(2021-08-30). Video: Biden Refuses to Answer Questions on Afghanistan, Gets Lost on Way Out During FEMA Remarks. sputniknews.com As the southern coast of the United States is being ravaged by Hurricane Ida, US President Joe Biden arrived at a Sunday meeting of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to deliver remarks on the major storm.
(2021-08-30). George Bush, Obama, Trump & Biden, You Have Blood On Your Hands-Afghani's Rally & March In. indybay.org Hundreds of Afghani's rallied in San Francisco to demand the entry of Afghanistan's under threat. Many were angry with Biden, Trump, Obama and George Bush.
(2021-08-30). Xi says China willing to walk together with Cuba in building socialism. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping said China is willing to walk together with Cuba in building socialism and be good partners in pursuing common development in a phone conversation with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
(2021-08-30). Macron Orchestrates Baghdad Summit Excluding Syria. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-30). "Who Is Our Friend, Syria . . . or al-Qaeda?", Retired Virginia State Senator Richard Black Asks. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-30). 'Blood for Blood': On Jenin and Israel's Fear of an Armed Palestinian Rebellion. counterpunch.org The killing of four young Palestinians by Israeli occupation soldiers in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, on August 16, is a consequential event, the repercussions of which are sure to be felt in the coming weeks and months. The four Palestinians — Saleh Mohammed Ammar, 19, Raed Ziad Abu Seif, 21,
(2021-08-30). Frankfurt Palestine stand highlights struggles of imprisoned Palestinian women. samidoun.net 
Samidoun Deutschland organized a Palestine Stand in central Frankfurt on Sunday, 29 August 2021. The action, organized at Hauptwache, highlighted the cases of several Palestinian women prisoners, including Israa Jaabis, Anhar al-Deek, Fadwa Hamadeh and Yasmin Jaber. Organizers set up a display of photos and calls to action highlighting imprisoned Palestinian students and calling for […] | The article
(2021-08-30). Headlines for August 30, 2021. democracynow.org Up to 10 People Killed in U.S. Strike in Kabul, Rockets Fired at Airport as Withdrawal Deadline Nears, Hurricane Ida Slams into Louisiana, Killing One Person, Cutting Power to Entire City of New Orleans, Florida Judge Says Schools Can Impose Mask Mandates; Dr. Fauci Banks Vaccine Mandates for Students, Rev. Jesse Jackson Transfers to Rehab as Wife Moves to ICU; Conservative Radio Hosts Die of COVID-19, Thousands Rally for Voting Rights on Anniversary of March on Washington, 30 Yemeni Soldiers Killed in Attack During Military Exercise, Israel Launches New Airstrikes on Gaza; Soldiers Use Live Fire on Palestinian P…
(2021-08-30). Palestine's Africa Dichotomy: Is Israel Really 'Winning' Africa? orinocotribune.com By Ramzy Baroud — Aug 24, 2021 | The To answer the above questions, one has to appreciate the new Great Game u…
(2021-08-30). Saturday 8/28: Free Palestine. indybay.org Corner of Water and Ocean Streets, Santa Cruz…
(2021-08-30). US evacuation from Afghanistan nears its end. wsws.org The bulk of those remaining to be evacuated are the American soldiers who were dispatched to the Kabul airport by President Biden two weeks ago.
