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It was supposed to be simple – the US was going to apply the Afghanistan playbook in Ukraine against Russia. It was going to bog it down in a low-level conflict that would starve it of money and resources. It would strain the Russian society and it woul ...[Read more]
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The US is as of this moment smearing China by saying that Covid got out from a lab in Wuhan.
A concerted campaign going on as evidenced by the same headlines being pushed by all the media that lied about Iraqi WMDs - from WaPo to CNN.
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Unfortunately Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan is substantially less meaningful when analyzed in light of his administration’s pledge to mount “over-the-horizon” attacks in that country from afar even though we won’t have troop ...[Read more]
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The first Cold War made trillions for the war industry. Profiteers know a new Cold War with China would make many more. ...[Read more]
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"Americans want to see our leaders invest in solutions to today's most pressing issues—not line the pockets of wealthy arms-makers at the expense of working families," says Win Without War's Erica Fein. ...[Read more]
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The Center for Strategic and International Studies received a hefty sum from Alion Science as part of a military-related contract. ...[Read more]
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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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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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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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"Today, the House Armed Services Committee voted to put arms dealer profits before the needs of everyday people," said Erica Fein of Win Without War. ...[Read more]
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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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