Syrie : SitRep 109 avec Ayssar Midani (17 août 2021). Au programme : – Les Talibans prennent le pouvoir en Afghanistan – Passe d’arme entre le Hezbollah et Israël ; point sur la situation au Liban – Incendies en Syrie, au Liban, en Turquie, en Grèce, en Algérie… – Discours de Bachar Al-Assad lors du 1er conseil des ministres du […]
Mises Institute, August 18, 2021 Kabul’s Collapse and DC’s Incurable Arrogance by James Bovard After the Taliban captured Kabul far faster than anyone in Washington forecast, secretary of state Tony Blinken went on Sunday morning talk shows and announced that the US mission in Afghanistan had been “successful.” Unfortunately, there will be plenty of robotic civil […]
In recent days, America has been overwhelmed by a shaft of unfortunate events from Afghanistan. The American media, TV, experts, and advisers of all kinds are asking very uncomfortable questions of officials from the Joe Biden administration and trying to understand what happened in this Asian country. Why did the Taliban (banned in the Russian […]
Civilisation has tended to be seen like a gift by those claiming to grant it. It is done, in the sense Rudyard Kipling intended it, with solemn duty. It is a task discharged as a burden borne heavily. In its modern form, notably in the hands of the US, it comes with fast food, roads, schools and blue chip stocks. [Read More...]
The longest of the United States’ “forever wars” in Afghanistan was supposed to end August 31 after President Biden extended his predecessor’s withdrawal date from May of this year. But what will be ending is not clear; certainly not the imperial mission of the world’s superpower. If the US determines that it cannot impose its […]
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Civilisation has tended to be seen like a gift by those claiming to grant it. It is done, in the sense Rudyard Kipling intended it, with solemn duty. It is a task discharged as a burden borne heavily. In its modern form, notably in the hands of the US, it comes with fast food, roads, […]
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From the Archives: A newly discovered document undercuts a key storyline of the anti-Soviet Afghan war of the 1980s that it was Charlie Wilson’s War, wrote Robert Parry on April 7, 2013. Official Washington’s conventional wisdom about Afghanistan derives to a dangerous degree from a Hollywood movie, Charlie Wilson’s War, which depicted the anti-Soviet war of the 1980s as a fight pitting […]
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This is an edited extract from Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam Mark Curtis The war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s was to mark the next phase in the development of global Islamic radicalism, building on the Islamic resurgence during the previous decade. Following the Soviet invasion of December 1979, tens of thousands of volunteers from […]
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The seizure of power in Afghanistan by the Taliban (a movement banned in the Russian Federation) threatens severe retribution in the form of a huge wave of refugees due to the armed aggression that was launched against the country in 2001. Not only for the Western countries but also for the bordering countries, which are […]
True to Form, Last Sunday the U.S. Puppet President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, Fled Kabul with Four Luxury Vehicles and […]
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