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  • August 15, 2021
    1 comment on Afghanistan – Taliban Enter Kabul – Will Announce Interim Government

    Afghanistan – Taliban Enter Kabul – Will Announce Interim Government

    15 August 2021 — Moon of Alabama

    All cities are now in Taliban hands as are all border crossings. President Ashraf Ghani has resigned.

    Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World Paperback – 6 Oct. 2009
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    A new interim government will be announced as soon as Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar arrives in Kabul. The U.S. is frantically evacuating its embassy.

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  • August 15, 2021
    No comments on Afghanistan – Taliban Make New Peace Offer And Other Bits

    Afghanistan – Taliban Make New Peace Offer And Other Bits

    14 August 2021 — Moon of Alabama

    More from Afghanistan where history now happens at a speed seldom seen before.

    The current situation:

    At least three more province capitals are now under Taliban control. In total 21 out of 34 provinces are now in Taliban hands. Most of the others are contested.

      • August 14 – Sharana (Paktika)
      • August 14 – Asasabad (Kunar)
      • August 14 – Gardez (Paktia)

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  • August 15, 2021
    2 comments on Russia, China circle the wagons. Iran is in it

    Russia, China circle the wagons. Iran is in it

    15 August 2021 — Indian Punchline

    by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
    10000 troops from PLA’s Western Theatre Command and Russia’s Eastern Military District wrapped up Zapad/Interaction-2021 exercises in Ningxia region, east of Xinjiang, August 13, 2021

    The Tehran Times reported on Wednesday that Moscow has conveyed to Tehran that the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has reached a consensus on Iran’s admission as a full member of the grouping.

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    China, Iran, Russia

  • August 15, 2021
    1 comment on How to improve pesticide regulation

    How to improve pesticide regulation

    10 AUGUST 2021 — GMWATCH

    Poisoned fruits

    New scientific commentary explains reforms needed to protect public health

    Concrete steps to improve pesticide regulation are proposed in a new open-access commentary, “Novel strategies and new tools to curtail the health effects of pesticides”, published on August 3, 2021 in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health.

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    Agriculture, Covid-19, Environment, Health

  • August 14, 2021
    1 comment on Afghanistan News Links 13-14 August 2021

    Afghanistan News Links 13-14 August 2021

    14 August 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

    Taliban Fighters Seized More Helicopters, Flew At Least Two (Videos)
    https://southfront.org/taliban-fighters-seized-more-helicopters-flew-at-least-two-videos/

    Taliban Fighters Reach Kabul Doorstep After Capturing Logar Capital (Videos)
    https://southfront.org/taliban-fighters-reach-kabul-doorstep-after-capturing-logar-capital-videos/

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    Afghanistan

  • August 14, 2021
    3 comments on Growing Neo-Colonial Instability Points To The Looming Civilizational Collapse Of Most Of The Globe

    Growing Neo-Colonial Instability Points To The Looming Civilizational Collapse Of Most Of The Globe

    14 August 2021 — See You in 2020

    I say “most of the globe” because the 21st century civilizational collapse we’re in the early stages of isn’t going to be distributed evenly. Of course, in the long term the unraveling may catch up to even the most momentarily stable areas; as futurist William Gibson has said, “The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed.” Which can apply to the breakdown of peace and order as much as it can apply to the expansion of life-improving technologies.

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  • August 14, 2021
    No comments on Cuba News Links 11-14 August 2021

    Cuba News Links 11-14 August 2021

    14 August 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

    US imposes more sanctions on crippled Cuba, this time on interior ministry officials and military unit
    https://www.rt.com/news/531985-usa-new-sanctions-cuba/

    Cuba, China, Latin America and the World
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/cuba-china-latin-america-world/5752875

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    Cuba

  • August 14, 2021
    No comments on The Houses of Dead and Crooked Souls

    The Houses of Dead and Crooked Souls

    13 August 2021 — Origin: Edward Curtin

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    “A house constitutes a body of images that give mankind proofs or illusions of stability.”      – Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

    There is a vast and growing gulf between the world’s rich and poor.  An obscene gulf. If we can read houses, they will confirm this.  They offer a visible lesson in social class.

