(2021-09-01). Biden's "defiant" speech covered up Imperialist lies & shows the Empire's Cluelessness. indybay.org In his latest speech to the nation, White House Occupier Joe Biden defiantly defended the $6+ Trillion US Imperial mission in Afghanistan as "accomplished"! Without a single mention of the hundreds of Billions of bloodied war profits made by US arms peddlers like Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin et al, Joe Biden also lied about defeating al Qaeda. His convenient memory loss evidently couldn't recall that it was billions of US aid to Usama binLaden in the 1980s that spawned the al Qaeda network, and US Special Forces assassins didn't apprehend UBL for a trial back in 2010, but instead shot dead an invalid ex-CIA…
(2021-09-01). Afghan crisis must end the US' empire of war, corruption, and poverty. peoplesdispatch.org The United States spent $2.26 trillion on its war in Afghanistan and about $1.5 trillion, went to military spending to maintain the US military occupation…
(2021-09-01). Afghan Crisis Must End US's Empire Of War, Corruption And Poverty. popularresistance.org Americans have been shocked by videos of thousands of Afghans risking their lives to flee the Taliban's return to power in their country – and then by an Islamic State suicide bombing and ensuing massacre by U.S. forces that together killed at least 170 people, including 13 U.S. troops. | Even as UN agencies warn of an impending humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the U.S. Treasury has frozen nearly all of the Afghan Central Bank's $9.4 billion in foreign currency reserves, depriving the new government of funds that it will desperately need in the coming months to feed its people and provide basic services. | Und…
(2021-09-01). August 15th Fall Of Kabul Is US Empires' Final Moment As Suez Canal Crisis Was UK's. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Simon Ndiritu | Introduction: | If August 2021 will be remembered for anything in history, it will be the US defeat in Afghanistan, as signified by the fall of Kabul or 15th or the departure of the last troops on 31st. The US humiliation and withdrawal is in line with a series of events that have taken place indicating social economic decay in the country. However mainstream geopolitical observers have conveniently ignored or are induced to look the other way. The international media is…
(2021-09-01). Peru solidarity: Activists show support for Castillo at OAS headquarters in D.C. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Activists and organizers—including members of the Claudia Jones School for Political Education, D.C. Young Communist League, and CODEPINK—met in front of the Organization of American States (OAS) building here last week to rally in support of the Peruvian people and their president, Pedro Castillo, who was elected on June 16th but faces massive right-wing opposition. …
(2021-09-01). Activists raise funds for Venezuelan child care centre. greenleft.org.au Given the long-running US blockade on Venezuela, activists are raising money for a childcare centre there. Chris Slee reports.
(2021-09-01). Surfers highlight fossil fuel outrage. greenleft.org.au Climate activists disrupted, locked on and boarded a seismic testing ship in the port of Geelong on its way to search for new oil and gas deposits off the coast of King Island. Sue Bull reports.
(2021-08-31). Failed State Tactical Analysis. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Steve Brown. | Empire has historically failed to appreciate the resolve of indigenous people who fight to enforce their right to self-determination. Now, empire has devised a subversive means to suppress that right, by the west's established policy of creating failed states to divide and exploit. The prototype US failed state plan began with the destruction of Nahr al Bared camp, Lebanon, in 2007. The policy was developed by Elliott Abrams and the Office of Special Plans after the US's 2…
(2021-08-31). Milwaukee activists, artists campaign to increase Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions awareness. liberationnews.org BDS activists have launched a Milwaukee-wide Palestine solidarity letter encouraging artists and creatives of all kinds to endorse the cultural boycott of Israel.
(2021-08-31). Afghanistan may forever be the graveyard of empires. canadiandimension.com Major General Chris Donahue, commander of the US Army 82nd Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, boards a C-17 cargo plane at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan to become the final US soldier to depart Afghanistan. Photo courtesy CENTCOM/US Department of Defense. | Less than a month after 9/11, President George W. Bush
(2021-08-31). "Stop This Madness": Rev. Lennox Yearwood Calls to Divest from Fossil Fuels Amid Climate Disasters. democracynow.org Hurricane Ida and the increasing threats from extreme weather are a wake-up call to divest from fossil fuels that make climate disasters worse and more frequent, says Reverend Lennox Yearwood Jr., the president and CEO of the Hip Hop Caucus, who is originally from Shreveport, Louisiana, and established the Gulf Coast Renewal Campaign after Hurricane Katrina. "We know who is causing these storms. We know who is causing the climate crisis. They're right there in Louisiana with us: It's the fossil fuel industry. So we've got to stop it," Yearwood says.
(2021-08-31). Romania Stops Vaccine Imports, Shutters Vaccination Centers, Transfers Vaccine Stocks to Denmark, Vietnam, Ireland, S. Korea, Etc. globalresearch.ca