A link to an emergency exclamation (!!) from Tom Engelhardt Substack via Informed Comment; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names. (Scroll down today’s MEDIA, and for ALL OF IT 8-11-26.) — MCM

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FROM AUG. 13  A planet screaming at us to pay attention, by Tom Engelhardt | Tom Engelhardt Substack  / Informed Comment  There should be screaming headlines about it every day. Yes, every day! Our planet, the only one we live on (despite Elon Musk’s urge to go to Mars), is distinctly going down, down, down (at least as a viable place for us). READ MORE . . .

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Addendum, by Mark Channing Miller | x-ma911truthwalk  This is a triple footnote to the earlier messages in today’s ALL OF IT and MEDIA entries.

1. Elizabeth Kolbert of the New Yorker magazine and Footnotes from a Catastrophe (2006) fame is or was a Berkshire County resident.

2. Ross Gelbspan (1939-2024) of  the Philadelphia Bulletin, Washington Post, Village Voice, Boston Globe and author of The Heat Is On (1998) and Boiling Point (2004) had a lot of success in a distinguished career but was underrecognized. He used “global heating” to describe humans’ existential crisis.

3. Jay Inslee of the state of Washington, a U.S. rep and twice elected governor, also had a lot of success but was not taken seriously in the large field of candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, in part because his number one priority was the planet’s natural environment and runaway climate change.

One of two links to the same emergency exclamation!! from Tom Engelhardt Substack via Informed Comment; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names. Also, some context from x-ma911truthwalk.com. (Scroll down for MEDIA 8-12-26.) — MCM

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FROM AUG. 13  A planet screaming at us to pay attention, by Tom Engelhardt | Tom Engelhardt Substack  / Informed Comment   Climate change is at best a secondary, if not a tertiary matter in the all-American news media (including the New York Times). The British Guardian online has a genuine “climate crisis” section where you can normally check daily on the latest news about this overheating planet. READ MORE . . .

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A few words, by Mark Channing Miller | x-ma911truthwalk.com   Lying liars lie. This often happens simply through what they leave out.

One reason I had enough skills to put together this website is that I was lucky enough to work for six months for Tom Stokes, who had started a website for something called the Climate Crisis Coalition. In 2005 he figured someone who had worked for two wire services and a some daily newspapers would come in handy.

He was right. Working in a little office for four or five hours a day, in the company of Tom’s dog, putting little headlines over single paragraphs introducing stuff we found by ourselves and stuff from “aggregators” whose services the CCC paid for, and getting a daily collection of it out — was more like bliss than work.

Especially when the New Yorker started running Elizabeth Kolbert’s series that became the book Field Notes from a Catastrophe and shamed the wretched excuse for a news media to start paying more attention to global warming — but not enough attention.

The book was easily as important and needed as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring had been decades before, perhaps more so, and started something going but not enough because, you know, some advertisers might object.

At any rate, an incentive for getting Bruce Henry and me walking across Massachusetts with our “9/11 TRUTH” signs was that lying liars lied about so much of the mass-murder attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — this website began a few weeks before the walk.

And a big incentive for me to do this is that the stupid wars the U.S. government wades this country into — most of which are a direct result of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror that the same U.S. government has lied about apart from elements of its own narrative — take needed attention away from the global heating that is now obviously under way.

First, a link to a report from the Cradle; others are accessible by clicking on its name. (Scroll down for today’s LEBANON, SYRIA, WEST BANK, IRAN and UKRAINE so far, and for GAZA 8- -26.) — MCM

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Palestinians widely reject Hamas disarmament before full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza: report. From the Cradle. A new poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research published on Wednesday found that 72 percent of Palestinians oppose the disarmament of Hamas before Israel completes its withdrawal from the besieged Gaza Strip. READ MORE . . .

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TO BE CONTINUED

A link to a report from the Cradle; others are accessible by clicking on its name. (Scroll up or down for today’s GAZA, SYRIA, WEST BANK, IRAN and UKRAINE, and down for LEBANON 8-11-26 .) — MCM

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FROM AUG. 13  Israeli troops conducting ‘deliberate’ arson campaign in south Lebanon. From the Cradle. Large fires continued to burn and spread in south Lebanon on Thursday due to continuous strikes, artillery shelling, and deliberate arson operations carried out by Israeli occupation forces illegally positioned inside the country. READ MORE . . .

