August 13, 2021
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Afghanistan – Is this the end?
13 August 2021 — Moon of Alabama This was fast. The Taliban have as of now 18 of 34 provinc[ial] capitals under the[ir] control. August 6 – Zaranji (Nimruz) August 7 – Sheberghan (Jowzjan) August 8 – Kunduz (Kunduz) August 8 – Sar-e Pol (Sar-e Pol) August 8 – Talquan (Takhar) August 9 – Aybak Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 12-13 August 2021
13 August 2021 • 23:40 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Selected Articles: What Is the Future of Afghanistan? https://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-future-afghanistan/5752947 “It’s Not So Bad In Afghanistan”: Hypocritical Europe Not To Allow New Refugees https://southfront.org/its-not-so-bad-in-afghanistan-hypocritical-europe-not-to-allow-new-refugees/ Continue reading
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Israeli cities impose beach apartheid on Palestinians
Three Israeli coastal cities are being slammed by a civil rights group for effectively banning Palestinians from their beaches. Continue reading
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Environmental Demonstrators vs Militarized Police
These disasters give a new sense of urgency to transition away from the fossil fuels that are causing this climate chaos. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the movement fighting for this transition is running up against intense police repression — funded by private corporations as well as the federal government. Continue reading
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Delta Variants, PCR Tests and Cognitive Dissonance
To paraphrase a famous quip from then Presidential candidate Bill Clinton in a debate with his Republican opponent in 1992, “It’s the vaccine, stupid!” The daily mainstream media and government narrative we are being inundated all over the world with is confusing to most, to put it mildly. So-called Delta or “Indian” variant is spreading… Continue reading
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‘Flowers’ for founder of the ‘theatre of resistance’
Inspired by a specific play in the 1970s, Maishe Maponya decided to write and stage works of his own. He would later go on to collaborate with, and inspire, many others, even beyond South Africa’s borders. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 12-13 August 2021
13 August 2021 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Targeting the Medical Evidence: The US Challenge on Assange’s Health A Day in the Death of British Justice https://williambowles.info/2021/08/13/a-day-in-the-death-of-british-justice/ Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2021
12 August 2021 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism A bumper crop! Ten new books for red-greens and green-reds Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C agrees with everything (or even anything!) Continue reading
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A Day in the Death of British Justice
I sat in Court 4 in the Royal Courts of Justice in London yesterday with Stella Moris, Julian Assange’s partner. I have known Stella for as long as I have known Julian. She, too, is a voice of freedom, coming from a family that fought the fascism of Apartheid. Today, her name was uttered in… Continue reading
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