Ali Abunimah (2022-03-02). How to stop World War III. electronicintifada.net Why is Hillary Clinton pushing for a repeat of the Afghanistan calamity in Ukraine?

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-03-02). Iran, Russia discuss bilateral ties, regional developments. en.mehrnews.com Iranian Ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali met and held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin's Special Envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov in Moscow on Wednesday to discuss bilateral ties and latest regional developments.

Staff (2022-03-02). Ashraf Ghani says trust in US led to Afghanistan's fall. en.mehrnews.com Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said in an interview Wed. that the main reason for Afghanistan's collapse was his trust in international partners, including the United States.

_____ (2022-03-02). The Biden Administration Steals Afghanistan's Money. journal-neo.org After keeping it under direct occupation, destroying the country for 20 years — and failing to militarily defeat the Taliban (banned in Russia) — Joe Biden's executive order to simply seize half of Afghanistan's little over US$7 billion to use it to pay to the victims of 9/11 is just a mockery of the "values" …

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Ann Brown (2022-02-28). White CBS Reporter On Ukraine: This Is Not Iraq Or Syria, This Is A Civilized European Country. moguldom.com CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D'Agata has apologized after he said on air during a Feb. 25 broadcast that the war in Ukraine can't be compared to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan because the Eastern European nation is more "civilized." Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine, D'Agata, who is white, said that Ukraine "isn't a place, with all …

Staff (2022-02-27). Trump says NATO & US acted 'dumb'. rt.com The former president suggested the US' chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan prompted the Russian offensive in Ukraine | Former US President Donald Trump has argued that President Joe Biden and NATO had acted "dumb" compared to his "smart" one time Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and claimed Moscow's attack on Ukraine would not have happened under his presidency. | Trump made the comments during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday. Addressing his supporters, Trump noted that he was the only US president of the 21st century to not oversee Russia's military action abroad.

_____ (2022-02-27). On Contact: Race And America's Long War. popularresistance.org The internal violence in the United States, militarized police, and the largest prison system in the world, along with America's endemic racism, are mirrored in the foreign wars that have been fought almost continuously by the United States since the end of the 19th century. These inner and outer wars, argues historian Nikhil Pal Singh, are intimately connected. The gunning down of unarmed black people in American cities is expressed outside our borders in the gunning down of unarmed Muslims in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia, often by militarized drones. The prison-industrial-complex at home…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-26). Vijay Prashad: "War itself is a crime" peoplesdispatch.org A day after the escalation of violence in Ukraine, Vijay Prashad addressed the Belmarsh Tribunal in New York City to shine light on the crimes of war globally from the imperialist led wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Syria, to the ongoing scourge of hunger affecting millions across the world. | Vijay emphasized that peace is an urgent necessity and highlighted "War is never good for the poor. War is never good for workers. War itself is a crime, war produces crimes."

WSWS (2022-02-25). Hundreds reported dead in first day of Russia-Ukraine war. wsws.org Ukraine is in the grips of a full-scale war after Russia launched large-scale bombing raids early Thursday morning local time, in the biggest military operation by Russia since the Afghanistan war.

_____ (2022-02-25). The American Political Process Is Disconnected From Economic Reality. popularresistance.org The growing disconnect between the capitalist system and the economic realities plaguing the United States is now nearing completion. On the ground, the accumulated problems of U.S. capitalism undermine its empire and challenge its very future. Meanwhile, the ever-deepening inequalities of wealth and income conjure up images of ancient Egypt's pharaohs. Three economic crashes opening the new century (2000, 2008, and 2020) have shaken the system; so have the two wars America lost against very poor countries in the Middle East: Afghanistan and Iraq. The worst public health crisis in a century during the COVID-19 pa…

Anonymous669 (2022-02-25). US Drone Strike Targeted Al-Shabab Terrorists In Somalia. southfront.org A fully armed MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle taxis down the runway at an air base in Afghanistan on its way to another wartime mission. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson). | On February 22, the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) conducted an airstrike on terrorists of al-Qaeda-affiliated Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen in Somalia. | The airstrike, which was carried by General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper combat drone, followed an attack by al-Shabab terrorists on allied Somali forces in Duduble, about 40 miles…

_____ (2022-02-25). IAEA to Check the Release of Fukushima Water into Ocean. journal-neo.org The run-up to the discharging of chemically treated, but still radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is once again taking center stage in the eyes of many of Japan's neighbors. The Japanese authorities opted to release Fukushima water last April to advance the decommissioning process that has lasted for more than …

WSWS (2022-02-25). Hundreds reported dead in first day of Russia-Ukraine war. wsws.org Ukraine is in the grips of a full-scale war after Russia launched large-scale bombing raids early Thursday morning local time, in the biggest military operation by Russia since the Afghanistan war.

_____ (2022-02-25). IAEA to Check the Release of Fukushima Water into Ocean. journal-neo.org The run-up to the discharging of chemically treated, but still radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is once again taking center stage in the eyes of many of Japan's neighbors. The Japanese authorities opted to release Fukushima water last April to advance the decommissioning process that has lasted for more than …

Dr Rahul Kumar (2022-02-23). Afghan Sikhs and Hindus in India. countercurrents.org On January 10, 2022, the Indian Government implemented the Citizen Amendment Act(CAA) . According to this law, Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians are welcome from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Taking cue from it, many persecuted Afghan Sikhs and Hindus are migrating to India from Afghanistan. "A friend in need is a friend indeed" seems to be the policy of India

_____ (2022-02-22). Has Elizabeth Truss Decided to Help Washington Enrich itself at the Expense of Afghanistan? journal-neo.org At the end of December 2021, the Biden administration, in another of its now blatantly false propaganda campaigns, tried to convince the world of the supposedly "humane treatment of the people of Afghanistan." It should be recalled that at the time the matter concerned the delivery of one million doses of coronavirus vaccine produced by …

_____ (2022-02-22). Has Elizabeth Truss Decided to Help Washington Enrich itself at the Expense of Afghanistan? journal-neo.org At the end of December 2021, the Biden administration, in another of its now blatantly false propaganda campaigns, tried to convince the world of the supposedly "humane treatment of the people of Afghanistan." It should be recalled that at the time the matter concerned the delivery of one million doses of coronavirus vaccine produced by …

Binoy Kampmark (2022-02-21). Paralysing Afghanistan: Washington's Regime Change Agenda. dissidentvoice.org Nation states are habitually doomed to defeat their best interests. Conditions of mad instability are fostered. Arms sales take place, regimes get propped up or abandoned, and the people under them endure and suffer, awaiting the next criminal regime change. Nothing is more counter-intuitive than the effort to isolate, cripple and strangulate the Taliban regime …

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-02-21). Afghanistan on the Brink of Disaster. transcend.org 16 Feb 2022 – Gay rights, women's rights — in reality, these are a nuisance to many U.S. conservatives, but purporting to protect these rights on the other side of the world is a great excuse to play war.