By Thomas L. Knapp, Garrison Center “President Joe Biden continues to humiliate the United States,” Joseph Klein whines at neoconservative rag FrontPageMag, “by letting the Taliban terrorists dictate the terms of his surrender.” Furthermore, writes Klein, “the president is clearly willfully blind to ISIS in Afghanistan being a long-term […]
Terry Gross, NPR CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward can’t stop looking at the bruise on her arm. It’s a reminder of her harrowing escape last week from Afghanistan. At the end of a trip reporting on the fall of the Afghan government, Ward found the Kabul airport […]
By Patrick Buchanan, Intellectual Takeout As President Lyndon Johnson and the best and brightest of the 1960s were broken on the wheel of Vietnam, the Biden presidency may well be broken on the wheel of the Taliban’s triumph in Afghanistan. Less than a week into the chaotic U.S. […]
By Ulick Fitzhugh, The Burkean A Historicist Revolt in Jurisprudence “The Guilty Have No Past” – Death in June Edmund Burke’s ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ cemented, in the eyes of conventional scholars and lay people alike, his place as the father of modern conservatism. Although frequently […]
Wall Street Journal More than 100 people were killed, including at least 13 U.S. service members and 90 Afghans, at the Kabul airport Thursday when two blasts ripped through crowds trying to enter the American-controlled facility, disrupting the final push of the U.S.-led evacuation effort. A suicide bomb […]
Anarchist News via The Federation of Anarchism Era Afghan anarchists need to leave Afghanistan urgently! The Taliban are now on the verge of establishing their own government in Afghanistan. The powerful countries of the world did not prevent or hinder this Taliban project. Unfortunately, the people of Afghanistan […]
By Tom Vanden Brook Josh Meyer Rebecca Morin USA TODAY WASHINGTON – Explosions outside the Kabul airport that have caused multiple U.S. casualties come as Biden administration officials have been alarmed in recent days by threats at Hamid Karzai International Airport by ISIS-K, a terrorist group that is a […]
Kyle has spent more time saying “WE ARE STILL IN AFGHANISTAN” than the MSM has even mentioned them in the last decade.
By George Packer, The Atlantic Even those with a visa must endure harrowing conditions on their way to freedom. or the past 10 days, thousands of private citizens have been working around the clock, through informal networks of friends and colleagues, to organize evacuation flights from Afghanistan to […]
This is pretty interesting. Kim Iversen discusses her family’s journey from Vietnam to America.
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen discuss the security threat that prompted the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan to tell Americans to avoid the Kabul airport.
Krystal and Saagar tell the story of a publicity stunt gone wrong when two congressmen flew out to Kabul for a photo op in the middle of the Afghanistan withdrawal
By Nadia Ahmad Common Dreams The American departure from Afghanistan was inevitable. We shouldn’t ask what went wrong? We need to ask: what could possibly have gone right? Since the U.S. withdrawal in Afghanistan, there has been no shortage of solidarity statements to mourn the demise of democracy […]
By Zachary Stieber Epoch Times At least two explosions took place near the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, complicating efforts to evacuate Americans, Afghans, and others trying to leave the country before the United States pulls out its troops. A bomb went off at the Abbey Gate […]
I don’t necessarily endorse these “smart perspectives” that Linker recommends, but they make for interesting reading. By Damon Linker, The Week If you’re like me, you’ve been frustrated and more than a little irritated by media analysis of recent events in Afghanistan. While on-the-ground reporting has been invaluable, […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week The bombings at the Kabul airport on Thursday is a reminder of a fundamental truth: War is an ugly, bloody, violent affair. That may seem self-evident, even simple. Everybody has heard the “war is hell” cliché at some point. But it bears repeating at this […]
By Samuel Goldman, The Week America’s European allies are not happy about the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan. In a speech last week, the EU’s foreign policy official Josep Borrell described the situation as a “catastrophe.” Borrell is not the only European critic. German politician Armin Laschet, who […]
By Ryan Cooper, The Week Did you notice that Tennessee suffered severe flooding a few days ago? If you were just watching TV, chances are good that it slipped your notice. Broadcast news has been throwing such a purple-faced screaming tantrum over the withdrawal from Afghanistan that they […]
Grandstanding weenies. Team Rising reacts to two congressmen taking an unauthorized trip to Kabul.
I’m sure the Chinese are really worried. Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen discuss VP Kamala Harris rebuking China.
Alyssa Farah breaks down the hypocrisy of modern feminism in relation to women in Afghanistan.
Krystal and Saagar combat the media narratives surrounding the Afghanistan withdrawal and the evacuations from Kabul.