(2021-08-30). Several rockets target Kabul airport, US military activate missile defenses to repel attack — reports. rt.com 
Five rockets have reportedly been launched towards Kabul airport, which is the focal point of the US evacuation from Afghanistan. The missiles were shot down by an air defense system, media report, citing US officials. | Several rockets rained down on the area near Kabul airport on Monday morning, Reuters reported, citing a US official, who said that missile defense systems were deployed to intercept the incoming projectiles. | Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reported, citing a US defense official, that the Pentagon used the Counter-Rocket, Artillery, Mortar (C-RAM) missile system to…
(2021-08-30). U.S. Winds Down Afghanistan Occupation Like It Began, with Drone Strikes & Civilian Casualties. democracynow.org 
U.S. troops in Afghanistan are racing to evacuate people from the country ahead of Tuesday's withdrawal deadline as the Kabul airport is targeted by rocket fire from militant groups. The rocket attacks come just days after over 175 people, including 13 U.S. troops, died after a suicide bomb outside the airport, with the group ISIS-K claiming responsibility for the attack. The Pentagon has publicly acknowledged that some of the people killed outside the airport on Thursday may have been shot dead by U.S. servicemembers in the panic after the suicide bombing. The U.S. retaliated over the weekend with two airstrikes…
(2021-08-30). Ida: The Climate Emergency and Fossil Fuels, not Afghan terrorists, just Knocked out Power to America's 4th-Largest Port. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The two big stories on Sunday, of the continued evacuation effort at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the landfall of Hurricane Ida on the coast of Louisiana have something in common. Both are about potential threats to the United States. America's national security elites and arms manufacturers …
(2021-08-30). Twenty years after Australia turned away the Tampa refugees. wsws.org Supported by the Labor Party, the government barred entry to more than 400 asylum seekers, mostly from Afghanistan, and transported them to a remote Pacific island to be detained indefinitely.
(2021-08-30). Afghanistan today, Africa tomorrow: America's saga of failure. asiatimes.com 
As the recent heartbreaking images from Kabul prove, the Americans have lost a war. This, just a few short years after they lost Iraq. Like it did in Iraq in 2003, the US went after Islamist militants in Afghanistan, but it hung around for 20 years trying vainly to remake ancient Afghanistan into a protectorate …
(2021-08-30). Robert M. Gates: Poster Child for Bureaucratic Deceit. counterpunch.org From 2001 to 2015, the number of U.S. servicemen and women in Afghanistan exceeded 100,000, although four secretaries of defense (Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Gates, Leon Panetta, Chuck Hagel) conceded privately that the war was not winnable and that no strategy would alter our glide path to defeat. In 2019, the last soldier to die in Afghanistan from Ft. Carson in Colorado was Sgt. Maj. James G. Sartor, who was on his seventh combat deployment in Afghanistan. All four of these secretaries presumably signed at least one deployment order for Sgt. Sartor, one of many victims of deceit as the Pentagon played Russian Roul…
(2021-08-30). Afghanistan and the Sham of Democracy Promotion. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-30). The Neocons Speak: Afghanistan as Political Real Estate. counterpunch.org The noisiest group of Afghanistan stayers are the neoconservatives resentful because their bit of political real estate is getting away. In being defeated, they are left with the task of explaining to the soldiery that blood was not expended in vain against a foe they failed to defeat. "You took out a brutal enemy," goes a statement from US President George W. Bush and his wife Laura, "and denied Al Qaeda a safe haven while building schools, sending supplies, and providing medical care." The couple throw in the contribution of Dr. Sakena Yacoobi of the Afghan Institute of Learning, behind the opening of "schools…
(2021-08-30). Hurricane's Collision With COVID Illustrates Threat of GOP Hostility to Science. truthout.org 
It is an understatement to say there is a lot going on right now. The two biggest stories over the weekend were the winding up of the dangerous airlift out of Afghanistan and the arrival of an epic hurricane hitting the Gulf Coast on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. | Now is a dangerous time — but judging from the news coverage, I don't think we've fully grasped just how much danger Americans are actually in. | In a number of states, this latest COVID-19 surge, driven by the leth…
(2021-08-30). As Biden Threatens More War, Don't Forget the Afghanistan Invasion Was Illegal. truthout.org 
President Joe Biden's decision to end the Afghan war — one that should never have been fought in the first place — was correct. Missing from the national discourse, however, is analysis of the illegality of the 2001 U.S.-led NATO invasion of Afghanistan (dubbed "Operation Enduring Freedom") and resulting war crimes committed by four U.S. presidents and their top officials and lawyers. Once again, the United States has lost a war it started illegally. But as U.S. troops leave Afgha…
(2021-08-30). Don't Listen to Panetta and Bolton. The US Must Stay Out of Afghanistan. truthout.org 
It began as it always seems to, with some entrenched stakeholder in the foreign policy establishment solemnly invoking their idea of The Right Thing To Do. "[B]ottom line is that our work is not done in Afghanistan,"
(2021-08-30). Taliban Move To Ban Opium Production, But Could It Majorly Backfire? southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The Taliban have vowed to reduce Afghanistan's opium trade, This is incredibly suspect, as the movement's primary bankrolling comes from poppy growing and opium production. | The Islamic group's spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid vowed to crack down on the production of narcotics, saying "nobody can be involved" in the heroin trade. | Taliban leaders have…
(2021-08-30). Crime and Punishment in Afghanistan. zcomm.org Security in the future depends on cooperative networks of global solidarity and not on innovations in military technology that turn the world into a single battlefield in a global forever war…
(2021-08-30). Calls grow for federal gov't to help Afghan refugees. greenleft.org.au Hundreds of Afghan-Australians marched to the steps of Parliament House in Adelaide to demand the federal government lift the country's humanitarian intake of refugees trying to flee Afghanistan. Kerry Smith reports.
