Daily Archives: August 10, 2021

2021-08-10: News Headlines

Workers World Philadelphia bureau (2021-08-10). Protesting prison profiteers. workers.org Gathered outside the world headquarters of the Aramark corporation in Philadelphia Aug. 7, around 20 demonstrators denounced that company and several others that profit heavily from the prison-industrial complex. Protesters against prison profiteers gather outside Aramark's corporate office, Philadelphia, Aug. 7. Credit: Joe Piette The action was called to show . . . |

Nagasaki remembers 70,000 dead, calls on leaders to create nuclear-free zone (2021-08-09). Nagasaki remembers 70,000 dead, calls on leaders to create nuclear-free zone. peoplesworld.org Nagasaki marked the 76th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese city today with its mayor urging Japan, the United States, and Russia to do more to eliminate nuclear weapons. In his speech at the Nagasaki Peace Park, Mayor Tomihisa Taue urged Japan's government to take the lead in creating a nuclear-free zone …

David Swanson (2021-08-09). Report: U.S. Weapons Sales Exports to Be Revised. warisacrime.org By Sky News Australia, August 9, 2021…

Greg Guma (2021-08-09). Nukes on the Screen: Seven Decades of Atomic Danger. towardfreedom.org Numerous films, some of them based on novels, feature nuclear war, its potential impacts and the extreme threat these weapons pose.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-08-09). From the Invasion of Panama (1989) to Recolonization (2009): Other Forms of Imperial Terrorism. libya360.wordpress.com Stella Calloni On December 20, 1989, over 27,000 soldiers, including Special Forces and former combatants from Vietnam, part of the Fleet and dozens of helicopters, in addition to testing new planes and weapons on the small, practically defenseless country, delivered a brutal message to Central America and the entire region. The recently created Panamanian Defense…

Sumner Jules Glimcher (2021-08-09). Video: Remember Hiroshima: "People Became Nothing, … People Dying All Around Me" globalresearch.ca First published on August 6, 2017 Within 9 seconds one hundred thousand people were killed or doomed… | And that's what is on the drawing board of the Pentagon on a much larger scale, with a trillion dollar nuclear weapons …

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