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The Pashtun Will Outlast All Empires, But Can They Hold Afghanistan’s Center? Pepe Escobar

It was bound to happen: the remixed Saigon moment at Kabul airport and the stunning comeback of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, led by Pashtuns, has unleashed across the West a cheap Orientalization avalanche. The whole of Afghanistan is now “threatened” by the return of the “barbarians.” Once again, Afghan women need to be protected, […]

PolitiFact deletes fact check on Wuhan lab-leak theory as more info points toward leak Elizabeth Stauffer, The Western Journal WND

The thing about “experts” in any field, and the fact-checkers who validate (or invalidate) their conclusions, is that being human, they each have their own (sometimes hidden) opinions. biases and sets of unique life circumstances which combine to shape their personal agendas. Before we can consider and ultimately accept their “facts,” we need to remember […]

Turkey’s State Banks Urging Depositors To Convert Foreign Currency To Lira: Report

As the Turkish currency continues to remain stable at around 13 lira per one US dollar after shedding nearly half of its value last year, an exclusive report by Reuters claims that Turkey’s largest state-owned banks have started implementing a program to urge depositors to “convert foreign currencies into lira under a deposit-protection plan.” The […]