September 1, 2021
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-11
The back-to-back press briefings on August 30 by General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr, commander, US Central Command and Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, on Afghanistan conveys the picture of a superpower badly bruised and embittered but remaining vengeful. This is bad news. Continue reading
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The Science and Ethics Regarding Risk Posed by Non-vaccinated Individuals: Position Paper
The “Israeli Public Emergency Council for the COVID Crisis” has released a position paper detailing what they call flawed assumptions and ethical problems inherent in blaming the unvaccinated for the latest wave of COVID. Continue reading
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China News Links 30 August – 1 September 2021
1 September 2021 — The New Dark Age Michael Hudson: Global Financial Empire, Parts 1-3 https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2021/09/01/michael-hudson-global-financial-empire-parts-1-3/ The ANZUS Security Treaty At 70 https://orientalreview.org/2021/09/01/the-anzus-security-treaty-at-70/ Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 30 August – 1 September 2021
1 September 2021 • 18:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back WATCH: Abandoned US-made hardware, empty service dog crates filmed CLOSE-UP in RT tour of Afghanistan’s Kabul airport https://www.rt.com/news/533667-kabul-airport-tour-taliban-afghanistan/ Dozens of vehicles & Black Hawk flyover: Taliban… Continue reading
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Why Is the Gates Foundation Funding the UK’s Medicines Regulator?
On August 13, the UK government published a response to a freedom of information request in relation to the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) — the UK’s equivalent of the FDA. The question it was in response to enquired as to whether or not the agency had received funding from the Bill and… Continue reading
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Xinjiang Uyghur propaganda mirrors NATO’s Yugoslavia narratives
“The aim of propaganda was to split up Yugoslavia,” confessed former CIA agent Robert Baer in 2015. “I arrived in Sarajevo for the first time on the 12th of January 1991. I came by helicopter with three other agents. Our task was to observe Serbian terrorists who were supposed to attack the city. We got… Continue reading
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Back to the future: Talibanistan, Year 2000
Welcome to Taliban Afghanistan – Talibanistan – in the Year 2000. This is when photographer Jason Florio and myself slowly crossed it overland from east to west, from the Pakistani border at Torkham to the Iranian border at Islam qillah. As Afghan ONG workers acknowledged, we were the first Westerners to pull this off in… Continue reading
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