(2021-08-20). Chicago Public Schools prepares deadly reopening of schools with sanction of Chicago Teachers Union. wsws.org The current plan for in-person classes walks back a significant number of already-insufficient restrictions put in place when schools first reopened last spring.
(2021-08-20). Afghanistan: A Dark Age Begins for Women. libya360.wordpress.com Yoselina Guevara Taliban Government and Women's Rights in Afghanistan The Afghan people, especially women, are currently experiencing a time of profound uncertainty due to the consolidation in power of a government headed by the Taliban. While it is true that progress in women's rights was minimal during the 20 years following the US invasion and…
(2021-08-20). And so it begins again: The media recycles Afghanistan war lies. wsws.org The claims that the US war was waged for democracy and women's rights and against terrorism are even more threadbare than in 2001.
(2021-08-20). German militarism and the debacle in Afghanistan. wsws.org The Afghan war was a dirty colonial war from the very start, with all that entails: massacres, torture, crime and corruption.
(2021-08-20). Roaming Charges: When the Empire of Graveyards Falls in the Graveyard of Empires. counterpunch.org The next war on Afghanistan will be a silent war, one waged behind the shadowed windows of board rooms and bank vaults, an economic war, fought with sanctions and debt, weapons indiscriminate as cluster bombs, that will almost certainly inflict much more misery and death than the hot war of the last 20 years. It's already started.
(2021-08-20). Headlines for August 20, 2021. democracynow.org Pentagon Boosts U.S. Troop Levels in Kabul as Chaotic Evacuations Follow Taliban Takeover, Taliban Says It Executed Former Islamic State Leader Abu Omar Khorasani, Afghan Youth Soccer Player Zaki Anwari Died in Fall from U.S. Plane Evacuating Kabul Airport, Afghan Immigrants in Greece Demand Sanctuary for Refugees Fleeing Afghanistan, WHO Slams Rich Nations for Offering Booster Shots While Just 2% of Africa's Population Is Vaccinated, Texas Supreme Court to Allow Schools to Defy Gov. Abbott's Ban on Mask Mandates, Major Hospital in Port-au-Prince Closes After Gangs Kidnap Doctors, Hampering Earthquake Relief, Rep…
(2021-08-20). 10 Palestinians on hunger strike against illegal administrative detention by Israel. peoplesdispatch.org Palestinian prisoners' rights group have expressed concern about the rapid decline in the detainees' health. Four of the 10 detainees have been on hunger strike for more than a month…
(2021-08-19). From Afghanistan to Syria: Women's Rights, War Propaganda and the CIA. globalresearch.ca Western heads of state, UN officials, military spokespersons will invariably praise the humanitarian dimension of the October 2001 US-NATO led invasion of Afghanistan, which allegedly was to fight religious fundamentalists, help little girls go to school, liberate women subjected to the yoke of the Taliban.
(2021-08-19). "Uncertainty, Fear": How Afghan Women & Ethnic Minorities Feel About Taliban Takeover & U.S. War. democracynow.org 
We look at how the rights of women and ethnic minorities will be impacted by the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan with two Afghan women who fled their country. Mariam Safi, who left Kabul last month and is founding director of the Organization for Policy Research and Development Studies, says the Taliban's rapid advance across the country surprised many people who had been hoping for a negotiated end to the war. "We had felt that there would be some space for a political settlement," says Safi. "What has happened has certainly caught everyone by surprise." We also speak with journalist Zahra Nader, a member of the…
(2021-08-19). Greater Idlib: Russian Airstrikes Wipe Out Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham Headquarters (Photos). southfront.org 
A Russian Su-24 strike aircraft in the sky over the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. Photo: Dmitriy Vinogradov / RIA Novosti | On August 19, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out several airstrikes on the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib, which is held by al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and other terrorist groups. | According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the Russian airstrikes targeted a headquarters of HTS located near the town of Ein Shib i…
(2021-08-19). Chileans Ask For Amnesty for Those Detained in 2019 Uprising. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, National Association of Relatives of Political Prisoners (NARPP) urged the Democracy Present party lawmakers to support the Amnesty Law bill, which seeks the release of at least 806 citizens arrested as a result of the protests of October 2019. | RELATED: | ®This bill is a gesture for peace since it recognizes the prisoners of the revolt as political subjects detained amid massive human rights v…
(2021-08-19). Philippines: Revolutionary artist Parts Bagani murdered by state agents. fightbacknews.org Last Monday, August 16, Ka Parts Bagani, renowned revolutionary painter and illustrator, was murdered in cold-blood in Barangay Cannery Polomolok, South Cotabato by military and police operatives. | Marco Valbuena, Chief Information Officer of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) countered the lies peddled by the military and police that Ka Parts was killed in a gunfight when he was supposed to be served an arrest warrant. | "Ka Parts was unarmed and was in no position to fight," Valbuena said. At that time, he was with his wife, Pamela Peñaranda who was subsequently arrested and is currently detained in…
(2021-08-19). International Experts Confirm Occurrence of Massacres in Bolivia after Coup against Evo Morales (GIEI Report). orinocotribune.com On Wednesday, August 18, the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) presented a long awaited report confirming that the Bolivian coup regime was responsible for the massacres of Bolivian people who had opposed the coup against Evo Morales in late 2019. | In this regard, Patricia Tapatá, representative of the IACHR and head of the group of experts, provided details on the "We have examin…
(2021-08-19). Venezuela's Arreaza: Almagro Should be Investigated for Bolivia's 2019 Coup & Massacres. orinocotribune.com On Wednesday, August 18, the Foreign Affairs Minister of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, spoke in favor of investigating the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, for his role in the coup against Evo Morales in November 2019, and for supporting the de facto government of Jeanine àÅñez and her human rights violations. | The statement was made by Arreaza in a tweet published this Wednesday that read: "the Interdisciplinary Group of Experts of the IACHR [Inter-American Commission on Human Rights] confirmed serious human rights violations in Bolivia during the de facto governme…
(2021-08-19). Minorities are 'key partners' in saving planet's biodiversity — UN expert. news.un.org The global initiative to save the planet's biodiversity on land and water must not be allowed to threaten the world's most vulnerable people, a top human rights expert said on Thursday.
(2021-08-19). Video: Taliban 2.0: Claims of Rights for Women, Free Media, No Terrorism. globalresearch.ca
(2021-08-19). Lifting of Sanctions Against Venezuela Is Negotiation Priority. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro affirmed that the priority in the dialogues between his government and the opposition is the lifting of the US sanctions against his country. | RELATED: | During the dialogue process, the plenipotentiary envoy of the Venezuelan government Jorge Rodriguez will permanently position that the lifting of sanctions and the recovery of the Venezuelan economy are unavoidabl…
(2021-08-19). The Hourly Minimum Wage Should Be $26. commondreams.org "We totally need the help," said one school superintendent of a Florida district that's been threatened with sanctions for defying a ban on mask mandates.
(2021-08-19). UK Navy's Public Brawl over Responsibility for Nuclear Mass Destruction. counterpunch.org In a rare, public dispute between British Naval officers over legal responsibility for attacks using nuclear weapons, two retired British submarine commanders have openly attacked each other's views in writing. The online confrontation opens a window to the tortured thinking inside the perpetual, high-level, planning and reparation for such attacks among nuclear armed states. The