The CIA Director William Burns had to travel to Kabul to seek a concession from the Taliban leadership to extend the August 31 deadline for the evacuations at Kabul Airport, which the Taliban political chief Mullah Ghani Baradar plainly refused. Beijing is almost certain to provide a firewall for the Taliban government against Western pressures. Put differently, the US influence[Read More...]
“Holy cow, I was living like Scarface...I was paying out anywhere between $300-400,000 per week to $5 million per week at times. All in cash.” Matthew Hoh, U.S. Marine Corps Captain and former State Department official
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Henrik cover some the latest news and recent events in episode 68 of No-Go Zone.
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The distressing images coming from Afghanistan following the call of withdrawal of US forces is yet another poignant reminder of the humanitarian crisis facing millions of people around the world. According to the United Nations refugee agency more than 70 million people worldwide were displaced in 2018. In the past three years more numbers have been added to this tally.[Read More...]
The Taliban have taken military control, but Afghanistan’s future is cloudy. Assumption that the Taliban can, by itself, effectively govern a nation divided by conflicting tribal loyalties and a partially reconstituted population, with a sharply contrary mindset, needs more validation. Rather than facts, agendas have delegated responsibility for the debacle in Afghanistan. Analysis demonstrates that United States President Joe Biden is[Read More...]
A panoramic view of Mes Ayna on the gentle hills and craggy mountains in Logar province 40 kilometres south-east of Kabul, Afghanistan, where Chinese firms signed contracts to mine one of the world’s largest untouched copper deposits estimated to contain 450 million metric tonnes of ore worth at least US$50 billion. China disclosed that unnamed US mining companies have[Read More...]
In the face of yet another blatant collapse of US foreign policy (this time following the comfortable entry into Kabul of the Taliban (banned in the Russian Federation)), not only around the world, but in the US itself, there was an active search for someone to blame. As Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said […]
Dr. Steve Turley reports on how Biden the Imposter just helped Vladimir Putin become the guardian of the planet. It was pretty simple, actually. First, Biden’s controllers installed this hapless old man and created a real live puppet in the White House. Second, Biden the Imposter came up with how to remove US forces from […]
SouthFront | “I could see the American flag on his uniform. He said he would aim at my forehead if I didn’t leave.”
WikiLeaks is drawing attention to its past revelations about ‘America’s longest war’ as US chaotically withdraws from Afghanistan.
The post “US goal is an endless war, not a successful war” – WikiLeaks Co-founder Julian Assange first appeared on Dissident Voice.
