2022-01-20: News Headlines

_____ (2022-01-20). Telling Lies On An International Scale. popularresistance.org The mainstream media have been replete with stories of a new Tory "red meat" initiative of right-wing policies. "Government sources" briefed the media that Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Home Secretary Priti Patel were in talks with their counterparts in Ghana and Rwanda about setting up internment camps to receive asylum seekers deported from the U.K. Apart from the fact it would be entirely illegal to deport Syrians or Afghans to Africa, I knew it to be simply impossible the story was true.

Rick Rozoff (2022-01-20). Ending one 40-year war, starting another? Joe Biden's Jimmy Carter moment. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com As the inflation rate in the U.S. approaches that of the Carter years, as Mark Brzezinski, son of the architect of the Mujahideen war in Afghanistan (and arguably all that followed there and around the world as a result), assumes…

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-01-19). VIDEO: Water of Kamal Khan Dam flows towards Iran. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 19 (MNA) — Official in charge of Iranian Embassy to Kabul announced the opening of Kamal Khan Dam water by Afghanistan and flow of water towards Iranian border.

_____ (2022-01-19). Biden Covertly Continues US Forever War Against The Afghan People. popularresistance.org Contrary to the narrative of U.S. politicians and journalists, the August 2021 withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan did not mark the end of the United States' so-called "forever war" but rather a shift in U.S. policy—from direct military intervention and occupation to one based on economic sanctions and indirect political subversion. Although the tactics changed, the goal is the same: the accumulation of wealth and power through class warfare against the Afghan people. | Just days after Kabul fell to the Taliban on August 15th, Washington took measures to turn off the flow of funds to the new…

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