(2021-08-15). What Starts In Afghanistan Does Not Stay In Afghanistan: China, India, And Iran Grapple With The Fallout. southfront.org 
Written by Dr. James M. Dorsey. Taliban advances in Afghanistan shift the Central Asian playing field on which China, India…
(2021-08-15). Why Is America Getting A New $100 Billion Nuclear Weapon? popularresistance.org America is building a new weapon of mass destruction, a nuclear missile the length of a bowling lane. It will be able to travel some 6,000 miles, carrying a warhead more than 20 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It will be able to kill hundreds of thousands of people in a single shot. | The US Air Force plans to order more than 600 of them. | On September 8, the Air Force gave the defense company Northrop Grumman an initial contract of $13.3 billion to begin engineering and manufacturing the missile, but that will be just a fraction of the total bill. Based on a Pentagon report cited…
(2021-08-14). Afghanistan: If Biden Won't Sign Off Air Strikes Against the Taliban, Then the Pundits Might Be Right About Kabul Falling Soon. strategic-culture.org But he might just. The US president is hesitating and he must be considering the scenario of reinstating the Taliban in Kabul with Russia and Iran helping it with its governance this time around. | Many might argue that at the heart of good journalism lies the ability to ask difficult, if not obvious questions to our leaders. Remarkably, with Joe Biden's numerous press conferences on the subject of Afghanistan and America's pullout of its troops, not one American journalist was able to ask the simplest question of Biden, which is the only real issue which matters. Will the US support the Afghan government with a…
(2021-08-14). Iran To Finally Take Full Membership Of The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. strategic-culture.org By Silk Road BRIEFING | Moves come after Tajikistan and Uzbekistan agree to drop objections following regional security concerns in Afghanistan | Iran is finally set to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) after Tajikistan and Uzbekistan agreed to drop their objections. Iran had originally applied to join in 2006 and 2015, however with the country like landlocked Tajikistan and Uzbekistan also bordering Afghanistan in addition to offering seaport access to the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean, both nations have opted to welcome Iran as an ally. | The secretary of the SCO's Supreme National Security Counc…