Afghanistan News Links 15-16 September 2021

16 September 2021 • 17:00 — The New Dark Age

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Post-occupation Afghanistan Seeks to Build International Relations

The Debacle of “Nation Building” in Afghanistan and Iraq
https://countercurrents.org/2021/09/the-debacle-of-nation-building-in-afghanistan-and-iraq/

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The Sound of His Approaching Step Wakes Me and I See My Land’s Deprivation: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2021)

16 September 2021 — Tricontinental

Mrinmoy Debbarma Tripura India Once a Jungle 2015 1Mrinmoy Debbarma (Tripura, India), Once a Jungle, 2015.

Dear friends,

Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

On Wednesday, 8 September, party workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s ruling political party, attacked three buildings in the Melarmath area of Agartala (Tripura). These attacks targeted the offices of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the communist newspaper Daily Deshar Katha, and two private media houses Pratibadi Kalam and PN-24. The violence took place in broad daylight as the police stood by and watched. Across Tripura, fifty-four other offices of the communists were attacked.

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How US Media Misrepresent the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s Laboratories and Safety Protocols

15 September 2021 — MintPress News

Editor’s Note | We recognize that COVID-19 coverage can inflame passions and is prone to controversy. In the past, MintPress News has published varying viewpoints on the topic (including ones that stand in contrast to those represented in the following article). We strive to provide well-researched articles representing a diversity of views to our readers in the interest of fostering healthy discussion in the public interest.

WUHAN, CHINA — While many people have already criticized the lack of evidence and scientific basis for the hypothesis that the Covid-19 pandemic originated from a laboratory, both critics and proponents of the lab-leak theory appear to have uncritically accepted false or unproven premises regarding work done at the laboratory most often implicated in these speculations, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

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