(2021-08-30). Video: A left perspective on the West's defeat in Afghanistan. greenleft.org.au Livestream of the Green Left/Socialist Alliance public forum held on August 28 about a left perspective on Afghanistan.
(2021-08-30). Gunfire On Afghan-Pakistani Border Left Two Pakistani Soldiers Dead. southfront.org 
Pakistani troops walk on a hilltop post near Ladha, a town in the tribal region of South Waziristan in May 2011 | On August 29th, two Pakistani soldiers were killed in a gunfire on the border with Afghanistan. It was the first attack on Pakistani forces since the Taliban took control over the Afghanistan's capital Kabul. | According to the Pakistani army, it retaliated and killed two or three attackers."As per intelligence reports, due to fire of Pakistan army troops, 2-3 terror…
(2021-08-30). Sweden Allegedly Sought to Bomb Afghanistan as Advertisement for Its Fighter Jets, WikiLeaks Reveals. sputniknews.com A sensational WikiLeaks disclosure has revealed that Sweden's Armed Forces wanted to use the Afghanistan war to advertise its Saab Gripen fighter jets across the world thanks to combat experience.
(2021-08-30). Noam Chomsky on Afghanistan (Post-9/11). counterpunch.org
(2021-08-30). Military Contractor CACI Says Afghanistan Withdrawal Is Hurting Its Profits. zcomm.org It's Funding a Pro-War Think Tank…
(2021-08-30). China Foreign Minister Slams Blinken For "Double Standards" And Fighting Terrorism "In A Selective Way" southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | Originally published on In the aftermath of Biden's catastrophic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, which not only handed the country with its
(2021-08-30). Iraq the big loser of Middle East water wars. asiatimes.com 
With two of the world's most famous rivers flowing through it, Iraq was known for centuries as the Middle East's "Fertile Crescent," its rich civilizations watered by the Tigris and Euphrates. Now though, soaring temperatures, a lengthy drought, poor water management and fractious politics have combined to threaten eco-catastrophe for these rivers and the country. …
(2021-08-30). Taliban Victory May Strengthen Pakistan in Dispute for Kashmir. asia-pacificresearch.com
(2021-08-30). Aussies Hoping for a Repeat of 1979 Truckie Blockade when the Government Backed Down to Truckers' Demands. asia-pacificresearch.com
(2021-08-30). China-U.S. cancer collaboration may open door for new era 'Ping-Pong Diplomacy': Forbes. ecns.cn A joint effort by China and the United States to fight cancer may open door for the "Ping-Pong Diplomacy" of new era, former Australia Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Saturday, according to Forbes.
(2021-08-30). Corporate Media Politicize WHO Investigation on COVID Origins to Vilify China. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-30). Experts refute U.S. intelligence community's COVID-19 origins tracing report. ecns.cn Foreign experts have refuted the U.S. intelligence community's report on the origins of COVID-19, saying an approach that isn't scienced-based and aimed at scapegoating China will undermine global efforts to end the pandemic.
