(2021-09-14). Headlines for September 14, 2021. democracynow.org Donors Pledge $1.2B in Aid to Afghanistan as U.N. Warns of Looming Humanitarian Catastrophe, Secretary of State Blinken Defends U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan, 1 Million Public School Students Return to New York City Classrooms Despite COVID-19 Surge, Departing FDA Scientists Blast Biden's Plan for COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters, Pressure Mounts on Germany to Support COVID-19 Patent Waiver as WTO Panel Meets, Public Citizen: Biden Could Share Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Recipe with the World, Hurricane Nicholas Brings Storm Surge and Heavy Rain to Gulf Coast, Biden Calls for Urgent Action on Climate Crisis After Tourin…
(2021-09-14). Consumer Health: 5 types of gynecologic cancer. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org September is Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about the five types of gynecologic cancer. Gynecologic cancer is any cancer that starts in a woman's reproductive organs. More than 116,000 women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with a gynecologic cancer this year, according to the Foundation for Women's Cancer. The five main types of gynecologic cancer are: Cervical cancerEarly stage cervical cancer generally produces no signs or symptoms….
(2021-09-14). Putin refers to persisting presence of foreign troops in Syria as problem. tass.com "I consider the main problem the fact that foreign armed forces, without the permission of the United Nations Organization, without your sanctions, are still present on separate territories of the country, which evidently contradicts the international law," the Russian President said…
(2021-09-14). Syria's Assad thanks Putin for helping Syria to fight COVID, other assistance. tass.com The Syrian President also extended gratitude to the Russian Foreign Ministry for defending universally accepted principles and norms of international law…
(2021-09-14). Putin hopes joint efforts will help Syrian people get on feet. tass.com "Hopefully joint efforts will help the Syrian people get on feet in all senses of the word, help revive the economy, the social field, healthcare first of all now," the Russian President said…
(2021-09-14). Certain countries destructively influence political processes in Syria, says Assad. tass.com "Certain states have imposed sanctions against the Syrian people, which may be classified and positioned as antihuman, anti-state, illegitimate," the Syrian President pointed out…
(2021-09-14). "Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire": Deepa Kumar on How Racism Fueled U.S. Wars Post-9/11. democracynow.org 
According to the Costs of War Project, the wars launched by the United States following 9/11 have killed an estimated 929,000 people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere. The true death toll may never be known, but the vast majority of the victims have been Muslim. "Racism is baked into the security logic of the national security state in the U.S., as well as in terms of how it operates abroad," says Islamophobia scholar Deepa Kumar, a professor of media studies at Rutgers University. "The war on terror was sold to the American public using Orientalist and racist ideas that these societies a…
(2021-09-14). Putin denounces 'illegal foreign military presence' in Syria as Assad makes surprise visit to Moscow. rt.com 
Western powers are hampering the consolidation of Syria despite it being mostly freed from terrorists, Russian President Vladimir Putin said as he met his Syrian counterpart, Bashar Assad, at the Kremlin on Monday. | The joint efforts of Russia and Syria have dealt a crippling blow to terrorists, allowing Damascus to regain control over more than 90% of its territory, Putin told Assad, who made a surprise visit to the Russian capital. However, some obstacles remain before a "full consolidation of power" and "return to normal life" are possible in the country, he added. Syria has been fighting international ter…
(2021-09-14). Military Situation In Syria On September 14, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On September 14, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 24 times: 14 — in Idlib province, 5 — in Latakia province, 6 — in Hama province, 2 — in Aleppo province | On September 14, Russian warplanes attacked positions of Turkish-backed forces in Sheikh Sulaiman area | On September 14, SAA artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces in Qahera and Mansura | On September 13, Russian President, Vl…
(2021-09-14). Iran Sends Fuel to Crisis-Hit Lebanon. news.antiwar.com Lebanon is facing an economic near-collapse in recent weeks, and fuel shortages are just the latest problem that's entailed. Iran is reportedly rushing help to the Lebanese and Syrian coast. | Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who asked Iran for help, Bringing in the fuel risks the US imposing new sanctions on Lebanon, but widespread shortages have left them wi…
(2021-09-14). Putin And Assad Meet In Moscow For The First Time In 5 Years. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On September 13th, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. | For the first time in 5 years the meeting took place in Moscow. | Putin congratulated his counterpart on winning May's presidential election. | Putin also praised President Assad's renewed grip on the country after a decade of fighting. | The Kremlin quoted the Russian president as saying: "Terrorists had sustained a very serious damage, and Syrian government, headed by you…
(2021-09-14). In Video: Kurdish Factions Lose No Chance To Hit Turkish-Backed Militants In North-Western Syria. southfront.org 
(2021-09-14). Bulldozers bring heartbreak to Silwan. electronicintifada.net Palestinians defend East Jerusalem neighborhood from Israeli encroachment. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | …
(2021-09-14). VIDEO: Israeli forces open fire on a young Palestinian. en.mehrnews.com Israeli soldiers shot and wounded a young Palestinian citizen in Bethlehem under the pretext that he intended to attack Zionist forces.
