(2021-09-01). U.S. Wars, Endless Wars: Will They Ever End? counterpunch.org The war in Afghanistan is finally over. After 20 long years of a false war against alleged "terrorism," the U.S.'s bloated and inept military-intelligence fortress failed yet again. Sadly, this defeat is but the latest in a nearly three-quarters-of-a-century quagmire of military defeats, stalemates and false victories. How long will this go on? Pres. Dwight
(2021-09-01). Talk World Radio: Afghanistan: And Stay Out. warisacrime.org 
Talk World Radio is recorded as audio and video on Riverside.fm. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube. This week on Talk World Radio: Better late and diastrously than never. It's never too soon to end a war, even if you don't really end it, tell lots of lies about it, …
(2021-09-01). At the End of this Hated War, We Need Truth. zcomm.org The U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan should force a reckoning with a long history of military intervention…
(2021-09-01). Afghanistan: A Tragically Stupid War Comes to a Tragic End. strategic-culture.org By Ron PAUL | Sunday's news reports that the Biden Administration mistakenly killed nine members of one Afghan family, including six children, in "retaliation" for last week's suicide attack which killed 13 US servicemembers, is a sad and sick epitaph on the 20 year Afghanistan war. | Promising to "get tough" on ISIS, which suddenly re-emerged to take responsibility for the suicide attack, the most expensive military and intelligence apparatus on earth appears to have gotten it wrong. Again. | Interventionists love to pretend they care about girls and women in Afghanistan, but it is in reality a desperate attempt…
(2021-09-01). Biden's "defiant" speech covered up Imperialist lies & shows the Empire's Cluelessness. indybay.org In his latest speech to the nation, White House Occupier Joe Biden defiantly defended the $6+ Trillion US Imperial mission in Afghanistan as "accomplished"! Without a single mention of the hundreds of Billions of bloodied war profits made by US arms peddlers like Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin et al, Joe Biden also lied about defeating al Qaeda. His convenient memory loss evidently couldn't recall that it was billions of US aid to Usama binLaden in the 1980s that spawned the al Qaeda network, and US Special Forces assassins didn't apprehend UBL for a trial back in 2010, but instead shot dead an invalid ex-CIA…
(2021-09-01). What the U.S. Owes After Decades of War. zcomm.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…
(2021-09-01). Afghanistan: The "Big" Media's Question Today Is Wrong & Dangerous. zcomm.org Bush & Cheney have gotten away with lying us into two wars & wildly enriching their friends; meanwhile, more people are dead & the media won't even ask the right questions. Will we ever learn?
(2021-09-01). US Completes Afghanistan Withdrawal; Bipartisan Support for Increased War Budget. sputniknews.com The last US plane took off from Kabul Airport one minute before midnight on August 30th as the end of the Afghanistan occupation was completed.
(2021-09-01). Blowback: Taliban Target U.S. Intel's Shadow Army. strategic-culture.org The Kabul Airport bombing shows there are shadowy forces in Afghanistan, willing to disrupt a peaceful transition after US troops leave. But what about US intel's own 'shadow army,' amassed over two decades of occupation? Who are they, and what is their agenda? | By Pepe ESCOBAR | So we have the CIA Director William Burns deploying in haste to Kabul to solicit an audience with Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar, the new potential ruler of a former satrapy. And he literally begs him to extend a deadline on the evacuation of US assets. | The answer is a resounding "no." After all, the 31 August deadline was establi…
(2021-09-01). Biden's Revenge: Fueling 'Madness of Militarism' in Afghanistan. zcomm.org Revenge cycles have no end, and they've continued to power endless U.S. warfare — as a kind of perpetual emotion machine — in the name of opposing terrorism…
(2021-09-01). Biden Defends Afghanistan Airlift As "Extraordinary Success", Commits To Helping Those Left Behind. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | Originally published on Update (1540ET): Late into the speech, Biden addressed critics who ask why the US couldn't have started the evacuation sooner. Biden insisted, with no evidence to back it up, that no matter when the evacuation started, there still would have been a "rush to the airport." | And while Biden waxes poetic about the Bin Laden raid, it's important to remember that…
(2021-09-01). Make Afghanistan the war to end all imperialist invasions. greenleft.org.au The quick collapse of the puppet government in Afghanistan and its army should not come as a surprise given the imperialists' criminal record. Sue Bolton argues that Australia's war criminals need to be held accountable.