    Houses stand before us like books on a shelf waiting to be read, and when the books are missing, as they are for a vast and growing multitude of the homeless exiled wandering ones and those imprisoned, their absence serves to indict the mansion-dwelling wealthy and to a lesser extent those whose homes serve to shield them from the truth of the ill-begotten gains of the wealthy elites who create the world’s suffering through their avarice, lies, and war making.

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    Liberties

  • August 14, 2021
    2 comments on Code Red: How can we prevent climate catastrophe?

    Code Red: How can we prevent climate catastrophe?

    13 August 2021 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism

    IPCC report proves our rulers have failed: it’s time for radical change

    by Martin Empson

    The release of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis) presented us with a grim coincidence. The report was published as parts of the world were literally on fire. Wildfires in Turkey and Greece forced the evacuation of thousands of people, with dozens of phone videos capturing the same apocalyptic drama. The fires made it into Western news because they were happening in tourist hotspots. The disaster was made worse by the European Union’s neoliberal pro-market policies that have cut firefighting services in the name of austerity.

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    Capitalism

  • August 14, 2021
    2 comments on Creative Associates International (CAI): It’s Not Exactly the CIA, But Close Enough

    Creative Associates International (CAI): It’s Not Exactly the CIA, But Close Enough

    13 August 2021 — MintPress News

    CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND — You have likely not heard of them, but Creative Associates International (CAI) is one of the largest and most powerful non-governmental organizations operating anywhere in the world. A pillar of soft U.S. power, the group has been an architect in privatizing the Iraqi education system, designed messenger apps meant to overthrow the government of Cuba, served as a front group for the infamous Blackwater mercenary force (now rebranded as Academi), and liaised with Contra death squads in Nicaragua. As such, it has functioned as “both as an instrument of foreign policy and as a manifestation of a broader imperial project,” in the words of Professor Kenneth Saltman of the University of Illinois, Chicago.
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  • August 13, 2021
    2 comments on Afghanistan – Is this the end?

    Afghanistan – Is this the end?

    13 August 2021 — Moon of Alabama

    This was fast. The Taliban have as of now 18 of 34 provinc[ial] capitals under the[ir] control.

    • August 6 – Zaranji (Nimruz)
    • August 7 – Sheberghan (Jowzjan)
    • August 8 – Kunduz (Kunduz)
    • August 8 – Sar-e Pol (Sar-e Pol)
    • August 8 – Talquan (Takhar)
    • August 9 – Aybak (Samangan)
    • August 10 – Farah (Farah)
    • August 10 – Pul-i Khumri (Baghlan)
    • August 11 – Faizabad (Badakhshan)
    • August 12 – Ghazni (Ghazni)
    • August 12 – Kandahar (Kandahar)
    • August 12 – Herat (Herat)
    • August 12 – Qala-e-Naw (Badghis)
    • August 13 – Lashkar Gah (Helmand)
    • August 13 – Tirin kot (Uruzgan)
    • August 13 – Chaghcharan (Ghor)
    • August 13 – Pul-e Alim (Logar)
    • August 13 – Qalat (Zabul)

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  • August 13, 2021
    No comments on Afghanistan News Links 12-13 August 2021

    Afghanistan News Links 12-13 August 2021

    13 August 2021 • 23:40 — The New Dark Age

    There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back

    Selected Articles: What Is the Future of Afghanistan?
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-future-afghanistan/5752947

    “It’s Not So Bad In Afghanistan”: Hypocritical Europe Not To Allow New Refugees
    https://southfront.org/its-not-so-bad-in-afghanistan-hypocritical-europe-not-to-allow-new-refugees/

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  • August 13, 2021
    No comments on Israeli cities impose beach apartheid on Palestinians

    Israeli cities impose beach apartheid on Palestinians

    13 August 2021 — The Electronic Intifada

    Asa Winstanley

    [The irony of this is that on New Year’s Day, 2000, I went through something similar on South Africa’s Wild Coast and wrote about it here, ‘Washed Up on the Wild Coast‘.  But in Israel, it’s even worse, as Palestinians are being denied access to the beaches, not just segregated from Israelis on the beaches. WB]

    Women and children play on a beach in the seaPalestinians on Jaffa beach last month. The city is inaccessible to most Palestinians from the West Bank, but some managed to get permits or evade Israeli restrictions. Other Israeli cities are now closing beaches to Palestinians. – Oren Ziv ActiveStills

    Three Israeli coastal cities are being slammed by a civil rights group for effectively banning Palestinians from their beaches.

