Daily Archives: August 14, 2021

2021-08-14: News Headlines

Fra Hughes (2021-08-14). Palestine Aid on the Ground in Gaza. orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes Belfast — Aug 11, 2021 | In 2010 a group of international activists joined Mr. George Galloway on his Viva Palestina 5 medical aid convoy to Gaza. | Their aim was to break the illegal siege, bring much-needed aid, medical equipment, and supplies to the people in distress. To bring hope, help, solidarity, and compassion to those living under a brutal medieval siege illegally imposed upon them by the apartheid state of Israel. | Nearly 2 million souls hemmed into a piece of land the size of the Ards peninsula 26 miles by 6 miles surrounded by land, sea, and air by the Zionist army, navy, and air…

San Francisco Ceremony (2021-08-14). Grieving the Loss of Yemeni Children–US Complicit. indybay.org Members of the Yemeni-American community and world peace activists grieved the third year anniversary of the loss of dozens of innocent children whose lives were taken by a 500 pound U.S. made, Saudi-UAE led bomb.

Staff (2021-08-14). Argentina, the US Will Come for You Next. orinocotribune.com By Lois Pérez Leira — Aug 10, 2021 | After a series of successive defeats in Nuestra América [Our America], the Empire is trying to focus its artillery on Nicaragua. The objective is to prevent the presidential elections to be held in November: by creating all kinds of fake news and encouraging social discontent, etc. | For this purpose, imperialism relies on the Nicaraguan parasitic oligarchy, manifested by right-wing parties, some of them coming from Sandinistas who have capitulated to the Empire, and, as usual, on the OAS, despite the latter being in terminal decline. | Nicaragua is not a minor issue,…

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies (2021-08-13). Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities. counterpunch.org Nine provincial capitals in Afghanistan have fallen to the Taliban in six days — Zaranj, Sheberghan, Sar-e-Pul, Kunduz, Taloqan, Aybak, Farah, Pul-e-Khumri and Faizabad — while fighting continues in four more — Lashkargah, Kandahar, Herat & Mazar-i-Sharif. U.S. military officials now believe Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, could fall in one to three months. It is horrific

_____ (2021-08-13). US Empire's Afghan Ponzi Scheme Comes to Ignoble End. commondreams.org Millions of Donald Trump's supporters believe he will be installed as president today or sometime in the near future.

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-13). Afghan crisis: historical background. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Excerpts from an article by Muhittin Ataman in today's Daily Sabah of Turkey. Who is responsible for the chaos in Afghanistan? Afghan territories served as a buffer zone between the British Empire and the Czarist Russia during the last quarter of the 1800s. To put it correctly, modern Afghanistan is an artificial creation of the …

Editor2 (2021-08-13). Activists Paint Tank Tracks to Doors of Weapons Dealers. orinocotribune.com CANADA — Activists across Canada marked the third anniversary of the Yemen school bus massacre on Monday with protests at weapons manufacturers and government offices, calling on Canada to stop all weapons exports to Saudi Arabia. The Saudi bombing of a school bus in a crowded market in northern Yemen on August 9, 2018 killed 44 children and ten adults and wounded many more. | In Nova Scotia activists protested outside Lockheed Martin's Dartmouth facility. The bomb used in the airstrike on the Yemeni school bus was made by weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin Canada is a wholly-owned subsid…

_____ (2021-08-13). Over 130,000 People Call On Chubb To Drop Trans Mountain Pipeline. popularresistance.org Earlier today, activists from Stand.earth, 350 Vancouver, and Leadnow visited the Vancouver B.C. offices of multinational insurer Chubb to deliver petitions with over 130,000 signatures calling on the company not to renew their policy on the Trans Mountain pipeline. Today's event is part of a campaign that has already led to commitments from 15 insurers to rule out doing business with the pipeline and other tar sands projects. | "Wildfires, floods, and extreme weather events are costing the insurance industry billions. That is why so many insurance companies are cutting their ties to the dirtiest, most carbon int…

Staff (2021-08-13). Rick Perlstein: 'I was drafted into the project of settler colonialism as a child'. therealnews.com In the second segment of this week's Marc Steiner Show, we bring you the latest installment of our ongoing series "Not in Our Name," which highlights the diverse voices of Jewish activists, artists, intellectuals, and others who are speaking out against the Israeli occupation. In this installment, Marc talks with Rick Perlstein about growing up Jewish in Milwaukee, the process of unlearning Zionist indoctrination, and how the United States' support of an Israeli ethno-state foments continued violence. Perlstein is a world-renowned author, journalist, and historian of the American right; his most recent book…

Bryan Ellis (2021-08-13). Tampa activists call for Tampa General Hospital to divest from Israel. liberationnews.org On July 16, activists gathered outside Tampa General Hospital (TGH) to denounce the hospital's partnership with Israel and call for it to divest from the "Florida-Israel Business Accelerator" (FIBA).

_____ (2021-08-13). Climate Activists Target Banks' Greenwashing in Nationwide #DefundLine3 Protests. commondreams.org

Mary Naughton (2021-08-13). A health system for all of Ireland. peoplesdispatch.org In May 2021, the Campaign for an All-Ireland National Health Service organized an all-Ireland day of action, marking the 100-year anniversary of partition, the process by which the government of the United Kingdom divided the island into two separate political jurisdictions: Northern Ireland and Ireland. In Dublin, protesters met at the Department of Health to read out the demands of the Campaign. Activists held demonstrations at hospitals in Armagh, Belfast, Cork, Derry, Enniskillen, Galway, Letterkenny, Monaghan and Newry. According to campaigners, numbers were small due to the need to respect rules on social g…

Titledonald J. Antichrist, the End Times (2021-08-13). Donald J. Antichrist and the End Times. commondreams.org "No one will look back through history with anything but shame and sorrow for the human suffering wrought and the repeated failures of the U.S. war machine."

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