(2021-09-01). Putin: America's 20-Year Presence in Afghanistan Only Led to Tragedies. sputniknews.com
(2021-09-01). Headlines for September 1, 2021. democracynow.org Biden Defends U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan, Signals End to U.S. Nation-Building Through War, Louisiana Gov. Tells Hurricane Ida Evacuees "Do Not Return" Amid Power Outages, Lack of Services, Texas Enacts Near Total Ban on Abortions, the Most Draconian Anti-Choice Law in the Country, Texas Legislature Passes Voter Suppression Bill, Sending Measure to Governor's Desk, Pennsylvania, New York Announce New Measures to Curb COVID Transmission in Schools, NYC Housing Advocates Call for Extension of Eviction Moratorium, EU Vaccinates 70% of Adults; Israel Rolls Out Booster Shots; Filipino Health Workers Protest Gov't…
(2021-09-01). France Deployed MAMBA Air-Defense System In Jordanian Air Base (Photos). southfront.org 
File image. | On September 1, the French Ministry of Armed Forces announced that it had deployed an air-defense detachment armed with a SAMP/T MAMBA medium-range system in a "temporary air base" in Jordan in the framework of Opération Chammal. | Launched on 19 September 2014, Opération Chammal represents France's contribution to the US-led Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. | In a statement, the French ministry said that this is the first time the MAMBA air-defense system was deployed outside F…
(2021-09-01). Russian Warplanes Conducted Over 500 Airstrikes On Central Syria In August: Monitoring Group. southfront.org 
Russian Su-25 attack aircraft take off from the Khmeimim airbase in Syria © Dmitriy Vinogradov / Sputnik | On September 1, seven warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) carried out more than 25 airstrikes on ISIS cells in Syria's vast central region. | According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the airstrikes hit fortified hideouts of the terrorist group in the Hama-Aleppo-Raqqa triangle. In the last few months, the group's cells carried out several attacks in the area. | The VKS h…
(2021-09-01). Palestinian baby about to be born in Israeli prison. electronicintifada.net Israel refuses to let family members be with Anhar al-Deek when she gives birth.
(2021-09-01). Israeli forces shoot dead a Palestinian. peoplesdispatch.org The Palestinian man who was newskilled was identified as 39-year-old Ra'ed Jadallah. Israeli army soldiers attacked him while he and other Palestinian workers who work in Israel tried to cross the Israeli apartheid wall to go back home…
(2021-09-01). US economic war on Cuba continues, even after war in Afghanistan ends. therealnews.com 
As the 20-year war in Afghanistan officially came to an end, President Joe Biden justified US military withdrawal in an
(2021-09-01). "Disaster for Me and My Children": Afghan Doctor Describes Escape from Kabul After Taliban Takeover. democracynow.org 
Afghan doctor Wais Aria describes how he fled Afghanistan with his family after the Taliban takeover, packing up his wife and four children and trying for days to leave from the Kabul airport, where he was beaten by the Taliban. They managed to catch a flight out of the country Thursday and arrived in the U.S. on Saturday. "It was a disaster for me and my children," says Aria, now in Alexandria, Virginia.
(2021-09-01). Afghan crisis must end the US' empire of war, corruption, and poverty. peoplesdispatch.org The United States spent $2.26 trillion on its war in Afghanistan and about $1.5 trillion, went to military spending to maintain the US military occupation…
(2021-09-01). Post-9/11 militarization has cost $21 trillion—here's where that money could have gone. therealnews.com 
As the US occupation of Afghanistan comes to end, Americans are just beginning to come to terms with the cost of 20 years of war. A new report titled
(2021-09-01). How the United States Lost Nothing in Afghanistan. towardfreedom.org The lifting of sanctions, crucial for the Taliban if they hope to avoid famines and take the first step towards official diplomatic recognition, looks as though it will happen slowly at the whim of U.S. President Joe Biden. Indeed, the future of Afghanistan looks like it will be made on the United States' terms.