BY KHALEDA RAHMAN Newsweek At least 38 million people have been displaced from their homes due to the wars waged by the U.S. since 2001, according to a new report. Millions have fled airstrikes, bombings, drone attacks and for other reasons during wars the U.S. military has launched or participated in […]
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah, and Kim Iversen discuss the MSM’s coverage of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by former Marine Lucas Kunce to go through all of the lies told about the war in Afghanistan and more.
Saagar looks through the ugly legacies left behind by the neocons being brought out by the media to justify forever war in Afghanistan and beyond
Krystal and Saagar update viewers on the evacuations from Afghanistan taking place and the Taliban’s latest threat to the US
Krystal examines the battle between Joe Biden and the general class that resulted after Biden actually made the right move in withdrawing troops from Afghanistan
Krystal and Saagar show the latest of the GOP and MAGA cringe in response to Biden’s withdrawal, with a special shoutout to Sen. Lindsey Graham
By Ivana Saric, Axios 62% of Americans do not believe the war in Afghanistan was worth fighting, according to an AP-NORC poll conducted Aug. 12–16, as the Afghan government verged on collapse following the withdrawal of U.S. forces. Why it matters: Biden has faced intense criticism over the […]
63% of Americans continue to favor withdrawal from Afghanistan in spite of hysterical media propaganda to the contrary, from both the liberal and conservative press. By Anthony Salvanto, Jennifer De Pinto, Kabir Khanna, Fred Backus, CBS News Most Americans have wanted to withdraw from Afghanistan for a while, […]
My political history is very similar to that of Murray Rothbard’s, albeit from a different generation, and largely for the same reasons. Early on, Chomsky and Rothbard were my two leading influences on international relations, although I’ve since moved on to many other influences. I generally found Rothbard […]
He hints at Somalia, the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen?), Syria, and Iraq. During Joe Biden’s Afghanistan speech, he telegraphs where we can expect the US to intervene in the near future, so listen up to find out if your country is next. Plus jack Allison, Leslie Lee and Katie […]
At one point in this, they refer to Vaush as “Vaush Limbaugh.” This guy Nick really knows his stuff. Zac & Gavin are joined by friend-of-the-show Nick AKA @SocialistMMA of Fred Hampton Leftists to discuss the situation in Afghanistan and react to Vaush’s latest faceplant.
Breakthrough News The US has admitted its defeat after two decades of imperialist war in Afghanistan. Why did the US stay in this war for 20 years? Who was profiting? And who is yelling the loudest right now about human rights in hopes of getting back those military […]
By Rafia Zakaria, The Nation Afghan women never asked for US air strikes. On a March evening in 1999, a wealthy Hollywood socialite named Mavis Leno, the wife of late-night superstar Jay Leno, held a fundraiser to which she invited her rich and/or famous friends. The event was […]
By Matthew Gault, Vice The Taliban banned production of the poppy in 2000. After twenty years of war, Afghanistan is now responsible for 82% of the world’s opium supply. Before the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001, around 82,000 hectares of Afghanistan cultivated poppy, the plant that produces opium […]
After a week of Afghanistan hot takes, one thing is clear: the left has an isolationism problem. Everyone agrees that imperialism is bad. But disagreement has emerged over what obligation, if any, America has to the country it’s occupied for 20 years, and the individuals left behind. On […]
By Keith Preston I lean toward the view that Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan has something to do with US-China relations. It appears that the US is ceding Afghanistan to the Chinese orbit. But the question is why? Joe Biden is a career-long operative for the banking […]
“The first thing I am going to tell my successor is, don’t trust the military men – even on military matters.” -35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy,
By Ryan Hass, Brookings Institute In recent days, many analysts have stepped forward to provide predictions on how America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan will impact China’s regional and global standing. Some argue the withdrawal will free up American resources to focus on China and the Indo-Pacific. For others, the […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 64 percent support U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farrah, and Kim Iversen discuss.
She was the only one who got it right in 2001. Even Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul voted for the war in Afghanistan. In 2001, every single member of the House and Senate voted for war in Afghanistan. Except one. Congresswoman Barbara Lee joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss […]
Kim Iversen breaks down the history of war promises made by modern American presidents from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden.
Ryan Grim analyzes the “military cable complex.
Ken Klippenstein, investigative reporter at The Intercept, discusses the biometric devices and data that were seized by the Taliban and explains why it’s so dangerous.
Scott Horton joins us to discuss the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, the specifics of how it was done, and the content of Joe Biden’s speech to the nation. Ep. 1952 Scott Horton on What Just Happened in Afghanistan
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen discuss President Biden’s plans to evacuate American citizens from Afghanistan.
By Jack Phillips Epoch Times President Joe Biden during a Wednesday ABC News interview revealed there may be about 15,000 Americans stuck in Afghanistan as U.S. forces hastily attempt to evacuate them at the Kabul airport. Also trying to escape are tens of thousands of Afghans who either […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
Recent Comments