(2021-08-11). A Viable—and Perhaps the Only—Path to Lasting Peace in Afghanistan. zcomm.org Blindness to history governs the attitude of several capitals, who know from previous experience that extremism cannot be contained within Afghanistan; it devastates the region…
(2021-08-11). IPCC Alarm Bell: burning gas, coal is Intensifying Water Cycle: Expect more and worse Storms, Floods such as hit Germany, China this Summer. juancole.com 
By Mathew Barlow | — ( The Conversation) — The world watched in July 2021 as extreme rainfall became floods that washed away centuries-old homes in Europe, triggered landslides in Asia and inundated subways in China. More than 900 people died in the destruction. In North America, the West was battling fires amid an intense …
(2021-08-11). Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities. towardfreedom.org The lesson of the United States' experience in Afghanistan should be a new "Afghanistan syndrome," a public aversion to war that prevents future U.S. military attacks and invasions, rejects attempts to socially engineer the governments of other nations, and leads to a new and active U.S. commitment to peace, diplomacy, and disarmament.
(2021-08-11). Taliban Fighters Seized Mi-35 Attack Helicopter At Kunduz Airport (Videos, Photos). southfront.org 
File image. | On August 11, the Taliban seized a Mi-35 attack helicopter that was left behind by Afghan government forces at Kunduz Airport in northeastern Afghanistan. | The helicopter was one of several which India bought and repaired in Belarus then gifted to Afghanistan in 2019. The Mi-35 is the export version of the Mi-24V, which can be armed with 9M114 Shturm anti-tank guided missiles. | Afghan government forces removed the helicopter's rotor blades and stored them right under it before withdrawing from…
(2021-08-11). Military Situation In Afghanistan On August 11, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On August 11, Taliban captured Faizabad city in Badakhshan province | On August 11, Taliban captured Dowlat Yar town in Ghor province | On August 11, Taliban captured in Kunduz Airport in Kunduz province | On August 11, Taliban attacked Bagram Airport with four rockets | 439 Taliban militants were killed and 161 others were wounded as a result of Afghan Army operations inNangarhar, Laghman, Logar, Paktia, Uruzgan, Zabul, Ghor, Farah, Balkh, Helmand Kapisa and Bag…
(2021-08-11). Turkey, Pakistan: after Afghanistan, Kashmir. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Defense Minister Akar, Pakistani premier discuss bilateral issues Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar called on Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan in the capital Islamabad on Aug. 11 to discuss a range of issues, including Ankara's ongoing efforts for a political solution in Afghanistan. **** Khan expressed satisfaction at the existing level of bilateral defense cooperation, …
(2021-08-11). Taliban seizes 8th provincial capital amid massive offensive as Biden calls on Afghans to 'fight for themselves'. rt.com 
The Taliban has seized two more provincial capitals in Afghanistan, taking control of eight major cities in just four days amid a relentless wave of attacks as US President Joe Biden urges Afghans to fight for their country. | After a series of attacks on Tuesday, the militant group captured Farah city in the southwest — capital of the province of the same name — as well as the capital of Baghlan province, Pul-e-Khumri, located just 125 miles (200km) from the national capital of Kabul. Local officials confirmed that both cities had fallen to reporters with Al Jazeera and AFP. | "The Taliban are now i…
(2021-08-11). Taliban's Sweeping Offensive in Afghanistan Was "Inevitable" and Stems from Brutal U.S. War. ips-dc.org Phyllis Bennis joins Democracy Now! to discuss the latest from Afghanistan, including the Taliban's recent capture of three more provincial capitals.
(2021-08-11). Maj. Danny Sjursen on Genocide, Slavery, Imperialism and Hyper Capitalism. scheerpost.com On "Going Underground, " the host speaks to Retired US Army Major Danny Sjursen, author of 'A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism'. He discusses the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the different strands of American imperialism from liberal to neoconservative and …
(2021-08-11). Taliban Shot Down Iranian Drone Over Southwestern Afghanistan (Photos). southfront.org 
File image. | On August 11, the Taliban shot down a drone over the southwestern Afghan province of Farah which shares a long border line with Iran. | The group released photos showing the wreckage of the drone, that was identified as an Iranian-made Qods Mohajer-2N. The drone, which was first presented in 2014, is an upgraded variant of the original Mohajer-2. | Pro
(2021-08-11). Afghanistan: a Tale of never ending Tragedy. globalresearch.ca This incisive and carefully research article was first published by Global Research on July 19, 2006 | It's now approaching five years since the Taliban government in Afghanistan was deposed by American bombing and the reoccupation of the country with the …
(2021-08-11). Headlines for August 11, 2021. democracynow.org Senate Dems Approve $3.5 Trillion Budget Hours After Passage of Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan, Gov. Andrew Cuomo Resigns, Continues to Faces Ongoing Probes and Possible Impeachment, Cases Spike in Tacoma ICE Jail; TX Counties Can Bypass Mask Mandate Ban as Delta COVID Cases Surge, COVID-19 Surges in Mexico; Bangladesh Launches Rohingya Refugee Vaccination Drive, Taliban Claim More Territory, Seizing Three More Afghan Cities, Ethiopian PM Calls for Citizens to Join Fight Against Tigray Forces as Humanitarian Disaster Grows, U.S. Appeals Ruling That Blocked Julian Assange's Extradition, Algerian Wildfires Kill 42…
(2021-08-11). Palestinians Are Calling For International Support For Those Arrested In May. popularresistance.org The fund's aims are to provide legal representation for defendants and to support the detainees' families, "many of whom already live in dire socio-economic conditions, by ensuring that they do not have to bear the financial burden of these legal costs alone". The fund has already raised over $67k of its $307k goal. Palestinians who joined the May uprising were struggling against Israel's ongoing colonisation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian land. They were fighting against racism and state brutality, and for freedom and autonomy. They deserve our support.
