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August 2021
Tuesday, August 31:
Macron orchestrates Baghdad summit excluding Syria
US Reputation is in tatters, it's time to Bring Those Responsible for Afghanistan Disaster to account (10 comments)
So Long, Afghanistan War: Top 6 Things we Won't miss about our Longest Military Engagement (1 comments)
Afghan Crisis Must End America's Empire of War, Corruption, Poverty (2 comments)
Monday, August 30:
Bertrand Russell and Ban the Bomb (11 comments)
Afghanistan Proves Military POWER... Isn't! So what is Powerful? (1 comments)
Taliban takeover a major diplomatic setback for Indian interests in Afghanistan
Generals End-Run Around Civilian Intel Analysts (5 comments)
What the War of Terror Has Cost Us So Far (1 comments)
The US withdrawal from Afghanistan, a "screw the pooch" fiasco
Hedges: The Empire Does Not Forgive (3 comments)
The Washington Post's Case Against Democracy
This Black Life Must Matter! MLK's greater message to America (1 comments)
Sunday, August 29:
Manufacturing Reality Again (2 comments)
Is School Voucher System In Los Angeles A Done Deal?
Guerrilla warfare has key advantages over U.S. imperialism
David Donnell: Ghost Malls into Covid Speciality (1 comments)
Slow-Walking the Climate Crisis (1 comments)
They're About to Add Women to Military Draft in the Name of Feminism (1 comments)
US drone strike kills Daesh planner in Afghanistan: Pentagon
Massive PLA drill in Tibet sends strong warning to India: Chinese experts
Pathological Politics and the Mission of Public Health (2 comments)
Afghanistan: new Reflections on Another Failure (8 comments)
Who in the world is Kathy Hochul? (2 comments)
Saturday, August 28:
Only Religious War Remains (2 comments)
The Real Socialism in America Isn't What You Think (1 comments)
Generation of Vipers: The Original Sin and Continuous Crimes of America's Involvement in Afghanistan (5 comments)
The Trump American Taliban Handed Afghanistan to the Afghan Taliban (27 comments)
COVID for Dummies Before The Last Days (2 comments)
Friday, August 27:
Is School Board President Facing Problems Getting Reelected?
Mercenaries in U.S. borders: a sign of a rapidly declining empire (2 comments)
At least 100 Afghans and 13 U.S. Troops Killed in suicide attacks outside Kabul Airport
It's A Cooked Book! Timeline of Connectable Dots: Covid-19 (4 comments)
Except for Palestine - a message for so-called progressives. (3 comments)
Pepe Escobar: Afghanistan? Follow the Money
No More Attacks on Afghanistan (2 comments)
Republican and Evangelical Vaccine Resisters Believe God has a Hand in All Creations--But not Vaccines (4 comments)
No Mandates! Mandates! And the Republican Religious Right (19 comments)
Byrd v. Babbitt: Beliefs and Expectations, Reasonable and Unreasonable (1 comments)
Thursday, August 26:
Does New Age Mysticism REALLY Explain Quantum Physics? Communist Theory of Mind Says No (1 comments)
Cruel and Deadly Religious Violence Unleashed at Kabul Airport (1 comments)
Kill Switches for Military Equipment (2 comments)
Are Movies and Series Increasing Our Propensity Towards Violence and Killing (20 comments)
Who are the ISIS-K, and Why Kabul (7 comments)
Wednesday, August 25:
The Phony FDA Imprimatur (16 comments)
Plight of Afghan evacuees in Qatar
An Enlightened Internationalism (1 comments)
Wandering 40 Years in the Afghan Desert
U.S. empire reacts to its loss in Afghanistan by sowing further global chaos & brutality (2 comments)
Afghanistan: America's First Step Out of Trotsky's Long Shadow?
