_____ (2021-08-11). Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities. commondreams.org Nearly 75% of Democrats—and almost a third of Republicans—would be more likely to support Biden if he achieves passage of the For the People Act. | The deployment of B-52 bombers, Reaper drones and AC-130 gunships are a brutal response by a failing, flailing imperial power to a historic, humiliating defeat.

Editor2 (2021-08-11). How a Network of UK Intel-Linked Operatives Helped Sell Every Alleged Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack. orinocotribune.com By Kit Klarenberg — Aug 4, 2021 | While Western media covers up their credibility issues, these pseudo-experts and spooks have helped drive the dirty war on Syria. | A tight-knit cast of characters has sought to destabilize the Syrian government by convincing Syrians, Western citizens, foreign states, and international bodies that the CIA-backed Free Syrian Army is a legitimate, "moderate" alternative, while flooding news across the globe with opposition propaganda. | Its key actors have also played a central part in high-profile chemical weapon deceptions, participating in the attacks' staging, generating m…

John Ryan (2021-08-10). Afghan Tragedy: Still Relevant Today As it Was Analyzed 15 Years Ago. covertactionmagazine.com By every measure, the Afghan War has been a failure for America. But it has been a $5 trillion success for American corporations like Lockheed Martin, DynCorp, General Dynamics, Black & Veatch, Halliburton and the oil companies which shipped half-a-million gallons of fuel a day…

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 . . . |

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 …