Afghanistan

The Grayzone’s Ben Norton launches his show Propaganda Today discussing US war profiteering in Afghanistan and how the CIA gave birth to the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Propaganda Today is a weekly show that Ben hosts at the independent video platform Rokfin. In his first stream, he talks about corporate war profiteering in Afghanistan, and debunks media myths claiming Washington supposedly “spent $2 trillion and got nothing for it.” In reality, 80 to 90% of US war spending in Afghanistan returned […]

After Taliban (the movement banned in the Russian Federation) militants entered the Afghan capital, Kabul, on 15 August and declared the “end of the war” in Afghanistan, the anti-Taliban resistance in the country has intensified. This is a clear indication that, unlike the former Afghanistan President, Washington-backed Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country and took […]

By Paul Robinson | IRRUSIANALITY | August 22, 2021 There’s no war so badly lost, it seems, that someone can’t be found to say that it was all a good idea and the problem was not that the war was fought but that it wasn’t fought hard enough. This was once perhaps the purview of […]

When we watch the current scenes of panic at Kabul airport, and listen to journalists and generals in distant TV studios bewailing the withdrawal of “our protection”, isn’t it time to heed the truth of the past so that all this suffering never happens again?
The post John Pilger: Afghanistan, The Great Game of Smashing Countries appeared first on MintPress News.

How about some accountability for Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen? BY PHILIP GIRALDI • UNZ REVIEW • AUGUST 24, 2021 If you want to know how the United States wound up with “government by stupid” one need only look no farther than some of the recent propaganda put out by members of Congress, senior […]

From Ochelli.com Two old friends and one news story make two hours go by fairly quickly. Regular Guy News returns to the Ochelli Effect along with Regular Joe. Joe also discussed the dirty business of retail customers. Porkins arrived in the second hour to flip through his War On Terror card collection and help Chuck […]

The collapse of Kabul was certainly inevitable but not because U.S.-trained Afghan forces woke up on the morning of August 15 and were suddenly struck with an overwhelming desire to surrender. In fact, a direct line can be drawn from the present moment back to the United States’ decision two decades ago to prevent the […]
The post America’s Original Sin in Post-9/11 Afghanistan first appeared on Dissident Voice.

I interview Dr Lucy Morgan Edwards about the recent events in Afghanistan, the reality of life under the Taliban and why the NATO aggression post 9/11 should never have happened but US, UK intelligence agencies ensured it stayed on track despite political resolution being an option.

Jean-Charles Jauffret, diplômé de l'Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, agrégé d'histoire, Docteur de 3e cycle, Docteur ès lettres et spécialiste de l'histoire militaire contemporaine, il enseigne à titre de professeur des universités à l'Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence...

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Jean-Charles Jauffret, diplômé de l'Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, agrégé d'histoire, Docteur de 3e cycle, Docteur ès lettres et spécialiste de l'histoire militaire contemporaine, il enseigne à titre de professeur des universités à l'Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence...

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Tribune Libre

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Afghanistan