2 September 2021 • 20:00 — The New Dark Age

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Taliban Fighters Felt ‘Betrayed’ Because US Troops Disabled Many Warplanes Before Leaving Kabul – Report
https://southfront.org/taliban-fighters-felt-betrayed-because-us-troops-disabled-many-warplanes-before-leaving-kabul-report/

Back to the Future: Talibanistan, Year 2000
https://www.globalresearch.ca/back-future-talibanistan-year-2000/5754679

Denmark’s former hardline immigration minister on trial in rarely used court over separating asylum-seeker couples
https://www.rt.com/news/533784-denmark-minister-court-asylum-seekers/

Afghanistan Has Lessons For The Gulf
https://southfront.org/afghanistan-has-lessons-for-the-gulf/

US Covert Operations in Afghanistan, Support for Extremists
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-covert-operations-afghanistan-support-extremists/5754660

‘It will never happen’: Snowden laughs off suggestion Julian Assange or himself would ever get Nobel Peace Prize
https://www.rt.com/news/533751-assange-snowden-nobel-prize/

On Propaganda and Failed Narratives: New Understanding of Afghanistan is a Must
https://www.mintpressnews.com/propaganda-failed-narratives-new-understanding-afghanistan-must/278365/

US used secret CIA base outside Kabul to evacuate Americans, 1,000 Afghan commandos & their families – media
https://www.rt.com/news/533748-cia-base-afghanistan-evacuation/

Did the US Support the Growth of ISIS-K in Afghanistan?
https://www.mintpressnews.com/did-the-us-support-the-growth-of-isis-k-in-afghanistan/278339/

The Fall of Kabul, “The Fall of Democracy”. Hubris of Western Plutocracies
https://www.globalresearch.ca/fall-kabul-fall-democracy/5754737

US Slips Out of Kabul but Is Vengeful
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-slips-out-kabul-vengeful/5754701

Don’t Wage Economic War On Afghanistan
https://popularresistance.org/dont-wage-economic-war-on-afghanistan/

Chinese-Russian Cooperation Is The Key To Afghan Peace
https://orientalreview.org/2021/09/02/chinese-russian-cooperation-is-the-key-to-afghan-peace/

Twenty Years of the Afghanistan Occupation Ends: A New Phase of Struggle Begins
https://socialistproject.ca/2021/09/twenty-year-afghanistan-occupation-ends/

Terrorist Attacks Continue in Pakistan

Mekong-US Partnership: Promoting Poverty, Driving Sinophobic Hostility
https://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2021/09/mekong-us-partnership-promoting-poverty.html

The Incantational Bewitchment of Propaganda
http://edwardcurtin.com/the-incantational-bewitchment-of-propaganda/

Why the current hysteria?
http://thesaker.is/why-the-current-hysteria/

China News Links 30 August – 1 September 2021
https://williambowles.info/2021/09/01/china-news-links-30-august-1-september-2021/

Reflections On Events In Afghanistan (XI)
https://orientalreview.org/2021/09/02/reflections-on-events-in-afghanistan-xi/

Iraq: Afghan Lessons and Reality
https://journal-neo.org/2021/09/02/iraq-afghan-lessons-and-reality/

What Next After US Defeat?
https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/09/what-next-after-us-defeat/

Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-11
https://williambowles.info/2021/09/01/reflections-on-events-in-afghanistan-11/

Afghanistan News Links 30 August – 1 September 2021
https://williambowles.info/2021/09/01/afghanistan-news-links-30-august-1-september-2021/

Northern Resistance Front Stops Taliban Assault As Panjshir Negotiations Fail
https://southfront.org/northern-resistance-front-stops-taliban-assault-as-panjshir-negotiations-fail/

Military Situation In Afghanistan On September 1, 2021 (Map Update)
https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-afghanistan-on-september-1-2021-map-update/

Indian troops deployed to sensitive locations as Kashmiri separatist leader buried in pre-dawn ceremony
https://www.rt.com/news/533719-india-kashmir-death-leader-troops/

‘Righteous’ drone strike in Kabul killed ‘at least one’ ISIS-K terrorist, Pentagon says amid reports of 7 dead CHILDREN
https://www.rt.com/news/533695-pentagon-kabul-strike-isis-righteous/

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/

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BBC ‘News’

Afghanistan: Kabul airport could reopen for evacuation flights soon, says Dominic Raab
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58417078

Afghanistan: Councils prepare to offer homes to refugees
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58426788

Afghanistan: Pen Farthing still working to rescue terrified staff
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-58420839

The Papers: Ministers ‘at war’ – and call for more booster jabs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-58416557

Afghanistan: Facebook says it helped people flee, including staff
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58417231

Afghanistan: How many asylum seekers has the UK taken in?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58245684

Dominic Raab in Qatar for talks on Afghanistan evacuations
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58417078

Kabul make-up artist: ‘Women like me are Taliban targets’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-58388333

Afghanistan women’s cricket team: Players hiding in Kabul fear Taliban rule
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/58396310

Afghanistan crisis: Unclear if ruthless Taliban will change, says US general
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58415877

Afghanistan: Joe Biden speech on withdrawal fact-checked
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/58412530