(2021-09-01). Afghanistan Collapse Reveals Beltway Media's Loyalty to Permanent War State. globalresearch.ca
(2021-09-01). ISIS-K violence could force the West into alliance with Taliban. asiatimes.com 
The decades-long conflict in Afghanistan was always far more than a simple case of the Taliban versus the Afghan government, or a US-led "war on terror." This is because Afghanistan is not a single country in the sense of a legitimate system accepted by the vast majority. Beyond the capital Kabul, it is more a …
(2021-09-01). Nearly 33,000 children have been killed or maimed in Afghanistan since 2005. peoplesdispatch.org According to Save the Children, the actual number of children killed in Afghanistan in the last two decades is likely to be much higher as the data does not include victims of starvation, disease and poverty…
(2021-09-01). Afghan Crisis Must End US's Empire Of War, Corruption And Poverty. popularresistance.org Americans have been shocked by videos of thousands of Afghans risking their lives to flee the Taliban's return to power in their country – and then by an Islamic State suicide bombing and ensuing massacre by U.S. forces that together killed at least 170 people, including 13 U.S. troops. | Even as UN agencies warn of an impending humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the U.S. Treasury has frozen nearly all of the Afghan Central Bank's $9.4 billion in foreign currency reserves, depriving the new government of funds that it will desperately need in the coming months to feed its people and provide basic services. | Und…
(2021-09-01). Biden Defends Ending "Forever War" in Afghanistan and Criticizes Using War as Tool for Nation-Building. ips-dc.org Phyllis Bennis joins Democracy Now! to discuss the latest news on Afghanistan, including Biden's speech about ending the war there, and where the U.S. military will turn its attention next.
(2021-09-01). In OtherWords: September 1, 2021. otherwords.org This week, President Biden again forcefully defended his decision to end "the forever war" in Afghanistan. | Law graduate and politics professor Farrah Hassen agrees — and says it's time to end "the forever prison" too. This week in OtherWords, she calls on the Biden administration to shut down the nearly 20 year old extrajudicial prison at Guantanamo Bay that's been a stain on America's reputation ever since it opened. | Meanwhile, as Congress continues to debate how to pay for a potential $3.5 trillion federal jobs and infrastructure package, tax attorney Bob Lord has a great idea: Tax the top seven U.S.
(2021-09-01). What Did the US Get Wrong About Afghanistan? globalresearch.ca
(2021-09-01). What Next After US Defeat? dissidentvoice.org There may no longer be US military boots on the ground in Afghanistan, but there are still plenty of Afghan boots that Washington can mobilize to destabilize the country and, more importantly, the region. Already there are tribal leaders in the Panjshir province declaring the beginning of anti-Taliban resistance. One of them, Ahmad Massoud, the …
(2021-09-01). Russia Concerned ISIS, Other Terrorist Organizations' Members Will Infiltrate From Afghanistan. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The Russian Foreign Ministry said that does not rule out that ISIS and other terrorist organizations' militants will cross the borders of states adjacent to Afghanistan, including under the guise of refugees, deputy head of the department Igor Morgulov said."The threat from the territory of Afghanistan still remains. <...> It is unlikely that under the current conditions the ISIS will lay down their arms and abandon the idea of building a world caliphate," he said. | On August 26, an explo…
(2021-09-01). Panjshir Resistance Willing To Negotiate With The Taliban. southfront.org 
Illustrative ImageAhmad Massoud will not receive international support and conciliation with the enemy is the only path to peace. | Written by Lucas Leiroz, research fellow in international law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. | As Taliban control of Afghanistan expands, Panjshir remains the country's only resistance zone. However, it is not known how long this situation will last, as there are indications that the resistance's main leaders plan to renounce if there is an…
(2021-09-01). 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?>
(2021-09-01). The Great Game of Smashing Countries. orinocotribune.com By John Pilger — Aug 25, 2021 | As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, history is suppressed. More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the United States, Britain and their "allies" destroyed. | In 1978, a liberation movement led by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) overthrew the dictatorship of Mohammad Dawd, the cousin of King Zahir Shar. It was an immensely popular revolution that took the British and Americans by surprise. | Foreign journalists in Kabul, reported the New York Times, were surprised to find that "nearly every Afghan they intervie…
(2021-09-01). Biden Cites 'Serious Competition With China' as a Reason to Leave Afghanistan. news.antiwar.com
(2021-09-01). Biden's Defense of Afghanistan Withdrawal Had a Side-Serving of Pro-War Rhetoric. truthout.org 
On Tuesday, an American president Twenty years of sacrifice beyond comprehension, tens of thousands of civilian and military lives lost, including the scores laid low by the Kabul airpor…
(2021-09-01). Afghanistan: Drug Trade and Belt and Road. dissidentvoice.org All flags are on half-mast in the US of A. The cause is the 13 American soldiers killed in this huge suicide bombing outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Thursday, 26 August. As it stands, at least 150 people — Afghans, including at least 30 Taliban, plus 13 American military — were killed …
(2021-09-01). 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.
