Sunday, August 16, 2026



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Middle East Eye MEE HOOLE EAST EYE As the US and Israel launched air strikes on Iran on 28 February 2026, Iran struck back near US military installations in the Gulf, including in Qatar and the UAE. Several international airports were hit by Iranian strikes, including Dubai, the world's busiest for international passengers, as well as Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Bahrain.<



The UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait closed their airspaces due to safety concerns, gradually reopening them a week later as hostilities lessened. <




The war has had long-lasting consequences for regional aviation: falling passenger and cargo demand, fewer private jet flights, and global repercussions from high jet fuel prices.




The International Air Transport Association'sThe International Air Transport Association's (IATA) June outlook estimated that airlines operating from the Middle East will see a $7.2bn net profit in 2025 become a $4.3bn net loss in 2026. Most major regional carriers have resumed operations, including Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways, but not at full capacity. Emirates CEO Tim Clark told the Financial Times in June his planes were flying at three-quarters capacity.<



Conversely, most European and Asian airlines' flights in the region remain suspended. Air France expects to resume in late August and Lufthansa in September, while British Airways, Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines are all targeting late October.


Air Canada is not planning to resume before mid-January 2027
Charles, it's Democrat David Crowley, official nominee for Governor of Wisconsin, and here's why my race deserves your attention even if you've never set foot in the state. 1️⃣ Wisconsin is one of only five governorships Democrats are defending this year in a state Donald Trump carried in 2024. <


2️⃣ Wisconsin has decided the last three presidential elections by less than a single point each time.


3️⃣ Whoever wins the governor's mansion here has real power over voting access, reproductive rights, and whether Trump's agenda hits a wall or a rubber stamp at the state line.


I can beat MAGA Tom Tiffany in November, but I need to build a war chest fast, because my opponent already has one. Will you chip in to help me hold this seat for Democrats? act.davidcrowley.org/0815HQNBC?t=UCmcXt Text STOP to quit
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Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Article Talk Language Watch Edit The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a Eurasian political, economic and international security organization of ten member states. It was established in 2001 by the People's Republic of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. In June 2017, it expanded to eight states, with India and Pakistan. Iran joined the group in July 2023, and Belarus in July 2024. Several countries are engaged as observers or dialogue partners. Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Chinese: 上海合作组织 Russian: Шанхайская Организация Сотрудничества Members Observers Dialogue partners Abbreviation SCO Predecessor Shanghai Five Formation 15 June 2001; 24 years ago Type Mutual security, political, and economic cooperation Legal status Regional cooperation forum[1] Headquarters Beijing, China (Secretariat) Tashkent, Uzbekistan (RATS Executive Committee) Membership 10 member states 2 observer states 14 dialogue partners 4 guest attendees Official language ChineseRussian[2] Secretary-General Nurlan Yermekbayev Deputy Secretaries-General Ahmad Saidmurodzoda Batir Tursunov [uz] Oleg Kopylov Piao Yangfan [zh] Shri Janesh Kain Sohail Khan RATS Executive Committee Director Ularbek Sharsheev[3] Website sectsco.org Edit this at Wikidata It is the world's largest regional organization in terms of geographic scope and population, covering approximately 24% of the world's total area (65% of Eurasia)[4] and 42% of the world population. As of 2024, its combined nominal GDP accounts for around 23%, while its GDP based on PPP comprises approximately 36% of the world's total. The SCO is the successor to the Shanghai Five, formed in 1996 between China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.[5] In June 2001, the leaders of these nations and Uzbekistan met in Shanghai to announce a new organization with deeper political and economic cooperation. The SCO is governed by the Heads of State Council (HSC), its supreme decision-making body, which meets once a year. The organization also contains the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS). Origins edit The Shanghai Five edit The Shanghai Five group was created on 26 April 1996 when the heads of states of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan signed the Treaty on Deepening Military Trust in Border Regions in Shanghai.[6]<


On 24 April 1997 the same countries signed the Treaty on Reduction of Military Forces in Border Regions in a meeting in Moscow, Russia.[7] On 20 May 1997 Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Chinese President Jiang Zemin signed a declaration on a "multipolar world".[8]



Subsequent annual summits of the Shanghai Five group occurred in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 1998, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in 1999, and in Dushanbe, Tajikistan in 2000. At the Dushanbe summit, members agreed to "oppose intervention in other countries' internal affairs on the reason of 'humanitarianism' and 'protecting human rights;' and support the efforts of one another in safeguarding the five countries' national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and social stability."[5] The Shanghai Five structure helped speed up the members' resolution of border disputes, agree on military deployments in border areas, and address security threats.[9]: 95 


Developing institutional forms edit In 2001, the annual summit returned to Shanghai and the group was institutionalized.[9]: 95  The five member nations first admitted Uzbekistan in the Shanghai Five mechanism.[9]: 95  On 15 June 2001, all six heads of state signed the Declaration of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, praising the role played thus far by the Shanghai Five mechanism and aiming to transform it to a higher level of cooperation.[2] From 2001 to 2008, the SCO developed rapidly, establishing a number of permanent bodies and ad hoc initiatives dealing with economic and security matters.[9]: 95 


In June 2002, the heads of the SCO member states met in Saint Petersburg, Russia and signed the SCO Charter which expounded on the organisation's purposes, principles, structures and forms of operation. It entered into force on 19 September 2003.[10]



