Daily Archives: August 16, 2021

2021-08-16: News Headlines

David Swanson (2021-08-16). Afghanistan: So What Do the Filthy Commie Peaceniks Say Now? zcomm.org The U.S. government, according to its own reporting, accounts for 66% of all the weapons exported to the least democratic quintile of nations on earth…

Moderator (2021-08-16). Anti-War Voices Say Afghanistan Shows Need to Stop Any Further March to War. scheerpost.com By Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams Amid the lightning collapse of Afghanistan's U.S.-backed government and the all-but-certain return of Taliban rule, anti-war activists on Monday stressed that diplomacy, not bombs or the military-industrial complex, is the only path to lasting peace. The stunning but predictable Taliban reconquest of Afghanistan marks the end of the nearly 20-year U.S. |

_____ (2021-08-15). Trillions Spent on Disastrous Afghan War vs. Just $25 Billion to Vaccinate World's Poor. commondreams.org "This is the Democratic agenda, it's the president's agenda, and it's what we promised people across America. Now we must deliver."

Anonymous669 (2021-08-15). Houthis Release Footage Of Downed US ScanEagle 2 Drone. southfront.org Screen grab from the video released by the Houthis. | Late on August 14, the Houthis (Ansar Allah) shared footage showing the wreckage of a US Boeing Insitu ScanEagle 2 drone that was According to the Houthis, the drone was shot down with an unpacified "ground-to-air" missile over the district of Medghal in western Ma'rib. The Houthis have been leading a large offensive in the central province against th…

_____ (2021-08-15). Saudis And US Double Cost Of Yemen's Staple Goods. popularresistance.org Aden, Yemen – "The prices are skyrocketing. We can't feed our children. They are starving," Saher Abdu Salem, a government employee and a mother of five, said as she participated in a protest in Aden against Saudi Arabia and the government of ousted Yemeni President Abdul-Mansour al-Hadi. The protests took place at the Aden port this week in the wake of a recent decision by the Saudi-backed government in Aden to raise the U.S. dollar exchange rate for major life-saving goods. Now Saher and her husband are struggling to feed their family in the coastal city where the price of the staple 'rooti' loaf of bread has s…

Lawrence Wittner (2021-08-15). Baby Teeth and the Damage to Public Health Caused by U.S. Nuclear Weapons Tests. zcomm.org By Lawrence Wittner and Joseph Mangano In 2020, Harvard University's T. C. Chan School of Public Health began a five-year study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that will examine the connection between early life exposure to toxic metals and later-life risk of neurological disease. A collaborator with Harvard, the Radiation and Public Health

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