Monthly Archives: August 2021

2021-08-09: News Headlines

Denis Rogatyuk (2021-08-09). René González of the Cuban Five on Cuba's Challenge and Washington's Hypocrisy (Interview). orinocotribune.com René González is one of the Cuban Five, long jailed in the US for their intelligence work combating far-right Miami terrorist groups. He spoke to Jacobin about the blockade and what his trial told him about the US's concern for human rights in Cuba. | René González is a former member of Cuba's "

_____ (2021-08-09). The COVID Challenge ‚àí Cooperation Or Competition. popularresistance.org Once again, in confronting the greatest immediate challenge facing humanity, U.S. imperialism has played only a disruptive role. The drive to maximize profits and assert global dominance has pushed Washington to recklessly exacerbate the deadly COVID-19 health crisis. | What does U.S. imperialism hope to gain by blocking the World Health Organization's inquiry into COVID with the demand that the WHO Inquiry focus on blaming China? This intentionally blocks an international initiative which needs full cooperation. | Regarding the 18 intelligence agencies, nine report directly to the U.S. military. The rest coopera…

Randall Kennedy (2021-08-09). Whose Side Is the Supreme Court On? thenation.com Whose Side Is the Supreme Court On?

Debra Heine (2021-08-09). Dr. McCullough: COVID Vaccines Have Already Killed Up to 50,000 Americans, According to Whistleblowers. globalresearch.ca

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-08-09). Embracing the transformative power of digital pathology. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic is in the midst of a digital pathology initiative that will integrate digital infrastructure, automate highly manual processes, and employ artificial intelligence to advance clinical capabilities and care for patients. As this digital pathology initiative advances, a clear illustration of its transformative power is taking place now in Mayo Clinic's Department of Dermatology. Dermatology at Mayo Clinic is organized into three divisions: clinical dermatology, surgery, and dermatopathology. The department's seven dermatopathologists, supported by Mayo's Department of Laboratory Medicine…

_____ (2021-08-08). Governments Are Spying On The People Who Bring Us The News. popularresistance.org Janine Jackson: If you don't know the story of how a consortium of journalists revealed how countries around the world have bought spyware from an Israeli surveillance firm, supposedly to track terrorists and other criminals, well, that's understandable. Though it is a journalist-driven effort, and is leading to calls for the resignation of officials in Hungary, for example, the Pegasus Project hasn't really gotten the pay-attention-to-this treatment from US news media. But that emphatically does not mean that the story doesn't concern you and your right to know. | Joining us now to help connect those dots is Cin…

WSWS (2021-08-08). Trudeau appoints loyal servant of ruling elite to Canada's Supreme Court. wsws.org By focusing attention on Justice Jamal's South Asian ethnic origins, the Canadian establishment seeks to cover up his role as a loyal representative of the ruling elite.

_____ (2021-08-08). Glen Ford: Revolutionary, Friend, Leader, Lover Of Black People. popularresistance.org Glen was a man whose voice thundered with the passion of justice, his keen eyes intensified by those round glasses that sat on the bridge of his strong nose right in front of his daunting intelligence, his word mastery and their unveiling of perceptions he gleaned from having been wounded by a culture bent against his people, against him personally, as when it deployed hitmen against his life's work. It was a confirmation that he was on the right track when he and the Black Agenda Report family made the government's blacklist of subversive publications. So there was anger. And clarity. And passion that combined t…

Jane Turner (2021-08-08). Video: FBI Whistleblower Exposes Shocking Reasons Why Child Sex Abuse Crimes Are Not an FBI Priority. globalresearch.ca

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2021-08-08: News Headlines

_____ (2021-08-08). Governments Are Spying On The People Who Bring Us The News. popularresistance.org Janine Jackson: If you don't know the story of how a consortium of journalists revealed how countries around the world have bought spyware from an Israeli surveillance firm, supposedly to track terrorists and other criminals, well, that's understandable. Though it is a journalist-driven effort, and is leading to calls for the resignation of officials in Hungary, for example, the Pegasus Project hasn't really gotten the pay-attention-to-this treatment from US news media. But that emphatically does not mean that the story doesn't concern you and your right to know. | Joining us now to help connect those dots is Cin…

_____ (2021-08-08). Glen Ford: Revolutionary, Friend, Leader, Lover Of Black People. popularresistance.org Glen was a man whose voice thundered with the passion of justice, his keen eyes intensified by those round glasses that sat on the bridge of his strong nose right in front of his daunting intelligence, his word mastery and their unveiling of perceptions he gleaned from having been wounded by a culture bent against his people, against him personally, as when it deployed hitmen against his life's work. It was a confirmation that he was on the right track when he and the Black Agenda Report family made the government's blacklist of subversive publications. So there was anger. And clarity. And passion that combined t…

Jane Turner (2021-08-08). Video: FBI Whistleblower Exposes Shocking Reasons Why Child Sex Abuse Crimes Are Not an FBI Priority. globalresearch.ca

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-08-08). Embracing the transformative power of digital pathology. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic is in the midst of a digital pathology initiative that will integrate digital infrastructure, automate highly manual processes, and employ artificial intelligence to advance clinical capabilities and care for patients. As this digital pathology initiative advances, a clear illustration of its transformative power is taking place now in Mayo Clinic's Department of Dermatology. Dermatology at Mayo Clinic is organized into three divisions: clinical dermatology, surgery, and dermatopathology. The department's seven dermatopathologists, supported by Mayo's Department of Laboratory Medicine…

