Staff (2023-04-07). Headlines for April 7, 2023. democracynow.org Israel Strikes Gaza and Lebanon After Rocket Fire; 2 Israeli Settlers Shot Dead in West Bank, U.N. Aid Workers Halt Work in Afghanistan After Taliban Bans Female Members, GOP Supermajority Expels Two Black Lawmakers from Tennessee House over Gun Control Protests, ProPublica: Billionaire GOP Donor Lavished Clarence Thomas with Luxury Trips for 2 Decades, Biden Admin Proposes Rule Barring Blanket Bans on Transgender Student Athletes, Idaho Enacts "Abortion Trafficking" Law That Bans Helping Minors Get an Out-of-State Abortion, DOJ to Probe Police Killing of D.C. Teenager Dalaneo Martin, Sudan's Mi…

Staff (2023-04-07). Headlines for April 7, 2023. democracynow.org Israel Strikes Gaza and Lebanon After Rocket Fire; 2 Israeli Settlers Shot Dead in West Bank, U.N. Aid Workers Halt Work in Afghanistan After Taliban Bans Female Members, GOP Supermajority Expels Two Black Lawmakers from Tennessee House over Gun Control Protests, ProPublica: Billionaire GOP Donor Lavished Clarence Thomas with Luxury Trips for 2 Decades, Biden Admin Proposes Rule Barring Blanket Bans on Transgender Student Athletes, Idaho Enacts "Abortion Trafficking" Law That Bans Helping Minors Get an Out-of-State Abortion, DOJ to Probe Police Killing of D.C. Teenager Dalaneo Martin, Sudan's Mi…

Sean Callebs (2023-04-06). The Heat: Islamic State Khorasan. america.cgtn.com Global warnings over a new terror group. Who are they and what do they want? The emergence of a new militant organization is raising alarm throughout Afghanistan. The Islamic State Khorasan or IS-K has taken responsibility for several deadly attacks across the country since the …

Sean Callebs (2023-04-06). The Heat: Islamic State Khorasan. america.cgtn.com Global warnings over a new terror group. Who are they and what do they want? The emergence of a new militant organization is raising alarm throughout Afghanistan. The Islamic State Khorasan or IS-K has taken responsibility for several deadly attacks across the country since the …

____ (2023-04-03). Martin Luther King: Beyond Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan… transcend.org 4 Apr is the day the USA lost a great prophet, truth teller, and leader on nonviolence. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on that day in 1968; exactly one year after he delivered an extraordinary and prophetic speech titled "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence."

Staff (2023-04-03). Headlines for April 3, 2023. democracynow.org Ukraine Disputes Russian Claim It Captured Bakhmut as Russian Shelling Kills 6 in Eastern City, Russia Arrests Suspect in Pro-War Blogger Killing as It Assumes UNSC Presidency, Finnish Voters Oust PM Sanna Marin and Social Democrats, Vote in Conservative Party, Tornadoes Across Midwest and South Kill 32 People as Residents Brace for More Extreme Weather, Taliban Shuts Down Women-Run Radio Station for Playing Music During Ramadan, Israel Kills 2 Palestinians as Fundamentalist Minister Ben-Gvir Gets Wish to Form New Nat'l Guard, Iranian Police Arrest 2 Women After They Were Attacked by Man Who Poured Yogurt o…

____ (2023-04-03). Martin Luther King: Beyond Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan… transcend.org 4 Apr is the day the USA lost a great prophet, truth teller, and leader on nonviolence. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on that day in 1968; exactly one year after he delivered an extraordinary and prophetic speech titled "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence."

Staff (2023-04-03). Headlines for April 3, 2023. democracynow.org Ukraine Disputes Russian Claim It Captured Bakhmut as Russian Shelling Kills 6 in Eastern City, Russia Arrests Suspect in Pro-War Blogger Killing as It Assumes UNSC Presidency, Finnish Voters Oust PM Sanna Marin and Social Democrats, Vote in Conservative Party, Tornadoes Across Midwest and South Kill 32 People as Residents Brace for More Extreme Weather, Taliban Shuts Down Women-Run Radio Station for Playing Music During Ramadan, Israel Kills 2 Palestinians as Fundamentalist Minister Ben-Gvir Gets Wish to Form New Nat'l Guard, Iranian Police Arrest 2 Women After They Were Attacked by Man Who Poured Yogurt o…

____ (2023-04-03). Martin Luther King: Beyond Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan… transcend.org 4 Apr is the day the USA lost a great prophet, truth teller, and leader on nonviolence. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on that day in 1968; exactly one year after he delivered an extraordinary and prophetic speech titled "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence."