(2021-08-11). Israel uses the Gaza fishing zone as a tool for collective punishment against Palestinians. peoplesdispatch.org Israel often blocks the fishing zone, driving thousands of Palestinians dependent on it for their livelihood and food using the pretexts of rocket attacks…
(2021-08-11). Smiling as an act of resistance in Occupied Palestine. roarmag.org Muna El Kurd, activist and Sheikh Jarrah resident smiles as she is arrested in front of her home by Israeli occupation forces. Photo by This essay was produced in collaboration with the Palestinians living in occupied Palestine have been facing ethnic cleansing…
(2021-08-11). Palestine Action Is Hitting Drone Maker Elbit Hard. popularresistance.org A new short film by Real Media follows the group Palestine Action over the past year. Activists have carried out sit-ins and sabotage against Elbit premises, shutting factories down, smashing windows, damaging equipment, graffiting and splashing walls with red paint to symbolize Palestinian blood. According to the film, Palestine Action have carried out more than 70 actions against Elbit in their first year, including 20 high-profile occupations of sites and factories.
(2021-08-11). Feminist protests in Palestine. mronline.org 
Mapping the fight for women's liberation in Gaza and the West Bank.
(2021-08-11). Cuba: øEstallido social o sicosis digital? globalizacion.ca Rosario, febrero de 1959. En el asado dominical, la parentela habla a los gritos y sus comentarios giran en torno al personaje que anda en boca de todos. El abuelo filofranquista que acaba de llegar de Madrid, destaca las raíces…
(2021-08-11). How a Network of UK Intel-Linked Operatives Helped Sell Every Alleged Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack. orinocotribune.com 
By Kit Klarenberg — Aug 4, 2021 | While Western media covers up their credibility issues, these pseudo-experts and spooks have helped drive the dirty war on Syria. | A tight-knit cast of characters has sought to destabilize the Syrian government by convincing Syrians, Western citizens, foreign states, and international bodies that the CIA-backed Free Syrian Army is a legitimate, "moderate" alternative, while flooding news across the globe with opposition propaganda. | Its key actors have also played a central part in high-profile chemical weapon deceptions, participating in the attacks' staging, generating m…
(2021-08-11). Syria: Turkish military, auxiliaries shell large swathes of territory near Aleppo. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Turkish occupation forces, their mercenaries shell five villages in Aleppo northern countryside Turkish occupation forces and their mercenaries associated with] terrorist organizations have launched an artillery shelling attack on large areas in the northern countryside of Aleppo, causing damage to the locals' houses, their property and their agricultural orchards. Local sources from the Aleppo northern …
(2021-08-11). New Iranian Missile Shipment Arrived In Syria's Deir Ezzor: Monitoring Group. southfront.org 
Iranian-backed forces massing around Deir Ezzor city. | A new Iranian missile shipment had arrived in the eastern Syrian governorate of Deir Ezzor coming from Iraq, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on August 11. | According to the London-based monitoring group, the missiles were hidden in trucks which were carrying a shipment vegetables as a decoy. The trucks unloaded its decoy cargo in the al-Hal market in al-Mayadin in southern Deir Ezzor before heading to al-Shibli remains in the outskirts…
(2021-08-11). Russian Orlan-10 Drone Crashed In Northeastern Syria, Fourth This Year. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image. Source: the internet. | On August 11, a Russian Orlan-10 drone crash landed in the northern countryside of al-Hasakah in northeastern Syria. | The drone crashed in the vicinity of the town of al-Matmurah. At the time, fighters the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were clashing with Turkish forces in nearby areas. At least two Turkish-backed militants were killed in the clashes. The drone may have been shot down by mistake. | The Orlan-10 has a f…
(2021-08-11). US admiral warns China "we have the world's greatest military" wsws.org While Washington accuses Beijing of potential aggression toward Taiwan, the US is undermining the status quo that has underpinned relations with China for the past 50 years.
(2021-08-11). Navy Voyage To The Pacific Demonstrates Germany's Intent To Be Global Military Power. southfront.org 
Illustrative ImageGermany may also join Anglo Axis in pressuring China. | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst. | A German battleship, the Bayern (Bavaria) frigate, set off for Asia to make the long journey to the Pacific Ocean. However, why did Berlin want to send a warship to a location more than 5,000 nautical miles away from the German coast? It suggests that Berlin is attempting to not only become a major global military power once again,…
(2021-08-11). Biden speaks to Pacific Islands Forum to counter China. wsws.org Biden's address to the forum—a first for a sitting US president—featured the declaration that the US was a "proud Pacific power" and signalled Washington's determination to maintain its dominant position in the region.
