AFGHANISTAN: Trump Surges Into the Graveyard of Empires
By ramping up US troop levels in Afghanistan, Trump is alienating many supporters. (Photo: DoD/USAF Tech Sgt Brigitte N Brantley. Source: Wikicommons)
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Trump Flops Badly On Afghanistan
There is only one elected official who was ever right about Afghanistan-- just one: Barbara Lee, who stood alone among the entire Congress and voted against Bush's decision to attack and occupy Afghanistan 17 years ago. After Trumpanzee read the speech someone had written for him from a teleprompter Monday night, Congresswoman Lee released a statement criticizing Trump for his "failure to outline a comprehensive strategy to bring an end to our nation’s longest war. After sixteen years at war, one thing is clear: there is no military solution in Afghanistan.
As The Flood Waters Increase In Trump’s Swamp… Soros Eyes Asia Through ISIS
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YEMEN: US Military Industrial Complex Benefits from Suffering of a Brave Nation
Starvation and Cholera threaten the children of Yemen, even without the Saudi coalition daily bombing raids. (Photo: Twitter)
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AFGHANISTAN: Forgotten, But Not Gone
US Army paratrooper in Afghanistan’s Konar province (Photo: Spc. Lorenzo Ware/US Army. Source: Wikicommons)
Miles Elliott
21st Century Wire
Trump’s Speech in Riyadh Signals US Alignment with Global Terrorism and Extremism
Bill Van Auken
Riddled with hypocrisy, clichés and absurdities, President Donald Trump’s speech Sunday before an assembly of monarchs and despots in Saudi Arabia spelled out an agenda of escalating US militarism throughout the Middle East and a buildup in particular toward war with Iran.
Military Establishment Sees Budgets Blossom Despite Failure To Quash Terrorism
(MPN) While the U.S. has long justified its presence in Syria with the need to fight off Daesh (ISIS) and other militant extremist groups, some neo-conservatives – notably Tom Friedman of the New York Times – have called on Trump to “back off fighting” Daesh in Syria in order to ramp up “pressure on Assad, Iran, Russia and Hezbollah.”
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Waiting for Godot: Any God-forsaken Sane Sign!
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased.
— Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot