Selling Albright as a ‘Feminist Icon’: Was the Price Worth It?

April 18, 2022April 18, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

BY BRYCE GREENE | FAIR | APRIL 13, 2022
When Clinton-era Secretary of State Madeleine Albright died of cancer last month, a stream of fawning obituaries hailed her as a hero of NATO, a feminist icon and a “champion of human rights and diplomacy”
Selling Albright as a ‘Feminist Icon’: Was the Price Worth It?

Sharif’s retaliation: Pakistani airstrikes kill 45 Afghan civilians, including women, children

April 17, 2022April 17, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Sharif’s retaliation: Pakistani airstrikes kill 45 Afghan civilians, including women, children

The victims are civilians from three families who immigrated from the neighboring Pakistani region of Waziristan following a military operation there several years ago, the official added. Twenty-nine were from one family, he said.

US Claims Russia to Blame for Yemen Food Shortages, Praises Saudi Role

April 16, 2022April 16, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

By Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | The Libertarian Institute | April 14, 2022
A senior US official has accused Russia of driving food shortages in Yemen and around the world, suggesting Moscow is to blame for rapidly rising prices. The Kremlin rejected the charge, instead citing American sanctions as a leading cause of starvation.
US Claims Russia to Blame for Yemen Food Shortages, Praises Saudi Role

NATO is the means of continuing colonial aggressions against African countries.

February 23, 2022February 23, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

NATO and Africa: A Relationship of Colonial Violence and Structural White Supremacy
NATO is the means of continuing colonial aggressions against African countries.
Considering the public media attention and concern about possible expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), it is worth reminding people about NATO’s bloody history in Africa. NATO was founded in 1949 after WWII at a time when African countries were still under the yoke of colonialism. In fact most of the original founders of NATO had been Africa’s principal colonizers such as UK, France, Portugal, Belgium, Italy and the USA as lead NATO organizer and dominant partner. The organization was established as a collective defense against the Soviet Union with the requirement (Article 5) that any attack on one was considered an attack on all and therefore requiring a collective response.
NATO is the means of continuing colonial aggressions against African countries.

US-trained Afghan intelligence agents, elite troops reported joining ISIS

November 6, 2021October 9, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

US-trained Afghan intelligence agents, elite troops reported joining ISIS

Given US imperialism’s record in Afghanistan and the CIA’s intimate connections to the emergence of ISIS, there is every reason to ask whether this bloody campaign is backed by Washington with the aim of destabilizing Afghanistan and preventing the emergence of any regime not under its thumb.

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A report issued in June by the United Nations cites information that the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), an Islamist separatist group dedicated to carving out a Uyghur state in Xinjiang, China had “established corridors for moving fighters between the Syrian Arab Republic, where the group exists in far larger numbers, and Afghanistan, to reinforce its combat strength” and “facilitate the movement of fighters from Afghanistan to China.” The ETIM has aligned itself with ISIS-K against the Taliban government.

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US imperialism views Afghanistan through the prism of its declared military strategy centered on “great power” confrontation with China and Russia. Just as US national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski promoted the CIA-orchestrated mujahedeen war of the 1970s and 1980s as a means of giving the Soviet Union its “own Vietnam,” today Washington sees an Afghanistan in chaos undermining Chinese and Russian interests in Central Asia and potentially provoking terrorist campaigns against both countries.

*Xinjiang*