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Afghan Resistance Leaders, Long Backed by CIA, Have Fled Following Taliban Takeover
Afghan Resistance Leaders, Long Backed by CIA, Have Fled Following Taliban Takeover
The retreat of Ahmad Massoud and Amrullah Saleh belies public claims that they are still in Afghanistan. ...[Read more]
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Noam Chomsky: The US-Led War on Terror Has Devastated Much of the World
Noam Chomsky: The US-Led War on Terror Has Devastated Much of the World
The outcome of the 20-year war on terror, which ended with the Taliban’s return to power, has been disastrous on multiple fronts, as Noam Chomsky pointedly elaborates in a breathtaking interview, which also reveals the massive level of hypocrisy that be ...[Read more]
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Afghanistan and the Purdue Pharma Case are Reminders That the U.S. is a Failed Narco-State, Too
Afghanistan and the Purdue Pharma Case are Reminders That the U.S. is a Failed Narco-State, Too
Official figures state that 841,000 Americans died from drug overdoses between 1999 and 2019, and that opioids caused 70.6 percent of drug overdose deaths in 2019. The CDC also reports that in 2020, overdoses spiked by about 30 percent for all drugs and n ...[Read more]
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The Dasht-e-Leili Massacre of Taliban prisoners of war, US FOIA
The Dasht-e-Leili Massacre of Taliban prisoners of war, US FOIA
November 2001, ~ 2,000 Taliban prisoners are believed to have been killed in container trucks by US-allied Afghan troops, operating with US forces, and buried in a mass grave in Dasht-e-Leili, #Afghanistan. Investigators discovered the mass grave in 2002 ...[Read more]
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Sweden Wanted to Bomb Afghanistan to Advertise its Fighter Jets
Sweden Wanted to Bomb Afghanistan to Advertise its Fighter Jets
Wikileaks cables revealed that Sweden wanted to bomb Afghanistan to increase the 'marketability' of its fighter jets. ...[Read more]
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Afghanistan occupation is over
Afghanistan occupation is over
Kudos to Biden for actually ending the occupation, which the military-industry complex and right wing did want to continue in one way or the other. Even as of now, these segments are propagating a narrative in which not occupying Afghanistan being bad fo ...[Read more]
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Shoeless, shivering, passing out: Afghan refugees arrive in the UK
Shoeless, shivering, passing out: Afghan refugees arrive in the UK
They arrived shoeless and shivering, with some toddlers wearing the same nappies they wore when fleeing their homes days earlier. Volunteers have described the extraordinary dignity and stoicism of the Afghan refugees, including about 2,200 children, who ...[Read more]
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US Intervention Ultimately Supported the Taliban, Not the Afghan People
US Intervention Ultimately Supported the Taliban, Not the Afghan People
In large part, U.S. "aid" to Afghanistan didn't actually go to the Afghan people. ...[Read more]
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For Two Decades, Americans Told One Lie After Another About What They Were Doing in Afghanistan
For Two Decades, Americans Told One Lie After Another About What They Were Doing in Afghanistan
The war in Afghanistan was nasty and brutish, marked by the same imperial arrogance that doomed U.S. involvement in Vietnam. ...[Read more]
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Children, US Soldiers Among Casualties in Explosions Outside Kabul Airport
Children, US Soldiers Among Casualties in Explosions Outside Kabul Airport
Children, adult civilians, and U.S. military personnel were among those reportedly killed or wounded Thursday in a pair of explosions near Kabul's international airport, the site of a chaotic evacuation effort that the Biden administration is aiming to co ...[Read more]
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Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State
Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a death knell to so many industries in Afghanistan. Charities and aid agencies have even warned that the economic dislocation could spark widespread famine. But one sector is still booming: the illicit opium trade. Last year ...[Read more]
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