(2021-08-11). Forget a New Cold War, the US and China Need to Fight Against Inequality. counterpunch.org Has the United States now entered a new Cold War, this time around with China? "Rhetoric coming out of Washington, amplified by hawkish media commentary," Andrew Bacevich of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft observed this past spring, "appears to take a Second Cold War as a given, something perhaps even to be welcomed." The
(2021-08-11). Unlike centi-billionaire Gates, China shares vaccines, technology with world. workers.org 
In a stunning announcement Aug. 5, China's President Xi Jinping informed the First International Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine Cooperation of the country's donation of 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to developing and poor countries within the next four months. This urgent step builds solidarity and makes vaccines accessible in . . . |
(2021-08-11). Cultivated Delusions at the Tokyo Olympics. counterpunch.org Australia's Channel 7 team was all about ignoring history as its selected commentators went into describing, poorly, the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics. The trio was poorly equipped culturally, geographically and totally (the Japanese component was barely credible: "We want to make things warm for you," she chirped), to deal with the eclectic groupings
(2021-08-11). Counting the uncounted COVID-19 deaths in India. peoplesdispatch.org Professor Christophe Z Guilmoto and Indranil Mukhopadhyay from the People's Health Movement discuss the scale of the under-reporting of COVID-19 deaths in India. They reflect on possible methods for counting the currently unregistered death cases, as well as improving the way of recording deaths in the future. | You can listen to the first part of the interview here:
(2021-08-11). Thousands participate in "car mob" protest in Thailand amid police crackdown. peoplesdispatch.org As anger spread against the mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic by the government of Prayut Chan-o-cha, thousands took out a rally commemorating the anniversary of the Thammasat University protests in 2020…
(2021-08-11). Sharing Mayo Clinic: When the answer was something other than COVID-19. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org This story came in a note to the Sharing Mayo Clinic blog from Susan Fox, who wanted to share her experience finding an answer to distressing symptoms with help from the COVID-19 Nurse Line, even when the answer was something other than COVID-19. _______________________________________ I'm a 68-year-old woman in Wisconsin and have been a patient with Mayo Clinic for many years. Despite extreme caution, my husband and I both contracted COVID-19 last November. We both recovered slowly, and when…
(2021-08-11). Rally for justice in Chicago suburb after young woman killed by police. liberationnews.org 
Protest forces release of body cam footage and apology from the mayor.
(2021-08-11). BBC Discovers "Lost Tablet" That "Reveals" MSM-Circulated Secrets Of The Mythical "Wagner PMC" southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | A brand-new investigation by the UK's state news outlet — BBC — allegedly reveals "the scale of Wagner's involvement in Libya." | The mythical "shadowy Russian mercenary group" has reportedly been active there for years, and finally the BBC has reported evidence from a
(2021-08-11). British Embassy Worker Arrested By German Police For Allegedly Spying For Russia. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | German police have arrested a British national who worked at the United Kingdom's embassy in Berlin on suspicion of passing documents to the Russian intelligence service in exchange for money. | German prosecutors said in a statement that the man's apartment and workplace had been searched and he would be brought before an investigating judge later on August 12th to determine whether he should be remanded in custody. | The statement added that the suspect, identified only as David S, "on at…
(2021-08-11). Military Situation In Yemen On August 11, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 116 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah during the past 24 hours | On August 10, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 9 airstrikes on the Sarwah district | On August 10, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 6 airstrikes on the Nate area | On August 10, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted an airstrike on the Madghal district | On August 10, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted…
(2021-08-11). US Foreign Policy Adrift: Why Washington is No Longer Calling the Shots. counterpunch.org Neoconservatism, unlike what the etymology of the name may suggest, was not necessarily confined to conservative political circles. Think tanks, newspapers and media networks that purport – or are perceived – to express liberal and even progressive thought today, like The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN, have dedicated much time and space to promoting an American invasion of Iraq as the first step of a complete US geostrategic military hegemony in the Middle East.
(2021-08-11). Millions Of Garment Workers In Bangladesh Forced To Return To Factories. popularresistance.org Above Photo: Large number of garment workers returning to factories in Bangladesh. (Md Manik/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock) The announcement by the Bangladesh authorities allowing garment export factories to resume work has resulted in tens of thousands of workers returning to major cities in overcrowded trains and buses, ignoring health guidelines Despite a strict lockdown, at least four …
(2021-08-11). Working class and farmers unite against regressive government policies in India. peoplesdispatch.org The protesters called for the roll back of the controversial farm laws and labor codes as well as the strengthening of public health infrastructure.
(2021-08-11). 3 Iraqis die after allegedly being tortured during detention. peoplesdispatch.org The report of these deaths comes just days after a UN report accused Iraqi and Kurdistan regional government officials of torture and ill treatment of detainees on a large scale…