Dear CCI Followers,

The 75th Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is upon us — August 6th and 9th. Regardless of how our nation has tried to gloss over this greatest horror ever perpetrated on fellow human beings … the facts remain, they happened.

The most devastating writing and photojournal I’ve seen about these bombings arrived yesterday from Consortium News. It is a patchwork of print media and actual photos (banned at the time) of the two cities in the wake of being hit by the two A Bombs. At the time, our leaders tried to minimize the horrific numbers of deaths and suffering unleashed on ordinary Japanese people.

It behooves us to ponder deeply the magnitude of this crime. It is our history. In ensuing years it has been rumored that the Japanese knew they had lost the war, that WW2 was all but over, and that the Japanese emperor was preparing treaties to end the war. If you know that these claims are untrue or true, please let us know. If true, the issue needs to be cleared up once and for all times.

PLEASE, take the time to scan this piece—click on the following:

Consortium News

It is particularly timely since our leaders today are marching us straight up to the edge of a Nuclear War by refusing to sign treaties and forgoing diplomacy to reduce the likelihood of nuclear war.

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Russia, US Willing to Continue Space Security Dialogue-US Department of State

Two sides have exchanged views on current and future space threats, policies, strategies, and doctrine

July 29, 2020
TASS

During the latest round of space security consultations in Vienna, Russia and the United States discussed existing and potential threats in this domain and expressed their willingness to continue the dialogue, the US Department of State’s office of the spokesperson said.

“In this meeting, the two sides exchanged views on current and future space threats, policies, strategies, and doctrine, and discussed a forward-looking agenda to promote safe, professional, and sustainable activities in space,” the press service said in a statement. ·

“Both delegations expressed interest in continuing these discussions and improving communications, such as on how to enhance communications between the two countries about space-related operational issues in order to reduce the risks of misunderstanding, help prevent or manage space-related incidents, and prevent inadvertent escalation,” the document reads.

The United States delegation included officials from the Departments of State, Defense, and Energy, as well as the National Security Council.

“In more than 13 hours of discussion, these senior U.S. civilian and military experts with·space policy and operational experience engaged in extensive discussions with Russian counterparts in the first space dialogue with Moscow in seven years,” the US Department of State said.

The working group on space security gathered in Vienna as part of Russian-US consultations on strategic stability.

Dear CCI Friends,

Tulsi Gabbard is BACK! She took off a respectable amount of time to decide where she could best serve in the future, after having been kept out of the final 2020 Presidential debate.

Finishing up the last six months of her fourth Congressional term, she is in Washington asking the hard questions and proposing Bills that would clear up some of our most egregious challenges as a nation, including this one … the role of Sanctions in our national chest of ways to deal with countries who don’t wish to go along with our expectations of them. U.S. Sanctions may be needed in rare situations, but not in most circumstances with countries that labor under them today.

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Dear CCI Followers,

Mid-Year 2020 we are witnessing an all-out, flagrant demonization of Russia and China in all of America’s mainstream media! Why? Whom do they hope to influence???

Answer:
Mainstream Democrats and Republicans who have been busy with their own lives … and have paid no attention to international relations in the past. They get their news from NYT affiliates, The Washington Post and CNN. All of whom promote each other’s safe narratives.

Here we are four months away from the 2020 Presidential election and both parties just voted to allot $738,000,000,000 to fight more wars! But in truth, we in the U.S. don’t have any real enemies.

Congressional members pose Russia and China as “ENEMIES” writ large. WHY? —  to feed America’s military industrial complex’s (MIC) insistence that we need more weapons production. The MIC then provides congress members’ states with weapons manufacturing companies which feeds their states’ economies in addition to providing them with campaign contributions. It’s a quid pro quo.

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Biden, Russia’s not Iraq!
Threatening the Kremlin over non-existent election meddling endangers not only the US but the world too

July 21, 2020
By Scott Ritter

Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer. He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, in General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector. Follow him on Twitter @RealScottRitter

Together with his fellow Democrats, Joe Biden’s playing a dangerous game of Russia-baiting that lacks any basis in fact, and could lead to a precipitous fracturing of US-Russian relations.

The Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for president has put his foot down, so to speak, when it comes to the issue of Russian interference in US elections.

“I am putting the Kremlin and other foreign governments on notice,” Biden announced in a lengthy statement. “If elected president, I will treat foreign interference in our election as an adversarial act that significantly affects the relationship between the United States and the interfering nation’s government,” he wrote.

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