(2021-09-23). Afghanistan: Ex-Bagram Inmates Recount Stories of Abuse, Torture. globalresearch.ca
(2021-09-23). Victoria Nuland commends Azerbaijan. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com US Under Secretary of State thanks Azerbaijan for helping to evacuate people from Afghanistan The US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland thanked Azerbaijan for its support to the US in evacuating its citizens from Afghanistan… Nuland also noted that she was glad to meet with the Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov. …
(2021-09-23). Who Represents Afghanistan: Genuine Activists vs "Native Informants" dissidentvoice.org 
Scenes of thousands of Afghans flooding the Kabul International Airport to flee the country as Taliban fighters were quickly consolidating their control over the capital, raised many questions, leading amongst them: who are these people and why are they running away? In the US and other Western media, answers were readily available: they were mostly …
(2021-09-23). Eurasia Takes Shape: How the SCO Just Flipped the World Order. orinocotribune.com By Pepe Escobar — Sep 22, 2021 | As a rudderless West watched on, the 20th anniversary meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was laser-focused on two key deliverables: shaping up Afghanistan and kicking off a full-spectrum Eurasian integration. | The two defining moments of the historic 20th anniversary Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan had to come from the keynote speeches of — who else — the leaders of the Russia-China strategic partnership. | Xi Jinping: "Today we will launch procedures to admit Iran as a full member of the SCO." | Vladimir Putin…
(2021-09-23). Military Situation In Afghanistan On September 23, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On September 22, two Taliban and a civilian were killed in a shooting carried out by ISIS in the center of Jalalabad city | On September 22, ISIS attacked a Taliban vehicle in district 5 of Jalalabad city with an IED. Two Taliban members allegedly were killed and 4 others were wounded | On September 22, ISIS attacked a Taliban vehicle in district 17 of Kabul city with an IED. Six Taliban members allegedly were killed and wounded | On September 22, a Pakistani…
(2021-09-23). Taliban Says Three ISIS-K Terrorists Were Killed In Jalalabad Operation, Photos Show Signs Of Execution (18+). southfront.org 
File image. | On September 23, officials of Taliban security forces announced that three members of ISIS-Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) were eliminated in an operation near the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad where the terrorist group has been active. | The operation took place near Jalalabad's administrative border with the district of Bihsud. The dead bodies of the three supposed ISIS-K members were found in the area. | Photos of the dead bodies cast doubt on the Taliban's claims. The three men were tied up and bli…
(2021-09-23). GOP House Members File Impeachment Articles Against Biden Over 'Clear Violations of His Duties'. sputniknews.com The GOP congressmen's efforts came as recent polls showed that Biden's popularity had begun to slide following a turbulent summer in the US. The events included a new spike in COVID-19 infections, the chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan, as well as a rough hurricane season and wildfires.
(2021-09-23). Taliban Cops vs American Cops, Who's Worse? counterpunch.org Journalism needs a new rule. Are you reporting about a human rights violation in another country? If the United States commits the same offense, you should be required to refer to that fact in your article or broadcast. Criticizing how a nation treats its prisoners or responds to internal dissent implies that the behavior being
(2021-09-22). Taliban asks to speak at General Assembly. tass.com The representatives of the Taliban also offered Muhammad Sohail Shahin's candidacy for approval as Afghanistan's permanent representative to the organization…
(2021-09-22). The Disastrous Final Drone Strike Says It All. strategic-culture.org 
As the US was making its exit from Afghanistan, on August 26th, thirteen US servicemen and -women were killed in a terrorist bomb at the Kabul airport; 20 more were wounded. The President saluted the coffins at Dover Air Force Base. Given the nature of a war like Afghanistan, this bombing put pressure on US forces to respond in kind with some kind of tit-for-tat violent attack.
(2021-09-22). Rapid Shift to Electric Vehicles Could Create Over 150,000 Jobs in US by 2030. commondreams.org "It is psychologically hard for me to recall all that was happening," said one former Bagram Air Base inmate. "The torture was mostly done by Afghans, sometimes the Americans. But the orders came from the U.S."
