David Swanson (2021-08-28). Afghanistan: Five Success Stories. warisacrime.org 
Presented Friday, August 27, 2021, to the Northern Colorado Alliance for a Livable Future I want to begin with five success stories. The Peace Movement. The people who spent 20 years largely excluded from the corporate media, lobbying Congress Members well paid not to listen to them, marching and protesting and holding teach-ins, making art, …
Global Research News (2021-08-28). Selected Articles: COVID Vaccination vs Freedom and Liberty. globalresearch.ca In this weekend selection, Global Research brings to you our top articles on mRNA experimental vaccines — and the harm they do to our body, the stifling of dissenting opinions and censorship of courageous medical specialists, and the ongoing "segregation" …
Dana Sanchez (2021-08-27). Joe Biden Faces Heat After Suicide Bombing At Kabul Airport Kills 13 U.S. Service Members. moguldom.com President Joe Biden is facing heat for suicide bomb attacks that killed more than 100 people Thursday including at least 10 U.S. Marines and 90 Afghans as crowds tried to enter the U.S.-controlled at Kabul Airport in the final push of the U.S.-led evacuation effort from Afghanistan. Republicans are slamming the Biden administration's handling of …
Anonymous103 (2021-08-27). US Defeat In Afghanistan Is Opening A Pandora's Box. southfront.org 
Illustrative ImageThere is a fear that the horrific scenes at Kabul airport are only the beginning of a grim period in Afghanistan's history which is already spilling beyond its borders… | Written by Johanna Ross, a journalist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. | "Over the last 20 years we have learned things and changed. We want to prove that we are not what anti-Taliban propaganda has portrayed us to be. We want to show that to the world" said Taliban Minister of Information, Zabihullah Mojahed, in an exclus…
Kevin Mwanza (2021-08-27). Fact Check: Taliban Now Controls Up To $3T In Mineral Deposits And World's Largest Reserve Of Lithium. moguldom.com As the Taliban stormed into Kabul, Afghanistan and seized control of the country, they took over access to enormous deposits of mineral wealth worth at least $3 trillion — triple the U.S. estimate — according to Afghan government data. U.S. military officials and geologists originally reported that the country, which lies at the crossroads of …
_____ (2021-08-27). The 'War On Terror' Scam Continues. popularresistance.org ISIS has reportedly claimed credit for an explosion near Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport. As of this writing there are around 90 dead including 13 US military personnel, though to read western mainstream media reports you'd think only US troops died and not scores of Afghans as well. | This was the deadliest attack in a decade on US troops in Afghanistan, which is odd to think about considering how many people the US military has killed during that time; just between January and July of this year the war killed 1,659 civilians. The way the US war machine has shifted to relying more on highly profitable…
Staff (2021-08-27). President Biden says US 'could very well have' given evacuees' names to Taliban, as he faces criticism after deadly Kabul attack. rt.com 
Shortly after the deadly Kabul bombing, President Joe Biden has said that the US military may have shared data on Americans and allied Afghans with the Taliban in order to streamline evacuations. | Three US officials, who spoke with the Politico news website on Thursday on the condition of anonymity, said that the Taliban was given a list of names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies slated for evacuation. | The move was said to have been intended to help evacuees safely pass through militant-controlled checkpoints outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport ahead of the looming Augus…
Anthony DiMaggio (2021-08-27). Afghanistan and the Propaganda of Infinite War. counterpunch.org The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban's re-ascendance are producing some incredible lamentations about the decline of American power. This apprehensiveness about withdrawal is premised on the belief that the U.S. acts as a force for good and is vital to the effort to defeat the scourge of global terrorism. This is familiar ground
Danny Shaw (2021-08-27). Book Review: 'Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games'. towardfreedom.org In this book, historian Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall explores how the 1804 Haitian Revolution has been misrepresented and censored on screen.
Joshua Cho (2021-08-27). Corporate media politicize WHO investigation on Covid origins to vilify China. mronline.org 
One key factor in spreading suspicion that the coronavirus might have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is media's early and ongoing politicization of the World Health Organization's investigation into the pandemic's origins. Much of this politicization weaponizes Orientalist tropes about China being especially, perhaps genetically, untrustworthy—the sort of people who would unleash COVID-19 on the world.
Anonymous103 (2021-08-27). The Unknown Leader Of The New Taliban. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | Written by Julian Macfarlane | Haibatullah Akhunzada is said to be the leader of the so-called "new Taliban". | Western reports, however are not notable for their accuracy or objectivity and always eager to show the Taliban as crazy psychopaths, except of course once upon a time when they were mujahedeen fighting the socialism: "Freedom Fighters". | The Mainstream Media therefore reflexively portray Akhunzada as a "hardliner"—that is, when they mention him at all, which is rarel…
John Rachel (2021-08-27). What are the Prospects For Peace: an Interview With Noam Chomsky. counterpunch.org In a functioning democracy, citizens should have the primary role in affairs of state. Not here. And they should be informed citizens. Not here. World War I is a classic example. In 1916, Wilson won on a platform of "peace without victory." He then launched an impressive propaganda campaign to inflame a pacifist population with bitter hatred of all things German, fortified with fabrications about Hun atrocities concocted by the British "Ministry of Information"; Orwellism was alive and well long before Orwell. It was highly successful. It wasn't the first such occasion, nor the last. State propaganda remains high…
_____ (2021-08-27). The American Fool: How Provincialism, Arrogance, and Greed Make American Foreign Policy an Exercise in Idiocy. strategic-culture.org By David MASCIOTRA | The jokes regarding the "I" in "CIA" are familiar and predictable. The middle letter in the initialism might stand for imbecility, ignorance, or incompetence — essentially anything other than "intelligence." Because its résumé of war crimes, international terror, and election skullduggery rivals the length of The Bible, most critics of the CIA — and American foreign policy, in general — justifiably focus on moral turpitude. Anyone with a conscience, and not under the spell of red, white, and blue hocus pocus propaganda, will find it difficult to fend off queasiness after lea…
Ana Vraƒçar (2021-08-27). Workers in France protest for health democracy. peoplesdispatch.org In recent protests against the health pass and mandatory vaccination rules, trade union activists have been pointing out the failures of the Emmanuel Macron-led government in controlling the pandemic while highlighting the need for proper public health measures…
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