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…

_____ (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…

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

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…

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.

Joshua Cho (2021-08-27). Corporate Media Politicize Who Investigation to Vilify China. orinocotribune.com By Joshua Cho — Aug 26, 2021 | FAIR (

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…

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…

Staff (2021-08-26). Corporate Media Were Complicit in Afghanistan War, and They're Still Obfuscating. truthout.org The corporate media in the U.S. were complicit in the escalation of the war in Afghanistan, argues historian In this exclusive Truthout interview, Gurman — a professor at New York University Gallatin who studies both U.S. foreign affairs and American political culture — offers a critical analysis of why mainstream corporate media h…

WSWS (2021-08-26). Olymel threatens to axe 500 jobs at Quebec plant after striking meatpackers reject sellout contract. wsws.org In the face of a corporate media intimidation campaign, the 1,100 striking workers at Olymel's hog slaughtering and processing plant in Vallée-Jonction, Quebec, rejected a sellout agreement endorsed by their union.

Kevin Mwanza (2021-08-26). Fact Check: Eating 1 Hot Dog Takes 35 Minutes Off Your Life. moguldom.com Eating a single hot dog can take up to 35 minutes off your life, according to recent research from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. The study surveyed more than 5,800 different food items and released a nutritional index ranking them by minutes gained or lost per serving eaten by a healthy adult, …

Captaindaretofly (2021-08-26). Several Anti-Covid-19 Vaccine Presidents Assassinated, Mainstream Media Silent, COVID-19 Jabs "Coincidentally" Rolled Out Just Days Later. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2021-08-26). Corporate Media Were Complicit in Afghanistan War, and They're Still Obfuscating. truthout.org The corporate media in the U.S. were complicit in the escalation of the war in Afghanistan, argues historian In this exclusive Truthout interview, Gurman — a professor at New York University Gallatin who studies both U.S. foreign affairs and American political culture — offers a critical analysis of why mainstream corporate media h…

WSWS (2021-08-26). Olymel threatens to axe 500 jobs at Quebec plant after striking meatpackers reject sellout contract. wsws.org In the face of a corporate media intimidation campaign, the 1,100 striking workers at Olymel's hog slaughtering and processing plant in Vallée-Jonction, Quebec, rejected a sellout agreement endorsed by their union.

_____ (2021-08-26). Corporate Media Politicize WHO Investigation To Vilify China. popularresistance.org FAIR (10/6/20, 6/28/21) has previously critiqued Western news media's credulous coverage of evidence-free "lab leak" speculations. 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. | While no new evidence has emerged suggesting that the v…

Captaindaretofly (2021-08-26). Several Anti-Covid-19 Vaccine Presidents Assassinated, Mainstream Media Silent, COVID-19 Jabs "Coincidentally" Rolled Out Just Days Later. globalresearch.ca

Ben Norton (2021-08-25). Propaganda Today: How US created Taliban & al-Qaeda, and behind Afghanistan war profiteering. thegrayzone.com The Grayzone's Ben Norton launches his show Propaganda Today discussing US war profiteering in Afghanistan and how the CIA gave birth to the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Propaganda Today is a weekly show that Ben hosts at the independent video platform Rokfin. In his first stream, he talks about corporate war profiteering in Afghanistan, and debunks media myths claiming Washington supposedly "spent $2 trillion and got nothing for it." In reality, 80 to 90% of US war spending in Afghanistan returned …

scorinoco (2021-08-25). Britain's Secret Propaganda War in Lebanon. orinocotribune.com By Kit Klarenberg — Aug 20, 2021 | Leaks show UK Foreign Office directed influence operations targeting Lebanese youth and civil society to shape the direction of mass protests in service of British interests. | Editor's note: The leaked British Foreign Office documents described in this investigation first surfaced in December 2020 and were covered in local Arabic-language media, but largely ignored by their English-language peers. As Lebanon's economic and political condition worsens, with Western states taking the lead in exacerbating the crisis, The Cradle has decided to revive these leaks to shine a lig…

_____ (2021-08-25). CODEPINK Urges PBS To Stop Censoring The Truth About China. popularresistance.org CODEPINK's letter, with nearly 4,000 signatures, calls on PBS to stop censoring Peter Getzels' and Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn's documentary film Voices from the Frontlines: China's War on Poverty. The letter addresses how PBS is depriving its viewers of opportunities for learning about collective harmony and equality by censoring this documentary and its insight into China's life-saving policies, which took 100 million citizens out of poverty, at a time when poverty, food insecurity, and houselessness are all at record levels in the United States.