(2021-09-14). Military Situation In The West Bank and Gaza Strip On September 14, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On September 14, clashes betwen Palestinian and Israeli forces were reported in Kafr Ein | On September 14, clashes betwen Palestinian and Israeli forces were reported in Beita | On September 14, a failed rocket launch was reported from Gaza Strip | On September 13, Israel aircraft attacked positions of Palestinian groups in Beit Lahia | On September 13, Israel aircraft attacked positions of Palestinian groups east of Rafah | On September 13, Israel aircraft attacked pos…
(2021-09-14). Violence Escalates In West Bank As Palestinians Rally To Protect Prisoners (Videos). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | Beginning on September 10th, IDF warplanes have bombed the besieged Gaza strip in a dramatic escalation of Israel's violent campaign to take revenge for the daring escape of six Palestinian political prisoners from the high-security Gilboa facility on September 6th. | On the same day, Israeli authorities announced that 4 out of the 6 escapees had been arrested. | Two still roam free. | Palestinians have rallied throughout the West Bank and clashes with Israeli author…
(2021-09-14). Cuba To Receive 8.7 Million Syringes From Its Residents Abroad. popularresistance.org According to Humberto Pérez, coordinator of the Asociación Martiana de Cubanos Residentes en Panamá, organizer of the shipment, the donation is part of the campaign Rompamos el Bloqueo, in which organizations present in more than 28 Latin American, Caribbean and European countries participate. | In a few days, the first of five containers will arrive from China with the aid collected to support the anti-COVID-19 vaccination, an effort supported by trade union organizations and young graduates of Cuban educational institutions. | From the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) headquarters, Perez hi…
(2021-09-14). Calculating The Full Cost Of War. popularresistance.org The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks that were used to justify multiple Middle Eastern interventions is a fitting occasion to consider the ultimate cost of military combat. | Thanks to advances in military medicine, soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan have had a much higher survival rate, recovering from wounds that would have been fatal decades earlier in Vietnam. As a result, far more post-9/11 combat veterans carry wounds of war, both visible and invisible, for the rest of their lives. | Many news reports cite the trillions of…
(2021-09-14). Be Careful What You Wish For. tomdispatch.com Disagreements over how to assess the American exodus from Afghanistan have kept the pundits busy these last weeks, even though there wasn't much to say that hadn't been said before. For some of them, however, that was irrelevant. Having overseen or promoted the failed Afghan War themselves, all the while brandishing various "metrics" of success, they were engaged in transparent reputation-salvaging. Not surprisingly, the entire spectacle has been tiresome and unproductive. Better to devote time and energy to distilling the Afghan war's larger lessons. Here are four worth considering. Lesson One: When You Make Pol…
(2021-09-14). First foreign commercial flight lands in Kabul since Taliban takeover. ecns.cn Passengers line up to board on a Pakistan International Airways (PIA) flight at the Kabul International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 13, 2021. This is the first international commercial flight to land in Afghanistan since the Taliban took control on August 15, according to reports.
