(2021-08-17). The United States, Afghanistan, and the Doctrinal Boundaries of Permissible Reflection. counterpunch.org One of the doctrinal principles behind U.S. corporate-imperial news coverage and commentary and mainstream US politics is that the United States is a fundamentally benevolent force for good facing difficulties created by evil others and challenging situations not of Washington's own making. Debate is permissible on immediate strategy and tactics but is not allowed on these core American Exceptionalist positions. | Hence, while there is contestation in U.S. media and political culture over how to respond to the flood of migrants seeking entrance to the United States on the nation's southern border, there is little…
(2021-08-17). Selected Articles: Don't Let Them Fool You: Afghanistan Has Been a "Tremendous Success" globalresearch.ca 
By Exposing this uncanny censorship of eminent voices is especially vital to the fate of children and youth, who are being aggressively targeted for low-benefit, sometimes lethal, …
(2021-08-17). Buffet's Business Wire censors China book. workers.org 
Billionaire Warren Buffet's public relations company, Business Wire, has refused to distribute a press release announcing the publication in China of a U.S. book that compares the responses to COVID by capitalist and socialist governments. The headline of the press release referred to the fact that the book, "Capitalism on . . . |
(2021-08-16). Afghanistan: The Worst US Failure In Recent Decades. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size imageKabul begins falling to the Taliban twenty years after the group was expelled. | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | Twenty years after former U.S. President George W. Bush launched his "War on Terror," Afghanistan has become the worst failure of Washington's foreign policy in recent decades. On August 1, the Taliban controlled no provincial capital in Afghanistan, but in only half a month they now…
(2021-08-16). One Year On: the Abraham Accords and Palestinians' Political Exclusion. strategic-culture.org The "deal of the century" may no longer be part of mainstream narratives on Palestine, given the Biden Administration's faàßade of favouring the two-state politics over annexation, Ramona Wadi writes. | A year since former US President Donald Trump announced the brokering of the Abraham Accords between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, there is no longer any pretence that the normalisation agreements were signed with any Palestinian interests in mind. The narrative of preventing Israel's annexation of Palestinian territory was, of course, a mere vague premise upon which the international community could…
(2021-08-16). Kevin Gosztola, Shahid Buttar, and Gloria Berry. projectcensored.org Mickey welcomes independent journalist Kevin Gosztola of Shadowproof.com to discuss the importance of whistleblowers for journalists and why they need to be protected not prosecuted. Kevin shares updates regarding Julian…
(2021-08-16). Globalism, Propaganda and the Dangers of Wireless Radiation. globalresearch.ca …
(2021-08-16). Call in the Khaki: the Australian Defense Force and COVID-19. counterpunch.org Towards the latter part of July, Australia's unimaginative Prime Minister Scott Morrison received a request from the police commissioner from the state of New South Wales. It was a query on whether personnel from the Australian Defence Forces might aid in patrolling eight local government areas in Sydney subject to pandemic restrictions. The NSW police