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Black Agenda Report: Glen Ford Memorial Gathering
The Glen Ford Memorial Gathering will take place on Saturday, September 18 at 2pm ET. Live streaming can be viewed on Youtube or the Black Agenda Report Facebook page. Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 15-16 September 2021
16 September 2021 • 17:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back 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/ Continue reading
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The Sound of His Approaching Step Wakes Me and I See My Land’s Deprivation: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2021)
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… Continue reading
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How US Media Misrepresent the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s Laboratories and Safety Protocols
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,… Continue reading
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Vaccine passports have already set us on a slippery slope
The steady march towards medical ID cards is on, after the Scottish Parliament voted in favour of vaccine passports this week. In Westminster, the Government is set to follow suit but won’t even commit to giving MPs a vote on the matter – as though votes in the House of Commons are now gifts from… Continue reading
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How Covid passes urged a football fan to make a stand against his own sport
My name is Leon* and I work in the public sector. I would like to share my experience surrounding the use of Covid passports for entering sports venues, in particular Wembley Stadium for the FA Cup Final between Chelsea and Leicester City on 15th May 2021. Continue reading
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-18
In England, they’d plan a park, build it but wouldn’t complete it until they could observe for a while the foot tracks of walkers, before deciding where to lay the pathways for optimal utility. The Blinken Administration and Modi Govt apparently think they don’t have that luxury when it comes to Afghanistan. That is the… Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 14-15 September 2021
15 September 2021 — The New Dark Age Why the Taliban Had to Change. “Regime Change” Pre-negotiated with Washington? https://www.globalresearch.ca/why-taliban-had-change/5755879 Taliban Central Bank Seized $12,4 Million From Former Top Afghan Officials, Including Ex Vice President https://southfront.org/taliban-central-bank-seized-124-million-from-former-top-afghan-officials-including-ex-vice-president/ Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 16 September 2021
16 September 2021 — Black Agenda Report Glen Ford Memorial Gathering The memorial service for Glen Ford will be held on Saturday, September 18, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. The event will be live streamed on Youtube. 20 Years of Post-9/11 Amnesia Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Memories of the last… Continue reading
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UK: A threat to public safety: policing, racism and the Covid-19 pandemic
Today, we publish a new report, A threat to public safety: policing, racism and the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue reading
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U.S. “human rights” propagandists cover tracks of Uyghur terror
Faced with the shift towards a multi-polar world, one where China is increasingly enabled to act as a benevolent facilitator of Global South economic development and international peace, the U.S. empire is seeking to sabotage the game of geopolitics. To throw ever more parts of the globe into anarchy, or at least a state of… Continue reading
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Vaccine passports – we’re on the front foot..
“It is not something that we are implementing… The evidence [for vaccine passports] is not there and I hope it will never be” – Sajid Javid Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 13-14 September 2021
14 September 2021 • 16:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back In Video: Taliban Glad To Find Ballistic Missiles In Panjshir, But They Are Likely Useless https://southfront.org/in-video-taliban-glad-to-find-ballistic-missiles-in-panjshir-but-they-are-likely-useless/ In Video: Millions Of Cash & Gold Bars Allegedly Found In… Continue reading
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John Pilger: ‘The Invasion of Afghanistan Was a Fraud’
John Pilger is one of the world’s most acclaimed investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. He is a recipient of several prestigious awards, including an Emmy and a BAFTA. He has contributed to various international publications and news services, including The Guardian, The New York Times, BBC World Service, and Al Jazeera. Mr. Pilger has directed… Continue reading
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CALL OUT: do you recognise ‘John Kerry’, the police spy placed in CND’s head office?
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) has been granted Core Participant status in the judge-led public inquiry into undercover policing, chaired by Sir John Mitting QC, after it was confirmed that Britain’s best-known peace organisation was targeted for infiltration by both Special Branch and the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) of the Metropolitan Police during the… Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 12-13 September 2021
13 September 2021 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back The Winner in Afghanistan: China https://countercurrents.org/2021/09/the-winner-in-afghanistan-china/ Qatari Foreign Minister Arrives In Afghanistan’s Kabul After Regional Tour (Video, Photos) https://southfront.org/qatari-foreign-minister-arrives-in-afghanistans-kabul-after-regional-tour-video-photos/ Continue reading
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Biden Doctrine appears in Persian Gulf
The incipient signs of a US retrenchment from Saudi Arabia have appeared in a series of moves in the past 2-3 weeks. On a parallel track, the Biden Administration is factoring in that new Iranian government is returning to the negotiating table at Vienna on nuclear issues. Continue reading
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan -16
The best part of the visit by the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Nikolay Patrushev to New Delhi (September 7-8) was that the two countries have embarked upon a voyage of (re)discovery of each other at a phase in their relationship when the US-led Quad irrevocably sets them apart and as… Continue reading
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-15
The Taliban hoisted their black and white flag on the presidential palace in Kabul on September 11, which happens to be the twentieth anniversary of the Al-Qaeda’s attack on New York and Washington, DC. The symbolism is too obvious to be missed. Although the Taliban had no hand in the 9/11 attacks, it took the… Continue reading
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China and common prosperity
Back in May the Chinese government set up a special zone to implement ‘common prosperity’ in Zhejiang province, which also happens to be the location of the headquarters of several prominent internet corporations– Alibaba among them. And last month, China’s President Xi Jinping announced plans to spread “common prosperity”, heralding a tough crackdown on wealthy elites –… Continue reading
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