China says the US/NATO must be held accountable for human rights violations in Afghanistan war (3 comments)
Whose buck is it anyway? (6 comments)
The Ignominious End of Our War in Afghanistan (4 comments)
Bush Era War Criminals Are Louder Than Ever (7 comments)
The Bizarre Refusal to Apply Cost-Benefit Analysis to COVID Debates (52 comments)
Which Is Worse, the Tech Giant Censors or the Stuff You Want Censored?
Tuesday, August 24:
Pakistan successfully tests multi-launch rocket system Fatah-1
Life Of Afghan People in New Afghanistan (1 comments)
Ivermectin: The New Hydroxychloroquine? (25 comments)
David Gilbert, Ex-Weather Underground Member, Granted Clemency by Cuomo. Will Parole Board Free Him?
War Criminals Welcome at Fordham Law? - Ray McGovern (6 comments)
What Will the Taliban Do? It's Up to Us. (3 comments)
U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz blames Pakistan for Taliban's swift take over
What is Only Way to End Tajik Genocide in Afghanistan
War: Ever More Present and Absent (2 comments)
A Superheated Choice (7 comments)
Family Freedom Requires Protection (4 comments)
Pfizer Vaccine FDA Approval Open Thread (21 comments)
It's Time For Our Freedom Passports! (36 comments)
The New York Times regrets that Afghanistan may distract from the need to fight China and Russia
Cuomo Should Have Known Better
Monday, August 23:
Biden's Nightmarish Discovery of Political Controversy (5 comments)
On Developing a Model Announcement for Churches in This COVID Era
America The Great by Irene Fowler & Blair Gelbond (16 comments)
Are We Finally Ready to Tackle the Other Greenhouse Gas?
Keep the US Embassy in Kabul Open-And Don't Take Revenge on the People of Afghanistan (5 comments)
Will Senate Democrats Stoop to Confirming Rahm Emanuel as Ambassador? (3 comments)
Climate crisis, the shrinking of the land, & settler-colonialism's genocidal reaction
A School District Takes A Bold First Step
Things We Can Do To Make the World Better
Fall out of Taliban takeover of Afghanistan: Modi govt urged to restore special status of Kashmir
Sunday, August 22:
Sonnet: Afghanistan: The Taliban Advance to the Semi-Finals
Israeli Government Chief Rabbi Exposes Religious Divisiveness Extends to the Hereafter (1 comments)
America's War of Choice (1 comments)
The First Casualty in the War on Covid is the Truth (23 comments)
Saleh Turns to Rahmon to Save Tajiks in Afghanistan
Saturday, August 21:
China presses Pakistan for 'practical measures' after Gwadar attack
Feeling Good About People Dying of Covid (208 comments)
What is Right about Plurality Voting? (4 comments)
NATO is replicating the crimes of Nazi Germany in Ukraine"--"-along with the dangers of world war (5 comments)
Putin says outside forces should not impose their values on Afghanistan (1 comments)
What Now for Afghanistan? (7 comments)
Friday, August 20:
Afghan Army ,Cowards, Corrupt or just Superstitious (25 comments)
Where Did We Go So Wrong In Afghanistan? (9 comments)
America the Corrupt (1 comments)
1984 in 2021: We're Doing Big Brother's Job for Him (5 comments)
What the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan means for India
Is Shocking People Revolutionary? 100 Years of Romanticism and Capitalism is Getting Worse
Will Americans Who Were Right on Afghanistan Still Be Ignored? (1 comments)
Why Did the Afghan Army Fold So Fast? Because They had Nothing to Fight For (7 comments)
The Tragedy of Afghanistan (1 comments)
If Only Afghans Were Jews (1 comments)
Thursday, August 19:
The U.S. empire wants to make climate-induced collapse of civilization inevitable
Afghanistan: The Cause and Effect of 9/11 (5 comments)
Ukraine: delicate balance between National Socialism and European values (2 comments)
The planet is in peril. We're building Congress's strongest-ever climate bill (4 comments)
