Links to reports from Consortium News and the Albany Times-Union; others are accessible by clicking on its name below. (GAZA, UKRAINE and BANGLADESH entries for this date are HERE, HERE and HERE.) — MCM

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FROM AUG. 9  CN condemns FBI raid on CN columnist’s home. From Consortium News.  Consortium Newscondemns in the strongest terms the F.B.I. raid on the home of CN columnist Scott Ritter. Federal agents removed Ritter’s electronic equipment and numerous boxes of paper files from his Albany, N.Y. area home Thursday . . . READ MORE . . .  Click HERE for video from Consortium News and HERE for copy of search warrant, from Substack.

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FROM AUG. 7   Scott Ritter claims search of home is related to ‘foreign agent’ law, by Patrick Tine | Albany Times-Union  BETHLEHEM, New York — FBI agents and State Police on Wednesday descended on the home of Scott Ritter, a former United Nations weapons inspector who in June had his passport seized by the U.S. Department of State as he attempted to fly to Russia for a conference. READ MORE . . .