August 2021
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Afghanistan News Links 15-16 August 2021
16 August 2021 • 22:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back 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/ Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: Tory welfare for the wealthy
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. Continue reading
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Science, Salvation and Heretics: From Monsanto to Pfizer, Same Old Playbook
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. Continue reading
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Where Best to Ride Out the Climate Apocalypse? The Billionaires’ Bunker Fantasies Go Mainstream
15 August, 2021 — Global Research By Jonathan Cook 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 Continue reading
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan
Social 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. Continue reading
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Book: Revolutionary Afghanistan
15 August 2021 — The New Dark Age [I got sent a link to this PDF, of a book written I think in 1981 and it’s well worth reading to give some context to current events. WB] The idea for this book arose from a visit to Kabul in March 1979 when it became immediately obvious Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 14-15 August 2021
15 August 2021 • 21:45 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Taliban Officials Interviewed At Afghan Presidential Palace Following Reports Of Explosions In Kabul (Videos, Photos) https://southfront.org/taliban-officials-interviewed-at-afghan-presidential-palace-following-reports-of-explosions-in-kabul-videos-photos/ Afghanistan’s Ghani claims he resigned to prevent Taliban slaughter in Continue reading
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From nuclear winter to boiling summers, capitalism continues to threaten the world
This article is not about saving the world, but why the capitalist class cannot save it. Capitalism has given rise to global warming through its drive for profits, and this drive will prevent it from reversing global warming. It is said capitalism is eminently adaptable. True, but that adaption has only occurred when and if… Continue reading
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Haiti News Links 14-15 August 2021
15 August 2021 — The New Dark Age First Footage From Haiti Hit By 7.2-Magnitude Earthquake (Number Of Casualties Updated) https://southfront.org/first-footage-from-haiti-hit-by-7-2-magnitude-earthquake/ 5.8-magnitude tremor rocks Haiti as it reels from devastating quake that killed over 300 https://www.rt.com/news/532080-haiti-quake-aftershock-new/ Continue reading
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Afghanistan – Taliban Enter Kabul – Will Announce Interim Government
15 August 2021 — Moon of Alabama All cities are now in Taliban hands as are all border crossings. President Ashraf Ghani has resigned. Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World Paperback – 6 Oct. 2009 English edition by Ashraf Ghani bigger A new interim government will be announced as soon as Continue reading
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Afghanistan – Taliban Make New Peace Offer And Other Bits
More from Afghanistan where history now happens at a speed seldom seen before. Continue reading
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Russia, China circle the wagons. Iran is in it
The Tehran Times reported on Wednesday that Moscow has conveyed to Tehran that the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has reached a consensus on Iran’s admission as a full member of the grouping. Continue reading
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How to improve pesticide regulation
Concrete steps to improve pesticide regulation are proposed in a new open-access commentary, “Novel strategies and new tools to curtail the health effects of pesticides”, published on August 3, 2021 in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health. Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 13-14 August 2021
14 August 2021 • 17:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Taliban Fighters Seized More Helicopters, Flew At Least Two (Videos) https://southfront.org/taliban-fighters-seized-more-helicopters-flew-at-least-two-videos/ Taliban Fighters Reach Kabul Doorstep After Capturing Logar Capital (Videos) https://southfront.org/taliban-fighters-reach-kabul-doorstep-after-capturing-logar-capital-videos/ Continue reading
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Growing Neo-Colonial Instability Points To The Looming Civilizational Collapse Of Most Of The Globe
I say “most of the globe” because the 21st century civilizational collapse we’re in the early stages of isn’t going to be distributed evenly. Of course, in the long term the unraveling may catch up to even the most momentarily stable areas; as futurist William Gibson has said, “The future is already here — it’s just not… Continue reading
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Cuba News Links 11-14 August 2021
14 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 US imposes more sanctions on crippled Cuba, this time on interior ministry officials and military unit https://www.rt.com/news/531985-usa-new-sanctions-cuba/ Cuba, China, Latin America and the World https://www.globalresearch.ca/cuba-china-latin-america-world/5752875 Continue reading
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The Houses of Dead and Crooked Souls
Houses stand before us like books on a shelf waiting to be read, and when the books are missing, as they are for a vast and growing multitude of the homeless exiled wandering ones and those imprisoned, their absence serves to indict the mansion-dwelling wealthy and to a lesser extent those whose homes serve to… Continue reading
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Code Red: How can we prevent climate catastrophe?
13 August 2021 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism IPCC report proves our rulers have failed: it’s time for radical change by Martin Empson The release of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis) presented us with a grim coincidence. The report was published as parts Continue reading
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