The Oligarchic Empire Is Actually Simple And Easy To Understand (5 comments)
How the Taliban Surge Exposed Pentagon's Lies (2 comments)
Medicare-For-All Will Stop Boss-Men from Playing Games with Deadly Diseases for Political Gain (5 comments)
Afghanistan, Biden, and Trump (1 comments)
Afghanistan Withdrawal Open Thread (60 comments)
Opening and Closing US Embassies - From Sierra Leone to Afghanistan (1 comments)
Taliban in talks to form future Afghan set up as US freezes Afghan assets
Why Russia Invaded Afghanistan 42 Years Ago (8 comments)
Wednesday, August 18:
What about the Afghan Women! (5 comments)
Biden Doctrine and Afghanistan: Lean Counter-Terrorism and the end of Bloated Nation-Building (2 comments)
Ray McGovern: What Have Our Generals Been Up To? (6 comments)
The Catastrophic Collapse of "JENGA-nistan"
Taliban pledge secure Afghanistan while everyone is forgiven
Afghanistan: Did the Deep State Strike Out, or is it Striking Back? (13 comments)
Afghanistan's ongoing destabilization is a horror the imperialists aim to bring to the rest of the globe (4 comments)
COVID infected Greg Abbott plays Republicans for fools as he infects them. The psychopathy is DEEP! (1 comments)
Tuesday, August 17:
"America will continue with its economic war against Iran"--Dr. Marcus Papadopoulos interviewed
The U.N. Climate Panel Tries to Cut Through the Smog Inbox+++
I feel for Afghanistan, but I wish the same concern for Afghans applied to the oppressed in America. (7 comments)
Lies, Damn Lies, and What We've Been Told About Afghanistan (1 comments)
Hurrah for Liberals: Deadly Labor Struggles (1 comments)
Why is public transport not good enough to make private vehicle ownership unnecessary? (2 comments)
Now, About That Peace Dividend ... (6 comments)
Is It Just A Matter of Student Loan Debt Forgiveness? (1 comments)
Irrational QAnon Beliefs Lead to Father Murdering His Two Children (10 comments)
Biden defends Afghanistan withdrawal after Taliban takeover of Kabul (1 comments)
Monday, August 16:
Finally, a piece from the Left that questions SOMETHING ... (1 comments)
Africa's ever-deepening imperialist hell, and the revolutionary movement that can end it
Where best to ride out the climate apocalypse? The billionaires' bunker fantasies go mainstream (9 comments)
The Taliban capture Kabul, in full control of Afghanistan (1 comments)
Never Say the Occupation of Afghanistan Was a Mistake (7 comments)
"Nobody Is Above The Law" except the "big boys" (1 comments)
Taliban says Afghanistan war is over as president flees to Tajikistan
What? A World Boycott of US Products Until US Stops Its Embargo of Cuba and Leaves Guantanamo? (2 comments)
When Will We Stop Letting Our Presidents Lie America Into Wars? (11 comments)
Sunday, August 15:
Vote "No" on the Recall and Then Vote for Newsom's Potential Replacement
Lebanon faces living without food, water, electricity, medicine and gasoline
'The Suicide of Capitalism,' Revisited (12 comments)
Afghanistan: So What Do the Filthy Commie Peaceniks Say Now? (4 comments)
Saturday, August 14:
abbas sadeghian, Ph.D.: Please Do Not Forget The Parthian Gold Coins (1 comments)
India and Pakistan -- Independence and beyond
Dear MyPillow Guy (1 comments)
Use the 1st and 13th Amendments to Reinforce Roe v. Wade (1 comments)
Trump's "Shared Psychosis" Is Destroying the Fabric of Society (1 comments)
Biden's Big Infrastructure Win
Hold the Generals Accountable This Time (15 comments)
Growing neo-colonial instability points to the looming civilizational collapse of most of the globe
Afghanistan: Taliban Victories Explain the Wisdom of US Withdrawal (8 comments)
The Biden Administration and Hypersonic Weapons
Friday, August 13:
How rare is rare? Some actual data about breakthrough Covid infections (193 comments)