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A link to a report from Middle East Monitor; others are accessible by clicking on its name. (Scroll up or down for today’s GAZA, LEBANON, WEST BANK, IRAN and UKRAINE, and down for SYRIA 8-8-26.) — MCM

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Israeli minister says war with Syria is ‘absolute certainty.’ From Middle East Monitor. “Syria is Gaza on steroids, and that is the next war, with absolute certainty,” said Amichai Chikli Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister. “There is no avoiding it.” READ MORE . . .

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Links to reports from National Public Radio and Middle East Eye; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s GAZA, LEBANON, SYRIA, IRAN and UKRAINE, and down for WEST BANK 8-13-26.) — MCM

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Mike Huckabee says Israeli settlers atacking West Bank homes are ‘terrorists.’ Reported by Frank Langfitt and Leila Fadel | NPR  Israeli settlers have besieged three homes in the occupied West Bank, including one owned by a Palestinian American. U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee referred to the settlers as “terrorists.” Click HERE to listen and, later, read.

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Israel to shift civilian enforcement in West Bank from army to police. From Middle East Eye. Israel is preparing to replace the army in the West Bank with civilian police forces, in a move seen as further advancing the annexation of the occupied Palestinian territory. READ MORE . . .

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Links to three reports and an interview: from Middle East Eye, Reuters, the Associated Press, and National Public Radio; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s GAZA, LEBANON, SYRIA, WEST BANK and UKRAINE, and down for IRAN 8-13-26.) — MCM

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Iran formalizes Strait of Hormuz control as U.S. struggles to sustain war it launched with Israel, by Elis Gjevori | Middle East Eye  Iran has taken another step towards formalising its control of the Strait of Hormuz, as the U.S. threatens unprecedented sanctions while struggling to sustain the war it launched alongside Israel. READ MORE . . .

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Hormuz traffic slows further after U.S. threatens more economic pressure on Iran. From Reuters. LONDON / PANAMA CITY — Transit through the Strait of Hormuz appeared to grind to a near standstill today as two more ships were attacked there and the United States said it could maintain a naval blockade indefinitely. READ MORE . . .

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Two UAE tankers attacked while transiting Strait of Hormuz, and other news from the Middle East. From AP. The United Arab Emirates blamed Iran for firing drones at two tankers operated by a state-owned oil company as they sailed through the Strait of Hormuz, saying Friday that the attacks  on Thursday were acts of piracy. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others.

Links to three reports: from the Associated Press, the Moscow Times, and National Public Radio; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up for today’s GAZA, LEBANON, SYRIA, WEST BANK and IRAN, and down for UKRAINE 8-13-26.) — MCM

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A link to a commentary from Middle East Monitor; others are accessible by clicking on its name. (Scroll down for today’s WEST BANK and COVID ETC., and for GAZA 8-10-26.) — MCM

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FROM AUG. 12  Why the world must force accountability on Gaza now, by Ramzy Baroud | Middle East Monitor  It is now official: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has flatly rejected the core conditions of the Board of Peace framework, explicitly stating that Israel will neither adhere to a ceasefire nor withdraw its forces from Gaza. READ MORE . . .

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For now, links to six reports: from the Associated Press, Middle East Monitor, Reuters, and Middle East Eye; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s GAZA and COVID ETC so far, and down for WEST BANK 8-11-26.) — MCM

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Settler siege of Palestinian homes in the West Bank a ‘horrific act of terror,’ U.S. ambassador says, by Sam Metz and Aref Tufaha | AP  QUSRA, West Bank — Israeli settlers have besieged three homes in the the occupied West Bank for several days, including one owned by a Palestinian American, in what U.S. ambassador Mike Huckabee today called a “horrific act of terror.”  Click HERE for report including photos. Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others. Click HERE for report from Middle East Monitor.