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    Liberties, Palestine

  • August 13, 2021
    No comments on Environmental Demonstrators vs Militarized Police

    Environmental Demonstrators vs Militarized Police

    12 August 2021 — Consortium News

    The movement against climate chaos is running up against intense repression funded by private corporations as well as the federal government, writes Shea Leibow.

    A huge column of smoke from the Bootleg Fire in Oregon could be seen for miles on July 8. (National Interagency Fire Center, Wikimedia Commons)

    By Shea Leibow
    OtherWords

    This summer, we’ve seen the Bootleg fire rage through Oregon. East Coasters have been breathing West Coast smoke. Massive floods have slammed towns from Germany to China. The town of Lytton, British Columbia, burned to the ground.

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    Capitalism, Environment

  • August 13, 2021
    1 comment on Delta Variants, PCR Tests and Cognitive Dissonance

    Delta Variants, PCR Tests and Cognitive Dissonance

    11 August 2021 — Origin: New Eastern Outlook

    Author: F. William Engdahl

    CVD834233To paraphrase a famous quip from then Presidential candidate Bill Clinton in a debate with his Republican opponent in 1992, “It’s the vaccine, stupid!” The daily mainstream media and government narrative we are being inundated all over the world with is confusing to most, to put it mildly. So-called Delta or “Indian” variant is spreading like chicken pox we are told, but not what that “spreading” means. Unvaccinated are accused of spreading COVID-19 to those supposedly vaccinated. The USA, UK and EU are leading this confusing and deadly narrative.

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    Covid-19, Health, Propaganda

  • August 13, 2021
    No comments on ‘Flowers’ for founder of the ‘theatre of resistance’

    ‘Flowers’ for founder of the ‘theatre of resistance’

    13 August 2021 — New Frame

    Inspired by a specific play in the 1970s, Maishe Maponya decided to write and stage works of his own. He would later go on to collaborate with, and inspire, many others, even beyond South Africa’s borders.

    • By: Tonderai Chiyindiko
    • Illustrator: Anastasya Eliseeva

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    South Africa, Theatre

  • August 13, 2021
    No comments on Julian Assange News Links 12-13 August 2021

    Julian Assange News Links 12-13 August 2021

    13 August 2021 — The New Dark Age

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    Targeting the Medical Evidence: The US Challenge on Assange’s Health

    A Day in the Death of British Justice
    https://williambowles.info/2021/08/13/a-day-in-the-death-of-british-justice/

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  • August 13, 2021
    No comments on Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2021

    Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2021

    12 August 2021 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism

    A bumper crop! Ten new books for red-greens and green-reds

    Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C agrees with everything (or even anything!) these books say.


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    Books, Capitalism

  • August 13, 2021
    3 comments on A Day in the Death of British Justice

    A Day in the Death of British Justice

    12 August 2021 — MintPress News

    By John Pilger

    I sat in Court 4 in the Royal Courts of Justice in London yesterday with Stella Moris, Julian Assange’s partner. I have known Stella for as long as I have known Julian. She, too, is a voice of freedom, coming from a family that fought the fascism of Apartheid. Today, her name was uttered in court by a barrister and a judge, forgettable people were it not for the power of their endowed privilege.

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  • August 12, 2021
    No comments on Show the Children the Green Fields and Let the Sunshine into Their Minds: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2021)

    Show the Children the Green Fields and Let the Sunshine into Their Minds: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2021)

    12 August 2021 — Tricontinental

    Dossier 43 web feature 1

    Dear friends,

    Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

    Exactly two years ago, I walked with my colleagues from Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research through the Camp Marielle Vive (‘Marielle Lives’) outside of Valinhos in the state of São Paulo, Brazil with a great sense of déjà vu. The camp resembles so many other communities of the desperately poor on our planet. The United Nations calculates that one in eight people on our planet – one billion human beings – live in such precariousness. The homes are made of a jumble of materials: blue tarpaulin sheets and bits of wood, corrugated iron sheets and old bricks. A thousand families live in Camp Marielle Vive, named after the Brazilian socialist Marielle Franco, who was assassinated in March 2018.

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