28 October 2021 — The New Dark Age
Reflections On Events In Afghanistan (XXX)
https://orientalreview.org/2021/10/27/reflections-on-events-in-afghanistan-xxx/
Becoming Estonians.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/10/becoming-estonians.html
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No comments on Afghanistan News Links 16-28 October 2021
Afghanistan News Links 16-28 October 2021
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COVID-19: Moderna Gets Its Miracle
28 October 2021 — Unlimited Hangout
COVID-19 erased the regulatory and trial-related hurdles that Moderna could never surmount before. Yet, how did Moderna know that COVID-19 would create those conditions months before anyone else, and why did they later claim that their vaccine being tested in NIH trials was different than their commercial candidate?
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‘Left problem’ is not cozying up to bad guys but supporting imperialism
28 October 2021 — Yves Engler
The Breach article photo Left media should explore a wide range of critical ideas. But it should try to avoid ‘punching down’ too often.
Recently new left outlet The Breach published a long interview with Columbia University PhD student Barnaby Raine “on the resurgence of ‘tankie’ and ‘campist’ politics” titled “Is the enemy of my enemy my friend?”
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Being a Child in Yemen Is the Stuff of Nightmares: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2021)
28 October 2021 — Tricontinental
Murad Subay (Yemen), Fuck War, 2018.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
In March 2015, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – along with other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – began to bomb Yemen. These countries entered a conflict that had been ongoing for at least a year as a civil war escalated between the government of President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, the Ansar Allah movement of the Zaidi Shia, and al-Qaeda. The GCC – led by the Saudi monarchy – wanted to prevent any Shia political project, whether aligned with Iran or not, from taking power along Saudi Arabia’s border. The attack on Yemen can be described, therefore, as an attack by the Sunni monarchs against the possibility of what they feared would be a Shia political project coming to power on the Arabian Peninsula.
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COP-out 26
28 October 2021 — Michael Roberts Blog
by michael roberts This weekend, COP26 meets in Glasgow, Scotland. Every country in the world is supposed to be represented in meetings designed to achieve agreement on limiting and reducing greenhouse gas emissions so that the planet does not overheat and cause widespread damage to the environment, species and human livelihoods across the planet.
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Julian Assange News Links 28 October 2021
28 October 2021 • 22:00 — The New Dark Age
Defense chronology surrounding Assange’s family and Dr Kopelman
https://defend.wikileaks.org/2021/10/28/defense-chronology-surrounding-assanges-family-and-dr-kopelman/Declaration of Assange attorney Gareth Peirce on Prof Kopelman
https://defend.wikileaks.org/2021/10/28/declaration-of-assange-attorney-gareth-peirce-on-prof-kopelman/
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Anti-War Pro-Peace Resources Database Free to All
27 October 2021 — World Beyond War
World BEYOND War’s Technology Director Marc Eliot Stein, working with the rest of our staff, has created an online database, easy to use and available to all at https://worldbeyondwar.org/resources
This is a collection of what we believe are the very best, most useful resources on numerous important topics. For example, if you choose the topic “Environment”, you’ll find 106 resources of all types on a page that looks like this:
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Watch: Our Broken Media and What To Do About It
27 October 2021 — MintPress News
MintCast
Higdon, Huff and MacLeod talk about censorship, fake news, disinformation and the prevalence of conspiracy theories in this free-flowing discussion.
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DAY ONE: Assange Lawyer in Fiery Rebuttal at Day’s Conclusion
27 October 2021 — Consortium News
Edward Fitzgerald QC, a lawyer for Julian Assange, ended the first day of the U.S. appeal with a thunderous response to the case put forward by a prosecutor for the United States.
Assange supporters on Oct. 23 outside the Royal Courts of Justice ahead of the U.S. extradition appeal hearing. (Don’t Extradite Assange campaign)Consortium News has remote video access to the courtroom for the two-day hearing.
By Joe Lauria
Special to Consortium NewsA lawyer for Julian Assange responded forcefully to the U.S. presentation at the High Court in London on Wednesday, sweeping aside arguments that the lower court judge had followed the lead of a biased expert witness and that Assange was faking his suicidal urges.
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UnHerd – Why is Tony Blair obsessed with vaccine passports?
22 October 2021 — Big Brother Watch
Big Brother Watch Team
He’s at it again. For the third time, Tony Blair and his Institute are calling on the Government to introduce Covid passes as “a matter of priority”, asserting that they will reduce cases to a
“fraction” of their current rate. With so many things he might be turning his attention to at this time, the former PM’s obsession with vaccine passports is starting to seem odd.
