On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 57 percent of registered voters in the August 17-18 survey said the U.S. did not do enough to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies from Afghanistan before the Taliban took over. By contrast, 43 percent said the U.S. did […]
Spencer Ackerman, writer of the Forever Wars Substack, Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and and Produced Trump, and contributing editor at The Daily Beast discusses the legacy of the war on terror with Saagar and Marshall on The Realignment.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by journalist Michael Tracey who explains why the so-called Afghan war experts weighing in on the withdrawal should be ignored
Krystal explores the conflict brewing between deep state actors and Joe Biden following the withdrawal from Afghanistan
Saagar cuts through the media frenzy to deliver the truth about what took place in Afghanistan over the last 20 years up to today
Krystal and Saagar filter out the worst Afghanistan takes online from a few of the usual suspects as the media fanaticism around the situation continues
Krystal and Saagar expose the grifters and frauds who have profited off the Afghanistan war for the past 20 years with little scrutiny
Krystal and Saagar respond to Biden’s recent interview where he addressed the chaos happening in Kabul in the face of withdrawal
Wilder, Wealthy, Wise Well, I guess that solves that problem. The collapse of Afghanistan’s armed forces was total and complete. Taliban soldiers entered city after city with little to no resistance. As I write this, a tragic failure is unfolding in Kabul: the last McDonalds® grill in Afghanistan […]
Reuters (Reuters) – It took just a few days for the Taliban to sweep across Afghanistan and seize territory they did not already control, sometimes taking major provincial capitals with barely a shot in anger. While much has been made of the Afghan army’s military collapse, interviews with Taliban leaders, Afghan politicians, diplomats and other […]
We speak to Jimmy Dore, host of the Jimmy Dore Show. He discusses why the Afghanistan withdrawal is window dressing to shift divert attention from a refocusing of US imperialism, the West’s concerns for women’s rights in Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover, the Afghanistan war as a big […]
By Andrew Korybko, One World The writing was on the wall this entire time that Biden was actually implementing a fair share of Trump’s foreign policy vision related to trading away his “allies” interests in pursuit of the “greater good” connected to more actively “containing” China in the […]
He tripled down, just like Kyle hoped for.
By Andrew Sullivan An expert on East Asia helps me think through the complicated challenge of how to deal with Xi. Michael, currently in Hong Kong, is a veteran journalist on East Asian affairs and a regular contributor to The Atlantic and Bloomberg. He’s written a book on […]
By Matt Taibbi MSNBC rails against the “fantastically corrupt elite” on the ground that ruined the Afghan mission, but the real corruption was our own. On MSNBC the other night, Rachel Maddow told a story about visiting Afghanistan a decade ago. She described being taken on a tour […]
We look at the brutal, stupid, and embarrassing end of our brutal, stupid, and embarrassing twenty year occupation of Afghanistan.
The Vietnam War made it impossible for the system to fight imperialist wars with conscript armies. The War on Terrorism may have made it impossible to fight imperialist wars even with volunteer professional military. In the future, the overlords of the empire will attempt to retain their position […]
Alyssa Farah reacts to the right-wing fear-mongering around potential Afghan refugees coming to the United States.
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen react to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s comments on American citizens who remain in Afghanistan.
Scott Horton is director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He’s the author of the 2021 Book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on […]
Afghanistan. After al-Qaeda terrorists attacked us on 9/11, brave warriors, special forces quickly deployed to defeat al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. They accomplished their mission rapidly and effectively. THAT is when they should have returned home. But the elite wanted to nation-build, getting us into a 20-year war with no […]
By Ben Norton The leftist governments of Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Bolivia have found a key strategic ally in Iran, the heart of the Axis of Resistance. Revolutionary socialist movements in Latin America are developing closer relations with anti-imperialist resistance forces in West Asia, building a united front […]
By Michael Puttré Discourse It was ‘mission accomplished’ by 2002, but then the U.S. embarked on a much bigger, and impossible, mission. The 20-year American-led experiment to turn a rogue state into a Western-style democracy has come crashing to the ground. There will be plenty of recriminations, and […]
For close to 7 years, Yemen has been entangled in a devastating civil war that’s left more than 5 million citizens on the brink of starvation. In 2015, the Saudi’s instituted a blockade, which has only exacerbated the conditions and have prevented much needed resources from reaching the […]
This commentary is surprisingly sensible. Lawrence O’Donnell must be planning on retiring soon. Lawrence O’Donnell says no one knows how to run the American evacuation from Afghanistan without the same chaos and dishonor we experienced in Vietnam.
