The US puppet government had a US-trained army that outnumbered the Taliban 4 to 1, and simply walked off the job as soon as the US retreated. Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen discuss the situation in Afghanistan as U.S. troops withdraw and the Taliban takes over.
Excellent. These are the kinds of protests we need more of. Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen react to the protests outside Raytheon, a defense contractor that makes weapons, in Rhode Island.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by foreign policy expert Richard Hanania to debunk the lies told by neocons about the withdrawal from Afghanistan and explain where the US went wrong in the war
Saagar returns to inform viewers about who exactly is to blame for the collapse in Afghanistan after 20 years and trillions of dollars spent.
Krystal and Saagar criticize the warmongers in the media for how they reacted to the collapse of Afghanistan after 20 years of lies.
Krystal and Saagar break down the truths and lies behind the collapse of Afghanistan to the Taliban and how it ended this way.
By Marwan Bishara Senior political analyst at Al Jazeera. The Taliban victory is a major humiliation for the US, but perhaps that’s the silver lining of the Afghan tragedy. Last week’s turn of events in Afghanistan has been utterly shocking but hardly surprising. The Taliban’s blistering takeover of […]
By Jack Phillips Epoch Times Afghanistan’s president, Ashraf Ghani, on Sunday fled the country as the Taliban terrorist group surrounded the capital, Kabul, according to a senior official, while the Taliban entered the Afghan presidential palace. Photos circulating online show members of the Taliban, holding AK-47-style rifles, inside […]
By Matt Taibbi As the Taliban waltzes into Kabul, the look of surprise on the faces of top officials should frighten us most of all. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, when asked months ago about the possibility that there might be a “significant deterioration” of the security picture […]
By Peter Zeihan on August 15, 2021 On New Years Eve, just minutes before the dawn of 1992, the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the last time. Arguably the Cold War had been over for a few years already. Glasnost and perestroika had defanged the thorny […]
Vaush caters neoliberal imperialist talking points to his zoomer audience that he has built playing the edgy antifa guy that debates fascists. Sad how these people think they are lefties.
His story dealing with Chevron’s ruthless legal team and the damage they wreaked upon South America.
By Andrew Sullivan In the great movie, “A Man For All Seasons”, there’s a classic scene when Thomas More speaks to his ultimate betrayer and former friend, Richard Rich, who had lied about him under oath in exchange for the position of the attorney-general of Wales. More was […]
Kim Ives, journalist, breaks down the latest updates in the investigation into the assassination of Haiti President Jovenel Moïse.
Jason Unruhe’s classic video explaining the first problem with the First World Left.
Recently, Nicky Reid observed: My divide with most other far leftists seems to be largely a matter of priorities. The New New Left puts antiracism and antifascism at the forefront, while I still view American Imperialism as the greatest threat to humanity. The thing is, I very much […]
The Herland Report Herland Report: The worst thing that has happened to the US is the collapse of the Soviet Union. It opened up for the neo-con movement that has destroyed the West, says Dr. Paul Craig Roberts to Herland Report TV on the worst thing that happened […]
Alyssa Farah reflects back on the magnitude of the War in Afghanistan as President Biden works to withdraw all U.S. troops.
At a press event on Thursday the spokesperson for the Pentagon announced that the US was sending 3,000 U.S. troops into Afghanistan.
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen react to the Chinese government’s claims that the U.S. military is responsible for the origin and spread of COVID.
A free webinar with Professor Michael Beckley Michael Beckley is an associate professor of political science at Tufts University and a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. His research on great power competition has received awards from the American Political Science Association and the International […]
The Chinese Communist Party marks its 100th anniversary this year, tallying among its achievements China’s decades-long economic boom and ascent to great-power status. But can Beijing count on continued success? At the launch of our July/August 2021 issue, Foreign Affairs Editor Daniel Kurtz-Phelan and authors Yuen Yuen Ang, […]
Rachel Bovard and Kim Iversen weigh in on legislation that would eliminate the AUMF.
Kim Iversen explains why she believes the U.S. will never get back in the Iran Nuclear Deal.