Putin will arrive in Minsk as the liberator of Belarusian people from Lukashenko's regime (2 comments)
A Charter School's Attack On The First Amendment
Taliban Falsely Called an Insurgency! Taliban WAS the Government of Afghanistan When USA Invaded in 2001 (1 comments)
In Defense of Landlords (1 comments)
The Bible vs the Eagle: Why Christian Nationalism is un-American (10 comments)
Riddle Me This: 6 More Things That Bothered Me Recently (11 comments)
Pakistan says 'Indian-Afghan nexus' was behind attack on Chinese engineers
abbas sadeghian, Ph.D.: Why No One Can Hold on To Afghanistan? (1 comments)
Petulance as foreign policy: Bomber Biden Sends in B-52 Bombers in a Tantrum over Taliban Advance (7 comments)
A Viable -- and Perhaps the Only -- Path to Lasting Peace in Afghanistan E (1 comments)
Bannon continues to unite global fascists against free and fair elections (1 comments)
Thursday, August 12:
Setback for Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Craig Murray and Free Press (1 comments)
From Orwell to Chomsky to Contrapoints, "anti-Stalinists" kill class consciousness
The final defeat of U.S. imperialism was foreshadowed by last year's defeat of the Bolivia coup
Response to Thom Hartmann's August 11 Article (7 comments)
Why Corporate Liberalism Is No Match for Trumpism (2 comments)
DeSantis & Abbott : Will They Be Held Responsible for Mass Dying of Adults & Children? (7 comments)
Instead of Giveaways to the Rich, We Will Use Reconciliation to Serve Working People and Heal the Planet (1 comments)
Neoliberalism - America Has Arrived at One of History's Great Crossroads (1 comments)
Wednesday, August 11:
The Cuomos: A disappointing dynasty
The NSA's Inspector General Opens Investigation Into Allegations of Illegal Spying on Tucker Carlson
The Kennedy Assassination was a military-industrial coup d'e'tat (4 comments)
Anniversary of the Bretton Woods agreement (5 comments)
Afghan army chief sacked as Taliban offensive continues
Social Media: Ignorance is a Peace Plan, not an Excuse
The Money Monopoly Itself Is the Abuse (2 comments)
Hurrah for Liberals: Clear Differences
Might Congress Actually Do Something Right?
Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities (3 comments)
Why Conservatives Want Government To Fail Everywhere (14 comments)
Tuesday, August 10:
SHAME on DENMARK (2 comments)
Health Disparities Drive George Washington University Team's Proposed Blood Test for Breast Cancer
Cuomo Resigns Over Sexual Harassment Allegations
Answering the Armies of the Cheated (5 comments)
Insanity prevails in Oregon government
ON CONTACT: Peter B. Kaufman and Chris Hedges on the Fight to Free Knowledge
Iran embraces its Eurasian future (3 comments)
Rumsfeld Then, DeSantis Now: The Lies That Bind (3 comments)
Monday, August 9:
Playing the Field: A Critique of the DiMaggio Paradigm (1 comments)
Trump's Shadow Cabinet is Part of His Ongoing Attempted Coup (2 comments)
Texas Republican who promoted mask burning dies of COVID-19 (8 comments)
55th Anniversary of the Nuclear Power Industry of Armenia
Sixth provincial capital in Afghanistan falls into Taliban's hands
The Biden Administration Can Mandate Vaccinations for All Workers (15 comments)
Military should return Hawaii lands (2 comments)
Sunday, August 8:
Deraa suffers terrorist occupation again
Climate collapse will create the next wave of genocide against colonized peoples
Netflix and Blasphemy (9 comments)
Pandemic Shows China Bests US (1 comments)
The Delta Variant and the Trumper Blame Game (21 comments)
It's Not the Heat, It's the Damage (1 comments)
Knowing Humanity's End Is Near and Staying Sane (1 comments)
Saturday, August 7:
Moving HIV prevention and treatment tools from the lab to all those in need
