(2021-11-12). Headlines for November 12, 2021. democracynow.org New Draft Agreement Weakens Earlier Calls to Phase Out Coal, Fossil Fuel Funding as COP26 Nears End, Beyond Oil and Gas: Denmark and Costa Rica Lead New Push to Phase Out Fossil Fuels, Biden and Xi Jinping to Hold Virtual Summit Amid Ongoing Tensions, NIH and Moderna in Legal Battle over COVID Vaccine Patent Rights, Another Explosion Targets Mosque in Afghanistan, 5,000 Afghan Refugees Fleeing to Iran Every Day as Humanitarian Crisis Worsens, U.N.: 84 Million People Worldwide Displaced by War, Insecurity and the Climate Crisis, Eastern Europe Refugee Crisis Intensifies as Poland Blocks Border, Belarus Issues Thre…
(2021-11-12). Explosion Reportedly Hits Mosque in Nangarhar, Afghanistan, Injuring at Least 12. sputniknews.com
(2021-11-12). Casualties Reported Following Blast At Mosque In Afghanistan's Nangarhar (Video, Photos). southfront.org 
File image. | On November 12, a blast hit a mosque in the Spin Ghar district of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar during Friday prayers. | A local source told the Reuters news agency that the blast was caused by explosives which were apparently planted inside the mosque, which was attended by Sunni Muslims. | Reuters reported that 12 people, including the imam of the mosque, were wounded as a result of the blast. However, other news sources, including the France-Press Agency (AFP), said that three peopl…
(2021-11-12). The Forty Years War: Tariq Ali and Afghanistan. zcomm.org Tariq Ali's book, The Forty Years War, is an event, within the larger event of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan…
(2021-11-12). Bomb Attack On a Mosque Leaves 15 Injured In Afghanistan. telesurenglish.net At least 15 Afghans were injured in a bomb attack on a mosque in Nangarhar province that occurred on Friday, a holy day for Muslims. | RELATED: | "Enemies of Islam and the Afghans planted explosives inside the mosque… fortunately, there are no deaths," said Hanif Nangerhary, the provincial spokesman for the Taliban. | Although no organization has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, the jihadist group Islamic state (IS) could be resp…
(2021-11-11). AI menace: Rittenhouse judge bans video playback on iPads. rt.com 
Judge Bruce Schroeder barred the use of iPads to view zoomed-in footage in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, accepting the defense's claim that Apple's AI could manipulate the video to "create" something that is "not necessarily there." | As accused murderer Rittenhouse took the stand on Wednesday, his lawyers objected to an Apple iPad's pinch-to-zoom feature, arguing that the tech giant's artificial intelligence and algorithms would distort the image while displaying an enhanced view of surveillance footage. | "[iPads] use artificial intelligence, or their logarithms [sic], to create what they believe is happening.
(2021-11-11). US anti-terrorism agency sees threat in new Covid lockdowns and reopenings. rt.com 
The Biden administration is again warning of potential threats from terrorists foreign and domestic, saying they could be fueled by anything from the arrival of refugees from Afghanistan to possible new Covid-19 restrictions. | For the remainder of 2021 and into 2022, "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists and anti-government/anti-authority violent extremists will continue to pose a threat" to the US,
(2021-11-11). Let's Turn Rising Generations Into War Resisters Rather Than Veterans. truthout.org 
As a veteran who turned into an antiwar activist after deploying twice to Afghanistan, I've been railing against the This year, following the official end to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August, there is a new kind of pressure because I fear most people in the U.S. will soon stop talking about Afghani…
(2021-11-11). Historic step: NATO to use Turkish aircraft, drones to follow. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO to use Turkish military aircraft Turkey's Transport and Infrastructure Minister Adil Karaismailoglu has said that NATO will use the Turkish Hurkush aircraft for military purposes…. Karaismailoglu stressed that this decision was taken as NATO recognizes Turkey's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) as the civil aviation authority. Describing the recognition as a historic step, …