_____ (2022-09-18). They Will Beat Their Swords Into Plowshares. popularresistance.org What's wrong, so profoundly wrong with war that compelled Isaiah to implore for peace (without debate over just and unjust war) almost 3,000 years ago? | War breeds a plague of ills and evils. Most immediate is the acute tragedy for those directly killed, soldiers and civilians alike, with civilian deaths often being in excess of soldiers' deaths in recent wars due to urban, aerial and guerrilla warfare. | For US veterans who have returned from war with "soldier's heart" (Civil War), "shell shock" (1st World War), "PTSD" and "moral injury" (Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan), Veterans for Peace captures poignantly th…

Staff (2022-09-18). Iran, Afghanistan to build new transit route. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) — Local sources on Saturday reported that a new transit route will be built between Afghanistan and Iran in Nimruz province.

____ (2022-09-18). US must return the assets of the Afghan central bank at once. ecns.cn

____ (2022-09-18). US must return the assets of the Afghan central bank at once. ecns.cn

Staff (2022-09-18). Iran, Afghanistan to build new transit route. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) — Local sources on Saturday reported that a new transit route will be built between Afghanistan and Iran in Nimruz province.

____ (2022-09-17). US must return the assets of the Afghan central bank at once. ecns.cn

_____ (2022-09-16). US To Release Stolen Afghan Reserves, With A Catch. popularresistance.org The US government announced on 13 September that it would release a significant portion of the $7 billion stolen Afghan central bank funds to a bank of international settlements in Basel, Switzerland. | The trusteeship will help the US to oversee the disbursements of the funds in order to bypass the Taliban government in Kabul. | Washington withdrew its financial support for Afghanistan, following the Taliban victory against the US-trained army in 2021. Besides harsh economic sanctions, the US government also froze the funds of Afghanistan's Central Bank, causing a widespread humanitarian crisis in the country.

Editor (2022-09-16). Boyah J. Farah: A Somali Boy's Escape From Somalia's Harrowing Genocide Leads Him To His Dream Paradise—and the Brutality of American Racism. scheerpost.com : Boyah J. Farah seemed most struck by the beautiful green lawns…

The Socialist Program (2022-09-15). Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky on Afghanistan War & the Fragility of US Empire. liberationnews.org The U.S. government has destroyed cities, countries, and towns around the world, through bombs and air raids, military ground invasions, naval attacks, economic sanctions and strangulation, coups, and more. Some say U.S. force is never ending, others say it's on a fast decline, almost gone forever. Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky argue in their new book, "The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power," that U.S. military might is somewhere in the middle: it's fragile.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-15). Afghan People Face a Deadly Humanitarian Crisis. libya360.wordpress.com Amitabha Roychowdhury As winter approaches, the UN Security Council should set aside differences and urgently focus on how to send assistance to Afghanistan's impoverished people The massive humanitarian crisis and the perilous condition of the economy in Afghanistan are likely to worsen with the impending onset of the harsh winter season for the second time…

Shereena Qazi (2022-09-15). Taliban Rejects US Plan to Transfer Afghan Assets to Swiss Bank. globalresearch.ca

Julia Conley (2022-09-15). US Announces Fund to Benefit Afghan Economy—Using Stolen Afghan Bank Reserves. commondreams.org "The Afghan Fund is funded by Afghanistan, and the U.S. is only delivering unprecedented suffering," said one economic policy group.

Staff (2022-09-14). Taliban engage in armed clashes with Pakistani forces. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) — The Taliban spokesman said that a clash between the Taliban forces and the Pakistani border guards took place on the Durand Line on Wednesday.

Karin Brothers (2022-09-13). 9/11 and the Trans Afghan Pipeline Project (TAPI): The Invasion of Afghanistan Had Been Planned Prior to 9/11. The Missing Enron Link. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2022-09-13). Taliban official says Iran supports Afghanistan health sector. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 13 (MNA) — A Taliban official says the Islamic Republic supports Afghannisyan health sector in different fields.