Dr. Martin L. King Jr. on What W. E. B. Du Bois Taught Us (1 comments)
DeSantis School for Personal Freedom Opens its Doors
Rent Is A Scam: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix (3 comments)
Unthinkable Voter Suppression Has Begun: Now There's a Way to Defeat It (4 comments)
Friday, August 6:
Russia Invites US, China, Pakistan for crucial meet on Afghanistan; India left out (1 comments)
Notation for Voting Systems (12 comments)
Latin American terror, the Capitol Hill riot, & the looming U.S. fascist bloodshed campaign
Has the World Become Too Dangerous For Democracy? (5 comments)
Why Anti-Pandemic Control: from the Right
On Geoeconomics, International Law, and Peace
The '80s Called. They Want Their Safety Dance Back. (4 comments)
More locals are becoming militants in Indian-administered Kashmir: BBC
Russia's loud statements of its military might are nothing but fabrication (7 comments)
Who Told a US President to Nuclear Bomb Women and Children? Watch Out! They Might Do It Again! (24 comments)
India, China plan buffer zone in disputed Ladakh region
Thursday, August 5:
Capitalist Hospitals in the Empire: My Six-Day Nightmare at Kaiser Oakland
US Abroad: Color It Racist (7 comments)
Unequal Justice: Trump's Legal Woes are Multiplying (3 comments)
Selfishness over selfless citizenship will sustain the pandemic and create further mutations (56 comments)
Wednesday, August 4:
Official Motto of the United States (1 comments)
Dear White People (3 comments)
Covid, War and Anti-vaxers (2 comments)
DeSantis' Anti-Mask Order Is Replaying Reagan's Phony "Rugged Individualism" (1 comments)
COVID-19 hits Senate, potentially complicating already fraught infrastructure work
Trump's Tehran Poison Pill: US Trade Embargo provokes Iranian Attacks in Gulf, Making Return to Nuclear Deal Harder (3 comments)
Foreign Cash Bought the White House for Trump (1 comments)
How To Lift a Start-Up Post Pandemic (1 comments)
Colonialism's final form: a neo-feudal doomsday policed by mercenaries & weaponized surveillance
COVID Roulette (1 comments)
Government Vaccine Mandates: Immoral and Impractical (97 comments)
Nina Turner's Loss Is Oligarchy's Gain (1 comments)
Tuesday, August 3:
The real, untold story of Roth IRAs (3 comments)
Reseda Neighborhood Council asks City for Help
Religion is Silly Fairy Tales (4 comments)
A Trump Bombshell Quietly Dropped Last Week. And It Should Shock Us All.
Ralph Nader: Our Leaders Are Doing Nothing to Quash Corporate Crime (5 comments)
9/11 Had Nothing to Do with Afghanistan (13 comments)
How to Undermine a Diplomatic Triumph (1 comments)
A New State of Segregation: Vaccine Cards Are Just the Beginning (5 comments)
Monday, August 2:
How U.S. revolutionaries can survive & overcome the looming anti-communist extermination campaign
There's Never Been A Better Time To Crush Capitalism: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix (2 comments)
WATCH: A Fiery Defense of Assange
Trump's Shadow Cabinet is Part of his Ongoing Coup (1 comments)
ON CONTACT: Nick Bryant and Chris Hedges on the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell
Who's the GOP Kidding with Its See We're Not Racist Stunts
House in recess without considering consequences of eviction moratorium expiring (1 comments)
Sunday, August 1:
America's Billionaires: Borrowing Their Way to Ever More Fabulous Fortunes (1 comments)
Mask Policy Could Make "Pro-life" Governor a Schoolhouse Grim Reaper (25 comments)
By not charging Trump for treason, our nation forfeits self-respect (10 comments)
A failed effort to impose democracy
Trees don't rise to the sky, nor stock markets (2 comments)
Ladakh Standoff: Another round of China-India border talks fails
Did Manchin threaten Progressives w/ GOP votes if they hold up the bipartisan infrastructure bill?