(2022-08-17). Turkey Trades Heavy Shelling With Syrian Kurds. news.antiwar.com Off and on fighting just west of the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobane has escalated into a Mortar attacks by the Kurds killed a Turkish soldier and wounded four others. Meanwhile, the Turkish shelling Turkish officials claimed res…
(2022-08-17). Israel Violated UN-Brokered Ceasefire In Southern Syria: Russian MoD. southfront.org 
FILE IMAGE: Israeli battle tank | An Israeli tank had crossed the border line in the Golan Heights and then defiantly aimed its gun at Syrian military positions, deputy head of Russia's Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in Syria said on August 16. | Captain First Degree Yevgeny Gerasimov said that the Israeli move was a violation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 3 , which was approved on 31 May 1974."At 13: 00 on August 15, the Israel Defense Forces tank left the Tell el-Faras Mountain…
(2022-08-17). 'Operation Lone Star' ‚àí a white-supremacist ploy. workers.org 
Proto-fascist Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas is getting a lot of publicity these days for busing asylum-seeking migrants, who have entered the U.S. from the Mexican border, up north to Washington, D.C., and to New York City. He's now been joined in this political stunt by Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey. . . . |
(2022-08-17). Naciones Unidas aborda crisis de migrantes rohinyá en Bangladés. telesurtv.net Los campamentos que albergan a refugiados rohinyá que huyeron de Myanmar hace cinco años fueron visitados por la delegación de la ONU.
(2022-08-17). China-Mongolia border port sees cargo volume rise. ecns.cn As of Monday, Erenhot, the largest land port on the China-Mongolia border, had logged over 1 million tonnes of cargo transported by inbound China-Europe freight trains this year, reaching the figure nearly one month earlier compared with 2021.
(2022-08-17). Over 1 m ton of goods exported to Iraq via Mehran border. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 17 (MNA) — Some 1.1 million tons of goods have been exported through the Mehran border to Iraq in the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-July 22), an official said.
(2022-08-17). Transit of over 591k tons of goods from border in Kermanshah. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 17 (MNA) — Parvizkhan border in Iran has registered the transit of 591,992 tons of goods in the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-July 22), as compared to the same period last year, an official said.
(2022-08-16). Scaling Deliberation—Austrian Citizens' Councils. popularresistance.org Vorarlberg is a state of about 400,000 people lying at the western tip of Austria and bordering Germany, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. The state government has a history of exploring and experimenting with a variety of participatory approaches to involving citizens more deeply in shaping public policy. While cost considerations proved an impediment to using many them over the long term, for over a decade now the use of Citizens' Councils has been a regularly recurring part of the state's governance. | In 2005, Manfred Hellrigl, former director of what is now the Bàºro fàºr Freiwilliges Engagement und…
(2022-08-16). Refugees Are Being Stranded In NYC. popularresistance.org For several days, buses have been dumping refugees from Texas in New York City, along with buses that have been going to Washington D.C. for months. Mutual aid groups are receiving these refugees and providing them with mental health, legal support, and other resources. This mutual aid has formed in the absence of a citywide policy to welcome refugees. | In recent years, more and more refugees from Latin America are migrating to the United States. This increase in migration is a direct result of the climate crisis and centuries of imperialism ravaging and underdeveloping the Global South. Wealthy countries in the…