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Haiti earthquake: Death toll climbs to 1,297 as storm nears
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-58222888
Why Not Boycott US Products Until It Ends Its Embargo of Cuba and Leaves Guantanamo?
https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/08/why-not-boycott-us-products-until-it-ends-its-embargo-of-cuba-and-leaves-guantanamo/
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Making a “No Shit” Headline Permanent…For a While.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/08/making-no-shit-headline-permanentfor.html
Rapid Taliban Takeover Shows How Little US Understood Afghanistan
https://popularresistance.org/rapid-taliban-takeover-shows-how-little-us-understood-afghanistan/
Cash for the Tories buys you access. And access means cash from the public purse. That’s the abysmal two-step that channels public cash to Party donors.
Why are numerous ‘independent alternative’ media outlets and writers not questioning the COVID-19 vaccine rollout? If anything, they are promoting it without even considering the serious concerns being voiced by top scientists.
Having written posts on this blog for several years now, I have become ever more sensitive to how we, as news consumers, are subject to ideology – the invisible, shifting sands of our belief system.
Those beliefs are not inbuilt, of course. How could they be? We are not born with pre-loaded software like a computer – even if our mental “hardware” may shape what kind of information we are capable of processing and how we process it.
The Taliban fighters posing for family photo and relaxing in the Presidential Palace, Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug 15, 2021Social media reported that at the Kabul residence of the Afghan National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib who post-haste fled to Tajikistan on Saturday with President Ashraf Ghani, three Toyota Landcruiser SUVs were found stacked with American dollar bills.
The New Dark Age 