(2021-09-14). Milwaukee: Activists rally to say 'Hands off Afghanistan' on 20th anniversary of 9/11. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – A group of anti-war students and community members gathered in downtown Milwaukee in the early afternoon of September 11 to protest continued U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. Speakers acknowledged the significance of the withdrawal of U.S. troops, but pointed to history and actions taken since the evacuation of the U.S. embassy as a sign of things to come. | "It's a good thing that the U.S. has removed its forces, but we know that they're not going to allow the unimpeded expression of Afghan self-determination," said Ryan Hamann, speaking on behalf of Freedom Road Socialist Organization – Wisconsi…
(2021-09-14). Top US Generals Blatantly Lied About Afghanistan and Iraq Wars to Advance Their Careers. globalresearch.ca
(2021-09-14). Never Forget: Lessons Of The Post-9/11 Warpath. popularresistance.org As the US Empire tries to leave its 9/11 warpath on Afghanistan & Iraq in the past, Abby Martin reviews the core lessons. "We've witnessed a striking conclusion to the Afghanistan War, where for twenty years the US fought to make the country a neo-colony for bases and resource extraction only to suffer a historic embarrassment. Two trillion dollars and tens of thousands of lives lost couldn't tamp down an insurgency that was bred by the CIA decades prior. As the war will fade into memory for most Americans, the Biden administration and the US government as a whole is already starting to rewrite the true lega…
(2021-09-14). Initial Taliban Moves Fail To Convince Afghanistan's Neighbours. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | Written by The Taliban's record in recent w…
(2021-09-14). The Heat: Afghanistan's future. america.cgtn.com 
International donors pledged more than one billion dollars to help Afghanistan. We will take a look at the future of the country.
(2021-09-14). North Korea's New Cruise Missile: Built to Threaten or Because of Threats? newatlas.report 
September 14, 2021 (Brian Berletic — NEO) — North Korea's recent demonstration of an indigenously developed cruise missile has provided another opportunity for the United States to perform its own demonstration, one of its inexhaustible hypocrisy upon the global stage. It is also another opportunity to examine the real reason the US continues to maintain …
(2021-09-14). Turkey Seeks Rapprochement With Armenia, UAE And Other Traditional Foes. southfront.org 
Illustrative ImageErdogan seems to be replacing open confrontation with a softer approach, but the neo-Ottomanism revival agenda remains. | Written by Uriel Araujo, researcher with a focus on international and ethnic conflicts. | Over the past month officials from both Ankara (Turkey) and Yerevan (Armenia) exchanged statements which signal a possible rapprochement between these two historical foes. But this is not all: Ankara in fact has been reaching out to quite a few different actors. | Turkish President Recep Tay…
(2021-09-14). The US is Turning Oil-Rich Nigeria into a Proxy for its Africa Wars. libya360.wordpress.com T.J. Coles US Army trainers drill Nigerian soldiers in Jaji between Jan. 15 and Feb. 22, 2018 Under the cover of counterterrorism, AFRICOM is beefing up Nigeria's military to ensure the free flow of oil to the West, and using the country as a proxy against China's influence on the continent. Last month, Nigeria's President…
(2021-09-14). China And U.S. Are On the Brink of War. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | Written by Eric Zuesse, exclusively for SouthFront. | Right now, the neocons that Biden has surrounded himself with are threatening to accuse him of having 'lost Taiwan' if Biden backs down from his many threats to China, threats that the U.S. Government will reverse America's "One China" policy, which has been in place ever since the 28 February 1972
(2021-09-14). 9/11 Lee Siu Hin: Journey to China 2021: My China Activism Factfinding Solidarity Trip. indybay.org Greetings from the Southern Chinese city of Foshan! | I just flew back to China from LA on September 5th arriving in the Southern Chinese coastal city of Guangzhou where I immediately transferred to the nearby city of Foshan to begin our 14-days of quarantine life.
