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The Futility Of The Afghan War And “War On Terror”
https://popularresistance.org/the-futility-of-the-afghan-war-and-war-on-terror/
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Editor and Senior Columnist
Census data show that gentrification is accelerating Black displacement.
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A major study conducted by Israeli researchers into natural immunity has found that immunity acquired via infection from Covid-19 is superior to immunity from the Pfizer vaccine.
There are few things in this kaleidoscopic world of ours that we can count on – for predictability, for fixity of outlook, for unswerving resistance to the vicissitudes of life. The American foreign policy community is one of them. They reliably react to stunning events in the world with reiteration of what they have been saying for years and decades They do so in unison. They never admit error of analysis or of policy, they preserve a righteous tone, and they retain a permanent inventory of persons to scapegoat – and, equally important, those who are always exempt from blame.
28 August 2021 • 20:00 — The New Dark Age
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Here comes China: Afghanistan, 7 Deadly Sins, Space, Common Prosperity
Taliban Takeover Alarms The Gulf
https://popularresistance.org/taliban-takeover-alarms-the-gulf/
28 August 2021 — The New Dark Age
‘Accountability to the People of Afghanistan Should Remain Our Focal Point’
https://fair.org/home/accountability-to-the-people-of-afghanistan-should-remain-our-focal-point/
Taliban orders Kabul residents to hand over weapons, ammo & ‘state property’
https://www.rt.com/news/533308-taliban-order-weapons-ammunition-handover/
‘So Much of This War Has Got Almost Nothing to Do With the Afghans Themselves’
https://fair.org/home/so-much-of-this-war-has-got-almost-nothing-to-do-with-the-afghans-themselves/
US President Biden enters Roosevelt Room in the White House to give a statement on US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Aug 24, 2021The horrific terrorist strikes in Kabul on Thursday which killed at least 12 US servicemen and dozens of civilians will lead to a higher level of cooperation between the US and the Taliban.
The commander of CENTCOM Gen. Kenneth McKenzie disclosed to journalists on Thursday that the US was already sharing information on terror threats in Afghanistan with Taliban. As he put it, “We share versions of this information with the Taliban so that they actually make searches… We think they’ve thwarted some.”
Taliban fighters patrol Kabul, Afghanistan, August 24, 2021This week will stand out as a pivotal moment in President Joe Biden’s presidency. It has been a humble moment yet bold and decisive, far-sighted but tactical, and focused on America’s self-interests. It underscores that the US’ capacity to force its will on other countries (or even non-state actors) has dramatically diminished.
In 2010, I was in Washington and arranged to interview the mastermind of Afghanistan’s modern era of suffering, Zbigniew Brzezinski. I quoted to him his autobiography in which he admitted that his grand scheme for drawing the Soviets into Afghanistan had created “a few stirred up Muslims”.
“Do you have any regrets?” I asked.“Regrets! Regrets! What regrets?”
By John Pilger
Alisa Singer (USA), Changing, 2021. Source: IPCC.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
In late March 2021, 120 traditional owners from 40 different First People’s groups spent five days at the National First People’s Gathering on Climate Change in Cairns (Australia). Speaking on the impact of the climate crisis on First People, Gavin Singleton from the Yirrganydji traditional owners explainedthat ‘From changing weather patterns to shifts in natural ecosystems, climate change is a clear and present threat to our people and our culture’.
Satellite image showing smoke from Siberian forest fires reaching the North Pole (August 3, 2021). Image credit: Felton Davis, Flickr. The second draft of the IPCC Group III report, focused on mitigation strategies, states that we must move away from the current capitalist model to avoid surpassing planetary boundaries and climate and ecological catastrophe). It also confirms our previous reports, covered by CTXT and The Guardian, that “greenhouse gas emissions must peak in the next four years”. The new leak acknowledges that there is little or no room for further economic growth.
A panoramic view of Mes Ayna on the gentle hills and craggy mountains in Logar province 40 kilometres south-east of Kabul, Afghanistan, where Chinese firms signed contracts to mine one of the world’s largest untouched copper deposits estimated to contain 450 million metric tonnes of ore worth at least US$50 billionThe Taliban has warned that there will be consequences if the Biden Administration were to extend the timeline for its deployment at Kabul Airport beyond August 31. The G7 meeting that Britain has called for Tuesday regarding Afghanistan will take a call on the timeline.
A preprint paper by the prestigious Oxford University Clinical Research Group, published Aug. 10 in The Lancet, found vaccinated individuals carry 251 times the load of COVID-19 viruses in their nostrils compared to the unvaccinated.
By Peter A. McCullough, M.D., MPH
A groundbreaking preprint paper by the prestigious Oxford University Clinical Research Group, published Aug. 10 in The Lancet, includes alarming findings devastating to the COVID vaccine rollout.
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FIRE reported at Kabul airport amid frantic evacuation, VIDEOS show billowing smoke (update)
https://www.rt.com/news/532831-fire-kabul-airport-afghanistan/
More than 500 tons of medical supplies unable to reach Afghanistan due to Kabul airport chaos – WHO
https://www.rt.com/news/532844-afghanistan-who-medical-supplies/
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, more commonly known as HSBC. [Source: 1000logos.net]
Meng Wanzhou [Source: thestar.com]
Note before starting: Hats off to CGTN for its excellent video, “The Untold Story of Meng Wanzhou.” I referred to it extensively to expand my research.
The prosecution of telecommunications giant Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou on charges of violating U.S. sanctions policies with Iran has been very politicized from the outset and a bellwether in the decline of U.S.-Sino relations in an era of renewed cold war.
Assange is now in his third year of detention in Belmarsh High Security prison. He has not been convicted of anything. His case has not yet staggered from the Magistrate’s Court, the lowest court in the land, to the Appeal Court. It has never and will never appear before a jury.
In a report on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness released yesterday, Dr. Geoff Mitchell MD, JD determined the shots “neither safe nor effective,” and concluded “the best data tells us that the COVID-19 vaccines are failing.”
According to that data, says Dr. Mitchell:
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By Dr. Jonathan Engler, Prof. John A Fairclough, Mr. Tony Hinton, and et al.
Dear Sirs and Madam,
Our grave concerns about the handling of the COVID pandemic by Governments of the Nations of the UK.
We write as concerned doctors, nurses, and other allied healthcare professionals with no vested interest in doing so. To the contrary, we face personal risk in relation to our employment for doing so and / or the risk of being personally “smeared” by those who inevitably will not like us speaking out.
23 August 2021 — The New Dark Age
No really, this time I really am taking a few days off, so no updates for a few days.
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