(2021-08-31). Afghanistan collapse reveals Beltway media's loyalty to permanent war state. thegrayzone.com Biden's popular and long overdue withdrawal from Afghanistan triggered a big media meltdown that exposed its de facto merger with the military. In the wake of a remarkably successful Taliban offensive capped by the takeover of Kabul, the responses of corporate media provided what may have been the most dramatic demonstration ever of its fealty to the Pentagon and military leadership. The media did so by mounting a full-throated political attack on President Joe Biden's final withdrawal from Afghanistan and a …
(2021-08-31). As Biden Threatens More War, Don't Forget the Afghanistan Invasion Was Illegal. zcomm.org Missing from the national discourse is analysis of the illegality of the 2001 U.S.-led NATO invasion of Afghanistan and resulting war crimes committed by four U.S. presidents and their top officials and lawyers…
(2021-08-31). Milwaukee activists, artists campaign to increase Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions awareness. liberationnews.org 
BDS activists have launched a Milwaukee-wide Palestine solidarity letter encouraging artists and creatives of all kinds to endorse the cultural boycott of Israel.
(2021-08-31). US War on China' Belt & Road Continues: Terrorist Attack Targets Chinese Engineers in Pakistan. newatlas.report August 31, 2021 (The New Atlas) — In late August 2021 yet another terrorist attack has targeted China's Belt and Road Initiative in Pakistan's Baluchistan province. I discuss the background of this terrorism, the long standing open US support for armed militants operating in Baluchistan carrying out these attacks, and how this is America's "answer" …
(2021-08-31). US pulls last of its troops from Afghanistan after chaotic evacuation. wsws.org The withdrawal was preceded by the drone massacre of an entire Afghan family, the last in a long series of atrocities carried out by the US military in its 20-year neocolonial war.
(2021-08-31). Headlines for August 31, 2021. democracynow.org Taliban Celebrate as Last U.S. Troops Leave Afghanistan, Over 1 Million in Path of Hurricane Ida Could Remain Without Power for Weeks, Florida Withholds Funds to Schools Defying Gov. DeSantis's Ban on Mask Mandates, Advocates Demand Biden End Deportations to Haiti After Devastating Earthquake, Over 500 Migrants Rescued in Mediterranean; EU Plans to Bar Entry to Afghan Refugees, U.N. Hails End to Worldwide Use of Toxic Leaded Gasoline, Mass Evacuations Ordered for Lake Tahoe Region as Caldor Wildfire Spreads, Federal Court Strikes Down Trump-Era Rule Gutting Clean Water Act, Emergency Petition Asks U.S. Supreme Co…
(2021-08-31). Did The US Support The Growth Of ISIS-K In Afghanistan? popularresistance.org The list of governments, former government officials, and organizations in the region that have accused the US of supporting ISIS-K is expansive and includes the Russian government, the Iranian government, Syrian government media, Hezbollah, an Iraqi state-sponsored military outfit and even former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who called the group a "tool" of the United States.
(2021-08-31). Military Situation In Syria On August 31, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On August 31, Russian warplanes attacked Sham Legion military camp in the Iskan village | On August 31, clashes and shelling between SAA and former rebels continued in southern Daraa | On August 31, clashes and shelling between SDF and Turkish-backed forces were reported near Ain Issa | On August 30, two SDF member were killed by unknown gunmen in Jadida Akidat | On August 30, artillery of Turkish-backed forces shelled SDF positions near Tal Tamar | MORE ON THE TOPIC…
(2021-08-31). Why Hezbollah Is Bringing Iranian Fuel To Lebanon. popularresistance.org The chokehold on Lebanon has grown even tighter, thanks to the embargo imposed against it by the United States and its Arab allies in the Persian Gulf. This comes at the lowest point of Lebanon's two-year-old economic crisis, a catastrophe the World Bank calls the worst the world has seen since 1850. The country's sudden-but-deliberate fuel shortage, vital to essential daily activity and life-saving medical services, has accelerated this alarm.
