A link to a discussion from Consortium News; other published material is accessible by clicking on its name or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s SUDAN, YEMEN, SYRIA, LEBANON, IRAN and UKRAINE, and down for ALL OF IT 8-7-26.) — MCM

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ADVISORY  Watch: The World This Week. ‘Avoiding nuclear extinction,’ at 8 p.m. EDT. From Consortium News. Joe Lauria of Consortium News talks with former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer and former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter and economics Professor Rick Wolff, emeritus of the University of Massachusetts. From CN intro: “On the 81st anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing, we ask how we can avoid nuclear holocaust. Plus overreaction to U.S. socialism and Trump’s trap in Iran.” Click HERE around 8 tonight EDT to livestream, and later for video — and for Lauria’s longer introduction.