Staff (2021-08-07). WATCH: Taliban fighters joyride in Humvees after capturing Nimroz provincial capital & seizing more US-made weaponry. rt.com Taliban militants were spotted parading around in US-made Humvees after seizing a major city in Nimroz province, footage shows — the first regional capital to fall to the group as it launches a wave of attacks across Afghanistan. | The militants were seen making victory laps around the city of Zaranj on Friday afternoon in the captured vehicles, having just captured the provincial capital after overrunning Afghan government forces. |

sputniknews (2021-08-07). Watch Taliban Militants Parade in US-Made Humvees After Seizing Afghan Provincial Capital. sputniknews.com On Friday, Afghanistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ghulam Isaczai told the UN Security Council that the scale and scope of the ongoing Taliban* offensive in the country "are akin to an invasion unparalleled in the last 30 years of the conflict".

sputniknews (2021-08-07). Israel-Hezbollah Confrontation is 'Exchange of Messages', War is Not on Horizon, Expert Says. sputniknews.com The reason for this is not only the reluctance of Hezbollah to draw Lebanon into another bloody conflict, especially now when the country is mired in deep economic and political crises. It also stems from Israel being preoccupied with other problems and the split within its own coalition.

Dave DeCamp (2021-08-07). Hezbollah Fires Rockets in Response to Israeli Airstrikes. news.antiwar.com Hezbollah responded Friday to recent Israeli shelling and airstrikes in southern Lebanon by firing rockets into Israel. The incident marks the Israel said 19 rockets were launched from Lebanon and that it fired back with artillery after the barrage. The back and forth is the most significant escalation between Israel and Hezbollah in years, but no casualties were reported on either side. | Israel's initial shelling of Lebanon took place late We…

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2021-08-07). US transfers 40 ISIL forces to its base in Hasaka: report. en.mehrnews.com Syrian sources reported that the US military transferred dozens of ISIL prisoners in Syria to its base.

sputniknews (2021-08-07). Edward Snowden Slams Apple's Plan to Scan Every User's Phone as 'Assault on Privacy'. sputniknews.com The tech giant previously announced it will be using the neuralMatch software in order to scan photos uploaded to the iCloud by American users and will notify the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) if child abuse imagery is discovered.

teleSUR (2021-08-07). Brazil: Bolsonaro Calls Supreme Court's Head "Son of the Bitch" telesurenglish.net Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro publically offended the country's Head of the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) Judge Luiz Barroso by calling him "son of the bitch" and "terrorists' defender" during a visit to Joinville. | RELATED: | Bolsonaro took part in a motorbike rally in Santa Catarina while violating all health measures established by federal and local authorities to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. | The President also accused…

teleSUR, SH (2021-08-07). Talibanes capturan una segunda capital provincial en Afganistán. telesurtv.net En la tarde del viernes, los talibanes tomaron el control de la ciudad de Zaranj, capital de la provincia suroccidental de Nimroz.

teleSUR, MER (2021-08-07). Defensa de diplomático Alex Saab expone ilegalidades en proceso. telesurtv.net El Tribunal de la Cedeao ha ordenado en dos ocasiones la libertad inmediata de Alex Saab ante las irregularidades en su detención.

ecns.cn (2021-08-07). What is the U.S. afraid of? What kind of 'truth' does it try to make up?>. ecns.cn The U.S.' "excessive efforts" on origin tracing has distorted this scientific issue while its failure to curb the surging COVID-19 cases has ruined its international image.

_____ (2021-08-07). Preliminary Assange Appeal Hearing Scheduled For August 11. popularresistance.org The United States government has been given limited permission to appeal the District Court's decision to block the extradition of Julian Assange from the UK to the U.S. Britain's High Court ruled that the U.S. government could appeal on some but not all of their requested points. Now a preliminary hearing has been scheduled for August 11th, at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, to argue the scope of that appeal, and whether the U.S. government will be allowed to appeal on its other two proposed lines of argument. Assange is expected to attend in person.

_____ (2021-08-07). The Obsessive Pursuit Of Assange As UK Prepares Its Own Espionage Act. popularresistance.org The single-minded U.S. pursuit of Julian Assange as Britain proposes changes to its official secrets law shows the fierce determination of both governments to conceal their secrets, writes Alexander Mercouris.

ecns.cn (2021-08-07). WHO should conduct origin tracing in the US: China Daily editorial. ecns.cn A survey conducted around the world by China Global Television Network in the six official languages of the United Nations over the past few weeks found that 83.1 percent of the respondents support the World Health Organization carrying out a novel coronavirus origin tracing investigation in the United States.

Zahra Mirzafarjouyan (2021-08-07). Iran not to hesitate to defend its sovereign rights in PG. en.mehrnews.com Condemning the G7 statement over baseless accusations against Iran, the Foreign Ministry Spokesman said that Iran will not hesitate to defend its sovereign rights in the Persian Gulf.

Marzieh Rahmani (2021-08-07). Biden flubs number of vaccinated Americans. en.mehrnews.com In his speech on Friday, the US president made another blunder, making a mistake over the total number of vaccinated people in the United States.

teleSUR, SH (2021-08-07). Colombia suma una nueva masacre para llegar a 64 en el 2021. telesurtv.net La masacre se registró en el interior de una vivienda en el municipio colombiano de Soacha dejando tres hombre y una mujer muerta.

teleSUR, lvm, MER (2021-08-07). Congresistas de EE.UU. piden a Biden cerrar cárcel en Guantánamo. telesurtv.net Los presidentes de varios comités legislativos se sumaron a la iniciativa para que se ejecute inmediatamente el cierre de la prisión.

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