September 2021
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Why U.S. Plans For Revenge In Afghanistan May Not Succeed
4 September 2021 — Moon of Alabama The U.S. does not want p[ea]ce in Afghanistan. There are two reasons for that. The first is vengefulness. That an alleged superpower gets kicked out of a country by some local guerilla is too hard to accept. That the rush to the exit has happened in a rather… Continue reading
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-13
At the daily foreign ministry briefing in Beijing on Friday, Russian correspondent of Sputnik asked spokesperson Ambassador Wang Wenbin how China viewed the Taliban decision to attack Panjshir and how this will affect the Afghan situation. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides
3 September 2021 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Breakfast at Monsanto’s Sheds Light on Health Dangers of World’s Most Used Weedkiller: Exclusive Interview Sustainable Pulse interview with Lee A. Evslin, M.D., author of the new eye-opening book Breakfast at Monsanto’s and board-certified pediatrician and Fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics. What led to your… Continue reading
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Want Regime Change with Plausible Deniability? Call Creative Associates International
The Reagan administration constructed a network of outsourced private organizations that would do the dirty work of the U.S. empire, shielding the U.S. government from the prying eyes of investigators and journalists. Continue reading
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The U.S. Foreign Policy ‘Establishment’ Is Incredibly Dumb
3 September 2021 — Moon of Alabama The U.S. foreign policy ‘establishment’ is incredibly dumb: With Afghan Retreat, Biden Bucks Foreign Policy Elite, New York Times, Sep. 1 2021 “The foreign policy establishment did get it wrong in Iraq, where the U.S. overreached,” said Richard N. Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations.… Continue reading
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Louisiana Black-out: Not an Act of God, an Act of Entergy
I was hired by the City of New Orleans to investigate why their power company, Entergy, simply can’t keep the lights on while citizens’ electric bills soar. That was in 1986. Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 2-3 September 2021
3 September 2021 • 14:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back US Reputation Is in Tatters, It’s Time to Bring Those Responsible for Afghanistan Disaster to Account https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-reputation-tatters-time-bring-those-responsible-afghanistan-disaster-account/5754818 Afghanistan Recessional: Will It Lead to a War with… Continue reading
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-12
At the weekly briefing in Moscow on Thursday by the Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that Russia will consider recognising Afghanistan’s new authorities once an inclusive government is formed in the country. Continue reading
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The Newspaper That Smeared Corbyn & the Left
Jonathan Cook analyzes why a British media watchdog doesn’t take meaningful action against The Jewish Chronicle for its anti-Semitism libels against the former Labour leader and his followers. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: John Penrose MP – he’s an anti-corruption champion?
“Unimaginable resources” were thrown at Test and Trace. Yet it “cannot point to a measurable difference to the progress of the pandemic”. That’s what the Conservative-majority Public Accounts Committee found. There was a measurable difference, though, for the owners of the biggest of the pandemic contract winners, Innova. The LA Times reported that they flashed “an Innova bank statement with… Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 1-2 September 2021
2 September 2021 • 20:00 — 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 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 Continue reading
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Former Pfizer VP Michael Yeadon: ‘The Gloves Are Off,’ UK Government to Inject All 12-15-year-olds Without Parental Consent
‘KNOWING WHAT I KNOW FROM 40 years TRAINING & PRACTISE IN TOXICOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY & PHARMACOLOGY, to participate in this extraordinary abuse of innocent children in our care can be classified in no other way than MURDER.’ Continue reading
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Biden gives green signal to US-China thaw
The visit to Tianjin by President Biden’s climate envoy John Kerry on September 1-3 is assuming a huge dimension holding promise as a defining moment in the tense bilateral relationship between China and the US. Unlike Kerry’s previous visit in April to Shanghai, his conversation has broadened and deepened this time around, going well beyond… Continue reading
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Africa’s Uprising is Frozen, Its Cry Swollen with Hope: The Thirty-Fifth Newsletter (2021)
2 September 2021 — Tricontinental Bertina Lopes (Mozambique), Dimensão (‘Dimension’), 1972. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 26 August, two deadly attacks on the perimeter of Kabul’s international airport killed over a hundred people, including a dozen US soldiers. The bombings struck people desperate to enter the airport and… Continue reading
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The Incantational Bewitchment of Propaganda
All propaganda succeeds because it satisfies needs that it has first created. If you follow the daily rat-a-tat mainstream news reports and react to them, you will be caught in a labyrinth that has been set to entrap you. You will keep finding that your mind will be like a bed that is already made… Continue reading
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Experimental GM wheat trial goes ahead in UK
The UK Government has given Rothamsted Research consent to plant highly experimental GM wheat in an open field near St Albans. Continue reading
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To Counter U.S. Hostility China Moves Towards People Centered Policies
In December 2001 China became a member of the World Trade Organization. That opened new markets for China’s industry and attracted a lot of foreign investment. The growth in GDP that China has achieved since is breathtaking. Continue reading
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We Can No Longer Avoid Raising the Contradiction of the Western Imperial Left’s Collaboration with the Western Bourgeoisie
As the Western left has become more aligned with their imperialist bourgeoisie in the destabilization of the Global South, the radical Black tradition provides a clear approach to “turn imperialist wars into wars against imperialism.” Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 2 September 2021
2 September 2021 — Black Agenda Report Why the U.S. Still Suffers from COVID Margaret Kimberley, BAR Editor and Senior Columnist The Covid-19 crisis cannot be separated from the failed state. Continue reading
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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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