(2021-09-22). ISIS Claimed Responsibility For Series Of Attacks Against Taliban In Afghanistan (Video). southfront.org
(2021-09-22). A New Model of Refugee Housing is Needed for Better Integration. counterpunch.org As York, England prepares to welcome Afghan refugees, housing becomes an increasingly critical issue. It is not that York lacks rental housing, but rather that it lacks affordable housing, a particular problem for people who in many cases left their country with nothing. The aim of the article is to offer an alternative solution and
(2021-09-22). Health Experts 'Speechless' as DeSantis Taps Anti-Mask Vaccine Skeptic for Florida Surgeon General. commondreams.org Twenty years after the United States invasion of Afghanistan, the peace activists and feminists who opposed the war from the beginning were proven right. Now, let's listen to them and slash the Pentagon budget to reinvest in our communities.
(2021-09-22). Ex-Prisoners Recall US Torture at 'Afghanistan's Abu Ghraib'. commondreams.org Premature endorsement of incomplete and inadequate targets is the wrong approach.
(2021-09-22). Grateful: Blinken says NATO allies U.S., Turkey work together on Afghanistan, Caucasus, Syria. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Turkey, US to work on Afghanistan, Caucasus Foreign Minister Mevlàºt àáavu≈üoƒülu and Secretary of State Antony Blinken met for a one-hour meeting in New York on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting late Sept. 21. "We're so grateful to Turkey for its very strong partnership in Afghanistan and the work that we continue …
(2021-09-22). IRGC Chief: Iran No Longer Sees US as Threat – Report. sputniknews.com Iran has "built power" to confront the United States, Iranian Military Officer Hossein Salami said on Tuesday, in reference to the recent chaotic withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan, Iranian media reported.
(2021-09-22). Ex-Prisoners Recall U.S. Torture at 'Afghanistan's Abu Ghraib'. scheerpost.com 
Activists protest U.S. torture at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and at Guantánamo Bay in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. on February 27, 2009. ( By Brett Wilkins / In a chilling reminder of the war crimes committed during the 20-year…
(2021-09-22). After 20 Years of Failed War, Corporate Media Still Give Wars of Empire a Pass. counterpunch.org When Taliban fighters swept across Afghanistan in a little over a week and entered the capital city of Kabul on August 15, 2021, they surprised the US media, the Biden White House, and the military. Desperate to get out of the country, those who had worked with the US-backed Afghan government fled to the airport in Kabul, running across the tarmac and swamping the runways. US corporate media covered the chaos with images of hundreds of people jamming the runways and clinging onto aircraft or forcing their way into military transport planes. Focusing on the spectacle of the war's end, in three days Afghanistan rec…
(2021-09-22). How Corporations Won the War on Terror. counterpunch.org The political climate created by the Global War on Terror, or GWOT, as Bush administration officials quickly dubbed it, set the stage for humongous increases in the Pentagon budget. In the first year after the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Afghanistan, defense spending rose by more than 10% and that was just the beginning. It would, in fact, increase annually for the next decade, which was unprecedented in American history. The Pentagon budget peaked in 2010 at the highest level since World War II — over $800 billion, substantially more than the country spent on its forces at the height of the Korean or…
(2021-09-22). Will a Renewed 'Operation Cyclone' Threaten Afghanistan's New Silk Road Future? strategic-culture.org The Chinese and their growing array of partners have come to the fundamental insight that the only way to destroy terrorism is not by bombing nations to smithereens, but rather by providing the means of improving the lives of people. | With While watching a hegemonic wanna-be…
(2021-09-22). Taliban Asks To Speak At UN General Assembly Instead Of Former Government's Ambassador. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The Taliban is challenging the credentials of their country's former U.N. ambassador and want to speak at the General Assembly's high-level meeting of world leaders. | The question now facing U.N. officials comes just over a month after the Taliban, ejected from Afghanistan by the United States and its allies after 9/11 came back into power as U.S. forces prepared to withdraw from the country at the end of August. | U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Secretary General Antonio Guterr…