So far, the Biden administration seems to be as deranged as the Trump administration, but not yet as bad as the Bush administration. Kudos to Rand Paul for calling Blinken out on this. Kim Iversen sounds the alarm on the United States’ use of secretive drone warfare after […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Rachel Bovard react to Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent testimony during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. Blinken answered questions regarding the Biden administration’s handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
By Matt Purple, The American Conservative If you want to understand the delusions that permeated the early-stage war on terror, pick up a copy of An End to Evil by Richard Perle and David Frum. Published in 2004, it reads like a fever dream one might have after […]
By Bradley Devlin, The American Conservative Controversy over the brutally botched and long-overdue U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan continues to swirl, but very few people, particularly on the right, have suggested that these failures should trigger a reevaluation of our military’s spending priorities. Congress is in the process of […]
The Economist Failure in Afghanistan shows it has not learned the lessons of Vietnam. ONCE AMERICA announced that it would not save its client state, things unravelled quickly. As the enemy seized province after province, government soldiers shed their uniforms and ran. On paper the army had hundreds […]
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman on 9/11, mass surveillance at home, and failed wars abroad. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States invaded and occupied two countries, bombed four others, helped create 21 million refugees and cause over 800,000 deaths, and spent over $6 trillion […]
By Matt Taibbi After George W. Bush gave a speech comparing 9/11 to January 6th, a parade of high-profile Democrats stepped over the grave of American liberalism to praise him. Former president and onetime ultimate blue-party villain George W. Bush gave a speech Saturday, commemorating 9/11 at the […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 68 percent of voters consider it a big problem that the U.S. military left behind billions of dollars of military hardware in Afghanistan. Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Emily Jashinsky discuss.
I generally like Ilhan Omar much better than AOC. She seems to be much more serious. Rep. Ilhan Omar questioned Sec. Antony Blinken on drone strikes.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Emily Jashinsky discuss newly released documents showing the FBI investigated Saudi Arabia’s possible role in the September 11th attacks.
I recall as Bush prepared to invade Iraq, the comment by Noam Chomsky to the effect that, “Osama bin Laden could hardly find a better partner than George Bush, since Bush is cooperating with him in all of his major plans for expanding bin Laden’s network. Same with […]
Babylon Bee “Yes, I may have started two foreign wars on false pretenses that wasted trillions of dollars and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people,” said the guy whose name we can’t remember at the moment. “However, it’s important to understand the real threats to our great […]
The media rehabilitation of W is complete.
Saagar provides a history lesson about the criminals involved in the US response to 9/11 who continue to occupy spaces in elite media and polite society despite their failures
Krystal and Saagar cover the investigative report that proved Biden and the Pentagon lied about the final drone strike in Afghanistan, which ended up killing a US ally and his family
Krystal and Saagar break down the revelations from the recently declassified documents about the connection between Saudi Arabia and the 9/11 terrorist attacks
Krystal and Saagar react to the speech given by former President George W. Bush on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks
By Branko Marcetic, The Jacobin One of the still unsolved mysteries of the September 11 attacks is how the foreign government that was by far the most responsible for that atrocity got off completely scot-free — and, in fact, proceeded to be lavishly rewarded by Washington for years […]
This article by James Lucas remains the most concise yet comprehensive description of the death count that has likely been generated by US imperialism. There are other works that are longer and more scholarly, but this article is good for providing a simple overview. The author’s methodology is […]
Using the best available information possible, the number of people who have been killed as a direct result of US imperialism in the Middle East alone over the past 20 years amounts to the equivalent of a 9/11 every three weeks. If we add up all the body […]
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An investment of $6 trillion that produces an ROI of exactly zero is quite an…accomplishment. By Tariq Ali, The Nation From the beginning, the War on Terror merged red-hot vengeance with calculated opportunism. Millions are still paying the price. The Taliban observed the 20th anniversary of 9/11 in […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, 51 percent of voters said another attack on the U.S. is more likely after the U.S. pullout out from Afghanistan while 36 percent said it has no effect and 13 percent said it’s less likely.
Telos Zoom Discussion September 18, 2021 4 pm to 6 pm U.S. Eastern time Join Telos editors Mark Kelly, Tim Luke, Adrian Pabst, David Pan, and David Westbrook for a discussion of the causes of the U.S. failure in Afghanistan and the long-term consequences. To attend, register here: […]
By Matthieu Aikins, Christoph Koettl, Evan Hill and Eric Schmitt,New York Times KABUL, Afghanistan — It was the last known missile fired by the United States in its 20-year war in Afghanistan, and the military called it a “righteous strike” — a drone attack after hours of surveillance on […]
When the Salafis carried out 9/11, their goals were to lure the US into a series of failed wars in Asia (like what happened to the Soviets in Afghanistan or the USA in Vietnam), provoke domestic repression in the US to turn the public against the government (a […]
By Micah Uetricht In These Times In an interview, Reign of Terror author Spencer Ackerman explains how the brutal legacy of America’s post-9/11 wars has reshaped U.S. society and led to our era of authoritarian demagoguery. The September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, carried out 20 years […]
Activist and filmmaker Michael Moore reacts to the end of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, seventeen years after his critically acclaimed film “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
Journalist Ali Breland discusses why Big Tech censorship of Taliban web accounts has unforeseen downsides.
