Afghan War Is OFFICIALLY OVER But Trump Demands Reinvasion?
Krystal and Saagar give their thoughts on the war in Afghanistan ending after 20 long years and how Trump reacted to the news
Joe Biden Has Officially Ended a 20-Year War
–With the departure of the final flight out, President Joe Biden has officially ended the 20-year war in Afghanistan
U.S. confirms 2 ‘high-profile ISIS targets’ killed in retaliatory strike in Afghanistan
By Tim O’Donnell, The Week The United States is now able to confirm that “two high-profile” Islamic State leaders in Afghanistan who allegedly played a role in planning the deadly attack at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport earlier this week have been killed in a U.S. military retaliatory […]
The bloodlust of Joe Biden’s Afghanistan critics
By Ryan Cooper, The Week There was a tragic suicide bombing at the Kabul airport on Thursday. At time of writing 169 people were confirmed killed, including 13 American soldiers. This caused an instant frenzy of denunciation on cable news and from Republican neoconservatives. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) […]
Nearly 90 retired generals and admirals call on Gen. Milley and Gen. Austin to resign over Afghanistan disaster News
By Carlos Garcia, The Blaze A group of nearly 90 retired generals and admirals called for the resignations of the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff over the disaster of the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The letter was released as the […]
SHOCK POLL: Americans Don’t Care If Taliban Or Al-Qaeda Keep Afghanistan
Well, it’s not exactly prime real estate.
Dismantling NEOCON Lies About Afghan Withdrawal
“Neocon lies” is a redundant phrase. The situation in Afghanistan is comparable to a situation where, in the Middle Ages, a group of the most powerful monarchs might decide to cede a particular principality to the Turks for whatever strategic reasons, but where the clergy objects to ceding […]
Marine FIRED for Elite CRIMES Shows Dire Crisis of Accountability
Krystal dives into the accountability crisis among the US elite as shown by the firing of a Marine after he called out military leadership in Afghanistan
Media USES Dead American Troops To Push FOREVER WAR Lies
Krystal and Saagar scrutinize the shameless behavior by the pro war mainstream media in the wake of American troops dying at the hands of terrorists
Should Joe Biden RESIGN Over Dead Americans In Afghanistan?
Saagar considers whether Joe Biden should resign over the deaths of American troops in Afghanistan and the precedent that could be set
US DRONE Strike KILLS Civilians REVEALING Horror Of Entire War
Krystal and Saagar break down the latest news to come out of Afghanistan including the terrorist attack in Kabul and a subsequent US drone strike that killed civilians
US drone strike kills nine members of one family in Afghanistan, reports say
“But ‘dem Talibans is such meanies!” Independent A US drone strike in Afghanistan on Sunday killed nine members of one family, according to local reports. The casualties of the strike in the capital city of Kabul included six children, a relative told a local journalist working with CNN. […]
52% Say UNLIKELY Biden Admin Consulted W/ NATO Before Deciding To Withdraw Troops From Afghanistan
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 52 percent of voters said it’s unlikely the Biden administration consulted with NATO before deciding to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
U.S. Conducts Airstrikes In Kabul, Should Past Administrations Be Held ACCOUNTABLE For Forever War?
Representative Ro Khanna explains his support for President Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Afghanistan Veteran: ‘Immaculate Withdrawal Was Impossible,’ Chaos In Afghanistan Inevitable
Retired Lt. Co. Daniel Davis discusses the final hours of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
U.S. in Desperate Need of a Foreign Policy Renewal
The US doesn’t need a “foreign policy” at all. The US is a nation of unprecedented wealth and technological advantage, with a continent-wide regime, weak nations to the north and south, huge oceans to the east and west, no other strong powers in the entire hemisphere, and a […]
Marine LT Col Says “Follow Me And We Will Bring The Whole F****** System Down”
A Newsweek article about this guy can be found here. “One person who stops lying can bring down a tyranny ” Alexander Solzhenitsyn
SAS issues chilling warning to ISIS-K as British troops volunteer to stay in Afghanistan
By Dylan Donnelly Express According to sources, the SAS squadron would like to set up a base in the Afghan-Pakistan border. The group will then conduct undercover strikes against ISIS-K, the Afghanistan sect of ISIS, based in the east of the country. Their base will also be used […]
Nominalism and the Defeat of Afghanistan
One point that Bill Lind makes in this piece that I think is particularly relevant to the future of the US is that his description of present day Iraq is very similar to what I have long believed the future of the US will look like. Bill writes: […]
Ret. General Dan Bolger: Why We Lost in Afghanistan and Iraq
Retired General Dan Bolger, author of Why We Lost: A General’s Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, joins The Realignment’s season premiere to discuss the rise and fall of America’s post-9/11 military interventions.
