September 30, 2021
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Afghanistan News Links 29-30 September 2021
30 September 2021 • 15:00 — The New Dark Age The Empire Does Not Forgive The Military Industrial Media Complex: How the Pentagon Leaned on Hollywood to Sell the War in Afghanistan https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-pentagon-leaned-hollywood-sell-war-afghanistan/5757220 Afghanistan’s Impoverished People Live Amid Enormous Riches https://countercurrents.org/2021/09/afghanistans-impoverished-people-live-amid-enormous-riches/ On Afghanistan and Legitimate Resistance https://countercurrents.org/2021/09/on-afghanistan-and-legitimate-resistance/ 60 Hours After Publishing A Fake News Report Continue reading
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60 Hours After Publishing A Fake News Report On Afghanistan The New York Times Still Spreads The Story
On Tuesday I provided that the New York Times and CNN were spreading fake news about Taliban policy in Afghanistan by quoting a hoax tweet from an imposter’s Twitter account. Forty-eight hours later both stories are still uncorrected despite the fact that many have have pointed out the ‘error’ in them. Continue reading
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If the United Nations Charter Was Put To a Vote Today, Would It Pass?: The Thirty-Ninth Newsletter (2021)
30 September 2021 — Tricontinental Rafael Tufiño Figueroa (Puerto Rico), La plena, 1952-54. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Each year in September, the heads of governments come to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City to inaugurate a new session of the General Assembly. The area surrounding the Continue reading