TeleSUR, ysm, JCM (2022-09-12). Rusia y Francia dialogan sobre planta nuclear de Zaporiyia. telesurtv.net Los mandatarios dialogaron vía telefónica sobre la situación en Ucrania, la seguridad de la central nuclear de Zaporiyia y la exportación de granos.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-09-12). 9/11, Osamagate and The "Blowback". America's "Just War" against Afghanistan. globalresearch.ca Author's Note | The article below entitled "Osamagate" was first published on October 9, 2001, two days after the onslaught of the bombing campaign directed against Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. | Within hours of the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden was …

Farshad Daryosh (2022-09-12). Kabul Confronts Washington: Presence of US Drones in Afghan Airspace. globalresearch.ca

____ (2022-09-12). Afghanistan: A Hidden Trophy Worth more than a Trillion Dollars. transcend.org 6 Sep 2022 – How the Taliban's regime has in just a few months erased with a stroke of a pen all the "great achievements" made over 20 years of US and allies' massive military attacks on Afghanistan's unarmed population. Has all this happened in just 12 months?>

TeleSUR, ysm, JCM (2022-09-12). Rusia y Francia dialogan sobre planta nuclear de Zaporiyia. telesurtv.net Los mandatarios dialogaron vía telefónica sobre la situación en Ucrania, la seguridad de la central nuclear de Zaporiyia y la exportación de granos.

____ (2022-09-12). Afghanistan: A Hidden Trophy Worth more than a Trillion Dollars. transcend.org 6 Sep 2022 – How the Taliban's regime has in just a few months erased with a stroke of a pen all the "great achievements" made over 20 years of US and allies' massive military attacks on Afghanistan's unarmed population. Has all this happened in just 12 months?>

Michael Steven Smith (2022-09-11). Senator Bob Graham Helped Expose Saudi Arabia's Ties to 9/11. covertactionmagazine.com September 11 will mark the 21st anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by 19 hijackers. They provided a pretext for the U.S.'s 20-year war in Afghanistan and its subsequent invasion of Iraq, an illegal U.S. war of aggression which was based on a lie that Iraq had weapons …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-09-11). Saudi Arabia's Alleged Involvement in the 9/11 Attacks and the 28 Pages: "Red-Herring", Propaganda Ploy. globalresearch.ca if the Saudis were indeed the State sponsors of 9/11, why on earth did the US and the Atlantic Alliance (under the doctrine of collective security) choose to wage a "Just War" of retribution against Afghanistan. Did they get their countries mixed up?

TeleSUR, JCM (2022-09-11). Niñas afganas demandan a los talibanes apertura de escuelas. telesurtv.net La decisión de los talibanes de prohibir que las alumnas mayores de sexto grado asistan a la escuela ha suscitado críticas generalizadas a nivel nacional e internacional.

TeleSUR, JCM (2022-09-11). Niñas afganas demandan a los talibanes apertura de escuelas. telesurtv.net La decisión de los talibanes de prohibir que las alumnas mayores de sexto grado asistan a la escuela ha suscitado críticas generalizadas a nivel nacional e internacional.

Shane Quinn (2022-09-10). Hiroshima 1945, Chile's 1973 Coup d'état, Afghanistan 2001, Iraq 2003: Four Key Anniversaries Glossed over by Western Media. globalresearch.ca

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-09-10). 3 people killed, 5 injured in helicopter crash in Kabul. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 10 (MNA) — A statement by the Interim Taliban Defense Ministry on Saturday said that in a helicopter crash in Security District 5 of Kabul, three people were killed while five more were injured.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-09-10). Three explosions reported in Kabul. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 10 (MNA) — Local Afghan media have reported as many as three explosions in Kabul on Saturday.

Oneworld.press (2022-09-08). Reading Between The Lines Of SVR's Official Response To ISIS-K's Kabul Embassy Attack. oneworld.press In quick succession, a spree of three events occurred in the past six weeks that very likely contributed to Russia re-evaluating its prior assessment of Pakistan's geostrategic role in the region.