(2021-09-14). School Bus Drivers Protest Inadequate COVID-19 Protection And Low Pay. popularresistance.org On September 3, 54 school bus drivers in the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System SCCSS) in Georgia began a rolling sickout and staged a protest at the school district offices over pay structure and lack of adequate protections from COVID-19. The sickouts forced the school board to scramble for drivers to transport students. | The school relies on about 218 drivers to ferry more than 18,700 students to and from school; the 54 drivers who are protesting represent about 22 percent of the district's drivers. A school district spokesperson reported that the district had been forced to call upon private coache…
(2021-09-14). Smashing The Heads of Farmers: A Global Struggle Against Tyranny. dissidentvoice.org According to Reuters, more than 500,000 farmers attended a rally in the city of Muzaffarnagar in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on 5 September. Hundreds of thousands more turned out for other rallies in the state. Rakesh Tikait, a prominent farmers' leader, said this would breathe fresh life into the Indian farmers' protest movement. …
(2021-09-14). Meet Buffalo Mayoral Candidate India Walton. progressive.org After securing the Democratic nomination in June, she hopes to become the city's first socialist mayor in the upcoming November election.
(2021-09-14). COVID-19 claims over 115,000 lives across Iran. en.mehrnews.com The coronavirus has infected 22,329 people and claimed 408 lives in Iran in the past 24 hours, according to the Iranian Health Ministry.
(2021-09-14). Door Is Closing on an Iran Nuclear Deal. globalresearch.ca
(2021-09-14). La tiranía digital y los Rockefeller-Gates "Pasaporte certificado Vaxx" de la OMS: hacia un escenario de la Tercera Guerra Mundial. globalizacion.ca 
Este artículo es una continuación en el marco del webinar de Global Research por su XX Aniversario (Septiembre 09, 2021), se centra en la Agenda ID2020 y sus implicaciones está desplegando delante de nuestros ojos. | Sin embargo, para la mayoría…
(2021-09-14). Witness In Benjamin Netanyahu Trial Dies In Private Plane Crash. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On September 13th, two Israeli citizens were killed when a light aircraft crashed into the sea close to the Greek island of Samos, Greek authorities said. | And incidents such as these take place, of course. | However, in this case the names of the deceased are: Esti and Haim Garon. | Haim Garon served as the deputy director of the Communications Ministry and was a prosecution witness in Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trial. | The small private aircraft, that was flying from I…
(2021-09-14). Israeli Warplanes Destroy Poultry Farms in Gaza Strip. news.antiwar.com Overnight, Israeli warplanes were reported to have attacked the Gaza Strip, intending to hit military targets belonging to Hamas. The reports out of the strip suggest no real damage or casualties on the military targets. | That doesn't mean Israel did nothing, however, as videos and
(2021-09-14). IDF Bombs Buildings In Response To Anxiety Attacks. southfront.org 
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(2021-09-14). West Outraged By North Korea Testing Cruise Missile With Potential Nuclear Capabilities. southfront.org 
Illustrative ImageNorth Korea's cruise missile test was within the bounds of international law. | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that North Korea successfully test-fired a new long-range cruise missile over the weekend. The trial included ground-based rocket engine thrust testing, flight testing, control testing, navigation and more. All tests were reportedly successful and the missile was able to hit its target at a distance of 1,500 kilometers.
(2021-09-14). Tulsi Gabbard Uses 9/11 Anniversary to Spread Islamophobic Message of Hate. counterpunch.org Tulsi Gabbard on Saturday used the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to promote an anti-Muslim message, the latest in a series of moves by the former congresswoman aimed at courting the right-wing.
(2021-09-14). Western Media Covers Up US-backed Mob Violence in Thailand. newatlas.report September 14, 2021 (The New Atlas) — On September 12, 2021, US-backed mobs carrying out daily violence in the Din Daeng area of Bangkok, Thailand threw explosives at police, critically wounding one officer. Despite the extensive damage to the right side of this police officer's face in this extreme, inhumane act of violence, the Western …
(2021-09-14). Military Situation In Yemen On September 14, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On September 13, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 19 airstrikes on the Sarwah district | On September 13, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 3 airstrikes on the Maheliyah district | On September 13, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted an airstrike on the Khab and Shaaf district | On September 13, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 2 airstrikes near the Taiz Airport | On September 13, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 4 airstrikes on the Kitaf a…