Taliban Demand Afghans Hand Over Guns, Ammo Within a Week
By Jack Phillips Epoch Times A spokesman for the Taliban said that Afghans who have government-issued weapons, ammunition, or vehicles need to hand them over or face punishment. “All those who have government goods, equipment, weapons, ammunition, or vehicles need to hand them over to the relevant department,” […]
US Drone Strike Kills ISIS-K Planner in Afghanistan: CENTCOM
By Mimi Nguyen Ly Epoch Times The U.S. military carried out a counterterrorism drone strike against a member of the ISIS-K terrorist group in Afghanistan early on Aug. 28 local time, according to U.S. Central Command. In a statement, CENTCOM spokesman Capt. Bill Urban said that the U.S. military […]
The dam breaks in Afghanistan
W. James Antle, The Week The horrific bombing in Kabul on Thursday was a stark reminder of why the United States has remained at war in Afghanistan for 20 years. When terrorists murder civilians or American troops, there must be justice, punishment, and deterrence. But after a particularly heinous attack, […]
The story of an Afghan man who fell from the sky
By Gerry Shih Niha Masih Dan Lamothe Washington Post As the Taliban encircled Kabul on Aug. 15, Fada Mohammad told his family about what he’d seen on Facebook: Canada and the United States were airlifting anyone who wanted to leave out of the Kabul airport. But if Fada […]
Where in the World: Drangsnes, and the Kabul Bombing
News arrives a little more slowly here in northern Iceland. But as the details of the horrific attack against US service members and Afghan nationals came in across my phone, so too did many arguments that these are exactly the same sorts of individuals the US should remain […]
Biden To Terrorists: “We Will Hunt You Down”, WH VOWS Retribution To Fatal Attack In Kabul
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds voters place equal blame on Afghan leaders and President Biden for the current situation in This survey was conducted online within the United States from August 13-14 and August 16-17 among 1919 registered voters by HarrisX. The sampling […]
Afghan Veteran, Progressive Candidate DETAILS Corporate Influence On Forever Wars. We Were LIED To
Brittany Ramos DeBarros, New York congressional candidate, discusses the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban.
Huawei SUED, Accused Of STEALING Trade Secrets And SPYING On Pakistan
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen react to reports of a lawsuit against Huawei, a Chinese telecommunication company, for stealing trade secrets.
Rahm Emanual Ambassador To Japan Nomination Slap In the Face To Progressives, Pay For Play?
As long as he stays there. Team Rising discusses former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel’s various connections to Japan.
The ‘War On Terror’ Scam Continues
By Caitlin Johnstone ISIS has reportedly claimed credit for an explosion near Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. As of this writing there are around 90 dead including 13 US military personnel, though to read western mainstream media reports you’d think only US troops died and not scores of Afghans as […]
Afghanistan: America’s First Step Out of Trotsky’s Long Shadow?
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 […]
What It’s Like To Be A Woman Reporting On The Taliban: ‘They Don’t Look At You’
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 […]
The Bitter Fruits of Interventionism
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. […]
Are the Taliban Burkean Conservatives?
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 […]
Kabul Airport Attack Kills 13 U.S. Service Members, at Least 90 Afghans
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 […]
What is ISIS-K? Islamic State terrorist group believed to be behind Kabul airport explosions
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 […]
Media Gave Afghanistan 5 Mins TOTAL Coverage In All Of 2020
Kyle has spent more time saying “WE ARE STILL IN AFGHANISTAN” than the MSM has even mentioned them in the last decade.
36 Hours To EVACUATE Americans In Afghanistan Amid ‘CREDIBLE’ ISIS-K Terror THREAT
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.
The US Endgame in Afghanistan Was Mineral Extraction, Not Democracy
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 […]
Explosions Rock Kabul, Causing Multiple Casualties
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 […]
4 smart perspectives on Afghanistan
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, […]
The Kabul bombings demonstrate the lie of a bloodless occupation
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 […]
Afghanistan collapsed. U.S. alliances won’t.
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 […]
Biden Admin FUMING After Veteran Congressmen Make UNAUTHORIZED Trip To Kabul To Witness Evacuation
Grandstanding weenies. Team Rising reacts to two congressmen taking an unauthorized trip to Kabul.
Kamala Harris REBUKES China Actions For FIRST TIME As VP During Visit To Singapore
I’m sure the Chinese are really worried. Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen discuss VP Kamala Harris rebuking China.
UN Holds EMERGENCY Session On Taliban Violations, U.S FAILS To Protect Afghan Women
Alyssa Farah breaks down the hypocrisy of modern feminism in relation to women in Afghanistan.
CIA Director, Taliban Leader SECRETLY Meet In Kabul, Schiff DOUBTS U.S. Able To Meet Aug 31 Deadline
Legacy Media OBSESSED W/ Afghanistan Withdrawal, Helps Hawks Defend Endless Wars. 40K Evacuated
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah, and Kim Iversen discuss the MSM’s coverage of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Former Marine Officer EXPOSES Afghan War Lies
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.
Evacuations Continue As Taliban Threatens WAR If US Extends Deadline
Krystal and Saagar update viewers on the evacuations from Afghanistan taking place and the Taliban’s latest threat to the US
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