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Top Headlines:

• 🏖️  U.S. Military Left behind Biometric Tracking Technology. The Taliban Is Already Using It to Track Afghans: Rose Lemlich, Left Voice

  Left Voice @left_voice

  The U.S. military helped design and build technology to identify Afghan civilians and collaborators who worked with the fallen government, U.S. forces, or NGOs. Now, the Taliban has these data.

  

  leftvoice.orgU.S. Military Left behind Biometric Tracking Technology. The Taliban Is Already Using It to Track Afghans - Left VoiceThe U.S. military helped design and build technology to identify Afghan civilians and collaborators who worked with the fallen government, U.S. forces, or NGOs. With the U.S. withdrawal and fall of the government, the Taliban has these data now.

• 🏖️  'Hard to Imagine Worse Idea': Biden to Resume Fossil Fuel Leases on Public Lands and Waters: Jon Queally, CommonDreams

  Common Dreams @commondreams

  "The climate emergency reality we are facing demands immediate action, not acquiescence." @foe_us

  

  cdreams.news‘Hard to Imagine Worse Idea’: Biden to Resume Fossil Fuel Leases on Public Lands and Waters“The president made a promise to ban all new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters,” said Greenpeace, “and the American people expect him to keep it.”

• 🏖️  The U.S. Government Lied For Two Decades About Afghanistan: Glenn Greenwald via ScheerPost

  Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

  It is vital not just to take note of how easily and frequently U.S. leaders lie only once they are revealed at the end of those wars, but also to remember this vital lesson the next time U.S. leaders propose a new war using these same tactics of deceit.

  

  greenwald.substack.comThe U.S. Government Lied For Two Decades About AfghanistanUsing the same deceitful tactics they pioneered in Vietnam, U.S. political and military officials repeatedly misled the country about the prospects for success in Afghanistan.

• 🏖️  Charlie Wilson: The Architect of Afghanistan's Suffering: The Mountain News

  The Mountain @__TheMountain__

  Who's to blame for Afghanistan's suffering? Joe Biden? Donald Trump? What about the congressman and CIA agents who sent billions of dollars in weapons to the mujahideen? Blame Charlie Wilson, the architect of America's involvement in Afghanistan.

  

  themountain.newsCharlie Wilson: The Architect of Afghanistan’s Suffering — The MountainWho’s the architect of Afghanistan’s suffering? Joe Biden? Donald Trump? Blame Charlie Wilson, the architect of America’s involvement in Afghanistan.

• 🏖️  Corporate Property-Buying Spree May Make Housing Even Less Affordable Amid COVID: Laura Jadeed, Truthout

  Truthout @truthout

  “Mom-and-pop landlords” will lose their rental properties in the worst case scenario, while those they evict stand to become homeless, lose a financially stable future and even their lives as the Delta variant surges.

  

  truthout.orgCorporate Property-Buying Spree May Make Housing Even Less Affordable Amid COVIDCorporate investors have been buying up homes from landlords unable to maintain their properties without rental income.

Top Videos:

• 🏖️  Afghanistan Fallout | Democrats Running on Pro Police State Platform | Afeni and Nick LIVE: Fred Hampton Leftists (1:00:06)

• 🏖️  LIVE BROADCAST: Unauthorized Disclosure - August 17 at 12pm ET w/ Kevin Gosztola & Rania Khalek (1:02:45)

• 🏖️  Sabrina Salvati on Eviction Crisis In Massachusetts: Hard Lens Media (23:50)

• 🏖️  Saigon II: US Flees Afghanistan: Richard Medhurst (2:40:11)

• 🏖️  Secret Government Documents Predicted Afghan Disaster w/ Ron Placone: The Jimmy Dore Show (24:46)

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