15 April 2021 — NetPol
Riot officers outside Bristol police station, 22 March 2021. PHOTO: Miles Cooper
Day: April 15, 2021
Chronicle of the unavailing Afghan war
15 April 2021 — Indian Punchline
M.K. Bhadrakumar
President Joe Biden wipes his eye as he walks through Arlington National Cemetery to honor fallen veterans of Afghan war, April 14, 2021
One missing part in US President Joe Biden’s remarks Wednesday announcing troop withdrawal from Afghanistan was that he didn’t order a commission of inquiry into the disastrous military invasion of 2001.
I Entered My Country’s House of Justice and Found a Snake Charmer’s Temple: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2021)
15 April 2021 — Tricontinental
Colectivo Culturas Vivas, Senderos latinos / Latino paths, Honduras, 2019
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
On a Sunday night on 21 March 2021, gunmen stopped Juan Carlos Cerros Escalante (age 41) as he walked from this mother’s home to his own in the village of Nueva Granada near San Antonio de Cortés (Honduras). The gunmen opened fire in front of a catholic church, killing this leader of United Communities in front of his children. Forty bullets were found at the scene.
IMF and debt: a new consensus?
15 April 2021 — Michael Roberts Blog
There is much talk among ‘progressive’ economists that the IMF and the World Bank have turned over a new leaf. Gone are the days of supporting fiscal austerity, demanding that national governments get public debt levels down and insisting on conditions for countries borrowing IMF-WB funds that their governments privatise their state assets, deregulate markets and reduce labour rights.
Biden’s Claim To Be Ending America’s Longest War Misleading
15 April 2021 — Covert Action Magazine
U.S. soldiers at Bagram air base in Afghanistan. [Source: nytimes.com]
Special Forces, Pentagon Contractors and Intelligence Operatives Will Remain
On Wednesday April 14th, President Joe Biden announced that he would end the U.S.’s longest war and withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan on the 20th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Neoconservatives Demand More Meddling In Afghanistan
15 April 2021 — Moon of Alabama
The wickedness of the imperial U.S. vanguard is well expressed in an Atlantic piece by Eliot A. Cohen, the dean of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Judge Preska terminates all Zoom access to Donziger trial in effort to limit public access, say lawyers
7 April 2021 — Make Chevron Clean Up by Frente de Defensa de la Amazonía
U.S. trial judge Loretta Preska has denied all Zoom access to the upcoming contempt trial of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger in a widely condemned move that his lawyers say is designed to limit public access to an unprecedented one-sided trial run by a private Chevron prosecutor.
The New Dark Age 