In July 2005, at the summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, with representatives of India, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan attending an SCO summit for the first time, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of the Kazakhstan, greeted the guests in words that had never been used before in any context: "The leaders of the states sitting at this negotiation table are representatives of half of humanity".[11] By 2007, the SCO had initiated over twenty large-scale projects related to transportation, energy and telecommunications and held regular meetings of security, military, defence, foreign affairs, economic, cultural, banking, and other officials from its member states.[12]



In July 2015, in Ufa, Russia, the SCO decided to admit India and Pakistan as full members. In June 2016 in Tashkent, both signed the memorandum of obligations, thereby starting the process of joining the SCO.[13] In June 2017, at a summit in Kazakhstan, India and Pakistan officially joined SCO as full members.[14][15] In 2004, the SCO established relations with the United Nations (where it is an observer in the General Assembly), the Commonwealth of Independent States in 2005, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2005, the Collective Security Treaty Organization in 2007, the Economic Cooperation Organization in 2007, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in 2011, the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in 2014, and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in 2015.[16] in 2018, SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) has established relations with the African Union's African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism (ACSRT).[17]



Saturday, August 15, 2026

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It is no accident that most people in America are not into politics; Most of the People don't vote most of the time . The system is designed to alienate people from politics. There is a vast apoliticizing culture in America. Thought Control far beyond anything in the novel 1984_. The Powers-that-be designed it long ago. They count on a minority of the population voting. The whole cultural theme of disdain for "politicians" and government is enculturated in the masses. It is an American passtime to dog out politicians, phony critical thinking. Mass apathy is inculcated, doesn't just pop up. The journalists and media are in on it. The original role of the press as the peoples' watchdog on government is perverted into a major way to make people "apathetic" about politics, to turn them off to it; to scapegoat government for the wrongs of the capitalists and the corporations, who are the true government
Democrat FDR arrived at an All American Socialism or Socialism with American Characteristics with His Bill of Economic Rights ; he was heavily influenced by the Communist Party USA ,led by Earl Browder , 3rd International trained .<



All-American Marxist theory<


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Communism is Twentieth Century Americanism," or the Odyssey of Earl Browder <



6:00 pm - 6:00 pm WCHP Lecture Hall Portland Campus Laura Browder FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC laura browder Laura Browder Author, Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University



Earl Browder was the head of the American Communist Party during its most influential period—the great Depression. He coined the slogan “Communism is 20th-century Americanism.” He ran for president twice against Roosevelt and appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1938. In 1946, on Stalin’s orders (CB : ????) he was expelled from the Communist Party for revisionism. During all of those years, he was tracked by both the FBI and the KGB, and in the mid-1990s, the VENONA project was published—a series of KGB cables that named my grandfather as a Soviet spy.


If the CPUSA is essentially irrelevant today, the experience of a political radical, hounded by a national security state, is very relevant in light of the Patriot Act and other forms of increased state surveillance of political dissidents. Browder’s life epitomizes like few others how it is to be a radical in the USA. Earl Browder lived a transnational life, moving back and forth among three continents in an attempt to build a radical movement that would be both truly international and authentically American. He sought, through his activism, to redefine ”American.” ADDRESS WCHP Lecture Hall United States
Michigan Democratic Party candidate Abdul El-Sayed: <


"When you grow up with a name like mine, you’re told you can’t do a lot of things.


Charles, my name – Abdul El-Sayed – means 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳.


That’s how I’ve lived my life: bringing my medical training into public service, helping communities as the youngest health official in a major U.S. city, and standing up to the corporate interests that rig the system against working people. 


People like Mike Rogers and Donald Trump use my name as a way to play into dangerous, Islamophobic ideals that are the opposite of what Michigan & the country is about. 


My name isn’t raising your gas prices. My name isn’t taking us to war. What we’re fighting for is simple:


𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀. 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁. 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹.


Charles, it’s going to take a surge in grassroots support to stand up against AIPAC, Mike Rogers, and Donald Trump.


Chip in to show the GOP that my name isn’t slowing down our grassroots movement:


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Charles, Mike Rogers is exactly the kind of politician this movement is built to defeat.


I’m Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, and I’m running because 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺.


Let’s take a look at Roger’s record:


💊He called himself the champion of the opioids industry and sponsored legislation to give drug-makers near "absolute immunity" from drug deaths.



💰He repeatedly voted to increase his own pay, and accepted more than $1M from Big Pharma and Wall Street.


📈After leaving Congress, his net worth increased by over $14M by working for the corporations he once regulated.


𝗠𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗮 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁, 𝗵𝗲’𝘀 𝗮 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗻. 


I refuse corporate PAC money because Michigan deserves a Senator that doesn’t come with a price tag. 


We only have a short window to show the truth of who Rogers serves and what’s at stake in this race. Chip in to help us get on the air and expose Rogers’ record:


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Thank you.


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However , China is still Socialist led by the Communist Party , so the anti-Communist tone of this Youtube item below is very misleading. Deng was a Marxist . Marx and Engels taught that Socialism had to develop out of capitalism and China had almost no capitalism at the time of the 1949 Revolution. They tried a Road to Socialism bypassing capitalism, but it failed , so they got the capitalists to bring capitalism with its powerful forces of production to them that they centrally controlled as the basis of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics led by the Communist Party. <



Also , the Mao led revolution from the old Chinese system was a necessary precursor to the later success <


ENGELS WAS A CAPITALIST <<


Lenin led a Soviet New Economic Program drawing in capitalist investment, including Armand Hammer <


How Poor China Became the World's Factory in 40 Years | Deng Xiaoping's Miracle<<



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— how Chinese peasants became industrial workers; — why the Communist government allowed market forces to develop; - how China attracted foreign investment and technology; —