When I founded Attack the System over 20 years ago, my objective was to lay the blueprint for an insurgent anarchist movement in North America that could eventually take down the US regime and ruling class, in solidarity with those under attack by US imperialism in each of […]
By Mike Giglio, The Intercept I was driving home from a militia muster in the Virginia mountains last summer — after another day immersed in preelection talk of civil war — when I found myself reflecting, as I often have in the year since, on Norman Mailer’s “The […]
By Richard Kreitner, The New York Review Disunion is hardly a new theme in American politics. In this moment of tumult, it would be unwise to rule out its return. fter what even Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell called, with surprising accuracy, a “failed insurrection” at the United […]
By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout Twenty years ago this week, the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, whose origins date back to 1979 when Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan, hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against the Twin Towers and the Pentagon in the United States. Shortly thereafter, the administration of George […]
Keep in mind that for the entire 20 years of the “War on Terrorism” the US empire has inflicted an average of one Waco per day on other societies in terms of body counts, perhaps more. Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss a guest essay by […]
While I don’t share his loopy Maoism, this video by Jason Unruhe explains pretty well why I reject virtually all US political factions, from far-left to far-right. Nearly all of these are merely rival teams within the global 1%. Most of the anti-one percenters are in fact one-percenters. […]
That sums is up pretty well, Banned Hipster Hanlon’s razor is an adage or rule of thumb that states “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”. Known in several other forms, it is a philosophical razor that suggests a way of eliminating unlikely explanations […]
This commentary is quite good, although I don’t share the politics of these guys. I’m definitely on the same side as the far left and/or paleoconservative folks they are worried will gain too much influence in the aftermath of the failure of Afghanistan and Iraq. Their comparison of […]
Marshall talks about how the 9/11 era has changed the world and what should be done now that this period in American history is coming to an end.
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff consider the possible findings that could come from the administration’s decision to declassify 9/11 papers about Saudi Arabia’s role in the terror attack.
By Chris Hedges, Truthout Drone warfare whistleblower sentenced to 45 months in prison for telling the American people the truth. Daniel Hale, a former intelligence analyst in the drone program for the Air Force who as a private contractor in 2013 leaked some 17 classified documents about drone […]
Scroll.In American citizen Glenn Foster travelled through Afghanistan for seven years in the mid-20th century, documenting the country and lives of its citizens. WATCH HERE
By Alan Richards, Professor Emeritus at UCSC, and Steven Simon, the Robert E Wilhelm Fellow at the MIT Centre for International Studies and a senior research analyst with the Quincy Institute. When a scam falls apart, it collapses fast. “To understand the U.S. exit from Afghanistan, think of […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It’s been twenty years since 9/11 but it feels more like twenty years of 9/11. That’s probably because an entire industrial complex has been constructed around a concerted effort to keep those wounds fresh and harvest the anguish […]
Todd Lewis will be joined by Keith Preston and Logos to discuss the US-Afghan war.
With the official end of the War in Afghanistan, we speak with Rafia Zakaria, author of “Against White Feminism,” about how U.S. officials used the plight of the women in the country to justify the 2001 invasion and subsequent occupation. “Feminism has been delegitimized in Afghanistan because it […]
By Matt Stoller An Afghan General blames defense contractors for the collapse of the Afghan army. A government inspector blames the “the pervasiveness of overoptimism” by U.S. generals. It’s all that, and more. “The Pervasiveness of Over-Optimism” In 2017, Netflix put out a satirical movie on the conflict […]
By John Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead, Rutherford Institute “Let us resolve that never again will we send the precious young blood of this country to die trying to prop up a corrupt military dictatorship abroad. This is also the time to turn away from excessive preoccupation overseas to […]
OpIndia.Com If people had any doubt that 2021 could get even crazier, then it is safe to say that Qasr Bakhaly of the Taliban has safely dispelled any such notions. After the end of the 20 year US occupation of Afghanistan, the Taliban is mocking the United States […]
The military-industrial complex has suffered a humiliating loss in Afghanistan. Look for them to try to gin up a new enemy to justify their existence. Right now, starting a new cold war with China seems to be the plan since Russiagate failed. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells Elbridge Colby is […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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