August 2021
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John Pilger: Afghanistan, The Great Game of Smashing Countries
In 2010, I was in Washington and arranged to interview the mastermind of Afghanistan’s modern era of suffering, Zbigniew Brzezinski. I quoted to him his autobiography in which he admitted that his grand scheme for drawing the Soviets into Afghanistan had created “a few stirred up Muslims”. “Do you have any regrets?” I asked.“Regrets! Regrets!… Continue reading
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I Awakened Here When the Earth Was New: The Thirty-Fourth Newsletter (2021)
In late March 2021, 120 traditional owners from 40 different First People’s groups spent five days at the National First People’s Gathering on Climate Change in Cairns (Australia). Speaking on the impact of the climate crisis on First People, Gavin Singleton from the Yirrganydji traditional owners explainedthat ‘From changing weather patterns to shifts in natural ecosystems,… Continue reading
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Leaked report of the IPCC reveals that the growth model of capitalism is unsustainable
The second draft of the IPCC Group III report, focused on mitigation strategies, states that we must move away from the current capitalist model to avoid surpassing planetary boundaries and climate and ecological catastrophe). It also confirms our previous reports, covered by CTXT and The Guardian, that “greenhouse gas emissions must peak in the next… Continue reading
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-7
The Taliban has warned that there will be consequences if the Biden Administration were to extend the timeline for its deployment at Kabul Airport beyond August 31. The G7 meeting that Britain has called for Tuesday regarding Afghanistan will take a call on the timeline. Continue reading
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Study: Fully Vaccinated Healthcare Workers Carry 251 Times Viral Load, Pose Threat to Unvaccinated Patients, Co-Workers
A groundbreaking preprint paper by the prestigious Oxford University Clinical Research Group, published Aug. 10 in The Lancet, includes alarming findings devastating to the COVID vaccine rollout. Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 22-23 August 2021
23 August 2021 • 1 7:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back 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 Continue reading
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HSBC is the 800-pound Gorilla in the Canadian Courtroom that No One is Talking About
The prosecution of telecommunications giant Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou on charges of violating U.S. sanctions policies with Iran has been very politicized from the outset and a bellwether in the decline of U.S.-Sino relations in an era of renewed cold war. Continue reading
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Assange: the most important press freedom case of the 21st century
Assange is now in his third year of detention in Belmarsh High Security prison. He has not been convicted of anything. His case has not yet staggered from the Magistrate’s Court, the lowest court in the land, to the Appeal Court. It has never and will never appear before a jury. Continue reading
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Report: ‘The Vaccines Are Neither Safe nor Effective’
In a report on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness released yesterday, Dr. Geoff Mitchell MD, JD determined the shots “neither safe nor effective,” and concluded “the best data tells us that the COVID-19 vaccines are failing.” Continue reading
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Our Grave Concerns About the Handling of the COVID Pandemic by Governments of the Nations of the UK
We write as concerned doctors, nurses, and other allied healthcare professionals with no vested interest in doing so. To the contrary, we face personal risk in relation to our employment for doing so and / or the risk of being personally “smeared” by those who inevitably will not like us speaking out. Continue reading
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Off for a few days
23 August 2021 — The New Dark Age No really, this time I really am taking a few days off, so no updates for a few days. B Continue reading
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-6
6. The untold secrets of Panjshir Valley Many Indian analysts are ecstatic that the Taliban’s goose is cooked, as Amrullah Saleh, deposed president Ashraf Ghani’s former deputy, is on the march to marshal an anti-Taliban resistance movement, a la the Northern Alliance of the late 1990s. The cold air of realism should have taught them… Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 21-22 August 2021
22 August 2021 • 21:00 — The New Dark Age Taliban Sends Hundreds Of Fighters To Impose Control Of Panjshir Valley Holdout (Videos) https://southfront.org/taliban-sends-hundreds-of-fighters-to-impose-control-of-panjshir-valley-holdout-videos/ Mujahideen v Taliban: Battle for strategic valley looms as anti-Taliban warlord & remnants of Afghan military refuse to surrender https://www.rt.com/news/532764-afghanistan-panjshir-northern-alliance/ Continue reading
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NATO Is Replicating Nazi Germany’s Crimes In Ukraine—Along With The Dangers Of World War
NATO and its fascist partnered regimes are facilitating a process in Ukraine that can be compared to the rise of Nazi Germany. The difference being that Ukraine’s fascist regime isn’t going to start invading European imperialist powers, which in the long term will make this regime more sustainable than the Third Reich; whereas the Nazis… Continue reading
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On the brink–the scenario that the IPCC is not modelling
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1 has presented its Physical Basis Report as a contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report on climate change, due in early 2022. The report and its summary are written in the precise style and vocabulary of scientific publications that make ‘objective’ statements. However, never before has a… Continue reading
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan – 5
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Moscow visits invariably draw great attention as she has performed a unique role as intermediary between the West and Russia during her 16 years in power. Even in the most trying times in Europe’s ties with Russia, Merkel could get through to Putin, and the western capitals looked up to… Continue reading
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America and its allies helped the Taliban on the road to victory
Most Western media outlets are carrying headlines and hype about the return of the Taliban to Afghanistan after the fighting force swept through the country at a blistering pace which has left military strategists gasping. Within 24 hours of making his “I am staying” speech, President Ashraf Ghani fled from Kabul when the Taliban entered… Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 20-21 August 2021
21 August 2021 • 22:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back The Road from Kabul to Idlib. Afghanistan and the Role of Al Qaeda ‘IMPOSSIBLE’ to evacuate Afghan allies by end of August: EU foreign policy chief Continue reading
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan — 4
The Chinese commentaries vehemently reject the western claims of democratic transformation in Afghanistan. A conversation on Tuesday between the Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his American counterpart Antony Blinken (at the latter’s initiative) brought this out sharply. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 20 August 2021
20 August 2021 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks US EPA Bans Use of Neurotoxic Insecticide Chlorpyrifos on Food Crops In a historic victory for farm workers, environment, and public health, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today it will be revoking all tolerances of chlorpyrifos, effectively banning all food uses of the toxic, brain-damaging pesticide in Continue reading
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