(2021-08-09). Iran Says 'Israel' Playing Victim to Divert Attention From its Crimes in Palestine. orinocotribune.com Iranian envoy to the United Nations says the Israeli occupation is "playing victim" to divert attention from its continuing crimes in Palestine, warning the 'Israel' against any acts of "adventurism and miscalculations." | Zahra Ershadi, Iran's deputy permanent representative to the UN, made the comments in a statement on Friday after a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council on a recent incident for an Israeli-operated oil tanker in the Sea of Oman. | Ershadi's comments came in reaction to Israeli War Minister Benny Gantz who said on Thursday that 'Israel' is ready to attack Iran and that there must be a…
(2021-08-09). Venezuela Registers 1,155 COVID-19 Cases on Saturday and Maintains a 95% Recovery Rate (12 Deaths). orinocotribune.com 
On Saturday August 7, Delcy Rodríguez, the executive vice president of Venezuela, tweeted that there were 1,155 new COVID-19 cases, all by community transmission, detected in the last 24 hours by the Venezuelan health authorities. The recovery rate remains at 95%, with 297,536 patients healed, thanks to the free treatments guaranteed by the Venezuelan Government. | During the daily report offered by the Presidential Commission for the Control and Prevention of COVID-19, Rodríguez specified that community cases were detected in 23 states: Miranda (236), Carabobo (192), Caracas (133 ), Lara (104), Yaracuy (104), La…
(2021-08-09). Will India & Iran Ally with Kabul Against the Taliban? asia-pacificresearch.com
(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 …
(2021-08-08). Iraqi 'Resistance' Group Shares Footage Of Attacks On Three US Supply Convoys. southfront.org 
File image. | On August 4, pro-Iranian Saryat Qasim al-Jabbarin [The Breaker of Titans Company] attacked three convoys carrying logistic supplies and vehicles for the US-led coalition in different parts of Iraq. | The first convoy was attacked near the city of al-Nasiriyah in the southern province of Dhi Qar, the second came under attack as it was passing in the central province of Babylon and the third was targeted near the capital, Baghdad. All three convoys were targeted with improvised explosive devices. | Sa…
(2021-08-08). Rent is a Scam: Notes From the Edge of the Narrative Matrix. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone — Aug 5, 2021 | A poor person in the US has to bend over backwards and degrade themselves in all sorts of official and unofficial ways for a few bucks in welfare, but the Pentagon can spend trillions on a 20-year war that achieves nothing but making assholes rich without being asked a question. | ‚ùñ | The bad news is the oligarchic empire is ratcheting up authoritarian control with the goal of trapping us in an Orwellian dystopia so gradually we don't notice, but the good news is they won't succeed because they'll get us all killed via nuclear war or climate collapse…
(2021-08-08). UN pledges full support to Nagasaki voices fuelling 'powerful global movement' against nuclear arms. news.un.org António Guterres has reaffirmed the full support of the United Nations to amplifying the powerful testimony of the survivors of the atomic bomb that was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, 76 years ago, which has helped build a "powerful global movement against nuclear arms".