Notations On Our World (Weekly Edition): An #OutsiderWall On the Week That Was

 It was one of the more challenging weeks in our World as Afghanistan's Government collapsed and its' President fled the Country, The US flag was brought down and taken to Kabul Airport, fires continued to rage on around the World, Canada faced an election, our Home State of California is facing an election with the possible recall of Governor Newsom, China continued its' inroads around the World, the COVID delta variant continued to wreak havoc in Iran, the Southern part of the United States and the Lambda Variant reared its' ugly head in the United States & as the second-largest country in Africa, Ethiopia was faced with civil war. 

We present a snapshot of the week that was in our World with thoughts from the Guardian of London, the New York Times, the Financial Times, The Washington Times, The Bulwark & the Economist of London: 

As US pulls out of Afghanistan, journalists fear for their lives Taliban fighters are seen in Kunduz city, northern Afghanistan, on August 9, 2021. Suspected Taliban militants recently killed journalist Toofan Omar and kidnapped Nematullah Hemat. (AP/Abdullah Sahil) In Afghanistan, as violence escalates against the backdrop of the ongoing U.S. military withdrawal, suspected Taliban militants killed an Afghan journalist and kidnapped another, and Taliban fighters shot at a car carrying two Afghan journalists. CPJ continues to call on the U.S. to act to save Afghan journalists’ lives. “Over the past 20 years, independent media has proliferated in Afghanistan,” CPJ’s executive director, Joel Simon, wrote in an op-ed in The Washington Post. “But unless the U.S. government intervenes to bring them to safety, an entire generation of reporters will be lost.”

China likely to recognize Taliban as Afghan rulers with fall of Kabul China has been laying the groundwork to recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan, flying in the face of the U.S. warning the group about isolation from the international community. Read the full story here.

Cold comfort, of a sort The IPCC delivers its starkest warning about the world’s climate Observations of changes now taking place make the science more accurate, but not more reassuring

Related → Where is climate change being felt most acutely? → A 3°C world has no safe place World Greece’s fires: a warning beacon for our planet The devastating blazes across the world this summer mark the moment where the medium has become the message AUGUST 11, 2021 by Fani Papageorgiou World Iran president picks hardline diplomat as next foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has close ties to Revolutionary Guards and is expected to lead nuclear talks AUGUST 11, 2021 by Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran World California struggles to control fire devastation wrought by global warming Dixie wildfire has already scorched 2,065 sq km of land and is only 30% contained AUGUST 13, 2021 by Steven Bernard

The war in Afghanistan The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan is gathering pace Six of the country’s provincial capitals have fallen in quick succession. More will follow Blame Biden for Afghanistan’s Return to the Dark Agesa SHAY KHATIRI: Executions, sex slavery, ethnic cleansing—and yet the president says “I do not regret my decision.”

A curse on both your houses Will the rich world’s worker deficit last? It will depend on whether the people who have left the workforce can be lured back

A mixed-up slowdown The prospects for developing countries are not what they once were Twenty years on, growth in the BRICs has slowed

Related   → Read more: Unrest and economic underperformance haunt the emerging world

A gallop into the unknown Peru’s left-wing new president pushes for a new constitution But it remains unclear how radical Pedro Castillo can be The disaster scenario What if bitcoin went to zero? A thought experiment helps uncover the links between crypto and mainstream finance Death from above The shadow war between Iran and Israel What an attack on an oil tanker says about Iran Imperfect harmony Racial prejudice rears its head in Singapore The city state is less racially harmonious than its government likes to thin World Abiy calls on ‘all capable Ethiopians’ to fight Tigrayan forces War has spread from the northern region into neighbouring Amhara and Afar since July AUGUST 10, 2021 by Andres Schipani in Nairobi World Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: the Belarus dictatorship is destined to collapse The world’s democracies can help put our suffering country on the path to freedom. We will be ready when they do AUGUST 13, 2021 by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya House GOP eyes removing Democratic media stars if in the majority Reps. Ilhan Omar and Eric Swalwell top the list of Democratic members Republicans want to see removed from their committees if the GOP takes back the House in November 2022. Read the full story here.