Movement Rights, NuclearWakeUpCall, partners (2021-10-19). Wednesday 10/20: How Indigenous Wisdom Can Impact Activism Against Nuclear Weapons. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

Middle East Monitor (2021-10-19). How US-Soviet Cold War Competition led to Fall of the Afghan Left and Collapse of the Country into Fundamentalism. juancole.com By Luis Edel Abreu Veranes | — From the turbulent 1970s ( Middle East Monitor) — With its geographic centrality on the Asian continent, Afghanistan has historically become a corridor and civilisational interstice between Persian and Hindustani empires and peoples flowing in from the north. Some were Turkic-speaking, who marked and shaped the ethnic synthesis …

Staff (2021-10-18). Iranian Oil Supertanker Leaves Venezuela with 2 Million Barrels of Heavy Crude. orinocotribune.com An Iranian supertanker is ready to set sail from Venezuela with two million barrels of heavy crude, under an agreement that strengthens bilateral strategic cooperation between Venezuela and Iran. | As part of an agreement forged between Tehran and Caracas, the Venezuelan national oil company Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) will exchange heavy Venezuelan crude with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) for Iranian condensate, as was revealed last month by the news outlet The Cradle. | The Dino I supertanker, operated by NIOC, arrived in Venezuela in September with 2.1 million barrels of Iranian condensate. On…

Middle East Monitor (2021-10-18). Israel Stops Hundreds of Jews from Moving to Iran as Asylum Seekers. globalresearch.ca

Markela Panegyres (2021-10-18). Family of Wayne Fella Morrison forces parliament to ban spit hoods. greenleft.org.au The family of Wiradjuri, Kokatha and Wirangu man Wayne Fella Morrison, who died in custody, has forced the South Australian parliament to ban spit hoods. Markela Panegyres reports.

Dave DeCamp (2021-10-18). Iran Resumes Exports to Saudi Arabia in Sign of Warming Ties. news.antiwar.com Iran announced Sunday that it has Iran's Customs Administration's spokesman Roohollah Latifi said Saudi Arabia has "rejoined" the list of countries to which Iran exports. Latifi said exports to Saudi Arabia had " Last week, Iran expressed its "readiness" to resume exports to Saudi Arabia if tensio…

teleSUR (2021-10-18). US Sanctions On Iran Aggravate the Global Energy Crisis. telesurenglish.net As the world is facing a grave energy crisis caused by growing demand for fossil fuels, the U.S. sanctions on Iran have hindered an alleviation of the crisis. | RELATED: | With major economies slowly recovering from the pandemic, the previous harsh winter having depleted Europe's gas reserves and cold days ahead, global demand for energy has shot up and commodity prices are consequently going up. In Europe, gas pri…

Dave DeCamp (2021-10-18). Iran, Venezuela to Sign 20-Year Economic Cooperation Deal. news.antiwar.com Iran and Venezuela have announced Venezuelan Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia met with his Iranian officials in Tehran on Monday. After meeting with Plasencia, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the deal will be signed when Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro visits Tehran in the "next few months." | The Iranian Foreign Mini…

Staff (2021-10-18). RT visits Russia's northernmost town, where people get KNOCKED OVER by Arctic winds and get power from a FLOATING NUCLEAR reactor. rt.com Lying on Russia's Northern Sea Route but often inaccessible by land, the far-northeastern town of Pevek is a tough place to live in, but thanks to a unique floating nuclear power plant experiment, it's undergoing an "atomic boom." | The desolate town lies on the shore of the East Siberian Sea in Russia's Chukotka, the country's most north-eastern region. RT's correspondent crew visited the town, which recently became home to Akademik Lomonosov — the world's first and only floating nuclear power plant. | | "One of the first things that strike you in Pevek is that there are no trees. Just…nothing…. Th…

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-18). Warplanes from 14 nations: NATO launches nuclear "deterrence" exercise. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO launches annual deterrence exercise NATO kicked off its annual deterrence exercise on Monday (18 October 2021), with dozens of aircraft from across the Alliance practicing the defence of NATO's European Allies. The week-long exercise, called "Steadfast Noon", is taking place over southern Europe, and involves aircraft and personnel from 14 NATO countries. Steadfast Noon …

Daniel Ellsberg (2021-10-18). To Avoid Armageddon, Don't Modernize Missiles—Eliminate Them. zcomm.org Land-based nuclear weapons are world-ending accident waiting to happen, and completely superfluous to a reliable deterrent…