(2021-08-31). 'Let Them Stop us if They Dare' — Why Hezbollah is Bringing Iranian Fuel to Lebanon. orinocotribune.com By Radwan Mortada — Aug 24, 2021 | As Lebanon's economic crisis deepens amidst an effective US embargo, Hezbollah begins to supply the Lebanese population. | The chokehold on Lebanon has grown even tighter, thanks to the embargo imposed against it by the United States and its Arab allies in the Persian Gulf. This comes at the lowest point of Lebanon's two-year-old economic crisis, a catastrophe the World Bank calls the worst the world has seen since 1850. The country's sudden-but-deliberate fuel shortage, vital to essential daily activity and life-saving medical services, has accelerated this alarm. Today, b…
(2021-08-31). Failed State Tactical Analysis. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | Written by Steve Brown. | Empire has historically failed to appreciate the resolve of indigenous people who fight to enforce their right to self-determination. Now, empire has devised a subversive means to suppress that right, by the west's established policy of creating failed states to divide and exploit. The prototype US failed state plan began with the destruction of Nahr al Bared camp, Lebanon, in 2007. The policy was developed by Elliott Abrams and the Office of Special Plans after the US's 2…
(2021-08-31). Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics — Book Review. mronline.org 
"Except for Palestine" is a remarkable little book. Within it, the authors Hill and Plitnick present the larger picture that the self-proclaimed progressive "universal" values of the United States are argued for in many troubled spots of the world, except for Palestine.
(2021-08-31). Save a Space for Lou Proyect, Rebel Against the Status Quo. counterpunch.org Like most of us, he had to earn a living. He labored as a social worker in Harlem, and as a computer programmer at an insurance company, a hospital, on Wall Street, and finally for more than two decades at Columbia University. During this time, he moved steadily to the left, eventually joining the Socialist Workers Party, which he left after eleven years, watching it sink into sectarian irrelevance. He was active in the struggle to end the war in Vietnam. He gave technical support to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the African National Congress in South Africa. He was a steadfast supporter of the Cuban Revolutio…
(2021-08-31). VIDEO: Taliban entering Kabul Airport after US withdrawal. en.mehrnews.com The first footages show Taliban entering Kabul International Airport after withdrawal of US military forces from the airport, ending occupation of Afghanistan for 20 years.
(2021-08-31). Taliban Welcomes US Withdrawal From Afghanistan. telesurenglish.net The Taliban welcomed the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan shortly after the U.S. Central Command announced that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Asian country has completed. | RELATED: | The last U.S. soldiers were evacuated from Kabul airport at mid-night on Monday, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid announced, commenting that "in this way, our country became completely free and independent." | The final evacuation flight was con…
(2021-08-31). After 20 years, countless deaths and a Taliban victory, US finally leaves Afghanistan. peoplesdispatch.org The US diplomatic mission has also temporarily been shifted to Doha from Kabul. The US and coalition forces evacuated 123,000 people from Kabul, including 6,000 US citizens, since August 14…
(2021-08-31). Bye-den — Afghanistan to be Used as the Pretext for a Harris Administration? globalresearch.ca …
(2021-08-31). Humiliating Defeat in Afghanistan. counterpunch.org The mainstream Western media is full of news these days about people fleeing Kabul in the wake of the Taliban victory. Dramatic pictures of young and old scrambling to get on to jam-packed aeroplanes do make a huge impact. The message they convey is that a collective fear has gripped the Afghan people as they
(2021-08-31). Afghanistan may forever be the graveyard of empires. canadiandimension.com 
Major General Chris Donahue, commander of the US Army 82nd Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, boards a C-17 cargo plane at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan to become the final US soldier to depart Afghanistan. Photo courtesy CENTCOM/US Department of Defense. | Less than a month after 9/11, President George W. Bush
(2021-08-31). Afghan Activist: We All Deserve Refuge, Not Just Those Who Served The U.S. popularresistance.org Following the Taliban's seizure of power, people across the political spectrum have expressed concern about the fate of Afghans who helped the United States and are therefore at risk of retribution. Pundits and politicians who gave little attention to civilian deaths in Afghanistan during 20 years of U.S. occupation are joining in this outpouring‚Äâ—‚Äâa dynamic that is building pressure for the Biden administration to extend the U.S. military presence.
(2021-08-31). U.S. Troops Leave Afghanistan: Is a Geopolitical Strategy Behind This? libya360.wordpress.com Yoselina Guevara The Taliban celebrate the US departure The last US military plane left Kabul at 23: 59 on August 30, bringing to a close a nearly 20-year invasion by the United States and its allies on Afghan soil. The Taliban immediately took control of the airport, announcing that the Islamic Emirate is now a "free…
(2021-08-31). Lawyers urge ICC to probe Saudi-led coalition's war crimes in Yemen & other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today we look at the latest efforts to prosecute war crimes committed in Yemen at the ICC, the withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan & more…
(2021-08-31). Let's Take The Profit Out Of Wars. popularresistance.org On Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats set up a committee to investigate the munitions industry and named a progressive Republican, North Dakota's Gerald Nye, to chair it. "War and preparation for war," Nye noted in 1934, had precious little to do with "national defense." Instead, war had become "a matter of profit for the few." The war in Afghanistan offers but the latest example.