(2021-09-01). An Old Soldier's Denial on Afghanistan. counterpunch.org In a letter to the Los Angeles Times regarding the Afghanistan debacle, Stephen Sloane, a retired captain in the U.S. Navy who served in the Vietnam War, is a perfect demonstration of how so many people, especially in the military, live lives of denial when it comes to foreign interventionism. Addressing Marines who served in
(2021-09-01). Biden Defends Ending "Forever War" in Afghanistan & Criticizes Using War as Tool for Nation-Building. democracynow.org 
President Joe Biden has forcefully defended his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, describing the removal of U.S. forces as an "extraordinary success." He noted in a speech Tuesday that the U.S. helped more than 120,000 people flee Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power, and called for a new era in foreign policy. Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, says Biden's speech was honest about the costs of war and the need to get out, but she says it's "clearly not true" that the U.S. is winding down the war on terror. "The U.S. is still waging war in a host of other countrie…
(2021-09-01). Afghanistan: Same, Same; Again, Again. strategic-culture.org The difference between the U.S. performances in Vietnam and Afghanistan is that in the first, the vehicles were painted green and in the second, sand. | The lesson of Afghanistan is not that the US is washed up as a great power. The lesson is that the US is such a great power, militarily and economically, that it is continually tempted to try hopeless things that nobody else on earth — including China — would ever attempt. | Don't believe what you're…
(2021-09-01). August 15th Fall Of Kabul Is US Empires' Final Moment As Suez Canal Crisis Was UK's. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | Written by Simon Ndiritu | Introduction: | If August 2021 will be remembered for anything in history, it will be the US defeat in Afghanistan, as signified by the fall of Kabul or 15th or the departure of the last troops on 31st. The US humiliation and withdrawal is in line with a series of events that have taken place indicating social economic decay in the country. However mainstream geopolitical observers have conveniently ignored or are induced to look the other way. The international media is…
(2021-09-01). Don't Listen to Panetta and Bolton. The US Must Stay Out of Afghanistan. zcomm.org Twenty years, thousands of lives and trillions of dollars later, these people still think flapping "Our work is not done" remains a viable argument for the Forever War…
(2021-09-01). Biden Oil Envoy Advised Emirati Gas Firm, Owns Stock in Questionable Companies. truthout.org 
This article was produced by As the Biden administration faces its biggest foreign policy debacle so far in the Afghanistan withdrawal, one recent addition to the State Department has been abl…
(2021-09-01). The Heat: Afghanistan's new start. america.cgtn.com 
A new start for Afghanistan after the U.S. brings its 20-year war there to an end. But, what happens next?>
(2021-09-01). Taxing Just 7 Billionaires Could Pay for Third of $3.5 Trillion Spending Package. commondreams.org Biden is right to end the forever war in Afghanistan. Now he needs to close the forever prison that it built.
(2021-09-01). WHO monitoring new coronavirus variant named 'Mu'. asiatimes.com 
The World Health Organization has said it is monitoring a new coronavirus variant known as "Mu," which was first identified in Colombia in January. Mu, known scientifically as B.1.621, has been classified as a "variant of interest," the global health body said Tuesday in its weekly pandemic bulletin. The WHO said the variant has mutations …
(2021-09-01). China says it has built the world's largest housing guarantee system. ecns.cn China has built the world's largest housing guarantee system and will keep cracking down on housing speculation, the country's urban planning authorities said on Tuesday.
(2021-09-01). The Wuhan Lab lie: Who is to blame for the COVID-19 pandemic? wsws.org The central aim of Washington's claims that China is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic is to deflect attention from US capitalism's disastrous and criminal response to the pandemic.