(2021-08-30). Japanese and Taiwanese ruling parties hold talks aimed at Beijing. wsws.org In highly inflammatory remarks afterward, both sides referred to Taiwan as a country, thus calling into question the "One China" policy, which recognizes Taiwan as part of China.
(2021-08-30). It's Time for the US to Reassess Its Relationship With Israel. counterpunch.org In April 1996, Israeli artillery shells rained down on a United Nations compound where hundreds of civilians were taking refuge. As the shells exploded and the building collapsed, 106 civilians died and another 116 were injured. The attack, now known as the Qana Massacre, was part of a larger Israeli offensive known as Operation Grapes
(2021-08-30). Organizing against militarism from Israel to Europe. roarmag.org 
Israeli soldier launches a skylark drone near the border to Gaza. Photo: By the end of 2020, a total of 82.4 million people worldwide had been forcibly displaced from their homes according to the
(2021-08-30). Israel suppresses weekend Gaza protests with violence, airstrikes; injures close to 30. peoplesdispatch.org Gazan have been holding demonstrations to demand the lifting of the 14-year-long Israeli blockade and resolved to continue protesting until their demands are met…
(2021-08-30). Protest outside White House as Israeli PM seeks assurance of U.S. support for apartheid. liberationnews.org 
Protesters rallied outside the White House Aug. 26 as Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was set to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden.
(2021-08-30). 1.6M Moderna Doses Withdrawn in Japan Over Contamination. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-30). North Korea has apparently restarted its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, IAEA says, citing satellite imagery. rt.com 
North Korea appears to have restarted its plutonium-producing nuclear reactor at Yongbyon after an almost three-year pause, the UN's nuclear watchdog said in its annual report on the country. | Monitoring of the site through satellite imagery showed indications that the five-megawatt reactor was put back in operation as of early July after apparently being idle since December 2018, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in its
(2021-08-30). Hedges: The Empire Does Not Forgive. scheerpost.com 
Original illustration by Mr. Fish. |
| By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost | The Carthaginian general Hannibal, who came close to defeating the Roman Republic in the Second Punic War, committed suicide in 181 BC in exile as Roman soldiers closed in on his residence in the Bithynian village of Libyssa, now modern-day Turkey. It had been more than thirty years since he led his army across the alps and annihilated Roman legions at the Battle of Trebia, Lake Trasimene and Cannae, considered one of the most brilliant tactical victories in warfare which centuries later inspired the plans of the German Army…
(2021-08-30). Abandoned and Alone: Lamenting the US-Australian Alliance. dissidentvoice.org Listening to Australian pundits talk about the relationship of their country with the US — at least from a strategic perspective — can be a trying exercise. It is filled with angst, Freudian fears of abandonment, the strident megalomania of Australian self-importance. Critics of this complex are shouted down as Sinophiles or in the pay …
(2021-08-30). Climate Crises Converge as Wildfire Burns West and Hurricane Pummels South. truthout.org 
Hurricane Ida made landfall in Southern Louisiana on Sunday as one of Scientists say that…
(2021-08-30). Far-Right Ideology Has Cemented Itself In Ukraine Under Zelensky. southfront.org 
"Democratic" torch march in KievZelensky is incapable or unwilling to deal with the Ukrainian Far-Right. | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky was believed to be a reformer and a liberal when he took over the presidency from Petro Poroshenko. The billionaire former president is part of the corrupt oligarchy who from 2014 relied on neo-Nazis to fight and kill Russian-speaking Ukrainian citizens in Donbass (Eastern Ukraine). Zelensky, a comedian and actor before b…
(2021-08-30). Sri Lankan big business reaps huge profits during pandemic. wsws.org Last December, Rajapakse told a Ceylon Chamber of Commerce conference that investors should "take up the opportunities" provided by the coronavirus pandemic.
(2021-08-30). Oppose school reopenings in unsafe conditions in Turkey! wsws.org The Rank-and-File Committee for Safe Education calls on educators, parents and students to oppose the reopening of schools for in-person education from September 6, as the Delta variant spreads rapidly and the pandemic is not under control.