The New Dark Age

23 August 2021 • 1 7:30 — The New Dark Age

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FIRE reported at Kabul airport amid frantic evacuation, VIDEOS show billowing smoke (update)
https://www.rt.com/news/532831-fire-kabul-airport-afghanistan/

More than 500 tons of medical supplies unable to reach Afghanistan due to Kabul airport chaos – WHO
https://www.rt.com/news/532844-afghanistan-who-medical-supplies/

Child soldiers are OK if they’re anti-Taliban? AFP takes flak over photos of ‘armed’ Afghan kids waving flag of local resistance
https://www.rt.com/news/532824-afghanistan-child-soldiers-afp-photos/

FIRE reported at Kabul airport amid frantic evacuation, VIDEOS show billowing smoke
https://www.rt.com/news/532831-fire-kabul-airport-afghanistan/

To Instigate Against Taliban CNN Claims Contradiction Where None Is Evident
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/08/to-instigate-against-taliban-cnn-claims-contradiction-where-none-is-evident.html

Can Iran Influence Further Developments in Afghanistan?

What About the Women? America’s Afghanistan Guilt
https://www.globalresearch.ca/what-about-women-america-afghanistan-guilt/5753769

Afghanistan’s Gold at the NY Fed: 1,731 Old Bars Held Since 1939
https://www.globalresearch.ca/afghanistan-gold-ny-fed-1731-old-bars-held-since-1939/5753775

Boris Johnson Will Plead With Biden To Delay Withdrawal, As Taliban Warn Not To Prolong It

Taliban captured the Entire Territory of Afghanistan with the Exception of Panjshir Province
https://www.globalresearch.ca/saleh-turns-rahmon-save-tajiks-afghanistan/5753677

Nasrallah: Afghanistan is worst debacle in US history, Biden hopes for civil war
https://southfront.org/nasrallah-afghanistan-is-worst-debacle-in-us-history-biden-hopes-for-civil-war/

Afghan security forces member killed in gunfight with ‘unknown assailants,’ as US & German troops join battle at Kabul airport
https://www.rt.com/news/532783-us-german-forces-firefight-kabul-airport/

‘Better to die with dignity, under Taliban’s bullet’: Afghan staff of US embassy reportedly feel betrayed after failed evacuation
https://www.rt.com/news/532779-afghanistan-us-embassy-staff-betrayed/

In Video: Taliban Militants Marching With Advanced Weapons Left By U.S. Forces

They Might Be Giants
https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/08/they-might-be-giants/

Lebanon: Trouble and Misery Keep On Piling Up
https://journal-neo.org/2021/08/23/lebanon-trouble-and-misery-keep-on-piling-up/

Reluctant Acceptance: Responding To Afghanistan’s Refugees
https://orientalreview.org/2021/08/23/reluctant-acceptance-responding-to-afghanistans-refugees/

Lesser Evil Politics Assure Greater Evil Economics
https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/08/lesser-evil-politics-assure-greater-evil-economics/

Lesser Evil Politics Assure Greater Evil Economics
http://legalienate.blogspot.com/2021/08/lesser-evil-politics-assure-greater.html

Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-6
https://williambowles.info/2021/08/22/reflections-on-events-in-afghanistan-6/

Afghanistan News Links 21-22 August 2021
https://williambowles.info/2021/08/22/afghanistan-news-links-21-22-august-2021/

Biden Forfeits his Afghan Victory by Defending his Deep State Advisors, by Michael Hudson
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2021/08/22/biden-forfeits-his-afghan-victory-by-defending-his-deep-state-advisors-by-michael-hudson/

US Scrambles To Hit Hard With ‘Soft’ Power
https://popularresistance.org/us-scrambles-to-hit-hard-with-soft-power/

BBC News Coverage

Afghanistan evacuations: ‘Hours not weeks’ for final UK flights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58302734

Afghanistan: People at Kabul airport flee Taliban with just a suitcase
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58300386

Afghanistan: PM to press Biden to delay Kabul withdrawal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58301269

Kamala Harris joins diplomatic charm offensive in South East Asia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58277226

‘Paul Wolfowitz’ Tells Newsmax The Afghanistan War Wasted Two Trillion Dollars
https://popularresistance.org/paul-wolfowitz-tells-newsmax-the-afghanistan-war-has-wasted-two-trillion-dollars/

Afghanistan: Every minute counts, says UK minister
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58302734

Afghanistan: US ramping up Kabul evacuation effort, says Biden
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58299804