(2021-09-20). Somewhere Over the Afghan Horizon, U.S. Drones Still Fly. globalresearch.ca
(2021-09-20). 'Operation Enduring Slavery': Afghan Women Betrayed and Shunned by UN, ICC. libya360.wordpress.com Aninda Dey Besides USA and NATO, the United Nations and the International Criminal Court are equally responsible for leaving Afghan women in the lurch after the Taliban takeover. Fully aware of the crimes committed against them by the Taliban, these global bodies have done nothing but pass resolutions expressing concern about women and reiterating their…
(2021-09-20). Pentagon admits Kabul drone strike targeted innocent civilians. wsws.org General Frank McKenzie admitted in a US Department of Defense press conference on Friday that the deadly drone strike in Kabul on August 29 had killed "10 civilians including up to seven children."
(2021-09-19). The European Union's New Security Policy. globalresearch.ca
(2021-09-19). The U.S. Military, Post-Afghanistan. tomdispatch.com Yoda, the Jedi Master in the Star Wars films, once pointed out that the future is all too difficult to see and it's hard to deny his insight. Yet I'd argue that, when it comes to the U.S. military and its wars, Yoda was just plain wrong. That part of the future is all too easy to imagine. It involves, you won't be shocked to know, more budget-busting weaponry for the Pentagon and more military meddling across the globe, perhaps this time against "near-peer" rivals China and Russia, and a global war on terror that will never end. What's even easier to see is that peace will be given no chance at all. Why? Because…
(2021-09-19). US admits that Hellfire Strike on Kabul, killing 10, was a "Mistake" — But US often does not know Whom it is Droning. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — The Associated Press reports that the survivors of family members killed in a U.S. hellfire missile strike on a civilian vehicle after US troops and Afghan evacuees were killed at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul are not satisfied with the apology issued by the U.S. military. They want compensation. …
(2021-09-19). The Pogrom at Sabra and Shatila. juancole.com By Donald Wagner | — See Journeyman Pictures documentary — Informed Comment . ( Electronic Intifada) — The US withdrawal from Afghanistan marks the end of the latest in a long list of disastrous American military interventions. A quick review of the past 50 years reveals a dismal pattern of American betrayal and lack of …
(2021-09-19). Afghanistan: Iran Is the Only Deal in Town Worth Watching. strategic-culture.org Everything depends on which way Iran turns and whether the Taliban can control its own country and stop it short from falling into the abyss. | Much has been written about the partners which the Taliban are signing up. But its relations with Iran is the only issue which the whole world is watching with bated breath | The creation of a new government in Kabul has sent ominous signs to the weary West of how seriously it can take the Taliban. Much hope was placed on it including a few members, as ministers, of other groups from the previous government. In the event, it was made up entirely of Taliban figures and not…
(2021-09-19). Jail Killer Drone Operators Instead Of Drone Whistleblowers. popularresistance.org For decades the U.S. has been murdering innocent civilians, including U.S. citizens, in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Mali and who knows where else. Not one person in the military has been held accountable for these criminal acts. Instead, drone whistleblower Daniel Hale is sitting in prison with a 45 month sentence. | The August 29, 2021 deaths of ten innocent civilians, including seven children, in a family compound in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan by a hellfire missile fired from a U.S. military drone has brought the U.S. assassination program into massive public view. The photos of the blo…
(2021-09-19). The War on Terror, Twenty Years and Counting. counterpunch.org 
Image by With the War on Terror in its twentieth year, thrust back into the public discourse with the recent withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Linda Sarsour, prominent Palestinian American activist and thinker, one of
(2021-09-19). Afghanistan: Women's ministry secretariat converted to Moral Police headquarters. greenleft.org.au The Taliban converted the secretariat of the Ministry of Women's Affairs to the Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice on September 17, reports Yasmeen Afghan.
(2021-09-19). US Admits Strike Killing 10 in Kabul Was a 'Mistake'—But It Is Not a New Problem. commondreams.org Our fires in living landscapes and those made with fossil fuels have been reshaping the Earth. The result is too much bad fire and too little good, and way too much combustion overall.
(2021-09-18). The US Is Turning Oil-Rich Nigeria Into A Proxy For Its Africa Wars. popularresistance.org Last month, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari wrote an op-ed in the Financial Times. It might as well have been written by the Pentagon. Buhari promoted Brand Nigeria, auctioning the country's military services to Western powers, telling readers that Nigeria would lead Africa's "war on terror" in exchange for foreign infrastructure investment. "Though some believe the war on terror [WOT] winds down with the US departure from Afghanistan," he says, "the threat it was supposed to address burns fiercely on my continent."
(2021-09-18). Sorry Cover-Up for US Mass Murder. dissidentvoice.org 
AP Photo / Kirsty Wigglesworth, File So a top US commander has come clean on primetime TV about the killing of 10 civilians in Afghanistan with a drone missile. Seven of the victims were children packed into a car. CentCom General Kenneth McKenzie said the deadly strike was a "tragic mistake" and he offered his …
(2021-09-18). Pentagon needs to answer for Afghan drone misfire. asiatimes.com 
The Pentagon has caved in and taken responsibility for the drone strike that killed 10 innocent civilians, including Zemari Ahmadi who was a 14 year-long employee of the Nutrition and Education NGO. Most of his family, including children, were killed in the airstrike as they gathered around his Toyota Corolla when he returned home from work. But the Pentagon …
(2021-09-18). Inflated Housing Costs Are Shutting Afghan Refugees Out of Communities. truthout.org 
When Jill Galante heard from a local refugee caseworker that his agency expected their city would receive 800 Afghan families before December, her stomach dropped. | "I told him, 'Well, we don't have the housing for 800 families. We're just creating a homeless population,'" recalled Galante, a volunteer who since 2016 has led grassroots efforts to stock apartments for refugees resettling in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon. "And he said, 'Yeah, I told them that.'" | The U.S.'s chaotic exit from Afg…
(2021-09-18). Greece: NATO, Pentagon seek new bases. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com After Afghanistan pullout, US seeks NATO basing, intel pacts Against the backdrop of the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, the top US military officer is meeting in Greece with NATO counterparts this weekend, hoping to forge more basing, intelligence sharing and other agreements…. Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the …
(2021-09-18). Two Explosions Strike Kabul Leaving People Injured, Source Says. sputniknews.com KABUL (Sputnik) – Two explosions have struck the capital of Afghanistan, one of them left several people injured, a security forces source in Kabul told Sputnik.
(2021-09-18). Sunday 9/19: International Day of Peace: Ending the Afghan War & Beginning the Rescue. indybay.org Virtual event…
(2021-09-18). Saturday 9/25: Rise For and With the Women of Afghanistan. indybay.org San Francisco demonstration – RSVP for location details…
(2021-09-18). US apologizes for Kabul strike, views it as 'horrible mistake' — Pentagon chief. tass.com An investigation into the incident concluded that the strike "resulted in the deaths of as many as 10 people, including up to seven children," he said…