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2023-03-29). Calculated Exonerations: Command Responsibility and War Crimes in Afghanistan. globalresearch.ca

Kit Klarenberg, Mintpress News. (2023-03-29). Dissecting The Afghan Military's Total Collapse. popularresistance.org In February, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) published an extensive investigation into the spectacular collapse of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces' (ANDSF), which the U.S. spent two decades and $90 billion building. In common with previous SIGAR reports, it offers a remarkably uncompromising, no-punches-pulled assessment, exposing corruption, incompetence, lies, and delusion every step of the way. | At the report's core is a highly detailed timeline of the ANDSF's — and, therefore, the Afghan government's — disintegration. That SIGAR was able to con…

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty (2023-03-29). Art As Therapy: Afghan Women Paint Their Experiences Under Taliban Rule. juancole.com By | An untitled painting by Mursal Ahmadzai | ( "Unfortunately, like other Afghan girls, I now stay at home," she says. "I portray the…

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2023-03-29). Calculated Exonerations: Command Responsibility and War Crimes in Afghanistan. globalresearch.ca

Kit Klarenberg, Mintpress News. (2023-03-29). Dissecting The Afghan Military's Total Collapse. popularresistance.org In February, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) published an extensive investigation into the spectacular collapse of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces' (ANDSF), which the U.S. spent two decades and $90 billion building. In common with previous SIGAR reports, it offers a remarkably uncompromising, no-punches-pulled assessment, exposing corruption, incompetence, lies, and delusion every step of the way. | At the report's core is a highly detailed timeline of the ANDSF's — and, therefore, the Afghan government's — disintegration. That SIGAR was able to con…

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty (2023-03-29). Art As Therapy: Afghan Women Paint Their Experiences Under Taliban Rule. juancole.com By | An untitled painting by Mursal Ahmadzai | ( "Unfortunately, like other Afghan girls, I now stay at home," she says. "I portray the…

Benoit Breville, Serge Halimi (2023-03-28). War poker and Imperial moralism. indybay.org After the fall of the Soviet Union, the "war on terrorism" began, which, according to George W. Bush, would end "tyranny in the world." Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq – the U.S. democratic crusades not only cost several million lives, they also brought the restriction of freedoms, McCarthyism, the hunt for whistleblowers. And a series of alliances with dictators…

Pip Hinman (2023-03-28). First SAS soldier charged for war crimes in Afghanistan. greenleft.org.au In a significant development in justice and accountability, the first soldier to face war crimes charges for their alleged actions in Afghanistan is set to face court. Pip Hinman reports.

Benoit Breville, Serge Halimi (2023-03-28). War poker and Imperial moralism. indybay.org After the fall of the Soviet Union, the "war on terrorism" began, which, according to George W. Bush, would end "tyranny in the world." Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq – the U.S. democratic crusades not only cost several million lives, they also brought the restriction of freedoms, McCarthyism, the hunt for whistleblowers. And a series of alliances with dictators…

Pip Hinman (2023-03-28). First SAS soldier charged for war crimes in Afghanistan. greenleft.org.au In a significant development in justice and accountability, the first soldier to face war crimes charges for their alleged actions in Afghanistan is set to face court. Pip Hinman reports.

Kit Klarenberg (2023-03-27). Two Decades and $90 Billion US Dollars Later: Dissecting The Afghan Military's Total Collapse. mintpressnews.com Kit Klarnberg reveals the industrial-scale corruption which allowed billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to flow into Afghanistan without supervision and for weaponry and aid to be misused, stolen or illegally sold off by Afghans, U.S. personnel and Pentagon contractors alike.

