5 October 2021 • 15:00 — The New Dark Age

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Taliban open Salt Pit ‘Dark Prison’ for visits
https://www.voltairenet.org/article214305.html

Taliban arrests 11 ISIS members in Kabul after explosion outside mosque
https://www.rt.com/news/536653-taliban-arrests-isis-members/

Trump, Twitter and the Digital Town Hall
https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/10/trump-twitter-and-the-digital-town-hall/

Abby Martin and Paul Jay: Afghanistan, 9/11 and Climate Change, Part 2 + Current Climate Extremes Double at 2 Degrees Warming and Quadruple at 3
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/abby-martin-and-paul-jay-afghanistan-9-11-and-climate-change-part-2/

In a Dark Wood
https://desultoryheroics.com/2021/10/04/in-a-dark-wood/

Reflections On Events In Afghanistan (XXIII)
https://orientalreview.org/2021/10/04/reflections-on-events-in-afghanistan-xxiii/

Anti-Chinese narratives threaten to bring back Cold War’s evils
https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2021/10/anti-chinese-narratives-threaten-to.html

COVID-2021: a Plague of Mandates Odyssey
https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/10/covid-2021-a-plague-of-mandates-odyssey/

Solidarity With Longtime Anti-War Activist Joe Lombardo!
https://popularresistance.org/solidarity-with-longtime-anti-war-activist-joe-lombardo/

Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-23
https://williambowles.info/2021/10/03/reflections-on-events-in-afghanistan-23/

Afghanistan News Links 2-3 October 2021
https://williambowles.info/2021/10/03/afghanistan-news-links-2-3-october-2021/

Humanitarian Crisis Looms Large in Afghanistan and Myanmar
https://countercurrents.org/2021/10/humanitarian-crisis-looms-large-in-afghanistan-and-myanmar/

Why the World’s Eyes Are on the Afghanistan-Tajikistan Border
https://countercurrents.org/2021/10/why-the-worlds-eyes-are-on-the-afghanistan-tajikistan-border/

Military Situation In Afghanistan On October 4, 2021 (Map Update)
https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-afghanistan-on-october-4-2021-map-update/

Taliban wipes out Islamic State cell in Kabul after fatal bombing at mosque during prayers for top official’s mother
https://www.rt.com/news/536508-taliban-islamic-state-mosque-attack/

 

BBC ‘News’

UK diplomats meet Taliban leaders in Afghanistan

‘I don’t think I’d be as brave as female Afghan judges’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58792434

Afghanistan: Several people killed by bomb attack near a Kabul mosque
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58781717