WSWS (2021-08-25). UK: Manchester's Whitworth Art Gallery in ongoing censorship battle over criticism of Israel. wsws.org The innocuous title "Cloud Studies" belies the exhibition's important subject matter, which is an investigation of various crimes of imperialism. Zionist lobby group UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) called it "propaganda," accusing the gallery of "inflammatory" language that might provoke "racial discord."

David Swanson (2021-08-25). Which Is Worse, the Tech Giant Censors or the Stuff You Want Censored? warisacrime.org The communications system we live in is highly complex, mostly driven by greed and profit, in part semi-public, full of filth I know we'd be better off without, and increasingly openly censored and monitored by defenders of accepted good thinking. Fascist nutcases are spreading dangerous nonsense, while billionaire monopolists are virtually disappearing critics and protesters. …

Staff (2021-08-25). Jorge Rodríguez: The Right Wing Was Forced to Resume the Path of Dialogue. orinocotribune.com Deputy Jorge Rodríguez, president of Venezuela's National Assembly, expressed that the political sectors of the right, which had specific weight in the early years of the 21st century, have been characterized by their historical record of violence exercised over the past 20 years since "they abandoned the constitutional and democratic political path and, instead, opted for the shortcuts of violence, aggression and fake news." However, now the opposition sectors have been forced to resume the path of dialogue because of the defeat that the Venezuelan people and the Bolivarian Revolution have inflicted on them. | R…

Martin Armstrong (2021-08-25). The Fake News that FDA Approved the Vaccines Is Made Clear in the Letter. Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) Prevails. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2021-08-25). The journalist who won't give up on Alabama's striking coal miners. therealnews.com Over 1,100 union coal miners in Brookwood, Alabama, have been on an unfair labor practices strike against Warrior Met Coal for over five months. And for five months, the mainstream media has barely made a peep about the strike. Instead, a small collection of independent journalists and local and progressive media outlets have been working overtime to cover this important story, including Jacob Morrison, David Story, and Adam Keller at The Valley Labor Report (Alabama's only weekly labor radio talk show). There is one person, however, who has done more than anyone to lift the strike at Warrior Met into publi…

Steven Krichbaum (2021-08-25). Protect Life Itself and Make Proforestation the Driving Policy on Public Lands. counterpunch.org The new landmark report released in August by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change painted a dismal and nightmarish scenario for the Earth1. But we must remember that all is not lost. In response to the report, as usual the mainstream media focused on the need to reduce emissions. But there is another factor

Robert F. Kennedy Jr (2021-08-25). Two Things Mainstream Media Didn't Tell You About FDA's Approval of Pfizer Vaccine. globalresearch.ca

New Atlas (2021-08-25). US Huawei Claims Regarding Pakistan: A Perfect Propaganda Storm. newatlas.report August 25, 2021 (Joseph Thomas — NEO) — The Western media has been reporting on a US-based software maker, Business Efficiency Solutions (BES), and its allegations that Huawei not only "stole" its technology, but also built in "back doors" into a law-enforcement project built in Pakistan. It's a three-for-one allegation, cementing further an ongoing and …

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-25). Poland accuses Belarus of "all kinds of provocations," boosts troops on border. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com PM says Polish border 'well guarded' against 'Lukashenko's provocations' [Polish Prime Minister Mateusz] Morawiecki warned his country had to be prepared for "all kinds of provocations and unheard-of, unusual actions by the Belarus regime." He thanked border officials and soldiers who had been patrolling the boundary, noting that there were already 1,500 military personnel on …