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[Link] Trump attacks media and Mark Milley in foul-mouthed Mar-a-Lago speech

Read: 6/12/2021 www.theguardian.com

In remarks to diners at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Saturday night, Donald Trump called the American media “crooked bastards” and Gen Mark Milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, a “fucking idiot”.

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[Link] National Geographic green-eyed ‘Afghan Girl’ evacuated to Italy

Read: 27/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

National Geographic magazine’s famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” has arrived in Italy as part of the west’s evacuation of Afghans after the Taliban takeover of the country, the Italian government said on Thursday.

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[Link] We Spoke to the Unlucky Company With the Same Name as the Investor of Taliban’s Marijuana Center

Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com

On Wednesday night, the Twitter account for Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior Affairs (MOI) announced that a foreign company was investing $450 million into setting up a hashish processing factory within the country.

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[Link] The CIA’s Afghan Proxies, Accused of War Crimes, Will Get a Fresh Start in the U.S.

Read: 7/11/2021 theintercept.com

Before the Taliban took control of Kabul in August, the U.S.-backed Afghan commandos known as Zero units were the ghosts of the Afghan battlefield. Along with their CIA advisers, they were feared and, in recent years, virtually invisible.

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