Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Democratic party leadership are as uninterested in fighting for abortion rights as they are in addressing anything else their members need and want.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Joe Biden is committed to the imperatives of the bipartisan war party.
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The hostility of the U.S. against the resistance axis in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon has led to conflicting aims. While the U.S. wants to isolate the ‘resistance’ it also wants to keep its own dominating role in Lebanon. Those aims are now in conflict. The U.S. is thus in a situation where it will have to lift sanctions against Syria to be able to politically compete with Hizbullah in Lebanon.
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Taliban Unveil Their Government, Giving Many Reasons For Concern
https://southfront.org/taliban-unveil-their-government/
Pakistan Backed Taliban Attack In Panjshir With Drones, Helicopters & Special Forces
https://southfront.org/pakistan-backed-taliban-attack-in-panjshir-with-drones-helicopters-special-forces/
The regional states will be shell-shocked by the brazen way Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed, head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), coerced the Taliban to announce an interim government that is guaranteed to preserve Rawalpindi’s control over the levers of power in Kabul.
Big Brother Watch Team
Stories about censorship usually focus on the individuals prevented from publishing or saying something. But if we are to defend free expression from the new era of digital censorship, we need to focus much more closely on the censors themselves.
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What Ending a War Could Look Like, by David Swanson + Abby Martin: Afghanistan War Pays Off BIG For Generals Who Lied
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2021/09/07/what-ending-a-war-could-look-like-by-david-swanson/
The Washington Post’s Case Against Democracy
https://desultoryheroics.com/2021/09/07/the-washington-posts-case-against-democracy/
Commission reportedly aims to exempt some new GMOs from safety regulations within four years and change regulation for all new GMOs within 10 years
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‘War has ended’ in Afghanistan, Taliban says, despite resistance’s claims that Panjshir Valley is still not lost
https://www.rt.com/news/534037-war-ended-afghanistan-taliban-panjshir/
Afghan resistance rejects Taliban claims of gaining ‘full control’ of Panjshir province
https://www.rt.com/news/534032-afghan-resistance-rejects-taliban-claims-panjshir/
Early in 2020, shocked citizens and social scientists predicted the widespread imposition of extreme “non-pharmaceutical interventions” in response to COVID would prove to have horrible and costly human and economic trade-offs — turns out they were right.
Just a few months ago, the mainstream media praised Israel for its “pandemic-ending” vaccination campaign. With over 40 percent of the population “fully vaccinated” in the first quarter of 2021, Israel was well on its way to stopping community spread and clearing out its hospitals.
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Taliban clashes with women protesters during rally for equal rights near presidential palace in Kabul (VIDEOS)
https://www.rt.com/news/533965-afghanistan-women-rights-protest/
Back To Normal: Kabul Airport Reopened To Receive Aid, Taliban Fighters March In Victory Parade
https://southfront.org/back-to-normal-kabul-airport-reopened-to-receive-aid-taliban-fighters-march-in-victory-parade/
Big Brother Watch Team
Big Brother Watch has launched a new report warning against the “censorious” Online Safety Bill, and sounding the alarm on the rise of Big Tech speech police.
The first is vengefulness.
That an alleged superpower gets kicked out of a country by some local guerilla is too hard to accept. That the rush to the exit has happened in a rather humiliating way, even when caused by U.S. incompetence and not by the Taliban, only reinforces that.
Anti-Taliban rebels in training, Panjshir, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2021.At the daily foreign ministry briefing in Beijing on Friday, Russian correspondent of Sputnik asked spokesperson Ambassador Wang Wenbin how China viewed the Taliban decision to attack Panjshir and how this will affect the Afghan situation.
Ambassador Wang replied that “it is China’s sincere hope that all parties in Afghanistan will go with the Afghan people’s eager aspiration and the international community’s expectation to resolve differences through consultation and ensure a steady transition so that the people of this war-torn country can live free from war and conflict and build lasting peace at an early date.”
by Mnar Adley
With Afghan Retreat, Biden Bucks Foreign Policy Elite, New York Times, Sep. 1 2021
“The foreign policy establishment did get it wrong in Iraq, where the U.S. overreached,” said Richard N. Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations. “We got it wrong in Libya, we got it wrong in Vietnam. But over the last 75 years, the foreign policy establishment has gotten most things right.”
by Greg Palast
I was hired by the City of New Orleans to investigate why their power company, Entergy, simply can’t keep the lights on while citizens’ electric bills soar. That was in 1986.
In 35 years, nothing has changed my official conclusion: Entergy is a racketeering enterprise parading as a power company.
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US Reputation Is in Tatters, It’s Time to Bring Those Responsible for Afghanistan Disaster to Account
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-reputation-tatters-time-bring-those-responsible-afghanistan-disaster-account/5754818
Afghanistan Recessional: Will It Lead to a War with Iran?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/afghanistan-recessional-will-it-lead-war-iran/5754786
3 September 2021 — Indian Punchline
Taliban takes control of Kabul Airport, August 31, 2021At the weekly briefing in Moscow on Thursday by the Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that Russia will consider recognising Afghanistan’s new authorities once an inclusive government is formed in the country.