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Black Agenda Report 27 October 2021
27 October 2021 — Black Agenda Report
Russell “Maroon” Shoatz is Free, But Other Political Prisoners Languish
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The demand for freedom of political prisoners must be consistently made for their sakes and for all at risk of joining them in the future.
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Julian Assange News Links 27 October 2021
27 October 2021 — The New Dark Age
CIA And DoD-Connected Organizations Mapping WikiLeaks Supporters
https://popularresistance.org/cia-and-dod-connected-organizations-mapping-wikileaks-supporters/UK High Court Should Deny Extradition Because CIA Planned To Assassinate Assange
https://popularresistance.org/uk-high-court-should-deny-extradition-because-cia-planned-to-assassinate-assange/
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-29
22 October, 2021 — Indian Punchline
by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
Taliban government’s deputy prime minister Abdul Salam Hanafi (C) and Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi (R) arrive in Moscow to attend international talks on Afghanistan, Oct. 20, 2021 29.Taliban is the winner at Moscow conference The Moscow meeting of ten regional states and the Taliban officials on Wednesday has produced an outcome that by far exceeds expectations. The salience of the consensus opinion is four-fold, as reflected in the joint statement issued after the event:
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Democracy: The Government’s Dangerous Elections Bill Just Got Worse
27 October 2021 — True Publica
By Josiah Mortimer: Proposals sneaked out during the reshuffle last month represent a big step backwards for voter choice and democracy in England and Wales.
The plans, revealed exclusively in the PM’s former employer, the Telegraph, would see the current preference-based Supplementary Vote method used to elect Mayors and Police and Crime Commissioners removed and First Past the Post imposed.
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We demand real zero, not net zero!
26 October 2021 — Climate & Capitalism
Greenhouse Gases
Net zero emissions and other false solutions allow polluters to continue polluting
Declaration adopted by the Oilwatch International Global Gathering in Nigeria, October 19-21.Oilwatch International network members, community representatives from oil regions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), the academia and the media met in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State, Nigeria, between 19–21 of October 2021, physically and virtually, for the maiden edition of the Oilwatch International Global Gathering.
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Cruel Britannia: Britain’s Real Role in the World, with Mark Curtis
25 October 2021 — MintPress News
MintCast
Britons themselves remember their empire extremely fondly, far more positively than those in countries subjugated by the crown.
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Alan MacleodDespite a number of embarrassing political events over the past number of years, Great Britain still likes to regard itself as a forward-thinking, world-leading country and a force for good. Surveys show that the United Kingdom retains a great deal of positive sentiment around the world.
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We’re Live Blogging the Assange Appeal
26 October 2021 — Assange Defense
It’s been more than 10 months since a UK court rejected the U.S. government’s request to extradite Julian Assange and ruled that he should be freed. Tomorrow, Britain’s High Court will hear the U.S. appeal of that stinging defeat.
Access to the proceedings is restricted, but Assange Defense will be observing and live blogging at our website and on our social media accounts (Facebook | Twitter).
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BREAKING: Police attempt to recruit Black Lives Matter activist as an informant
26 October 2021 — NetPol
Photo credit Dimitris Legakis/The GuardianSouth Wales Police have been exposed while unsuccessfully attempting to recruit Lowri Davies, one of the co-founders of the Swansea Black Lives Matter group, as a police informant. This is the first publicly recorded instance of police attempting to recruit a mole within the Black Lives Matter movement in Britain.
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-30
26 October 2021 — Indian Punchline
By M.K. Bhadrakumar
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Acting Taliban Dy Prime Minister Mullah Baradar, Doha, Oct. 255, 202130. Taliban Government gains traction
All indications are that the regional states are preparing to accord recognition to the Taliban government. The meeting of regional states and Taliban officials in the so-called Moscow Format last Wednesday signalled that the Taliban government is a compelling reality and constructive engagement is needed. read more
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On the horizon: drone spies coming to UK skies
26 October 2021 — Drone Wars
On the horizon: drone spies coming to UK skies 26/10/2021Tim Street SkyGuardian flight trials over the UK in September 2021 In the last few months Drone Wars and UK Drone Watch have organised protests outside RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire and RAF Lossiemouth in North East Scotland. We were protesting the decision to allow US arms manufacturer General Atomics to conduct experimental flights of their SkyGuardian drone in UK airspace. SkyGuardian is a prototype of the UK’s new armed drone, named Protector, which will replace the UK’s current Reaper armed drone fleet in 2024. As we have shown, the prospect of such large drones regularly flying in UK airspace raises significant safety and accountability concerns.
by Whitney Webb
