Daily Archives: August 21, 2021

2021-08-21: News Headlines

Staff (2021-08-21). Will the Voices of Those Who Were Always Right on Afghanistan Still Be Ignored? truthout.org America's corporate media are ringing with recriminations over the humiliating U.S. military defeat in Afghanistan. But very little of the criticism goes to the root of the problem, which was the original decision to militarily invade and occupy Afghanistan in the first place. | That decision set in motion a cycle of violence and chaos that no subsequent U.S. policy or military strategy could resolve over the next 20 years, in Afghanistan, Iraq or any of the other countries swept up in Amer…

teleSUR (2021-08-21). Brazil: Bolsonaro Ask Senate to Impeach Supreme Court's Judge. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro sent an impeachment request to the Senate against Federal Supreme Court's Judge Alexandre de Moraes, who included the President in an investigation on fake news spread. | RELATED: | An executive branch's official delivered the request signed by Bolsonaro to the Senate building, where it should be processed by the President of the Senate Rodrigo Pacheco, who is out of Bras…

Ben Bartee (2021-08-21). COVID Propaganda Roundup: Corporate State Declares All-Out War on the "Unvaccinated" globalresearch.ca

Tahia Islam (2021-08-21). Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) Abolition Propaganda and Zine Fair. peoplesforum.org A space where people who have created educational and organizing materials including zines, pamphlets, posters, stickers, buttons and more can share abolitionist ideas and messages and can freely give away, trade and sell some of these items.

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies (2021-08-20). Will Americans Who Were Right on Afghanistan Still Be Ignored? dissidentvoice.org Protest in Westwood, California 2002. Photo: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images America's corporate media are ringing with recriminations over the humiliating U.S. military defeat in Afghanistan. But very little of the criticism goes to the root of the problem, which was the original decision to militarily invade and occupy Afghanistan in the first …

Nicholas Stender (2021-08-20). What is the real objection motivating critics of Afghanistan withdrawal? liberationnews.org After the lightning collapse of the U.S.-backed Afghan government, the managers of the U.S. war machine and their cheerleaders in the corporate media have been scrambling to defend the image of their empire.

Minnie Bruce Pratt (2021-08-20). Beware the siren song: Women's liberation and Afghanistan. workers.org This article originally appeared in Workers World, Dec. 6, 2001. Women village defense forces carry AK-47s during a ceremony in Kabul to mark the 10th anniversary of the communist revolution in Afghanistan, April 26, 1988. As U.S. bombing and troop presence has intensified in Afghanistan, the mainstream media have issued . . . |

Yves Engler (2021-08-20). Afghanistan Was Based on Lies: Will Canada's Militarists Apologize? dissidentvoice.org The quick collapse of the US-backed government in Afghanistan has revealed how little ordinary people should trust Canada's military, arms industry and associated ideological supporters. Their justifications for war, their claims of progress and then victory have proven to be no more than propaganda and lies. Canada's biggest military deployment since World War II, more …

Reader (2021-08-20). Nobel Winning Virologists & Other Scientists in Vaccine Truth Movement. indybay.org Facebook, Google, CSpan, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, | PBS, NY Times, Washington Post, LA Time: some of the | censors of vaccine truth are censoring the words of 3 Nobel winners, the inventor of Moderna's vaccine, and many others.

John V. Walsh (2021-08-20). "Surely, President Biden, you must be joking" dissidentvoice.org "Surely, President Biden, you must be joking"! On May 26, these words should have poured forth from the White House Press Corps and the mainstream Commentariat when Joe Biden declared that he was placing the question of Covid-19's origins securely in the hands of the "National Intel Agencies." They were to report back in 90 …

WSWS (2021-08-20). New York City EMS workers must reject the new DC37 sellout contract! wsws.org Workers cannot allow the union to manipulate and coerce them into accepting another rotten deal, especially after the sacrifices and trauma they have had to endure during the pandemic, which is once again being allowed to spread uncontrollably without any mitigation efforts.

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