An interesting piece from a Canadian anarchist named Larry Gambone. It’s rare that you find anyone from the Left who recognizes that colonialism began not with the Age of Exploration but with the Roman conquest of the indigenous peoples of Eurasia. Early modern era colonialism was just the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley When I was twenty years old, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara stood taller than Jesus on the cross. Wild eyed, twin fisted, bearded banditos taking on the greatest empire the world has ever known with nothing but a […]
Geopolitical expert, Peter Zeihan, author of Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World, joins hosts Dennis McCuistion and Jim Falk for lively and very “counterintuitive arguments about the future of a world where trade agreements are coming apart and international institutions are losing their power.” […]
By Andrew Sullivan The writer who coined that term – a sort of unifying theory of wokeness – talks with me about the Great Awokening, and how to counter it. Wesley is a columnist for Tablet magazine, the author of The Souls of Yellow Folk, and a newly minted substacker. […]
Given that the 75-year Pax Americana seems to be slowly cracking and receding, it is necessary to consider which empires anti-imperialists will likely be facing in the future. I tend to agree with this post from social media: The likely candidates for regional smaller empires will be: 1) […]
Peter Zeihan is probably the best Sinoskeptic and Russoskeptic that I know of. Financial Sense Peter Zeihan, one of the world’s foremost experts on geopolitical risk and author of The Accidental Superpower and The Absent Superpower, discusses the Five Eyes Alliance of global surveillance, China’s attempt to gain […]
Kim Iversen and Robby Soave discuss Senator Ted Cruz putting pressure on the Biden administration to place sanctions on China following their cyberattacks.
Team Rising reacts to President Biden’s claims that Russia is spreading misinformation ahead of the 2022 midterms.
Excerpt from July 9 Peter Zeihan Talk.
More evidence that the civilian elected government does not really run the system. They’re just managers and figureheads.
George Packer joins Saagar and Marshall on The Realignment to discuss how America fractured and what can be done to bring the country together again.
Krystal and Saagar cover the new reporting that details how Haitian leaders are spending big money on lobbyists to get US support
Kim Iversen breaks down the ongoing controversy between Ben & Jerry’s and Israel after the ice cream company announced they would stop selling their products in all Israeli occupied territories, including Palestine.
By Chris Hedges / Original to Scheerpost The persecution of the attorney Steven Donziger is a grim illustration of what happens when we confront the real centers of power, masked and unacknowledged by the divisive cant from the Trump White House or the sentimental drivel of the Democratic […]
The Hero Drone whistleblower Daniel Hale was sentenced to 45 months in federal prison. It was a severe sentence but not the harshest sentence ever issued in an Espionage Act prosecution against a former United States government employee or contractor for the “unauthorized disclosure” of information. The sentence […]
Kim Iversen and Robby Soave react to President Biden’s statements on U.S. troops leaving Iraq by the end of 2021.
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds a plurality of voters, 38 percent, want the U.S. to not get involved in Cuba after the protests. Robby Soave and Kim Iversen discuss. This survey was conducted online within the United States from July 20 – 21 […]
By Dave Decamp, Antiwar.Com On Monday, President Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi agreed that the US “combat” mission in Iraq will be over by the end of the year, but US troops will remain in the country in an advisory role. “I think things are going […]
Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President of The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, discusses what role, if any, the United States should play in the Middle East following the troops withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Kim Iversen and Robby Soave react to Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s appointment to the January 6th House committee.
By Thaddeus Russell, Reason What happened when some indigenous people took their lands back from the state. I first heard about the autonomous movements in Mexico from my anarcho-communist college buddies in the early 1990s. They loved the idea of indigenous people taking up arms and seizing control […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Well, dearest motherfuckers, I had published my doubts, but it appears that Old Man Biden is prepared to finally end our twenty year clusterfuck in Afghanistan by the end of summer after all. Well, sort of. Like any […]
By Andrew Sullivan One of the most influential Jewish critics of Netanyahu’s Israel talks foreign policy with the Dish. Peter is a long-time friend and fellow former editor of The New Republic. His latest book is The Crisis of Zionism, and he’s the editor-at-large for Jewish Currents and […]
By Andrew Sullivan And the realism that requires we live with it. There’s a story in a recent Atlantic memoir by a Uyghur refugee that lingers in the mind. The Chinese authorities in Xinjiang Province now regard the possession of any religious literature, including the Koran, as prima […]
After President Joe Biden quietly OK’d Donald Trump’s largest arms deal earlier this year, the Biden administration is now defending it in court using ludicrous logic: that it’s unfair to suggest the United Arab Emirates will misuse American weapons just because it has repeatedly done so for years. […]
“One of the best Congresspeople that we have.” He has a very low bar to meet, Kyle. Everyone else in Congress pretty much suck
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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