Even though the war planes destroy everything
Even though the children are dying for want of blockaded food
Yet will we take refuge in a kite 🪁
and let this be a tale
a world tale told under the moon
and under the sun
and under the last sky
It's just a decade or two after this information could possibly have been useful. But don't worry, all CURRENT imperial efforts by the USA are on the up-and-up! USA isn't supporting any monsters today, no sir!
Today in Labor History May 19, 1950: 31 dockworkers died and 350 were injured when four barges carrying 420 tons of ammunition blew up at South Amboy, New Jersey. The blast destroyed nearby businesses and homes and caused $10 million in property damage. The men were loading anti-tank and anti-personnel mines destined for Pakistan and Afghanistan. Three years later, they unearthed sixty-two live mines scattered throughout the waterfront area. Kilgore Manufacturing Company was later charged with 9,000 counts of munitions violations. The indictment documents weighed thirty pounds. The Coast Guard was also cited with negligence in supervising the loading.
Neue Überschwemmungen in Afghanistan - inzwischen mehr als 420 Tote
Das Frühjahr in Afghanistan war extrem regenreich und auch im Frühsommer gibt es immer wieder Unwetter in Teilen des Landes. Die aktuelle Zahl der Opfer ist erschreckend: Die Behörden geben sie inzwischen mit mehr als 420 an.
Dit is Nadia Nadim. Ze is geboren in #Afghanistan. Haar vader werd gedood door de Taliban toen ze 11 was en met haar familie vluchtte ze naar Denemarken in een vrachtwagen.
Nadia heeft bijna 200 doelpunten gescoord in het profvoetbal en heeft 98 keer het Deense elftal vertegenwoordigd. Ze heeft nu haar medische opleiding afgerond en studeert om reconstructief chirurg te worden. Ze spreekt vloeiend 11 talen.
Als je je dochter een #rolmodel wilt laten zien, laat Nadia Nadim zien.
The Etilaat Roz was once the most widely circulated newspaper in Kabul, but everything changed in August 2021 when the Taliban seized power in #Afghanistan.
Moving and important documentary about #journalism and brutal authoritarian oppression. Very reminiscent of “While we watched”, with Ravish Kumar in India. These are real heroes and I feel we have much to learn here.
It is established fact that Australian soldiers in Afghanistan committed war crimes. Today, the man whose courageous act of whistleblowing brought these crimes to light has been sentenced to almost 6 years in gaol.
This is a dark day in Australian history. Democracy needs people to stand up when they see wrongdoing being committed by powerful people. We should be thanking and celebrating David McBride, not imprisoning him.
The Taliban affirms that stoning will be punishment for adulterers — especially women.
NPR reports on a new message from Haibatullah Akhundzada, the group's supreme leader. "You may call it a violation of women's rights when we publicly stone or flog them for committing adultery because they conflict with your democratic principles... [But] I represent Allah, and you represent Satan," Akhundzada said.
"After four decades of war, #Afghanistan ranks as one of the countries least prepared to face the effects of #ClimateChange, which is spurring extreme weather and warping natural environments.
Foreign aid to Afghanistan has dwindled since the Taliban takeover in 2021, with donors wary of backing a government considered a pariah, leaving poor and climate-vulnerable communities further exposed."
"More than 300 people were killed in #FlashFloods that ripped through multiple Afghan provinces, the UN's World Food Programme said Saturday, as authorities declared a state of emergency and rushed to rescue the injured.
Many people remain missing after heavy rains Friday sent roaring rivers of water and mud crashing through villages and across agricultural land in several provinces, causing what one aid group described as a "major humanitarian emergency"."
"More than 300 people died last week, according to UN and Taliban officials, after unusually heavy rains devastated scores of villages in the north of [#Afghanistan].
This has left much of the farmland covered in thick mud in a country where 80% of the more than 40 million people depend on agriculture."
"We are witnessing a historic process -- Russians are leaving for the first time in two centuries," independent Azerbaijani analyst Elhan Shahinoglu told AFP.
Voldoymyr #Zelenskiy said in an interview with US television that the vote showed #Ukraine would not be “a second #Afghanistan”, whose pro-western government collapsed during an American-led pullout in the summer of 2021. #Russia
A street vendor carries #balloons for sale during celebrations for #Nowruz the Persian new year, in Kabul. Nowruz has been celebrated for at least three thousand years
An #explosion rocked a concert hall in the Moscow region & several #gunmen opened fire on theatergoers Fri evening, acc/to Russian authorities & videos from the scene, a deadly attack >1 week after #Putin was re-elected.
The #US collected #intelligence in March that Islamic State-#Khorasan, known as #ISISK, the branch of the group based in #Afghanistan, had been planning an attack on #Moscow, acc/to ofcls. ISIS members have been active in #Russia, one US ofcl said.
The attack on Fri in #Moscow, like a Jan assault in #Iran claimed by the grp, could prompt a reassessment of its ability to strike outside its home territory.
In addition to a public warning on Mar 7 about a possible attack, #US ofcls had privately told Russian ofcls about #intelligence pointing to an impending #attack.
But #Trump keeps saying that Biden abandoned $81 Billion in equipment in #Afghanistan?
Milley: I think it’s about 7.2 billion of military equipment, with the Afghan security forces. That is Afghan owned equipment, not American equipment. Every piece of American equipment that the American military owned came out with us or was destroyed on-site.
what the fuck do we do. theyve destroyed communication in gaza. they keep bombing. we don't even know how bad it is. if it was that bad when the world was watching. Jesus.
"“It was already pretty grim. And now it’s catastrophic,”
"While decades of war means that Afghanistan faces unique challenges, it’s not the only country that has been inundated with severe rain since the start of 2024. Extreme flooding this spring has displaced nearly a quarter million people in East Africa and half a million in southern Brazil."
“With the latest incident, Afghanistan joins a long list of Global South countries grappling with floods this year. And this is as the world continues funding the climate crisis by expanding fossil fuels and industrial agriculture.” (Teresa Anderson)