{"id":79424,"date":"2021-09-09T09:25:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=79424"},"modified":"2021-09-09T09:25:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:25:53","slug":"update-on-afghanistan-from-outside-the-western-media-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/blog\/2021\/09\/09\/update-on-afghanistan-from-outside-the-western-media-bubble\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Afghanistan, From Outside the Western Media Bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While some irresponsible idiots, such as Sen. Lindsey Graham, are calling for the U.S. to send troops back to Afghanistan, there are developments underway that are kept out of the western media.\u00a0 What, for example, are the Chinese and Afghanistan&#8217;s neighbors saying and doing?\u00a0 China has a vested interest in seeing that Afghanistan does not become a safe haven for terrorists, nor drug traffickers.\u00a0 China&#8217;s Foreign Minister reiterated that, while China welcomes the pledges coming from the Taliban interim government, recognition depends on following through with a commitment to tolerance, and combating terrorism and drug trafficking.\u00a0 Did you know that the Taliban had nearly shut down opium production by 2000?\u00a0 Only after the 2001 U.S.-NATO overthrow of the Taliban government did drug production take off again &#8212; not surprisingly, especially in the province of the country under British control!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Update on Afghanistan, From Outside the Western Media Bubble\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WMOLF07k35I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join us for this weekend&#8217;s 9\/11 events: <br>Friday September 10, 7pm &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musae.me\/sinycchorus\/experiences\/1140\/911-memorial\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.musae.me\/sinycchorus\/experiences\/1140\/911-memorial\">9\/11 Memorial Concert, Beethoven&#8217;s Agnus Dei: Peace for ourselves, and the world<\/a><br>Saturday September 11, 2pm &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com\/20210911_where_do_we_go_from_here\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com\/20210911_where_do_we_go_from_here\">Manhattan Project Meeting, Afghanistan and the Surveillance State. Where Do We Go From Here? <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some irresponsible idiots, such as Sen. Lindsey Graham, are calling for the U.S. to send troops back to Afghanistan, there are developments underway that are kept out of the western media.\u00a0 What, for example, are the Chinese and Afghanistan&#8217;s neighbors saying and doing?\u00a0 China has a vested interest in seeing that Afghanistan does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":72826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,505,629],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-79424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein-it","category-updates","category-harley_schlanger_daily_update","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79427,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79424\/revisions\/79427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}