–Marjorie Taylor Greene goes on Steve Bannon’s show and says she’s working on articles of impeachment against Joe Biden for the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan
By Branko Marcetic The Jacobin In Afghanistan, as in Vietnam and Iraq, US elites sold us a vision of the world in which the United States alone has not just the power but the duty to forcibly reshape the world how it sees fit. They have again proven […]
A reader writes: “Keith, have you noticed how American sentiments around the war in Afghanistan seem to cut across all political affiliations? It reminds me of how Brexit cut across party lines in the UK. Against the war are the majority of the public (at least, that’s my […]
Congress has a 25% approval rating. Who cares what they have to say? Most of them supported this war and have been wrong about almost everything.
This is why American needs to stay out of Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, Somalia and all other countries.
Team Rising discusses CNN’s Clarissa Ward coverage of the Taliban on the ground in Afghanistan and the backlash she’s faced.
Lucas Kunce, national security expert and Missouri Senate candidate, explains why Afghanistan’s fall to the Taliban was inevitable.
Alyssa Farah breaks down the eight biggest mistruths of President Biden’s defense of his Afghanistan withdrawal strategy.
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen react to President Biden’s speech on the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 46 percent of voters approve of Vice President Kamala Harris in the White House while 42 percent disapprove, and 12 percent said neither. Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farrah, and Kim Iversen discuss. This survey was conducted online within the […]
“I know my decision will be criticized. But I would rather take all that criticism than pass this decision on to another president of the United States, yet another one, a fifth one.” Joseph Biden. That’s about the most presidential thing I’ve heard in a good long time.
Krystal and Saagar talk with the author of the Afghanistan papers about the lies that were told in the years leading up to the fall of Kabul
Saagar looks back at the fall of Saigon to counter the media and show what the real lesson is from the Vietnam war is now that Afghanistan has fallen
Krystal reminds the liberals who glorified George W. Bush what his real legacy is and she looks at the fresh consequences of revisionist history
Krystal and Saagar respond to the shameless flip flopping in MAGA world after Biden followed through on Trump’s promise to end the war in Afghanistan
Krystal and Saagar look at Joe Biden’s withdrawal speech and dismantle the media’s lies about the war in Afghanistan.
Leave it to Bill Lind, the world’s leading expert on fourth-generation warfare, to succinctly describe what happened in Afghanistan. The only thing I disagree with Bill on is that the decision to leave Afghanistan wasn’t Biden’s or Trump’s alone. It was based on the prevailing consensus among ruling […]
More of the usual dumbshittery from FOX (Neocon Central). If the neocons and the overlords of the military-industrial complex had their way, the US would be in Afghanistan forever, just like the US has never left Germany or South Korea. Fox New senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane […]
From Australian television. Sky News host Catherine McGregor says in Afghanistan the state has “collapsed precipitously” and “sadly” that is outside the scope of a middle power like Australia to extract those allied personnel who are now at “some risk” from the Taliban. “Shooting your way into KIA […]
I consider the anti-Vietnam War movement to be one of the most important if not the most important of any movements in US history. If there had been no American Revolution, today the US would be more or less like other similar countries that eventually got their independence […]
Former Navy Seal Erik Prince discusses the US evacuation of Kabul embassy on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’
US involvement in Afghanistan actually began with Jimmy Carter, not George W. Bush. Under the tutelage and influence of Zbigniew Brzezinski, the US began arming the mujahideen who flocked to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets, and who then conquered the country falling the Soviet withdrawal and the subsequent […]
Kim Ives, English language editor for Haiti Liberté, explains the resignation of the judge leading the investigation into the assassination of Haitan President Jovenel Moïse.
Kim Iversen makes the case for withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
A haunting photo of 640 Afghan refugees who ran onto a US military plane, desperate to escape. The plane’s capacity is only 150. The military kept the refugees on the plane & took them to Qatar. The capacity of this jet is beyond what is safe, the pilot […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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