(2021-08-31). UK Planning for Strikes Against ISIS in Afghanistan Says Head of Royal Air Force. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-31). "Where Have All the Flowers Gone"?: "Something Surreal" About the Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal Scenario. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-31). Afghanistan: A Tragically Stupid War Comes to a Tragic End. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-31). Afghanistan: The 'Big' Media's Question Today is Wrong and Dangerous. counterpunch.org The big question in the media today is, "Will Afghanistan again become a 'breeding ground' for terrorists who may again attack America?" It's the wrong question. We've all heard that question asked, in a dozen variations, probably a hundred times in the past few months in the media. And it's not just the wrong question:
(2021-08-31). The Heat: U.S. completes withdrawal from Afghanistan. america.cgtn.com 
The United States has pulled out the last of its troops from Kabul, officially bringing an end to the 20-year war in Afghanistan.
(2021-08-31). Colonialism and the Epistemology of Ignorance: A Lesson from Afghanistan. zcomm.org In Afghanistan, the fixation on technology has reached new heights, leaving behind more than 200,000 dead and a plethora of experts on new destruction technologies…
(2021-08-31). Peace Activist Kathy Kelly on Reparations for Afghanistan & What the U.S. Owes After Decades of War. democracynow.org 
As the United States ends its military presence in Afghanistan after 20 years of occupation and war, the Costs of War Project estimates it spent over $2.2 trillion in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and by one count, over 170,000 people died during the fighting over the last two decades. Kathy Kelly, longtime peace activist who has traveled to Afghanistan dozens of times and coordinates the Ban Killer Drones campaign, says it will be important to keep international focus on the people of Afghanistan. "Everybody in the United States and in every country that has invaded and occupied Afghanistan ought to make reparations…
(2021-08-31). Resistance Forces Repel Taliban Attack In Panjshir Once Again. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On August 30th, resistance forces in Afghanistan's northern province of Panjshir, which refuses to recognize the Taliban authority repelled an attack on its outpost in the province's western part. | 7 or 8 Taliban fighters were killed in a fight that broke out in Panjshir where resistance forces are holding a last stand against the outfit in Afghanistan, Fahim Dashty, the spokesperson of Ahmad Massoud who is leading the resistance movement to the Taliban, said. | Dashty said the Taliban launch…
(2021-08-31). 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.
(2021-08-31). Kabul Is Not Saigon. Afghanistan: Drug Trade and Belt and Road. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-31). Taliban Offered US Military to Secure Kabul, But Americans Said No, Bombshell Report Reveals. sputniknews.com In early August, the US intelligence community thought that Kabul would be isolated within a month and gave the capital 90 days before it would fall to the Taliban*. But no one expected that the US-trained and equipped Afghan forces would surrender without a fight, and the city would crumble in a matter of days.
(2021-08-31). Former U.S. Generals Call For Resignation Of Secretary Of State, Joint Chiefs Of Staff Head. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On August 30th, 90 retired US Generals called for US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) General Mark Milley to resign over the botch Afghanistan withdrawal. | They did so in an open letter, with their signatures included. [ The signatories, who claim member…
(2021-08-31). Afghanistan Redux: Malala Yousafzai, White Feminism and Saving Afghan Women. orinocotribune.com By Fawzia Afzal-Khan — Aug 27, 2021 | So the usual "experts" are out and about on airwaves, in newsprint and social media, offering their punditry regarding the situation unfolding in Afghanistan even as the US-backed government crumpled like a house of cards with the advance of the Taliban, once the US troops started their announced pullback in earnest after 20 years of occupation a few weeks ago. The shock-and-awe tactics of the Bush doctrine that dragged the world into a post 9/11 horror picture show euphemistically known as the War on Terror (in truth, it was intended— and has been experienced by i…
(2021-08-31). Afghanistan Faces Future Under Taliban as U.S. Withdraws & Drone Strikes Continue to Kill Civilians. democracynow.org 
As the last U.S. forces leave Afghanistan, ending the longest war in U.S. history, we go to Kabul to speak with Danish Afghan journalist Nagieb Khaja, who was once kidnapped by the Taliban and later embedded with them on a reporting assignment. He has been investigating Sunday's U.S. drone strike that killed 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children.