Benoit Breville, Serge Halimi (2023-03-27). War poker and Imperial moralism. indybay.org After the fall of the Soviet Union, the "war on terrorism" began, which, according to George W. Bush, would end "tyranny in the world." Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq – the U.S. democratic crusades not only cost several million lives, they also brought the restriction of freedoms, McCarthyism, the hunt for whistleblowers. And a series of alliances with dictators…

Kit Klarenberg (2023-03-27). Two Decades and $90 Billion US Dollars Later: Dissecting The Afghan Military's Total Collapse. mintpressnews.com Kit Klarnberg reveals the industrial-scale corruption which allowed billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to flow into Afghanistan without supervision and for weaponry and aid to be misused, stolen or illegally sold off by Afghans, U.S. personnel and Pentagon contractors alike.

Benoit Breville, Serge Halimi (2023-03-27). War poker and Imperial moralism. indybay.org After the fall of the Soviet Union, the "war on terrorism" began, which, according to George W. Bush, would end "tyranny in the world." Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq – the U.S. democratic crusades not only cost several million lives, they also brought the restriction of freedoms, McCarthyism, the hunt for whistleblowers. And a series of alliances with dictators…

Benoit Breville, Serge Halimi (2023-03-26). War poker and Imperial moralism. indybay.org After the fall of the Soviet Union, the "war on terrorism" began, which, according to George W. Bush, would end "tyranny in the world." Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq – the U.S. democratic crusades not only cost several million lives, they also brought the restriction of freedoms, McCarthyism, the hunt for whistleblowers. And a series of alliances with dictators…

teleSUR, YSM (2023-03-26). Registran tres muertos por inundaciones en Afganistán. telesurtv.net Las inundaciones han destruido 756 casas en nueve provincias afganas, siendo Balkh la más afectada.

Benoit Breville, Serge Halimi (2023-03-26). War poker and Imperial moralism. indybay.org After the fall of the Soviet Union, the "war on terrorism" began, which, according to George W. Bush, would end "tyranny in the world." Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq – the U.S. democratic crusades not only cost several million lives, they also brought the restriction of freedoms, McCarthyism, the hunt for whistleblowers. And a series of alliances with dictators…

teleSUR, YSM (2023-03-26). Registran tres muertos por inundaciones en Afganistán. telesurtv.net Las inundaciones han destruido 756 casas en nueve provincias afganas, siendo Balkh la más afectada.

Benoit Breville, Serge Halimi (2023-03-25). War poker and Imperial moralism. indybay.org After the fall of the Soviet Union, the "war on terrorism" began, which, according to George W. Bush, would end "tyranny in the world." Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq – the U.S. democratic crusades not only cost several million lives, they also brought the restriction of freedoms, McCarthyism, the hunt for whistleblowers. And a series of alliances with dictators…

Nayvin Gordon, M.D. (2023-03-25). General Strike Can Root Out "Taliban" Embedded in U.S. Government and Supreme Court. indybay.org Religious fanatics are taking away our rights and replacing them with god-given rights—this must be stopped…

Benoit Breville, Serge Halimi (2023-03-25). War poker and Imperial moralism. indybay.org After the fall of the Soviet Union, the "war on terrorism" began, which, according to George W. Bush, would end "tyranny in the world." Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq – the U.S. democratic crusades not only cost several million lives, they also brought the restriction of freedoms, McCarthyism, the hunt for whistleblowers. And a series of alliances with dictators…

Nayvin Gordon, M.D. (2023-03-25). General Strike Can Root Out "Taliban" Embedded in U.S. Government and Supreme Court. indybay.org Religious fanatics are taking away our rights and replacing them with god-given rights—this must be stopped…

Paul Gregoire (2023-03-24). Christian thugs attack trans rights protesters at One Nation rally. greenleft.org.au "We don't surrender," One Nation's Mark Latham said recently. He is using a legal loophole to try and get two representatives in the NSW Legislative Council to push his bigoted agenda. Paul Gregoire reports.

Paul Gregoire (2023-03-24). Christian thugs attack trans rights protesters at One Nation rally. greenleft.org.au "We don't surrender," One Nation's Mark Latham said recently. He is using a legal loophole to try and get two representatives in the NSW Legislative Council to push his bigoted agenda. Paul Gregoire reports.