Links — 31 August Part 2

A Son of the New American Revolution
Escalating Blowback from Russian Sanctions (civilization hangs on energy)
Larry C. Johnson | CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism and investigating money laundering, formerly Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism (1989-1993, and CIA operations (1984-1989)

https://sonar21.com/escalating-blowback-from-russian-sanctions/

Gilbert Doctorow — International relations, Russian affairs
Remembering Gorbachev
Gilbert Doctorow

https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/08/31/remembering-gorbachev/

Awful Avalanche
Ukraine War Day #189: In The Tradition Of Ilovaisk

yalensis

Consortium News

SCOTT RITTER: The [Ukrainian] Death List

Scott Ritter, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, serving in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, on General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/08/31/scott-ritter-the-death-list/

The Grayzone
Jon Stewart and the Pentagon honor Ukrainian Nazi at Disney World
Alexander Rubinstein

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/08/31/jon-stewart-pentagon-ukrainian-nazi-disney/

US News
UN Cites Possible Crimes Vs. Humanity in China's Xinjiang

JAMEY KEATEN and EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-08-31/deadline-looming-china-vies-to-block-un-report-on-xinjiang

Politico
China’s Uyghur abuses ‘may constitute crimes against humanity,’ UN finds

Stuart Lau

https://www.politico.eu/article/chinas-uyghur-abuses-may-constitute-crimes-against-humanity-un-finds/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

RT — Question More (Russian state-sponsored media)

China sets condition for resuming talks with US 

https://www.rt.com/news/561925-china-demands-us-dispel-pelosi-influence/

US to expedite arms shipments to Taiwan
https://www.rt.com/news/561905-us-expedite-arms-shipments-taiwan/

German minister [Annalena Baerbock] vows to back Ukraine ‘no matter what voters think’

https://www.rt.com/news/561934-baerbock-ukraine-voters-sanctions/

Zero Hedge
"A Structural Rupture" - German Companies Shutting Down In Response To Record Energy Prices

Tyler Durden

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/structural-rapture-german-companies-shutting-down-response-record-energy-prices