(2021-08-31). War on Afghanistan: The Most Expensive Mass Murder in History. indybay.org The war on Afghanistan was the most expensive mass murder in history. About US$2.3 trillion of the US taxpayers' money was spent killing 230,000 people–$10 million for each civilian, military personnel, soldier of fortune. Who profits from major disasters, wars, pandemics?>
(2021-08-31). China to Require Foreign Vessels to Report in 'Territorial Waters'. asia-pacificresearch.com
(2021-08-31). Cambodia Fights Against US Meddling: Arrests US-Backed "Union Leader" newatlas.report August 31, 2021 (The New Atlas) — The US policy of encircling and containing China spares no nation in Southeast Asia. Cambodia is also being targeted, though Cambodia has arrested or driven out the US-backed opposition party of choice — the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) — which now resides in Washington D.C. There are …
(2021-08-31). Venezuela Proposes ALBA-TCP Strengthen Ties with ASEAN and Arab League. orinocotribune.com 
This Monday, August 30, Venezuela's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Félix Plasencia, invited the countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) to establish cultural and tourist ties with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Arab League. | During a videoconference to discuss cooperation strategies in cultural and tourism issues, Plasencia emphasized that cultural connections cannot be forged without tourism. | He added that all of the nations that make up ALBA possess virtues in this regard, and extended a commitment on behalf of Venezuela t…
(2021-08-31). US Pens Deal for New Military Base in Micronesia in Latest Move to Keep China Out of Pacific. sputniknews.com As the US pursues "great power competition" with China, Washington is on the hunt for new bases in the Pacific it can use to potentially get an upper hand in the fight. The latest site to be agreed upon is in the Federated States of Micronesia, a group of archipelagoes on the far side of the Philippine Sea from China.
(2021-08-31). Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran And Kazakhstan To Hold Joint Naval Exercises In The Caspian Sea. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | Warships from Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Kazakhstan will hold joint naval exercises in the Caspian Sea in early September after the end of the Sea Cup competition, Rear Admiral Sergei Yekimov, head of the Russian delegation, deputy commander of the Caspian Flotilla, told reporters on August 31st."Immediately after the completion of the Sea Cup, we will hold joint exercises, in which the warships of the Russian Navy, the Iranian Navy, Ka…
(2021-08-31). Comicomment: Is U.S. intelligence community's virus origin report credible?>. ecns.cn The COVID-19 origins tracing report compiled by the U.S. intelligence community failed to make scientific conclusion and it's a way for the U.S. to shift blame to China.
(2021-08-31). New York Times cites US torturer Michael Chertoff on Chinese "repression" wsws.org Over the weekend, the New York Times published an editorial calling China the world's leading purveyor of "transnational repression," based entirely on a report produced under the supervision of a war criminal.
(2021-08-31). New U.S. Military Base In Micronesia to Challenge China. popularresistance.org As the US pursues "great power competition" with China, Washington is on the hunt for new bases in the Pacific it can use to potentially get an upper hand in the fight. The latest site to be agreed upon is in the Federated States of Micronesia, a group of archipelagoes on the far side of the Philippine Sea from China.
(2021-08-31). China's top court says grueling '996' work schedule illegal. mronline.org 
The Supreme People's Court published a set of labor-related disputes to clarify legal standards of working hours and overtime wages.
(2021-08-31). China announces massive greening plan to achieve carbon goals. mronline.org 
The task includes planting 54 million mu of trees and 46 million mu of grass each year, said Zhang Wei, head of the ecological protection and restoration department of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (NFGA).
(2021-08-31). Faurecia parts workers denounce forced overtime and brutal conditions in scorching hot factories. wsws.org Workers at the Faurecia plants in Saline, Michigan, and Gladstone, Indiana, were forced to work 12-hour days in sweltering heat without adequate breaks and air conditioning.
(2021-08-31). NYC candidate Cathy Rojas backs socialist India Walton's mayoral bid in Buffalo, NY. liberationnews.org 
NYC socialist candidate for mayor in Cathy Rojas stated, "My campaign stands in 100% solidarity with India Walton and against all well-financed, illegal and underhanded ways the establishment in Buffalo is trying to subvert her victory in the Democratic primary."